It may have been two years since the comedy isekai anime KonoSuba (Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!or “A blessing to this wonderful world!") ended, but fans are still clamoring for more content (especially for a season 3). While there is no news yet of a 3rd season, it was confirmed that KonoSuba will be getting its own movie, with the release date recently confirmed in its website.
The new film, entitled Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! Legend of Crimson is confirmed for an August 30 release. Check out the movie’s banner in its official website, which indicates the release date:
The banner features the main cast, with the ditzy Aqua in front followed by Megumin, Yunyun, Darkness, and an upside-down Kazuma at the back.
Legend of Crimson will be KonoSuba’s first movie. The movie will follow Kazuma and his gang as they try to save the Crimson Devil Village, the birthplace of Megumin and Yunyun. The cast from the TV anime are set to reprise their roles for the film, such as Amamiya Sora (Aqua), Takahashi Rie (Megumin), Kayano Ai (Darkness), Aki Toyosaki (Yunyun), Yui Horie (Wiz), and Jun Fukushima (Kazuma).
Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! started out as a web novel series in 2012 written by Natsume Akatsuki. Eventually the web novel was revised to be a light novel series and was published under Kadokawa Shoten’s Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko Imprint from October 2013. It also received a manga adaptation in 2014 which was illustrated by Masahito Watari and Jospeh Yokobori, and was serialized in Fujimi Shobo’s Monthly Dragon Age magazine. KonoSuba eventually made the jump to TV when it was adapted into an anime series by Studio Deen, with the first season airing from January to March 2016 and the second season from January to March 2017.
The story centers on a NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) teenager named Kazuma Sato, who is sent to a fantasy world after an untimely death and forms an unlikely party with a (useless) goddess, a firecracker-addicted wizard, and a masochistic crusader to fight against monsters and the Demon King.
Source: KonoSuba official website