I know I already covered this show on the blog before but I reread my original review and I really didn't say much about the show other than that I liked it so it was due for a redo. Like the other posts in this series, this post is probably gonna be kinda short. Welcome to the next stop on the Isekai World Tour!
Premise: After a tragic and frankly pretty embarrassing death, Kazuma Sato appears before the goddess Aqua. She insults him and laughs in his face about how he died and then "graciously" offers to bring him back to life in another world with a single boon to take with him. Kazuma is the petty and vindictive sort so he chooses to take the goddess herself as his boon.
How do I describe this show? Back when I first watched it, I was just testing it out as this kind of comedy can be very hit or miss with me. It took a few episodes for me to get a feel for the show but by episode 4, I was on board with it. I absolutely adore this cast. They're just one big lovable catastrophe of an rpg party. This party only has 2 braincells between the 4 of them and Kazuma has one of them. You have the overpowered but basically useless arrogant idiot (Aqua), the hyper focused mage obsessed with one spell (Megumin), and my favorite: Darkness. Darkness is the best of the trio for me. She is a crusader specifically because she likes getting hit and she can't hit back due to her low accuracy. Thats something she basically admits to in the show. I don't usually enjoy characters like her but man, this party and show really makes her work. All 3 of them combined makes for one enjoyable headache for Kazuma. It is never a boring day for the man with these 3 ladies. I can't really go into much else about the show because imo, how the party plays off of each other and the shenanigans they get into because of it is the main draw. There isn't really much an overarching plot at they just happen to luck into fighting the evil generals. Saying anything else about it would also basically require me spoil the jokes and thats not really something I should do for a comedy.
Final Thoughts: I started typing this before season 3 got announced. I miss these lovable idiots and I'm really looking forward to season 3. The show somehow manages to side step the cringe aspects of its characters' comedy. It manages to do it so well that I actually found myself laughing about Darkness'...tendencies. Not just any laughs for that matter, minute long deep laughs. For real, if you asked me which character I was certain I would've hated when I first saw this show, it would've been Darkness. This show managed to leave me a smile on my face with each episode. Its is easily one of my favorite isekai anime to the point where I actually want merch from it. However, its not a show I can easily recommend, mostly because if the comedy or characters don't click with you, you're probably gonna be bored or annoyed.
