These past couple of days I've been eating, drinking, and binging with abandon. I've been eating a lot of candy, drinking a lot of water, and binging a lot of anime.
After finishing Blend S I was feeling a little empty inside and I asked V what I should watch next. His recommendations lately have been between KonoSuba and Gabriel Dropout. I've yet to watch Gabriel Dropout, but something about the 10 episode season of KonoSuba made it appealing. And so I binged it all. In one day. Healthy. I swear I'll start actually going to the gym sometime soon.
Note: I'm writing this at night after I went out to eat KBBQ with my friends, so I can't really think straight, but I like writing reviews right after I finish the series so all my thoughts on the series are still in my head. I'd rather pour it all out into one post rather than risk losing a part of my train of thought.
{Spoilers, I guess?}
First of all, this isn't your typical fantasy adventure anime. So don't expect it to be super serious and have all these arcs and super cool bosses. This is mostly about our unfortunate main character and his comedically sad life. Natsuki Subaru
*cough* I mean Kazuma is your average NEET and otaku.
Well he's normal until he dies and decides to take a goddess with him to a parallel world to defeat the demon king and save the world. Or something. It turns out that Aqua isn't the brightest and she's mostly the reason for Kazuma's suffering and their chronic debt. With Aqua the occasionally useful goddess, Megumin the good for one time use explosion arch wizard, Darkness the masochistic and clumsy knight, and Kazuma the average dude, they make up a pretty motley crew. Their dysfunctional dynamic makes it more interesting to watch because they're not given per-say a way to easily finish the game. Heck, they never even make it to the demon king in these 10 episodes.
This is more of a "just for fun and laughs" kind of anime rather than a serious adventure anime. Sure it has its moments like when Kazuma dies for the second time and almost leaves the parallel world for a nice life reincarnated in Japan, but instead decides to stay with all of them in the parallel world. That fond loyalty and the fact that sometimes they do really cool stuff like defeat one of the demon king's generals keeps it from completely being a gag anime, but let's be honest, it still kind of is a gag anime.
I wouldn't recommend you watch this in a public place. Without context a lot of parts, especially when Kazuma learns the steal skill or like any scene with Darkness is high risk. And definitely don't let anyone see you watching episode 9. That's NSFW.
Overall I'd say it's a pretty light watch. It's honestly like a slice of life comedy, just in an adventure format. So it's a pretty good transition series if you're looking to branch out into different genres. It's also very addicting because they all link together in this kind of series of unfortunate events as they keep getting money and accumulating debt. Ah and the ED really heals my soul. It's a really good ED. The OP is pretty good too, but the ED is very pure.
They've got some really nice spell sequences in here. They're really aesthetic. One day I think it'd be cool to learn how to make GIFs so I could show you in all their glory.
Is that a Chuunibyou reference? Like the eyepatch :o
The truth hurts too much Aqua T^T
His response to all his party members calling his name is so cute
I just love how this anime doesn't take itself too seriously. Like they could've made the end really dramatic and meaningful or something, but instead they put this epic battle sprinkled with sardonic humor. Like this deadpan humor killed me. It was just a really well executed anime overall and something I hadn't seen before. Maybe it's because I'm not too into RPGs or adventure type anime in general (like the classics I haven't even watched because there's just too many episodes and I'm overwhelmed by the sheer amount), but I thought this was a really original show and I can't wait to watch season 2!
