One of the regular cast, Megumin is a rookie mage who is a mockery of the "chuunibyou" or "edgy middle schooler" character archetype. On DeviantArt, searches for "konosuba" return over 1,000 results. Megumin alone (めぐみん) returns around 2,800 results. įan art is prominent on sites such as Pixiv, where "この素晴らしい世界に祝福を!" (full Japanese title) has over 3,000 results. Bizarrely, this dwarfs the size of r/Konosuba at around 2,000 subs. Megumin has her own subreddit at r/Megumin, in accordance with her memetic popularity (discussed below), with over 4,000 subscribers. The series has fandom entries on sites such as reddit. However, as a Studio DEEN show, the animation style is occasionally mocked by viewers for its quality. Anime review and news website Anime News Network found the series' second episode (which features Megumin's introduction) to be "the funniest episode of anime seen since Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun." The series has a light-hearted nature, and as such, was well-received by anime fans tired of the traditionally more grim or "edgy" entries in the Other World genre. The series' popularity saw large escalation with the airing of the animated adaptation in January 2016, with western fandom viewing the series on streaming websites such as Crunchyroll. It was reworked into a light novel from October 2013. KonoSuba began life as a web novel published online from December 2012. At this point, a traditional role-playing-game party of Knight, Thief, Mage and Healer is formed, and so the fail-laden adventure of Kazuma and company begins. Thus, the two are transported to another world and commence their quest to defeat the Demon King.įrom left to right: Darkness, Kazuma, Aqua, Megumin.Įventually Kazuma and his "useless goddess" are joined by Darkness, an extremely masochistic Paladin with a penchant for pain, and Megumin, an arrogant mage who can only cast her one known spell once a day. Kazuma promptly chooses to bend the rules and chooses Aqua herself as his "item of choice". She presents him with the opportunity to begin life anew in a fantasy world, and grants him the choice of one item he may take with him on his journey. The plot begins as follows: cynical shut-in Satou Kazuma is killed and finds himself brought to a goddess named Aqua. However, KonoSuba's popularity stems from its distinctively comedic approach and the subject matter borders on parody of this genre. KonoSuba is in the "Isekai" or "Other World" genre of light novels similar to popular series like Sword Art Online or Re:Zero.
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