With the release of a picture of the 15th volume of “Natsume Akatsuki’s KONOSUBA” (Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o! or KONOSUBA – God’s blessing on this wonderful world!) light novel series, it has been confirmed that the anime film project for the series will be released in 2019.
Posted by the official Twitter account for the Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko imprint, the novel featured will be shipped on November 1.
The film will be featuring returning cast and staff. Acting as director once more is Takaomi Kanasaki and he will be directing the film at J.C. Staff. Also returning to work on the script is Makoto Uezu, a writer known to have worked on the “Assassination Classroom” series. Designing the characters for the film is Koichi Kikuta, the artist who adapted Kurone Mishima’s original character designs for the anime. Masato Kōda, who also worked on the “Knight’s & Magic” series will be returning to work on the music of the film.
The returning cast for the film include:
Jun Fukushima as Kazuma
Sora Amamiya as Aqua
Ai Kayano as Darkness
Aki Toyosaki as Yunyun
Rie Takahashi as Megumin
Yui Horie as Wiz
“KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on this Wonderful World!” first began as a web novel series written by Natsume Akatsuki and was released in December 2012. The series ran until October 2013 with a total of 6 volumes under the publication of Shousetsuka ni Narou. While the web novel ended in October 2013, the series was revised into a printed light novel series with illustrations by Kurone Mishima and was published under Kadokawa Shoten’s Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko Imprint.
Following this in October 2014, the series was adapted into a manga series illustrated by Masahito Watari and Joseph Yokobori. The anime adaptation of the series made its debut in January 2016 and ran until March 2017 with a total of 20 episodes and 2 OVAs.
The story of the series begins in the aftermath of the sudden but rather embarrassing death of a Japanese teenager shut-in NEET named Kazuma Satō. Upon his death, he meets a goddess named Aqua who offers to reincarnate him in a parallel world with MMORPG elements, where he can go on adventures and battle monsters.
However, while choosing between a superpowered item or ability to use in this new world, he ends up being provoked by Aqua and decides to bring her to the new world. Thus begins a comedic tale involving a young man forming a dysfunctional party with a goddess, a wizard, and a crusader to fight against monsters.
Source: AnimeNewsNetwork