An Explosion on this Wonderful World! anime launch date in Spring 2023? KonoSuba Megumin Bakuen trailer PV confirms prequel

The KonoSuba Explosion anime is predicted to solely be a single season that’ll come out in both Spring or Summer of 2023. Pic credit score: Studio Drive

The KonoSuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World! launch date is formally scheduled for 2023.

Anime Geek is predicting that the precise time-frame can be in April 2023, the Spring 2023 anime season. (For extra particulars, please see the predictions part under.)

It’s additionally predicted that the KonoSuba Season 3 launch date can be in 2024.

A brand new KonoSuba Explosion trailer PV is confirmed to be popping out on the morning (EST) of December 4, 2022. This announcement was made on December 3, 2022, the day of Megumin’s birthday.

The announcement of the discharge yr was made by the primary KonoSuba Bakuen trailer PV on August 26, 2022.

The KonoSuba Megumin anime TV collection was confirmed to be in manufacturing again in May 2022.

The KonoSuba Season 3 anime TV collection was additionally confirmed to be in manufacturing throughout that May 2022 live-streaming occasion.

Both anime TV reveals are being directed by director Yujiro Abe at Studio Drive.

The KONOSUBA: An Explosion on This Wonderful World! teaser trailer that was launched throughout Anime Expo 2022 was largely comprised of unfinished paintings.

Titled the KonoSuba: An Explosion on this Wonderful World! anime, the story can be based mostly on the KonoSuba Bakuen gentle novel and manga collection, which implies it will likely be a prequel to the primary story.

North American writer Yen Press supplies an English description of the KonoSuba: Explosion plot abstract:

“One yr earlier than a sure ineffective goddess and NEET extraordinaire hit the scene, Megumin, the ‘Greatest Genius of the Crimson Magic Clan,’ is tough at work. Ever since a life-changing encounter in her youth, the younger wizard has devoted her each waking second to the pursuit of the last word offensive magic, Explosion! (Well…each second not spent hustling meals from her self-proclaimed rival.) And whereas the massive sister’s away, the toddler will play. On a routine journey into the woods, Megumin’s little sister, Komekko, finds a wierd black kitten. Little does she know that this cat performs a key position in unsealing a Dark God’s tomb…”

The variety of episodes or cours for the KonoSuba Explosion anime hasn’t been introduced but. However, based mostly on the supply materials, it’s predicted to be solely a single season (please see the sunshine novel part under for extra particulars).

On May 28, 2022, the KADOKAWA anime YouTube channel introduced the brand new KonoSuba Explosion anime challenge by way of a New Information Unveiling Guest Special stay stream occasion that featured KonoSuba voice actors Jun Fukushima (Kazuma), Sora Amamiya (Aqua), Rie Takahashi (Megumin), and Ai Kayano (Darkness).

The KonoSuba Megumin anime will function returning voice actresses Rie Takahashi as Megumin and Aki Toyosaki as Yunyun.

The KonoSuba: An Explosion on this Wonderful World! OP (opening) and ED (ending) theme music music hasn’t been introduced but.

• Updated December 4, 2022: Added new trailer PV.
• Updated August 26, 2022: KonoSuba: Bakuen launch date confirmed to be in 2023 by trailer PV 1.
• Updated July 8, 2022: Added the KonoSuba: Bakuen teaser trailer.

This article supplies every thing that’s recognized in regards to the KonoSuba: An Explosion on this Wonderful World! anime (Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Bakuen wo! anime) and all associated information. As such, this text can be up to date over time with information and rumors. Meanwhile, let’s delve down into what is understood for sure.

The KonoSuba: An Explosion on this Wonderful! anime challenge can be a Megumin prequel based mostly on the sunshine novel collection. Pic credit score: Studio Drive

KonoSuba Explosion anime launch date predictions: Is Spring 2023 probably?

As of the final replace, Studio Drive, or any firm associated to the manufacturing of the anime has not formally confirmed the KonoSuba: An Explosion on this Wonderful World! launch date. However, the manufacturing of the KonoSuba Bakuen anime was confirmed on May 28, 2022.

Once the information is formally confirmed this text can be up to date with the related data.

In the meantime, it’s doable to invest about when the Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Bakuen wo! launch date will happen sooner or later.

The manufacturing of the anime initiatives was first teased means again in July 2021. Thus, it’s probably that pre-production started even earlier than this manufacturing resolution was made public.

When the teaser trailer was launched at Anime Expo 2022 on July 3, 2022, the announcement didn’t present a time-frame for the TV present’s premiere. As beforehand famous, many of the animation was unfinished work, which supplies us a tough thought of the manufacturing standing.

Anime initiatives take years to develop and manufacturing studios are booked out upfront together with the primary workers and forged. Unfortunately, all the Japanese anime trade is dealing with rising pains on account of a scarcity of human sources because of low animator wages.

Typically, a manufacturing resolution just isn’t publicly introduced till the anime challenge has already handed the pre-production part. Additionally, these bulletins are normally made inside a yr or two earlier than the precise premiere. Fully animated trailer previews sometimes got here out inside 6 months of the premiere time-frame.

Therefore, it’s predicted that the KonoSuba Bakuen launch date can be in Spring or Summer 2023.

The Studio Drive character designer created this saucy paintings of Megumin and Yunyun to have fun the KonoSuba Explosion anime announcement. Pic credit score: Koichi Kikuta

KonoSuba Megumin anime to be produced by Studio Drive

The first two seasons had been produced by animation Studio DEEN whereas the KonoSuba film was produced by Studio J.C. Staff.

Both the third season and the KonoSuba Bakuen anime challenge can be animated by returning primary workers on the Japanese animation firm Studio Drive. The studio has beforehand animated the unique story Vlad Love and in 2022 they’re additionally releasing Teppen!, Uzamaki: Spiral Into Horror, and To Your Eternity Season 2.

Chief Director Takaomi Kanasaki (Princess Connect! Re:Dive Season 2) is helming the initiatives together with primary director Yujiro Abe (episode director for Vlad Love, Great Pretender, Boruto, Kaguya-Sama: Love is War, Megalobox). Kanasaki can be performing because the chief supervisor for the KonoSuba Megumin challenge.

Writer Makoto Uezu (Kengan Ashura Season 2) is dealing with the collection composition. Artist Koichi Kikuta (Blue Reflection Ray) is the character designer (for the second season, he was additionally the chief animation director).

Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Bakuen wo! anime relies on the sunshine novel prequel

The Konosuba: Crimson Legend film featured a narrative centered on Megumin and Yunyun of the Crimson Demon clan. And, as could be anticipated, it positive was explosive!

The Bakuen gentle novels (“bakuen” actually interprets because the phrase explosion) by unique creator Natsume Akatsuki are facet tales that operate as a prequel to the occasions of the primary story, which led to 2017 with gentle novel KonoSuba Volume 17. As of March 2019, the spin-off collection completed the ending in Bakuen Volume 5, which is greater than sufficient for an anime adaptation.

There can be the KonoSuba Dust spin-off Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o! Extra: Ano Orokamono ni mo Kyakkou wo! and the Wiz/Vanir spin-off Kono Kamen no Akuma ni Sodan wo! Unfortunately, these facet tales are comparatively brief and would in all probability work higher as KonoSuba OVA 3.

A KonoSuba Bakuen manga adaptation by Akatsuki and illustrator Kasumi Morino was serialized in Media Factory’s Monthly Comic Alive from May 2016 via December 27, 2017. It was launched as 5 volumes.

In December 2018, Yen Press introduced that it had acquired the English translation license for the Konosuba: An Explosion On This Wonderful World! gentle novel and manga collection. The English Bakuen Volume 5 was launched on August 24, 2021. The manga’s English translation was additionally completed again in July 20, 2020.

As beforehand famous, it’s predicted that the KonoSuba Bakuen anime will solely be a single season. The cause is that the primary three volumes of the KonoSuba: An Explosion on this Wonderful World! gentle novel collection is a whole story that ends with Megumin assembly Kazuma and Aqua.

Volumes 4 and 5 are labeled because the Zoku Bakuen collection since they’re bonus tales that happen throughout the primary story within the KonoSuba timeline. For instance, Bakuen Volume 4 takes place in-between primary gentle novels KonoSuba Volume 9 and 10 and tells the story of Megumin forming a thieving social gathering with Yunyun and Iris after being impressed by the Chivalrous Thief.

Unfortunately, anime followers must wait till the KonoSuba: An Explosion on this Wonderful World! launch date to learn the way the story can be tailored. Stay tuned!