KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!

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Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o! is a series of light novels that has been adapted into a manga and an anime.

After his accidental death, the main character Kazuma is offered a chance to reincarnate to another world, where a hero is needed to defeat the evil Demon King. Kazuma is allowed to take one special thing with him , and he chooses the person making him the offer - the goddess Aqua.

So Kazuma and Aqua find themselves in a world that functions just like a roleplaying game, two among many hopeful low-level adventurers doing quests for money and XP. Soon two new girls join in, making for an adventuring party of four.

Tropes used in KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! include:
  • Affectionate Parody: Of roleplaying games.
  • An Adventurer Is You
    • Kazuma: The Jack of All Trades.
    • Aqua: The Healer.
    • Megumin: The Nuker.
    • Darkness: The Tank.
  • Area of Effect: Megumin's Explosion spell.
  • Belligerent Sexual Tension: Between Kazuma and Aqua.
  • Black and White Magic: Embodied by Megumin the Arch-Wizard and Aqua the Arch-Priest.
  • Black Mage: Megumin. She specializes in explosions.
  • Cast from Hit Points: Megumin's explosion spell apparently works that way. It is possible though that the spell simply takes more mana than a low-level character can have and the cost overflows to hitpoints.
  • Character Level
  • The Comically Serious: Megumin. She is very serious about explosions.
  • Crippling Overspecialization: Affects everyone except Kazuma.
  • Curse: Darkness gets hit by a curse that leaves her only a week to live. Aqua solves the dramatic situation with a quick and simple Remove Curse spell.
  • Ecchi
  • Elemental Powers
  • Experience Points: Gained by killing monsters.
  • Glass Cannon: Megumin can cast a high-level explosion spell... once per day, and then she is useless afterward. She refuses to put her skillpoints into anything that doesn't make her one spell better.
  • Job System
  • Level Grinding: Kazumi, Aqua, and Megumin grind on giant frogs.
  • Luck Stat: Kazumi's Luck is remarkably high while all his other stats are strictly average. Conversely, Aqua has low Luck while most of her other stats are sky-high.
  • Making a Splash: Aqua is a goddess of water after all.
  • Mass Monster Slaughter Sidequest
  • Master of None: The Adventurer job. Kazuma makes the most of it.
  • Min-Maxing: Megumin invests her all into being the best at explosions.
    • Darkness is built along those lines too, but she isn't actually trying to make herself powerful. In fact she wants to lose and be captured alive.
  • Nice Guy: Kazuma.
  • No Experience Points for Medic: The party chooses a quest involving undead just so that Aqua can use her Turn Undead ability and get some XP for once.
  • No Hero Discount: The characters have a chronic lack of money. Justified because adventurers are so common in this world.
  • Outside the Box Tactic: How Kazuma likes to solve things.
  • Point Build System: Characters get new points every time they level up.
  • The Red Mage: Kazuma builds his character this way.
  • RPG Mechanics Verse
  • Stone Wall: Darkness puts all her skillpoints each level on improving her armor. This leaves nothing for improving her attack - or anything else for that matter.
  • Support Party Member: Aqua's only real offensive ability is Turn Undead.
  • Turn Undead: Aqua's special ability.
  • Video Game Stealing: The Steal skill steals a random item from the target. Kazuma learned the skill and to date has managed to steal two pairs of panties, a bra, the magic sword an enemy was fighting with, and the head of a boss monster who was admittedly a dullahan. Kazuma's extraordinarily high Luck Stat helps a lot here.
  • Weaksauce Weakness: The demon general is vulnerable to the Create Water spell. It doesn't kill him outright, but every little bit helps.
  • White Mage: Aqua.
  • Wrong Genre Savvy: Darkness seems to think she lives in a hentai manga.
  • You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Aqua's hair is blue.