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Konosuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World!
Episode 10

by Grant Jones,

How would you rate episode 10 of
Konosuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World! ?
Community score: 4.1

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Episode 10 of Konosuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World! delivers more excellent adventuring silliness and character building.

I feel like this episode gets at the core of the potential in these sorts of works. The daily struggles in the life of a starting adventurer! It's a potent mix of high fantasy weirdness, video game tropes, real-world relatability, and unique fantastical analogs. Anyone who has tried to find a group for, well, anything can probably relate to at least one moment in Megumin's trials and tribulations. And when viewed through the lens of trying to attain steady employment, the relatability is downright palpable.

Megumin tries and tries to fit the right fit, and just keeps coming up short. We've all been there! Well, I assume most of us have. Also “been there” has the asterisk attached that I've never personally had to fight dozens of rodents or multi-story slime beasts. But nevertheless, the constant trial period, the doing well and then getting ghosted, it's all very much the struggle to find steady employment that I know all too well from my younger days. Doubly so with the frustration that Megumin just knows she would be a great fit if only a group would take the chance on her and commit. Despite all the silliness, there's a relatable emotional core here: I know I've got the skills to pay the bills but no one will give me an honest shot.

There are also lots of fun little moments in this episode that help add to the enjoyment. Aqua and Kazuma making their little cameos was a lot of fun, and I really enjoy the concept of the wheelbarrow guy running around playing taxi for exhausted wizards. That's just fun world-building. The animation was a bit more middling this week but there was nothing particularly egregious, and it's just the ups and downs of weekly production.

Megumin and YunYun eventually found their way back to each other and having a funny fantasy chess match was a great capstone to a great week of television. Solid stuff all around.

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Grant is the cohost on the Blade Licking Thieves podcast and Super Senpai Podcast.

Konosuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World! is currently streaming on Crunchyroll.


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