This anime caught my attention because it had a relatively good relationship with Dungeons and Dragons, a game I play in my free time. This anime makes it on the list for its creativity and hilarious plot. KonoSuba is written by Natsume Akatsuki and produced by Rie Ogura.

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The Characters

The main protagonist is named Kazuma, and he starts as a regular guy who is obsessed with video games. One day he goes out of the house for once and hallucinates the image that a girl is about to get run over by a truck. Of course, this did not happen, and he died of a heart attack in the process. Once he dies, he gets sent to a fantasy world and makes a group with certain people. Aqua is a goddess who offered to reincarnate him into a fantasy world, which Kazuma chooses to take Aqua into with him. She cannot return to the afterlife until the main villain, the Devil King, is defeated. They then come across a wizard who specializes in explosion magic. Her name is Megumin, and she can only use her magic once per day since it is so powerful. She can create explosions the size of large cities, and it destroys everything in its path. The fourth member in the group is named Darkness, who is a crusader but is particularly lewd in battle.

The Plot

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While Kazuma has no intention of defeating the Devil King, he gets wrapped into battles with his generals, anyway. Of course, Aqua wants to get the job done as quickly as possible, but they need to level up and get stronger by fighting weaker enemies. They take on guild requests and go on missions to try and level up, eventually bringing one of the Devil King’s generals to their home town. Ultimately, that battle is won, but they have to pay for the damages to the city. This process continues until Kazuma is charged with crimes, and he has to go to court and plead innocent. This process is lengthy, and the doings of his team do not help his cause. They had been continuously trying to break him out of the prison he was being held in until the trial began, of course failing.

Complete Nonsense

A lot of the story involves the group getting involved in unimportant events that do not affect the plot of the story. The citizens are not very bright and see them as Devil King servants, and that spans over a few episodes. The series is only two seasons of KonoSuba, and they are about eleven episodes long. That does not leave a whole lot of room for filler. However, there is a movie coming out in about two weeks called “The Legend of Crimson,” so I believe that this series will continue.

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Who Can Watch This?

This series has a little less partial nudity than Kill La Kill, but I think that anyone who is in their teens can appreciate this anime.  All of the episodes and the movie trailer are available at Crunchyroll.com.