Lullaby of a Female Knight

この素晴らしい世界に祝福を! Konosuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! Light Novel #12

by Natsume Akatsuki

女騎士ダクネス、ついにカズマに××を…!?

ダクネスを「ママ」と呼ぶ謎の少女の出現に一同騒然。一方、ダクネスは貴族の仕事に精を出すべく高額所得冒険者への税金取り立てを開始。もちろんそこには、カズマやアクアも含まれていて……!?激動の第12巻!

Genres: Light Novel, Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Manga, Anime

224 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 24, 2017

About the author

AKATSUKI Natsume
Name (in native language): 暁なつめ
Associated Names:
自宅警備兵
Jitaku-keibihei

Zodiac: Libra

Reviews

[Carol]

I have officially lost interest in the series. This has become mostly a comedy for the sake of being a comedy. I mean the idea of a comedy fantasy is totally my thing, but we are not even doing the main plot anymore, which is to defeat all the Demon Lords, and I’m wondering if we’ll ever get back to it, because it’s been like this for several volumes already.
Plus, I never signed up for a room-com at all, and I don’t like where this is going. Nothing ever happens between Kazuma and Megumin, or Kazuma and Darkness, there’s been teasing to the extreme for at least three books and the author is not taking it anywhere. This book was basically Darkness been ashamed of confessing to Kazuma, something that is exhausting because she’s been doing that since like book 7.
I really wanted to see them defeating the Demons, I really wanted to see them grow more as characters, and I don’t particularly care for romantic interests, but if they were going to happen now was the time. I need the story to move forwards because I’m more of a plot reader, and this plot got stuck like five books ago. I’m not much of a character reader, but I can stay with them if I see a constant grow, which is also not the case. So I’m not going to continue, this is not for me anymore. This type of comedy I can do with standalones, but with series, I tend to grow desperate. So if you’re looking for something that is just comedy, this will do. If you’re looking for a plot, you might have to wait a lot for it to get going again.

[Love]

I have mixed feelings about this volume, there are the romcom parts which are fantastic, then there are the comedy/adventure parts that feel rushed almost filler like.

[Austin Roberto]

I like how we're getting real character and relationship development alongside the humorous antics that make Konosuba stand out comedy-wise.

The story reminds me a lot of my D&D group and I'm starting to feel a bit bittersweet as I near the end of it all.

I mean I know I still have at least five more books to go plus all the spin-offs, but I'm just now realizing I'll actually get there someday.

I hope it all gets animated in my lifetime too.

[nyaru]

the sloppa never ends

[João]

This volume is really Darkness-heavy, which to me is a good thing, since I felt she was too underutilised throughout the series. Kazuma and her take center stage here and it's a fun little side-story with low stakes and plenty of moments for the characters to shine through.

[John]

I really like the quiet mature relationship discussions in these books, they really feel like the heart of the whole thing at this point.

[Brian Wilkerson]

This one is a lot heavier on the romantic relationship angle than previous volumes, which the author acknowledges in the afterword at the end. It’s not bad by any means, but it is different. It also has a resolution, which is the important part.

None of that tripe where the tension rises only to deflate by some cheap gag, which then resets everything back to square one. This is a legitimate advancement in Kazuma and Megumin’s relationship: though they may be “less than lovers”, they are still “more than friends” and it is because of this advancement that Kazuma turns down Darkness when she makes an unambiguous love confession (although he still does something worthy of the nickname “Kazutrash” of course).

The shenanigans with Axel’s version of tax-dodging fell flat for me, comedy-wise, but it is not a pointless skit. It is relevant for later events in this volume, which I enjoyed more. The story with "Count Costume" was hilarious. Really, that was the highlight of the volume for me.

Trickster Eric Novels gives Konosuba light novel volume 12 an A

[Piri Rin]

Darkness's character took a nosedive into an irredeemable monster and a shit friend. Her character assassination and Kazuma's scumbaggery (usually I enjoy this about him but it just became unforgivable at this point because it was at the expense of Megumin) killed my desire to continue with this series

[Ricardo Matos]

The author tried to go in a RomCom direction this time, and tbh it just doesn’t work that well. The characters don’t fit the story, and the series loses what made it unique. The last chapter we get a brief return to comedy and is by far the bests part of the book.

[Dharshan]

Just as good as ever

This Darkness focused addition to the series was as great as usual. It gives some hope for a harem plot to happen but I am still doubtful about whether we will get one.

[Dustin]

Not bad.

[Airisu]

Darkness is a dummy

[Matthew Bee]

I fear the author has lost it. What happened to his commitment to “reduce the role of romance and focus more on the world and story”.

While this book was unfortunately the funniest of the series there’s now an undeniable gooner image in my read list 😞😞😞

[Elilith]

Difficile de croire au caractère de Kazuma dans ce tome, mais je préfère ça à son caractère de prédateur qui était présent dans les tomes précédents.