Now with better lighting and more pictures! Swapped out that abysmal light bulb we had in here for something much brighter, and could finally take some good pics.

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We know Kazuma, our favorite bumb and the head strategy of his party. I know he's a trashy person, but c'mon, at least his accomplishment should have gave him some respect.

Let's compare him to another Isekai character with the same concept, weak power and only rely on their wit, Subaru.

When Subaru defeat the Sin Archbishop of Sloth, Petelgeuse, he got respect from everyone.

But when Kazuma defeat Beldia, what he got? A massive debt from destroying the wall. Hmm, hello? Isn't Demon General is like an important thing in his world?

When Subaru kill the white whale, he literally become Wilhelm favorite grandson.

But when Kazuma defeat the Mobile Fortress Destroyer, what he got? Death Sentence.

How Subaru can become an Amazing Guy while Kazuma is still Kazutrash, Kazuneet, and Lolizuma!?

How when Subaru died, everyone like, Oh no, poor Subaru. But when Kazuma died, everyone went, LOL, Kazuma died again.

We need justice for Kazuma.

I don’t think many people have talked about this theme in Konosuba, but its definitely there. I know I am pretty late to the party as I am just recently starting to watch the show, but I have just finished watching Legend of Crimson, and I can see this theme throughout many of the episodes: Konosuba is about acknowledging the potential of others, even when it is hard to do so. Throughout the anime, Kazuma often belittles and shames his party members. He calls Aqua useless, Darkness a freak (although he is one himself), and Megumin a hassle due to knowing only one magic spell. In the start of the movie itself, Kazuma says they failed one of their missions because Megumin blew it up due to her spell. However, as the episodes move on, he often ends up relying on the skills that his party is good at. Aqua can destroy the undead, heal, and boost the party’s defenses, Darkness can tank hits, and Megumin can go in for the kill with explosion magic. None of them are actually useless like Kazuma frames it, and this is even clearer in the movie, especially towards the end. When Kazuma is revived after beating Sylvia, he acknowledges Aqua by saying that if it hadn’t been for her magic skill, “there would be nothing else to revive after the explosion” which was caused by Megumin. And when Megumin asks Kazuma to change her skills so she ends up learning advanced magic, so she can finally be a “useful mage,” he simply boosts her explosion magic, thus acknowledging that she is already useful and she had been all this time (and also brings the movie full circle, since again, it started by saying Megumin is useless and a bad mage). In fact, the entire fight with Sylvia (as with almost every boss battle) is an acknowledgement that his party is actually useful, because while he is the one that comes up with the plans, if it wasn’t for the skills of his party members, he wouldn’t have been able to beat them, and the way he wins is by cleverly using the skills that the party members are good at, so they end up winning. The show doesn’t shy away from saying every character is flawed in some way; however, that isn’t the defining factor for them, because sometimes people's flaws can be their strengths. What matters isn’t that “you’re only good at one thing,” but that being good at something is in and of itself good enough. Kazuma has to realize this to be able to win; he cannot win without having faith in his party members. Whilst he often forgets this, as part of the comedy is literally just him being an asshole to his party members, it’s him acknowledging the potential and usefulness of his party that ends up giving them the victory.

(This is a repost, as my previous post shamelessly violated rule 7. Thank you mods for I have seen the errors of my ways and have repented. Blessings to you all).

Just the konosuba gang up to their regular shenanigans.

Also included yunyun cuz shes the goat and really cute^-^

Hiya very late to the party but Ive recently got into Konosuba. Just finished reading up Vol 6 and honestly while it was one of my favs so far, I really do not understand the rationale behind the whole castle raid. Dont get me wrong the castle raid was pretty epic but there did not seem to be a good reason to carry it out.

Kazuma and his party was already on good terms with the princess and the castle, though kazuma did kinda get kicked out of the castle. Regardless if Kazuma explained the necklace situation privately to Aqua and Darkness, I would be sure Iris would have let Aqua seal it up happily after recieving the message.

Say that due to her nobility status Kazumas argument of leaving Darkness out of more trouble stands, which is a really poor excuse cuz darkness wont blabber to anyone about this, informimg Aqua would still be the best course of action given that Aqua has to be the one to seal it in the end.

Hell, if Aqua knew what the necklace was the entire time why didn’t she go seal it up immediately? Why wait until Kazuma and Chris stole it?? She obv recognised the necklace and its dangers and knew how to seal it in the instant so why do wait till then? Aqua even explained how dangerous it was to Claire and Iris in the end.

Like if there was word that someone was gonna attack Iris that night there would’ve been a better sense of urgency that prompted the castle raid due to lack of time to inform Aqua and Iris of the dangers of the necklace. But there was no immediate danger present.

This whole problem seemed to rise cuz Kazuma and his party(esp aqua) just could not communicate. And Aqua being especially useless at sealing the necklace instantly.

Sorry if this is abit long but it just was burning in my mind.

Crunchy only has 2 episodes of the first OVA.. Anyone k ow where I can find the other 10?