First impression: KonoSuba 2

Four idiots continue to adventure together.

KonoSuba: everything is alright

They’re back: Aqua, Kazuma, Megamin and Darkness and just as horrible. Everything is alright in the world. At the end of the last series they had finally hit the big time: saved the town from its greatest menace, scored themselves a nice mansion, finally gotten money and recognition. More importantly, over the course of the series the challenges and dangers they had to struggle through had brought the four together, the occasional succubus incident notwithstanding, deepening their friendship.

KonoSuba: everything is alright -- not

And of course it all goes to shit. Kazuma is accused of subverting state power and it takes his friends no more than seconds to denounce them. He’s imprisoned, the other three try to rescue him, he almost is set free but ultimately has to undergo a big, Ace Attorney show trial and the outcome is that they have to set out on a new quest to prove his innocence, as well as pay off the lord whose mansion he destroyed in the climax of the last series.

KonoSuba: everything is alright -- in the end

KonoSuba hasn’t quite reached the comedic heights of the first series in this opening episode, seeing as this is mostly a setup for the rest of the series, but it’s looking good. Not so much for the animation however. It was always deliberately crude and ugly and it seems this season is bumping that ugliness up a notch. All in all slightly disappointing, but still worth following. I missed those idiots.

KonoSuba: what does Aqua wear underneath that skirt

And hey, at least one of the burning mysteries of the first season has been resolved.