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Konosuba may have been a comedy anime, but it surprisingly has its fair share of sad moments.
- Kazuma's background and his death can be considered this; particularly the fact that his parents, the medics, and the doctor who declared him dead laughed at the whole thing (though it's possible that Aqua was making this up to be mean to Kazuma and rub in how senseless his death was.) Even if Kazuma can be a bit of a jerk, that's pretty awful, and it shows how lonely and unloved Kazuma was.
- Keele and his wife's backstory. Full on. Despite his cheerful personality, it's hard not to feel bad for him and what he has to go through due to his immense love toward his wife. Keele is a wizard who falls in love with the daughter of a nobleman and devotes his life to learning magic. By the time he is finished, when the king asks what he would wish, he wishes to be with the woman he fell in love with. When the king refuses, Keele breaks his lover out of the kingdom, leading to him being an enemy to everyone. Despite finally getting married, when he is wounded, Keele wishes he could protect his wife, leading to him not just becoming a lich, but also gaining immortality. It isn't until his wife dies that he can't kill himself just to rejoin her in the afterlife. The only reason Keele died is thanks to Aqua purifying him after showing him his wife's remains and why he is a lich in the first place. Even Aqua, who is usually antagonistic towards undead creatures, understands the tragedy of Keele's situation and asks Eris to ensure that he can be reunited with his deceased wife.
- Yunyun's loneliness. Obviously it's played as Black Comedy, but even then it's kind of sad seeing how no one even bothered to go to her birthday.
- Megumin's childhood was quite miserable thanks to her poverty. She sometimes had a really hard time even finding stuff to eat and drink!
- The deaths of Wolbach and (in the prequel spinoff) her two demon followers are all kind of sad, in large part because none of them are actually evil; Wolbach herself had saved Megumin's life when the latter was a child (an act which also inspired her lifelong passion for Explosions), and Hoost had built an Odd Friendship with Megumin's little sister Komekko.
Heartwarming: AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative
EP's
What's The Work?
Who Is He? What Has He Done?
Mitigating Factors
Heinous Standard
Final Verdict
Your choice as always.
