In the end, he rejects physical pleasure and companionship for the dubious comforts of a wet dream. ![]() ![]() Yey as he looks at the happy faces of his friends, he considers giving up and join them - not. He wants to join in, but comes to his senses when he remembers the warning the succubus had given him: don’t drink too much booze that you sleep too deep to dream. Kasuma returns home to find out the parents of one of his team mates have sent over a lot of high grade crabs and booze and the team’s having a party. Now is this just me or does this hint at some of the more questionable defenses of dodgy anime or manga? “It doesn’t matter, it’s not real”?īut if you thought that was a bit too on the nose, the next scene is worse. Kasuma being who he is, carefully examines the bait held before him for its legal and moral implications, all of which the succubus counters with that it doesn’t matter, it’s just a dream. It does so in a typical KonoSuba way, by taking the idea of the succubus to its logical extreme and have them set up a business providing nice dreams to male adventurers to relief stress, for a small fee and some of their vitality. Most episodes are loosely dedicated to mocking one aspect or another of this subgenre and episode nine takes aim at the venerable element of fanservice and sexual wishfulfillment - not just common in this particular anime subgenre of course, but found everywhere. ![]() Nobody is perfect, nobody is the designated chewtoy and ultimately they’re stuck with and deserve each other. KonoSuba has done very well in creating humour out of the characters’ own flaws: they get what they deserve, with everybody treated equally (un)fair. They’re joined by Megumin and Darknes, respectively a mage with a fantasy complex specialising in explosion magic who only has the stamina for one explosion a day and a masochistic paladin who sexually harasses her opponents by imagining the lewd and embarassing things they’ll do to her once they defeat her. So our hero Kasuma is not all that likeable, mainly out for himself and stuck with the goddess that reincarnated him into this world, who he dragged down with him out of pure spite when she was slightly too amused about the dumb way he died. Unlike Grimgar though it does it not by amping up the reality of what it would be like to be dropped in a fantasy world where you have to kill to survive, but rather by taking the piss of the genre and RPGs in general. Episode nine of KonoSuba raises the question: what if you could pay a succubus to give you a wet dream, featuring the person(s), settings and deeds of your choice, with no worries about legality or morality, because after all it’s “only a dream”?īacktracking slightly: Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!, KonoSuba for short, is another entry in the ever popular “nerd gets trapped in a RPGesque fantasy world” anime genre and, like Grimgar, it’s a bit of a deconstruction.
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