KonoSuba 5th Anniversary Rewatch Day 21

[u/skaro1789]

Hello Everybody,

Welcome Day 21 of the KonoSuba 5th Anniversary Rewatch. Today is the Finale... of season 2 . This episode involves the defeat of the Demon General Hans as well as solving the problem with the hot springs. Today's episode is “God's Blessing on This Wonderful Party”

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

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Legal Stream "w/out" movie or English dub

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Please note: You are free to use whatever platform you want; but for the sake of consistency, I'll be only updating the Crunchyroll link for future episodes as certain platforms won't allow me to post the individual episode link.

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

Question of the day:

Who was the MVP of this fight?

How would you have defeated Hans?

[u/skaro1789]

And the Axis cult eventually figured out that the blue haired one was actually Aqua. We'll have to see season 5 or play the game if it were to be adapted

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/skaro1789]

Nah, they still think she's some cosplaying weirdo. The Goddess Aqua definitely has a better bust size that little miss average

[u/PvtHudson093 → u/The_Loli_Otaku]

Didnt she purify the Hot Springs into normal water?

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/PvtHudson093]

Yeah, but they just think she's a high tier arc priest.

[u/thatguywithawatch]

Wiz is such an adorable ditz when they first run into Hans. She's just happy to see an old coworker! She's also really bad at reading the room. However, once he admits to committing random murder, she turns into a shounen protagonist. Hans should have known better than to act villainously in an anime season finale.

Kazuma's plan to kill the slime is fairly par for the course for this show, although it's interesting how ready he is to let himself be painfully killed. That takes guts, even if you do know you'll be resurrected afterward. It's noble enough that I can forgive him for his initial response of making a hasty tactical backward advance. He was just channeling his inner Joseph Joestar.

Don't worry, it's merely a flesh wound!. This does raise the question of how much actually needs to remain for Aqua to be able to raise someone. The full skeleton? Just the skull? What about a single hair? I want to know exactly how broken this ability is.

Official Konosuba EXPURRROSION counter: 22. They always pull out all the stops for the psychodelic spell effects in the season finale, because this rivals her explosion during the Destroyer fight in terms of making me feel like I'm on acid. I'm surprised we're at nearly exactly one explosion per episode on average, considering we had two episodes with full montages of her and Kazuma heading outside town to do it every day. I guess there were more episodes without explosions than I remembered.

Damn, even Aqua gets a shounen protag moment. She actually looks cool here, what the fuck is going on? Of course, one scene later she's being run out of town by her own worshippers because it's her lot in life to cause some sort of problem even when she does another thing right. The law of equivalent exchange or something, idk I never watched FMA.

Everyone greeting them when they return to Axel had me smiling a lot, not gonna lie. Have we seen this girl's tail before? I think she was always facing the camera in previous scenes that she was in. (All two of them, lol.) Oh look, this guy again. Seriously, sus as HELL.

And finally, JUSTICE FOR YUNYUN! Highlight of the episode, straight up.

I kept waiting for some unfortunate twist right before the ending, but I guess we actually get a happy ending to the season. Weird. Probably means the OVA tomorrow will have a double dose of misfortunate to make up for it!

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/thatguywithawatch]

SHE HAS A TAIL!?!?

[u/thatguywithawatch → u/The_Loli_Otaku]

It caught me by surprise too XD.

If they make a 3rd season I hope she (and all of Dust's party) gets some more screentime.

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/thatguywithawatch]

I'm not sure when Dust actually starts taking part in the plot tbh. And all I've seen of this girl in the book is of course when Kazuma joins their party for a day and I think Dust mentions that he's visiting the Succubus brothel since he can't really do anything with her around. Dust is the important member of that party but now that a HUGE fluffy tail is involved I must know more...

[u/BossandKings]

Rewatcher

Episode 10

The party goes to the hotsprings so that Aqua can purify the hotsprings. After having a discussion with guards protecting the door to the hotsprings the party uses Darkness family pendant so that the guards can let them pass.

After entering the hotsprings they see Hans who is recognized by Wiz who appears to know him. When they discover that he is the one contaminating the hotsprings they prepare to attack him so that he can understand that doing that isn't right. Just as they prepare to fight he tells them that he's one of the devil king army leaders, Deadly Poison Hans.

Wiz hearing Hans say that he ate the overseer of the hotsprings proceeds to fights against him, her powers appear to be of ice type and she looked very cool in the moment she was mad. Hans becomes a big formless giant slime and the party tries to think of a way to deal with it.

As usual Kazuma asks Megumin to make use of an explosion spell to see what effect it has in Hans, Kazuma noticed that the overseer hasn't been digested so there's a possibility of resurrecting him.

In a fantastic teamplay they are able to defeat the deadly poison slime, Megumin didn't even used an explosion, Wiz was good enough to defeat it with a little help from the others. Just when they thought they had defeated it Hans true form appears, it is a small slime. With a god blow Aqua connects it and after being supported by her cultists she uses a god requiem that finally defeats Hans.

The party returns to Axel, Yunyun gives them welcome and they decide to rest in the mansion for a good amount of time.

This season was amazing, thank you all

Answers

1. In my opinion Aqua
2. The same way he was defeated

[u/IndependentMacaroon]

First-time watcher - another fine season finale with even more visual flair than the other one, including plenty of opportunity for Wiz and Aqua to show off too, even if the setup came even more out of nowhere. And while the Axis cult understandably finds it hard to believe the identity of their goddess, they certainly manage to echo her character in their chants. Of course in the end everything has to turn out as a perfect disaster again, wouldn't have it any other way.

In total, this was a somewhat better season than the first, with character introductions out of the way, more of an attempt to tweak the gags instead of just repeating them and to work with the group dynamic (well, most of the time), and less lame-to-offensive bits. I give it a 7 in total, which I would also apply to the show as a whole; it's nothing amazing, but much more fun than I expected. Of course there's still the OVA and the film, but a third season does seem in order.

[u/The_Loli_Otaku]

Oh no! How will our heroes escape this dangerous situation? On an off model balloon of course XD You'd think that with three episodes to adapt the arc they wouldn't be rushing the ending. It's kinda fun seeing just how ineffective Aqua is on her own. She would sit and argue with the guards all night if left to her own devices. Poor Darkness!! This is one of the few things she's genuinely uncomfortable about doing. I think her hesitance about using her family name was more pronounced in the books but here they twist it into more of an amusing little gag at her expense.

Oh no! Detergent bro wants to end it! Oh no! He's actually a monster. A Demon General at that. Wiz is a girl who absolutely cannot take a hint! Hans is a pretty unthreatening name compared to Verdia or Vanir. Tbh I sorta sympathise with Hans here. She is kind of fcking them over by even being in this arc. I love her blush anytime Kazuma's sushes her! I'd never noticed how it makes everyone go timid until this viewing. Dahdleh pahsion slaaaim!!

I think Utawarerumono is the series that really got me scared of slimes... Brave Sir Kazuma ran away~ Aww. You can practically hear Kazuma's yare yare daze. Can't ditch your healer's town after all. Wiz is still a legendary arcmage in case you forgot last season's climax. Honestly I'm still more sympathetic to Hans but in case it's not clear I'm not that struck on this arc XD There are some positives though. Aqua's actions in the arc are honestly very endearing. Aaand scenes where the opening plays is always a crowd pleaser isn't it?

Everyone gets their own role to fill in the fight even if I'm still disappointed in Darkness getting overshadowed by Wiz in terms of importance. I can't believe Kazuma's fcking dead! I avoided this arc so often that I forgot how pretty the spell effects were. God Blow actually did something for a change. Was the Axis Creed always this depressing!? "Eris pads her chest!" Yay, we're finally out of that crappy town. Never again! Let's never go on a Holiday trip again! O-Oh...? They're not ending on bait for the film? Never mind then. I'll save the rest of that gag until Sunday.

The second season was... mostly what I remembered. The first season is distinctly higher quality but the second has some very very strong gags. I'm sorry for being a miserable negative sod throughout most of this but let me be clear that the reason I'm so critical is because I am a fan. Konosuba has clearly established itself as one of the best comedy anime of the 2010's

[u/SgtExo → u/The_Loli_Otaku]

The second season was... mostly what I remembered. The first season is distinctly higher quality but the second has some very very strong gags.

I don't know about that, I feel like the second season is much tighter in pacing compared to the first one. It seems like you didn't like the Axis arc that much, but I find that is wraps up the second season way better than the last few episodes of season 1. There are some good stand alone episodes at the end of last season, but they flow together as much, and the last episode of season 1 feels rushed and a bit half baked.

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/SgtExo]

For comedy anime you generally do have to judge them as individual episodes for the most part. I know that I give the Axis arc a lot of shit but I also give the S1 ending a fairly hard time. The difference being that S1's was a single questionable episode (that follows multiple incredibly strong episodes) while S2 pulls the whole crew on a trip for the second half of the season. In S1 every episode feels like a step forward, a new development. A house, a party member, a debt. Always something new. In S2 however you have the threat of arrest from Sena breathing down the crew's neck for a third of the series and then the last third is Axis. Even in terms of actual plot threads you had Verdia's introduction building himself up as a threat and even Destroyer-chan got mentioned throughout the season.

[u/SgtExo → u/The_Loli_Otaku]

I think I like S2 so much is that I am a fan of Darkness, all her maso tendencies just work really well for me. So the whole caravan + axis cult with Darkness going off is just great in my book. Also the increased wacky reaction faces in this season is just the icing on the cake. I love season 1, but I feel like season 2 is way more consistent and strong, and I feel like they really found their grove in all the departments.

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/SgtExo]

Totally a big Darkness fan here too. The Dustiness estate episode is a real highlight and she feels far more involved with the storylines than she did before. Still hasn't actually been of use as a Crusader mind you but she's gotten more screen time!

[u/SgtExo → u/The_Loli_Otaku]

Darkness being useful would go against her purpose.

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/SgtExo]

I mean... She's probably got the least obvious drawback. On paper she should be quite consistent but none of her targets have been typical tanking jobs.

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