YMMV / KonoSuba

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • In the first season, in the Succubus Shop, Kazuma asked if "age" is a problem for the dream. Then in the second season, he freaked out when he realized Aqua is coming while he and Megumin are taking a bath together, fearing being called a pedo. Sometime latter, Megumin said to her rival she and Kazuma are dating and again, he freaked out. Also in the first OVA, he admitted while he carried her, he used the opportunity to feel her boobs on his back. Is Kazuma really wanting to do something with Megumin but is concerned about the consequences and unfortunate implications? Or this was just a random perverted act? Or does he feel that anything goes in a dream, while in real life he knows he can't touch that whatsoever?
  • Was Aqua being truthful with what she said happened to Kazuma after he died in the start of the series? While Aqua claims he was laughed at by everyone involved, including his family, Aqua isn't exactly a reliable person for information, and she was wanting someone to go after the Demon King in addition to having a quota to fit. Thus it is entirely possible Aqua lied about what happened so that Kazuma would be more open to fighting the Demon King instead of simply being reincarnated back on Earth. The anime leans into this when Aqua says that the medics who operated on Kazuma also laughed at how stupid he'd been, it briefly shows us those medics in a POV shot where they're looking over Kazuma's body, straight faced and clearly not laughing.
  • Some fans are fond of the idea that Aqua is more competent and intelligent than she seems, and is at least to some degree Obfuscating Stupidity, possibly for her own amusement. One could claim her low intelligence stat proves otherwise, but given these are very video game-esque stats, perhaps her intelligence is actually great enough that it triggered something like an overflow error, making it appear low. Alternatively, she could be intentionally concealing her true intelligence from the test as a Deliberate Underperformance.
  • On the other hand, was Aqua always stupid or is she suffering from the side effects of loading the New World’s language into her brain? We may not know what she was like before the transfer but she seemed definitely a lot more put together than she was after arriving in the New World.
  • Would Kyouya Mitsurugi have actually used Gram against Kazuma in the duel he proposed? Given the series establishes him as a Nice Guy outside of his flaws and the fact that Kazuma preemptively attacks him, it's entirely possible he would have been willing to fight with a handicap.
• Award Snub:
  • Was quite a huge one in Crunchyroll's 2016 Anime Awards. The only category it was nominated for "Best Comedy" it ended up losing and a lot of fans wanted Megumin to be nominated for "Best Girl". It didn't help that there was a close margin between it and the winner of "Best Comedy". At the very least however, Megumin was the most voted write-in for "Best Girl".
  • It happened again in the 2017 Anime Awards, where it lost to Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid for "Best Comedy" and Kazuma lost to Shoto Todoroki from My Hero Academia for "Best Boy".
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • Aqua being a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing often causes a divide among viewers. Some actually think it's funny that she's an unpleasant bitch in contrast to her divine nature and don't mind it when she complains or does something annoying since she usually gets her comeuppance, and contributes to the anime's humor. Others find her to be unbearable (especially after Season 2) and the root of most of the problems the party has had. Or she's both.
  • Kazuma is either seen as one of the funniest and most refreshing light novel male-leads in a while, or simply frustrating to watch. Some find it very funny that he's treated like a loser in-universe and it's played for comedic effect unlike other light novel leads who are made to be overpowered. Others, however, find him aggravating to watch since he never develops as a character and is the same sarcastic jerk he was introduced as. A lot of his defenders, however, point out that the detractors take him too seriously and that he's not meant to be a character who develops or makes any progress, plus he has actually had his softer moments.
• Broken Base:
  • Konosuba's humor in general has varied opinions online. Some find it brilliant satire made funnier by the endearingly eccentric characters, while others find it gratuitously sexual and crass, to problematic levels.
  • While Kazuma's loser status is a major source of a lot of laughs in the series, there's a segment of the fandom that want him to be properly rewarded for his accomplishments and increasing competence — in essence playing the isekai harem hero straight.
  • Kazuma's constant belittling and insulting of Aqua divides the fanbase. A lot see it as good comedy and note that Aqua frequently brings it on herself. However, there are quite a few fans who find it to have uncomfortable sexist overtones.
  • Kazuma's blatant sexual harassment of his female companions from book 4 onward. While some fans say that it's intentionally done to parody the cliché and it's all in good fun, for others it has made some segments of the fandom uncomfortable. Kazuma's own justifications on just why he's doing it didn't do him any favors either. Both sides are that the harassment riddled with Double Standard however, as Kazuma is subjected to his fair share of unwanted touching and harassment. Whether this makes it equal or still biased in favor of one side or another is yet another heavy point of contention.
  • With the first episode of season 2 coming out, a lot of people are pointing out that the facial animations look even wonkier than they did in the first season. Seeing as how the wonky faces added to the charm of the show, some see this as an improvement in the animation department and even believe that it might have been done on purpose in response to the first season. Others, however, see it as the animation getting worse and won't let it slide as much. However, episodes 2 and 3 didn't have these problems, but then the same wonky style came back in episode 4. It was around this time viewers began to realize that this isn't so much bad quality, as it is intentional Stylistic Suck on the part of a specific episode director... which then set off a whole new set of arguments. Part of the issue also revolves around Values Dissonance over what is expected from anime compared to western animation, as while both types of animation are defined by fluidity (obviously), "good animation" in anime is usually defined by consistency and attention to detail, while "good animation" in western animation is defined primarily by expressiveness (without straying too far off-model); Geoff Thew of Mother's Basement surmises that the backlash towards season two (a backlash that he personally detests) is more due to it being a Japanese animated production that tried to capture the expressiveness of western animation.
  • The second season was very divisive while it was airing. Debates on the second season range from the humor, which is either seen as a step up from the first season (since it grew beyond the parody humor), or is weaker since the style of humor wears thin and it begins to feel more like a typical fantasy with some jokes thrown in (rather than a parody of fantasy light novels). There's also the animation which is either praised as Stylistic Suck or even praised for being creative and the animation style being seen as a complement to the humor the show is going for. Others were less forgiving of the animation actually seeing it as DEEN not caring (which is nothing new, given their track record of being one of the lesser animation studios out there) or at worse being a sign of the second season being a phoned-in cash cow sequel.
  • The Megumin-focused prequel Spin-Off God's Explosion On This Wonderful World! has become this due to its comparatively more serious tone compared to the main series. Some like the change of pace, but others think it gets rid of everything that makes the series good.
• Cant Unhear It:
  • Ever since Ai Kayano and Cristina Vee voiced Darkness, it's hard not to imagine several of their other roles acting masochistic, no matter how inappropriate or out of character it is. Doesn't help for the teenaged Alice, a blonde, blue-eyed female knight also voiced by Kayano, leading many Japanese fans to joke that she's a "purified" Darkness. On the English side, whenever Darkness speaks in a serious or lower tone, Cristina uses her Velvet voice. And considering the type of person Velvet is...
  • For the English Dub, Patrick Seitz's performance as Verdia may have been well received, but due to Patrick's huge resume of voices, it's fairly easy to imagine Patrick's other roles in the place of Verdia. The most common are out-of-character choices, Scorpion, Dio Brando and Ragna the Bloodedge.
• Cargo Ship: Megumin has been seen getting aroused over her staff, and describes how she gets off from casting Explosion at a castle in a very suggestive manner to the point where Kazuma tells her not to fidget when saying so.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • Darkness' personality and role as punching-bag. A woman being beaten, tortured and abused? Not funny. A woman being a total masochist that gets off of it, to the point that even her would-be beaters, torturers and abusers gets freaked out by her? Hilarious.
  • The haunted house chapter. One Creepy Doll by itself is just as creepy as it should be. Then the dolls get into a Zerg Rush and it gets ridiculous.
  • "Kazuma was psychologically scarred." in Legend of Crimson. When it occurred first against the lady orcs, there was an element of scary because it was an Attempted Rape and Kazuma clearly didn't do something to directly deserve that. Against Sylvia, though? Kazuma just insulted his teammates in order to get laid with Sylvia before eventually realizing that Sylvia is a hermaphrodite Chimera. The phrase afterwards became less scary and more funny instead.
  • Darkness' Attempted Rape on Kazuma in Volume 12. She tries to force herself on him after he's already rejected her... and then gets cold feet to the point where Kazuma has to lecture her on how to restrain and rape him.
  • The 1st OVA ends with Aqua murdering Kazuma. But Kazuma had been such an abhorrent asshole to the girls by turning them into a harem in hopes to get his cursed wish collar to fall off and his wish turned out to be something unrelated, so she puts the collar back on as punishment, as she can just resurrect him later. It ends up as a funny and well-deserved fate.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Yunyun has her rivalry with Megumin, her status as The Woobie, and Aki Toyosaki's performance.
  • Wiz is liked for being polite to mostly everyone she meets, and for her Buxom Beauty Standard & Statuesque Stunner looks, and some in particular for Brianna Knickerbocker's performance in the English dub.
• Escapist Character: Kazuma, in a very different way than usual. Given that Kazuma displays Brutal Honesty combined with Deadpan Snarker and Covert Pervert, lots of fans joke about Kazuma being a 'role model' and hold his attitude in high regard.
• Even Better Sequel: There are still a lot of fans who believe the second season is the better installment. The second season in particular has been praised for the fact that it is more consistently funny than the first season now that it has a grasp on the humor. Also helping is the fact that, with the principal cast introduced, the series can do more with its characters and has episodes that try new things entirely or give a different spin on gags in the first season.
• Fan Nickname:
  • The unnamed world that Kazuma was sent to, and Eris oversees, has been given the tongue-in-cheek nickname of "Fantasy Australia" by 4chan.
  • Thanks to this infamous thread, Kazuma is now known as "The Guy" to the Reddit anime community.
  • In certain circles, the dub of the show is often referred as KonoDuba, referencing to the term 'Sub vs Dub'.
• Fandom Rivalry:
  • With Re:Zero over which title deconstructed the "trapped in a strange world" genre better. Either you think KonoSuba did it better because it's a self-aware parody that tries to stay as far away from the genre's common tropes as possible, or you think Re:Zero did it better since it played many genre tropes straight but applies a Darker and Edgier feel to the genre. Then you have some people that like both. Ironically, the authors of both series are close friends.
  • Alternately, with Overlord (2012) since Aqua and Lord Ainz as a hypothetical fight came up. This conversation tends to come up, then devolve into an argument pages long, then inevitably waste away into one side or the other disparaging their rivals and their home series. Ditzy goddess GMPC versus The Roleplayer lichking Squishy Wizard, FIGHT!
  • Funnily enough, all three anime universes were then selected as part of Isekai Quartet though none of them have had an outright conflict yet.
• Fountain of Memes: While the show as a whole is a meme goldmine, it is Megumin who leaves the biggest impact with her being endlessly memed across the anime community.
• Friendly Fandoms:
  • With Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash. Both shows aired in the same season and focus on deconstructing the Trapped in Another World trope, which has practically become its own sub-genre in the Light Novel industry. Unlike almost every other example of the trope, the protagonists of both series don't become all-powerful badasses, and they are stuck with rather incompetent party members. The major difference falls in the tone of each show, with Grimgar being deadly serious and Konosuba being light-hearted fun, making for an interesting contrast between the two.
  • Although they share a fandom rivalry as stated above, some fans of Re:Zero get along with Konosuba fans due to the authors being friends and the similar premise (tracksuit wearing otaku NEET gets transported to another world and finds out it's not as awesome as they had hoped it was), so it isn't surprising that there is overlap in the fandoms.
  • With JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable as of recently since both the first season of KonoSuba and the Diamond is Unbreakable anime aired in 2016 one season apart from each other. With the Diamond is Unbreakable anime concluding in the Fall 2016 season the new season of KonoSuba due to being highly anticipated is filling the void Diamond is Unbreakable left after it concluded for seasonal anime viewers.
  • With Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu at least among the few who watched it. Both shows aired in the same seasons with fans not expecting either of them to be as good as they were and being cited as showing that Studio DEEN can make some great shows. It also helps that both shows aired their second seasons at the same time both of which are not only helped make both shows more popular but are seen by some as better than the first season.
  • Unsurprisingly with The Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious, which shares a humorous tone, comedic goddess female leads, and are both Affectionate Parodies of the "Narou Isekai" trend.
• Growing the Beard:
  • The beginning of the series is funny but many agree that it really picks up during the party's battle with Verdia. It is the first arc in the series that isn't just the party goofing off and is where it finally becomes comfortable with its sense of humor and characters.
  • Many agree that Dust's spinoff A Limelight on this Fool, Too didn't reach maturity until around its fifth volume, with the introduction of Faitfore and Leonore creating situations that weren't simply spinoffs of Kazuma's adventures, as well as genuinely exploring Dust's past instead of dancing around it.
• I Knew It!: After having several characters hint at Dust's background it came to the surprise of few that he would end up getting his own Spinoff Series as well.
• Iron Woobie: Kazuma, for all his flaws and low moments, is this. Resurrected into a world he barely understands, he has to defeat the Demon King, a villain that has terrorized the world for centuries, and who not even epic-tier adventurers have been able to defeat. The only advantage he has is his luck (which appears to be good in a literal sense and bad in a figurative one) and a cheat item (read: a dumb, useless goddess) who, along with the only two party members he officially recruited, more often causes problems than fixing them, driving him crazy. During his first meeting with Eris, the goddess even acknowledges that his second life has been full of adversity.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: When the seventeenth and final light novel volume came out, many didn't like how the ending was very similar to the web novel version, which also left many romantic resolutions or questions unanswered.
• Jerkass Woobie: Surprisingly enough, Aqua qualifies with flying colors. Sure, after being dragged into the parallel world, her Bitch in Sheep's Clothing attitude never changes; she constantly ranges from belitting Kazuma, to going off the deeper end by putting her own self over others, the former of which sort of justifies any punishment coming at her. However, she had no idea a god could be picked as a "cheat item", and has no true experience about the parallel world, lamenting about being trapped there until AND only until Kazuma and her kill the Demon King. The world isn't necessarily a friendly place to just anybody, and despite her following in the Axis church being strong, nobody ever believes she is the real goddess Aqua standing in front of them. Kazuma constantly belittles her as utterly useless and dumb, and blames her (often simply out of the blue) for causing the majority of the trouble that comes at their party (sometimes due to her holy status), when he's the one who dragged her to the world in the first place out of spite for laughing at his ridiculous death; her holy powers have also saved their rear on occasion, but Kazuma only remembers her party tricks outside of those occasions. Finally, Aqua has also had her Pet the Dog moments throughout the series, devoid of her usual self, only for stuff to go wrong for her anyways. Despite how divisive she can be, at least some people will admit to feeling at least a bit sorry for the undeserved misfortune Aqua goes through.
• Just Here for Godzilla: It cannot be stressed enough just how insanely popular Megumin became in the anime community. Countless people decided to check out the show just to see why and how a certain chuunibyou flame mage singlehandedly set off a hype barrage.
• Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Being a victim of an Unwanted Harem, Kazuma falls into this trope with the girls in his party (plus Wiz and Eris) by default.
• Magnificent Bastard: Arch-Devil Vanir, one of the seven Dukes of Hell and retired general of the Demon Lord, renovates a dungeon to battle against adventurers and prank them, letting him feed of their negative emotions and keep himself entertained. Unable to enter the inner-sanctum of a dungeon because of a purifying circle, Vanir attempts to kill the drawer by body-jacking Darkness. Though struggling to take control of her body, Vanir eventually does so and even forms a cordial relationship with her. Accepting his defeat and remaining brave even in the face of seeming death, Vanir is revealed to have survived and now runs a magic item shop to help Kazuma on his future adventures.
• Memetic Badass: Kazuma. Due to being the antithesis of the average Stock Light-Novel Hero ^note Kazuma being sarcastic, rude, and openly perverted it's actually won him over a lot of fans. Unfortunately, this also has a tendency to crossover into Misaimed Fandom territory as well since some fans will glorify him specifically for his negative traits.
• Memetic Loser:
  • Aqua has pretty much become the anime fandom's favorite punching bag, being affectionately referred to as the "Useless Goddess". This stems status as The Load, a trait that's very frequently lampshaded In-Universe. If there's any word to describe her, it's useless.
  • Kazuma is an in-universe example. When things aren't destined to go right for him... They. Will. Not. And he's usually destined to be the Butt-Monkey on them.
  • Yunyun, in and out of universe. Yunyun in the show is introverted and lonely due to her timid yet reasonable personality, and frequently being Megumin's punching bag. And although she is well liked by the fandom, many can't help but mock her lack of social skills or friends.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • EXPLOSION! ^note Megumin frequently obsesses over being skilled in explosion magic, as such many fans have come to affiliate this show with explosions.
    • This image of Megumin◊ from the ED is often copy/pasted over pictures of explosions.
  • On anime image boards, a lot of people have taken to posting pictures of the cartoonish facial expressions. Including Deen itself puts a few prominently in S2's OP.
    • One of Aqua's faces in particular◊ has been changed to show all kinds of other characters showing extreme distress.
  • Happy Birthday! ^note Yunyun's status as The Woobie gets both sympathy and mockery from the fandom. One moment in particular had no one show up to her birthday party◊, and the gif of it has made circles.
  • Kazuma, Kazuma!
    • Hai hai, Kazuma desu.
  • Chunchunmaru^note The name that Megumin forcibly gives to Kazuma's sword, which got memed and used to refer to all sorts of things
  • Gender equality.^note  When Megumin tries to play the gender card to use the bath before Kazuma, he goes on a speech about what he considers true gender equality, which, given the rest of his characterization, became memetic.
  • Lalatina^note Darkness's real Embarrassing First Name became popular just to say among fans
  • - PAUSE - PRESS START BUTTON
  • Eris pads her chest^note Eris, who seems to display an ample bust below her hagoromo dress, has been noted by Aqua to actually use breast pads on her bra.
  • ONII-CHAAAAAAAAAANNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!
  • "The guy"^note A user on /r/anime forgets Kazuma's name, and the subreddit just ran with it ever since. It's gotten to the point where even fansubbers get in on the action.
  • Aqua's crying^note In particular the crying after she lost rock-paper-scissors against Kazuma even after casting Blessing on her. Out of all of Aqua's crying scenes, this is the one that is oft-parodied or edited with Aqua's head replaced by anyone, be it someone with the same voice or someone with similar enough personality or someone in a similar situation.
  • "I serve the Soviet Yunyun"^note A meme taken from Chernobyl, replacing General Nikolai Tarakanov with Yunyun (wearing his hat), due the fact that "union" sounds similar to "Yunyun".
  • Yurification ^note Take one Les Yay screencap or fanart (any franchise will do). Add an image of Aqua frantically trying to purify the crocodile-infested water, change her frantic screams of "Purification! Purification! Purification!" to "Yurification! Yurification! Yurification!", and voila. Photoshop changing her expression from terror to lust optional, but hilarious.
  • Smugumin ^note Coined from Megumin's smug shit-eating grin after baiting Yunyun to lose a rock-paper-scissors match, it became the go-to meme to express utter smugness on someone. Saying "Heh" just like Megumin is also optional.
  • Kazuma's hands. ^note  In reference to Kazuma's very fluid hand animation during the moment where he threatens to use Steal against Mitsurugi's female companions, and when he caresses Megumin's hand when they sleep together for the second time. Many have joked that Kazuma's hands took up most if not all of the animation budget, as a lighthearted jab at Konosuba's wonky and sometimes scribbly animation.
• Memetic Troll: Megumin for her treatment of Kazuma and especially Yunyun throughout the series.
• Misaimed Fandom: Kazuma has a large number of unironic fans, typically those who want to view the series as isekai wish fulfillment - ignoring (or conveniently overlooking) the fact that he's a proud NEET and Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist. A large number of these fans also take his rants about "gender equality" completely at face value when, in context, Kazuma uses the line as a threat against any girl that pisses him off and tries to invoke Wouldn't Hit a Girl.
• Moe: In a world full of crazy, Wiz and Yunyun stands out as this as they're both cute, sincerely friendly (especially Wiz) and woobies (especially Yunyun).
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • In Legend of Crimson, despite it being half-Played for Laughs, Kazuma's mind-scarring experience with the horde of lady orcs also means that he's just THAT close for being gang-raped. The music accompanying the scene was also rather ominous, and regardless of which gender is being the victim, it was still a legitimately scary experience that Kazuma was reduced to a traumatized sobbing wreck afterwards, to the point of where the girls (except Darkness who fainted at the time for unrelated reasons) don't even make fun of him for it and spend the next scene sincerely comforting him. Psychologically scarred indeed.
  • Lord Alderp is one of the few villains in the series that doesn't have a lot of comedy going for him, and while this isn't noticeable in volume 3/Season 2, his true evil is shown in full force in volume 7 where the comedic part of the fantasy comedy is relatively absent. It's not just that he attempts a forced marriage with Darkness or attempts to get Kazuma executed for something that was out of his control out of spite, it's the fact that despite being such a clearly unpleasant person he is untouchable, due to being human and being high up on the royal totem pole. Even worse, it's heavily implied that he not only physically abuses his wives but even goes so far as to cheat death via a magical artifact that let's him swap bodies, usually with his own son when his own body is starting to break down from his lifestyle. Not even Kazuma is able to find any information or use the law to stop him. It's unlikely a single tear was shed when Vanir tricked him into releasing his own friend, causing them to drag Alderp to a fate even worse than fans had hoped for.
• Older Than They Think: Darkness being a blonde masochist was done a exactly a month before by Erina in Gonna Be the Twin-Tail!!. Even Erina's older transformation bears a similar look in face, hairstyle and outfit as Darkness.
• One-Scene Wonder: Kotono Mitsuishi (Yes, that Kotono Mitsuishi) as the Receptionist Succubus. Just for the sheer absurdity of Sailor fucking Moon voicing a big-titted succubus who constantly gropes herself in a low-budget, lowbrow fantasy anime for exactly one scene, and then is never heard from again.
• Salvaged Story: The Adaptational Badassery of Hans and Sylvia provides more satisfying conclusions to their arcs in the anime.
  • In the novels, Hans is blown up and frozen by Megumin and Wiz respectively, with his demise only being explained after the fact because the narrator, Kazuma, fainted from supplying Wiz's Drain Touch. In the anime, Kazuma is given a more active role with a Thanatos Gambit to lure Hans into a crater before Megumin and Wiz take action, then Aqua gets to finish him off while empowered by her Axis Cult.
  • In the novels, Sylvia is instantly killed by the Railgun (TBD) which Komekko fires ahead of Kazuma. In The Movie, she wills herself Back from the Dead while assimilating Beldia and Hans. Vanir and Wiz are also included in the fight, the former working together with Darkness again and the latter channelling the entire Crimson Demon Village's magic power into Megumin and Wiz to finish her off. Kazuma's Thanatos Gambit here also displays his strong trust in his party, openly counting on his "partner" Aqua's Blessings to keep his body intact before Megumin blows him up along with Sylvia (which also gives more context for Megumin starting to regret becoming a Master of One Magic at the end).
• She Really Can Act: After voicing several characters of The Cutie and The Stoic archetypes, there were some who believed Sora Amamiya lacked vocal range. Her work as Aqua earned her a lot of praise. On the other hand, this has also resulted in the tongue-in-cheek criticism that the role doesn't require much acting from her part, since the way Aqua behaves is not that far from how Sora is in real life.
• Shipping: Inevitable as the series goes on, and Kazuma slowly accumulates a chain of female acquaintances in the new world. Kazuma x Megumin and Kazuma x Eris are the most popular pairings for Japanese fans and readers. The light novel has entire story arcs to support Kazuma x Darkness and Kazuma x Megumin.
• Signature Line: "I yearn for true gender equality. I have no patience for one who talks about female privilege when it suits them, and then complains about someone 'not being a man' when it's convenient."
• Signature Scene: The surprisingly-hilarious Downer Ending to episode 9 of season 2, where Kazuma, after being hounded by Axis Cult members all throughout the town, runs into a little girl he figures is the sole non-cultist in town, and crosses the Despair Event Horizon after he finds out even she's a member of the Axis Cult.
• Superlative Dubbing: The English dub has been very well received by fans of the series, due to the dub making sure to be as faithful to the original script, but also making sure to adjust things to make more sense for the audience. Helping as well is the strong voice cast, with most of the actors being considered either pretty good, to being better than their Japanese counterparts. In particular, Cristina Vee as Darkness and Patrick Seitz as Verdia have been among the most positively received parts of the dub, due to them both giving their all to making their performance stand out. Even the 'most newbie' actor for the time, Arnie Pantoja, is considered doing a superb job to keep up with the veterans
  • It's been often called a better abridged series than the actual abridged series.
  • The Latin American Spanish dub has also been praised by fans, with the acting of the whole cast being praised in equal measure for their work, with the fans liking in particular Aqua (played by Nycolle González, and who manages to match the hysterics of Sora Amamiya), Megumin (Wendy Malvarez, her acting as Megumin sounding even cuter than the original) and Darkness (Mireya Mendoza, who manages to make Darkness sound both more badass and sexier than the original).
• Sweet Dreams Fuel: The ending songs are uncharacteristically comfy and lax considering the fact that the three heroines are singing them, and combined with the mundane activities they're shown doing, it makes it a very pleasant watch.
• Values Dissonance:
  • Kazuma's constant perverted antics, like stealing panties and sexual harassment, and almost always getting away with it. Despite being played for laughs, this is seen as particularly vile by some people in the West, especially when one considers how much more unacceptable sexual harassment cases have become. Defending his actions by stating that he is an advocate of "true gender equality" may be outright offensive to some viewers. The series largely functions on Slapstick, so Kazuma is often subject to harassment himself, although whether this makes it better or worse is also up to interpretation.
  • The antics of the Axis cult will be much more familiar to viewers in America, where niche religions and aggressive proselytizing can be an everyday reality. Could potentially be a case of Americans Hate Tingle or Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales depending on the viewer.
• Win Back the Crowd:
  • This show (along with Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu) went a long way towards rehabilitating Studio DEEN's reputation among anime fandom, which had been synonymous with bad quality for the prior 10 years.
  • The same goes for Crunchyroll's Latin American Spanish feed, after their second batch of dubbed anime (Free!, Re:Zero, Mob Psycho 100 and others) suffered from the Too Long; Didn't Dub trope by adding Japanese honorifics, which were added at Crunchyroll's insistence, as the company has a corporate policy on adding them in their subs on all languages completely ignoring the fact honorifics are rarely used in Latin American dubs and both actors and viewers alike dislike using them. This show, along other shows from their third Spanish-dubbed batch, finally avoid this trope entirely, with the sole exceptions of the use of the terms "otaku" and "hikkikomori" in the dub.
• The Woobie: Poor, poor Yunyun needs a hug. Since childhood, she was often the object of ridicule from her peers and was obsessed with defeating Megumin, who had her own troubles to worry about. She has tried to make friends ever since childhood (which even had plants and animals ditch her), but either they often took advantage of her (especially her classmates as stated above), they considered her a weirdo because of the ways she tried to befriend them, or they were simply beginner adventurers who felt a bit uncomfortable due to the fact she's already a proper mage. Not to mention, whenever she rescues beginner adventurers and clearly had the chance of making friends with them after their rescue, her troubled nature causes her to end up apologizing for saving them and wandering away without them, thus there go what could've been a party for herself. Lastly, there's the fact once nobody showed up to a birthday party of her. No wonder why she clings onto Kazuma and his party so much — despite still finding her strange, they are the only ones even willing to give her the time of the day (even Megumin). Despite most of the misfortunes Yunyun goes through being played for Black Comedy, many fans disagree and actually feel bad for her.
• Woolseyism:
  • When Kazuma selects Aqua as his Cheat Item, he gloats about how he is going to use her all up to have an easy life, to which Aqua reacts by calling him a creep and covering herself. The implication seems to be that Aqua assumes Kazuma is going to do something perverted towards her, but this comes across as a bit awkward because Kazuma's statement doesn't really have anything sexual to it. The dub actually clarifies this by having Kazuma refer to using Aqua's powers by saying he will "tap that". "Tap that" is an english slang for wanting to have sex or having sexual interaction with someone, which makes Aqua's reaction make a lot more sense now.
  • The Running Gag of people saying "Kazuma Kazuma!", followed by Kazuma saying something to the effect of "Yes I'm Kazuma" in a deadpan tone, is changed to Kazuma making a quick and snide comment that reflects the situation or context. This is because the original "Kazuma Desu" reply doesn't fit well due to the pronunciation and word count difference between languages, meaning "I'm Kazuma" wouldn't fit well.
  • Broadly speaking, the dub has Kazuma use more English slang when describing some things, which makes his status as a NEET more fitting from an English perspective since some of the terms he uses are more common in internet culture.
  • The Latin American Spanish dub has some of them:
    • When Megumin does her presentation in the second episode, she speaks using archaic European Spanish as a parody of the same language used in Spanish translations of fantasy novels, like The Lord of the Rings, A Song of Ice and Fire and similar stuff.
    • Darkness' class as Crusader is translated in the Spanish dub as Paladin instead, probably to avoid any kind of religious undertones.
  • In episode 3 of the Explosion anime, Yunyun names Chomusuke Kuro, which means "black" in Japanese. However, probably because of racial sensitivity, it was changed to "Ink"^note  which is either sumi-e or just Inku ''in Japanese for the English subs.

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