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この素晴らしい世界に祝福を! Konosuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! Light Novel #4
You Good-for-Nothing Quartet
多額の報酬を手にしたカズマは、毎日家でゴロつくだけのダメ人間と化していた。冒険に出たいめぐみんは温泉旅行の体で引き篭もりを外に連れ出すことに。一行が訪れたのは、あの “アクシズ教団”の総本山の街で!? 電子版特典として、電子限定書き下ろし短編『町内会の不死の王』を特別収録！
200 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 2014
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Natsume Akatsuki
157 books112 followersAKATSUKI Natsume
Name (in native language): 暁なつめ
Associated Names:
自宅警備兵
Jitaku-keibihei
Zodiac: Libra
Name (in native language): 暁なつめ
Associated Names:
自宅警備兵
Jitaku-keibihei
Zodiac: Libra
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August 16, 2022
Pretty much more of the same. It’s good but there’s nothing that really stands out here. The series just tries to stay consistently on the same level without much progress and it feels like it’s getting a bit stale.
March 22, 2020
Basically the same shit as the previous few KonoSuba novels: Kazuma and friends go off to do something silly and somehow end up fighting one of the Demon King's generals (or, more vaguely, any big "boss"-type enemy, to better include Destroyer). There's definitely a formula here. Natsume Akatsuki does well with the formula, though. That is, you're probably a jackass if you're reading KonoSuba for the plot rather than for the characters and their hijinx. I mean, you have to be a jackass to read isekai light novels, or really to read light novels in general, as they're not "High Art" or anything, so to place any sense of "importance" on anything in the medium is just wonky (forgive me, I got drunk after getting mad at video games), so the point, really, is to view this particular series in the sense of how it fucks with standard isekai tropes.
At the end of the day, the best thing about this volume, the single thing that could possibly put this above the previous three books, is that we get a bit more Wiz. I like Wiz. She's cute. She also has big undead wizard titties, but Kurone Mishima barely gives us any Wiz illustrations, the bastard. Actually, it's kinda weird: Kazuma mentions Wiz's "slender" body which should contrast the thiccness of certain parts of her frame, but I guess it doesn't. When I think about it, I can't recall ever actually seeing Wiz with a bigger ass, not even in porn doujins, but I guess I keep visualizing her as being thiccer than she's meant to be. Huh. It's that thing, you know, where you think "Ideally, skinnier bodies are better, for not being fat, and so flatter chests must be better, for complying with skinniness," but then you see a skinny girl with big boobs and you realize your entire life is a lie. Like, I should like Megumin most, right?, because she's skinny and flat. But I like Darkness for being toned and having big boobs on top of that. Or the thin-but-incredibly-busty Wiz. But really, I actually like Aqua the most. So whatever. Actually, I like Yunyun most, and she's gonna have more time in the next volume (I basically nutted myself when she yelled at Kazuma that she wants his babies at the end of the epilogue here).
Fuck was I talking about?
Oh yeah, I was reviewing a light novel.
There's a lot of funny anti-evangelical stuff here that I've chosen to read as anti-Protestantism because I live in America and I'm used to disliking things with great presence and so I've decided long ago that Orthodoxy is the truest path (okay, really, I just read a couple Dostoevsky novels, but still!). I would guess Japan has some sort of problem with prosyletization, what with Aum Shinrikyo (who, according to Wikipedia, still exist!), and I guess there would have been some background for the door-to-door evangelizing in Welcome to the NHK (most of my knowledge of Japan comes from anime), so I suppose it's none too surprising that Akatsuki would write a story about Aqua's followers being incredibly annoying with their attempts to convert tourists. But it could just be that Aqua is annoying and so her followers must be annoying. I think I'm too used to anti-religious sentiment in American pop-culture that I've ended up reading this novel with a bit of a bias? Regardless, the chapter when they were all running around town and kept ending up in lame conversion attempts was really funny.
I guess it's also cool that the series tries to make Slimes more powerful than other series, but it's hard to really applaud Akatsuki when I'm too familiar with Tensei Shitara Suraimu Datta Ken.
There was a point during writing this review that I went into a different tab to skim through Guntool's Wiz doujin. Has little to do with my review, but I thought it would be funny to share. I guess the relevance would be that the doujin was published in 2017, which is the year the second season of the anime aired, being the portion that adapted this particular novel, so a spike in Wiz's popularity, which would influence the creation of more porn, would have been tied somewhat to the contents of this volume. So it's not a complete non-sequitur!
At the end of the day, the best thing about this volume, the single thing that could possibly put this above the previous three books, is that we get a bit more Wiz. I like Wiz. She's cute. She also has big undead wizard titties, but Kurone Mishima barely gives us any Wiz illustrations, the bastard. Actually, it's kinda weird: Kazuma mentions Wiz's "slender" body which should contrast the thiccness of certain parts of her frame, but I guess it doesn't. When I think about it, I can't recall ever actually seeing Wiz with a bigger ass, not even in porn doujins, but I guess I keep visualizing her as being thiccer than she's meant to be. Huh. It's that thing, you know, where you think "Ideally, skinnier bodies are better, for not being fat, and so flatter chests must be better, for complying with skinniness," but then you see a skinny girl with big boobs and you realize your entire life is a lie. Like, I should like Megumin most, right?, because she's skinny and flat. But I like Darkness for being toned and having big boobs on top of that. Or the thin-but-incredibly-busty Wiz. But really, I actually like Aqua the most. So whatever. Actually, I like Yunyun most, and she's gonna have more time in the next volume (I basically nutted myself when she yelled at Kazuma that she wants his babies at the end of the epilogue here).
Fuck was I talking about?
Oh yeah, I was reviewing a light novel.
There's a lot of funny anti-evangelical stuff here that I've chosen to read as anti-Protestantism because I live in America and I'm used to disliking things with great presence and so I've decided long ago that Orthodoxy is the truest path (okay, really, I just read a couple Dostoevsky novels, but still!). I would guess Japan has some sort of problem with prosyletization, what with Aum Shinrikyo (who, according to Wikipedia, still exist!), and I guess there would have been some background for the door-to-door evangelizing in Welcome to the NHK (most of my knowledge of Japan comes from anime), so I suppose it's none too surprising that Akatsuki would write a story about Aqua's followers being incredibly annoying with their attempts to convert tourists. But it could just be that Aqua is annoying and so her followers must be annoying. I think I'm too used to anti-religious sentiment in American pop-culture that I've ended up reading this novel with a bit of a bias? Regardless, the chapter when they were all running around town and kept ending up in lame conversion attempts was really funny.
I guess it's also cool that the series tries to make Slimes more powerful than other series, but it's hard to really applaud Akatsuki when I'm too familiar with Tensei Shitara Suraimu Datta Ken.
There was a point during writing this review that I went into a different tab to skim through Guntool's Wiz doujin. Has little to do with my review, but I thought it would be funny to share. I guess the relevance would be that the doujin was published in 2017, which is the year the second season of the anime aired, being the portion that adapted this particular novel, so a spike in Wiz's popularity, which would influence the creation of more porn, would have been tied somewhat to the contents of this volume. So it's not a complete non-sequitur!
April 4, 2019
We're finally leaving the starter town to explore other cities + towns in Konosuba! This time our friends are going to an area known for its hotsprings, an area that also just so happens to be the home to a large sect of cult followers of a blue haired goddess. Hmm.
Wiz is on the cover this time. She's a major support character in the story, her new business partner Vanir sending her away to keep her from spending money on useless goods (she's a great Archwizard adventurer and now turned Undead Lich, but a sucky businessman). Wiz hints at why she turned Undead being a story for another time, but I don't think she ever delivers that story this volume. It sounds like she thinks it will turn Aqua's opinion of her, so that would be interesting to see. Hope we get that info sooner than later. Wiz unfortunately can only participate in battle against random monsters, she has a pact not to fight fellow Demon-Lords, so if they happen to run into one on their journey, she may not be able to support them much. Wiz also is out of commission much of the volume thanks to Aqua (she starts out of commission because of Vanir frying her to a charred state which she has to be healed from, and then Aqua proceeds to use Wiz as a hug pillow when she tears up at her incompetence). When she does get a chance to shine, her magic is very impressive as always.
Megumin once again gets little play this chapter, but the next one seems to focus on YunYun, so I'm guessing she and the Crimson clan she's a part of will be more involved. Darkness gets some decent scenes with Kazuma, and Aqua kind of gets to be a bit more independent, her sleuthing around the city to try and uncover a dastardly demon plot to ruin the hot springs!
The demons introduced this volume are a man and woman combo. I got a spoiler about the woman, so I won't say much more, but she's a voluptuous red head whom Kazuma meets in the baths, and doesn't seem to be all bad (she does warn him about the springs, which she didn't have to do). Be curious to see what they do with her. The man on the other hand is our main enemy, the one poisoning each inn's water supply. Aqua has to revert the water back to purity (which hilariously also removes the mineralization effects of the hot spring, making everyone in town upset with her). Kazuma tries his best not to get him and the party involved, but the party unwittingly can't avoid it because of Aqua and ultimately do help face the threat down.
The volume ends on YunYun storming into the scene with an explosive announcement that will surely make you want to grab the next volume as soon as you can. The previous volumes didn't really operate on having a cliffhanger end them, so this is a bit of a change of pace. Hopefully the next volume lives up to the hype of that cliffhanger. The ending also features the perspective of some of the Church of Axis cult followers reacting to what Aqua has done in town. It's kind of nice to see how the heroes are affecting the world, and how other characters feel about them.
Wiz is on the cover this time. She's a major support character in the story, her new business partner Vanir sending her away to keep her from spending money on useless goods (she's a great Archwizard adventurer and now turned Undead Lich, but a sucky businessman). Wiz hints at why she turned Undead being a story for another time, but I don't think she ever delivers that story this volume. It sounds like she thinks it will turn Aqua's opinion of her, so that would be interesting to see. Hope we get that info sooner than later. Wiz unfortunately can only participate in battle against random monsters, she has a pact not to fight fellow Demon-Lords, so if they happen to run into one on their journey, she may not be able to support them much. Wiz also is out of commission much of the volume thanks to Aqua (she starts out of commission because of Vanir frying her to a charred state which she has to be healed from, and then Aqua proceeds to use Wiz as a hug pillow when she tears up at her incompetence). When she does get a chance to shine, her magic is very impressive as always.
Megumin once again gets little play this chapter, but the next one seems to focus on YunYun, so I'm guessing she and the Crimson clan she's a part of will be more involved. Darkness gets some decent scenes with Kazuma, and Aqua kind of gets to be a bit more independent, her sleuthing around the city to try and uncover a dastardly demon plot to ruin the hot springs!
The demons introduced this volume are a man and woman combo. I got a spoiler about the woman, so I won't say much more, but she's a voluptuous red head whom Kazuma meets in the baths, and doesn't seem to be all bad (she does warn him about the springs, which she didn't have to do). Be curious to see what they do with her. The man on the other hand is our main enemy, the one poisoning each inn's water supply. Aqua has to revert the water back to purity (which hilariously also removes the mineralization effects of the hot spring, making everyone in town upset with her). Kazuma tries his best not to get him and the party involved, but the party unwittingly can't avoid it because of Aqua and ultimately do help face the threat down.
The volume ends on YunYun storming into the scene with an explosive announcement that will surely make you want to grab the next volume as soon as you can. The previous volumes didn't really operate on having a cliffhanger end them, so this is a bit of a change of pace. Hopefully the next volume lives up to the hype of that cliffhanger. The ending also features the perspective of some of the Church of Axis cult followers reacting to what Aqua has done in town. It's kind of nice to see how the heroes are affecting the world, and how other characters feel about them.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 22, 2019
Akatsuki continues to pen laughter to page. I have to admit that I am a fan of the series and the anime that it spawned. The characters are wonderfully incompetent (yet also competent) and hilarious to watch as they react and move about the world and the various situations thrust upon them.
This book is much like that last three and doesn't really add a whole lot more to things, though the cliff hanger ending definitely pulls you into the next novel in the series. (I mean, how could it not?!) As much as I thought I would be sick of the antics of the gang, for some reason Akatsuki keeps pulling me along and manages to keep things fresh as the quartet goes through another adventure.
All in all, this is much the same as you'd expect based off the previous three novels and well worth the read.
This book is much like that last three and doesn't really add a whole lot more to things, though the cliff hanger ending definitely pulls you into the next novel in the series. (I mean, how could it not?!) As much as I thought I would be sick of the antics of the gang, for some reason Akatsuki keeps pulling me along and manages to keep things fresh as the quartet goes through another adventure.
All in all, this is much the same as you'd expect based off the previous three novels and well worth the read.
March 26, 2018
Hilarious! As always it´s fun to read Kasuma´s adventures, with a steady topic for the entire book it was even more enjoyable.
January 14, 2018
My God this was fun, the whole gang at some hot springs. Figures they would run into problems as usual, but aside the fact that monsters and Demon Lords generals seem to chase them wherever they are, the whole bit in the hot springs was hilarious. Aqua is really fun, and also distressed that her own believers don't seem to believe her, but then nobody ever does. The Axis Chirch believers are completely whacko, Darkness doesn't change... and it was nice to see Wiz showing some of her true colours. Certainly interesting. Can't wait to read more of them.
January 12, 2023
*WARNING* THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS ABOUT THE BOOK
In this book, Kazuma and the crew, with the addition of Wiz, head to the city of hot springs named Alcanretia for some rest after the numerous adventures and hardships they went through. The city of Alcanretia is also known as the home of the Axis cult, which worships Aqua as the goddess. After many humorous incidents, such as encountering Aqua’s crazy worshipers and almost being scammed into signing a contract to believe in Axis, they get to meet the main villain of the story, Hans. Hans is one of the Demon King Generals and a poisonous slime that disguises itself as a normal-looking man. He attempts to contaminate the hot spring source of Alcanretia with poison but is stopped by Kazuma’s party.
This volume of the Konosuba series preserves Natsume Akatsuki’s humorous style of writing. breaking the cliche of the heroic main character and making him selfish yet a problem solver. However, the structure and the overall actions that are taken in the book seem a little repetitive. As usual, Kazuma seeks some quality time to recover from his life among his slightly odd party members, but he encounters a powerful entity and is forced to fight the villain. This structure was very similar to most of the previous volumes of Konosuba. Even though it is a very similar piece to the previous books, there is some character development. To illustrate, this book naturally focuses more on Aqua since they are staying in the city of Alcanretia, which is like Aqua’s home. Due to that reason, we kind of get a grasp of Aqua’s unknown life prior to joining Kazuma’s party. Furthermore, Kazuma grows as a character as an inventor who creates and sells products from his previous life. Overall, I give this book four stars since Natsume Akatsuki’s humor just can’t go wrong.
Of course, I would recommend this book to anyone who has read Konosuba's previous series or who has enjoyed Natsume Akatsuki's other works. I would even recommend this to people who have already watched the anime version of the story or are planning to. Since I myself also watched the anime version prior to reading this, I still enjoyed this book as much as I enjoyed the anime version. Since it is such a classic Isekai piece, this is an absolute must-read for all light novel and anime fans.
In this book, Kazuma and the crew, with the addition of Wiz, head to the city of hot springs named Alcanretia for some rest after the numerous adventures and hardships they went through. The city of Alcanretia is also known as the home of the Axis cult, which worships Aqua as the goddess. After many humorous incidents, such as encountering Aqua’s crazy worshipers and almost being scammed into signing a contract to believe in Axis, they get to meet the main villain of the story, Hans. Hans is one of the Demon King Generals and a poisonous slime that disguises itself as a normal-looking man. He attempts to contaminate the hot spring source of Alcanretia with poison but is stopped by Kazuma’s party.
This volume of the Konosuba series preserves Natsume Akatsuki’s humorous style of writing. breaking the cliche of the heroic main character and making him selfish yet a problem solver. However, the structure and the overall actions that are taken in the book seem a little repetitive. As usual, Kazuma seeks some quality time to recover from his life among his slightly odd party members, but he encounters a powerful entity and is forced to fight the villain. This structure was very similar to most of the previous volumes of Konosuba. Even though it is a very similar piece to the previous books, there is some character development. To illustrate, this book naturally focuses more on Aqua since they are staying in the city of Alcanretia, which is like Aqua’s home. Due to that reason, we kind of get a grasp of Aqua’s unknown life prior to joining Kazuma’s party. Furthermore, Kazuma grows as a character as an inventor who creates and sells products from his previous life. Overall, I give this book four stars since Natsume Akatsuki’s humor just can’t go wrong.
Of course, I would recommend this book to anyone who has read Konosuba's previous series or who has enjoyed Natsume Akatsuki's other works. I would even recommend this to people who have already watched the anime version of the story or are planning to. Since I myself also watched the anime version prior to reading this, I still enjoyed this book as much as I enjoyed the anime version. Since it is such a classic Isekai piece, this is an absolute must-read for all light novel and anime fans.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 9, 2022
This is the Arcanletia hot springs arc, which is the last event covered by the anime's second season. The anime is overall a faithful adaptation, but there are some key differences. One of them is in the final battle.
It is a fun read. Even though I am familiar with the events that this book covers, it was still fun to read through them. It is a slightly difference experience, because the light novels are written from a first-person perspective. We get a lot of more of Kazuma's thoughts here, such as how much he wants to avoid any and all demon-general plots. This is his vacation!
There are a few extras here that are not in the anime. Scenes that were cut for one reason or another. One scene is at the start, and it is among the funnier things in the volume. Another is part of the epilogue and provides a different perspective on the ending.
Trickster Eric Novels gives "Konosuba" light novel volume 4 an A+
It is a fun read. Even though I am familiar with the events that this book covers, it was still fun to read through them. It is a slightly difference experience, because the light novels are written from a first-person perspective. We get a lot of more of Kazuma's thoughts here, such as how much he wants to avoid any and all demon-general plots. This is his vacation!
There are a few extras here that are not in the anime. Scenes that were cut for one reason or another. One scene is at the start, and it is among the funnier things in the volume. Another is part of the epilogue and provides a different perspective on the ending.
Trickster Eric Novels gives "Konosuba" light novel volume 4 an A+
June 5, 2019
Winter is coming to an end and the monsters are starting to get frisky once again. Kazuma is not just out of debt but well to do and doesn't want to go fight anything. After being bullied into it he sustains an injury and is convinced a trip to the city of Acanletia known for it's hotsprings and open air baths is the place to relax and recuperate.
Typical Konosuba hijinks ensue and the reader will be treated to what they've come to expect. Some crazy comedy in this fantasy world.
Verdict -- if you're already a fan, worth the read. As always, if you want to start the series, do so at the beginning. Starting in the middle will do you no favors.
Typical Konosuba hijinks ensue and the reader will be treated to what they've come to expect. Some crazy comedy in this fantasy world.
Verdict -- if you're already a fan, worth the read. As always, if you want to start the series, do so at the beginning. Starting in the middle will do you no favors.
November 13, 2019
Started this one ages ago after finishing volume 3, but ran out of steam as this is the last volume that overlaps with the anime. It was still an entertaining read, but I'm excited to finally get into new content (to me) next volume.
December 21, 2017
Dobre, oryginalne i przezabawne, ale anime to arcydzieło, które przebija LN o lata świetlne!!!
February 8, 2018
It's not terrible, but there isn't a single joke that hasn't been done on the previous volumes. A bit disappointing. Still fun to read, but not great!
March 13, 2020
I love Wiz and everything she does. Vanir is also slowly becoming a favorite as well.
May 14, 2021
Not bad. The series continues to be light and amusing.
September 6, 2021
Estas novelas son mi placer culpable
March 1, 2022
Still on things we covered in the anime! Can't wait to get to the next volume!
May 22, 2022
its konosuba what else do you need me to say?
October 18, 2022
"The more I work, the poorer I get!"
March 13, 2023
4 1/2 star
February 27, 2020
Finally at where the two seasons of anime have stopped!
The climax is understandably different; the battle with Hans is much less climatic, but more strategic, and Kazuma did not actually have to die again. And Aqua actually got to prove her point that she is in fact a true-to-life goddess to some Alcanretians! Without her knowing, that is~
And of course, there’s a lot more set-up for future events in the story…which makes me worry if there is going to be a next season of the anime or not.
The climax is understandably different; the battle with Hans is much less climatic, but more strategic, and Kazuma did not actually have to die again. And Aqua actually got to prove her point that she is in fact a true-to-life goddess to some Alcanretians! Without her knowing, that is~
And of course, there’s a lot more set-up for future events in the story…which makes me worry if there is going to be a next season of the anime or not.
March 5, 2022
I feel sad for our Lord Aqua to be hated by his followers but the animation is VERY different from the book itself. Natsume Akatsuki really delivers the fun in this series and the mishaps of the adventuring quartet. At least the high priest did know that the Lord and Saviour herself came to their town and save it.
January 27, 2016
This series just gets better and better for me as it goes on. I'm not sure if it's actually getting better or if I am just enjoying it more.
January 6, 2020
Refreshing
It's good fun and surprisingly well written!
I enjoyed all the books in the series so it's no surprise this one is just as good!
Ready for more.
It's good fun and surprisingly well written!
I enjoyed all the books in the series so it's no surprise this one is just as good!
Ready for more.
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