The problem right now could be a bad tagging from MAL?

gawed said:
Although the manga had a similar initial backlash about the characters, i do think that people are being harsher on Ep1 because of the comedy tag MAL has put on this show. To me it's plainly the wrong tag, it is not COMEDY, this story is more about melodramatic arcs. 
Lot of people may be expecting a regular SoL cutesy Yuri, this is not it. it is no Scum Wish or Nana but it's also not a bubbly all happy girls. 
And, on a personal note, I do think that also the Seyuus/voice direction choices do not help, too much childish cute voices specially from one of the adult characters.  Which also makes them misdirect the perception of the show seriousness. :S. 
Hopefully with the next couple of episodes people realize the story has a bit more depth. 

Ravenclaw690 said:

you're probably right, before watching the first episode it looked like a generic CGDCT comedy with yuri, but it seems like it's more focused on the drama and diving into the girls' lives, I wasn't expecting that so I also didn't like it very much, but it seems promising so I'll keep watching

RinTheWanderer said:
I didn't even look at the tags besides yuri, but melodrama is (rightfully) always going to score poorly.

RinTheWanderer said:
Like the scenario is so unreasonably mean to the main girl that it kind of needed to be comedy. Instead it just comes off as cruel and the characters appear to be really dumb.

Kimurah said:


This isn't a melodrama. A melodrama is a story where the characters' interactions are meant to move the audience with extravagant theatricality. Something like One Piece scenes where the main cast are running rivers of tears and allows them to gather inner strenght to overcome their feats with power of friendship. that's a good example of melodrama.

This is straight out comedy that could even be portrayed in an american sitcom. I remember when Jerry Seinfeld told the plot of his upcoming sitcom about a guy who had a fender bender with some random guy and a judge sentences the culprit to become the butler for the other guy. It's a ridiculous setting that obviously screams comedy for how ludricrous the coercion of one guy becoming the servant of another.



The tone and ambiance is still on par with comedy. You're just blindsided because Hime is meant to be everyone's pin cushion (look out for the definition of mean comedy). I've said it before and I'll say it again, Konosuba is pretty much the staple of mean comedy and some people are just too unaware of the term or expect all entertainment to be just tea parties and tickle fights.

TheSekiryuutei said:
It's the same yuri garbage that has been poppin up so fucking much over the last year.

baymaxemon said:
But it is SoL cutesy yuri XD

RinTheWanderer said:
Konosuba is one of my favorite comedies and is very funny. This show is not funny. The scenes where they tell off the main character for not knowing the menu is not the show making a joke about how unreasonable the staff is, it's trying to pass it off as correct, as if she was the one that made the mistake. The characters are being melodramatic to the extreme and I don't know how you could possibly argue otherwise. Being mean AND funny can be fine, but they aren't being funny and thats the problem.

Kimurah said:
The whole town that Kazuma and friends saved from the Destroyer in season 1 placed Kazuma on trial and found him guilty for destruction of property with a very thin case. Kazuma steals Kyouya's sword without any warning about him being a total con man and a fillibuster. Likewise he steals Chris & Megumin's panties without proper explanation of what he can do with his "steal" skill. Bigger coercion moment comes when Kazuma drags Aqua into their new world without any notice. Just pointing out Kazuma's cunning skills. I could go on and on how Konosuba does play the UNREASONABLE coercion tune every time it can, but somehow in Watashi no Yuri it's just not the same according to people like you?

Regarding the humor, you know what they say, it's all subjective. I've read dozens of people that don't like the Konosuba humor and they call it unfunny. Even I had a hard time adjusting my expectations for most of season 1 to finally get it.

LeftieAlex said:

if you read the manga you would not be saying this