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Konosuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!, Vol. 1

Oh! My Useless Goddess!

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Konosuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!, Vol. 1

By: Natsume Akatsuki, Kurone Mishima, Kevin Steinbach - translator
Narrated by: Arnie Pantoja, Erica Mendez
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Summary

 Game loving shut-in Kazuma Sato's life as a young schoolboy in Japan abruptly comes to an early end...or at least it was supposed to. When he opens his eyes, though, he sees a beautiful goddess that offers him a once in an after-lifetime chance to be reborn in a parallel world. The catch is that the world is violent and threatened by a growing evil! Fortunately, he can choose any one thing to bring with him. So he chooses the goddess, Aqua! And so his adventure with his gorgeous companion begins--if he could just get enough money and food to survive, keep his goddess out of trouble, and avoid grabbing the attention of the Demon King's army! Fantasy Fiction Literature & Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Yes explosion good characters good story not to boring and not too much action perfect book

It’s humorous

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Enjoyed it, will be buying the next one! I echo the previous review however, currently most of the voices sound the same which causes confusion. The male voices not so much (might just be due to less male characters in the series, although the major voice near the end was distinct). All the female characters sound the same though, which is confusing when it's most of the cast.

Great start

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There's an issue when having a story that has multiple characters with distinct personalities in them, unless you're doing a full on audio drama with many voices comprising characters, you need people who can do clearly different voices for their characters. Those who are fans of Konosuba will know the basic plotline shown here and won't have that big an issue but those who come into this without a clue are going to be flummoxed when Aqua sounds like Megumin who sounds like Chris who sounds like Darkness or Kazuma who sounds like any of the males in the series.

I'm not decrying the reading, it's as all American Voice Acting is 'clear and well read' with no mouth sounds or noises, it's well done and decent. It's just neither Mr Pantoja or Ms Mendez have a vocal range that can sustain a cast of dozens.

Then theres some of the changes to terms used. Why you'd included Hikki-NEET in this but remove Loli is baffling to me when you use jailbait. It seems a formless aesthetic change that makes no sense.

And the biggest problem, 'The Crimson Magic Clan'
I'm sorry but NO, they're the Crimson Demons' (紅魔族 or Kurenai Mazoku) and the reason for that is that they are ALL Chuuninbyou and think the name 'Crimson Demon' sounds cool as all hell. They don't care that others look at them funny when they call themselves demons to fight the Devil King, they're awesome at magic and love being their own way. Why you'd choose this when you include something as insanely difficult to understand as Hikkikimori and NEET with the portmanteau Hikki-NEET.

Weebs understand that, we know the jokes, but newcomers are going to have a massive hill to climb for that, but you remove references to Megumins Chuunin lifestyle or her over the top laughing?

I have worries about this but will see it through with a second volume.

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after watching season one of this anime and found this audio book and it matches. got season two on blu ray ready after I listen to vol 2 of the series.

really good from the anime program.

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liked konosuba tge anime so decided to try this one it was fun listening to them in this version too.

the voices showing emotion

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