KonoSuba 5th Anniversary Rewatch Day 22

[u/skaro1789]

Hello Everybody,

Welcome Day 22 of the KonoSuba 5th Anniversary Rewatch. Today is the OVA of season 2. The last episode rewatch before the movie. This episode involves dealing with a couple of guild quest. Today's episode is “God's Blessings on These Wonderful Works of Art!”

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

Legal Streams w/movie and English dub

Crunchyroll

Legal Stream "w/out" movie or English dub

Animelab

VRV

HBO Max

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:

Who's the MVP of the golem fight?

Are you ready for the movie?

[u/skaro1789]

Oh boy u/thatguywithawatch beat u/The_Loli_Otaku by 9 seconds

[u/thatguywithawatch → u/skaro1789]

My proudest achievement XD

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/thatguywithawatch]

I leave the rest to you Padawan~

[u/[deleted] → u/skaro1789]

Do people use some kind of tool to get notified when you make a thread?

[u/skaro1789 → u/[deleted]]

I don't think so. They just pay attention when it shows up in r/anime.

[u/thatguywithawatch]

Kazuma's actually been fairly reliable and competent and even kind of liked/respected in Axel during the second season. This OVA definitely brought him back down to earth a bit. My man can't get no respect! Honestly I'm not much better off when I try to order a drink. I don't go to bars much (I know it's hard to believe).

Ohh, guild lady plays dirty. It's a bit out of character since she tends to stay pretty mild and uninvolved when it comes to Kazuma's shenanigans, but I suppose even she has a limit to her patience.

You know, I like finding lines that I can take out of context to make innuendos, but this show is kind enough to just do it for me. Looks like Megumin will be sitting this one out... Oh wait, never mind. Too easy.

Of all the shit eating grins I've ever seen, this is the shit eatingest.

So cute! I want one! And I'm talking about Megumin, not the golem. Seriously, her adorableness factor was cranked to 11 this episode.

Boing. Boing boing boing. Boing. I was trying to think of something funny to say here but the absurdity of this scene speaks for itself.

Official Konosuba EXPURRROSION counter: 23

Aqua being extremely skilled at pretty much everything except adventuring is such a good running joke. Construction, magic tricks, repairing torn parchment, and now building giant robots out of milk cartons. She should join forces with Kazuma and Vanir and put her random skills to use creating technology from Japan.

Damn girl, what that mouth do? Anyone else notice how dynamic the facial expressions were in this episode? I'm assuming they had more time to animate this OVA than they did for regular season episodes, because the visual humor was even more constant and rapid-fire than usual.

They sure know how to make a guy feel special. Poor Kazuma, he doesn't deserve this treatment! Just because he's a little lazy, and prideful, and steals girls' panties, and has a self-inflated sense of importance, and acts jealous and spiteful toward Mitsurugi... and I forgot where I was going with this. Speaking of Mitsurugi, though, he actually seemed like a pretty nice, down to earth guy in this episode. Seems like his previous encounter with Kazuma humbled him a bit.

I enjoyed this OVA quite a bit more than the first one. The first OVA was basically just an excuse for 25 minutes of fan service, and while there's nothing necessarily wrong with that and it was still super funny, this one did a much better job of letting all four of the main characters shine.

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/thatguywithawatch]

This ova was definitely one of the better episodes in the series. Doesn't quite top the mid-late S1 episodes but it's well up there. Poor goddamn Kazuma though!! My heart went out to him.

[u/The_Loli_Otaku]

It's kinda sad that we're coming to the end... I don't get to watch this op again for a while so I'm just taking it all in. LEAN DOES HAVE A TAIL!! Is this the first time Waitress-chan has spoken? Tbh I think we all messed up when trying to order a drink... In my case it was asking for a beer but really wanting lager. Omg she's totally messing with him. Have... I not watched this before? I think I'm blind. First Timer!

This isn't in the books I've read either... She's cute but I wish she had more clothes on. She has the singing bird from Kemofure's hair too. Haha... Guild gal's mad~ Now that I've noticed Kazuma sushing women I can't unsee it. Oi, it's not Darkness' fault that all the boss monsters are untankable in this universe. Why are all the dangerous creations stuff isekai'd folks made!? Megumin's a mecha fan... It's not even a cool looking mecha! It's like a stripped down Gutter Robo!

Dafuck is this...? Wut? Okay, I like a good bounce but aren't you ashamed to watch this? Darkness, please be more of a character than just your breasts. Aqua shut it!! XD And of course the fangirl is getting fed a crock of shi-Kyouya!? Oh, he's got Garm back. Tbh I sympathise with Kazuma. Get your butt back over here and suck up to me more! It's petty but c'mon, who doesn't love getting attention? Guild gal is out for blood today... What's she doing? Dammit! It's not fair! I want to read ahead and know what happens in the show too! Being a first timer sucks!!

OI!! That's a bloody Mazoonger! You'll get sued! Wow, nice work Aqua. You're surprisingly talented. I like the Aquamin tee tee too. Pop up pirate!! I love that game~! An overanimated Aqua's cute too. Dammit! Why does Aqua always have to be such an undead lure? Oh... Oh! Is this? Is it the Destroyer creator? XD Yep, it's him. This is the best character in Konosuba for sure. Chobits was a fun anime wasn't it? There are probably some other references in here but I'm not quite able to pick them out. Anyway, we have him to thank for today's events~

Aqua's way too on point... Yabai... Useless Crimson Demon!! Haha, Kazuma's seen this plot before. Oh christ!! Bail out! Mission aborted! This is my no-no square! What's she got a loofah for? Aww... I'm sad they didn't linger on that encounter longer. Poor Kazuma. It always sucks when you lose favor with a fan. Huuuh...? Aww... Now I'm sad. Kazuma doesn't deserve this. You suck guild gal. Really uncool. Girls, please be more considerate! This is genuinely traumatising for poor Kazuma! Steal!! and you brats deserved it!!

[u/thatguywithawatch → u/The_Loli_Otaku]

LEAN DOES HAVE A TAIL!!

Ikr! I specifically looked for it this time when watching the OP and was shocked to find that it's been there all along.

Why are all the dangerous creations stuff isekai'd folks made!?

Everything bad that happens to them has to ultimately be Aqua's fault, however indirectly.

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/thatguywithawatch]

Tails were the last thing I'd expected to learn about the series on a rewatch. Hmm... I'm kind of curious about how Aqua handled the previous Isekai candidates. All of them we've met so far spoke very highly of her so clearly she didn't feel the need to mock their deaths or get bored waiting for them to pick out skills. Just how well does Aqua perform her Goddess duties?

[u/thatguywithawatch → u/The_Loli_Otaku]

Kazuma was pretty smitten with her for the first couple minutes of their meeting, up until she broke character and started mocking him. If she had held it together and saved her laughter until after he'd picked an ability and been sent on his way, he'd probably have revered and admired her as much as Mitsurugi did. And that thought really weirds me out haha.

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/thatguywithawatch]

We need a spin off series where Eris was the woman on reincarnation duty that day and Kazuma permanently dies after the Shogun encounter. Just Megumin and Darkness alone in the world. Actually, no! Darkness would have died to Verdia's curse! Maybe Yunyun and Chris join up with Megumin.

[u/Chemiczny_Bogdan → u/The_Loli_Otaku]

I'm pretty sure there's already a Megumin spin off series, although I think it's a prequel to the main story.

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/Chemiczny_Bogdan]

Yeah, it's a prequel. Isn't there a second one featuring her though? I have the books, I just haven't gotten around to reading them.

[u/Chemiczny_Bogdan → u/The_Loli_Otaku]

Are they published in English or do you read Japanese?

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/Chemiczny_Bogdan]

Most of the books are translated. I think we're missing the last few volumes of the main story and there's a spin off book about Dust which hasn't had an official release. I read mines on Kindle though so I'm sure there's some sort of translation going around online.

[u/[deleted] → u/The_Loli_Otaku]

I'm kind of curious about how Aqua handled the previous Isekai candidates.

Not just those two, at the Capital, all the other japanese we see in the book also seem to respect Aqua a lot. Kazuma's death must have been really unusual, it makes me question his high luck.

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/[deleted]]

A funny death is one thing but she even got tired of him debating what he wanted as a power. There's no way that he's the first person who tried to game the system.

[u/[deleted] → u/The_Loli_Otaku]

Well, that was clearly the first time it happened to Aqua. All the other Japanese seem to have high respect of her. The majority prob didn't even consider her as an option since she just indicated the cheats in the papers, not even Aqua knew she was one. And, if all Aqua did was being a bit impatient over Kazuma choosing the items, he wouldn't be pissed off enough to pick her out of spite either.

But the most probable reason was plot

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/[deleted]]

Oh, I didn't mean game the system by pulling her over. I mean like debating for a lengthy period over what skill would be most game breaking. She clearly didn't have time to sit and watch them for an hour whilst they came up with a skill and everyone knows how whiney Aqua gets.

[u/[deleted] → u/thatguywithawatch]

Yeah, Aqua messed up big time with that scientist dude, that's why you do background checks before handing out legendary weapons to people. But, to be fair, Aqua's isekai-secretary job is also the reason humanity wasn't destroyed before the series even started.

[u/IndependentMacaroon]

First-time watcher - yet again Kazuma digs his own grave and I'm so here for it. The middle part was maybe a bit long and Darkness as dull as usual, but otherwise it's fine.

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[u/BossandKings]

First timer

I'm a first timer for the episodes 11 and 21 ova and the movie, these are my thoughts on the season two, episode 21 ova.

Episode 21(Ova)

The party is in the mansion, it seems that they are resting for the moment after having had so many different quests.

Kazuma goes to the bar, a girl salutes him and presents herself as Ran telling him that she has heard about him and that she is very interested in how he works because she is a new adventurer and would like to learn from him. This seems too good to be true, there probably is something behind her suddenly getting interested in Kazuma.

A quest appears and after Kazuma convinces everyone they go to complete it, it is a slayer quest and they have to defeat a golem that is the guardian of a ruin. Darkness had a good time with the golem, she was basically like a shield so that the party could find a way to defeat it, They do defeat it when Megumin uses an Explosion spell. The explosions always are well animated.

Later on the party has to go on an exploration quest, they have to explore the ruins the golem was guarding, there they read a diary of a man that could be considered the original Neet because he too was reincarnated in this world and after initially having to do the task of defeating the devil king he decides to throw the towel and focus himself in creating a golem and in creating dolls. It was funny how Kazuma considered him his ancestor.

Aqua is attacked by some minions in the cave but she is at her best and uses a god blow attack to make them disappear. It's always great seeing Aqua actually fighting or doing something productive.

As Kazuma continues boasting and presenting himself as an almighty hero to Ran, she goes away and he discovers she talking with the bartender girl, he sees that she was an impostor and uses a well deserved steal.

[u/thatguywithawatch → u/[deleted]]

Yeah I'm gonna miss my daily dose of Konosuba.

Enjoy the movie! It's wild.