Friday, April 16, 2021

KonoSuba: God's Blessing on this Wonderful World! Legend of Crimson (2019)


KonoSuba:  God's Blessing on this Wonderful World! Legend of Crimson is an anime film that is a direct sequel to the second season of KonoSuba.  It adapts the fifth light novel and as you can tell from the subtitle, it focuses on the Crimson Clan, which means that Megumin has a significant amount of screen time.  Both Aqua and Darkness have noticeably smaller roles but the film manages to make their scenes stand out.  Legend of Crimson feels like several episodes merged together to make up for the feature length and that is absolutely fine.  Yunyun receives a letter from home stating that their village is under attack from one of the generals of the Devil King.  Kazuma and his party offers to help and what they find is completely not what they expected.  It spends a fair amount of time giving scenes to tease Kazuma and Megumin's relationship.  The party is shown to be more like on a holiday than an emergency and there is a good reason for that.  Kazuma reverts to his normal antics and the (friendly) friction between the party members is the source of a lot of the humor.  If you are familiar with the light novel, then the film changes the climax around a bit in order to give it a more appropriate flashy finale.  It works well and resolves the issue of Yunyun and Megumin's reputation from the village inhabitants.  Legend of Crimson is definitely one for fans of the anime, and if you are, then it is a great film that fans have been waiting patiently for.
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