History Headscratchers / KonoSuba

* Why didn't he just wear his sword in a way that wouldn't obstruct him when walking through doorways? Aside from RuleOfFunny, I mean. If he'd simply worn the sheathe at his side instead of across his back, there wouldn't been no need to shorten the soon-to-be Chunchunmaru.

* Why do Kazuma and Aqua both think the Crimson Demons have weird names? They're ''chuunibyou'' who use very Japanese names[=/=]naming conventions in a stereotypical western fantasy setting. If anything, shouldn't Kazuma (a Japanese guy) and Aqua (who watches over Japan) find names like Megumi(n), Yun(yun), and Yui(yui) ''more'' familiar than the fake western-style names of Belzberg, such as Lalatina Dustiness Ford?

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* Chomusuke, the black cat familiar of Megumim, has been there since the start of the story. We later find out that it is half of a powerful demon that was split up and sealed at one point. So how did Aqua not sense this? He greatest strength is being a anti-undead/demon nuke. She can sense demons and undead anywhere in the vicinity of herself, but can't sense the demon cast living with her?

* Is her dumbness something she always had or is she the victim of the isekai process of downloading the New World's language into her head? Has she, according to the disclaimer she blocks Kazuma from seeing, gone "full retard"?

** Yes, there is a TheChroniclesOfNarnia time effect going on. This is explained to Kazuma in one of the earlier Light Novels. It is expressly explained that time in the Game World runs much faster than Earth time while time in the room where Kazuma meets Aqua, and later Eris, moves extremely slowly. So, a few years on Earth will be many more years in the Game World. The Destroyer's Creator, if he came from the 1970s or 1980s, may have only been about 30 years before Kazuma's time but this could be hundreds of years in the Game World. This also means, of course, that if Kazuma spends four or five years in the Game World and is given permission to come back to Japan directly, only a few months or less may have passed.

* So how is it that they treat his various exploits as happening in ancient times (or at least long enough ago that the things he made are regarded as ruins, family heirlooms, and so on) in the Konosuba world, yet he plainly comes from mid-late 20th century Japan and thus he should be at most just a few generations removed from Kazuma? Do the two worlds have time go by at different rates? Like for every year in the "real" world a hundred years passes in the Konosuba world? Likewise, are we to assume he was sent to stop a different Devil King? That is if he was supposed to stop the same one and yet he lived in ancient times then one would assume the population decline that caused the gods to start reincarnating people from other worlds would be a lot worse by the time Kazuma came there. This impression is bolstered by the theory that the current Devil King himself is a cheat user from Kazuma's world. I assume this is explained more in the novels, but I'm mostly only familiar with the anime and movie.

*** Consider what purification is at its most extreme - it's basically getting rid of everything except the main component of the mixture. As noted above, both in tea and in hot springs the bulk of the mixture is water. But if, say, your drink has over 50% alcohol content, wouldn't water itself become an impurity? By that logic, purification of strong drinks would work in reverse of what you'd expect, getting Aqua intoxicated enough to puke rainbows. And attempting to purify over-contaminated hot springs would turn them into pure poison.

*** But she didn't actually become Verdia's sex slave. It never got to that point. ALSO, the situation with Verdia was BECAUSE of the death curse. Darkness always pre-faces her masochist scenarios with "I will be overpowered" for a reason: If you pay attention to how she acts, Darkness never ''willingly'' submits to enemies, but fantasizes being ''overpowered'' by them. Also, ''having intimate moments with friends and love interests'' is a different situation altogether. This has been shown multiple times throughout the anime AND light novel. The encounter with Verdia(a Devil King commander) PUTTING A DEATH CURSE ON HER, and the bath scene with Kazuma(A party member and friend at the time) being very MILDLY forceful and intimate were VASTLY different scenarios, and therefore had different results. Darkness' timidness with those close to her(ESPECIALLY Kazuma), has been part of her character since season 1.

** Apparently yes she can power it up indifinetly. her own mindset leads her to do just that. Hopefully it doesn't also drain more MP the more powerful it is

*** Perhaps her Purification only works if she comes in contact with a liquid that contains low enough concentration of solutes? Tea is basically plant particles suspended in water, so there’s much more water (so low concentration); it gets purified. Certain high-proof alcohols (like Rum) have more alcohol than water, so Purification wouldn’t kick in there. As an aside, it would explain how she gets such nasty hangovers if she’s downing high proof whiskey, rum, and vodka thinking it’s like a beer. This would also explain why she was insistent on purifying the hot springs during the fight against Hans right then and there. If he polluted it too badly, she may not have been capable of purifying it.

*** In later novels, Aqua accidentally purifies tea when serving it to other people whom she has no reason to spite, so it’s likely the first guess is the case. If this troper had to guess, only liquids she touches are purified, but drinking is in some way different. Wine glasses and beer mugs respectively have stems and handles that can keep her hands much further away from the rim than the handle of a teacup, so she’s less likely to accidentally touch her drinks of choice than she is the tea she makes.

** Maybe because she isn't making the alcohol, she's just drinking it. An entry in her character page (under Hidden Depths) also suggests that she is purifying Kazuma's tea ''on purpose'' just to mess with him. (I'm not entirely sure of that one, but it makes sense.)

* So if Aqua can't even make tea without accidentally purifying, and turning it into water, how can she get drunk on alcohol to the point of vomiting from it? Or is that part of the joke, that she's so useless she can't even protect herself from a hangover?

!!I wonder what the world that Kazuma first met Aqua is called?

*** But she didn't actually become Verdia's sex slave. It never got to that point. ALSO, the situation with Verdia was BECAUSE of the death curse. Darkness always pre-faces her masochist scenarios with "I will be overpowered" for a reason: If you pay attention to how she acts, Darkness never ''willingly'' submits to enemies, but fantasizes being ''overpowered'' by them. Also, ''having intimate moments with friends and love interests'' is a different situation altogether. This has been shown multiple times throughout the anime AND light novel. The encounter with Verdia(a Devil King commander) and the bath scene with Kazuma(A party member and friend at the time) are VASTLY different scenarios, and therefore had different results. See points 1, 2, and 3.

*** But she didn't actually become Verdia's sex slave. It never got to that point. ALSO, the situation with Verdia was BECAUSE of the death curse. Darkness always pre-faces her masochist scenarios with "I will be overpowered" for a reason: If you pay attention to how she acts, Darkness never ''willingly'' submits to enemies, but fantasizes being ''overpowered'' by them. Also, ''having intimate moments with friends and love interests'' is a different situation altogether. This has been shown multiple times throughout the anime AND light novel. The encounter with Verdia(a Devil King commander) and the bath scene with Kazuma(A party member and friend at the time) are VASTLY different scenarios.

*** But she didn't actually become Verdia's sex slave. It never got to that point. ALSO, the situation with Verdia was BECAUSE of the death curse. Darkness always pre-faces her masochist scenarios with "I will be overpowered" for a reason: If you pay attention to how she acts, Darkness never ''willingly'' submits to enemies, but ''fantasizes being overpowered by them''. Also, ''having intimate moments with friends and love interests'' is a different situation altogether. This has been shown multiple times throughout the anime AND light novel. The encounter with Verdia and the bath scene with Kazuma are VASTLY different scenarios.

*** But she didn't just "fantasize" about being the sex slave of the devil King's general, she actively attempted to become one, and was in the process of doing this until Kazuma stopped her. That was my point. Darkness doesn't merely think about these situations, she actively and happily rushes into them in real life. That's why her timidness in the bath area with Kazuma seemed so out of character. And like I said, it really didn't seem like she was merely acting.

*** But she didn't just "fantasize" about being the sex slave of the devil King's general, she actively attempted to become one, and was in the process of doing this until Kazuma stopped her. That was my point. Darkness doesn't merely think about these situations, she actively and happily rushes into them in real life. That's why her timidness in the bath area with Kazuma seemed so out of character.

*** 3)Darkness is ''actually still a virgin''. Fantasizing about being a sex slave is by FAR different than actually knowing what to do when you're actually in that position, as a [[{{Volume 12}} certain later volume of the light novel]] reveals.