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Kanos posted:The cast is the primary reason why the show is so entertaining. The material is pretty bog standard comedy light novel stuff but the cast knocks it out of the park. I think the material is pretty unique honestly, the setup is bog-standard reincarnation LN but everyone involved are useless idiots so everyone just fucks around at all times.
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BlitzBlast posted:I'd argue more that the manga is honestly just kinda a bad adaption, but I think if I recommend reading the LN any harder I'd just turn people off. wait they left out the party swap? that's one of my favorite bits because you think it's going to be a standard "everyone learns the value of appreciating what we have" but instead kazuma has incredible success and a fantastic time when he's not plagued by idiots spoiled because i have no clue what's gonna show up this season Yinlock fucked around with this message at 12:29 on Jan 12, 2017 |
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BlitzBlast posted:I really would recommend it, as stiff as the translations are (especially the earlier volumes). As funny as Konosuba is now, it gets even better as the story goes along. Numerous jokes start to pay off, characters legitimately develop, and a surprising amount of progress is made. Konosuba is a story where it actually feels like the author knows where they're going, which is something that many other LNs feel at, even other ones that were originally WNs. it's a story about nothing that has everything 
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krnhotwings posted:I'm glad that the animation budget is properly apportioned toward Kazuma's finger thing. also the GOD BLOW  the animation budget being spent entirely on the most pointless things is the most konosuba thing possible
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Jan 26, 2017 03:32
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Poil posted:Wouldn't she need to really dump a ton of points into mana to get a second cast? At that point it might be better to just slowly increase mana to be just enough for one cast of a progressively bigger explosion. Also it leads to more powerful explosions so it's better this way. i think mana only increases with level, so as her mana increases she just keeps pumping up explosion to just below the point she'd die from it
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Jan 26, 2017 03:35
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Roland Jones posted:Yeah, as I saw it described elsewhere she's basically a max-level character except she can still level to get skill points (to spend on useless crap). So, she's very powerful... Except for her dump stats and somewhat focused skillset (offensively she has the anti-undead stuff and water attacks, and it turns out lots of things are resistant/immune to water and also aren't undead) making it so most of the time she's not capable of ending things on her own she's basically useless, particularly when combined with her personality. there's probably holy attack skills or whatever or maybe even just a weapon skill but she needs to min/max for maximum party-trick efficency
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Jan 26, 2017 05:03
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Iretep posted:Oh nice, i was worried theyd skip this one since it didnt show up in season 1. Its a nice story since itll be the only time Aqua seems to do something serious. Only side story still missing is the party swap one which probably wont be shown since the characters that got introduced from it have already been introduced. that one's super-good but can really fit in anywhere
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Jan 26, 2017 05:25
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Kyte posted:Those animations were reused from last season so technically it didn't cost them anything this time around. i don't think god blow was, i know the finger thing was reused though
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i'm pretty sure this season's allotted budget was 5 dollars and a can full of jellybeans, so they're actually working miracles here
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Agronox posted:Maybe they get into this in the LNs, but what does Megumin do during low level battles where there's no point in EXPLOSIONing? Stand around and strike poses? she explosions anyway she'd cast it at the first shadow she sees if kazuma wasn't there to put a lid on it
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Feb 1, 2017 17:38
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Webcormac McCarthy posted:Blatant mega-man sprites but turning the adventurer class into a megaman thing is actually amazingly brilliant e: also i like how aqua's lovely water fan party trick is a super screen clearing move Yinlock fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Feb 1, 2017 |
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Conot posted:ACTUAL NOVEL SPOILERS DO NOT READ ALSO NOVEL SPOILERS i don't think they're actually officially dating, also there's a definite attraction between kazuma and darkness but i think they individually decide it wouldn't work out??? it's unclear, there's still some tension there though
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Negrostrike posted:And that's what ruins it completely for me. Kazuma is keeping me from continuing watching this series. Just another harem anime or am I so completely wrong? you're very much wrong, don't worry about it. characters develop naturally in this series so all this stuff is a long ways off and spaced out very well also despite the horrible lies of the password screen kazuma is actually the best character Yinlock fucked around with this message at 16:49 on Feb 2, 2017 |
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Cao Ni Ma posted:Darkness probably has insane charisma or something because every one of her outbreaks has people assuming something else entirely. i think it's been noted several times that her stats are actually really good, she just has no offensive skills whatsoever, "crusader" sounds like a paladin prestige class also tbf alderp's son is basically the nicest dude ever Iretep posted:The anime skipped Kazuma talking with Darknesses dad in private before Alderps son appeared. Youd get a better impression on him in the LN basically. yeah he genuinely wants her to be happy but he's not particularly keen on her ideal scenario for obvious reasons Yinlock fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Feb 4, 2017 |
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Raenir Salazar posted:Darkness wanting to become a abused housewife seems kinda horrifying but if it was just like "roleplaying" it could be fine. to be fair i don't think darkness herself understands it that well e: this dumb gag series has a weird amount of character depth Yinlock fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Feb 4, 2017 |
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Roland Jones posted:She has good offensive stats, but her weapon skills (which she needs to hit) have no points in them, for the reason your stated, is what I think is meant. She's terrifying physically but she outright refuses to improve her ability to actually use her weapon. it all goes to passive defenses I assume remember that she survived an explosion which is the strongest spell in the world power-wise, she's pretty much unkillable
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The Sandman posted:It's the Wile E. Coyote principle: the reason we accept how much poo poo he takes is that it's ultimately his own fault because he's a terrible person. i think he stops just short of genuinely terrible but dude definitely loves bein' garbage
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Iretep posted:Aqua is an Arch Priest to be exact which sounds like some generic korean mmo class. All Classes seem to mostly be in fact generic mmo classes and Kazuma was offered to be taken to the new world because he was a neet who played them. If Aqua had good offencive spells besides the holy ones im sure Kazuma would have forced her to take some already. Darkness and Megumin both know how the class works so they would have also pointed it out. Like in the story where they meet Wiz Darknes says its common for priets to not level much since they can only attack undead and demons which are rare. Darkness and Megumin are both insanely overspecialized min-maxers, they're the last people who would point it out. Kazuma also puts up with those two so I doubt he'd force Aqua to take skills she didn't want(he'll bitch about it though) either way the real answer is "because it's funny" e: gimme the GOD drat candy posted:aqua hates and fears giant frogs more than anything else so naturally she would never think to acquire skills to help her deal with them I think that was the whole point of GOD BLOW, which turned out to be real poo poo against frogs whoops
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Josuke Higashikata posted:The Superbowl always ends up being inevitably overblown crap and boring as poo poo.
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lol at aqua getting yamcha'd someone else seemed to have made that connection since she busted out a solar flare too
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Explosions posted:Or mohawk guy. God drat I love mohawk guy. pink suspenders mohawk guy is anime-original and everyone involved in this series seems to love him a lot
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z0glin Warchief posted:His VA got included in some main cast interview and was constantly like "why am I even here?", it was fairly entertaining. that rules he was also on a drama cd cover  (he never appears in this I believe) Yinlock fucked around with this message at 08:38 on Feb 9, 2017 |
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Poil posted:No Megumin. 0/10 would not explode again. side B! 
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Josuke Higashikata posted:More like they figure out the scenes they think are best without budget and then just spend the rest on whatever is left, knowing this show. i like the idea that they have a huge budget and spent it all on revolutionary new low effort animation technologies e: also the Aqua Smirk is anime-only and extremely good(she does make fun of him for "being too confident" in the books though) e2: speaking of book/anime differences i'm sad we never got this shot after kazuma's (other) mighty blade was named 
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Shinjobi posted:Wowzers. i can't decide if i like or hate the fact that kazuma never gets any merch he's the best character but it's also very konosuba to have him left out like that
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Alpha Kenny Juan posted:e: Youtube link of gameplay lol at kazuma waving stolen items above his head, and aqua trying to explain the GOD BLOW like a shounen manga after using it i mean the game itself seems to be rear end but those parts are fun
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all the characters should be bullied and also hugged
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Josuke Higashikata posted:Or is it that Kusoma is genuinely heroic and most other heroic characters are impossibly heroic? kazuma loves being garbage but tends to steer towards doing the right thing when pressed, he seems like a realistic good-hearted teenager to me Tamba posted:Isn't Chomusuke male? -suke is a male name ending, unless Chrimson Demon names are even weirder than we thought. I think Kazuma usually uses "he" to refer to chomusuke in the novels but I also think he doesn't really care enough to find out for sure he does dote on it though, he's a cat person 
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Meme Emulator posted:I mean, Vanir and Wiz ARE both subordinates of the Demon King and should probably be dealt with accordingly. Aqua is spot on there. Wiz is totally harmless and Vanir loves humans, they're not exactly threats to humanity.
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Blaze Dragon posted:Be sure to say hi to Eris for me, and don't point out her padding. That's mean and she doesn't deserve people being mean to her. social anxiety is a crash course in bullying yourself
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The Evil Thing posted:I remember seeing a Youtube video a while back saying that KonoSuba is fantasy anime Seinfeld, so I guess this is the kind of show that is easily mapped onto the American sitcom format. it's basically d&d seinfeld except if the characters had actual redeeming qualities
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Jackard posted:How early should you introduce them to a Vanir vanir's dungeon of dumb bullshit is an adventure for players level 11-13 it's basically the tomb of horrors except all the death is replaced with pies to the face
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MonsterEnvy posted:Vanir is even like D&D Devils in that killing him on the material plane does not even do anything to him. but killing him took one of his lives (i don't think it's ever explained what this means beyond "actual devils are weird")
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MonsterEnvy posted:Vanir only has one life. The one belonging to his true duke of hell self. The Vanir we see is just an avatar of him manifested on the material plane. He is a goof so he felt like changing the look of his mask and calling himself Vanir MK II. There is no actual difference and the death of his first avatar had no effect on him what so ever. He makes another brief reference to it in a flashback about how someone "almost took one of my lives" so it might actually be a weird thing he has but yeah it's also entirely possible he's just loving around explosion's one selling point is that nothing can really shrug it off, so vanir probably took some legit damage from it at least
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MonsterEnvy posted:Well they did take one of the lives of his avatars. Does not change that he has an infinite number of them. (Though only one at a time.) i don't think that's how he works, but we don't really have enough to go on so to each their own
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Comrade Kirov posted:For some reason it smells to me like a perfect timing to do a movie next... 5/6/7 all have pretty climactic final acts imo
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