New KonoSuba Anime Project Announced

KonoSuba is getting a new anime project. The format and the studio are still unknown, but a teaser visual was revealed. Koichi Kikuta, the character designer for the previous seasons, drew the teaser.

The information was revealed during Isekai Museum live stream event on KADOKAWA’s YouTube channel. Voice actors for Kazuma (Jun Fukushima) and Megumin (Rie Takahashi) were part of the event, which is available to watch in full:

KonoSuba creator, Natsume Akatsuki, tweeted about the upcoming project. He said that he hopes that more KonoSuba will bring more laughs into this dark world:

というわけで、このすばの新アニメをやるそうです
なにかと暗い話題が多い近年ですが、このすばで一時だけでも笑ってもらえれば幸いです！

それに合わせて、久しぶりの書籍の方のこのすばもお楽しみに！ pic.twitter.com/G22O8kIi1w

— 暁なつめ【Official News】 (@akatsukioffici3) July 18, 2021

Kurone Mishima, the illustrator for the series, also expressed enthusiasm on Twitter. She tweeted: “KonoSuba has received a new anime project! We made it!!!!!“.

このすば新作アニメが決まりました😊✨✨ やったぞー！！！！！ https://t.co/vPiPfzZTOR

— 三嶋くろね (@mishima_kurone) July 18, 2021

KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World! light novel first started publishing in 2013. The series ended in 2020, after 17 volumes. The series received multiple spin-offs and side stories, along with an anime adaptation.

Studio DEEN animated the first season of KonoSuba anime, which came out in 2016 and had 10 episodes. The second season, also animated by DEEN, started airing in 2017. The franchise also has a movie from 2019, titled KonoSuba – God’s blessing on this wonderful world! Movie: Legend of Crimson, which was animated by J.C. Staff. In addition to TV anime and the movie, KonoSuba is a part of the Isekai Quartet universe.

KonoSuba – God’s blessing on this wonderful world

Yen Press, English licensor for the light novel series, describes the plot as:
Game loving shut-in Kazuma Sato’s life as a young schoolboy in Japan abruptly comes to an early end…or at least it was supposed to. When he opens his eyes, though, he sees a beautiful goddess that offers him a once in an after-lifetime chance to be reborn in a parallel world. The catch is that the world is violent and threatened by a growing evil! Fortunately, he can choose any one thing to bring with him. So he chooses the goddess, Aqua! And so his adventure with his gorgeous companion begins–if he could just get enough money and food to survive, keep his goddess out of trouble, and avoid grabbing the attention of the Demon King’s army!

Source: KADOKAWA Stream, Official Twitter
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