Konosuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World! (light novel)
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irisout said: billybub said: I guess you've never had to ask a customer "who helped you out today?" while cashing them out, and then gotten the distinct pleasure of watching them fumble their way around avoiding the word "black" to describe your black co-worker, lolI'm American, and is not nor has it ever been taboo to use black as a proper noun. E: Not sure why you decided to add that little barbed "I'mma assume your young" bullshit, but lol. I don't know how anyone on this beautiful earth could be so silly as to think that their surely limited anecdotal experiences are the be-all-end-all of what weird social phenomena are real or not. Anyway, I really gotta wonder what point there is in getting so angry at minorly bad localizations. These people are given absurd deadlines to pump out thankless translation work in time for us dopey-ass weebs to consume middling cartoons at the same time as Japanese audiences. I think it's fine if sometimes there's an awkward translation here or there. No use popping a blood vessel about it It's not minor when your ruining the punchline of the joke. Is this as egregious as replacing "brain" with "mind" like they did in Heavenly Delusion, no. But it's just another example of localizers screwing around with someone else's IP. |
| Arguably the best episode yet. This episode showed that Megumin really does want to be friends with Yun Yun, and Yun Yun wants the same. That one guy is a total creep, but is funny as hell. He's sort of like Kazuma, but more desperate. But it looks like he still has a chance with that cute fortune teller! I wonder if this show will have an overall plot or villain, or if this is going to continue to be a slice of life. |
| best episode yet. really enjoyed all the settings and character developments. cozy. |
| Megumin and Yunyun's chemistry is growing on me. I don't see them as rivals at all. Yunyun is too soft and Megumin actually enjoys being around her. The fact that they both almost throw hands at each other near the end is hilarious. Those two never fail to amuse me. Also Bukkorori is one sigma male. Mans really try to turn invisible and catch a glimpse of Soketto's underskirt. He really did deserve to get books thrown at him by the girls. What a pervert. It would've been hilarious if all the bears pounced on Bukkori instead of getting flamed by him. |
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| Anyone else find that this Konosuba prequel isn't quite on the same level as the main series? Like the comedy just feels like it's league behind by comparison, and the characters they've introduced don't quite fill the void of the character left behind from the original. It's still got a couple funny scenes, and the show is decent, but just doesn't have the same punch. |
turtleinshell said: And should it be like this? This is just a pure comedic spin-off about the most popular character of the original.Anyone else find that this Konosuba prequel isn't quite on the same level as the main series? Like the comedy just feels like it's league behind by comparison, and the characters they've introduced don't quite fill the void of the character left behind from the original. It's still got a couple funny scenes, and the show is decent, but just doesn't have the same punch. |
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| Megumin keeps getting cuckhold, lol! |
 Thanks, person who gave me this on another site a long time ago, lol. |
| Nasty NEET Bukkororii. Megumin and Yunyun relationship is so adorable. |
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| 3 episodes in and unfortunately I feel like there is a lack of direction with where the show is trying to take us. |
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| how do people enjoy this? boring |
| A GODDAMN FUCKIGN SPIDER APPEARED NEAR MY PC MONITOR WHEN I WAS AT THE SPIDER SCENE IN THIS EPISODE AHHHHH >Ending up with someone normal Offers him a *sniff* my meguminnnnn is all grown up :.....( |
| Just name it Kuro. It's a name, no need to translate it. I remember an anime of a cyborg cat that aired on national TV in my country (English is not our language), they kept Kuro-chan as the name. |
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| After 3 episodes it has gotten a bit easier to watch. Wanted to drop this at episode 1 and episode 2 also was not that good. Since the main series relies also on other chars - making it more interesting + more interesting plot. But I have already dropped other stuff. There is space in my schedule for this and since I like the main series ... I guess I will stay with this as well for the remaining episodes. The episode 3 felt nice in a way that we also had a bit more serious stuff. I liked the scene with the fortune teller girl ... where it felt a bit like a romance-hint ... with her not appearing ... which means she might fall in love with the guy. (I guess the rule also applies to her appearing as part of other people's future and not only if asking for her own future specifically.) The bears looked funny. And I think ... this is one of the shows where it gets better when you get used more and more to the chars. Still ... a lot of girls in that class. Would not have hurt to have a few more male chars that play a bit more of a role - besides the teacher and the guy whose name sounds like broccoli. Teacher is funny though. The way he just appeared to give some info - then going away ... reminded of the producer/manager char in Zombieland Saga. (Though different voice actor I thought the voice also sounded a bit similar. Or at least the way he talked in that situation.) |
| Bukkorori is definitely getting Soketto isn't he? She saw nothing in the fortune because she's the one who would be showing up. |
| So Meguimin looking for a dashing handsome prince. To bad she's going to end up with Kazuma. |
| I just love how every time the teacher tells them something and then shuts the door, but he close it so hard that the door bounced back and got left unclosed. |
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Sharri said: So, not only UStards can't dub things because they are so bad at it (yes even Mercer, bite me). They can't even translate thing properly now because black cat being called "Black" could make some idiots on twitter mad? Wow, just wow. Exactly. Localizers have been getting worse and worse lately. |
| ep was cute af. the chemistry between yunyun and megumin is adorable. i also feel kinda bad for bukkororii but at the same time he’s a creep so |
  beep! MAL's Little Raccoon #2 made by hearingnote matching w/ sekai- |
| Looks like Megumin and Yunyun got dragged into a mess by that stalker guy. All for him to run away at the end anyway. |
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| something about this show weirds me out, its as if Megumin and yun yun are not actually themself. As if someone wrote them who only heard others describe the characters. Or maybe the rest of the Konosuba cast is just missing. |
| "This emotion is mine alone. It is for Madoka alone." - Homura or how I would descripe Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica. |
| Man, I didn't know Konosuba fanboys could be this salty. Just wait for S3 if this SoL spin-off is hurting you smh. |
AnotherGuy said: Glad someone can give an honest discussion and not just the insane fanboy elitism people have for Konosuba (often enforced by Anitube) with no frame of reference. Nowadays any criticism on shows like Konosuba or Rz are met with, "your ln is trash" "my show is peak fiction"LN reader here. The main series is good and I'd say the next couple volumes that will become season 3 of the anime are some of the best, with a bunch of new characters and plot points being introduced. Volumes 10-13 get kind of slow, especially 12, but not enough to say that they're filler. Volumes 14 onwards the series gets better again, with volume 15 being the best of the series IMO. This spinoff, on the other hand, is just bad. Megumin is not nearly interesting enough on her own and neither are the other crimson demons. Volume 2 of the spinoff, which will probably be the 2nd half of this anime, is funny but that's mostly because of other characters, not Megumin. It's downhill from there and volumes 3-6 are absolutely not worth reading. Don't let the spinoff ruin the main series for you. I recommend watching this anime (even if it's not that good) because some of it will be relevant for the main series. The rest of the spinoff has nothing important going on, so you can just skip it. I do find it concerning that the best season will be the next and it doesn't match up after that. Normally the best should be towards the end if they intend on going for a full adaptation. Which is why stuff like the Lord of the Rings Trilogy is remembered mroe fondly than the Dark Knight Trilogy since the third/finale film is seen as a masterpiece. But it hard to get a good finale since a lot of authors tend to not really have an ending or endgame goal in mind and lead up to it and as a result do retcons or create new subplots don't work out well. We saw it with AOT and the fumbling arc where it looked Isayama just started to retcon his own series leading to the finale having mass blacklash. Or kaguya manga where after they confessed, Aka had to create new subplots which didn't live up to main one. I am not sure if Konosuba is going the Boruto route where they try to milk everything out of the series as a result of fantastic days (which may shutdown) and streaming/disc revenue. A lot of ln series struggle to get additional seasons to properly adapt later stuff. And here we are where they look like they are padding for time in a redundant spinoff. Nayrael said: If you are talking about the source, Railgun isn't really better than Index. Since Index sets the world and has a better variety of characters and more deep storylines. Railgun is adapted from a manga which is easier. Not to mention Railgun heavily revolved around index at the beginning. Railgun adaption was better than index.All of the main plot points, revelations and character developments for Megumin happen in the main series (she, not Aqua, is arguably THE heroine of the main series), so don't expect much excitement in her spin-off. This is something the writer wrote while relaxed, with a focus on Slice of Life. There are some spin-offs that can be better than the main series (To Aru Kagaku no Railgun and Fate/Zero) but those are exceptions to the rule. Spin-offs are, by their nature, just extra stories made for the sake of fanservice and targeted at the biggest fans of the main works. As for Zero, it is debatable since the author didn't try to drag the ln series like what a ton of ln authors do. Personally, I would not rank the source of Zero to better than Stay Night Mod Edit: Merged double posts |
KayKimiiApr 26, 2023 6:24 AM
| aight this one had a few funny moments here and there unlike the previous episodes but this is still boring for the most part |
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| The detail with the crystal ball not showing Soketto's future was cute. |
  Mi música chiptune (auténtica, no fakebit) / My chiptune music (real, no fakebit)YouTube Battle of the Bits SoundCloud |
| I'm very much enjoying this show. |
| What kind of retard localized Kuro to Ink? Morons like these shouldn't be paid but lynched... |
irisout said: I wasn't that mad, just quite bothered.Gildesh said: Brother, you're in your 30's. Consider reevaluating how mad you get about things that don't matter.What kind of retard localized Kuro to Ink? Morons like these shouldn't be paid but lynched... Exactly cause I've been watching shows since forever, let me be at least moderately upset about how localizations are getting more and more shitty over the years. And then those "translators" often brag about their creativity on sns like twitter... (and consequently get shit for good reason). If it doesn't matter for you, good for you. I'd prefer having proper subs. |
irisout said: I really think people on here get waaaaay too mad about the quality of subs. It's a stressful, thankless job done under excessive time constraints. Sometimes you have to make decisions quick, and sometimes those decisions aren't always the right call. At the end of the day, I don't feel like it matters much beyond lightly cringing at some awkward wording here and there. Y'all take this shit too seriously. God forbid people wanting their translations to be accurate. This us clearly a case of some idiot localizer changing the script |
| @irisout Lynching, on the internet.. dude... Go dive urban dictionary or whatever. |
GildeshApr 21, 2023 6:10 AM
irisout said: billybub said: I just think y'all often ascribe to incompetence what is generally a case of overworked people making snap decisions for complicated reasons that don't always work out. To be clear, I definitely agree that it's a bad translation, but given that this script most likely had to be pumped out in a literal day, I understand that mistakes are just going to happen. But we literally got people in this thread saying a mistake as mind-numbingly benign as this somehow deserves a lynching. You people have a genuine empathy problem, but beyond even that, you have a problem with basic comprehension of proportionality.God forbid people wanting their translations to be accurate. This us clearly a case of some idiot localizer changing the script Few things in life deserve this much anger, but least of all translation flubs in a silly cartoon for nerds. Gildesh said: So I take it you don't actually comprehend the words that you type out and post to the world? Because you literally said the person responsible for this silly mistake deserved a public execution.I wasn't that mad, just quite bothered. Because they named the cat in the silly Japanese cartoon something awkward. Ok buddy, yeah. The problem is its not benign and these aren't mistakes made from "overwork, etc The majority of this is done on purpose. You have localizers such as Katrina Leonoudakios openly bragging about changing the script in Inukai-sans Dog. 7 Seas localizers have changed characters and scripts so badly that the actual rights holders have gotten involved, the list goes on. |
| I'm glad I've been watching this 'cause I've gained a new appreciation for Yunyun~ |
| It's a funny episode but a bit dull most of the time. There hasn't been any plot progression since the first episode. |
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