
Will he ever make use of this useless party? When the team is then joined by a Crusader, Darkness, who’s unable to hit a single target and loves to be hit, it seems life is going from bad to worse for poor ol’ Kazuma. This all seems great at first but Megumin’s powerful image is soon shattered when it’s revealed that she can only fire off one blast of explosion magic per day! Worse still, once she has unleashed her magic she becomes unable to move and an easy target to attack. This advertisement attracts the attention of Megumin, a powerful wizard who specialises in explosion magic. Unfortunately this doesn’t quite go to plan the first time around, so Aqua advertises for some new party members to help balance things out. Not to be deterred from his new life, Kazuma decides that he and Aqua should take on a quest that requires the two to kill five giant toads in three days. On the other hand, all of Aqua’s stats are amazing apart from her Luck and Intelligence, which are simply dreadful. Sadly Kazuma’s dreams of being a mighty hero are quickly crushed when it’s revealed that, apart from Luck and Intelligence, his stats are terrible. Upon arrival in this new world, Kazuma makes his way to the adventurers’ guild, where he can register as an adventurer and take on quests. Kazuma chooses choice number three, but while considering the item he could bring with him he suddenly realises that perhaps the best thing to do is take Aqua herself! Surely a goddess would give him a much better shot at defeating the demon king that plagues this world? Well, little does he know that this is a terrible decision.

To be transported to a fantasy world where he’ll retain all his memories and can take one item with him, to help him live out his life to the fullest.


He meets with a goddess known as Aqua, who offers him three choices:ģ.

The series follows the adventures of Kazuma Satou, who wakes up in the afterlife having died saving the life of a girl. Fast forward a year and now the first volume of the light novels has been released thanks to Yen Press, and I’m revisiting this wondrous world in text form to explain why you should give it a shot. However, by the time I sat down to review the series, I’d fallen in love with it and hoped someone would license the light novels. When the anime adaption of Konosuba first aired back in Winter of 2016 I was intrigued by the cast of characters and its setting but I wasn’t convinced that I’d really enjoy it.
