Since many commenters took issue with it, I removed "spoiler-free" from the video title. This review only elaborates on the film's setup and first 20 minutes of content, which I don't consider to be spoilers, but ultimately it's what you're all comfortable with seeing that matters. If anyone feels this will have an adverse effect on their movie-going experience, I apologize. Looking at your other feedback, it also seems like a lot of you would prefer pre-release reviews of movies like this to be shorter, more direct, and lighter on narrative context in general. In the event that I make another one, I'll keep that in mind, instead of trying to write in my usual style. I don't make videos like this often, and this is the first one I've done so far ahead of a film's release, so it's a learning experience for me, and I appreciate the feedback
The amount of trauma kazuma goes through. One moment he wants to fuck Yun-Yun, then given an opportunity to fuck a girl. He backs out. It's somewhat instant karma, but I will agree one part plain evil. Though the second truama when he is close to the the half demon how there is something pressing against his butt was pure comedic. As it's a funny anime trope of futas. Otherwise in non-hentai. How often do you see that?
Just watched the movie, was a riot and would definitely recommend! On the topic on the two aforementioned scenes, I wouldn't say the punchlines specifically have to do with transphobia or making fun of male rape victims. Maybe only on the surface level. When Kazuma nearly gets raped, it's funny because the guy who normally makes several other girls unconformable with his advances, party members included, is now on the receiving end of the stick. Not only that, but it's right after he had proclaimed it was his popular period. It's a scene where the irony is more of the punchline, rather than just "man gets raped funny lol." As for the second scene, Slyvia isn't even a trans. They're a chimera when mixed body parts. Even if Slyvia was a trans, Kazuma has every right to decline further advances if he's not into that kind of thing. Now for why it could be so traumatizing for him would more likely go to the fact that he nearly had another person's dick inside of him, a person who he willingly gave himself to before realizing that truth. But that's just what I think. I don't believe either of those jokes are sexist to the point of offensiveness.
Exactly 😂 I don’t discredit what Geoff said I understand his feelings towards it I just have a feeling he misunderstood the scenes. It was in no way a “ew look trans” situation and more of a “omg I almost took some hot chicks HUGE cock” situation. I fully support trans people and everyone else for that matter but I still don’t want that long shlong in my rectum 💀💀
@James Thomson agreed, i would also recommend this film to fans of the show. I really don't see the "transphobic" moment as Mother's Basement likes to put it as there was none. you can't have every moment when a person with both boobs and a dick that pokes the male protagonist and then being freaked out by it labeled as "transphobic" since i see that Kazuma is a straight (or CiS to those who like to use that phrase) guy that likes women, it's rational to believe he doesn't swing towards being gay or Bi by what we've seen in both the anime, manga and LN, and having a male organ being poked into his backside is going to freak him the hell out.
Unfortunately this is always an issue in MB’s videos. He either spoils way too much the anime he’s talking about or spoils an completely unrelated anime when making comparisons...it’s always a risky watch.
Uh buddy...you do know in the scene right after that, Aqua was letting him lie down on her lap and was ruffling his hair to console him, none of them were mocking him for it. Sure the scene is played for laughs but what isn't in this show. Also...is it really so wrong that Kazuma doesn't want to have a dick stuck in his body? Honestly, that was a pretty normal reaction.
I kinda agree there...Like they where all horrified of Kazuma's...adventure with the orks. The situation itself is played for laughs because this gang of idiots their vibrant personality is so extreme and funny. And with the dick thing. None of it was transphobic or the like it was mostly a "She's a trap?!" moment..Like it's QUITE a surprise y'know?
@@dudemetslagroom8065 It wasn't so much "she's a trap" as much as "She's a trap, really strong, currently aroused, squeezing Kazuma against herself and strongly insinuating that she wants to have intercourse and he couldn't stop it from happening even if he tried"
Shouldn't be since Kazutrash is a perv. The guy know's what he wants, like when they were surrounded by goblins he outed their location because he really wanted to know where YunYun's tattoo is. My man has priorities.
He wasn't criticizing the scene itself and Kazuma's reaction necessarily, but rather the way they put it on the same level as the attempted rape, with they seriously downplayed. Yes, the CHARACTERS comforted him after that, but the movie itself clearly didn't see it as that serious.
The creator of Konosuba is all about True Gender Equality, he didn’t just have dark humor targeting male rape jokes, he also made a joke about Megumin’s mom pimpin out her own daughter for Kazuma’s riches. So it kinds of balance it out, and it also makes your statement a bit off since you only notice the dark humor that targets men.
Yes, his critique is very shoe horned and left a bad taste in my mouth. It's the only reason I'm in the comment section to make sure I wasn't the only one.
@@clashwithkeen I fucking agree with the bad taste. As he is trying to appeal to people who only aim to score social brownie points and don't purchase any anime or support the industry in any sort of way. I want to support the anime industry, but fuck no to Crunchy Roll And Funimation. Funimation for basically making me result to piracy as an American for a completely uncensored version of Ishuzoku Reviewers. Crunchyroll trying to feature cartoons, basically killing the purpose to enjoy anime and Japanese content only.. Including tampering with dubs.
@@MaoRatto I agree for the most part, but to be fair, Ishuzoku Reviewers (which I've seen all of now, and was super funny) would damn near be akin to putting a softcore porno flick on Netflix. It would've caused a major fuss if they'd let episodes 5 onwards air on their platform. As much as *I* myself enjoyed Ishuzoku Reviewers, I realize why they dropped it.
@@cliffadams1795 I would consider Ishuzoku Reviewers a hard ecchi 90% through it, outside of episode 3. Funny thing is that it is a very "progressive" viewing show how meta it can get. A very sex positive show but funny and entertaining. I find that ishuzoku reviewers should be considered a hard ecchi or a very very softcore porn. No penetration is 100% visible. Though I know that Funimation has an anime dedicated to a yuri plot giving a mermaid an orgasm. >:X If that can be on the platform, why not Ishuzoku Reviewers. Then again I do like the lesson that Ishuzoku Reviewers taught about Simul Dubs... NEVER DO IT! I find it crazy the same people who complain about diversity, get a show like this and bitch about it for sexual appeal despite it has yuri, futa, corpse, scalies, furries, fucking fat, thin, and everything in between. Basically has more diversity than a diversity casted hollywood film, with ten times the quality. I honestly hope the anime does great and the manga gets a more panels. As I would love to see more of it. I am admitly a fan of ishuzoku reviewers due to the crudeness and honestly it is soooo meta.
@@cliffadams1795 Funimation's standards are hypocritical if they can have Yuri themed shows, high school dxd, prison school, shows with homosexuality, yet a show that is mostly straight with futas and lesbianism as side dishes does the same thing. It gets pulled off of the platform. Despite the same platform has a show with ass fighting and boob fighting. It makes you think real hard what is their standards.... An anime about making a mermaid having an orgasm is allowed which is basically yuri yet that Ishuzoku Reviewers has a similar amount of dirt with a tad more.
All of that stuff you said about the movie making fun of Kazuma for being traumatised by the attempted rape from the orc was literally your headcanon and not what happened in the movie at all. None of the three girls were laughing about it afterward, and crucially Aqua was genuinely consoling Kazuma which was a very rare scene indeed from her. Whether any person watching found it funny or not is entirely subjective but the fact is none of characters in the scene treated it as a joke whatsoever. I personally wasn't laughing but the amusing factor of the pervert who has sexually harassed women in the past now getting chased by lusting orcs during his "popular phase" was not lost on me, and I'm sure this is partly why the Kazuma was traumatised picture came in. Overall I think you were reading a lot into the scene and basically chose to interpret it in a really negative manner that wasn't really portrayed by the film itself. Dude... You're seriously reading too much into the Sylvia is a trap scene. Just because Kazuma expected her to be female but then is very troubled by the fact she has a dick while he's literally physically bound to her, you know, a demon chimera who could literally rape him if she chose to, isn't mean spirited at all. It's called sexual preferences and everyone is allowed to have them. Kazuma being traumatised by that is entirely his business. This wasn't a bad review, and I really appreciate your content in general you're a good TH-camr overall absolutely, but it seems like you must have watched the film only once and missed some pretty critical details of certain scenes which lead to you making negative assumptions about them.
delta_reg Honestly I’d say a review that spends the first half getting all protective and unnecessarily offended at 2 jokes of what I assume is a demographic he isn’t even a part of than spending the latter half going “oh yeah and it continues to be funny” a fairly bad review. All while While saying that he doesn’t consider 20 minutes of the plot from a 90-minute movie spoilers a bad review.
Thank you! I saw it twice in theaters and on TH-cam again earlier today and not once were the girls laughing at him. Throughout the chase they were scared and even afterwords none of them brought it up. Darkness was unusually worried about their trip, Aqua was legitimately consoling him, and Megumin tried to cheer him up by talking about YunYun's "tattoo". And even the joke with Sylvia was a quick one that didn't linger too much on it and quickly moved on after Kazuma's trauma. Kazuma never brings it up again after she lets go of him. And while yes he did kind of manipulate her at the end, at no point did he ever show any disgust for her because of her gender; rather he was more focused on saving Megumin's family and village. That was the reason why he was fighting her. I just think he got caught up in the moment that he ended up either recalling the scenes differently or was too distracted to focus on what else was happening.
Yeah I'm kinda disappointed in MB for missing how genuine the group's concern for Kasuma was, and how at no point in time did the group turn it into a joke. Doubly so for somehow inventing the delusion he did. Not to mention that he so easily glosses over the fact that Kasuma was sexually assaulted by a hermaphrodite, and says it's transphobic because Kasuma didn't want to be anally penetrated, suggesting that men can't possibly rescind consent at any point in time or dare to have sexual preferences of their own. Especially after going on his short lived tirade about the often comedic portrayal of male rape victims not five minutes earlier.
Double standards are ridiculous in this review. Most of the humor on this show is sexual in nature, with stealing panties, underage characters, severely underage characters, kink shaming and more. Now you're somehow offended with the jokes in this movie? It's like watching Family Guy (TV) and then calling them out after watching one of their movies. Makes no sense.
Kaleo Mungin Yeah, like it is true that male sexual assault/rape victims are often trivialized, but this wasn’t really an example of that. The joke was that not only were the roles now flipped, but that this was right after exclaiming that it was his “popular phase”.
Ya. And the scene with him getting traumatized by Sylvia is genius because it's actually more psychological than the near rape scene in that instead of anything really happening he probably imagined himself getting pegged by Sylvia which for him was traumatizing. Everyone has their tastes and for him it was beyond horrific.
@@therocknrollgeek Nah man people are WAYYY too sensitive lol. At the end of the day those were all jokes and it wasn't made to be taken seriously just like the rest of the anime. I mean, they've even joked about being able to have innapropriate dreams about underage girls. If they can joke about that then they can joke about these things too. People just have to understand that it's not serious.
Having read the LN, I can say there's no spoilers in this review that 'actually matter' but I would still recommend not watching it if you want to enjoy the movie to the full extent
@@dagingerbreadman70 By highlighting that I read the LN, it backs up my claims. If I told you it had spoilers and didn't tell you I read the LN would you believe me? I didn't think so. And how is reading a book a flex, well maybe in your case i can see why that may be the case because you clearly lack the brain cells to do so.
Ok so I watched the movie immediately after season 2 as a quarantine binge, and it was really weird cause barely thought of it as a movie, I was just like "oop time to go watch the next episode" and when time has no meaning its really weird to finish an our and a half of that and go "wait, I just watched an entire movie and could barely tell the difference"
Let's make it a huge success so we can have a 26 ep season 3! I mean Ristarte cries too and all but I want aqua back because She wines She whines And almost immediately she whines for wines Also megumin's my waifu btw cause EXPLOSIONS
@@athalarahmanjauhari4135 nope . She is the only one who can take down the undead also the only one who can heal and revive other people. That's more usefull than the childish loli who can use only one attack per day
Dude, Kazuma being turned off by finding out a girl was actually a futa does not make him transphobic. It just means he doesnt swing that way and was traumatized by having a male member rubbing against him. Its not the same level as being nearly raped but its still a trauma to an extent when you are unable to escape due to tentacles holding you in place. Transphobic would mean that if he think they shouldn't be treated equally or wanting to commit hate crimes or stuff against them. Your sexual attraction not extending to a certain gender or something does not make you a hater of that group. Doing stuff like that trivializes the terribleness of ACTUAL transphobic people in the world and media. The review is pretty bad man, and this is coming from someone who has loved and parroted alot of reviews of yours when trying to get others into anime. But this, this shit is bad man.
@@benjamindetry3314 if I cut out half the review, then that remaining half would be good. But on a test, only getting half of it right would be a failure, so I apply the same logic here.
>Dude, Kazuma being turned off by finding out a girl was actually a futa does not make him transphobic. It just means he doesnt swing that way This has to be the most "Im not transphobic BUT" thing ever ...
@@andrashock6380 i felt like the joke was "kazuma was almost tricked by a woman with a benis and got raped haha" I know that Sylvia isn't trans but you have to remember that the movie doesn't exist in a vacuum and pulls ideas from the real world, with Japan being particularly guilty of painting LGBT people as predatory and even pedophile at times Even my fav anime suffers from this, as much as i love Leeron from gurren-lagann, he still goes on making sexual jokes around kids and the anime expects you to laugh at his advances on Kamina The very idea if Kazuma being tricked is what is transphobic. Sure everyone has their preferences but the movie goes out of it's way to make him get tricked just to make a rape joke, with it's only excuse being that Sylvia isn't human and thus our gender concepts don't apply to them, that simply doesnt't fly because people accuse trans people of being predatory in real life all the time lol
Not really, he didn’t even spoil about a certain japanese who made all this debacle, or a certain Chuunibyou who made that certain misunderstanding for Yunyun.
I think that rape attempt was a parody/ reference to a Goblin Slayer or similar hentai/fantasy tropes that have a female character raped by monsters and don't treat it with any dignity or seriousness.
This review is basically "good movie, except these 2 scenes i will talk about in great detail that i highly dislike, but its still a good movie, except for those scenes, but u should still watch it, even though those scenes are sexist and transphobic, but still a good movie" Others have already pointed out how those scenes werent nearly as bad as they were made out to be, far better then i could, so i wont repeat it again here. it just doesnt sit well with me that half of this review was spent complaining about 2 scenes, while ignoring other arguable worse scenes & the rest of the movie, while saying its still worth the watch between repeated complaints.
Agree, his dislike with those two scenes annoy the entire review for me cause he spend so many time touching that subject. Both scenes were hilarious cause both of them were on context, and wtf was that of trans people? That's waaaaaaaaaaaay off. Something to complain about the movie is that the end of Sylvia wasn't the same as the light novel, cause that one is fucking amazing and hilarious lol and i can't believe wasnt like that but the end still was very good and funny to watch.
He is just either being oversensitive because its a twitter worthy issue right now, or its overcorrection on his part, trying to show he isnt taking these serious topics easily. Either way its unnecessary here, good to know but unneccessary :D
@@jeffreygilson1565 true he took way to much to correct himself.. i get that he want to be p.c about that.. its fine.. but to drag it and keep digging on he REALLY not support that act and it WASNT a laughing matter.. like we get it.. but it shouldve been shorter and more into the movie review then reviewing that two part gag and trying to justify something from that gag while also forget that everyone were very concern about kazuma and aqua actually console him but instead saying the party were mocking him like what?
I really can't wait to see this movie, after this we need a season 3. And a crossover event with Danmachi Memoria Freese. And then it's own video game. And then season 4.
I laugh just because it was unexpected, of how they just animated like a super dramatic reveal, like when megumin sister makes jojoposes, the reaction of how Kazuma doesn't want to be drilled and how he deserved it in a way for wanting to leave the group
I agree with this, the jokes were freaking hilarious and I had no problem with them. If anyone is bothered by the chimera joke then they're just getting emotional and need to get their head out of the gutter. They said "chimera" what is a chimera people? (drops mic)
Honestly while watching the movie the rape jokes were extremely funny to me. I wasnt thinking about pop culture or modern issues with rape, i was just seeing it from the movie's perspective. I feel people take light hearted comedy such as konosuba way too seriously.
You do realize that the 2nd "trautamized" scene involves the girl who was not a girl holding him and not leting go. and as far as im cuncorned both are an almost rape case
@@samoria7530 Any man would, but you know, mother´s basement has to go with all that PC bullshit, i mean c´mon, ofensive?, WTF?, nobody have sense of humor anymore?.
@@soulcarlosv He was ok with kazuma literally talking with himself about being able to beat rape charges if he molested megumin in her sleep, but god forbid if a hetero sexual man dosent like penis lol . what a joke.
Man should’ve brought up how Megumin parents try to give her to kazuma and trap them in the same room but love this video and agree with all your statements
This movie packs everything great about Konosuba into 90 minutes. Honestly the fact that the movie is being bashed by those two jokes is pathetic to me. It's why I'm glad Japan has yet to bend the knee to the shitty "Oh you hurt my feelings, get canceled" culture in the US. Those were some of the best parts of the movie and every one who watched it with me, including myself, were dying of laughter.
Sylvia scared me as well. I really started laughing when kazuma trapped him/her in that dungeon and he/her started threatening to "poke" hard. Disgusting yet hilarious
I honestly think that no jokes should be off limits, so many people find so many different things funny and offensive, so at the end of the day, if we were to actually adjust media to not offend, we would have to have bland stories with no words spoken, and no visuals. P.S. I'm not saying you think these jokes shouldn't be allowed in Konosuba or other media, not even close, I just kind of felt like giving my thoughts, and hopefully I did so in a somewhat respectful manner.
DREAMSCAPE CINEMA Exactly what I was thinking. I just watched the movie earlier today and read a bunch of reviews saying how the humor is distasteful and offensive. You don’t have to find it funny but don’t ruin it for people that do
@@benpearson49 I'd agree that any humor from it is derived because it's at Kazuma's expense. At worst, the jokes can come off as uncomfortable (especially the female orc joke), but the main issue isn't really the jokes themselves. I'd say the main issue is that there's a group of Konosuba fans that tend to overlook the fact that Kazuma is a terrible person, in the same way that some Metal Gear fans think the franchise is free of "politics" or how some WH40K fans think its universe is showing off ideal forms of government. The number of "true gender equality" posts on r/animemes is proof enough of that. It sucks, because imo Sylvia was handled relatively well on her end, given how she made it clear that she had no romantic interest in Kazuma until he was pumped full of Charisma steroids. The creator can't really account for braindead portions of the fandom, making it harder for the rest of us.
@@lampad4549 On its own, nothing. However, Kazuma isn't using it because he believes in it, he's using it to get away with stuff he wouldn't be able to otherwise. Otherwise, he wouldn't make a habit of stealing women's underwear.
"Sorry for going off on a tangent." After spending almost half of the video on these two scenes? When you made a point about wanting to include them because that's what some people will care about in what you made a point to say was a review? Remind me is this a review of the whole movie or two scenes?
To be fair there’s not that much to talk about in a review for the movie. It’s just a long Konosuba episode. If you like Konosuba you’ll like the movie, if not you won’t.
@@Alias_Anybody they did show an ad for the DVD before the movie that was dubbed (German). It wasn't long enough to say for sure but the voices didn't fit to great.
Ben "Yahtrzee" Croshaw has a wonderful thing on perfection that fits with how much those badly handled two things stick out. I am paraphrasing, I think, but ; "the closer you get to perfection, the more glaring the flaws become."
weren't those 2 things more a flaw of the light novel? or the anime is at fault for keeping those moments intact. or the film was doome from the start because had they adapted out those?, there would have been razzles about how they weren't loyal to the light novel
@@ianr.navahuber2195 I just watched it and it wasn't loyal anyways. There is a whole 20 minute thing that wasn't in the LN. But it was still a great movie.
@Ian R. Nava Huber Actually, I would say the anime is at fault because 1) the novel did not play the first point for laughs, and 2) the novel also did not try to equate the trauma of the second point to the trauma of the first point. Those were decisions of the anime, and while I wouldn't say the novel is completely blameless, it is certainly the anime's fault for needlessly magnifying those points.
Sylvia isn't a trans tho, they're a Chimera. They have both boy and girl parts, and thus Sylvia isn't trans (Sylvia wasn't born a girl, they were born a Chimera with both parts). You can't be transphobic if the character isn't even trans.
Just got back from my local screening of this film, and I gotta say, it was pretty great. It had me, my friends, and pretty much the whole theater positively rolling in laughter for almost the entire runtime. Some jokes may not be for some people, but if you like Konosuba, you ought to know what you're in for at this point... Being that it runs as a continuation of the main story, you absolutely need to have watched the first two seasons and OVAs to know what the hell is going on, so people going in blind to this should mostly be a non-issue. Seriously, it's really fucking funny. If you like Konosuba, go watch it.
I'm bigender myself and I still laughed at the second potentially offensive joke, but perhaps it was more a mix of 'yep, Kazuma continues to be a scumbag' and that they didn't dwell on it too long. It's not the best joke, but I didn't find the villain to be the absolute best villain, either...can a villain be summed up with the trope of 'satellite love interest'? Because that was what she was - I honestly don't remember much about her apart from her falling for Kazuma nigh-immediately and focusing in on that. Granted, this was a comedy movie, but you know. Taking that for what it is. The first one just seems like Kazuma getting a bit of a taste of his own medicine, considering before that he was jumping to go at Yunyun and he has an entire crisis about whether or not to jump at Megumin later. Not to say that that fully justifies it, but it at least proves that his 'popular phase' isn't entirely positive. If that's offensive, then I'd consider the fact that Megumin's mother basically sleep-drugs the entire party apart from Kazuma and leaves /her own daughter/ in a room with him alone at night entirely because Kazuma is rich far worse than that. (At least the orcs are killed. Megumin's mom? ....She doesn't even really get chewed out for that.) Again, however, I don't go to Konosuba for tasteful commentary. One of my friends described the series as 'Fantasy It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia', and I'd agree with that. All the characters are awful people and they do awful things. Don't aspire to be like them and don't take their views as absolute, because you /will/ find yourself in hot water if you do. But in the basis of the show, know that they're also seen....as awful people. So take that as you will. If you see one anime movie this year, in my completely bias opinion.....see Osomatsu-San the Movie. (I haven't seen Promare, and I don't really intend to until the hype goes down, lest my expectations get set too high.) But this is a close second best, and the screening I saw was lively as everything (which was surprising, bc I went to the second screening of the film and it was still packed). Good shit.
You’re not transphobic for being shocked that what you perceived was a woman turns out to be trans. People have their preferences. The joke is played as Kazuma being trash and being his typical misogynistic self and then having his expectations flipped on it’s head. Real transphobia is him being aware Sylvia was trans beforehand and then attacking her because of that fact and him being intolerant of it based on his own preconditioned prejudice rather than her just being a villain and being a general in the Devil King’s army. But typical liberal Geoff sees a sensitive issue and immediately resorts to white knighting 🙄
Kevin Mairena Yeah I would agree. If I was really into someone sexually and had been fondeling their tits for the last five minutes. Then found out they had a dick. I would be rather traumatized as I’m not into dicks. Especially if they start rubbing said dick against my ass and give me no way to escape. Which Sylvia does, and that’s kinda male rape again or Atleast molestation. So Geoff’s comment is absolutely bullshit. Hell Kazuma actually gets over the fact that she has a dick rather quickly after that. Especially when she mentions she has the skills of a succubus.
As a trans person these comments are so hard to read. Geoff's sensitivity around this kind of subject matter is one of the reasons I really appreciate him as a You-Tuber. I'm not moaning at anyone for their views on this film, but it does hurt to see the ridiculous amount of abuse being fired at him for addressing an issue that for many people it's important that it's addressed. Asking for viewer discretion around potentially distressing content is not censorship, it is not white knighting, and it isn't attacking those that like this film. It is certainly ironic however that people are so offended at someone asking for care around something that is potentially offensive.
It sounded like nukes going off in the theater. Loved this movie. The theatre was half filled in Mississippi, so it did better than I expected here. Lots of hard laughs throughout from everyone in attendance.
I think that the second traumatic event isn't transphobic at all because kazuma is straight and he was tricked and scared but it was funny cuz he did it to himself, it wasn't disgust but shock
He wasn’t tricked. He made the assumption that Slyvia was a female and willingly embraced her because he thought she was hot. It wasn’t until he realized Slyvia was a chimeric amalgamation of animals and genders that he realized he was in as much trouble as his party felt for him at the get-go. She being trans isn’t what is funny. It’s the irony of the situation.
@@jprec5174 The fact that later on, once he had the time to get over the shock, Kazuma does willingly embrace her again pretty much proves that he isn't 'transphobic', but why would Geoff mention that little fact when it completely negates his entire argument, right?
"Spoiler-free Review" - it is not in the least spoiler-free. Glad I've already read novel cuz I would have been really pissed for this. You say "spoiler-free" then go and basically explain the whole plot step by step.
I think your criticisms of those two scenes are more than fair, but I agree, I don't think it detracts from the overall quality of the movie. Absolutely loved it and will defiantly watch it again!
Thank you for the review! And thank you also for detailing those less than tasteful jokes. I'm still looking forward to watching the movie cause I loved the series but knowing those things beforehand helps. Also, "If you only see one anime film this year... it should definitely be Promare" I didn't get the chance to 😭😭
The 2 "Traumatizing" scenes are some of the funniest parts of that movie hands down. I won't let you change my viewpoint on that by taking your own spin on what you THOUGHT was the intended joke in those scenes. Ik what they were REALLY trying to joke about, and since i can take what you would call a JOKE, they are hilarious.
- contains some spoilers - He's been an asshole to everyone but he gets along with them if the time comes like Vanir or Mitsurugi. It didn't feel like it's shaming Sylvia for being trans. She's still a respectable character especially in the chaos that is Konosuba. The fact still remains that she's hot, benevolent and a capable leader. She's not even human since she's technically chimera so that's just a setup like the orcs being rapists since no males are left or the crimson demons being chuuni for being overpowered or Darkness being sexually charged because she's a sheltered rich blonde or the more obvious one like Aqua coming from a higher race but dumb. About the orcs, we've seen Kazuma being a molester in the tv show so what's a rape joke really. There's even a grooming joke when Kazuma gave food to Komekko. People's outlook won't change much anyway. If people aren't willing to be open-minded, they'll believe whatever they want. That goes for people who wants to be offended as well. There's even people who find rape victims disgusting as a partner and I'll respect that if that makes both of us less uncomfortable since I'm a rape victim myself. It wasn't really offensive or at least hurtfully so. Of course this is just my opinion. I'm not trying to speak up for everybody here.
[e:LLUSIV ] Kazuma explicitly says that it's because Sylvia had a male organ - so it has nothing to do with her being a Chimera. And it's not just that one joke. The show takes that and basically says she deserves to die for wanting love in a non-normal way. It's what Kazuma uses to murder her at the end. How is that not terrible?
@@kylegreen6711 Again, I'm not shutting down the distasteful representation but this is Konosuba. You think the sexualization of the other characters are not? My point at the end is that Kazuma can be a sexist character but YOU don't have to be to enjoy a piece of entertainment. That's all it is, a piece of media and it's not an objectively a bad movie. We should reserve getting outrage to actual hateful agendas because it cheapens the whole thing. There's a lot of people out there that cry fake concern for women but have other thoughts inside their minds. So Sylvia is either an offensive character, just another character or a justification and whatever choice people took, that won't change. To why they wanted to kill her, wasn't that because she was waging war? She was still one of the Demon Generals, I don't think it would escalate that much if she just retreated. Beldia and Hans died because of that as well while Wiz was spared because she was disinterested in the war. Vanir is still alive because he's stronger than he's letting on.
I hate how mothers basement started to throw in his PC opinions of real life into this review, Both jokes were fine. You people have to realize that Japanese people have different ideas and beliefs on rape/transphobia. This movie was made in Japan for Japanese people. Foreigners can’t complain when a Japanese anime doesn’t fit their western points of view.
I agree! Transphobia and rape jokes is an integral part of japanese culture and it should not be criticized! It is extremely funny to japanese people and I think it should stay that way! Thank you for your valuable input!
@@imran2_213 Oh look, a sad pathetic bigot. Not surprising you think everyone that disagrees with you needs to have an agenda to do so. Projecting much?
Bruh just saw the movie a solid 30 minutes ago and my friend and I are STILL laughing. What an absolute *bomb* of a movie. The action was *explosive* !
Wanted to wait to watch this review until I saw the move first and I just got back from the theater. It was completely worth the hour drive! I was laughing the entire time!
It was an awesome movie that's only blemished is that it couldn't cover everything in Volume 5 do to time constraints. Otherwise, I enjoyed both the creativeness of the ending battle and the general commitment to sticking with the source material. Any Konosuba fan that didn't get a chance to watch it, totally should 😉👍
Some people may complain about the jokes going “too far” or being “too traumatic” in certain aspects, but this is my favorite anime because they are actually willing to go that far and make jokes in all directions. As someone who has happened to have been traumatized, I like those jokes. We need to be able to smile, laugh, and move forward.
That's how I feel about the whole series lol. The villains are sympathetic because most of them are sane and have normal demands like "Please stop blowing up my house" or "Give me my cat back, I even payed you and you kept the money!"
This is Konosuba. Being tasteless is pretty much standard. Sometimes it’s more tasteless (if that is how it is said) than others, but it really isn’t out of nowhere.
Why is comedy expected to tiptoe around these gender topics. Comedy is arguably supposed to be politically incorrect. Kazuma is Kazuma. We as viewers know that we should be accepting of all people. It should be second nature, which is why his disgusted reaction is funny.
There's also the issue that the character in question deliberately hides what they are until they're in a position to take advantage of Kazuma. That's something that actually happens and people who do it are horrible. Kazuma being traumatized by that was wholly justified. The issue with the orcs is a *little* harder to skirt around, but it's not even the first time they've made rape jokes in Konosuba. That's a pretty regular occurrence and trying to say that one instance is horrible because the target was a male is extremely hypocritical.
The movie, for what I see, uses the plot directly from the Light novel; the anime community complains a lot about non-canon stories on movies and shows. Well, now that's what you get: From the novel to your screen.
I think the ork joke was more "the shoes on the other foot now" as opposed to "haha, guy got assaulted", considering all the shit kazuma has pulled. Plus, Aqua actually comforts him, which is pretty out of character for her, implying that the characters recognize how fucked up the situation was.
Thanks for the trigger warning, as a male victim of sexual assault the way we are treated in media reminds me all to well of the scorn and derision I received when trying to talk and work through me trauma. Now I just don't talk about it. I don’t need the additional shame and humiliation people are all to happy to heap on
@juamnji yes People do care. Saying "no-one cares" is just a way of trying to excuse your own terrible behaviour by pretending it's normal. That is blatantly apparent.
I actually sincerely appreciate your comments on these two tasteless jokes. I'd forgotten about these bits from the novel and I will pre-warn my friend who is going to see it with me.
I appreciate the time you take to do things well. I hope it doesnt get toxic when you read the comments in order to be more aware of issues and cater better to your viewers. Great video. Thank you.
Whallop the entire scenario itself however wasn’t particularly funny though. The reveal being “they have a penis” reeks of late 2000s humor that was done a million times already
Aden Norwich Plus in actuality, when transwomen transition through surgery, the penis is actually inverted so it becomes a vagina or clitoris. In short, the surgery would make it so there was no penis sticking out. You shouldn’t be able to tell a transwoman is trans when her penis isn’t seen even while naked or during sex. You’re still straight if you find a transwoman attractive. It’s not a trick if she wants to be seen as woman and she’s passing as one. You are not being lied to when a transwoman is telling you she is a woman, all you’re doing is being insecure about your straight instead of just liking the woman as a woman.
Having just watched the movie, I can sort of see why the two scenes may have come across as distasteful, though having also read the novel and not only expecting them but knowing what the run up to them is supposed to be, I still found them funny. One thing about Konosuba is that it really does treat women equally to men, the orc scene is both funny and cringe-worthy, specifically in the disparity between Kazuma and Darkness's reactions. It's not Kazuma almost getting raped. It's that Kazuma is being forced to endure Darkness's fantasy as Darkness learns that her fantasy can never come true. And just for reference, I'm a guy who has experienced unwanted advances from both women and men.
So, knowing I’ll be probably flamed for it. Your entire argument for not wanting to call you out on your over white knighting of comedy is that cause it will hurt certain people’s feelings. I get that but the issue is you can’t take this stance and then say “don’t debate me about it”. Comedy is and always will be subjective, if something is presented as comical and the setting is again comical then you should see it for what it is, comical. I bet you’re the type that if you go to a comedy club and the comedian makes a joke about something you don’t wanna hear you get up and leave or try to harass him and make him feel bad. When comedy is used for such things such as the examples you’re given, especially when it’s done in a setting that is supposed to be comical, it’s should be shown and understood in a way that the person making the joke is basically saying “I’m not gonna let this thing be the best of me and make it so fearful and taboo that we can’t talk about it” Also from what I have seen and heard about the attempted rape scene in this movie the jokes weren’t made to belittle male rape victims, at least by my context, that is you and every over sensitive person. Finally you can’t take this stance when there are MUCH MUCH MUCH more or equally vulgar and overly sensitive topics, in particular to women that konosuba does. Long story short, too late, you can’t put yourself on a pedestal and then shout down at others when the entire foundation of it is flimsy at best Edit: Now if you were simply providing this info to warn people who might take offense that’s different. However, your tone came off as saying “rape jokes and trans jokes aren’t funny”. If that’s true then every misfortune thats above and beyond simple bad luck and slap stick comedy should be afforded the same “protection” of being to taboo, which again would mean that your love of konosuba is a little hypocritical cause again as stated before, lot of “not cool” stuff happens in that show I know you laughed your ass off probably
That was a completely unnecessary rant. He was careful and considerate on how he made those complaints and didn't attack anyone. There is actually quite a pronounced irony in how offended you were at a criticism warning people of potentially offensive content. Personally I'm very glad he did put that warming in there because I am transgender. Now when I inevitably watch this film I'll be braced for that moment allowing me to look past a joke that would otherwise of deeply offended and shocked me and ruined the rest of the film for me. Did you ever consider that? That warning like that actually improve the experience for people as oppose to detract from it? People can be offended at things and they are allowed to express those concerns. It doesn't mean you have to listen to those concerns of-course, but it is very unreasonable to try and shut those criticisms down.
Comedy dies when censorship exists. If you make fun of one group everyone should be fair game. And if you come into a movie knowing the series is fairly crude humor-wise, don't get triggered if there is crude humor in the movie. Also I like my waifus like I like my coffee NO DICK
Andi Mason I assume you read the edit part of my “rant” that said if it was a simple announcement that I wouldn’t have said what I did? No instead he goes on to critique it, saying that the jokes themselves because of what the subject matter is, make them unfunny, not how they are delivered, even though he says “lazy” which I can’t argue simply because I haven’t seen the film yet. Now coincidently, cause that’s what you meant to say not ironic, the reason I went ON this rant is because many people today are going after comedy and it’s taboo subjects that they think are inappropriate due to “woke” culture, which comes off more as “don’t talk about the subjects at all”. This in my opinion is equivalent to censorship. Comedy is a way to bring people together and in a sense “normalize” subjects, people, and topics. Now when I say normalize I don’t mean “acceptable” I mean normalize in that it’s a topic that you can discuss in a conversation outside of comedy without being afraid of simply talking about it. You as a transgender, I will assume, have had to deal with a lot of awkward moments that you can clearly tell people want to talk to you about, but instead they either shy away from it due to being afraid of how they might offend you. I was like that as well when it came to talking to a transgendered person and due to this fear of the topic the media and society attached to it, I remained very ignorant about the topic for many years because I was too afraid to talk about it because of how sensitive the topic was and how fast people reacted emotionally to it. I only really understood when a friend came out as trans and I felt comfortable talking with them to understand what that meant. Now! Again for my rant the point of all of this, is that many people white knight and say “this isn’t funny, because the topic is serious” and it to me feels like “the topic is so scary, we shouldn’t talk about it”. With my experience though, when you are able to make the topic less scary, you have better dialogue for it and it helps people grow and understand the subject. This is very important to me, comedy itself is very important to me. So when I see people critique taboo comedy like this, like he did because he went above and beyond a simple “heads up notice” he plugged a channel and video which I have seen, which has misrepresented data, analysis, and helps forward certain rape culture simply by saying that if you make fun of this topic you are making fun of or disenfranchising victims, which is not the case. Granted some comedians do that, but you can tell the difference between comedy and commentary by context, delivery, and overall setting. So yes, I was offended because in the same idea that trans issues are important to you, comedy and censorship are a big important thing for me. Also, due to the subject matter of this show, I don’t see why Kazuma almost getting raped, and the trans scene mentioned are different than the sexual harassment, abuse, and assault that happen on a regular basis in Konosuba. You can’t say “these serious topics are off limits” when equal level topics are being made fun of and you claim the show that constantly makes fun of it is your favorite show, you see the “irony” in that don’t you?
@@kaozskater There is a difference between crude humour and abusive humour. There is common thing in comedy known as punching up. Basically crude and base jokes are only funny it angled at the group or individual being a ass-hole and not the group being victimised. There is a bit more too it than that but that's the general idea. Jokes at someones expense for being a petty, pervy and miserable twat... funny. Jokes siding with the individual being a petty, pervy and miserable twat... not funny. Also learn the difference between censorship and criticism. No-one here is trying to censor Konosuba, what they are doing (and are absolutely entitled to do) is criticise it.
This ain't a good one chief, I wish you'd talk more about the movie instead of two scenes, like goddamn man, this is supposed to be a review, I thought you'd go more in depth with the whole thing, instead of "These scenes made me uncomfortable, I'm going to complain about them for 9 minutes"
Okay, gotta be the devil's advocate here regarding the two scenes that you found to be, say, "problematic", to put it lightly. About the attempted orc rape: Yeah, even i, a person who really enjoys black humor, thought this scene to be a bit much for Konosuba (even though you could argue that it was intended as a satirical, albeit rather dark inversion of the "girl adventurer gets assaulted by hideous monster(s)"-trope that sadly made its way into a lot of fantasy mangas and animes like SAO or Goblin Slayer, i don't know, i haven't read the light novel). But your argument about the transgender twist, that i just can't let fly. That was the equivalent of that one meme video where the person says: "Think about it for a second, would you date a trans person? Well, if you said no, that's pretty discriminatory." As someone in the comments pointed out, the trap trope has been fairly common in anime, Isekai in particular, where the hero sees this beautiful little girl only to find out that "she" has got the old footlong between her legs. In most cases, this is an unpleasant surprise for the hero who usually is a teenage boy with no sexual experience whatsoever (like Kazuma). Now, would you say that all these shows were discriminating trans people? Just because futa isn't Kazumas taste doesn't mean he hates their guts. I believe Hangover 2 had a similar joke. Which is not to say that Konosuba and Hangover 2 are on the same level of comedy, absolutely not, but i think you get my point. If i tolerate something, that doesn't mean i have to love it. I am a firm believer in the principle of "Everyone is free to do what they want as long as they don't harm anyone around them". Same thing the other way around. It's not my taste, but i'm not stupid enough to deprive them of their right to exist. I think most people don't realize how much better the reception of minorities has actually become. Of course, i'm not so naive to think that the world is perfect, there are still problems, even some very major ones, but look back at history and how it was back then. I come from Germany, you know, the country where that certain something with that certain someone happened? Do you know how people with a different sexual orientation were treated back then? That's right, they were locked up in camps and forced to do backbreaking physical labor with minimal food until they died a slow and horrible death. And if they didn't die fast enough, they were shot or suffocated with toxic gas. I just recently revisited Buchenwald, one of the most well-known KZ's, right after Mauthausen, Dachau and Auschwitz to remind myself of the scope and scale of the destruction of human lives that took place there. With that in mind, we can really be glad that the world has evolved at least a bit. Nowadays, excluding of course the run-of-the-mill neo-nazi dipshits, if someone throws around slogans like: "Arisches Blut soll nicht untergehen!" in public, he won't recieve a lot of applause. The opposite, if anything. Nowadays you can walk into the supermarket with a mustache and a dress and no one would harm you. So, i conclusion, please refrain from pushing political agendas in places where they really don't belong. If you really want to, you can see offensive aspects in nearly everything. If you want to talk about your political views and how they influence the way you look at media in general and anime in particular, why not make a dedicated video about it? Heck, we can even talk about it in the comments if you want. After all, discussion is the base of any good democracy. Salutations, ZeldamateurLP
Since many commenters took issue with it, I removed "spoiler-free" from the video title. This review only elaborates on the film's setup and first 20 minutes of content, which I don't consider to be spoilers, but ultimately it's what you're all comfortable with seeing that matters. If anyone feels this will have an adverse effect on their movie-going experience, I apologize.
Looking at your other feedback, it also seems like a lot of you would prefer pre-release reviews of movies like this to be shorter, more direct, and lighter on narrative context in general. In the event that I make another one, I'll keep that in mind, instead of trying to write in my usual style. I don't make videos like this often, and this is the first one I've done so far ahead of a film's release, so it's a learning experience for me, and I appreciate the feedback
wait theres a movie where can i watch it ?
Please, try to be more professional with your content.
Hey, I wanted to thank you for talking about the attempted rape and trans woman being treated both as jokes and as equal.
So, thanks.
You should keep that part it. It's why I chose to watch this video.
It honestly felt like one long konosuba episode and i’m not even mad
Head on btw
it isnt available in german cinemas so what should i do
@@dinan4395 can you tell me some of those sites cause i realy cant see it otherwise
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"My name is Mitsurugi"
Satou Kazuma - 2019
"Chunchunmaru"
Sylvia: so you are the wielder of the cursed sword, mitsurugi
Kazuma: *(sound in the background)* mitsurugi da
Correction: Mitsurugi Kyouka - 2019
Now I just picture Kazuma pogo-sticking on that sword 😂 I’m referencing Mitsurugi from Soul Caliber
Chickened out in the end of that speech
In summary:
90% of the budget went to that hand-holding scene between Kazuma and Megumin and explosions
50% of the movie was spent on the hand animation alone
Don’t forget the titty movements
and Yun-yun's boobs
Im not complaining
POWER... SURGING!
I watched it in a theater. But there was that one guy who said: "The subs are too fast."
His friends left him.
Can you elaborate more? I'm interested on hearing this.
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Those friends are assholes. In my theater, some guy kept reading the subtitles aloud.
@@CrusaderWelora I might've been fine with that. Depends on if his voice is annoying or not.
@@cosmic_bean oh you mean the scene when Kazuma is rejoined with the others and Sylvia kept banging on the door begging to be let out?
Megumin family:
Megumini
Megumin
Megumom
Meguman
Underrated
Megumilf?
Mini Megumin
Jotaro
Flat Tifa
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@@aidensusername2528 Yeah they enter the house and she´s like "Waga na wa Megumilf",
The amount of psychological trauma he undergoes is just plain evil and it was hilarious
The orcs was kinda sad but he definitely deserved the sylvia treatment.
@@shoobzy3431 isnt that just putting salt in the wound?
The amount of trauma kazuma goes through. One moment he wants to fuck Yun-Yun, then given an opportunity to fuck a girl. He backs out. It's somewhat instant karma, but I will agree one part plain evil. Though the second truama when he is close to the the half demon how there is something pressing against his butt was pure comedic. As it's a funny anime trope of futas. Otherwise in non-hentai. How often do you see that?
@@shoobzy3431 i found the orcs hilarious i see the problem but idc its funny to me
his disfigured body after he died made Eris vomit.
Just watched the movie, was a riot and would definitely recommend!
On the topic on the two aforementioned scenes, I wouldn't say the punchlines specifically have to do with transphobia or making fun of male rape victims. Maybe only on the surface level.
When Kazuma nearly gets raped, it's funny because the guy who normally makes several other girls unconformable with his advances, party members included, is now on the receiving end of the stick. Not only that, but it's right after he had proclaimed it was his popular period. It's a scene where the irony is more of the punchline, rather than just "man gets raped funny lol."
As for the second scene, Slyvia isn't even a trans. They're a chimera when mixed body parts. Even if Slyvia was a trans, Kazuma has every right to decline further advances if he's not into that kind of thing. Now for why it could be so traumatizing for him would more likely go to the fact that he nearly had another person's dick inside of him, a person who he willingly gave himself to before realizing that truth.
But that's just what I think. I don't believe either of those jokes are sexist to the point of offensiveness.
James Thomson yeah that was such a face slap, how can something be transphobic when the thing is a literally fantasy drawing.
Exactly 😂 I don’t discredit what Geoff said I understand his feelings towards it I just have a feeling he misunderstood the scenes. It was in no way a “ew look trans” situation and more of a “omg I almost took some hot chicks HUGE cock” situation. I fully support trans people and everyone else for that matter but I still don’t want that long shlong in my rectum 💀💀
It’s a lesson. Don’t be trappin, ya nasties!
Yeah I agree with you on the orc scene, how can you miss the irony and think the joke is just "lol kazuma almost got raped."
@James Thomson agreed, i would also recommend this film to fans of the show.
I really don't see the "transphobic" moment as Mother's Basement likes to put it as there was none.
you can't have every moment when a person with both boobs and a dick that pokes the male protagonist and then being freaked out by it labeled as "transphobic" since i see that Kazuma is a straight (or CiS to those who like to use that phrase) guy that likes women, it's rational to believe he doesn't swing towards being gay or Bi by what we've seen in both the anime, manga and LN, and having a male organ being poked into his backside is going to freak him the hell out.
I kinda felt bad when Megumin's parents would literally sell her for money
Bring the good tea. Dear we only have one kind.
@@chobbsalive xD
He changed it from 'spoiler free', thanks man.
Thank god I came down to the comments before I started watching.
Thanks mate.
Thank you so much for saying that, I will now not watch this video until after I see the movie
Thanks, I'll close this video now. Shame I gave him a view count tho
Thanks. Going to wait until after I see it then.
Unfortunately this is always an issue in MB’s videos. He either spoils way too much the anime he’s talking about or spoils an completely unrelated anime when making comparisons...it’s always a risky watch.
Uh buddy...you do know in the scene right after that, Aqua was letting him lie down on her lap and was ruffling his hair to console him, none of them were mocking him for it. Sure the scene is played for laughs but what isn't in this show. Also...is it really so wrong that Kazuma doesn't want to have a dick stuck in his body? Honestly, that was a pretty normal reaction.
I kinda agree there...Like they where all horrified of Kazuma's...adventure with the orks. The situation itself is played for laughs because this gang of idiots their vibrant personality is so extreme and funny. And with the dick thing. None of it was transphobic or the like it was mostly a "She's a trap?!" moment..Like it's QUITE a surprise y'know?
@@dudemetslagroom8065 It wasn't so much "she's a trap" as much as "She's a trap, really strong, currently aroused, squeezing Kazuma against herself and strongly insinuating that she wants to have intercourse and he couldn't stop it from happening even if he tried"
Shouldn't be since Kazutrash is a perv. The guy know's what he wants, like when they were surrounded by goblins he outed their location because he really wanted to know where YunYun's tattoo is. My man has priorities.
Yea that whole bit was a cringe fest. Transphobic is thrown around too much
He wasn't criticizing the scene itself and Kazuma's reaction necessarily, but rather the way they put it on the same level as the attempted rape, with they seriously downplayed. Yes, the CHARACTERS comforted him after that, but the movie itself clearly didn't see it as that serious.
The creator of Konosuba is all about True Gender Equality, he didn’t just have dark humor targeting male rape jokes, he also made a joke about Megumin’s mom pimpin out her own daughter for Kazuma’s riches. So it kinds of balance it out, and it also makes your statement a bit off since you only notice the dark humor that targets men.
Yes, his critique is very shoe horned and left a bad taste in my mouth. It's the only reason I'm in the comment section to make sure I wasn't the only one.
@@clashwithkeen I fucking agree with the bad taste. As he is trying to appeal to people who only aim to score social brownie points and don't purchase any anime or support the industry in any sort of way. I want to support the anime industry, but fuck no to Crunchy Roll And Funimation. Funimation for basically making me result to piracy as an American for a completely uncensored version of Ishuzoku Reviewers. Crunchyroll trying to feature cartoons, basically killing the purpose to enjoy anime and Japanese content only.. Including tampering with dubs.
@@MaoRatto I agree for the most part, but to be fair, Ishuzoku Reviewers (which I've seen all of now, and was super funny) would damn near be akin to putting a softcore porno flick on Netflix. It would've caused a major fuss if they'd let episodes 5 onwards air on their platform. As much as *I* myself enjoyed Ishuzoku Reviewers, I realize why they dropped it.
@@cliffadams1795 I would consider Ishuzoku Reviewers a hard ecchi 90% through it, outside of episode 3. Funny thing is that it is a very "progressive" viewing show how meta it can get. A very sex positive show but funny and entertaining. I find that ishuzoku reviewers should be considered a hard ecchi or a very very softcore porn. No penetration is 100% visible. Though I know that Funimation has an anime dedicated to a yuri plot giving a mermaid an orgasm. >:X If that can be on the platform, why not Ishuzoku Reviewers. Then again I do like the lesson that Ishuzoku Reviewers taught about Simul Dubs... NEVER DO IT!
I find it crazy the same people who complain about diversity, get a show like this and bitch about it for sexual appeal despite it has yuri, futa, corpse, scalies, furries, fucking fat, thin, and everything in between. Basically has more diversity than a diversity casted hollywood film, with ten times the quality. I honestly hope the anime does great and the manga gets a more panels. As I would love to see more of it.
I am admitly a fan of ishuzoku reviewers due to the crudeness and honestly it is soooo meta.
@@cliffadams1795 Funimation's standards are hypocritical if they can have Yuri themed shows, high school dxd, prison school, shows with homosexuality, yet a show that is mostly straight with futas and lesbianism as side dishes does the same thing. It gets pulled off of the platform. Despite the same platform has a show with ass fighting and boob fighting. It makes you think real hard what is their standards.... An anime about making a mermaid having an orgasm is allowed which is basically yuri yet that Ishuzoku Reviewers has a similar amount of dirt with a tad more.
All of that stuff you said about the movie making fun of Kazuma for being traumatised by the attempted rape from the orc was literally your headcanon and not what happened in the movie at all. None of the three girls were laughing about it afterward, and crucially Aqua was genuinely consoling Kazuma which was a very rare scene indeed from her. Whether any person watching found it funny or not is entirely subjective but the fact is none of characters in the scene treated it as a joke whatsoever. I personally wasn't laughing but the amusing factor of the pervert who has sexually harassed women in the past now getting chased by lusting orcs during his "popular phase" was not lost on me, and I'm sure this is partly why the Kazuma was traumatised picture came in. Overall I think you were reading a lot into the scene and basically chose to interpret it in a really negative manner that wasn't really portrayed by the film itself.
Dude... You're seriously reading too much into the Sylvia is a trap scene. Just because Kazuma expected her to be female but then is very troubled by the fact she has a dick while he's literally physically bound to her, you know, a demon chimera who could literally rape him if she chose to, isn't mean spirited at all. It's called sexual preferences and everyone is allowed to have them. Kazuma being traumatised by that is entirely his business.
This wasn't a bad review, and I really appreciate your content in general you're a good TH-camr overall absolutely, but it seems like you must have watched the film only once and missed some pretty critical details of certain scenes which lead to you making negative assumptions about them.
delta_reg Honestly I’d say a review that spends the first half getting all protective and unnecessarily offended at 2 jokes of what I assume is a demographic he isn’t even a part of than spending the latter half going “oh yeah and it continues to be funny” a fairly bad review. All while While saying that he doesn’t consider 20 minutes of the plot from a 90-minute movie spoilers a bad review.
Thank you! I saw it twice in theaters and on TH-cam again earlier today and not once were the girls laughing at him. Throughout the chase they were scared and even afterwords none of them brought it up. Darkness was unusually worried about their trip, Aqua was legitimately consoling him, and Megumin tried to cheer him up by talking about YunYun's "tattoo". And even the joke with Sylvia was a quick one that didn't linger too much on it and quickly moved on after Kazuma's trauma. Kazuma never brings it up again after she lets go of him.
And while yes he did kind of manipulate her at the end, at no point did he ever show any disgust for her because of her gender; rather he was more focused on saving Megumin's family and village. That was the reason why he was fighting her. I just think he got caught up in the moment that he ended up either recalling the scenes differently or was too distracted to focus on what else was happening.
Yeah I'm kinda disappointed in MB for missing how genuine the group's concern for Kasuma was, and how at no point in time did the group turn it into a joke. Doubly so for somehow inventing the delusion he did. Not to mention that he so easily glosses over the fact that Kasuma was sexually assaulted by a hermaphrodite, and says it's transphobic because Kasuma didn't want to be anally penetrated, suggesting that men can't possibly rescind consent at any point in time or dare to have sexual preferences of their own. Especially after going on his short lived tirade about the often comedic portrayal of male rape victims not five minutes earlier.
Uhhh group concern means nothing if rape is played for laugh
@@McSnezzly It's ok because Kazuma's a guy
Double standards are ridiculous in this review. Most of the humor on this show is sexual in nature, with stealing panties, underage characters, severely underage characters, kink shaming and more. Now you're somehow offended with the jokes in this movie? It's like watching Family Guy (TV) and then calling them out after watching one of their movies. Makes no sense.
Kaleo Mungin Yeah, like it is true that male sexual assault/rape victims are often trivialized, but this wasn’t really an example of that. The joke was that not only were the roles now flipped, but that this was right after exclaiming that it was his “popular phase”.
Ya. And the scene with him getting traumatized by Sylvia is genius because it's actually more psychological than the near rape scene in that instead of anything really happening he probably imagined himself getting pegged by Sylvia which for him was traumatizing. Everyone has their tastes and for him it was beyond horrific.
@@anthonyrowan3987 even if the joke was male rape, it wouldn't make difference. Darkness's character is literally rape fetish.
@@kaleomungin Rape fetish? Wouldn't that be a pain fetish?
This is NOT a SPOILER-FREE Review at all!
If you think this is bad you should watch any Super Eye Patch Wolf video.
Thanks
Did it say spoiler free at one point?
@@guyshafor1320 the video title
@@th0rrrrr When i got here it just said Konosuba: The Movie review.
I personally thought the “trauma counter” jokes were both fucking hilarious and I laughed very hard while watching it
Same, but then again I can see how the jokes could be distasteful.
@@therocknrollgeek Nah man people are WAYYY too sensitive lol. At the end of the day those were all jokes and it wasn't made to be taken seriously just like the rest of the anime. I mean, they've even joked about being able to have innapropriate dreams about underage girls. If they can joke about that then they can joke about these things too. People just have to understand that it's not serious.
@@kenethernandez6246 true
Yes people, fucked up jokes are funny! Humor points out the absurdities of reality and concepts and fucked up shit is absurd.
Konosuba is distasteful. That's why we all watch it lol
Having read the LN, I can say there's no spoilers in this review that 'actually matter' but I would still recommend not watching it if you want to enjoy the movie to the full extent
Maybe they don't matter for the plot, but Konosuba is primarily a comedy, and he definitely spoiled some punchlines.
@@derrickcrowe3888 yeah definitely
The ending is different tho
Man, shut up. They’re clearly spoilers, stop flexing having read LN.
@@dagingerbreadman70 By highlighting that I read the LN, it backs up my claims. If I told you it had spoilers and didn't tell you I read the LN would you believe me? I didn't think so. And how is reading a book a flex, well maybe in your case i can see why that may be the case because you clearly lack the brain cells to do so.
Ok so I watched the movie immediately after season 2 as a quarantine binge, and it was really weird cause barely thought of it as a movie, I was just like "oop time to go watch the next episode" and when time has no meaning its really weird to finish an our and a half of that and go "wait, I just watched an entire movie and could barely tell the difference"
Same here
Let's make it a huge success so we can have a 26 ep season 3! I mean Ristarte cries too and all but I want aqua back because
She wines
She whines
And almost immediately she whines for wines
Also megumin's my waifu btw cause EXPLOSIONS
Jeah ristarde from cousious reminded Me a bit of aqua bit aque is the useless whiny god queen
Megumin is worst girl of the options tbh. She's immature, annoying, and not even great.
Yunyun best girl
A 26 episode season 3 would be 2 books worth or maybe just 2 book spoiler the other 2 books is about them being in the capital i think i forgot
@@n124ajdx ohoho fool you never seen the book 16 light novel
Edit: aqua being a useless goddess tries to solo the demon king now everyone is troubled
@@athalarahmanjauhari4135 nope . She is the only one who can take down the undead also the only one who can heal and revive other people. That's more usefull than the childish loli who can use only one attack per day
Dude, Kazuma being turned off by finding out a girl was actually a futa does not make him transphobic. It just means he doesnt swing that way and was traumatized by having a male member rubbing against him. Its not the same level as being nearly raped but its still a trauma to an extent when you are unable to escape due to tentacles holding you in place.
Transphobic would mean that if he think they shouldn't be treated equally or wanting to commit hate crimes or stuff against them. Your sexual attraction not extending to a certain gender or something does not make you a hater of that group.
Doing stuff like that trivializes the terribleness of ACTUAL transphobic people in the world and media.
The review is pretty bad man, and this is coming from someone who has loved and parroted alot of reviews of yours when trying to get others into anime. But this, this shit is bad man.
I agree with all your points exept I do think the review was good
Remainds me of that time a guy hit on me and i turned him down and people called me homophobic because i don't swing that way.
@@benjamindetry3314 if I cut out half the review, then that remaining half would be good. But on a test, only getting half of it right would be a failure, so I apply the same logic here.
>Dude, Kazuma being turned off by finding out a girl was actually a futa does not make him transphobic. It just means he doesnt swing that way
This has to be the most "Im not transphobic BUT" thing ever ...
@@andrashock6380 i felt like the joke was "kazuma was almost tricked by a woman with a benis and got raped haha"
I know that Sylvia isn't trans but you have to remember that the movie doesn't exist in a vacuum and pulls ideas from the real world, with Japan being particularly guilty of painting LGBT people as predatory and even pedophile at times
Even my fav anime suffers from this, as much as i love Leeron from gurren-lagann, he still goes on making sexual jokes around kids and the anime expects you to laugh at his advances on Kamina
The very idea if Kazuma being tricked is what is transphobic. Sure everyone has their preferences but the movie goes out of it's way to make him get tricked just to make a rape joke, with it's only excuse being that Sylvia isn't human and thus our gender concepts don't apply to them, that simply doesnt't fly because people accuse trans people of being predatory in real life all the time lol
Lot of spoilers in this, bud.
I honestly don't mind spoilers if it helps the viewer avoid really low moments in the anime, so you know, WHATEVER lol
isn't that the point of most movie reviews? theres virtually almost nothing to talk about in a spoiler free review
Not really, he didn’t even spoil about a certain japanese who made all this debacle, or a certain Chuunibyou who made that certain misunderstanding for Yunyun.
Itlog Aye, shut the fuck up
I already read the 14 books so I don't have spoilers .
I think that rape attempt was a parody/ reference to a Goblin Slayer or similar hentai/fantasy tropes that have a female character raped by monsters and don't treat it with any dignity or seriousness.
no it was the irony that for once kazuma is on the receving end of unwelcomed sexual advances/pervertness.
This review is basically "good movie, except these 2 scenes i will talk about in great detail that i highly dislike, but its still a good movie, except for those scenes, but u should still watch it, even though those scenes are sexist and transphobic, but still a good movie"
Others have already pointed out how those scenes werent nearly as bad as they were made out to be, far better then i could, so i wont repeat it again here.
it just doesnt sit well with me that half of this review was spent complaining about 2 scenes, while ignoring other arguable worse scenes & the rest of the movie, while saying its still worth the watch between repeated complaints.
Agree, his dislike with those two scenes annoy the entire review for me cause he spend so many time touching that subject. Both scenes were hilarious cause both of them were on context, and wtf was that of trans people? That's waaaaaaaaaaaay off.
Something to complain about the movie is that the end of Sylvia wasn't the same as the light novel, cause that one is fucking amazing and hilarious lol and i can't believe wasnt like that but the end still was very good and funny to watch.
I'm already hating Geoff as a person
@@Kanamon22 seriously those were easily some of the funniest moments
My opinion of this dude is lowered. Hope he improves after reflecting on his action
Spending a quarter of the video talking about a "distasteful" joke kinda kills the review.
Democracy Turtle but its still important, as he already explained
He is just either being oversensitive because its a twitter worthy issue right now, or its overcorrection on his part, trying to show he isnt taking these serious topics easily. Either way its unnecessary here, good to know but unneccessary :D
I figured he’d look way too deep over these two scenes.
@@jeffreygilson1565 true he took way to much to correct himself.. i get that he want to be p.c about that.. its fine.. but to drag it and keep digging on he REALLY not support that act and it WASNT a laughing matter.. like we get it.. but it shouldve been shorter and more into the movie review then reviewing that two part gag and trying to justify something from that gag while also forget that everyone were very concern about kazuma and aqua actually console him but instead saying the party were mocking him like what?
I really can't wait to see this movie, after this we need a season 3.
And a crossover event with Danmachi Memoria Freese.
And then it's own video game.
And then season 4.
I'm still waiting for the non "Isekai Quartet" crossover with Re:Zero that happened as a manga.
I just want the light novels to be officially translated faster
I just wish to see Aqua + Hestia those are my favourite females in all anime
Darkness is really good as well
@@n124ajdx The useless goddess meets the useless goddess.
@@kboi1170 aqua is more useless tho
Great movie,but your issues with the two jokes are just eye roll inducing.
I found both of the "edgy" jokes to be pretty funny too, but I can see why it would not be enjoyed by others as much too
Agreed
I like really inappropriate humor
I laugh just because it was unexpected, of how they just animated like a super dramatic reveal, like when megumin sister makes jojoposes, the reaction of how Kazuma doesn't want to be drilled and how he deserved it in a way for wanting to leave the group
I agree with this, the jokes were freaking hilarious and I had no problem with them. If anyone is bothered by the chimera joke then they're just getting emotional and need to get their head out of the gutter. They said "chimera" what is a chimera people? (drops mic)
Just read that one of you're Copyright strikes is gone I am so glad your safe and uploaded a new video👍
He's an inspiration to professional shitbags everywhere.
@@thatspoonybard8013 For reviewing anime?
*your
@@hithere5553 I don't really feel like there's a need to correct grammar, but I did laugh when they switched the two words around.
@ULGROTHA I just noticed it myself stupid grammar 😂
Honestly while watching the movie the rape jokes were extremely funny to me. I wasnt thinking about pop culture or modern issues with rape, i was just seeing it from the movie's perspective. I feel people take light hearted comedy such as konosuba way too seriously.
The thing doesn't exist in a vacuum, and there is a very long trend of male rape being trivialised.
You do realize that the 2nd "trautamized" scene involves the girl who was not a girl holding him and not leting go. and as far as im cuncorned both are an almost rape case
I dont know about you, but if I felt a boner poking at my butt when I thought none was there I would be a little concerned
@@samoria7530 agreed
@@samoria7530 Any man would, but you know, mother´s basement has to go with all that PC bullshit, i mean c´mon, ofensive?, WTF?, nobody have sense of humor anymore?.
@@soulcarlosv He was ok with kazuma literally talking with himself about being able to beat rape charges if he molested megumin in her sleep, but god forbid if a hetero sexual man dosent like penis lol . what a joke.
@@jebes909090 Totally
Man should’ve brought up how Megumin parents try to give her to kazuma and trap them in the same room but love this video and agree with all your statements
This movie packs everything great about Konosuba into 90 minutes. Honestly the fact that the movie is being bashed by those two jokes is pathetic to me. It's why I'm glad Japan has yet to bend the knee to the shitty "Oh you hurt my feelings, get canceled" culture in the US. Those were some of the best parts of the movie and every one who watched it with me, including myself, were dying of laughter.
very well said
Sylvia scared me as well. I really started laughing when kazuma trapped him/her in that dungeon and he/her started threatening to "poke" hard. Disgusting yet hilarious
They gave us Interspecies Reviewers. It's absolute proof that Japan gives 0 fucks at times.
@@TheNightOwl11683 I'm gonna miss that show
@@roachdoggjr6893 Don't be sad it's over. Be happy that it happened.
I liked the scene where Aqua rises up out of a Pond Goddess style.
The little town montage was pretty cute XD
The only good part of aqua
As well?
When did this movie I didn't see come out? HAHA HA
I'm lost :(
Nov 12 and 14 at 7pm in USA
It hasn't come out yet
@@mattq4235 It's coming out in Canada?
@@mattq4235 Dang. Not likely to see it then.
Sadly, it's still not release in Malaysia.
I honestly think that no jokes should be off limits, so many people find so many different things funny and offensive, so at the end of the day, if we were to actually adjust media to not offend, we would have to have bland stories with no words spoken, and no visuals.
P.S. I'm not saying you think these jokes shouldn't be allowed in Konosuba or other media, not even close, I just kind of felt like giving my thoughts, and hopefully I did so in a somewhat respectful manner.
DREAMSCAPE CINEMA Exactly what I was thinking. I just watched the movie earlier today and read a bunch of reviews saying how the humor is distasteful and offensive. You don’t have to find it funny but don’t ruin it for people that do
@@benpearson49 I'd agree that any humor from it is derived because it's at Kazuma's expense. At worst, the jokes can come off as uncomfortable (especially the female orc joke), but the main issue isn't really the jokes themselves.
I'd say the main issue is that there's a group of Konosuba fans that tend to overlook the fact that Kazuma is a terrible person, in the same way that some Metal Gear fans think the franchise is free of "politics" or how some WH40K fans think its universe is showing off ideal forms of government. The number of "true gender equality" posts on r/animemes is proof enough of that.
It sucks, because imo Sylvia was handled relatively well on her end, given how she made it clear that she had no romantic interest in Kazuma until he was pumped full of Charisma steroids. The creator can't really account for braindead portions of the fandom, making it harder for the rest of us.
@@garbouwdeark9103 what's wrong with gender equality?
@@lampad4549 On its own, nothing. However, Kazuma isn't using it because he believes in it, he's using it to get away with stuff he wouldn't be able to otherwise. Otherwise, he wouldn't make a habit of stealing women's underwear.
@@garbouwdeark9103 he doesn't use it as an excuse to steal panties from women, he uses it when women ask him to be more chivalrous.
Dudd you do not understand what a spoiler free review is
"Sorry for going off on a tangent."
After spending almost half of the video on these two scenes? When you made a point about wanting to include them because that's what some people will care about in what you made a point to say was a review? Remind me is this a review of the whole movie or two scenes?
To be fair there’s not that much to talk about in a review for the movie. It’s just a long Konosuba episode. If you like Konosuba you’ll like the movie, if not you won’t.
I love the part where kazuma just says Up up down down left right left right, and away you go
One of the best parts.
Still confused how sylvia or whatever her name is used the mage destroyer.. is it unprotected other than the gate
New content:
-Added character Mitsurugi
-New Ship
-Aqua's Annoyingness has been nerfed
Mitsurugi was in the show: he's that genre-blind loser with the OP sword.
@@pyromania1018 bruh it's joke about how nobody ever remembers him. You would definitely get it if you read the light novel.
@@davidsettles4113 who tf is misturugi?
@@davidsettles4113 ngl i forgot about that guy until this guy mentioned op sword. I was confused at who he is
Amazing
3:26 Who am I kidding his pants are on the floor before she finishes the sentence
It's soooo funny! In germany it came out a few weeks ago and especially this is sooo well excuted.
@@melonlord1414
Dubbed?
@@Alias_Anybody No subbed.
@@melonlord1414
Everything else would have shocked me honestly.
@@Alias_Anybody they did show an ad for the DVD before the movie that was dubbed (German). It wasn't long enough to say for sure but the voices didn't fit to great.
Ben "Yahtrzee" Croshaw has a wonderful thing on perfection that fits with how much those badly handled two things stick out. I am paraphrasing, I think, but ; "the closer you get to perfection, the more glaring the flaws become."
weren't those 2 things more a flaw of the light novel? or the anime is at fault for keeping those moments intact. or the film was doome from the start because had they adapted out those?, there would have been razzles about how they weren't loyal to the light novel
@@ianr.navahuber2195 I just watched it and it wasn't loyal anyways. There is a whole 20 minute thing that wasn't in the LN. But it was still a great movie.
@Ian R. Nava Huber Actually, I would say the anime is at fault because 1) the novel did not play the first point for laughs, and 2) the novel also did not try to equate the trauma of the second point to the trauma of the first point. Those were decisions of the anime, and while I wouldn't say the novel is completely blameless, it is certainly the anime's fault for needlessly magnifying those points.
Way to many spoilers for a "Spoiler-free Review" though...
Basic plot summary for the first 20ish minutes, and two scenes that really stuck out.
Byte it’s a good thing I went to the comments first
@@Petrico94 well ya the two best jokes
"Spoiler-free" was the funniest joke in here.
Sylvia isn't a trans tho, they're a Chimera. They have both boy and girl parts, and thus Sylvia isn't trans (Sylvia wasn't born a girl, they were born a Chimera with both parts). You can't be transphobic if the character isn't even trans.
Who died and made you the bio-nazis?
@@anthonyewolf huh?
Just got back from my local screening of this film, and I gotta say, it was pretty great. It had me, my friends, and pretty much the whole theater positively rolling in laughter for almost the entire runtime. Some jokes may not be for some people, but if you like Konosuba, you ought to know what you're in for at this point... Being that it runs as a continuation of the main story, you absolutely need to have watched the first two seasons and OVAs to know what the hell is going on, so people going in blind to this should mostly be a non-issue.
Seriously, it's really fucking funny. If you like Konosuba, go watch it.
Bruh i just watched the movie on Pornhub and you just SPOILED THE WHOLE MOVIE 😂
Liam Dietz
Everything is on pornhub
@@user-wy2kn4bm7f even kh3 spoilers when the game was leaked before release. those were dark dark times.
@They will Attest because they can post it there without getting take down by copyright lel
Can I get a link
Donald Tusk
Go on pornhub and search up “konosuba movie” it’s also on Crunchyroll now
"Spoiler-free"? Inigo Montoya: "You keep using that word. I do not think you know what it means."
I'm bigender myself and I still laughed at the second potentially offensive joke, but perhaps it was more a mix of 'yep, Kazuma continues to be a scumbag' and that they didn't dwell on it too long. It's not the best joke, but I didn't find the villain to be the absolute best villain, either...can a villain be summed up with the trope of 'satellite love interest'? Because that was what she was - I honestly don't remember much about her apart from her falling for Kazuma nigh-immediately and focusing in on that. Granted, this was a comedy movie, but you know. Taking that for what it is.
The first one just seems like Kazuma getting a bit of a taste of his own medicine, considering before that he was jumping to go at Yunyun and he has an entire crisis about whether or not to jump at Megumin later. Not to say that that fully justifies it, but it at least proves that his 'popular phase' isn't entirely positive. If that's offensive, then I'd consider the fact that Megumin's mother basically sleep-drugs the entire party apart from Kazuma and leaves /her own daughter/ in a room with him alone at night entirely because Kazuma is rich far worse than that. (At least the orcs are killed. Megumin's mom? ....She doesn't even really get chewed out for that.)
Again, however, I don't go to Konosuba for tasteful commentary. One of my friends described the series as 'Fantasy It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia', and I'd agree with that. All the characters are awful people and they do awful things. Don't aspire to be like them and don't take their views as absolute, because you /will/ find yourself in hot water if you do. But in the basis of the show, know that they're also seen....as awful people. So take that as you will.
If you see one anime movie this year, in my completely bias opinion.....see Osomatsu-San the Movie. (I haven't seen Promare, and I don't really intend to until the hype goes down, lest my expectations get set too high.) But this is a close second best, and the screening I saw was lively as everything (which was surprising, bc I went to the second screening of the film and it was still packed). Good shit.
nigga, what the fuck is a bigender??? You just made it up on the spot. People with there made UP genders, fucking hell.
Bigender. Bi=two. Two genders. You are two genders at once? That's rad. I don't know how that's possible but I don't care. It's magical.
You’re not transphobic for being shocked that what you perceived was a woman turns out to be trans. People have their preferences. The joke is played as Kazuma being trash and being his typical misogynistic self and then having his expectations flipped on it’s head. Real transphobia is him being aware Sylvia was trans beforehand and then attacking her because of that fact and him being intolerant of it based on his own preconditioned prejudice rather than her just being a villain and being a general in the Devil King’s army.
But typical liberal Geoff sees a sensitive issue and immediately resorts to white knighting 🙄
Kevin Mairena Yeah I would agree. If I was really into someone sexually and had been fondeling their tits for the last five minutes. Then found out they had a dick. I would be rather traumatized as I’m not into dicks. Especially if they start rubbing said dick against my ass and give me no way to escape. Which Sylvia does, and that’s kinda male rape again or Atleast molestation. So Geoff’s comment is absolutely bullshit. Hell Kazuma actually gets over the fact that she has a dick rather quickly after that. Especially when she mentions she has the skills of a succubus.
As a trans person these comments are so hard to read. Geoff's sensitivity around this kind of subject matter is one of the reasons I really appreciate him as a You-Tuber. I'm not moaning at anyone for their views on this film, but it does hurt to see the ridiculous amount of abuse being fired at him for addressing an issue that for many people it's important that it's addressed. Asking for viewer discretion around potentially distressing content is not censorship, it is not white knighting, and it isn't attacking those that like this film. It is certainly ironic however that people are so offended at someone asking for care around something that is potentially offensive.
Dude: *being catfished by a trans then retaliate*
Society: *yOuRe sO HoMoPhObIc*
It sounded like nukes going off in the theater. Loved this movie. The theatre was half filled in Mississippi, so it did better than I expected here. Lots of hard laughs throughout from everyone in attendance.
I think that the second traumatic event isn't transphobic at all because kazuma is straight and he was tricked and scared but it was funny cuz he did it to himself, it wasn't disgust but shock
He wasn’t tricked. He made the assumption that Slyvia was a female and willingly embraced her because he thought she was hot. It wasn’t until he realized Slyvia was a chimeric amalgamation of animals and genders that he realized he was in as much trouble as his party felt for him at the get-go.
She being trans isn’t what is funny. It’s the irony of the situation.
@@jprec5174 The fact that later on, once he had the time to get over the shock, Kazuma does willingly embrace her again pretty much proves that he isn't 'transphobic', but why would Geoff mention that little fact when it completely negates his entire argument, right?
THANK YOU for spending so much time on those two scenes. It's so helpful for us who need to prepare before watching something like that.
"Spoiler-free Review" - it is not in the least spoiler-free. Glad I've already read novel cuz I would have been really pissed for this. You say "spoiler-free" then go and basically explain the whole plot step by step.
Wasn't expecting such a PC review from a fan of the show. Didn't even finish the video.
I think your criticisms of those two scenes are more than fair, but I agree, I don't think it detracts from the overall quality of the movie. Absolutely loved it and will defiantly watch it again!
Sooo pumped for this movie. Probably my favorite arc in the light novel, can’t wait to see it animated!
The only thing I need to know is... Is Aqua still useless?
For sure
Deep inside, you know the answer.
I already have seen the movie since it premiered a month earlier in germany and I can tell you that aqua was the most useless then she has ever been
Ben P. *spoiler* not in the final scene, at least she did something
@@tladd999 She blessed kazuma?
Thank you for the review! And thank you also for detailing those less than tasteful jokes. I'm still looking forward to watching the movie cause I loved the series but knowing those things beforehand helps.
Also, "If you only see one anime film this year... it should definitely be Promare" I didn't get the chance to 😭😭
The 2 "Traumatizing" scenes are some of the funniest parts of that movie hands down. I won't let you change my viewpoint on that by taking your own spin on what you THOUGHT was the intended joke in those scenes. Ik what they were REALLY trying to joke about, and since i can take what you would call a JOKE, they are hilarious.
"I read the comments so I know most of you guys dont mind, but.. well.. i read the comments.."
Say no more Basement
There are so many things wrong with this video.
- contains some spoilers -
He's been an asshole to everyone but he gets along with them if the time comes like Vanir or Mitsurugi. It didn't feel like it's shaming Sylvia for being trans. She's still a respectable character especially in the chaos that is Konosuba. The fact still remains that she's hot, benevolent and a capable leader. She's not even human since she's technically chimera so that's just a setup like the orcs being rapists since no males are left or the crimson demons being chuuni for being overpowered or Darkness being sexually charged because she's a sheltered rich blonde or the more obvious one like Aqua coming from a higher race but dumb.
About the orcs, we've seen Kazuma being a molester in the tv show so what's a rape joke really. There's even a grooming joke when Kazuma gave food to Komekko. People's outlook won't change much anyway. If people aren't willing to be open-minded, they'll believe whatever they want. That goes for people who wants to be offended as well. There's even people who find rape victims disgusting as a partner and I'll respect that if that makes both of us less uncomfortable since I'm a rape victim myself. It wasn't really offensive or at least hurtfully so. Of course this is just my opinion. I'm not trying to speak up for everybody here.
[e:LLUSIV ] Kazuma explicitly says that it's because Sylvia had a male organ - so it has nothing to do with her being a Chimera. And it's not just that one joke. The show takes that and basically says she deserves to die for wanting love in a non-normal way. It's what Kazuma uses to murder her at the end.
How is that not terrible?
@@kylegreen6711 Again, I'm not shutting down the distasteful representation but this is Konosuba. You think the sexualization of the other characters are not? My point at the end is that Kazuma can be a sexist character but YOU don't have to be to enjoy a piece of entertainment. That's all it is, a piece of media and it's not an objectively a bad movie. We should reserve getting outrage to actual hateful agendas because it cheapens the whole thing. There's a lot of people out there that cry fake concern for women but have other thoughts inside their minds. So Sylvia is either an offensive character, just another character or a justification and whatever choice people took, that won't change. To why they wanted to kill her, wasn't that because she was waging war? She was still one of the Demon Generals, I don't think it would escalate that much if she just retreated. Beldia and Hans died because of that as well while Wiz was spared because she was disinterested in the war. Vanir is still alive because he's stronger than he's letting on.
Despite what others are saying, I’m really glad you took the time to address those bad tasting jokes. Thank you :)
They were hilarious, I'm glad that Japanese aren't cucked by SJWs like Westerners are.
ok, but just having one more scene of kazuma moving his hand in a hipnotizing and flown motion was just awesome
I hate how mothers basement started to throw in his PC opinions of real life into this review, Both jokes were fine. You people have to realize that Japanese people have different ideas and beliefs on rape/transphobia. This movie was made in Japan for Japanese people. Foreigners can’t complain when a Japanese anime doesn’t fit their western points of view.
I agree! Transphobia and rape jokes is an integral part of japanese culture and it should not be criticized! It is extremely funny to japanese people and I think it should stay that way! Thank you for your valuable input!
@@Middlew stfu, you totally twisted my words.
Please dont call yourself a Konosuba fan when you cant even get the two best jokes in this movie. You just piss me off.
Please go fuck yourself.
@@theviewer6889 oh look.. An lgbt white knight
How surprising considering you replied to every comment that disagrees with your agenda
@@imran2_213 Oh look, a sad pathetic bigot. Not surprising you think everyone that disagrees with you needs to have an agenda to do so. Projecting much?
When you dont have thick skin to take a joke.
FTV Production 6:33
This movie had me dying with that Kazumin scenes and that Sylvia scene
Konosuba left out the tranquility girl, it was a decent joke and really explored kazumas and the gangs characters In a some what serious way
Already bought my tickets! Can't wait for this one y'all
"completely unwarranted level of disgust" Seriously? id say it was pretty fucking warranted.
Bruh just saw the movie a solid 30 minutes ago and my friend and I are STILL laughing. What an absolute *bomb* of a movie. The action was *explosive* !
*gasp* Thank you so much for the heart Jeff-san!
amazing movie, also stop being so dramatic over 2 jokes, like bruh
when i watch this video: actual review
when my mom walks in she hears 4:27
Wanted to wait to watch this review until I saw the move first and I just got back from the theater. It was completely worth the hour drive! I was laughing the entire time!
Got the notification right as I was finishing my second rewatch of season 1. How perfect is that?
It was an awesome movie that's only blemished is that it couldn't cover everything in Volume 5 do to time constraints. Otherwise, I enjoyed both the creativeness of the ending battle and the general commitment to sticking with the source material. Any Konosuba fan that didn't get a chance to watch it, totally should 😉👍
I wish they'd included the Tranquility Girl.
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That would have been a real laugh had they kept that, especially since it does get brought up in the story again down the line
after watching this, it makes a lot of sense for Megumin’s Parents to be Jotoro Kujo and Tifa Lockhart
good review thanks for the heads up on those two untasteful jokes
Some people may complain about the jokes going “too far” or being “too traumatic” in certain aspects, but this is my favorite anime because they are actually willing to go that far and make jokes in all directions. As someone who has happened to have been traumatized, I like those jokes. We need to be able to smile, laugh, and move forward.
I’m miffed that they didn’t add the tranquil girl scene. And I now feel really bad for Sylvia.
That's how I feel about the whole series lol. The villains are sympathetic because most of them are sane and have normal demands like "Please stop blowing up my house" or "Give me my cat back, I even payed you and you kept the money!"
This is Konosuba. Being tasteless is pretty much standard. Sometimes it’s more tasteless (if that is how it is said) than others, but it really isn’t out of nowhere.
Why is comedy expected to tiptoe around these gender topics. Comedy is arguably supposed to be politically incorrect. Kazuma is Kazuma. We as viewers know that we should be accepting of all people. It should be second nature, which is why his disgusted reaction is funny.
There's also the issue that the character in question deliberately hides what they are until they're in a position to take advantage of Kazuma. That's something that actually happens and people who do it are horrible. Kazuma being traumatized by that was wholly justified. The issue with the orcs is a *little* harder to skirt around, but it's not even the first time they've made rape jokes in Konosuba. That's a pretty regular occurrence and trying to say that one instance is horrible because the target was a male is extremely hypocritical.
I thought the orc rape scene was hilarious because I have a sense of humor. Not everything has to be about politics.
The movie, for what I see, uses the plot directly from the Light novel; the anime community complains a lot about non-canon stories on movies and shows. Well, now that's what you get: From the novel to your screen.
I love that Jeff is such an anime dweeb that he doesn't even know to compare the lady orcs to Futurama's "death by snoosnoo"
Ah fuck that would have been a good point to make. Much better take on the same basic joke, I think.
I think the ork joke was more "the shoes on the other foot now" as opposed to "haha, guy got assaulted", considering all the shit kazuma has pulled. Plus, Aqua actually comforts him, which is pretty out of character for her, implying that the characters recognize how fucked up the situation was.
@@mothersbasement i've never been so disappointed
*_I've entered my popular phase_*
I liked Aqua and Kazuma’s dynamic in this film like the lap pillow was nice
Thanks for the trigger warning, as a male victim of sexual assault the way we are treated in media reminds me all to well of the scorn and derision I received when trying to talk and work through me trauma. Now I just don't talk about it. I don’t need the additional shame and humiliation people are all to happy to heap on
@juamnji yes fuck off dude.
@juamnji yes People do care. Saying "no-one cares" is just a way of trying to excuse your own terrible behaviour by pretending it's normal. That is blatantly apparent.
“Thanks for the trigger warning” OMEGALUL
I actually sincerely appreciate your comments on these two tasteless jokes. I'd forgotten about these bits from the novel and I will pre-warn my friend who is going to see it with me.
I hate how they cut off the 3rd night or Megumin's confession that she likes Kazuma was cut off.
Gigguk's moving to Japan, Geoff is visiting Japan... All my heroes are living my dream.
I appreciate the time you take to do things well. I hope it doesnt get toxic when you read the comments in order to be more aware of issues and cater better to your viewers. Great video. Thank you.
Being disgusted after almost being seduced by something you thought was something else is perfectly logical.
Exactly
Whallop the entire scenario itself however wasn’t particularly funny though. The reveal being “they have a penis” reeks of late 2000s humor that was done a million times already
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Plus in actuality, when transwomen transition through surgery, the penis is actually inverted so it becomes a vagina or clitoris.
In short, the surgery would make it so there was no penis sticking out. You shouldn’t be able to tell a transwoman is trans when her penis isn’t seen even while naked or during sex.
You’re still straight if you find a transwoman attractive. It’s not a trick if she wants to be seen as woman and she’s passing as one. You are not being lied to when a transwoman is telling you she is a woman, all you’re doing is being insecure about your straight instead of just liking the woman as a woman.
Watched this Thursday and me my friend and the whole theater we're busting up laughing especially when kazuma was being kazuma😂😂
Having just watched the movie, I can sort of see why the two scenes may have come across as distasteful, though having also read the novel and not only expecting them but knowing what the run up to them is supposed to be, I still found them funny.
One thing about Konosuba is that it really does treat women equally to men, the orc scene is both funny and cringe-worthy, specifically in the disparity between Kazuma and Darkness's reactions. It's not Kazuma almost getting raped. It's that Kazuma is being forced to endure Darkness's fantasy as Darkness learns that her fantasy can never come true.
And just for reference, I'm a guy who has experienced unwanted advances from both women and men.
Dullahan Fight MVP: Kazuma
Vanir Fight MVP: Darkness
Mobile Fortress MVP: Wiz
Hans Fight MVP: Aqua
Sylvia Fight MVP: Megumin
So, knowing I’ll be probably flamed for it. Your entire argument for not wanting to call you out on your over white knighting of comedy is that cause it will hurt certain people’s feelings. I get that but the issue is you can’t take this stance and then say “don’t debate me about it”. Comedy is and always will be subjective, if something is presented as comical and the setting is again comical then you should see it for what it is, comical.
I bet you’re the type that if you go to a comedy club and the comedian makes a joke about something you don’t wanna hear you get up and leave or try to harass him and make him feel bad.
When comedy is used for such things such as the examples you’re given, especially when it’s done in a setting that is supposed to be comical, it’s should be shown and understood in a way that the person making the joke is basically saying “I’m not gonna let this thing be the best of me and make it so fearful and taboo that we can’t talk about it”
Also from what I have seen and heard about the attempted rape scene in this movie the jokes weren’t made to belittle male rape victims, at least by my context, that is you and every over sensitive person.
Finally you can’t take this stance when there are MUCH MUCH MUCH more or equally vulgar and overly sensitive topics, in particular to women that konosuba does.
Long story short, too late, you can’t put yourself on a pedestal and then shout down at others when the entire foundation of it is flimsy at best
Edit: Now if you were simply providing this info to warn people who might take offense that’s different. However, your tone came off as saying “rape jokes and trans jokes aren’t funny”. If that’s true then every misfortune thats above and beyond simple bad luck and slap stick comedy should be afforded the same “protection” of being to taboo, which again would mean that your love of konosuba is a little hypocritical cause again as stated before, lot of “not cool” stuff happens in that show I know you laughed your ass off probably
That was a completely unnecessary rant. He was careful and considerate on how he made those complaints and didn't attack anyone. There is actually quite a pronounced irony in how offended you were at a criticism warning people of potentially offensive content. Personally I'm very glad he did put that warming in there because I am transgender. Now when I inevitably watch this film I'll be braced for that moment allowing me to look past a joke that would otherwise of deeply offended and shocked me and ruined the rest of the film for me.
Did you ever consider that? That warning like that actually improve the experience for people as oppose to detract from it? People can be offended at things and they are allowed to express those concerns. It doesn't mean you have to listen to those concerns of-course, but it is very unreasonable to try and shut those criticisms down.
@@andimason3370 Good point as well
Comedy dies when censorship exists. If you make fun of one group everyone should be fair game. And if you come into a movie knowing the series is fairly crude humor-wise, don't get triggered if there is crude humor in the movie. Also I like my waifus like I like my coffee NO DICK
Andi Mason I assume you read the edit part of my “rant” that said if it was a simple announcement that I wouldn’t have said what I did? No instead he goes on to critique it, saying that the jokes themselves because of what the subject matter is, make them unfunny, not how they are delivered, even though he says “lazy” which I can’t argue simply because I haven’t seen the film yet.
Now coincidently, cause that’s what you meant to say not ironic, the reason I went ON this rant is because many people today are going after comedy and it’s taboo subjects that they think are inappropriate due to “woke” culture, which comes off more as “don’t talk about the subjects at all”.
This in my opinion is equivalent to censorship. Comedy is a way to bring people together and in a sense “normalize” subjects, people, and topics. Now when I say normalize I don’t mean “acceptable” I mean normalize in that it’s a topic that you can discuss in a conversation outside of comedy without being afraid of simply talking about it.
You as a transgender, I will assume, have had to deal with a lot of awkward moments that you can clearly tell people want to talk to you about, but instead they either shy away from it due to being afraid of how they might offend you. I was like that as well when it came to talking to a transgendered person and due to this fear of the topic the media and society attached to it, I remained very ignorant about the topic for many years because I was too afraid to talk about it because of how sensitive the topic was and how fast people reacted emotionally to it. I only really understood when a friend came out as trans and I felt comfortable talking with them to understand what that meant.
Now! Again for my rant the point of all of this, is that many people white knight and say “this isn’t funny, because the topic is serious” and it to me feels like “the topic is so scary, we shouldn’t talk about it”. With my experience though, when you are able to make the topic less scary, you have better dialogue for it and it helps people grow and understand the subject. This is very important to me, comedy itself is very important to me.
So when I see people critique taboo comedy like this, like he did because he went above and beyond a simple “heads up notice” he plugged a channel and video which I have seen, which has misrepresented data, analysis, and helps forward certain rape culture simply by saying that if you make fun of this topic you are making fun of or disenfranchising victims, which is not the case. Granted some comedians do that, but you can tell the difference between comedy and commentary by context, delivery, and overall setting.
So yes, I was offended because in the same idea that trans issues are important to you, comedy and censorship are a big important thing for me. Also, due to the subject matter of this show, I don’t see why Kazuma almost getting raped, and the trans scene mentioned are different than the sexual harassment, abuse, and assault that happen on a regular basis in Konosuba. You can’t say “these serious topics are off limits” when equal level topics are being made fun of and you claim the show that constantly makes fun of it is your favorite show, you see the “irony” in that don’t you?
@@kaozskater There is a difference between crude humour and abusive humour. There is common thing in comedy known as punching up. Basically crude and base jokes are only funny it angled at the group or individual being a ass-hole and not the group being victimised. There is a bit more too it than that but that's the general idea. Jokes at someones expense for being a petty, pervy and miserable twat... funny. Jokes siding with the individual being a petty, pervy and miserable twat... not funny.
Also learn the difference between censorship and criticism. No-one here is trying to censor Konosuba, what they are doing (and are absolutely entitled to do) is criticise it.
This ain't a good one chief, I wish you'd talk more about the movie instead of two scenes, like goddamn man, this is supposed to be a review, I thought you'd go more in depth with the whole thing, instead of "These scenes made me uncomfortable, I'm going to complain about them for 9 minutes"
Okay, gotta be the devil's advocate here regarding the two scenes that you found to be, say, "problematic", to put it lightly. About the attempted orc rape: Yeah, even i, a person who really enjoys black humor, thought this scene to be a bit much for Konosuba (even though you could argue that it was intended as a satirical, albeit rather dark inversion of the "girl adventurer gets assaulted by hideous monster(s)"-trope that sadly made its way into a lot of fantasy mangas and animes like SAO or Goblin Slayer, i don't know, i haven't read the light novel). But your argument about the transgender twist, that i just can't let fly. That was the equivalent of that one meme video where the person says: "Think about it for a second, would you date a trans person? Well, if you said no, that's pretty discriminatory."
As someone in the comments pointed out, the trap trope has been fairly common in anime, Isekai in particular, where the hero sees this beautiful little girl only to find out that "she" has got the old footlong between her legs. In most cases, this is an unpleasant surprise for the hero who usually is a teenage boy with no sexual experience whatsoever (like Kazuma). Now, would you say that all these shows were discriminating trans people? Just because futa isn't Kazumas taste doesn't mean he hates their guts. I believe Hangover 2 had a similar joke. Which is not to say that Konosuba and Hangover 2 are on the same level of comedy, absolutely not, but i think you get my point. If i tolerate something, that doesn't mean i have to love it. I am a firm believer in the principle of "Everyone is free to do what they want as long as they don't harm anyone around them". Same thing the other way around. It's not my taste, but i'm not stupid enough to deprive them of their right to exist.
I think most people don't realize how much better the reception of minorities has actually become. Of course, i'm not so naive to think that the world is perfect, there are still problems, even some very major ones, but look back at history and how it was back then. I come from Germany, you know, the country where that certain something with that certain someone happened?
Do you know how people with a different sexual orientation were treated back then? That's right, they were locked up in camps and forced to do backbreaking physical labor with minimal food until they died a slow and horrible death. And if they didn't die fast enough, they were shot or suffocated with toxic gas. I just recently revisited Buchenwald, one of the most well-known KZ's, right after Mauthausen, Dachau and Auschwitz to remind myself of the scope and scale of the destruction of human lives that took place there. With that in mind, we can really be glad that the world has evolved at least a bit. Nowadays, excluding of course the run-of-the-mill neo-nazi dipshits, if someone throws around slogans like: "Arisches Blut soll nicht untergehen!" in public, he won't recieve a lot of applause. The opposite, if anything. Nowadays you can walk into the supermarket with a mustache and a dress and no one would harm you.
So, i conclusion, please refrain from pushing political agendas in places where they really don't belong. If you really want to, you can see offensive aspects in nearly everything. If you want to talk about your political views and how they influence the way you look at media in general and anime in particular, why not make a dedicated video about it? Heck, we can even talk about it in the comments if you want. After all, discussion is the base of any good democracy.
Salutations,
ZeldamateurLP
9:53 looks like things are getting rather steamy, good, this is what I came for