This review covers the 22 episodes of Konosuba (2 seasons and 2 OVAS) since both seasons are in every aspect identical (though the drop in the animation quality seems pretty notable to me in the second season).
Konosuba is for a lot of people a very hard anime to review simply because there is no secret formula to review comedy series and because not everybody in the planet shares the same sense of humor but i'm not one of those guys, Konosuba is not as innocent as it seems ergo it should be ready to receive harder hits due to it's own nature, the synopsis and the genre labels are not wrong but they are not complete either, what the synopsis and the genre labels forget to mention is that the fanservice amount in this series is HUGE and that part is extremely important.
Konosuba is another one of those animes that belong to the INSANELY famous/infamous "Isekai"sub-genre and to my eyes Konosuba brings absolutely nothing new to the table, i have to mention i'm not a well versed person in this sub-genre at all and even i can tell this show is nothing special.
Recently i've seen fans of this show saying Konosuba is a better choice than other Isekai animes because it explores a "whole new perspective" that hasn't been touched ever, hell, i've even read several comments of people that to go as far as saying this anime is a deconstruction, they say the idea of a show where the protagonist travels to a whole new world and he actually choses to stay and struggle instead of trying desperately to find his way out is as revolutionary as Utena, but sadly this is false, the same idea was explored in No Game No Life and the concept was touched superficially in nothing more and nothing less than SAO so i don't know exactly where such idea came from.
To keep this review short ill say this show uses the exact same formula over and over and over again, the jokes are basically always the same, since they grow from the same roots it would be dumb to expect otherwise, these roots are the unidimensional characters, we have the dumb and almost useless goddess who always ruins everything, the EXTREMELY pervert and masochist paladin, the nini-hikikomori protagonist (who is also insanely pervert) and the crazy girl with a cronic addiction to sniffing C4 that also enjoys giving weird names to everything she founds, what the hell? Chunchunmaru and Chomosuke? lol
Moving out to the technical section, well... i try not to be superficial and to not judge a book by it's cover but the music is forgettable, the character desing is generic and simplistic for at least all of the secondary characters and the animation is TERRIBLE but since the animation part seems to be on purpouse i'll leave to you to be the judge and deliberate if that is good or bad. Does that animation and character desing improve the comical aspect of the series? it's up to you and only you pal.
The real and honest reason a lot people actually started watching Konosuba is nothing more and nothing less that... oh yeah buddy you know that, say it with me, don't be shy ¡¡¡THE DELICIOUS NUTRUTIOUS FANSERVICE!!! ¡¡¡YEAH BOIIIII!!! back in 2016 anime forums and Facebook groups were filled to the top with pictures of Aqua going commando and GIFS of this anime and his... particular jiggle physics, well Konosuba is not the only sinner who caught adepts by using this metod, another insanely popular anime this year did exactly the same thing, getting massive for having a very "complex plot", i'm talking to you Mr. Kobayashi, the point here is that showing some skin really helps to become massive (lol) and that point is one of the main reasons i judge this anime much more seriously, well we also have the fact that some villians are supossed to be though guys but end up being pathethic cartoons and that the world is insanely small, everything spins around the main 4 since nobody outside of them achives nothing special.
Watch this anime if you like: NGNL, SAO, Overlord, Mondaiji tachi, etc.
Don't watch this if you look for alternative experiences when it comes to animation, you are gonna get dissapointed.
