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Aqua

Voiced by: Kaori Fukuhara (Japanese, Drama CD), Sora Amamiya (Japanese, Anime), Faye Mata (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Nycolle González (Latin American Spanish), Yhadira García (European Spanish), Lisa Caruso (French), Daniela Molina (German), Natali Pazete (Brazilian Portuguese)

"Go ahead and praise me! Tell me how great a goddess I am!"

A water goddess who meets Kazuma in the afterlife and introduces him to the world setting, mocking him all the way for his embarrassing demise, to which he responded by picking her as his "cheat item". The celestial bureaucracy looked quite happy to be rid of her, even giving her a condition that she can only return if she and Kazuma defeat the Demon King. Upon arrival, she becomes a powerful but scatterbrained Archpriest.

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• Achievements in Ignorance: Her unintentional destruction of Alcanretia's hot springs business has a long-term benefit unknown to her until Volume 8 of the novels—what used to be hot spring water actually became highly potent holy water, which, combined with the Axis Cult's aggressive proselytization, would prove to be even more profitable than merely running hot springs.
• Adaptational Badass: In the anime, she’s empowered by the faith of her Axis cultists to land the finishing blow on Hans, who barely survived the combination of Megumin’s Explosion and Wiz’s freezing that originally did him in.
• Adaptational Nice Girl: Downplayed. Aqua's Jerkass behavior is toned down in her manga introduction, since she doesn't make fun of Kazuma's Undignified Death nearly as much as she does in the light novel and the anime.
• Age Insecurity: She threatens Kazuma with divine punishment when he asks her how old she is after realizing she's at least old enough to have sent the inventor of the Destroyer to the other world centuries ago.
• Always Chaotic Evil: How she sees undead and devils. Strangely, in the world setting, this is not the case.
• Always Someone Better: Eris is her junior as a goddess, so the fact that the former's religion is so much more successful than hers is something of a sore spot for her. However, it also means that some of Eris' faithful show her respect for being their goddess's senior.
• Arc Symbol: Aqua's religious emblem is shaped like her hairpiece: a molecule of water, with one large blue sphere representing oxygen flanked by two smaller gold spheres representing hydrogen.
• Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: During the Season 1 OVA, she's incredibly distraught at the fact that Kazuma has zero sexual attraction for her. It's not because she has romantic feelings for him, but because her fragile ego is hurt from being rejected so easily. This ends up being a Running Gag, with her trying to strangle him after he says he never would have looked at her perversely while they were sleeping together in the stables.
• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: She's a water goddess with light blue hair, blue eyes and blue clothes.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: The only reason Aqua hasn't rooted and destroyed every undead and demonic threat on the planet (something she clearly is more than capable of pulling off) is because she's lazy and easily lured away by something more interesting.
• Attention Whore: As a goddess, Aqua is used to receiving people's praises and does whatever she can to get others' attention.
• Awesome, but Impractical: She has powerful anti-undead spells, and can use water magic offensively, but doesn't get much opportunity to use the first, and the only time she's used water offensively (to defeat Beldia), the torrent destroyed large parts of Axel, with damages worth 340 million Eris—that is, all 300 million of what was supposed to be the party's quest reward, with an additional 40 million in debt.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other:
  • Despite constantly bickering with him, she and Kazuma stick together through thick and thin. For example, when Kyouya complains over her poor living conditions with Kazuma, she replies that she doesn't mind so long as she's having fun. Also, she decides not to bother Kazuma after saving him from female orcs and realizing that he was traumatized.
  • She tried scheming several jailbreak attempts for Kazuma. The plans even included abandoning her current fame and lifestyle to be a fugitive with him. While Kazuma considered her plans stupid and didn't go through with them, he secretly appreciated her loyalty.
  • Kazuma is the only person she obeys commands from. Anyone else who dares to do so will receive a scathing retort or be attacked. She may complain or perform the task incompetently, but will always do as told, and when push comes to shove, she will defer to Kazuma's judgment and carry out his instructions to the letter. Also, regardless of her status as a higher being and the flak she gives him about it, Kazuma has been, is, and always will be the leader of their party.
  • Also develops this one-sidedly with Wiz (as Wiz never hated Aqua to begin with). Though still bullying her occasionally and retaining her hatred of liches in general, she often hangs out with Wiz at her shop, promises to help Wiz ascend to heaven when she finally passes, and is ultimately unable to go through with purifying Wiz to break the Demon King's barrier.
• Balloon Belly: She sports a visible food-baby in the season 3 intro, in the scene where the party is eating grilled fish at the campfire.
• Big Eater: She loves to eat, and tends to blow her meager earnings on it.
• Blessed with Suck:
  • Invoked. Though Aqua doesn't quite notice it herself, Kazuma expresses dismay at the fact that due to Aqua's maxed magic and healing stats, she has no room for improvement where she sorely needs it, in particular Luck and Intelligence.
  • It's implied that due to her purifying powers, Aqua prefers strong liquor in order to get buzzed, as anything lighter wouldn't get past her purifying treshold. Hence, she has to drink strong liquor fast, hence why she gets drunk enough to puke it all out in the end.
• Born Unlucky: Besides Intelligence, Luck is one of her Dump Stats, being single-digit. This ultimately screws her over because nothing ever goes right for her. She can't even make a pot of tea without accidentally turning it into pure water. She can't beat Kazuma in rock-paper-scissors even after buffing her own Luck with Blessing, and the one time his gambling goes awry in Volume 10 is when Aqua makes the same choice for a roulette.
• Brainless Beauty: She is a very attractive young woman, but her intelligence seems to be below the average one for humans. According to Kazuma, the only good thing she has going for her are her looks.
• Brick Joke: In Season 1 Episode 9, it's revealed Aqua wards the party's mansion from demons and undead. The seals are powerful enough to immobilize a succubus. In Season 2 Episode 7, Vanir taunts Aqua that her seals are pathetic since they couldn't stop him from entering the building, and even then the seals were rapidly deteriorating his body and would have eventually killed him... although Aqua's ego demanded nothing less than his immediate destruction.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: In addition to being a water goddess, she's a muse of the arts. Paintings and sculptures that she creates, even sloppily and without effort, are considered priceless masterpieces by mortals. Sloth and a short attention span are largely why she doesn't make a living off of them.
  • Though her first appearance suggested that she only half-asses her godly duties, her banishment to Eris's world resulted in a complete stop to the influx of otherworlder heroes, drastically reducing the world's chances against the Demon King, to the point that the other gods are actually begging Aqua to come back by Volume 15.
• Brought Down to Badass: Despite her increased mortality since being banished from the realm of the gods, Aqua is still a magical powerhouse. She has full access to water-elemental and holy-attribute spells, some of which are exclusive to deities. Many abilities were inherent to her status as a goddess, allowing her to waste any skill points she earns from adventuring for useless party tricks, yet still possessing a wealth of useful spells.
• The Bully:
  • Her treatment towards Wiz, an unusually friendly lich. She constantly tries to kill her, ruin her already struggling business, sprinkle holy water on her shop's door handles so it burns her when she tries to open it, and other potentially deadly pranks. Even Aqua is aware that her actions go way beyond her duties as a goddess and that she's just being petty.
  • She also tends to take out her frustration on Luna, by pulling her shirt violently, when the receptionist delivers bad news of getting a reduced quest bounty for misinterpreting instructions (such as collecting lettuce instead of cabbage) or damaging property (like when Kyouya broke the safety cage).
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: For all her incompetence and stupidity, she has an undeniable gift of rhetoric (which may come with being a goddess of the arts), which convinced many a deceased otherworlder to reincarnate as heroes in the fantasy world, even if that includes people of more dubious morals, such as Kazuma. When her fellow gods allowed her to be banished into the world with Kazuma, it turned out that her replacement doesn't share the same golden tongue, resulting in a sheer dearth of new heroes and leaving Kazuma the last summoned hero so far, which may factor into the gods changing their stance on Aqua and begging for her immediate return by the end of Volume 15. Though it may be because unlike Aqua, her replacement doesn't downplay or lie about the risks involved.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: A non-villainous example towards Kyouya, who she barely remembers because she sent too many adventurers to even bother remembering their names.
• Butt-Monkey: Nothing ever goes right for her. This is due to her being in equal parts unlucky and dumb as bricks.
• Cannot Tell a Lie: She is capable of concealing the truth by not saying anything, but when asked to give an answer she's always honest, even when the truth would be harmful to her (such as Kazuma demanding to know what she's scheming). However the context of the truth is always from Aqua's perspective. For example, overloading Kazuma's brain with the new world's language and causing possible brain damage is not considered important information to her, despite Kazuma obviously feeling otherwise.
• Cassandra Truth: Hardly anyone believes her when she claims to be the actual water goddess, even after many displays of her extraordinary powers, such as resurrection and summoning a deluge (and Megumin and Darkness, two of her companions, are especially egregious cases). Even her religion, the Axis Cult, is widely dismissed as a fanatical offshoot cult instead of her official religion. This is largely chalked up to the fact that most people expected better of someone superior to the benevolent Eris, the dominant goddess of the world, than the egotistical idiot she really is. By Volume 16, Megumin and Darkness have accepted that her feats were too absurd for an ordinary priest.
• Cessation of Existence: Aqua doesn't consider dying an easy option for returning to Heaven. She is aware Heaven exists and there's an eternal afterlife, but it doesn't seem to apply to goddesses.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: Played for Laughs in Season 2 Episode 7. After losing to Kazuma twice at a game of rock-paper-scissors where the loser has to take the backseat throughout the party's trip to the hot springs of Alcanretia, she buffs herself up with a luck-enhancing spell before going for round three. Not even that helps her abysmally low Luck against Kazuma's abundance thereof.
• Chekhov's Skill: Suprisingly. Her time working construction with Kazuma proves extremely beneficial when the party winds up having to repair fortress walls damaged by frequent attacks from Wolbach.
• The Commandments: Her faith is guided by several of them. Read them, and then consider how many she herself follows.
  Aqua reciting her First Commandment: Aqua forgives all. Thou shalt love big breasts. Thou shalt love small breasts. The Axis Cult teaches forgiveness in all things, even dost thou a Lolicon, a NEET, or love animal-eared girls. If thou detest undead and devil girls, have love in thine heart, and obey the Law, all will be forgiven.
• Contractual Boss Immunity: As a goddess she is completely immune to status effects and Mind Manipulation. Anyone who attempts to use such attacks on her will suffer a backlash that momentarily stuns them.
• Cranial Eruption: She occasionally sports one of these after doing something stupid, courtesy of Kazuma.
• Crippling Overspecialization: Fitting for a goddess, Aqua's Arch-Priest abilities are top-notch, able to purify even the most powerful undead effortlessly. Thanks to the devotion of her followers, Aqua has access to virtually unlimited mana reserves, allowing her to cast deity-tier water and healing spells like Resurrection with ease. Unfortunately, the party rarely encounters any undead (and any they do meet is because of Aqua's presence, since they're attracted to her holy aura), and most of the creatures they face, primarily the giant frogs common around Axel, are resistant to water attacks.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Though her stupidity, silliness and overbearing pride obscure it, Aqua ultimately is a walking Infinity +1 Sword for Kazuma. Death Is a Slap on the Wrist because she knows Resurrection, a spell alluded to be restricted to deities such as herself and Eris. Status effects aren't a problem, because she can remove them without effort. The Demon King's most powerful generals have been pushovers in battle because she's a Holy Hand Grenade that can summon a Giant Wall of Watery Doom. She really is a God Mode cheat, whether he acknowledges it or not.
  • A comment made by Dust's party members reveals that Healing Magic Is the Hardest and most adventurers do not possess curative spells. Even Kyouya's famous Battle Harem only consists of a warrior and a thief. That in of itself makes Aqua a valuable asset, before even considering her resurrection magic.
  • Darkness and Megumin have noticed that her undead attracting aura is a massive boon, as it can be used for grinding monsters and gaining experience points, since Aqua can just One-Hit Kill them. She's just too lazy to be bothered with it.
  • While not infinite, she possess more magic points than Kazuma, Megumin, and Wiz combined. Her mana is of such high quality and quantity, she's been used as a Power Source for Megumin to cast Explosion more than once a day. It's later detailed the source of Aqua's massive reserve is the collective magic points of her worshippers.
  • Though Kazuma laments that Aqua's intelligence will never increase no matter how many levels she gains, this is because all her stats are maxed out (only her Intelligence and Luck attributes are low) and she's essentially level 99 in that regard. The only benefit she gains from increasing levels are skill points, but because she knows every Archpriest spell (in addition to those she automatically gained from being a goddess), she spends them on useless Party Tricks. Her equipment is also of divine origin, the equal of "cheat items" given to otherworld-born heroes, and provides maximum enhancements.
• Curtains Match the Window: An aquatic blue for her hair and eyes, which according to her, is unique to water goddesses.
• Defeating the Undefeatable: Kazuma's ingenious tactics aside, she's the primary reason Beldia and the Mobile Fortress Destroyer were defeated. Without her, even Kazuma's brilliant plans wouldn't have been possible.
• Deus ex Machina: Excusable because she's actually a goddess. Her powerful spells and inherent abilities are the lynchpin to defeating the Demon King's generals and several artifacts of doom. Because she refuses to reveal all her abilities to Kazuma, in fear he'll learn how they work and abandon her afterwards, such moments might involve "You Didn't Ask" scenarios.
• Dispel Magic: She can shatter anti-magic and protective barriers, doing so on the Mobile Fortress Destroyer. Theoretically she can destroy the Demon King Castle's barrier without defeating all his Generals, perhaps just five of them, which is considered an incredible feat.
• The Ditz: The most dimwitted of the cast; she clearly doesn't have any competence beyond a kindergarten student.
• Doing It for the Art: In-Universe, despite her incredible talents as a performer and exceptional Greed, a common Running Gag is that Aqua refuses to accept any form of payment when showing off her various party tricks to entertain the public.
  Aqua: "Ah, please don’t tip me, I'm not a busker, I don't take donations!"
• The Drag-Along: Pulled from the afterlife by Kazuma. The first thing she does upon arrival? Cry like a baby.
• Draw Aggro:
  • She can cast the spell Force Fire to attract monsters to her location.
  • Her divine aura naturally attracts undead monsters who desire absolution and the freedom of their soul.
• Driven by Envy: Aqua is very jealous that Eris, despite being a younger goddess, is a more popular deity than she is, having more followers, the currency named after her and an annual festival in her honor. At one point, Aqua decides she deserves a festival of her own and tries to replace the Eris Church's festival for one run by her Axis Cult.
• Drowning My Sorrows: Though she's had a lot of fun being mortal, Volume 15 reveals Aqua has been a Stepford Smiler at times. She tremendously misses the divine realms, and a few of her antics have been ill-thought diversions from her despair, alcohol being one such escape.
• Dump Stat: Most of her stats are all amazingly high, but her Intelligence is lower than average and her Luck is abysmal.
• Elemental Hair Colors: Blue hair for a water goddess. Also counts for Elemental Eye Colors because her eyes are blue too.
  Aqua: Surely you can tell what I'm a goddess of from my name and appearance.
  Kazuma: The goddess of party tricks, right?
  Aqua: No, you shut-in NEET! Water! Do you not see these beautiful aqua-blue eyes and hair?
• Enhanced Punch: God Blow. It draws power from a deity's "raw emotions". Because of Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors it rarely works when she uses it on most monsters; however, Vanir and Wiz do everything they can to avoid the attack since it would be a One-Hit Kill on them.
• Failed a Spot Check: Many of her own worshippers comment how she looks so much like the actual goddess, has an unexplainable presence that calms them, and can't stop wanting to praise her. Aqua, for her part, and in an uncharacteristically thoughtful action, stays silent on revealing the truth. Averted on Cecily and Zest, two of her high priests, who secretly realized Aqua is the real deal.
• Fantastic Racism: Towards demons and the undead, which she considers to be abominations.
• Foil: To Kazuma. Aqua has outstanding stats all-round, with the exception of abysmal Intelligence and Luck, while Kazuma has average stats all-round, with the exception of moderately high Intelligence and absurdly high Luck.
• A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted: Almost as soon as she gets her hands on the party's quest bounty (or at least whatever is left due to all the collateral damage she more often than not causes), it's more than likely to be quickly squandered on either her drinking and partying habits or being suckered into obvious scams. There's a reason Kazuma doesn't trust her with responsibly handling money.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: A hierarchical version, where she is the Foolish to Eris' Responsible.
• Forgot About Her Powers:
  • While Aqua has a Heroic BSoD after the encounter with alligators in a cage, she not only forgot about her powers but forgot she was a goddess.
  • It is revealed later in volume 17 that, like Kazuma had been saying, Aqua DOES have the power to seal the Demon King, or at least weaken him. Eris surmises that she just forgot.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: To the other gods. They were very quick to seize upon her mistake of casually agreeing to become Kazuma's "cheat item", and added a very specific contractual clause to further delay her return (that Kazuma must defeat the Demon King in her presence, a prospect highly unlikely for much of the series, given his low stats and her, Megumin, and Darkness's Crippling Overspecialization). It's understandable considering what her personality is like and especially in the original Web Novel version of the story where it was revealed that the Devil King was originally just another Japanese man who Aqua sent to Eris' world with a cheat item who later decided to use it to take over said world, with the other Devil Kings after his defeat implied to be exactly the same, implying that they wanted her to clean up her mess. By Volume 15 of the Light Novel however, the other gods start realizing that her silver tongue and way with words were the only reason people reincarnated as potential heroes in Eris' world with her successor failing to convince anyone from doing the same since she can't lie to them. Because of this, the other gods basically beg for her to defeat the Devil King in order to return to Heaven.
• Friend to All Children: In the anime's first and second endings, Aqua can be seen interacting with children.
• Genius Ditz: Aqua is hypercompetent on a few topics, and her stupidity is better defined as having a short attention span and being naïve rather than truly lacking creativity or knowledge.
  • As a water goddess she has exceptional scientific knowledge of the molecular structure of both hydrogen and oxygen. This not only includes pure water, but anything using the "OH" molecule, such as alcoholic drinks.
  • She is also an inspirational divine muse and possesses limitless aptitude at artistic endeavors such as sculpture and painting. Her least skilled works are greater than any mortal could ever hope to achieve. This trait also extends to architecture, making her an expert in construction and masonry repair.
  • On the rare occasions she cooks meals, she has proven to be a gourmet chef of impossible caliber. She most often uses it to recreate junk food from Earth, such as potato chips and rice crackers.
  • Having a divine origin makes her an authoritative source on demon hunting and undead slaying. There isn't an unholy creature she can't destroy if she puts her full attention towards it.
  • She has a sharp mind when it comes to managerial organization, crafting a complex Ponzi scheme with little effort. She also successfully assisted the Axis Cult with several unspecified administrative problems they were plagued with.
  • Though she doesn't really display it in the mortal world, she is actually highly competent when it comes to her godly duties, namely persuading people to be reincarnated into the Konosuba world. Her replacement for her heavenly role is completely unable to perform Aqua's duties, resulting in Kazuma being the last reincarnated person to enter the Konosuba world.
• Genre Savvy: Like Kazuma, she is aware of the standard fantasy tropes she encounters.
• Giant Wall of Watery Doom: Sacred Create Water causes more collateral damage than Explosion, making Aqua a Person of Mass Destruction whenever she casts the spell.
• Goblin Face: While Aqua's normally very pretty, the exaggerated faces she makes during her numerous crying fits often make her look humorously unlady-like.
• God in Human Form: She was forced into a physical form against her will upon banishment from the divine realms.
• God Is Flawed: Combined with God Is Inept, this is one of the main reasons for Aqua's failures and misconceptions about herself. As a goddess, she is not used to being questioned, and as an inherent characteristic of pantheons, she is a goddess who is narrowly specialized and not omnipotent. However, one of the virtues about her is the fact that she slowly starts realizing how badly she can screw up while following her whims as she usually does, as Kazuma is more than happy to let her know. In true Aqua fashion, she's not particularly dignified when she does recognize her screw-ups.
• God Is Good: She was the god who administered Earth, but even in a supposedly backwater place like Eris's world, she has a very devoted following, and it is easy to see why when she interacts with them. She is dignified, wise, forgiving and encouraging. Basically, the opposite of how she acts in every other situation.
• Gods Need Prayer Badly: Divine miracles are spells that require vast amounts of magic points. Deities achieve this from the collective magic points of their worshippers. As such, she's always quick to demand praise or recognition for anything positive she does.
  • She excuses her negative opinion on Eris using this logic. She attributes her vast mana to the devotion of her faithful, in contrast to Eris, who has a larger but less fervent flock.
  • The only reason she is able to defeat Hans is because of this trope, as the faith of her followers is what allows her otherwise ineffective God Blow to even damage him.
• Going Commando: Thanks to frequent glancing shots of her ass, it's implied in the anime that she's not wearing panties. She also seems braless as well. When Kazuma uses Steal on her to take her raiment so he can sell it, he pulls it off without hitch as opposed to him usually stealing girl panties when he uses it, further proving it.
• Going Native: Done subtly. Early on, Aqua would continually pester Kazuma to go defeat the Demon King so she can return to the divine realms. As the series goes on, she starts caring less and less about it, to the point where she won't even mention it unless Kazuma reminds her. Instead, she just wants to have fun. It is downplayed in volume 15, where it's shown that while she is enjoying her time among mortals, she still really misses her original home.
• Good Is Dumb: She's not the brightest goddess around; being a very whiny, hard-drinking spendthrift who often vastly overestimates her capabilities, and devolves into a panicky, crying mess whenever things begin to go wrong for her. That said, apart from her prejudices against the undead, she is a genuinely fun companion to be around, and when push comes to shove, her compassion, kindness, and loyalty to her loved ones show through.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: She can't use a weapon, but her punches are very powerful. Unfortunately, the only times she's fought monsters, they've been immune.
• Good Shepherd: When she is acting according to her role as an Archpriest, it is like she is a completely different person. The scene where she lays the lich Peele to rest shows a great deal of empathy and compassion, and it is all the more notable considering she was talking to an undead. Even Kazuma recognizes this, and it puzzles him.
• The Great Flood: Aqua's most powerful water spell, Sacred Create Water, appears to have the purpose of creating massive torrents. The massive surge of water only ceases because she gets caught in the torrent of her own destruction.
• Greed: She's always scheming how to increase her cut of the party's reward money, or reduce the amount she has to split with the others. She'll ask others to help whenever she's deep in personal debt, but immediately argue against using her own money to pitch in for something that doesn't immediately benefit her. She's also perfectly willing to scam money from children if it means it will make her a quick buck.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: She loves to spend her evenings drinking in the Adventurers' Guild, and tends to spend most of her quest money on it instead of her debts. She also has a habit of cradling bottles of expensive alcohol in her sleep.
• Hates Being Alone: Aqua has various things that blow off her lid, but the ones that she's most touchy about are Kazuma even merely hinting that he'll replace her in the party, or that he'll abandon her without looking back.
• Healer God: Despite not being a very impressive goddess overall, Aqua's healing magic is divine-class, being able to heal fatal wounds, cancel deadly curses and resurrect people effortlessly.
• Healing Magic Is the Hardest: Even when it's not known from the start, Kazuma was saved from the very struggle of looking for a healer that can match Aqua's magic, especially when her faithful, that solely specialize with such powers, just so happens to be a religion meant for weirdos and nutcases.
• Heal It with Water: She can use her water powers to heal and purify.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: One of her "useless" party tricks is a spell designed to enhance a person's ability to perform comedic impressions and ventriloquism. Probably because her broken stats, when Aqua cast it on Kazuma in volume 7, it outright turned him into a Voice Changeling for a while, which proved to be instrumental in his infiltration of the Dustiness house.
• The Hedonist: A lot of her poorer judgment comes from the fact that she only considers what's pleasurable at the moment instead of what's best. Even in the Axis Cult's teachings, her followers are encouraged to live it up however they can whenever they can, since life is too short, the world is too dangerous, and the afterlife is too boring to take anything else into consideration.
• Her Own Worst Enemy: Aqua has an uncanny ability to spoil even her best efforts with an equal, or even worse, action. It's not an exaggeration to state that the party functions in spite of Aqua.
• Heroic BSoD:
  • She becomes despondent after having to purify a lake for hours with several alligators chomping on the cage she’s in, refusing to leave her Troubled Fetal Position in the cage… at least until Kazuma reminds her that she’s a goddess, which she’d somehow forgotten.
  • She falls into a slump in Volume 15 as the adventurer guild stop caring about her in favor of Serena (who is secretly a General for the Demon King), realizes that she can't go through with exorcising Wiz to break the Demon King's barrier, and solemnly admits to Kazuma that she misses Heaven. The volume ends with her running away from home to try fighting the Demon King alone.
• Hidden Depths:
  • She's a surprisingly good artist and has unparalleled craftsmanship. It comes with the territory of being a muse of arts.
  • It's easy to miss, but she's incredibly inquisitive and enjoys exploration. There are scenes in the anime showing Aqua joyfully examining boxes or shelves in the background. One reason she likes to visit Wiz's shop is to rummage through the store and figure out the purpose of each item. Whenever the party is offered an opportunity to explore dungeons devoid of monsters, she's the only person aside from Kazuma to be excited at the prospect (Darkness wants to be in constant danger and Megumin can't use Explosion underground).
  • While it occurs at a snail's pace, she has been subject to Character Development throughout the saga. She demonstrates willingness to take on personal hardship if it means freeing Kazuma from permanent harm or discomfort. She learns that on rare occasion, tolerance and coexistence is possible between undead and the divine, and grudgingly accepts that peaceful relations between the Axis Cult and Eris Sect could have mutual benefits.
  • For all the fuss she causes him, it's shown that Aqua strives to obtain Kazuma's approval and admiration, which goes beyond her fishing for superficial praise, demonstrating that, at the very least, she wants to be a friend to him that he can rely on. It's shown that she is full of joy with Kazuma's sincere praise. However, being who she is, even her best efforts are foiled by her poor planning and completely counterproductive actions.
  • Despite Kazuma's insistence, she can make a proper cup of tea. She just turns his into water to spite him.
  • She is actually really good at her job in inviting otherworlders to save worlds, to the point that her banishment actually led to a complete cessation of an influx of heroes, drastically reducing humanity's chances against the Demon King (though mitigated by Kazuma and his party killing most of the Generals). Heaven actually begs Aqua to come back quickly in Volume 15.
• Hollow-Sounding Head: In the anime, Kazuma whacks her on the head with his sword for being mean to Wiz, making a loud "CLANG!" noise.
• Holy City: Alcanretia is the central church and largest city of the Axis Cult.
• Holy Hand Grenade: To One-Hit Kill undead creatures she has Turn Undead and the more powerful Sacred Turn Undead. Demons are vulnerable to her Sacred Exorcism and the overkill Sacred Highness Exorcism. Wiz, who is a lich, notes that even her tears can hurt her.
• Horrifying the Horror: When the Demon King's generals realize she's the real Aqua and able to cast sacred magic, they always panic at the realization. None of their special abilities or immunity can overcome her divine power. If she wasn't so lazy and stupid, Aqua might have singlehandedly saved the world and gone home already.
• Hot Goddess: Aqua is a water goddess with a beauty that surpasses that of humans, according to Kazuma.
• Hunter of Monsters:
  • Undead and demon slaying is one of the few things Kazuma trusts her to excel at without any supervision, to the point of genuinely relying on her expertise at it. Sometimes he gets annoyed she's too zealous at the task, as she'll kill friendly demons and undead without provocation.
  • When serious, her talent at destroying demons and undead is frighteningly effective. She once tried killing Vanir by using her God Blow. He countered this by turning to sand and dissipating the damage. Aqua then threw hot tea on him, which solidified his sand body and guaranteed the next God Blow would destroy him. This uncharacteristic fast thinking left Vanir stunned and defenseless. If not for Aqua's curiosity to have a question answered and his friendship to Wiz, the goddess would have ended his existence in the span of a few seconds.
• Hypocrite Has a Point: Aqua has a huge ego herself, but her criticism of Eris' own ego holds merit, as Eris has a currency and religion named after her. Two things that Aqua doesn't do (though the Axis cult is devoted to her).
• Hypocritical Humor:
  • Frequently calls Kazuma a NEET, even though she's not exactly known for her work ethic. She also frequently calls Kazuma a shut-in, but she herself doesn't show too much interest in going outdoors and prefers to spend her time indoors, often needing Megumin or Darkness to convince her to stop lazing on the sofa in front of the fireplace, or needing Kazuma to threaten her via confiscation of her valuables, such as her staff, her raiment, or even her alcohol.
  • When trying to ressurrect Kazuma after the Winter Shogun encounter, she snaps upon hearing that the goddess overseeing ressurrections (Eris) wants to forbid it, as Kazuma originated from another world, calling her a "dummy" and an "idiot". Which is rich, coming from her.

I-Z

• I Choose to Stay: Downplayed. At the end of the series, she is happy that Kazuma picks a goddess as his cheat item again... only to pick Eris. Though Aqua is still allowed to both return to Heaven AND live in the Divine Realm, apparently. It ends up with Eris returning to Heaven, and Aqua back home, though. Helped by the fact that Kazuma put a Teleport destination... IN HEAVEN!
• Idiot Hero: Lampshaded; her stats officially list her Intelligence as sub-par. To Kazuma's chagrin, she will never get any smarter, no matter what happens because her stats are capped out completely despite her level increasing.
• Immortal Immaturity: She is a goddess who is presumably hundreds or even thousands of years old, but still very silly, childish, hedonistic, and irresponsible with money.
• Impossibly Awesome Magic Trick: She performs magic tricks such as permanently shrinking Kazuma's dynamite sticks, and making a grand piano disappear. Apparently, objects she makes "disappear" are sent to the netherworld, because even she can't figure out how to make them come back.
• Improvised Parachute: In the anime's second opening, she uses her raiment as this to help slow everyone's fall after being launched in the air.
• Inelegant Blubbering: She breaks down sobbing the moment she and Kazuma are sent to Axel, and that's just the beginning. She usually breaks down in these melodramatic crying fits whenever something goes wrong for her or she wants Kazuma to do something for her.
• Informed Attractiveness: In the novel, Kazuma describes Aqua as so beautiful that the idols on television pale next to her. However, in the illustrated media, all the girls look pretty and Aqua doesn't stand out as especially attractive.
• Innate Night Vision: Aqua can see in the dark as if it's daylight without any problems.
• Insufferable Imbecile: Aqua is a narcissistic, dimwitted goddess whose irresponsibility causes endless problems for the team, mostly through wasting money on alcohol. She also can be rather cruel to those around her, particularly Kazuma and Wiz.
• Irony: One of the main incentives for the party to engage in quests is the fact that Aqua incurs in astronomical debt, not only because of her booze habit, but also because of the damage she causes when her godly powers go overboard. Without her, they wouldn't have to put up with the legwork at all. Her virtue at the party is being their constant Spanner in the Works.
• It's All About Me: Not a day goes by without her demanding Kazuma to praise her for just being Aqua. Especially whenever she actually does something useful.
• Jerkass Gods: Her treatment of Kazuma at the start of the story was atrocious, and it really has not improved over the course of the story.
• Jerkass Has a Point: In the Season 2 OVA, when Kazuma is claiming to want to uncover the secret in a set of ruins to prevent it from causing any danger in the future ^note he just wants to find the Robot Girl the man who created The Mobile Fortress Destroyer left behind. Aqua points out to him that if he keeps going to find the secret, then something dangerous will come out, Aqua will cry, Darkness will get excited from the danger, Megumin will blow up the ruins, and they will all get hit with a bill from the Guild for the destruction of the ruins. She was absolutely correct.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's lazy, incompetent, and rude, but she does care enough for Kazuma to be desperate in trying to revive him after being killed by the Winter Shogun, and despite her sometimes overzealous antipathy towards the undead, she dealt with Keele in a really humane manner when she's actually doing her job as a goddess.
• The Jinx: Aqua has all the skills of an Archpriest, has one of the greatest defenses due to her divine equipment, and has maxed-out stats. However, her nature as a goddess attracts high-level demons, undead, and other kinds of disasters that would normally ignore a starter village like Axel, the one she is residing in. This hilariously works out in Kazuma's favor during Beldia's second attack, as his minions go after her, and only her, giving him some time to form a plan to defeat them.
• Kryptonite Factor: She might be useless against beings like toads, but her spells are very effective against undead. In Isekai Quartet, that includes even very strong unholy beings like Ainz.
• Lack of Empathy: Despite how ridiculous the manner of Kazuma's death was, it really wasn't a very good thing to laugh at him for it.
• The Lancer: She's Kazuma's right hand, whether either of them like it or not. They appear different on the surface, but are not so different underneath.
• Last Disc Magic: Any of her goddess exclusive sacred spells, such as Sacred Create Water, Sacred Turn Undead, and Sacred Spell Break are something that only epic-tier mortals can even approach.
• Lazy Bum: She fits every aspect of this trope, from her dislike of strenuous work to stuffing her face at dinner to being rude when she doesn't get her way.
• Leeroy Jenkins: She goes against Kazuma's plans on dealing with the Lizard Runners, and uses Force Fire to attract their attention. Needless to say, it doesn't end well for the party.
• Life of the Party: She'd rather have parties with other adventurers instead of having battles with the Demon King, to the point that she tends to spend her skill points on party tricks, much to Kazuma's chagrin.
• Light 'em Up: In Fantastic Days, her attack element is light, despite her namesake.
• Like Brother and Sister: Unlike every other woman he knows, Kazuma can't see Aqua as attractive in a romantic or sexual sense. Instead, he treats her like an annoying sister, but he still cares about her despite their squabbles.
• Living Battery: Her functionally limitless mana means that Kazuma can use Drain Touch on her to recharge Megumin when necessary.
• Loser Deity: Aqua might be the most well-known example in the anime community due to her memetic status. She is known by the In-Universe Nickname of "Damegami" ("Useless Goddess") and serves as Kazuma's verbal punching bag. Most of her powers have no use beyond party tricks, and she tends to either forget about her genuinely useful abilities or use them in ways that make matters worse. Added to that, she is childishly jealous of the younger goddess Eris for being a Reasonable Authority Figure with a highly successful religion, whereas, due to sending vague and petty commands and leaving them to their own devices, hers has been filled with deranged lunatics. As a result, whenever Aqua tries to explain who she is, Eris followers assume she's crazy and her own followers try to kill her for blasphemy. Kazuma makes no attempt to hide his utter disdain for Aqua's incompetence and has stated many times he'd happily trade her off if he could.
• Magic Skirt: In the anime it's strongly implied she's Going Commando. Camera shots are shown to reinforce it multiple times throughout the series, but the frills of her skirt are always positioned to avoid showing everything.
• Magical Floating Shawl: Being a water goddess, Aqua sometimes wears a divine relic in the form of a translucent pink hagoromo, which can disappear and reappear around her at her will, and has protective qualities.
• Making a Splash: She can summon enough water to make a flood and is capable of purifying water by touching it.
• Meaningful Background Event: During the first episode, when the pillars of light sending Kazuma and Aqua to the New World appear around them, there's a brief effect around Aqua that shows her being depowered. It occurs the same time as the chair and table she created, suddenly disappear.
• Mirror Character: With Kazuma. No matter how much they argue, they are so similar to each other they can work together provided they put aside their differences. Notably, in the brief times the story shifts to her perspective, their styles of narration are extremely similar to one another. They also have similar goals, and would rather laze around, be pampered, and party frequently than risk their safety adventuring. Kazuma once mentions that they would probably be friends if her personality weren't so problematic.
• Moment Killer: One of the source of exasperations for Kazuma regarding her especially when he is alone in a scene with anyone that isn't her... not that she knows any better herself.
• Money Dumb: Aqua is terrible at handling money. She often spends her meager earnings on expensive liquor and purchasing props for performing party tricks, that's further compounded by her gullibility into money scams.
• Ms. Fanservice: Aqua is attractive and fairly curvy, and a recurring visual gag in the anime implies she's not wearing panties, or even a bra, given her frequent bouncing.
• Mundane Utility: She possesses two very powerful divine items, her staff and her raiment. But Aqua uses the staff as a drying rack for laundry, and Kazuma uses the latter as cleanser/detergent when washing laundry because it has purifying properties. She can purify any liquid on contact into pure water. Kazuma mentions that she'll be the best toilet cleaner in the world, much to her dismay. Kazuma never saw Aqua actually clean the toilet, so it is implied that her mere presence can purify the restroom. She also often uses her water magic for useless party tricks. One of her spells grants the target immense skill/talent when it comes to artistic things; Kazuma felt that this spell was extremely useful. She can fix damaged pieces of art like a torn photograph to perfect condition, and build a model robot realistic enough to shock Kazuma—with only milk cartons.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • She's such a terrible screw-up that it would be a miracle if Kazuma's latest woes do not trace back to her, one way or another. Notable incidents include encouraging Megumin to continue using Beldia's castle for target practice out of spite (triggering the latter's second assault on Axel), plunging the party into debt after one of her spells used to defeat Beldia flooded Axel, and creating a haunted mansion (which the party had to exorcise) simply because she sealed away a nearby graveyard and drove off its resident spirits without giving them a proper sendoff like Wiz usually does.
  • She destroys Hans using her divine powers, but Power Incontinence results in the restorative springs of Alcanretia becoming ordinary water. Removing the Axis Cult's primary source of income was the Demon's King primary objective in the first place, so it ultimately counts as a draw for him. The Cult's need to find new revenue, eventually targeting the same patrons as the Eris Sect, increases friction between both religions.
  • It's also implied that she sent over the man who invented the Mobile Fortress Destroyer, and that she's responsible for many of the divine artifacts used for nefarious deeds that Kazuma and Chris have to clean up.
  • At the end of the original Web Novel version of the story, it's eventually revealed that the Devil King was actually just another person originally from Japan that Aqua sent to Eris' world with a cheat item who decided to use said cheat item to take over that world. When Kazuma learns this, he becomes annoyed that everything wrong with that world at that point was all her fault in the first place. In the Light Novel version however, while the Devil King still has a Japanese name, he states he knows about Japan but has never been there himself, implying that he was a genuine demon in that version.
• Nominal Hero: Aqua is only concerned about having fun and getting home; everything else are just complications. She's more than willing to allow Axel's destruction by the latest monstrous threat, pointing out she'd erase her debt with the loss of the collectors living there, but pulls all stops to save her holy city of Alcanretia. She's not above performing criminal acts to get money, but is a hard worker when taking part-time jobs. She tries to ditch her party when things go bad, but is loyal enough to resurrect the fallen (even those she doesn't know) without expectation of monetary reward. She actively hunts evil undead and demons, but will happily kill those who are good.
• No Sense of Direction: She manages to get lost on her own in the small town of Axel despite having lived there for over a year. According to her inner narration, the town is an Eldritch Location where buildings and landmarks move around on their own.
• The Not-Love Interest: Aqua is Kazuma's first companion and becomes close like family to him, but unlike Megumin and Darkness, she never develops feelings beyond friendship for Kazuma and vice versa.
• Odd Friendship: With Wiz. Despite trying to kill the lich during and after their first encounter, she enjoys receiving Wiz's fawning respect and recognition. As one of the few people who defend Aqua's eccentric behavior and admonish Kazuma's punishments, Wiz became a rare non-worshiper which Aqua goes out of her way to not make unhappy, even when that requires Aqua to go against her selfishness.
• Odd Job Gods: When Kazuma acknowledges her divinity at all, he does not say she is a goddess of water but a goddess of party tricks.
• Oh, Crap!: When her magic fails to even put a dent in the giant frogs she and Kazuma have been tasked to kill for a quest, her reaction is to nervously comment on how cute the frogs are up close right before GACK!!
• Older Than They Look: Par for the course for a deity, but she is at least older than the Mobile Fortress Destroyer which has been around for a great many years considering the fact she was the one who sent its creator into the fantasy world. She claims she is actually not that much older than Kazuma due to time flowing differently in her workspace, though.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: There are incredibly rare moments when she acts dignified and refined, causing Kazuma to momentarily acknowledge that maybe deep down she's truly a divine being worthy of worship. Such thoughts only last a few seconds at most, since it doesn't take long for Aqua to return to being the brainless and immature person she normally acts as.
• Person of Mass Construction: Due to a combination of her ability to manipulate the water content in building materials such as cement and plaster, her work experience as a day-labor construction worker, and architecture falling under her domain as a patron deity of the arts, she can create large objects quickly.
  • During Wolbach's siege on Belzerg's frontline citadel, Aqua singlehandedly sealed the breach in the walls in a single afternoon. Each day after that, she continued to repair and reinforce the fortress faster than Wolbach could damage it with her daily Explosion magic. By the time Kazuma's group finally leaves, Aqua had made the citadel stronger than it was the day it was built, and she even had enough leftover materials to emblazon every wall with gorgeous murals.
• Pet the Dog:
  • Occasionally has these moments which leave Kazuma in awe, and commenting on her acting like an actual Goddess. Which is usually soon diminished by her screwing it up in some fashion.
  • In the Vanir spin-off she reveals that the only reason she hasn't wiped Vanir off the face of the earth (which, judging by their actual battle is no baseless threat), is because she thought that doing so would make Wiz sad.
• Physical Goddess: Deconstructed. It turns out that having divine power isn't much use if you don't know how to live in a physical world like a mortal. So she's a literal goddess that accompanies Kazuma along with a Running Gag that she's a useless goddess who serves more as The Load which massively outweighs any Story-Breaker Power she may have.
• Platonic Life-Partners: Aqua is the only female member of Kazuma's party that doesn't fall in love with him. Even so, they still eventually become as close as a man and woman can ever be without being in love, or related.
• Powerful, but Incompetent: Aqua is a water goddess, and has the power to cleanse impurities from any source of water. However, she is not only a complete idiot, but her ability to "cleanse" water is actually more of a hindrance in most cases. For example, if she makes contact with a beverage, potion, or even hot spring, her powers will "cleanse" the foreign elements and turn whatever the useful item was back into normal water.
• Power Incontinence: She's unable to deactivate her water purification aura, which can even intensify when using her divine abilities. While useful for cleaning polluted water sources, it also transforms beneficial enhancements (such as tea or restorative springs) into ordinary water.
• Pride: Her biggest of many, many faults. She is proud even among the gods, and it's an aspect that makes her so obnoxious that they'd rather leave her adventuring than wreaking havoc in the pantheon. Her pride is also the main source of her conflicts with Kazuma, as he is the person that has to pick up her slack. In more technical terms, hers is a pride of name and not of deeds, which makes it unwarranted, even though she is a goddess. It is also implied that her ego is the reason she refuses to willingly diminish her divine aura (and reduce the risk of demon attacks) despite her ability to do so.
• Prone to Tears: Played for Laughs as a Running Gag. True to her watery motif, Aqua is emotionally very sensitive, and is quick to break out the waterworks whenever she gets humiliated, loses anything precious to her, has to beg for favors from Kazuma, or gets scolded by Kazuma for her antics. A particularly notable one is during Season 2 Episode 7, misty-eyed and pouting in annoyance after Kazuma verbally roasts her over being such a Sore Loser after being beaten thrice in a game of Rock–Paper–Scissors where the loser had to take the backseat during their trip to Alcanretia.
• Rainbow Puke: After getting completely hammered at a party, she throws up a rainbow-colored stream in the alley behind the pub.
• Rattling Off Legal: She does this when answering Kazuma's questions about communicating in the new world. She states she has the power to overload his brain with all the knowledge he requires to survive there, while quickly glossing over information about possible brain damage or insanity, before abruptly changing the subject to selecting his "cheat item". Subverted when Kazuma is sent on trial. She wanted to swing the case around, but she only shouts Objection with no legal or law related information to back her up.
• Readings Are Off the Scale: Monsters and individuals who can sense divine magic get this sort of feeling because she's a goddess. This also occurs to Vanir if he tries to use his Combat Clairvoyance and Mind Manipulation on Aqua, because her inherent divinity is overwhelming.
• Reality Warper: She was able to instantly create objects like food, light effects, and documentation when Kazuma first encountered her in the divine realm. After she was banished to the new world, she never demonstrated such abilities again, apparently losing the power after being forced into a mortal body.
  • Her various parlor tricks often defy the laws of physics, yet those able to detect magic will comment Aqua is not using magic to perform them. Aqua will smugly confirm the tricks do not use magic or technology, but never explains how she makes it happen.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: Aqua's fellow gods used Kazuma's decision to make her his "cheat item" as an excuse to banish her there under the condition that she can only return if he defeats the Demon King in her presence. Aqua later describes the world as a backwater only lower-tier deities (such as Eris) get assigned to oversee, as opposed to her, who is highly-ranked enough to be assigned to Earth.
• Revive Kills Zombie: Her healing and light magic are extremely effective at fighting the undead.
• Set Bonus: She is at her most powerful when wielding the regalia of her divinity. Specifically her flower staff and translucent raiment. Out of laziness, she doesn't carry them while adventuring (because the former is often as an improvised drying rack, and the latter is placed amongst the dirty laundry to clean/purify them) though she can summon them within a few seconds.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: Doesn't bat an eye showing off herself, and actually gets offended if someone doesn't ogle her, even Kazuma. Being an attention seeking goddess, it really doesn't come off as a surprise.
• Shameless Self-Promoter: Her character class is an Archpriest of the Axis Cult. She's not above promoting reasons why worshiping the senior water goddess, is infinitely more productive than giving praise to a minor fortune goddess like Eris.
• Signature Laugh: In the anime her laughter is always vocalized as "puu, kusu, kusu."
• Signature Move: The Nature's Beauty party trick is her favorite spell. She casts it when celebrating or as a Combo Breaker during repeated uses of Turn Undead.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: With Vanir the archdevil. According to both sides, devils and gods are incompatible existences, and most of their shared screentime is spent throwing taunts and petty insults at each other.
• Small Name, Big Ego: She desperately wants Kazuma to praise her as a goddess and show thanks whenever she does something successful. It might be a habitual trait, given that Gods Need Prayer Badly. Kazuma avoids doing it because he fears such praise will inflate her already enormous ego, or she becomes annoying while prodding for a positive comment.
• Smart Ball: She shows occasional bouts of wisdom whenever it's inconvenient for Kazuma.
• Sociopathic Hero: Devils and undead are inherently evil to her, so she'll gleefully exorcise them on sight, even if they're harmless like Wiz.
• Spanner in the Works: None of the Demon King's generals could have predicted that she would end up in the mortal realm, where she can use her powers to vanquish them. Her presence alone causes Arnes to get distracted while fighting Megumin and Yunyun, allowing the former to defeat her.
• Spoiled Brat: Her constant demands for attention, praise, and luxury reflect this. She's also not above throwing crying tantrums whenever she doesn't get her way.
• Story-Breaker Power: Her ability to resurrect anyone who gets killed in battle, her ability to dispel just about any status effect, her ability to detect and undo any undead or devil magic, and her Sacred Turn Undead and Sacred Exorcism spells that allow her to wipe the floor with any undead or devil. Vanir points out that there's not much he or anyone else could really do to stop her if she decides to get serious. Fortunately for everyone involved, her emotions and interests are so flighty that she can't really seem to commit to anything. Until someone starts threatening her followers.
• Street Performer: Kazuma notes that her use of Nature's Beauty to impress crowds makes her this. She also has a spell that could turn literally anyone into a master performer or artist for a certain amount of time.
• Summon to Hand: Can recall her magic staff this way to cast spells at maximum power, because she uses it for drying laundry.
• Super-Senses: She can see in the dark just as well as she sees in daylight.
• Super Not-Drowning Skills: As a water goddess, she can stay submerged as long as she wants.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: In the epilogue of Volume 3 she wants to punch Kazuma for one of his jabs, but refrains from doing so because of her generous nature... then mentions that it was definitely not because she was afraid of him fighting back.
• There's No Place Like Home: Upon learning Heaven has suffered problems without her and seeks to restore her divine position immediately, Aqua stops being a Stepford Smiler and wants to go home. She is even willing to risk death in the attempt, with or without Kazuma.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: After a hilariously traumatizing quest where she had to purify a lake while being attacked by monster alligators strong enough to dent her safety cage, Aqua is brought back to Axel still in her cage with Empty Eyes and singing a dirge about being a used goddess about to be sold off.
• Trapped in Another World: While her Japanese reincarnates like Kazuma chose to enter the parallel world instead of starting over as a baby or going to Heaven (and Kazuma has to consent to Resurrection each time he dies), Aqua herself was dragged down against her will, only allowed back if she can defeat the Demon King, which is why she's (slightly) more driven to complete the task than Kazuma.
• Turn Undead: Being an actual goddess, she turns the undead using a prayer in her own name. Even undead that ordinarily could shrug off the effect, such as Lich and Vampire Lords, are easily banished by her. She's also able to perform the same destruction rites against demons.
• Unreliable Narrator: When Kazuma first meets her, Aqua starts off by telling him that Heaven is overrated, which may just be something she says just to encourage Kazuma to go for the reincarnation option. This is ultimately averted. An entirely truthful and uncharacteristically heartfelt Aqua reveals in Volume 15 that life in the divine realms is forever static. The gods don't like drastic change and try to keep everything as orderly and boring as possible to maintain peace. And despite all this... it's still her home and she dearly misses it.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: No one comments or acknowledges her apparent lack of panties. Though the viewer is never given an optimal glace due to Magic Skirt hijinks, this doesn't apply to characters in the setting.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: While many of the problems plaguing Eris' world are still her fault in the Light Novel version of the story, the original Web Novel version reveals that the Devil King was originally just another person from Japan that she sent to that world with a cheat item, only for them to use said cheat item to take over that world. When Kazuma learns this, he becomes annoyed that everything plaguing Eris' world was all her fault.
• Vague Age: Being a goddess, it's easy to assume she's Really 700 Years Old, but Aqua says that time flows differently in the dimension where she lived before Kazuma dragged her to the other world. Therefore, calculating her age in normal years is really impossible. In her profile, her age is listed as "unknown".
• Vapor Wear: The anime made her skirt partly see-through at the hemline, and gave her lots of Male Gaze. It's often made clear that she doesn't wear panties underneath her skirt, as seen here.
• Verbal Tic: Occasionally ends her sentences with "desu kedo" ("but").
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Kazuma. Even when given an opportunity to join another, much more competent adventurer, she simply expresses annoyance at the idea, and instead continues to go along with Kazuma in spite of their hate-hate relationship.
• Wasted Beauty: Kazuma admits that she is attractive. However, she is such a handful that it just isn't worth it.
• Water Is Womanly: Subverted. She's introduced as a beautiful water goddess, but is soon revealed to have almost none of the positive feminine traits associated with water. She can heal allies and purify the undead, and is a muse of the arts. But instead of being calm, graceful, modest, and intelligent, she's idiotic, graceless, egotistical, and temperamental, in addition to being a massive crybaby.
• Weirdness Magnet: Due to being a goddess she attracts all kinds of unwanted attention from the undead, and more often than not the troubles Kazuma has to deal with can be linked back to her.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Vanir says this to Aqua when she asks him to use his foresight to give her a way to make tons of easy money.
  Vanir: This is moi first time seeing such an uncouth goddess. If moi have an easy way to make money, moi would have told the debt ridden shop owner, and save up the funds to build my dungeon. Moi ability is to see what someone has done and what will happen to that person in the future. Nothing good will come of using this skill on thy greed… Thee don't even understand this, are you really a goddess?
• White Magician Girl: Most of Aqua's powers are based around those of a traditional RPG healer, such as the ability to heal, purify undead, remove curses, and purge corruption. Personality-wise she is way off the mark, being hedonistic, rude, and attention-seeking.
• Womanchild: She is an adult goddess but often behaves like she is six years old, as she throws tantrums when she doesn't get her way, is horribly irresponsible with money, has extremely low intelligence, plays juvenile pranks on others, and can barely take care of herself.
• Your Costume Needs Work: As early as the first episode, a priest mistook her for a mortal member of her own church and admonished her for cosplaying as the water goddess Lady Aqua.