Line #11 Trivia/KonoSuba


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2	* ActingForTwo:
3	** In Japanese
4	*** Creator/HitomiNabatame voices Chomusuke and Sena.
5	** In the English dub:
6	*** Creator/RebaBuhr voices Wolbach and Funifura.
7	*** Joe J. Thomas voices Hyoizaburo and Pucchin.
8	*** Creator/RyanBartley voices Chomusuke, Clemea and Dodonko.
9	* AllStarCast:
10	** In the English dub, only Kazuma is voiced by a new actor (Arnie Pantoja). [[Creator/FayeMata The]] [[Creator/EricaMendez rest]] [[Creator/CristinaVee are]] [[Creator/PatrickSeitz all]] [[Creator/BriannaKnickerbocker well]] [[Creator/KiraBuckland established]].
11	** Ditto in the Latin American Spanish dub, when only Wendy Malvárez (Megumin) is the only voice actor in the cast with very few roles in her profile.
12	* AmateurCast: In the European Spanish dub, basically all the main cast is formed by rookie voice actors, some of them debuting as professional voice actors in this series.
13	* BannedInChina: The series has been pulled out of Chinese streaming sites due to starring Ai Kayano, who tweeted about "nice air" in Yasukuni Shrine (which reveres soldiers who fought for Japan, including Imperial Japanese soldiers who committed atrocities such as Nanking and Unit 731) in February 2021.
14	* ContentLeak: The first two episodes of the third season, were leaked on the Internet more than a week before their actual premiere.
15	* {{Defictionalization}}: Remember the Axis Cult? [[https://axisorder.com/ There's a site for it now.]]
16	* DirectedByCastMember: In the Latin American Spanish dub, Javier Olguín is the ADR Director and Kazuma Sato's voice actor.
17	* DuelingShows:
18	** The first season duels with fellow light novels ''Literature/GrimgarOfFantasyAndAsh'' and ''Literature/ReZero'', all of which based on a TrappedInAnotherWorld premise.
19	** The second season is this with ''Manga/InterviewsWithMonsterGirls'' and ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid''. Made even more apparent with the fact that most people expected the second season to be the comedy anime of the season and [[SleeperHit no one was really looking forward to the other two... until they began airing]].
20	* 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. In the end, Akatsuki's words turned out to be ExactWords, as the ''Legend of Crimson'' movie was produced by Creator/JCStaff.
21	* MarthDebutedInSmashBros:
22	** 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 translation of the light novel they made their actual debut in or the theatrical adaptation of said novel were officially released.
23	** Thanks to getting cut from the anime’s adaptation of the fourth light novel for season two, Cecily and Zesta make their animated debut in the seventh episode of the adaptation for Megumin’s spinoff ''God's Explosion On This Wonderful World!''.
24	* TheOtherDarrin:
25	** The Drama [=CDs=] featured Creator/RyotaOhsaka as Kazuma, Creator/KaoriFukuhara as Aqua, Creator/MaayaUchida as Megumin, Creator/MarinaInoue as Darkness, Creator/SaoriHayami as Wiz, Creator/KanaHanazawa as Yunyun and Creator/KosukeToriumi as Kyoya. For their anime debut, they were respectively replaced by Creator/JunFukushima, Creator/SoraAmamiya, Creator/RieTakahashi, Creator/AiKayano, Creator/YuiHorie, Creator/AkiToyosaki and Creator/TakuyaEguchi.
26	** The English dub of ''Anime/IsekaiQuartet'' (which was dubbed in Texas) had Vanir voiced by Creator/AnthonyBowling. In the English dub of ''[=KonoSuba=]'' (which was dubbed in L.A.), he is voiced by Creator/RobbieDaymond.
27	** Creator/EmiLo temporarily replaces Creator/KayliMills as Yunyun in the third episode ''Explosions'' spinoff for unknown reasons.
28	* PlayingAgainstType:
29	** Creator/SoraAmamiya is known for voicing cold but good-hearted characters like Manga/{{Akame\|GaKill}} and [[Manga/TokyoGhoul Touka]]. Here, she plays Aqua, who is immature, idiotic, and a BitchInSheepsClothing. The same trope also applies to Creator/FayeMata, who is known for getting cast as [[GenkiGirl Genki Girls]] like [[Anime/LoveLive Rin Hoshizora]] and [[Literature/FateApocrypha Astolfo]] ([[Main/DudeLooksLikeALady though the latter's gender is dubious, to say the least]]).
30	** Creator/AiKayano got her fame from playing {{Emotionless Girl}}s. "Emotionless" is about the last word someone would use to describe [[CombatSadomasochist Darkness]]. So did Creator/CristinaVee, who usually voices {{Tsundere}}s like Mio from ''Manga/KOn'', {{Broken Bird}}s like Homura from ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' and {{Nice Girl}}s like Noel from ''VideoGame/BlazBlue''.
31	* RealLifeRelative: Ryze and Laina are voiced by real-life married couple Creator/MattShipman and Creator/BrittanyLauda in the English dub.
32	* ScheduleSlip: The English dub for the ''Legend of Crimson'' movie was supposed to be released in April 2020, but then came the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. After an eight-month delay, the dub was finally released on New Year's Day 2021.
33	* SleeperHit: Before the anime aired, many wrote it off as yet another generic light novel harem and the fact that Creator/StudioDEEN was working on it didn't help matters either, not to mention that it was only scheduled to have 10 episodes rather than the usual 12. However after the first episode aired people were surprised at how funny the show actually ended up being and loved its charming brand of self-aware parody humor, especially when many "trapped in a video game" anime usually take themselves [[SeriousBusiness far more seriously.]] It was one of the most well received anime in the Winter 2016 season and it absolutely dominated the sales charts in Japan, and a second season was announced at the end of the final episode.
34	* StarMakingRole:
35	** Kazuma for Creator/JunFukushima and Megumin for Creator/RieTakahashi.
36	** Kazuma is also shaping up to be the star-making role for Arnie Pantoja, his English voice actor.
37	** Ditto in the Latin American Spanish dub for Wendy Malvarez, Megumin's voice actress.
38	* ThrowItIn:
39	** Apparently Kazuma's [[Creator/JunFukushima Japanese voice actor]] has been doing quite a lot of adlibbing, sometimes even causing a bit of confusion among the rest of the cast during recording. The scene in which Kazuma pulls Megumin's eyepatch is also adlibbed.
40	** The greatest example being that the "Yes I'm Kazuma" RunningGag was completely ad-libbed. This was something that was long suspected by the fandom since the first season debuted in 2016 (because the line never appears in the light novels), but it wasn't until shortly before the ''Legend of Crimson'' movie was released in summer 2019 when Creator/JunFukushima [[https://ddnavi.com/interview/560598/a/ confirmed it was indeed an ad-lib.]]
41	** Almost all of Megumin's incantations were ad libbed by her voice actress. During recording for the incantations, Takahashi Rie was given free reign to come up with whatever over-the-top cooler-than-cool drawn out lines she could up with to parodise fantasy spell incantations. Even the staff have admitted to laughing their heads off at what she came up with during recording sessions.
42	* YouSoundFamiliar: In the anime, Creator/HitomiNabatame initially voiced Sena and would later go on to appear as Chomusuke, Megumin's familiar.

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