History Trivia / KonoSuba

** Kazuma makes a wish/decision that a Goddess would accompany him would be similar to the beginning of ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'', in which Keiichi asked the Goddess Belldandy to be his partner. Of course, just like the above, because of the show's parodic nature, Kazuma's Goddess, Aqua, turns out to be utterly useless, self-centered and whiny as opposed to Belldandy being all helpful and nice.

* NoDubForYou: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] for the first season for English, Latin American, French and Russian languages in early 2019, but later played straight for the English dub of the second season. Besides a [[https://twitter.com/konosuba_anime/status/1147643492975271936 "coming soon"]] message, there has been no mention of a second season so far, which is odd considering the other dubs started airing the second season one week following the release of the first OVA in Crunchyroll's website (which did get an English dub alongside the aforementioned languages).
** Finally [[AvertedTrope Averted]] by late February 2020.
* TheOtherDarrin: ''Anime/IsekaiQuartet'''s English dub had Vanir voiced by Anthony Bowling. In ''Konosuba'' proper, he's voiced by Creator/RobbieDaymond.

*** The above eight were also in another isekai genre shows with Aqua, Megumin, Luna, Chris, Verdia, Yunyun, Wiz, and Darkness being [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Miyu Shinohara/Fukaziroh, Yuuki Konno, Sasha & Siune, Toma, Andrew Gilbert Mills/Agil, Alice Zuberg, Linel, and Alicia Rue]] and [[LightNovel/ReZero Priscilla Bariel, Puck, Crusch, Beatrice, Kadomon Risch, Emilia, Rem, and Elsa Granhiert]]. In the latter, [[Creator/BillyKametz Kyouya]] and [[Creator/RobbieDaymond Vanir]] are young Wilhelm Van Astrea and his grandson Reinhard Van Astrea.

*** A majority of the cast here all attended in [[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Black Eagles]] house, with [[Creator/FayeMata Aqua being Petra]], [[Creator/EricaMendez Megumin being Bernadetta]], [[Creator/BillyKametz Kyouya being Ferdinand]], [[Creator/PatrickSeitz Verdia being Jeritza/Death Knight]], [[Creator/AllegraClark Sena being Dorothea]] and [[Creator/RobbieDaymond Hubert being the new Vanir]]. Hilariously enough, [[TheOtherMarty before settling with]] [[Creator/TaraPlatt the current voice]], [[Creator/CristinaValenzuela Darkness was set to be Edelgard]]. Overall, it also makes the scene early at Season 2 when the frogs devour Aqua, Megumin and Sena look like the frogs invading Black Eagles house to eat the female students except Edelgard.

*** Megumin (Creator/RieTakahashi) and Wiz (Creator/YuiHorie) are the two main leads of Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure. Now the dual explosion actually makes sense now. Also Wiz was voiced by Creator/SaoriHayami in the Drama CD who voices Ha-chan/Cure Felice in the same series.

*** Megumin's mother Yuiyui is voiced by Creator/MamikoNoto and her husband Hyoizaburo is voiced by Creator/HirokiTakahashi. Old school anime fans might feel nostalgic with this pair, considering they did [[Manga/SchoolRumble YakumoTsukamoto and Kenji Harima]] before.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://konosuba.wikia.com Here]].

* ActorAllusion: In the Drama CD Creator/MaayaUchida voices {{chuunibyou}} magician Megumin. Maaya Uchida's most well known role is that of Rikka Takanashi from ''LightNovel/LoveChunibyoAndOtherDelusions'', a character that essentially codified that trope in anime.

* CastingGag:
** OVA depicts Megumin as a mad Mecha-otaku after between the series and her, Creator/RieTakahashi played the role of a similar character in the adaptation of ''LightNovel/KnightsAndMagic''.
** Probably the only thing that was known by Arnie Pantoja before getting the role of the shut-in gamer/otaku loser guy Kazuma was being in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' as Nukesaku, a minor vampire that got whacked easily by Jotaro, being called "nimrod" or other derogative loser terms by other enemies. In other words, a fellow loser guy. And for further hilarity, Verdia the Dullahan is voiced by Creator/PatrickSeitz AKA DIO. Therefore, DIO now got a taste of how it feels to be humiliated by his absolutely lowest ranking servant.

*** Megumin and Darkness are voiced by Rie Takahashi and Creator/AiKayano respectively. Both voice actors were also Miki Naoki and Megumi Sakura in ''Manga/SchoolLive''.
*** Megumin (Rie Takahashi) and Wiz (Creator/YuiHorie) are the two main leads of Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure. Now the dual explosion actually makes sense now. Also Wiz was voiced by Creator/SaoriHayami in the Drama CD who voices Haa-chan in the same series.

*** Megumin's mother Yuiyui is voiced by Creator/MamikoNoto and her husband Hyoizaburo is voiced by Creator/HirokiTakahashi. Old school anime fans might feel nostalgic with this pair, considering they did [[Manga/SchoolRumble Tsukamoto Yakumo and Harima Kenji]] before.

*** [[Creator/FayeMata Aqua]], [[Creator/EricaMendez Megumin]], [[Creator/KiraBuckland Chris]], [[Creator/ErikaHarlacher Luna]] and [[Creator/CristinaValenzuela Darkness]] were once [[Anime/LoveLive School Idols]]. Add [[Creator/PatrickSeitz Verdia]], [[Creator/BriannaKnickerbocker Wiz]], and [[Creator/KayliMills Yunyun]] and you've got [[Manga/HunterXHunter Neon Nostrade, Gon Freccs, Zushi, Kurapika Kuruta, Uvogin, Piyon, Eeta, Elena and Killua Zoldyck]].
*** The above eight were also in another isekai genre shows with Aqua, Megumin, Luna, Chris, Verdia, Yunyun, Wiz and Darkness being [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Miyu Shinohara/Fukaziroh, Yuuki Konno, Siune, Toma, Andrew Gilbert Mills/Agil, Alice Zuberg, Rinel Synthesis Twenty Eight and Alicia Rue]] and [[LightNovel/ReZero Priscilla Bariel, Puck, Crusch, Beatrice, Kadomon Risch, Emilia, Rem and Elsa Granhiert]]. In the latter, [[Creator/BillyKametz Kyouya]] is the young Wilhelm Van Astrea and [[Creator/RobbieDaymond Vanir]] is Reinhard Van Astrea.

*** A majority of the cast here all attended in [[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Black Eagles]] house, with [[Creator/FayeMata Aqua being Petra]], [[Creator/EricaMendez Megumin being Bernadetta]], [[Creator/BillyKametz Kyouya being Ferdinand (von Aegir)]], [[Creator/PatrickSeitz Verdia being Jeritza/Death Knight]], [[Creator/AllegraClark Sena being Dorothea]] and [[Creator/RobbieDaymond Hubert being the new Vanir]]. Hilariously enough, [[TheOtherMarty before settling with]] [[Creator/TaraPlatt the current voice]], [[Creator/CristinaValenzuela Darkness was set to be Edelgard]]. Overall, it also makes the scene early at Season 2 when the frogs devour Aqua, Megumin and Sena look like the frogs invading Black Eagles house to eat the female students except Edelgard.
** In both [[Creator/RieTakahashi Japanese]] and [[Creator/EricaMendez English]], Megumin is always going to be [[VideoGame/FateGrandOrder Mash Kyrielight.]]

** The greatest example being that the "Yes I'm Kazuma" RunningGag was completely ad-libbed.

*** The scene when [[Creator/CristinaValenzuela Darkness]] creeps out [[Creator/PatrickSeitz Verdia]] due to her masochism can make you think [[Franchise/BlazBlue it's a Gag Reel where Ragna gets creeped out at Noel suddenly being masochistic.]] To be fair, it's a normal thing if it was Nu.

*** [[Creator/FayeMata Aqua]], [[Creator/EricaMendez Megumin]], [[Creator/KiraBuckland Chris]], [[Creator/ErikaHarlacher Luna]] and [[Creator/CristinaValenzuela Darkness]] were once [[Anime/LoveLive School Idols]]. Add [[Creator/PatrickSeitz Verdia]], [[Creator/BriannaKnickerbocker Wiz]], [[Creator/RobbieDaymond Vanir]] and [[Creator/KayliMills Yunyun]] and you've got [[Manga/HunterXHunter Neon Nostrade, Gon Freccs, Zushi, Kurapika Kuruta, Uvogin, Piyon, Eeta, Elena, Chrollo Lucifer and Killua Zoldyck]].

*** [[Creator/FayeMata Aqua]], [[Creator/EricaMendez Megumin]], [[Creator/KiraBuckland Chris]], [[Creator/ErikaHarlacher Luna]] and [[Creator/CristinaValenzuela Darkness]] were once [[Anime/LoveLive School Idols]]. Add [[Creator/PatrickSeitz Verdia]], [[Creator/BriannaKnickerbocker Wiz]] and [[Creator/KayliMills Yunyun]] and you've got [[Manga/HunterXHunter Neon Nostrade, Gon Freccs, Zushi, Kurapika Kuruta, Uvogin, Piyon, Eeta, Elena and Killua Zoldyck]].
*** The above eight were also in another isekai genre shows with Aqua, Megumin, Luna, Chris, Verdia, Yunyun, Wiz and Darkness being [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Miyu Shinohara/Fukaziroh, Yuuki Konno, Siune, Toma, Andrew Gilbert Mills/Agil, Alice Zuberg, Rinel Synthesis Twenty Eight and Alicia Rue]] and [[LightNovel/ReZero Priscilla Bariel, Puck, Crusch, Beatrice, Kadomon Risch, Emilia, Rem and Elsa Granhiert]]. In the latter, [[Creator/BillyKametz Kyouya]] is the young Wilhelm Van Astrea.

*** Darkness (Mireya Mendoza), Ruffian (Dan Osorio) and Luna (Analiz Sanchez) are [[Disney/RalphBreaksTheInternet Tiana, Butcher Boy and Candlehead]].

** Probably the only thing that was known by Arnie Pantoja before getting the role of the shut-in gamer/otaku loser guy Kazuma was being in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' as Nukesaku, a minor vampire that got whacked easily by Jotaro, being called "nimrod" or other derogative loser terms by other enemies. In other words, a fellow loser guy.

* AllStarCast: Inverted, as aside from Creator/AiKayano, Creator/YuiHorie, Creator/HirokiYasumoto and a few others, many of the Japanese voice actors are newcomers or lesser known voice actors who haven't voiced many leading anime roles.

** Ditto in the Latin American Spanish dub, when only Wendy Malvarez (Megumin) is the only voice actor in the cast with very few roles in her profile.

* BigNameFan: UsefulNotes/AcademyAward-winning screenwriter Creator/RogerAvary (''Film/PulpFiction'', ''Film/TrueRomance'', ''Film/NaturalBornKillers'') praised the ''Legend of Crimson'' movie as "one of the best experiences in a cinema I’ve ever had" and "the reason cinema was invented," giving it [[https://letterboxd.com/avary/film/kono-subarashii-sekai-ni-shukufuku-wo-kurenai-densetsu/ a full five stars on Letterboxd]].[[note]]To put his love of the film amongst other anime in context, he gave ''Anime/SpiritedAway'' [[https://letterboxd.com/avary/film/spirited-away/ only 3-and-a-half stars on the same site]].[[/note]]

* GodNeverSaidThat: In a footnote at the end of Volume 10, after Season 2 of the anime was finished, Natsume Akatsuki said that Studio DEEN had stopped working on Konosuba. Many fans interpreted this as meaning the show was officially cancelled. He later clarified that they just stopped actively producing the anime, and were willing to pick it back up at a later time. However, the damage had been done, and many fans still believe that there won't be any more anime... despite Studio DEEN officially saying they were working on a new Konosuba anime project.

* ShoutOut: Kazuma's death is lifted straight from ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'''s famous beginning, where Yusuke pushes a child out of the way of a truck when the child would have survived anyway, and he even gets a chance to sort out his afterlife as compensation. Of course, this work's parodic nature makes it so that Kazuma merely ''thinks'' he died heroically like Yusuke, when in reality his death was a lot less heroic and a lot more undignified.

* MarthDebutedInSmashBros: The [[WackyWaysideTribe various Crimson Demons]] introduced in the fifth volume of the light novels (where the party visits Megumin's hometown) proved to be so popular with Japanese fans that a spinoff novel series called ''God's Explosion On This Wonderful World!'', which chronicles Megumin and Yunyun's childhoods and goes into detail about several {{Noodle Incident}}s was written. However, the first volume of the spinoff series reached American shores at the same time as that of the main novels thanks to the light novel boom of 2015, resulting in the Crimson Demons officially being introduced to America before the official translations of the light novels reached the book they were introduced in Japan.

* NoDubForYou: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] for the first season for English, Latin American, French and Russian languages in early 2019, but later played straight for the English dub of the second season. Besides a [[https://twitter.com/konosuba_anime/status/1147643492975271936 "coming soon"]] message, there has been no mention of a second season so far, which is odd considering the other dubs started airing the second season one week following the release of the first OVA in their website (which did get an English dub alongside the aforementioned languages).

* NoDubForYou: Played straight for English, but bizarrely ''averted'' for Latin America, as it was annouced a Spanish dub is in works. This is especially relevant here, because most anime Spanish dubs are dubbed from an English-translated script used in a previously done English dub, as both Mexico and most of Latin America (excluding Brazil) has a very severe shortage of qualified Japanese-to-Spanish translators, in stark contrast with the United States and Canada.
** Now [[AvertedTrope averted]] with getting a proper English dub through Bang Zoom in 2019.
** So far, there has been no announcement for an English dub of the second season beyond a [[https://twitter.com/konosuba_anime/status/1147643492975271936 "coming soon"]] message, which is odd considering other Crunchyroll dubs (Latin American Spanish, French, Russian) started airing the second season one week after they aired the first OVA in their website (which did get an English dub alongside the aforementioned languages).

** So far, there has been no announcement for when the English dub of the second season would release, which is odd considering other Crunchyroll dubs (Latin American Spanish, French, Russian) started airing one week after they aired the first OVA in their website (which did get an English dub)

** Probably the only thing that was known by Arnie Pantoja before getting the role of the shut-in gamer/otaku loser guy Kazuma was being in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' as Nukesaku, a minor vampire that got whacked easily by Jotaro, being called "nimrod" or other derogative loser terms by other enemies, and then offed easily by DIO. In other words, a fellow loser guy.

*** Exclusively in Japan, though, the female main cast are all Servants. We mentioned [[Creator/RieTakahashi Megumin/Mash]] before, but now we also have [[Creator/SoraAmamiya Aqua/Thrud]] and [[Creator/AiKayano Darkness/Murasaki Shikibu]]. [[https://i.redd.it/v2zdhfb2uwz21.jpg People had a field day when the aforementioned Servants have all been released by noting the seiyuu connection]].

*** At least in the Japanese version, [[[[Creator/SoraAmamiya Aqua]], [[Creator/RieTakahashi Megumin]] and [[Creator/AiKayano Darkness]] are [[VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes Eir, Fjorm and Gunnthra]]. At least only [[Creator/JunFukushima Kazuma]] hasn't voiced a ''Heroes'' original, but he's also there as [[VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight Michalis]].