KonoSuba and the gang are back with all the comedic karmic hijnks and this time they get a message from the Crimson Demon Village that the Demon Generals are wrecking havoc in their village and needs Kazuma's gang's help or to be more or precise Megumin...Yunyun tags along as well.
Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!: Kurenai Densetsu pretty much focuses on Megumin as a focal character of the movie, something that the previous seasons more or less glossed over (or was looking at other members Kazuma's party at that time)...Yunyun gets some screentime and slight development too. For the most part we do learn more or less Megumin's backstory and how her personality became what it is "of sorts" as well as the Crimson Demon village themselves as they are as much of an extension of Megumin is to this movie and her development to be the "best mage" and everything. Yunyun gets her limelight too.
Now Aqua and Darkness do get their due with their "quirks" but besides Megumin and Yunyun, Kazuma more or less gets more of his karmic luck or in this case, his "popular phase" with the girls to come into effect to drive the plot forward especially when it concerns the major villain of the movie Sylvia the newest general that's "wrecking havoc" on the village.
Sylvia much like the previous generals before her have the same affliction, in making you actually sympathize with them to a certain degree, just this time thanks to the crazy chunni batshit explosive insanity of the Crimson Demons villagers or Kazuma's party coming to wreck ALL her plans. Sylvia also cares about her army and wants to "continue on living" whilst wanting to destroy the Crimson Demon Village for humiliating her time and again. In a ways LA can see Sylvia as the culmination of Kazuma's party antics they've unleashed in the previous 2 seasons and all the consequences it would impact a "villain" all bundled together, somewhat embodying KonoSuba's and by extension Kazuma's karmic luck all in one, thus why LA can sympathize her as much as she's a villain AND at the same time root for the Kazuma's party to win at the same time. Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!: Kurenai Densetsu did a GREAT job in giving this kind of dynamic nature towards the protagonist's actions and the antagonists' motives together with this movie.
Though LA found that LA found some plot beats being VERY similar to the first season's final episodes, if anything Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!: Kurenai Densetsu only upped it to the point LA was expecting a territory-obliterating EXPLOSION and man Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!: Kurenai Densetsu's finale DELIVERED TWOFOLD with that finale and one hell of a batshit insane but rather logical plan from Kazuma (once again).
The animation done this time by JC Staff....doesn't change anything as it seems that the same animators for the anime series were tasked with the animation again and ohh boy did they pull out all the stops for this movie in spades. The animation if anything keeps the aesthetic of the anime series to a T but when the animation needed to be amazing especially with the comical reactions from the core cast and the EXXXXXPLOSIONS, they delivered. The animation studio surely changed but it's STILL KONOSUBA right down to it's animators.
The voice cast is back and does LA REALLY need to say how great this voice cast is especially from Jun Fukushima as the ad-libbing Kazuma to Rie Takahashi as Megumin...and Aki Toyosaki as Yunyun. BUT LA will also give props to Akeno Watanabe by essentially giving a hammy performance as Sylvia and to how batshit insane she can REALLY act and Syvlia was the vessel for this and man did she deliver. Of course Sora Amamiya and Ai Kayano did great as aqua and Darkness respectively and most of the Crimson Demon villagers pretty much exuded Rie Takahashi's Megumin cadence (which was expected). Brilliant voice cast expected from KonoSuba.
The ONLY thing Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!: Kurenai Densetsu did as even as a nitpick was that there was a small bit of time where Kazuma and the gang essentially fluffed around but oddly enough that's what you call "buildup" and giving us a "breather" before the batshit insanity of that finale came into play to the point of you saying "that escalated quickly".
Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!: Kurenai Densetsu may be a longform vers. of a full arc of one KonoSuba anime series turned into a movie, but MAN did it exceed LA's expectations and just more or less topped itself as to how batshit insane and comedic it can take itself with it's karmic luck on both Kazuma and Sylvia and by topped LA MEANS TOPPED ITSELF for setting up, building up and baying off almost everything it did and went off to an explos- *cough* went off like neutron bomb of a finale.
Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!: Kurenai Densetsu WAS Megumin's.......and Yunyun's movie and made LA grow to like Megumin even more with this movie!...and Yunyun.
Megumin is Best Mage..and Best Girl of KonoSuba~!
