Review of KonoSuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World!

Congratulations aqua, you are no longer considered the most useless part of Konosuba. This spinoff is literally lazy filler writing only saved by cameos. The positive reviews are just crying megumin and Yun Yun without any evidence to show any actual plot and character development. Megumin feels the exact same before and after spinoff. Same know it all loli wizard. Yunyun is the same Clutz. They could have put a backstory for the villain but no. MEGUMIN, YUNYUN PEAK FICTION my ass. I cannot believe people are just blindly giving good reviews to this fillerfest since most of the community does not like the spinoff. Thecrash in ratings and polls proves it. It is being positively review bombed now which is just as toxic as the negative review bombed.

We have had many good ln spinoffs and prequels over the past couple of years. This unfortunately isn't. They gathered so many resources from fan support from Konosuba fantastic days over the years only to produce a redundant snoozefest devoid of the original comedy and any real plot. It is almost impossible to believe that 4 years ago, people were saying Konosuba is one of the best lns of all time and this spinoff dropped off top 10 in polls so early.

There is no real plot here but megumin going around with yunyun helping with meaningless tasks all the way to meet aqua. Megumin efforts to act funny don't work without Kazuma's pervertedness. The only saving grace is the cameos which is quite lazy and the animation which you barely see anyways due to lack of eventfulness. Konosuba itself isn't as action or lore driven as other lns. So if you decide to create a prequel to that which extends a season, it will bore people.

The worst part is viewers finish this without feeling this added to the viewing experience or lore. This spinoffs feels like the prologue you have the option to skip and not really miss anything. It is like a recap episode/compilation movie carefully packaged as a new season. Any relevant stuff like the Axis Order you were already familiar with in the second season. This probably would have been better made into an ova and not extending this into a series. Then using the resources to proceed to season 3. I cannot give this a good rating or review whatsoever. Most fans felt this season was a chore to get through. If you were to binge the series now, you would fall asleep through this one.