{"id":113377,"date":"2025-03-13T23:20:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T06:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=113377"},"modified":"2026-07-26T01:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:00:10","slug":"new-konosuba-anime-sequel-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/03\/13\/new-konosuba-anime-sequel-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"New KonoSuba Anime Sequel On The Way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The production of a <em>KonoSuba:<\/em><i> God\u2019s Blessing on this Wonderful World!&nbsp;<\/i>anime sequel has been announced.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Thus far, there have been three seasons, a movie, one season of the spin-off <em>Konosuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World!<\/em>, and OVAs. Most recent is the <em>KonoSuba:<\/em><i>&nbsp;God\u2019s Blessing on this Wonderful World!&nbsp;<\/i><em>3 -Bonus Stage-&nbsp;<\/em>OVA that began its two-week theatrical screening in Japan on March 14 JST and will be out on <span style=\"color: initial\">Blu-ray and DVD on April 25 JST.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><em>KonoSuba:<\/em><i> God\u2019s Blessing on this Wonderful World!\u00a0<\/i>is based on the isekai comedy light novel series\u00a0<span lang=\"en\">written by<strong>\u00a0Natsume Akatsuki<\/strong>\u00a0and illustrated by<strong>\u00a0Kurone Mishima<\/strong>, which was published under the KADOKAWA Sneaker Bunko label from 2013 to 2020 with 17 main volumes. Yen Press describes the light novels&#8217; premise as:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-heading-txt\">\n<p class=\"paragraph fs-16\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Game loving shut-in Kazuma Sato&#8217;s life as a young schoolboy in Japan abruptly comes to an early end&#8230;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&#8211;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&#8217;s army!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The first two <span lang=\"en\"><em>KonoSuba&nbsp;<\/em>seasons were produced at <strong>Studio Deen<\/strong>, while the 2019 movie <i>KonoSuba: God\u2019s Blessing on this Wonderful World Legend of Crimson&nbsp;<\/i>was a <strong>J.C.STAFF&nbsp;<\/strong>production. Season 3 and <em>Konosuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World!&nbsp;<\/em>were <strong>Drive<\/strong> productions.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The Season 3 staff includes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Chief director:&nbsp;<strong>Takaomi<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Kanasaki&nbsp;<\/strong>(director of Seasons 1 and 2, <span lang=\"en\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Legend of Crimso<\/span>n<\/i>)<br>\u2022 Director:<strong>&nbsp;Yuujiro Abe<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Konosuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World!<\/em>)<br>\u2022 Character designer:&nbsp;<strong>Koichi Kikuta<\/strong>&nbsp;(returning from previous instalments)<br>\u2022 Series composer:&nbsp;<strong>Makoto Uezu&nbsp;<\/strong>(returning from previous instalments)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The cast includes<strong>&nbsp;Jun Fukuyama<\/strong> as Kazuma,&nbsp;<strong>Sora Amamiya<\/strong> as Aqua,<strong>&nbsp;Rie Takahashi<\/strong> as Megumin, and&nbsp;<strong>Ai Kayano<\/strong> as Darkness.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>KonoSuba<\/em>&nbsp;began as a Shousetsuka ni Narou web novel in 2012. The light novels&nbsp;have inspired a manga adaptation by<strong>&nbsp;Masahito Watari<\/strong>&nbsp;and several spin-offs.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/konosubaanime\/status\/1900381375322349817\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">@konosubaanime<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The production of a KonoSuba: God\u2019s Blessing on this Wonderful World!&nbsp;anime sequel has been announced. Thus far, there have been three seasons, a movie, one season of the spin-off Konosuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World!, and OVAs. Most recent is the KonoSuba:&nbsp;God\u2019s Blessing on this Wonderful World!&nbsp;3 -Bonus Stage-&nbsp;OVA that began its two-week theatrical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":115287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1053,10],"tags":[14,1625,7652,180],"class_list":["post-113377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-feature","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-anime-adaptation","tag-konosuba-gods-blessing-on-this-wonderful-world-3","tag-light-novel"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Konosuba-sequel-announcement.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-tuF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113377"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163995,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113377\/revisions\/163995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}