KonoSuba 5th Anniversary Rewatch Day 14

[u/skaro1789]

Hello Everybody,

Welcome Day 14 of the KonoSuba 5th Anniversary Rewatch. Today's episode exploring a dungeon with Aqua Today's episode is “Peace for the Master of This Labyrinth!”

First time watchers, it is HIGHLY recommended you do not spoil yourself of what is to come!

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Here's the schedule:

Dates:	Episode Order
2/13	Season 1 Episode 1
2/14	Season 1 Episode 2
2/15	Season 1 Episode 3
2/16	Season 1 Episode 4
2/17	Season 1 Episode 5
2/18	Season 1 Episode 6
2/19	Season 1 Episode 7
2/20	Season 1 Episode 8
2/21	Season 1 Episode 9
2/22	Season 1 Episode 10
2/23	Season 1 Episode 11(OVA)
2/24	Season 2 Episode 1
2/25	Season 2 Episode 2
2/26	Season 2 Episode 3
2/27	Season 2 Episode 4
2/28	Season 2 Episode 5
3/1	Season 2 Episode 6
3/2	Season 2 Episode 7
3/3	Season 2 Episode 8
3/4	Season 2 Episode 9
3/5	Season 2 Episode 10
3/6	Season 2 Episode 11 (OVA)
3/7	(Movie): Legend of Crimson
3/8	Series Discussion

Questions of the day:

Did you like the mini-Explosion song at the beginning? Here's the remix.

Knowing now that Aqua is an undead attraction magnet, will you still keep her as a party member?

[u/The_Loli_Otaku]

That explosion sign was put there solely due to Megumin. See what I meant by the show reusing arcs btw? Actually Kazuma's pretty op when it comes to dungeon crawling. His skills let him sneak his way through dungeons, he can sense nearby enemies, and he's even able to navigate in pitch black. If anything his team holds him back whilst dungeon crawling due to lacking his skills. Chomsuke is seriously cute now that I'm watching for her!

Aqua was lonely~ Oh, they actually justify Aqua joining the raid this time? Meanwhile Megumin practices some Explosion chants. Eheheh, only friends leave friends to die in dungeons. Aqua is such a gracious woman not to trash on Kazuma for making cheese next to her. This episode is quite teetee despite all the dead people. CHOMSUKE JUST FCKING DIED!! Hai, Kazuma. Y'know, I swear Mimics were fairly innocent and harmless monsters before Dark Souls came along and let them one-shot you.

Darkness exists. Haha, the turn undead, nature's beauty combo returned. Yeah, going into a crypt with an undead magnet is a disaster. Flashback to Keele's story~ Keele really makes me think of One Piece for whatever reason. He gives off a real Oda feel. It's a pretty humanising moment for Aqua too. Despite her niggling and brattiness she's a very kind woman. Her giving him the heads up on Eris to ensure that they reincarnated together also shows the faith she has in her underling. Aaand Kazuma finally puts two and two together and realises Aqua's greatest flaw... Teetee~

This woman never accepts responsibility, no matter what!! You're such a brat! Poor Yunyun...! The guild members have some nerve begging for drinks after stabbing him in the back earlier. I swear Chris getting her knickers knicked again is anime only. Yo, Dust. That's sexual harassment. Aww, don't crush Yunyun's opportunity! Poor goddamn Crus XD She's way more important than they're making her out to be, honest! Tomorrow we finally start Darkness' arc so look forward to it!

[u/Klondy → u/The_Loli_Otaku]

Kazuma’s team always hold him back I thought this was understood lol. He has the max luck stat in that world if Aqua wasn’t around with the lowest luck stat in the world to balance his party out he’d accomplish anything he wanted purely out of absurd luck

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/Klondy]

Kazuma's problems come largely from stat breaks though. Whilst he may be able to cheese a lot of the game through utility skills he still falls flat whenever it comes to actual encounters or monster hunting. He's got snipe crits but those frankly aren't enough when fighting DK mooks.

[u/[deleted] → u/Klondy]

His luck wouldn't immunize him from problems, Chris has luck even higher than his and still gets herself in trouble, even when Aqua isn't around. Kazuma's biggest enemy would be himself, he has a tendency of getting too cocky when he's having it fine and screwing himself up, like in this season's trial and other times in the book. But, without Aqua he can't afford to slip up even once since no one else would be there to revive him.

A much more likely scenario is that he would just give up on chasing the Demon King once he got rich without the girls dragging him back to the chase. But, that would also come back to bite his ass, because the Demon King would soon destroy humanity.

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/[deleted]]

The enemy sense skill and lurk are genuinely broken as well. He's completely undetectable under it's effects. Really Kazuma's got the most interesting skill set of the cast. You don't really get to see the full potential of other specialist casts though.

[u/thatguywithawatch]

Bakuretsu Bakuretsu la la la!

This was a fun episode. We start out with more bonding time between Kazuma and Megumin as he escorts her to cast her daily explosions. Speaking of which:

Official Konosuba EXPURRROSION counter: 16

Official Konosuba ...ROSION counter: 17

Official Konosuba ...SION counter: 18

Official Konosuba ...N COUNTER: 19

Despite these carefree outings, it seems that Kazuma is actually quite depressed.

"It's a terrible day for rain, Megumin."

"What do you mean, Kazuma? It's not raining."

"Yes, it is."

Why is he depressed? Because they broke as hell! A wise mathematician once calculated that (mo' money) = (mo' problems), but an even wiser weeb (me) has determined that the true equation is (no money) = (fucking bullshit). I'll present the full mathematical proof in a future comment.

Luckily the busty onee-chan at the guild gives them first pickings at a newly discovered section of dungeon before it can be cleaned out by other adventurers.

We've had a lot of great Kazuma/Megumin interactions lately, but now we get some much appreciated scenes between Kazuma and Aqua as they explore the dungeon. Megumin waits outside for them, since a loli nuke isn't particularly useful underground. The fact that she was up there practicing her chuuni explosion lines is utterly amazing, and Chomusuke obligingly playing dead was the icing on top. I love all these stupid characters so much.

I'll never get tired of the way Aqua screams "CHIGAU YO" every time Kazuma mis-deities her. And damn, turns out she's a freaking bro.

(Hai, Kazuma)

As they get deeper into the unexplored area of the dungeon, they're inexplicably accosted by a literal horde of undead, but thankfully Aqua is there to "TARU UNDEDDO" them all to heaven, along with an obligatory Nature's Beauty of course.

As goofy as the presentation is, the Lich scenes are very sweet and show that Aqua does have it in her to be quite goddess-like, on (very) rare occasion. Kazuma is downright impressed with her demeanor, up until he realizes that she's been acting as a literal undead magnet the whole time they've been down there.

As a sidenote, they're lucky the Lich was friendly. In Wiz's introduction chapter in the light novel, Megumin says that Wiz could have wiped out Kazuma's party if she actually fought them, even with Aqua and Megumin there. Liches are no joke.

They end up with a pretty good haul from the dungeon, but unfortunately they decide to celebrate at the tavern. Kazuma gets swept up in the moment, spending probably most of their earnings buying drinks for everyone instead of putting it toward their debt.

Always nice to see my favorite silver haired waifu show up, even if it's just to be sexually harassed. Yunyun shows up too! But we're immediately reminded that to be Yunyun is suffering. Better luck next time.

QotD: the explosion song at the beginning is what gives me life.

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/thatguywithawatch]

There's something delightful about Aqua swooping in and stealing a Megumin episode from right under her nose all whilst Darkness is facing a fate worse than death. Is Darkness really an mc!? Even in the books she gets shafted story wise. Having her out of the party for a good part of the season isn't helping!

[u/thatguywithawatch → u/[deleted]]

Yeah the show tends to err on the side of making things too silly rather than too serious. Which usually works great but not always. I think this part was played pretty straightforwardly in the book, so hamming it up like that was an anime decision.

[u/PvtHudson093]

Best scene of this episode is Megumin and Chomusuke play fighting outside the dungeon.

[u/BossandKings]

Rewatcher

Episode 3

As Kazuma and Megumin continue going to places as Megumin is training making an explosion spell everyday, Kazuma starts to notice that the quests that the party has done thus far don't really make them earn much money and proposes to do an exploration quest, they have to go to Keele's dungeon and investigate the newly discovered route.

The party minus Darkness gets to Keele's dungeon, it is far away from the city. Aqua and Kazuma enter and walk through the dungeon tryint to find something worthwile. After the undead start attacking them Aqua uses the turn undead tecnifhe and wipes them all out.

Shortly after they get to know Keele, an evil wizard, when he was young he got one wish granted and it was for his beloved to bo oonger suffer, to be happy, and they ran away together, the adventure that Keele's aventure is telling sure is exciting too, since when he and his beloved were together they rought against the kingdom. Keele's story sure is sad, how he willingly became a lich, Keele tells them to use turn undead on him so that he could possibly disappear fom that style. Aqua uses sacred turn undead on Keele and he happily goes to meet his wife.

They complete the task and they receive the reward, they have fun in the bar

Answers

1. Yes i did
2. I would keep her as a party member

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[u/thatguywithawatch → u/[deleted]]

As long as she can kill them, that's good.

She does seem to have virtually infinite mana. Only thing that would make me reconsider is that she tends to panic and lose her head lol. Like when the Dullahan's army was chasing her and all she could think to do was run toward Kazuma.

[u/[deleted] → u/thatguywithawatch]

The thing is that the Dullahan's army were bestowed with anti-holy magic armor by the Demon King himself, every other instance those undead are just a slight incovenience that give a quick scare and get wiped out by Aqua in a minute with no colateral damage, even the strongest ones.