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KonoSuba is like an RPG session where the heroes are supposed to go on a grand adventure and kill the Devil King, only everyone’s just goofing around and nobody really cares about the stupid main quest. Grimgar, which is the most obvious comparison, is clearly the better show, but KonoSuba's way of using basically the same premise and filling it with alarmingly resourceful idiots is just hilarious. I've been cackling like a moron through the four episodes that have aired (as of this writing), and after each one I always end up looking forward to the next even more. So I think KonoSuba deserves a thread even if there are only three people watching the show. What's it called? KonoSuba – God’s Blessing on this Wonderful World! (Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!) Where is it? Crunchyroll has it. Simulcasts on Wednesdays 7:35pm CET. Who made it? Studio Deen. How many episodes? 11. Violence: No gore, just slapstick. Fan service: Plenty of jiggly bits and naughty gags, as God intended. Romance: None yet. Kazuma ![]() MC. Thief. Used to be a hopeless otaku, then he suffered a sudden and embarrassing death. In the afterlife he got to choose between going to heaven (which has no TV) or becoming an adventurer in a parallel world threatened by the Devil King. He chose the second option. Notable achievements: In the third episode he learns the Steal skill, which he immediately puts to excellent use. He also put some points into Elemental Magic, so now he can fill a glass with water from halfway across the room, which is pretty much what he expected from something as lame as Elemental Magic. Aqua ![]() Arch Priest. Hasn't really healed anyone yet. Spends most of her skill points on useless party tricks. Megumin ![]() Crimson Demon Arch Wizard. Will spend all her skill points on Explosion Magic and NOTHING ELSE. On the one hand, her spells are like tactical nukes. On the other, she passes out for the rest of the day after casting one. Darkness ![]() Crusader. Tank and total masochist. Good hearted and very determined to take all the damage and abuse. Creeps Kazuma out on a daily basis. Cabbage ![]() The most dangerous encounter yet. Dullahan ![]() The Devil King’s general. Very annoyed with Megumin, who's been casting Explosion on his spooky castle every day to level up her skill. Nothing groundbreaking, just solid fun, and that's about it!
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A lot of things to love in the four episodes so far, but the standouts are the whole "kill five frogs" quest, how Kozuma's randomized Steal skill seems to be stuck on a perfect roll, and how, when they just got a really epic quest on their hands, Aqua just had to go and do something that wasn't a party trick and ruin everything by clearing it in five seconds. Darkness creeping out Dullahan was also brilliant, as was the Explosion training montage. And in the next episode, it looks like the group will get their hands on a cursed sword! Megumin is the best, though Darkness the Masochist Tank isn't far behind.
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Finally a thread for this show, thanks! I 2nd that this show has easily been the comedy of the season for me. By 4th episode I can't even pick a single favorite character, they're all great.
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I am the third person watching this show. gently caress seriousness, lets play d&d and get drunk while playing.
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yeah its nice to have jsut a goofy show to watch sometimes
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Tyberius posted:Finally a thread for this show, thanks! I don't care about Aqua or Kazuma at all, but I find both Megumin and Darkness hilarious and ample reason to continue watching the show. Well, that's not entirely true. Kazuma's a pretty good tsukkomi I guess. Hopefully, Aqua will eventually find a raison d'être . Astro Ambulance posted:yeah its nice to have jsut a goofy show to watch sometimes Yeah. I'm much more fond of the "take amazing characters and throw them in a fishbowl, see what they do" shows like Kanojo ga Flag wo Orararetara, Noucome, Ore ga Twintails ni Narimasu, etc than they really deserve. And this is a pretty competent example of that general archetype. Kytrarewn fucked around with this message at 07:28 on Feb 6, 2016 |
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This show is pretty fun & funny but I feel like I'm going to get sick of Darkness' schtick soon :/
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anybody who doesn't identify with megumin is a liar
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I hope they continue giving Megumin a completely different long-rear end invocation for Explosion every episode.
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Megumin best adventurer. -- Also, I remember playing some game a long time ago that gave me access to all skills as long as I had the points for it. So, naturally, I decided to get the best spell first. I would grind for weeks until finally I had the best spell. Thought I would be unstoppable. Then when I tried it I did above average damage at best because I did not have endgame stats. Also couldn't cast it many times to mp required. Made the game very hard on myself.
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Thanks for the thread, hadn't come across this before. So far it's an excellent series. It hits the notes of a D&D party so well. "Welp I did my one spell, I'm out."
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I am sad Grimgar gets so much more attention than this show. I suppose Grimgar is the "better" transported to a fantasy world show overall. KonoSuba is way more entertaining, and I find myself looking forward to it more than any other show currently airing. Grimgar is like being forced to eat your vegetables. KonoSuba is a nice dessert every week.
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grrarg posted:I am sad Grimgar gets so much more attention than this show. I suppose Grimgar is the "better" transported to a fantasy world show overall. KonoSuba is way more entertaining, and I find myself looking forward to it more than any other show currently airing. The KonoSuba novels are outselling the Grimgar novels by 3:1 since the anime season started, so you have many fine nakama, good sir.
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come on, where all the ![]()
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AnacondaHL posted:come on, where all the Tumblr only prioritizing butt gifs unfortunately. ![]()
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gero
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Allarion posted:Tumblr only prioritizing butt gifs unfortunately. SA must have fallen on hard times if we cannot make our own gifs.
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Mordaedil posted:SA must have fallen on hard times if we cannot make our own gifs. I check tumblr first before I try making my own GIFs, since I only acquired that skill last year. The better gif makers are watching other shows.
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Allarion posted:I check tumblr first before I try making my own GIFs, since I only acquired that skill last year. The better gif makers are watching other shows. Not a criticism of your sourcing, just a sad note. I'm not one to talk though, I'm not even with it enough to know where the best uploaders are anymore.
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show is good and fun and silly also the ED owns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv4aH5Fg22s ![]()
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The opening is pretty standard, but yeah, the ED is great. It's one of the few I sit through every time.
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Will they actually ever leave the starting town?
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Mordaedil posted:Will they actually ever leave the starting town? If by leave you mean "Stop using the town as Homebase" then no. Never.
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Kaptain posted:If by leave you mean "Stop using the town as Homebase" then no. Never. Thanks, adjusting expectations thereafter.
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grrarg posted:I am sad Grimgar gets so much more attention than this show. I suppose Grimgar is the "better" transported to a fantasy world show overall. KonoSuba is way more entertaining, and I find myself looking forward to it more than any other show currently airing. Well that's not very fair to either of them, one is very serious and the other is a comedy. Neither is "better" than the other because they have incompatible criteria. Grimgar's my favourite this season but both managed to win my heart in the first two minutes, Grimgar with its botched goblin fight and Konosuba with making GBS threads on the standard reincarnation premise. I was genuinely expecting a generic reincarnation story, so it was a great surprise. And Konosuba is much more popular than Grimgar, for better or worse.
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Mordaedil posted:Not a criticism of your sourcing, just a sad note. I'm not one to talk though, I'm not even with it enough to know where the best uploaders are anymore. We live in the future where it takes like ten seconds to make a webm for yourself, use this power wisely. Whoops that wasn't meant to be two posts oh well.
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I like it when there are wizards that have a little Lina Inverse in em.
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Reds posted:We live in the future where it takes like ten seconds to make a webm for yourself, use this power wisely. Whoops that wasn't meant to be two posts oh well. Shinjobi posted:I like it when there are wizards that have a little Lina Inverse in em. Then the show proceeds to throw fireballs left and right, so you know.
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Mordaedil posted:I guess I missed the bus on how to do this so easily as it takes me quite a bit of effort to re-render a video from a film-making program that can even read the files to convert to mp4s or gifs. I made this post on it, but the short version is that you should use this webm converter gui. Click and drag, select the part you want, then resize and choose to add subs/sound or not. Way more convenient than making gifs or messing around with a command line or some video editing program. Like so. https://jii.moe/4kdqrWV5g.webm Reds fucked around with this message at 11:55 on Feb 10, 2016 |
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Thanks a bunch! Now I feel a little less old and outdated.
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Gifs always seemed like a hugely inconvenient pain to work with, I don't know how Tumblr does it with their absurd size restrictions. They can't post gifs that are too cyan or too magenta, for god's sake, how does that website even function. Assuming that absurd restriction is still there from when I heard about it years ago. Gifs are too clunky and aren't intended for clips of a show anyway. Megumin seems to be easily the most popular girl, and I'm glad that she and Kazuma ended up being friends rather than their entire party merely tolerating each other. Reds fucked around with this message at 12:16 on Feb 10, 2016 |
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Thanks for sharing the webm effortpost! Was wondering how people were making webms so easily these days.Reds posted:Megumin seems to be easily the most popular girl, and I'm glad that she and Kazuma ended up being friends rather than their entire party merely tolerating each other. Explosions bring everyone together and make everything better. ![]()
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Holy poo poo this show is funny.
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Thread title made me look into this.![]() I want to walk the path of explosions with them. ![]() Poil fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Feb 10, 2016 |
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I love how everyone except lazy dumb goddess is some form of incredible pervert. Is there a way to watch this completely? The subs I'm watching cut off at the end, maybe the raws are better?
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Ka0 posted:I love how everyone except lazy dumb goddess is some form of incredible pervert. Is there a way to watch this completely? The subs I'm watching cut off at the end, maybe the raws are better? http://www.crunchyroll.com/konosuba-gods-blessing-on-this-wonderful-world ?
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nothings cut off for me on crunchyroll, even the little thing after the ED is subbed
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