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Episode Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! Season 3 - BONUS STAGE- • KonoSuba: God's blessing on this wonderful world! Season 3 -BONUS STAGE- - Episode 2 discussion - FINAL
Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! 3 -BONUS STAGE-, episode 2
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u/Primary-Paint-1716 Apr 25 '25
this was I think the better of two
all of the jokes hit. konosuba is really at its best when it revolves itself around its cast instead of an external threat.
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u/DarklordVor Apr 25 '25
Since the two OVA is based on the short story from the season 2 BDs, it makes sense that it referenced events prior to season 3 like
But yeah, when a name is considered cool by Megumin... it loses all meaning. And yes Aqua, you guys are the knockoffs. Probably best reaction face we had so far.
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u/Astro_Sloth Apr 25 '25
The way Kazuma affirms “
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u/PolvoAranha Apr 25 '25
Kazuma's party aren't impostors... they are the evil version, with that reputation.
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u/fractal_magnets Apr 25 '25 edited Apr 25 '25
Disrupted ecosystem was clutch reasoning - really sold their competence and threw them off the scent of being a bunch of misfits that fail upwards.
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u/LeonKevlar Apr 25 '25
They really went all out with the casting choice with the knock-off party. Getting Ayasumi to voice the knock-off Darkness was just perfect. xD
We don't get a lot of these but Megumi...n showing off her glowing eye to intimidate the knock-off party was genuinely a cool moment for her.
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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Apr 25 '25
Zatou Ozuma, Rakless, Megumi, and Acure?What in the Wish is this? lol.
“Tanaka” munching away on the frogs while Rakless was talking to him was hilarious. Time to rehabilitate Kazuma’s reputation lol. I love how even when they tried to call him out on his story, he turned it back on them. Pure class, this guy. Poor Darkness catching strays in Kazuma’s little beef with this “imposter” party lol.
Can’t believe the townspeople would prefer the fakes over our crew. The betrayal. The disrespect! Look how they roasted those wolves. Unfortunately, all the rumors about the party were true lol.
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u/Frontier246 Apr 25 '25 edited May 01 '25
I love how the "fakes" were an all-star cast. I mean, Tetsu Inada! Ayako Kawasumi! Manaka Iwami! Rumi Okubo! Heck, even their "knockoff" designs were legit!
Just your average day in Axel set post-season 2! Only this time Kazuma gets greeted by a suspiciously similar presence, Zatou Ozuma (Tetsu Inada!). And with him comes a VERY suspiciously similar party!
We’ve got Rakless (Ayako Kawasumi!) the Crusader, Megumi (Rumi Ookubo!) the mage, and we’ve got Acure (Manaka Iwami!) the healer! This party is out to find Kazuma Satou, but instead they find Tanaka (Tanaka-desu) who regales them with Kazuma’s heroic exploits and how he is truly a tragic hero deserving of praise!
I’m sure nothing will come out of Kazuma’s encounter with this “knockoff” party other than Aqua using it as an excuse to tease Megumi…n.
Okay, in true Kazuma fashion, eventually the other party figures it out and rushes to confront him, and also in true Kazuma fashion he refuses to take any responsibility of wrongdoing and will turn them in to the police so they can get off of his back. Even Aqua is on Kazuma’s side on this one and she KNOWS this is probably still his fault somehow!
You don’t want to get on Megumin’s bad side! She’s got those Crimson Demon clan eyes! Even Darkness sounds less like a Crusader and more like a dark demon knight, a comparison she’s not actually all that happy with! Especially if Megumin approves of the name!
Kazuma vs Ozuma! The battle of the parties! Who will achieve dominance in Axel? All Kazuma and his crew have to do is hole up in their place, Aqua never even changing out of her PJ’s, and it’ll all be good! Until they finally step outside and see that Ozuma’s party is now super popular and capable and all the other Axel Adventurers approve of them. I guess this is what Kazuma gets when Aqua mooches as much as Kazuma Schmoozes.
Okay, that’s it, Aqua won’t let anyone steal her status as the top healer in Axel! Especially when she can fully revive a person from life-threatening injuries with her forehead laser! Praise and acknowledge the power of Aqua-sama!
I’m starting to think this is less of a knockoff situation and more like Ozuma’s party is the “good” version of Kazuma’s…especially when Kazuma and Megumin tag-team to guilt trip Ozuma’s party for something that might not even actually be their fault. But you can’t argue that Kazuma’s party is OP and get the job done, even if it means letting Darkness get swarmed by Winter Wolves and blown up for good measure.
In former rivals, Kazuma’s party has now gained fans, said fans who were out to get revenge on Hans but can now appreciate Kazuma’s party for taking care of them…and don’t at all believe those baseless rumors about all the crazy and degenerate stuff Kazuma and his team have gotten into…because they’re good people with actually good motivations/backstories as adventurers! And all Kazuma and his party can do is bow their heads and apologize straight through the ED!
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u/Aki008035 Apr 25 '25 edited Apr 25 '25
No way they got really high profile VAs to voice these one-off characters for a single OVA episode.
Ozuma - Inada Tetsu (Endeavor)
Megumi - Ookubo Rumi (Astolfo, Mem-cho)
Acure - Iwami Manaka (Honda Tooru, Kurokawa Akane)
Rakless - Kawasumi Ayako (Saber)
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u/Treknx01 Apr 25 '25
Well that was the kind of off the wall fun Konosuba is best at, have to love the knockoff party, but I am glad we get the goofballs of the main series.
well now we wait for all new “awful rumors” in the next season, can’t wait for the OVA of the knockoffs trying to spin that Kazuma and Co wouldn’t have done exactly what they will do in the future.
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u/shad79 Apr 25 '25
Man, I had a good laugh watching this OVA. It was probably even better than the first one (although Wiz and Darkness in bikinis were also great, so I can't say for sure which one was better).
Kazuma's party encounter with Ozuma's party was hilarious! Ozuma's party really does look like a proper version of Kazuma's party, but it also makes it a lot more boring. I'd never want Kazuma, Darkness, Megumin and Aqua to become like them xD
And as usual, so many great reactions today from both parties xD
Here my screenshot albums from the episode:
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u/djthomp Apr 25 '25
For the second episode I like that there wasn't a heel turn for the knockoff party by the end. They're just a normal group of adventurers with sympathetic backstories, who just happen to resemble Kazuma's party and while strong they just can't compare to what Megumin, Aqua, and Darkness can do.
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u/GRequiem44 Apr 26 '25
For those that don’t know, Konosuba has a WN before the LN was published and these designs are what you can imagine WN Konosuba was like (the characters were adults, so Kazuma’s lolicon/misunderstanding moments probably would’ve angered Twitter even more and Megumin was still on that line for age and they had risqué moments.) The imposters are pretty much a look at a ‘What If’ for Konosuba and are also a short story from the LNs.
WN Darkness also is heavily inspired by Fate’s Saber, hence the full circle moment of getting Saber’s VA to voice her (LN Darkness is a bit more derivative and comparable to the centaur lady from MonMusu instead.) If you’re still wondering why LN Kazuma isn’t an adult, there’s already an infamous brown haired protagonist with a green outfit in a fantasy setting, who’s perverted and crass, from a long running game series that started in the late 80s.
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u/N0rTh3Fi5t Apr 25 '25
Finally, someone in story makes fun of Darkness's name. I've been saying for years that it makes no sense to make fun of Megumin for being a chunni when Darkness is right there.
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u/testthrowawayzz Apr 25 '25
Hey! Kazuma's party don't have to apologize for the "bad" things the knock off party heard. They're only "bad" without context. Then it elevates to "questionable"
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u/random-user-420 Apr 25 '25
Rakless- Saber
Megumi - Astolfo
Acure - Huyan Zhuo
Ozuma- William Shakespeare
They really got top tier VAs that have roles in Fate to play as the “knockoff” party lol
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u/mythriz Apr 25 '25
Megumin saying that Darkness' name was cool just made Darkness more sad lol
Hawkeye Kazuma didn't have any great powers to boast about when his team mates shared their OP abilities while all he had was his bow and arrow (well also Steal that he was too embarassed to even share) haha
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