Konosuba Is Deeper Than You Think

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Published 2021-10-10
Konosuba is great. That pretty much everyone and their grandma can agree upon (don't actually show it to your grandma). HOWEVER, there are many things about it's writing that I believe go overlooked. Konosuba has a lot more depth than we tend to give it credit for! So I'm here to talk about it. Enjoy my half hour video essay gushing over Konosuba.

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:20 Part 1: Why Kazuma is a Chad
4:48 Part 2: The First 5 Minutes
9:23 Part 3: How Are These Guys Likeable??
16:41 AQUA IS USEFUL
19:33 Part 4: Improving The Sauce Material
25:42 Part 5: Kazuma's Character Arc
27:34 LN SPOILERS
30:10 Spoiler Free

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All Comments (21)
  • I love how konosuba was supposed to be a mockery of the isekai genre. But instead become one of the best isekai’s ever made
  • @rion7720
    The hidden part i find endearing about the writing in Konosuba is how Aqua is the root of every problems in the story
  • @dariuscoolstuff
    I love how when someone calls Kazuma’s name out, he just says “Yes, yes. I’m Kazuma.”
  • @OtherMomo
    Aqua has a real canonical reason why she never gets smarter: as a goddess, her INT level was maxed out, meaning no matter how long she grinds levels, she can never raise her INT, so no matter how much experience she gains, she literally can't learn from them.
  • @toxreg4383
    “Aqua is good at stuff just not combat.” Conclusion: Aqua is a bard
  • The reason he’s such a unique character is that his hair is brown rather than black.
  • @leverite6127
    What made me tear up a bit was that kazuma's parents laughing their ass of towards kazuma's death was said as an act for them to cope with their child's death....or that they're just seriously laughing he died in a stupid way.
  • @nyeonii
    “This feels real because this is how friends in real life interact.” YES. That’s why this show is so great to me. It’s incredibly self-aware and the way the characters act is much like how you’d expect real people to act if they got sent to a different world.
  • @RainOn2SunnyDay
    Don't forget that they managed all this even though ALL the budget went into kazuma's finger movements
  • @Flugel_Halogen
    that one part from the movie where aqua pulled up his pants without anyone telling her to and the part where he gets traumatized from the female orcs both times she didn't laugh at him but instead deiced to help him look like less of a fool with his pants down and actually comforting him when he got traumatized is another one of those moments where instead of reminding us that she's the dumb useless character we see that she also cares a lot about him than making fun of him and laughing at him. it also shows that she can actually be really mature when the situation calls for it
  • @PiercingSight
    Darkness' deserves SO much more than she gets. She's by far the most mature. She tries so hard, and gets almost nothing for it. She's WAY too overlooked as a character.
  • @Kabutoes
    I really enjoy the color scheme between all of the main characters like it's easy to distinguish between them all: Megunin - Red/Brown Darkness - Yellow/white Aqua - Blue Kazuma - Green Wiz - Purple (though she's not part of the main group)
  • @MonkeBrain07
    He ACTUALLY drop kicked a woman in the LN. I laughed way too hard at that scene.
  • @statictacos1138
    My absolute favorite thing about kazuma's voice actor is that he was a relative nobody in the JN voice acting scene. His most popular roles up till that point was Steph's dad from NGNL and the MC from Kotoura-san. In spite of this he whipped out all this talent and skill from absolutely nowhere and blew everyone away.
  • @D00MTR33
    As much as I love Megumin, Darkness is life and the biggest reason I fell in love with the show. It was already great when it was just the 3 of them but when Darkness joined it went from great to epic/classic. She was that final piece(and what a piece at that) that made the crew and the show complete.
  • Kazuma is self-centered usually, but that's because he's not some heroic saint. He's just not a doormat who will automatically do whatever is asked of him because he's "the hero", "the main character" or "the guy". He's relatable. He's an average dude forced to save a world with the world's most insane team. He's...realistic. Whenever he does something truly wrong, he does get punished for it. He sapped Megumin's mana cause she mildly annoyed him. Later on bites him in the ass when she can't use her explosion as needed and he ends up killed for it. Whenever he is wrongly punished, it's usually rectified. So all of Kazuma's actions are rewarded accordingly.
  • @culixstar
    in kazuma's defense he did stay awake for four days before he tried to save the girl from truck-kun. anyone would be hallucinating after being awake for 96+ hours.
  • @Ryutix
    Another reason megumin is best girl: Rie Takahashi.
  • @r3b0x91
    You said how you don’t like the succubus episode but that one is one of my favorites because it’s literally the manliness that they ever show him. He’s fully ready to take responsibility over his own mistake that could lead to the death of an innocent succubus.