Good news to all US fans of KONOSUBA! Crunchyroll in partnership with Fathom Events has announced that they will be screening Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! Kurenai Densetsu (God’s Blessing to this Wonderful World: Legend of Crimson) movie in 600 theaters in the United States! However, this screening will be a one-night only event, as the movie will be shown on November 12 ONLY at 7:00 PM local time.
You can check out the English-subtitled trailer by Crunchyroll here!
You can buy your tickets at the Fathom Events website here.
Legend of Crimson premiered in Japan on August 30. The movie comes more than two years after the anime series’ end, and is KONOSUBA’s first movie. The movie follow Kazuma and his gang as they try to save the Crimson Devil Village, the birthplace of Megumin and Yunyun.
The film is directed by Takaomi Kanasaki, who directed KONOSUBA’s first and second seasons. Makoto Uezu, who wrote the scripts for the TV anime, also returned to pen the movie’s script.
The cast from the TV anime reprised 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 Devil King.
Source: Crunchyroll News