Why do I like Konosuba? It's easy.
Megumin.
Nuff said.
Being serious, Konosuba is a brilliant anime. It was a highly enjoyable first watch, and the more I read/watch about it the more I like it. It might beat out Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood if it weren't for the nostalgia I hold for the latter if I'm speaking honestly.
To give a premise, the protagonist Kazuma dies and is given the chance to reincarnate into a fantasy world with any 1 item of his choice. Out of spite, he chooses the goddess who handles reincarnation, Aqua. The two are transported to another world and given the task of defeating the Demon King. Along the way they party up with Megumin, an explosion-obsessed mage who can only use her explosion spell once a day before becoming physically and magically drained, and Darkness, a masochist crusader who can't hit anything. The show follows Kazuma and his party's misadventures in this world, with Kazuma learning that, while life in this new world isn't as he expected, it isn't too bad.
The highlight of Konosuba is easily its characters. The chemistry between them is almost magical; Mother's Basement puts it best in that the characters are immediately close with one another. This allows their virtues and flaws to mesh with each other, which creates countless scenarios and sets up a majority of the jokes. All 4 of the main characters are fundamentally flawed, and there's an argument for each of them being horrible people, but at the same time each of them pull through when needed, and together are incredibly capable. Each character is animated to properly capture their emotions, which heightens the comedy (and makes for great reaction images).
None of this is mentioning how the show is a biting parody of the entire isekai genre (wherein the main character is transported to another world) and common harem tropes. The show accomplishes this in such a subtle way that I didn't even notice until it was pointed out to me, but that just makes the show even better to me.
Also, I'd like to give Konosuba props for my favorite anime opening animation ever. Typically openings are just opportunities to put cool scenes/foreshadowing to catchy J-Pop songs, but the second opening of Konosuba manages to condense an entire story in the opening. Take a watch for yourself:
no this wasn't an excuse to link both Konosuba OPs since I love both of them
The personalities of and chemistry between these characters is so well established that it can be conveyed in 90 seconds. If that's not impressive I don't know what is.
Hunter, don't think that way! I know there are some days that seem like we said something that seem to have cursed others or ourselves, but that's just how life is...had to learn it again some days ago, where at first everything seemed okay and then, at one point, it was event after event of just, bad happenings. I was stressed out and I felt it was never going to end, but it did, and in between all that, there were at least some good news. I don't know Breloom that much, but I do also wish that his situation gets better, no matter what it is.
