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Mar 30, 2023 3:20 AM
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I just finished reading the manga up to volume 11 recently, and after reading the synopsis on this season it would sound like a prequel (Megumin is going to learn explosion magic, which she already full well knows in S1 and S2). But it's listed as if it were season 3. Anyone know what to expect? I'm looking forward to it either way but curiosity has the better of me at the moment.
Mar 30, 2023 3:30 AM
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This is a spin-off, a different story focusing on one of the character of the main series, which is Megumin
Mar 30, 2023 3:44 AM
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it is sort of a prequel for megumin before she joined kazuma's party
Mar 30, 2023 3:50 AM
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It's a prequel before megumin met kazuma
Mar 30, 2023 4:10 AM
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It doesn't take a genius to figure it out from synopsis alone, that it takes place before Kazuma is isekai'd.

Mar 30, 2023 4:31 AM
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It’s a side story prequel
Mar 30, 2023 4:53 AM
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Spinoff for megumin and its non cannon to the main konosuba story but yes it does have callbacks and references to the main series
Mar 30, 2023 5:00 AM
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it is about the life of megumin,her past and bakiretsu mahou.
Mar 30, 2023 6:07 AM
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This is basically a spin off/prequel since it takes place before she met kazuma, aqua, and darkness.
Mar 30, 2023 10:04 AM

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Sakyo2021 said:
Spinoff for megumin and its non cannon to the main konosuba story but yes it does have callbacks and references to the main series

Why would it be non cannon? It's not like it's a different writer right?
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Mar 30, 2023 12:50 PM
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Sakyo2021 said:
Spinoff for megumin and its non cannon to the main konosuba story but yes it does have callbacks and references to the main series
It's canon. The original prequel novels were written by Natsume himself (author of main series).
Mar 30, 2023 4:37 PM
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It’s her backstory
Mar 30, 2023 6:26 PM

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Thank you all, excited to watch it
Mar 30, 2023 7:38 PM
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Takes place before season one.
Mar 30, 2023 10:46 PM
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No, it’s a prequel. Legend of crimson is the direct sequel to season 2
Apr 1, 2023 5:51 AM
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it's a prequel, s3 is coming out sooner or later don't remember exactly when though
Apr 1, 2023 10:37 AM

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Obviously a prequel but would be great if the story can continue on.  Why do a prequel before a season 3 anyway?
Apr 3, 2023 1:25 PM

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its not exactly s3 but a prequel o well I'm watching it non the less but i hope we do get a new season soon as well id love to see more progress between Megumin and Kazuma after the movie ^_^
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Apr 4, 2023 1:34 PM
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It's a prequel and canon. Imho Megumin spin off needed to be animated cause it give explanation to things happened in season 2 and its fondamental to understand what will happens in a future part of the story (if it will ever get animated). Also I hope they retcon what happened in the end of the movie cause is not canon and if not changed it would be a mess to justify thing happening in future parts.
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Apr 4, 2023 6:29 PM
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It is a spin-off, prequel and canon at the same time (it's actually important to understand some volumes in the main story later, which must be the reason it got an anime).
Apr 5, 2023 6:00 AM
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Can I watch it if I’ve only watched the first few episodes of season 1? Is it more or less standalone?
Apr 5, 2023 8:28 AM
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jaamun100 said:
Can I watch it if I’ve only watched the first few episodes of season 1? Is it more or less standalone?

I think it should be fine since Konosuba isn't really very heavy on story. As long as you already know about Megumin, it should be okay.
Apr 5, 2023 10:39 AM

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jaamun100 said:
Can I watch it if I’ve only watched the first few episodes of season 1? Is it more or less standalone?
You can, you just won't understand most references, will miss important details, will have stuff about the main series spoiled for you and in the end probably won't like it that much, since the spinoff novel this is based on is considerably worse than the main Konosuba novels.

And answering some people who were asking "why a spinoff before S3": the first half of the spinoff novels (which is proably what they'll adapt here) happens in the past and ends right at the begining of S1 and contains some important pieces of backstory; the second half of the spinoff starts during S3 of the anime, so they had to take this out of the way now.
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Its a Megumin focused prequel set one year before season 1

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