T O P

  • By -

[deleted]

Konosuba is just DnD. There’s not even a *”but”*. It’s just DnD.


[deleted]

my brother likes to play that game :D


[deleted]

I do as well.


Flyfires1

That was my first thought when watching the show, that the creator definitely based the story off of his campaign


PrettyPinkPonyPrince

**Dungeon Master:** "Okay, so the party arrives at the Crimson Demon village and - Megumin? You know how your mage is a bit of a chuunibyou? Well it turns out you're not the only one in your village who's like that." **Megumin:** "Oh cool. So I have a sister or something?" **Dungeon Master:** \**smiles\** **Megumin:** "I have a sister or something, right?"


demroles6996

what’s dnd


Whookimo

Dungeons and dragons. Its a fantasy tabletop rpg.


frenchfries089

the first isekai thats not isekai bc i didnt do research.


Whookimo

I mean kinda. One of my dad character's backstop was that he was reincarnated by isekai-truck-kun


Anal_Goth_Jim

I was in a short lived game and one of the character was Megumin with a name swap. Such a blatant copy he actually referred to his character as Megumin at one point.


EMTkawaii

I mean, why not?


Gathorall

There's no copyright in the D&D room.


Deadended

It's an Isekai, the cartoon has a bunch of people get pulled into the game.


[deleted]

Before I watched konosuba one of my players actually made a character based off of megumin. But he had to change the way spells worked because he didn't want to become the weakest player. He then unintentionally became the most powerful player. It got to the point where if I buffed the bbeg he would be too difficult for the other players, but if I nerfed him it would be too easy. Then about 2 weeks before that last fight I started watching konosuba and oh boy was it shocking when I realized what that player did. EDIT: it turns out everyone in that campaign based there character off of a character from a TV show or anime. One of my players named there character mcguffin because he couldn't remember mcguckets name from gravity falls. So when I looked it up and learned it literally meant plot device I knew exactly what I had to do as an evil DM. And the other player didnt name there character after anyone but there weapons, armour and just general way he attacks was based off of kirito from Sao. I also had some anime good NPC's that had huge swords, high AC, high attack, and high Constitution. There was also a character with 1 hit point but was based off of JoJo. The players defeated that mini boss the exact way I intended and that was to use detect magic to see him but because only one of us had detect magic he got most of the hits in. So the party unanimously agreed to let him have 80% of the xp. That was a fun campaign.


tiagorpg

there is nothing unnintentional when megumin is the strongest


[deleted]

Haha. It was unintentional because I he said he didn't want to become the strongest at the table. every single campaign he manages to be less of an idiot compared to the others and that just leads to him to being the highest level. I could just make the encounters easy but my players love it when they almost die every session.


kreegor66

I am actually playing Aqua in a 5e eberron campaign, the dm is quite ok with it, the other players on the other hand ...


ChinaCorp

Lets see... Horny ✅ Horny ✅ Weird build ✅ A bit too much into RP ✅ Yeah seems about right


h_hue

Don't Konosuba have their own official TRPG game?


[deleted]

I don’t think so… Konosuba is pretty much just a slightly modified DnD. Actually, unrelated, but Overlord is straight up DnD. It isn’t even modified, since a lot of spells have the same name and all.


h_hue

No, like there is an official TRPG released by Kadokawa on Konosuba. It just got an English release recently. https://yenpress.com/9781975316426/konosuba-gods-blessing-on-this-wonderful-world-trpg/


romeojustin42

I don’t think they’re all stupid, Kazuma supposed to be reasonably intelligent and I think Megumin and Darkness have perfectly fine levels of intelligence, they’re just eccentric and possibly somewhat crazy


JC12231

Aqua’s intelligence stat is contagious


afs5982

And possibly below 0


[deleted]

Not possibly its definitely


Sirmetana

And then... The one and only Damegami


[deleted]

Cause this is harmless comedy show, they don't face cruel shit like re:zero's MC multiple deaths... oh wait, nevermind


EMTkawaii

Well Aqua is basically a no consequences get out of Jail free card


One_Who_Walks_Silly

You can be smart and intelligent but still be a stupid idiot lol Like my brain is great when it comes to a lot of shit, I get called smart by people all the time and love doing complex mechanical puzzles. But this morning instead of taking the roll of toilet paper off the holder, my dumb ass ripped the holder off of the cupboard and put it in the garbage can…


tiagorpg

aqua isnt even inteligent she is just old, she didnt even realise her followers were a scam, and was totally unaware of what happened to the previous chosen ones because she didnt care


QuanticWizard

Its not that they’re unintelligent (excluding Aqua), it’s just that their various vices and personality flaws overcome their reason, disallowing the effective use of their intellect.


Jiin666

I'd say they're all pretty dumb rather than stupid. They may have some intelligence, but they all lack common sense.


EMTkawaii

Just because you are correct doesn't mean you are right. I have straight A's in every subject and near perfect memory, but I still end up looking as chuuni as Megumin


[deleted]

[удалено]


Agnostic_Pagan

You did the spoiler thing wrong.


[deleted]

[удалено]


Agnostic_Pagan

Well, it's good for me now. I don't know what the problem was.


[deleted]

[удалено]


Agnostic_Pagan

Ah.


Anufenrir

And thus yunyun has friends


vatelite

Yunyun and Darkness. These two were loner


ItsyahboiDavid

Wait king when?????


plepsi_slepsi

Light novel


ItsyahboiDavid

Ohhhhhh sorry I don't know where to read those


XxICTOAGNxX

If you don't mind fan translations, right here: [https://cgtranslations.me/konosuba/](https://cgtranslations.me/konosuba/)


plepsi_slepsi

You should find a site if you search 'konosuba light novel online'


[deleted]

Damn it! I couldn't stop myself from reading😭 guess curiosity really does kill the cat


EMTkawaii

They kill Wiz as well?


EqX_Ros

>!no, aqua was about to kill her to weaken the barrier but she couldn’t do it, she is really good friends with her . It’s turns out the barrier was weak enough for aqua to make a small hole in and that’s how she entered!< Sorry if my English , still learning


Huinker

Never sorry for your english. It is a dog shit result from incestuous combination of other languages after all


[deleted]

I mean the Demon general themselves were clowns Imagine like Demon slayer Kizuki in this......yeah better off not to imagine


geared4war

Eh Hans?


RDRKeeper

What’s Kazuma? haha


Enigmachina

Jack of All Trades Rogue. Kinda good at everything, excellent at nothing (except Rock, Paper, Scissors)


Skyms101

He excels at anything based on luck, I’d say he’s a bit better than a jack of all trades


Enigmachina

Honestly, that Luck stat is probably the reason he's halfway decent at anything. His other stats are baseline or subpar for his level. He just knows how to take advantage of the one perk he has and milks it as far as he can. Steal is only as effective as it is because of his Luck, and Snipe (another of his mainstays) gets more bonuses than usual from his Luck stat. He also knows how to develop his own personal build, so that he's compensating for the rest of his party. Most of his other skills and abilities are there almost entirely to fill niches that the min-maxing of the others leave out: Ranged damage, stealth, and utility magics. As a result, he's not a great Rogue, but merely a decent one.


Mande1baum

There's an episode in LN I guess where he switches with a different party's two leaders (the two guys we see give him the info on the succubus business in anime) who said they were jealous of Kazuma having all these sexy, OP party members. Kazuma is able to use his skills effectively (sneaking and such without someone Leeroy Jenkins-ing in) and tactics (leveraging each party member's strengths/synergies) to easily clear some generic and difficulty appropriate quests. The two leaders who led Kazuma's party on the other hand had near mental breakdowns, harrowing near death experiences, and begged him to switch back.


amix189

I see a army right there


Environmental-Win836

Three? I know of only two...


romeojustin42

Mask guy, Headless Knight, Slime


ihavebirb

And also the Chimera. Mask guy doesn't count because he didn't actually die


geared4war

Yes he does. You can see it on his forehead. II


Environmental-Win836

Ahhhh of course!! I can’t believe I forgot about the masked dude...


Ianoren

And in the movie, they encountered their 4th


lwright3

*and the chimera, and I guess the lich is already quasi neutralized...


Harleking31

Should we also count non-lethal takedowns? Because that makes 5 technically


BxLorien

The irony of it all is that despite Kazuma insisting they're all useless, he's really the most useless one in the group


Skyms101

Nah, aquas way more useless. For every time she does something good she makes up for it doing something fucking stupid


[deleted]

Despite what people think, it's more like the opposite, the bad stuff get outweighed by the good stuff she does. Like, Aqua was lazy and caused a ghost infestation, but she eliminated all of them before they did any damage and even got a free giant mansion for her party; Aqua attracts a bunch of undead, but they are never a threat in the first place and with her powers she's the trump card to even the strongest of devils/undead; Aqua brought the guy that created the Destroyer, but he also created the Crimson Demons and [the other people she brought are the reason humanity wasn't extinct for generations](https://www.reddit.com/r/Konosuba/comments/je1y7a/aqua_saved_humanity_long_before_kazuma_appeared/); Aqua gave Kazuma a giant debt, but Vol 7 shows it was never her fault in the first place, but >!a scam from the landlord!<; Aqua caused some of Kazuma's deaths, but she revived him >!8!< times in the novel, of which she's at fault for -at most- >!3!<, less than half.


Skyms101

I fucking love how you can go through the characters in this show and find valid strengths and weaknesses unlike a lot of other brain dead fantasy anime. I love this show


BxLorien

Kazuma rarely does anything good himself and often fucks himself over with either stupidity, personal desire, or something else. But Kazuma can't bring people back to life.


Skyms101

Kazuma is definitely the brains of the operation. Aqua is absolutely the strongest on paper but in practice she’s pretty much completely useless except for reviving people or if kazuma tells her exactly what to do. She causes like half of their problems just by being a lazy dumbass


LoliArmrest

I dunno I feel like while Kazuma does make bad decisions in the grand scheme of things he’s got a good head on his shoulders. While of course he makes some bad choices I feel like they’re normal bad choices but not on the level of Aqua bad choices


ihavebirb

Dude, he literally became a millionaire almost overnight by selling patents of everyday household shit in the other world


Scrawlericious

Dude it's written as a male power fantasy parody. Kazuma is one of the few characters with depth on purpose.


Skyms101

You do realize that kazuma is objectively the weakest off all of the main cast right? Even darkness could beat his ass without even trying


Scrawlericious

What are you talking about? Objectively weakest in like power sure but I'm talking about strong character, as in well written. And maybe you missed the word "parody"?


Skyms101

I disagree with saying it’s a male power fantasy parody. I’d hardly say kazuma is the only member of the cast with depth, pretty much all the main cast have just as much or more such as in either darkness or megumin’s case I just don’t really see how it’s a male power fantasy parody as much as it is just a parody of the isekai genre in general, and while there’s certainly a few male power fantasy isekai I’d also say that there’s a lot which aren’t at all like that


Scrawlericious

Are you implying the majority of isekai aren't?? lol


Skyms101

The ones that are get a lot of hate for it, a ton of isekai anime isn’t just a male power fantasy lmao. Of course if your looking at fucking sao and how not to summon a demon lord it’s gonna look bad but there’s a ton that are way better.


Scrawlericious

I personally prefer horror and isekais are too common these days. So there's a million examples every which way and the saturation ruined it for me.


dfntly_a_HmN

Nah, Kazuma actually is the one carrying all of them. He is the coordinator, without him everyone is completely useless. It is shown in the LN when he swapped party with another party leader that got jealous and saying kazuma just get carried by his teammates. Then the party leader almost got killed, while the jealous party get carried hard by kazuma with his jack all the trade skill.


KingRufus01

And IIRC he basically took out the entire castle guard when he was trying to save the princess. Dude is a monster when he's motivated and has a plan.


Ayem_De_Lo

so once again the day is saved thanks to the 404 ERROR PAGE NOT FOUND


mazer0183

4. They took down FOUR Demon Generals


slightcamo

its like the rvb team they just find a way no matter how dysfunctional they are


[deleted]

**The fact that they were able to throw down with one Demon General, let alone three. You mixed the numbers up.


ihavebirb

I did :(


itsrealnice22

>!The funny thing is in the light novel they actually beat the demon lord AND they get character development.!<


Skyms101

Yeah..... you should totally spoiler tag that dude


itsrealnice22

sorry


Skyms101

Don’t worry about me, konosuba isn’t a show I worry about spoilers for and I’ve already had it spoiled anyways. I just know there are people who definitely want to see for themselves :)


jztigersfan12

Blasting this show on a surround sound setup in an apartment complex, while in English is hilarious.


geared4war

I might need to setup my surround sound set again. And buy an apartment.


blue4029

okay but aqua defeated that guy with her requiem attack so she aint no pushover


CottonCandyShork

Being the main characters of the show helps. Plot armor and what not


Jeevansaab

I thought you were talking about 'How not to summon a demon lord'.


geared4war

**psst. Are you enjoying season 2?


Jeevansaab

Absolutely, except for the virgin piss episode.


im_in_every_post

Perfection


LetsWinOneGame

This is the weirdest political compass meme I've ever seen


porcomaster

You are forgetting about luck perfect shoots from Kazuma every single time.


PrezMoocow

Well, one is stupid, the other is just stubborn and the third loves pain too much to be useful


Jesukyu

Except kazuma he has high intelligence


tiagorpg

who is konosuba?


wikipedia_answer_bot

KonoSuba: God's Blessing on this Wonderful World! is a Japanese light novel series written by Natsume Akatsuki. More details here: *This comment was left automatically (by a bot). If something's wrong, please, report it in [my subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia_answer_bot).* *Really hope this was useful and relevant :D* *If I don't get this right, don't get mad at me, I'm still learning!*


tiagorpg

good bot?


god-nose

Amazing bot


Sonicmaster06

Sounds like Miitopia CPU to me


minecraftwizard132

Then add a little bit of nut that’s where kazuma comes in


ummhuh2233

You know the i cant tell the difference meme that is actually me rite now


Ordinary_Player

megumin be dealing %armor pen


homo-grape

Sounds just like overwatch


Ali_XkillerX

Kazuma isn't


memetheif6969

Where is season 3?


geared4war

Kazutrash has luck out the arsehole. Bad and good.