[Rating]
Story: 5
Art: 6
Sound: 5
Character: 4
Enjoyment: 5
Overall: 5
[Story: 5]
For comedy shows, rating the story is different. The show is just a hodgepodge of RPG-related events happening. In a drama, that is usually a poor formula because it lacks tension. But in a comedy, the story should be judged on how it works as a vehicle for comedy. And in that sense, the value of the story is intrinsically linked to the value of the comedy being presented. Often enough, episodic adventures work just fine. In this case, the comedy is mostly character-based. But so much of it is just based on the tropes that the characters embody. The tropes are really only surface deep, so there is certainly not a lot of comedic depth to enjoy here. Any situation that allows these tropes to be 'activated', which is really any situation with a powerful enemy, is enough to reach this show's desired level of humor. And that's what the plot of the show does. Pits the main cast against random enemies or conundrums and lets the characters' tropes fly. Which is, like, totally alright. But really just average.
[Art: 6]
KonoSuba is at its best when it has warped faces, ragdoll physics, and floppy bags of flesh. While the series sometimes achieves this, it also manages to blur the line between what is visual comedy and just a failure to execute. Forms are flubbed often and things can often look jagged and strange when they have no reason being that way. As a point of comparison, you can see visual changes in physics and forms work brilliantly in a series like One Punch Man. In that series, this technique is unquestionable effective, mostly due to the artistic execution and the deliberate nature of the transformations. KonoSuba lacks this sort of execution line most of the time. Beyond this, is like... pretty good usually.
[Sound: 6]
As a non-fan of KonoSuba, I imagine that many people find this series so enjoyable because of the absurd sound and voice acting. This is really dialed up to 11. Deliveries are brimming with energy and there is a ton of random sound effects that the characters make. I sometimes find this funny. I sometimes find this annoying. But I can understand why some people could have this as their favorite part of the show. Beyond the voice acting, the sound design and OST work is just standard.
[Character: 4]
The characters are really just tropes. This alone does not make them effective parody tools. Hell, just coming off of Chunibyo (and liking it quite a bit), I found Megumin's character to be a little insulting. Each of the characters can be summarized in one sentence. The humor that the each offer has very little diversity. But, they each are effective at a decent amount of the time.
[Enjoyment: 5]
Sometimes funny, sometimes not. Mostly because there is so little variation in comedy. Is there a fight happening? You can be certain that Darkness will get turned on at the thought of it. You can be certain that Megumin will use explosion magic and fall over right after. Sure, sometimes the situation changes, however barely, but the crux of the comedy remains, and just gets dull. For instance, when Darkness was first introduced, I thought she was pretty great. But you get numb to her trope almost immediately.
[Overall: 5]
That's all, folks!
