Konosuba finally returns! Megumin and her party Kazuma, Aqua and Yunyun are
back! So what's up guys Foxen here. Konosuba the Crimson legend is
out! I just happened to see this Konosuba movie three times. Can you tell if
I liked it or not? So non-spoiler review time! Be sure to
cast your own explosion on that thumbs up subscribe for more juicy anime
breakdowns and let's dive into this Konosuba sequel. This Konosuba
movies actually adapting Konosuba light novel 5. It condensed one whole
light novel into this one hour 20 minute movie. Storywise this actually
takes place a few days after at the end of Konosuba season 2. You got Megumin and
her friends going to visit her hometown. There's also demon General involved
somehow and yes let me just double down and confirm this movie is canon. As
for the wonderful useless bunch first off Megumin. Oh yes Megumin is back
really just how do this Megumin the crimson legend
Konosuba could be the lower subtitle and that really is the important
question are you a Megumin fan if so this movie was definitely made for
you we got tons of explosions here throughout the movie it really is almost
unfair how Megumin got most of the best scenes in this movie some of the
standout scenes from her are scenes involving either Yunyun or Kazuma both
explosive and emotion of stuff right here you finally get to meet making his
parents and her sister Komekko. She's definitely like a mini Megumin but
poor poor Megumin. Her upbringing hits home too well. After this movie I
definitely can't wait to see more Megumin in Konosuba season 3 or the Megumin
spin-off anime.Aas for Megumin's rival Yunyun she only got upgraded to
main character status here. It does feel a little weird just seeing how little
you got enough Yunyun in the actual anime. In case you're anime only the
Konosuba anime cut out most of Yunyun's early scenes. Right here now Yunyun
pretty much equal screen time to Megumin including in action stuff.
Overall I feel like Yunyun was fine for the role she was given. If you enjoyed
Megumin the others or even Yunyun herself bullying Yunyun then you'll enjoy
this other arc wizard in this movie. Now let me not forget about mr. gender
equality Kazuma. Ironically even though this movie should feel like Megumin's
movie Kazuma is by far the standout of this movie.
He's practically never scene too. This ranges from his dialogue is attractions
expressions, other crap the Kazuma
does or does not do. For me Kazuma has always been a fun character but not in
the top ones from the Konosuba guys. This Konosuba movie now completely
changed that. He's competing with Megumin for me now. Kazuma Kazuma.
As for the bootylicious Goddess. Any screeching Aqua fans? Right from the
start you're welcome with this lovely useless goddess returning you help once
the pacific scene where aqua really goes to that Aqua labelled craziness right
from the start it feels like a comeback to with that one aqua scene for season
two you can enjoy that alcohol for the first third of the movie after that I'll
cover Lee feels toned down I don't know if Kazuma just droid her off screen but
aqua feels almost like a supporting character for the rest of the movie to
be fair aqua still brings up funny but honestly some of her better stuff is
really more subtle oh but did I forget about someone sorry I must be like this
corners of a movie unfortunately for Darkness fans definitely don't go into
this movie expecting more than an ounce of this blonde masochist I'm not even
joking you could cut out darkness and not even notice in fact this mu he keeps
on finding ways to get rid of darkness that's even when she's with the group as
one positive to this darkness actually has a really funny joke at the store
this Konosuba movie as for the Ex Demon general Vanir
and Wiz do return. Oh yes these two definitely have much more than a cameo
once again I'm not gonna go to spoiler territory well let's just say Wiz and
Vanir get a new scene that's not in the lineup so if you're a fan of these two
especially Wiz you're gonna get to enjoy her shiny big ass then for the whole
crimson demon clan I'm really gonna bring these guys together that includes
the entire crimson demon village Yunyun's Papa the bread guy Megumin's parents.
these guys really are that freakin awesome they're so crazy I'm sure I
can't be the only one getting this Jojo vibe from them anyway getting it to the
animation for this converse of a movie JC staff is doing this instead of Deen
studio. Let me reassure you you don't need to worry it's pretty much the exact same
anime team who worked on Konosuba season one and two just doing it at a
different studio honestly this movie the best Konosuba has looked so far that
said it is great or good for Konosuba i really need to emphasize that disclaimer
cuz really kono silva season 1 & 2 were me on the cheap by Studio Deen and to be
fair that really worked for the comedy in this Anime on top by that ending to
the Konosuba charm. Most of this movie feels like how Konosuba
would have looked like if season wanted to actually had a regular budget
and/or resources at a regular anime gaunt talking about the animation
there's actually a lot of background gags going on throughout this movie
you'll surely miss him the first time watching
I should also let you know that the best animation was mostly left for scenes
involving Megumin no surprise has included her explosions as for a couple
standout scenes that one a particular hand animation it really gave me that
vibe from Kazuma season one handy technique to when a Megumin's
explosions I do believe it's the best animation done in Konosuba period I
can really see people uploading this clip onto YouTube when it comes out. Then
it gets millions of views and like a day or two I mean I'm getting chills just
thinking back to it three the funny faces in general throughout this movie
which is really part of the charm that you loved about Konosuba you do have a
lot of familiar stuff but a whole lot of new stuff coming to for 99% of Kazuma's
stuff really just going back to how much Kazuma is a highlight of this movie by or
the final Megumin's scene at the end of the movie but actually got me tearing up
to with Joey as for the music here really a quick mention you will notice a
bunch of light in tone background soundtracks for Konosuba season one
I'll also mention I didn't hear a bunch of new sanno tracks most of those were
really for the action stuff towards the end of the movie
Also shoutout Michiko. Michico returns here to do the main song for this
Konosuba movie. That said you literally only hear it at the very end of the credits
the last three or four minutes of the movie before much he goes the Estonia
you actually do get this new song which is a combo from Aquaman and Megumin's voice
actress. As for something fun sprinkled with in this movie the corners of my
first OVA actually got confirmed to be canon.
There was always a question about it I'm not actually gonna spoil the actual
scene but you actually have may come in referencing those actual events alright
so let's talk about Konosuba season 3 is Konosuba season 3 happening at the
very end of the movie I was waiting there patiently I was just thinking are
we gonna get that end credits scene that officially come from Konosuba
season 3. SAO did it that way with the movie so can Konosuba and nada nai
nothing unfortunately this Konosuba movie doesn't give more
information on confirming that 3rd season however let me also mention this.
before the movie came out he did have someone from the production of Konosuba
by explicitly claimed that if this Konosuba movie did well Konosuba season
3 what happened so Konosuba season 3 pretty much confirmed right? That was
really what I don't unfortunately here's the sad bad news for whatever
reason this Konosuba movie cutting an extremely limited release here in Japan
are they just not confident in it it's like in five or a couple of handfuls
eaters here in Tokyo and you know me I go to see a ton of anime movies this
movie was actually playing in one of the crappiest smallest theaters that I never
been to by far easily one of my worst theater going experiences here in Japan
this really just means Konosuba now has to overcome this unexpected obstacle as for
something more explosive Konosuba season 3 may not have been confirmed yet
officially but perhaps something better for Megumin fans this kono spell movie
heavily teased a Megumin spin-off throughout this movie there's actually
several highly detailed flashbacks oh that spin off they also happen to add
this random new scene to make a minion Yunyun visiting their school perhaps not
so random after all besides man coming is such an explosive moneymaker for
corner subha arguably you gotta think mega mean forgetting this movie and
potentially season 3 I wouldn't be surprised that Megumin anime spin-off
is in production right now I'm picturing them just waiting for this Konosuba
movie to pass a certain amount of ticket milestone before officially confirming
this mega mean spin-off officially but wait there's more Konosuba now let me
just emphasize this is really getting into the more theory around it really
did seem strange that Wiz and Vanir got this new key scene randomly I highly
doubt as a production just yet but it wouldn't be surprised if they were
actually thinking ahead into making the Vanir we're spin off into a short anime
movie or TV anime eventually and then Konosuba bonus. You got this Konosuba
smartphone game coming out real soon even spamming promos non-stop here for
that I'm definitely hyped to play on day 1
overall this Konosuba movie was nearly perfect I did have one minor issue that
did take me out of the movie near the finale
let me also mention potential issues that will definitely be trouble for some
of you first off Yunyun I've talked about how
Yunyun finally moved into that covenant main character status
the only problem you don't really know this character of your anime only really
all of Yunyun scenes got removed from season one and he only got a taste in
Konosuba season two and you might be wondering why is this a problem there's
actually more than a couple of Yunyun jokes relying on her bank run on top of
that some Yunyun moments here that are supposed to be really impactful but I
really do feel like a lot of that impact may fall flat if your anime only but
that's your problem and number two the end battle scene I can't get into the
actual details just avoiding spoilers but let's just say there's a drastic
change from Konosuba light novel five as something you might think was a
bright side the bad wife she got double within light it almost feels like
something similar done to the Konosuba season two ending just to make it more
cinematic and fit an actual finale I really didn't love the in-between part
that much it's just a tent awkwardly I'll just mention that I love the end
part of the new stuff that they added but that's your third issue something
involving Aqua and Darkness for Darkness fans sorry do not go into this
movie expanding the darkness to do anything I think that sounds like a good
expectation level if they're only a really good news I could tell you for
Darkness is that she actually has an arc coming up in Konosuba season 3 then
for aqua don't expect aqua to be that climb but annoying fun Aqua it really
does feel like someone put Aqua on meds. as soon as they got to Megumin's
village. Next up let's talk controversy. In today is outrage slash everything
offensive slash cancellation culture I really could see some people's trying to
start a controversy over several stuff in this Konosuba movie. Arguably really
just for the clicks reviews. Again non spoiler but light novel readers will get
what I mean. One Kazuma getting into a bit of fun
trouble near the start. Before going into this movie I really thought that they
would cut that scene out. Nope. They actually made it much worse too. Two
scenes involving Kazuma and Megumin. I could actually see certain anime related
site trying to spin this into something controversial even though it's
played out for fun. The story literally gives me even more reason as to why it's
fine. Three something involving the new demon general. If the first scene
that in cause some outrage this 100% would. Anyway you might be wondering were
there any changes going from light novel to anime for this Konosuba movie? There's
actually nothing major cut but most of the light novel stuff either got
abridged or you actually got some jokes cut out. For example you actually have
something involving a griffon joke with Aqua that unfortunately got axed. I
really wanted to see that animated such a shame. There's also some key
conversation that got cut between Kazuma and Megumin. And honestly a lot of
the stuff shouldn't be that surprising. If you actually compare the Konosuba
light novel to the Konosuba anime there pretty drastically different. Each
are their own thing. If you're already used to the cuts and changes from Konosuba
season one and season two this movie should not be a problem. Getting
into some fun Konosuba stuff let me just mention despite this getting a very
limited release there's actually a lot of Konosuba collaboration
happening right now. That includes for restaurants cafes shops some ice cream
shops. I actually managed to get this Megumin drink from the Konosuba cafe. I even
unfortunately went to the Konosuba collab ice-cream area. Was it worth their
waiting almost two hours for this ice cream? Spoiler alert it was not but
Anyway should you watch to this movie? I really do feel like it's the best Konosuba
yet! Although partially cheating since it is
a movie. One of the key things I really enjoyed from reading Konosuba
was how the novel was really made you laugh a ton. Then almost from out of
nowhere you're hit with some really emotional stuff that makes you tear up.
From Konosuba season one and season two I never really got that feeling.
Finally for the Konosuba movie I feel that it capture that combo for me.
Really go watch this movie you're gonna have a complete blast. It is really a
much watch for any Konosuba fan even the casual fans. Come on make season 3
happen! So let me know after this do you want to watch this movie? Is anyone here
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