KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! is an anime television series adapted from Natsume Akatsuki's light novel series of the same title. The series follows the adventures of Kazuma Satou who, after he dies of a heart attack after pushing a girl out of the way of a truck, which turned out to be a tractor, is sent to an RPG-like world, going on various adventures alongside a goddess named Aqua, a magician named Megumin, and a knight named Darkness.
Produced by Studio Deen, the series was directed by Takaomi Kanasaki and written by Makoto Uezu with character designs by Koichi Kikuta.[1] The first two seasons adapt the first four volumes of the light novels, followed by the anime film subtitled Legend of Crimson which adapts the fifth.
A third season and an anime series adaptation of the spin-off light novel trilogy An Explosion on This Wonderful World! was announced in May 2022.[2] Drive replaced Studio Deen, who produced the first two seasons, as the animation producer. An Explosion on This Wonderful World! aired from April 6 to June 22, 2023. The third season premiered on April 10, 2024.[3]
Series overview edit
Episodes edit
Season 1 (2016) edit
| No. overall | No. in season | Title [a] | Directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original air date [4] | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "This Self Proclaimed Goddess and Reincarnation in Another World!" Transliteration: "Kono Jishō Megami to Isekai Tensei o!" (Japanese: この自称女神と異世界転生を！) | Shunji Yoshida | Makoto Uezu | Takaomi Kanasaki | January 14, 2016 | [5] |
| 2 | 2 | "An Explosion for This Chuunibyo!" Transliteration: "Kono Chūnibyō ni Bakuen o!" (Japanese: この中二病に爆焔を！) | Masato Miyoshi | Aoi Akashiro | Takaomi Kanasaki | January 21, 2016 | [6] |
| 3 | 3 | "A Panty Treasure in This Right Hand!" Transliteration: "Kono Migite ni Pantsu o!" (Japanese: この右手にお宝を！) | Hidehiko Kadota | Kōjirō Nakamura | Tetsuhito Saito | January 28, 2016 | [7] |
| 4 | 4 | "Explosion Magic for This Formidable Enemy!" Transliteration: "Kono Kyōteki ni Bakuretsu Mahō o!" (Japanese: この強敵に爆裂魔法を！) | Bob Shirohata | Makoto Uezu | Takayuki Inagaki | February 4, 2016 | [8] |
| 5 | 5 | "A Price for This Magic Sword!" Transliteration: "Kono Maken ni Onedan o!" (Japanese: この魔剣にお値段を！) | Takatoshi Suzuki | Aoi Akashiro | Takaomi Kanasaki | February 11, 2016 | [9] |
| 6 | 6 | "A Conclusion to This Worthless Fight!" Transliteration: "Kono Rokudemonai Tatakai ni Ketchaku o!" (Japanese: このろくでもない戦いに決着を！) | Shunji Yoshida | Makoto Uezu | Tetsuhito Saito | February 18, 2016 | [10] |
| 7 | 7 | "A Second Death in This Freezing Season!" Transliteration: "Kono Kogoesō na Kisetsu ni Nidome no Shi o!" (Japanese: この凍えそうな季節に二度目の死を！) | Masato Miyoshi | Aoi Akashiro | Masahiro Ise | February 25, 2016 | [11] |
| 8 | 8 | "A Loving Hand for Our Party When We Can't Make It Through Winter!" Transliteration: "Kono Fuyu o Kosenai Ore-tachi ni Ai no Te o!" (Japanese: この冬を越せない俺達に愛の手を！) | Hidehiko Kadota | Kōjirō Nakamura | Takaomi Kanasaki | March 3, 2016 | [12] |
| 9 | 9 | "God's Blessing On This Wonderful Shop!" Transliteration: "Kono Subarashii Mise ni Shukufuku o!" (Japanese: この素晴らしい店に祝福を！) | Tarō Kubo | Aoi Akashiro | Takayuki Inagaki | March 10, 2016 | [13] |
| 10 | 10 | "A Final Flame for this Over-the-top Fortress!" Transliteration: "Kono Rifujin na Yōsai ni Shūen o!" (Japanese: この理不尽な要塞に終焔を！) | Shunji Yoshida | Makoto Uezu | Tetsuhito Saito | March 17, 2016 | [14] |
Season 2 (2017) edit
| No. overall | No. in season | Title [a] | Directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original air date [15] | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 1 | "Give Me Deliverance from this Judicial Injustice!" Transliteration: "Kono Futō na Saiban ni Kyūen o!" (Japanese: この不当な裁判に救援を！) | Yasuo Iwamoto | Makoto Uezu | Takaomi Kanasaki | January 12, 2017 | [16] |
| 12 | 2 | "A Friend For This Crimson Demon Girl!" Transliteration: "Kono Kōma no Musume ni Yūjin o!" (Japanese: この紅魔の娘に友人を！) | Yasuyuki Ebara | Makoto Uezu | Takaomi Kanasaki | January 19, 2017 | [17] |
| 13 | 3 | "Peace for the Master of This Labyrinth!" Transliteration: "Kono Meikyū no Aruji ni Yasuragi o!" (Japanese: この迷宮の主に安らぎを！) | Shunji Yoshida | Makoto Uezu | Takaomi Kanasaki | January 26, 2017 | [18] |
| 14 | 4 | "A Betrothed for This Noble Daughter!" Transliteration: "Kono Kizoku no Reijō ni Ryōen o!" (Japanese: この貴族の令嬢に良縁を！) | Tarō Kubo | Kōjirō Nakamura | Takaomi Kanasaki | February 2, 2017 | [19] |
| 15 | 5 | "Servitude for This Masked Knight!" Transliteration: "Kono Kamen no Kishi ni Reizoku o!" (Japanese: この仮面の騎士に隷属を！) | Shunji Yoshida | Touko Machida | Takaomi Kanasaki | February 9, 2017 | [20] |
| 16 | 6 | "Goodbye to This Irritating Living World!" Transliteration: "Kono Wazurawashī Gaikai ni Sayonara o!" (Japanese: この煩わしい外界にさよならを！) | Yasuyuki Ebara | Kōjirō Nakamura | Yasuyuki Ebara | February 16, 2017 | [21] |
| 17 | 7 | "An Invitation for This Knucklehead!" Transliteration: "Kono Futebuteshī Namakura ni Shōtai o!" (Japanese: このふてぶてしい鈍に招待を！) | Takatoshi Suzuki & Shunji Yoshida | Touko Machida | Rebun Koiwai | February 23, 2017 | [22] |
| 18 | 8 | "Sightseeing in This Pitiful City!" Transliteration: "Kono Itaitashī Machi de Kankō o!" (Japanese: この痛々しい街で観光を！) | Yasuo Iwamoto | Kōjirō Nakamura | Takaomi Kanasaki | March 2, 2017 | [23] |
| 19 | 9 | "A Goddess for This Corrupt Hot Springs Town!" Transliteration: "Kono Fujō na Onsengai ni Megami o!" (Japanese: この不浄な温泉街に女神を！) | Atsushi Nakayama | Makoto Uezu | Takaomi Kanasaki | March 9, 2017 | [24] |
| 20 | 10 | "God's Blessing on This Wonderful Party!" Transliteration: "Kono Subarashii Nakama-tachi ni Shukufuku o!" (Japanese: この素晴らしい仲間たちに祝福を！) | Shunji Yoshida | Makoto Uezu | Takaomi Kanasaki & Tetsuhito Saito | March 16, 2017 | [25] |
Season 3 (2024) edit
| No. overall | No. in season | Title [26][a] | Directed by [26] | Written by [26] | Storyboarded by [26] | Original air date [27] | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 1 | "God's Blessings on This Bright Future!" Transliteration: "Kono Akarui Mirai ni Shukuhai o!" (Japanese: この明るい未来に祝杯を！) | Ōri Yasukawa | Takaomi Kanasaki | Takaomi Kanasaki | April 10, 2024 | TBA |
| 22 | 2 | "A Smile for This Dour Girl!" Transliteration: "Kono Warawanai Shōjo ni Hohoemi o!" (Japanese: この笑わない少女に微笑みを！) | Shinya Kawabe | Makoto Uezu | Takaomi Kanasaki | April 17, 2024 | TBA |
| 23 | 3 | "A Re-education for This Bright Little Girl!" Transliteration: "Kono Sakashī Shōjo ni Saikyōiku o!" (Japanese: この賢しい少女に再教育を！) | Yasuo Iwamoto | Takaomi Kanasaki | Takaomi Kanasaki | April 24, 2024 | |
| Kazuma is welcome as a guest at the royal palace due to Iris very rarely acting on her desires. While wary at first, Kazuma quickly builds a connection with Iris, who considers him like an older brother. He decides to stay at the palace a little longer, acting as her playmate and learning that she lives a lonely and isolated life inside the castle due to her royal status as well as constant attacks by the Demon King's army. One week later, Darkness, Aqua, and Megumin arrive at the palace to bring Kazuma back to Axel, but Iris requests to hold a going away feast for him. During the feast, Kazuma overhears the nobles talking about marrying Darkness off to the first prince, Jatice. He then meets privately with Iris, who admits that she likes him because he treats her as an equal instead of a princess like everybody else. Upon hearing about a mysterious thief who has been targeting nobles with bad reputations in the capital, Kazuma volunteers to catch the thief in an effort to stay in the castle with Iris. However, his plan backfires when Claire sends him to stay in Alderp's mansion, which is the most likely place to be robbed by the thief next. | |||||||
OVAs edit
| No. | Title [a] | Directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original air date | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "God's Blessings on This Wonderful Choker!" Transliteration: "Kono Subarashii Chōkā ni Shukufuku o!" (Japanese: この素晴らしいチョーカーに祝福を！) | Yasuo Iwamoto | Aoi Akashiro | Takaomi Kanasaki | June 24, 2016 | [28] | |
| While running into Yunyun at Wiz's shop, Kazuma ends up putting on a choker that supposedly grants wishes. He quickly discovers, however, that this choker will gradually tighten and eventually strangle him to death in four days unless he can fulfill the wish he had subsconsciously made while putting it on. The girls admit they were partly responsible for it so they offer to help. Taking advantage of the pity he receives from the other girls as a result, Kazuma guilts them into following all kinds of ridiculous and perverted commands as they try to grant his unknown wish. While most girls fulfill his perverted desires, he makes Aqua run errands and do menial tasks. During the third night, Yunyun asks why Megumin wishes to save Kazuma, and claims its just because he carries her when she's unconscious and because they're friends, which is a half truth since the main reason is because he is the first person to never kick her out of his party since she can't handle her magic. Yunyun states no matter what thing Kazuma makes her do, she'll help get the collar off since she's partly responsible. At the beginning of the fourth day, Kazuma finds himself at peace after letting out all his callous feelings towards the girls; he told Megumin he tried to feel her small breasts whenever he had to carry her after using explosion, Yunyun and Wiz he looks at their chests when he talks to them, Darkness that he started thinking of her as just breasts since she moved into the mansion, and Aqua no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get turned on by her, upsetting her that he never thought of her like he does the others. It turns out the wish he had made was that he could know what it's like to be comforted, which occurred before his confessions, resulting in the choker becoming undone without them knowing. Angered by the humiliation they were subjected to when the wish wasn't anything perverted, the girls quickly take their revenge on Kazuma, who once again finds himself in an awkward meeting with Eris. | |||||||
| 2 | "God's Blessings on This Wonderful Work Of Art!" Transliteration: "Kono Subarashii Geijutsu ni Shukufuku wo!" (Japanese: この素晴らしい芸術に祝福を！) | Yasuo Iwamoto | Aoi Akashiro | Takaomi Kanasaki | July 24, 2017 | [28] | |
| Kazuma meets a novice adventurer called Ran, who claims to be Kazuma's fan. A quest is proposed to Kazuma and his party in front of Ran, so Kazuma accepts the quest to look good in front of his fan; after some convincing, they all go to fight a robot golem. Despite being told to destroy it, Megumin desires to keep it. Aqua says she'll make Megumin a transforming robot if she destroys the golem robot, to which she agrees. Megumin sees the robot wasn't completely destroyed and still wants it, so Aqua says she'll still build the transforming robot made out of milk cartons, yet Kazuma tries to tell them it's still active, which falls on deaf ears, then it self-detonates. Kazuma returns to the guild and boasts to Ran about the success of his quest. Another quest, yet again, is proposed to Kazuma in front of Ran. Kazuma accepts it and convinces his party to do it as well. The quest is that Kazuma and his party have to investigate the ruins they already been too. Kazuma and his party search the ruins for items. Among many haunted dolls, they find a diary filled with the life of a previous Japanese NEET who was reincarnated into this world. The writer was a man who could create anything he wanted, and then it goes on how he eventually gave up when he thought why should he fight the devil king. The diary goes on about how he created the golem. The diary also states that he created bishoujo robots, but none of them were perfect. It then states the writer decided to leave and become a merchant in a wealthy city, then Kazuma realized they met him before. After Aqua finishes reading, Kazuma gets desperate to find this robot. When Kazuma finds the robot, Aqua clicks a button and activates it. The robot asks who its master is and Kazuma bravely steps forward claiming that the robot's master is him. The robot pulls out a whip and starts abusing and barking commands at Kazuma, who is cowering with his party, since the creator is a masochist. Megumin then uses explosion and destroys the ruins. Kazuma tells Ran what happened, who is uninterested. Ran soon leaves Kazuma and appears to be quarreling with Luna. Kazuma approaches them, to help sort out the quarrel. Turns out Ran isn't actually Kazuma's fan. Ran was put on a quest to motivate Kazuma and his party to do more quests. After hearing this, Kazuma gets angry and walks closer to Ran and Luna. Ran and Luna realize that Kazuma is coming closer and get scared; they start praising Kazuma at a minimum. Kazuma is unmoved by their false praises and uses his steal-skill to steal their panties. | |||||||
Notes edit
- ^ a b c d English translated titles are taken from Crunchyroll.
References edit
- ^ "KonoSuba TV Anime Announcement". Anime News Network. May 25, 2015. Retrieved May 25, 2015.
- ^ "Konosuba Anime Confirms 3rd Season, Anime Adaptation of Konosuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World! Spinoff Novels". Anime News Network. May 28, 2022. Retrieved June 21, 2023.
- ^ "KonoSuba – God's blessing on this wonderful world! 3 Anime's 2nd Promo Video Reveals Theme Songs, April 10 Premiere". Anime News Network. March 1, 2024. Retrieved March 1, 2024.
- ^ "KonoSuba Network Information" (in Japanese). KonoSuba.com. Retrieved January 29, 2016.
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- ^ "第1話 この自称女神と異世界転生を!" [Episode 1 This Self Proclaimed Goddess and Reincarnation in Another World!] (in Japanese). Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
- ^ "第2話 この中二病に爆焔を!" [Episode 2 An Explosion for This Chuunibyo!] (in Japanese). Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
- ^ "第3話 この右手にお宝（ぱんつ）を!" [Episode 3 A Panty Treasure in This Right Hand!] (in Japanese). Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
- ^ "第4話 この強敵に爆裂魔法を!" [Episode 4 Explosion Magic for This Formidable Enemy!] (in Japanese). Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
- ^ "第5話 この魔剣にお値段を!" [Episode 5 A Price for This Magic Sword!] (in Japanese). Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
- ^ "第6話 このろくでもない戦いに決着を！" [Episode 6 A Conclusion to This Worthless Fight!] (in Japanese). Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
- ^ "第7話 この凍えそうな季節に二度目の死を！" [Episode 7 A Second Death in This Freezing Season!] (in Japanese). Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
- ^ "第8話 この冬を越せない俺達に愛の手を！" [Episode 8 A Loving Hand for Our Party When We Can't Make It Through Winter!] (in Japanese). Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
- ^ "第9話 この素晴らしい店に祝福を！" [Episode 9 God's Blessing On This Wonderful Shop!] (in Japanese). Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!. Retrieved March 9, 2016.
- ^ "第10話 この理不尽な要塞に終焔を！" [Episode 10 A Final Flame for this Over-the-top Fortress!] (in Japanese). Kono Subarashii Sekain ni Shukufuku o!. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
- ^ "この素晴らしい世界に祝福を！2" [Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o! 2]. Tokyo MX (in Japanese). Retrieved January 7, 2019.
- ^ "第1話 この不当な裁判に救援を!" (in Japanese). Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!. Retrieved January 11, 2017.
- ^ "第2話 この紅魔の娘に友人を！" (in Japanese). Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
- ^ "第3話 この迷宮の主に安らぎを！" (in Japanese). Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
- ^ "第4話 この貴族の令嬢に良縁を！" (in Japanese). Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
- ^ "第5話 この仮面の騎士に隷属を！" (in Japanese). Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
- ^ "第6話 この煩わしい外界にさよならを!" (in Japanese). Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
- ^ "第7話 このふてぶてしい鈍らに招待を！" (in Japanese). Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
- ^ "第8話 この痛々しい街に観光を！" (in Japanese). Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
- ^ "第9話 この不浄な温泉街に女神を！" (in Japanese). Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
- ^ "第10話 この素晴らしい仲間たちに祝福を！" (in Japanese). Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
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- ^ a b "KonoSuba Video Anime Casts Aki Toyosaki as Yunyun". Anime News Network. February 25, 2016. Retrieved May 20, 2016.