KADOKAWA Company’s participation in the Wonder Festival 2024 event, with its KDcolle figure division, brought with it a considerable amount of announcements of new figures to be released in the future. Fortunately for fans of the lovely paladin Darkness from “KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World!” (Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!), one of the announcements features her, as KADOKAWA announced the production of a new scale figure inspired by this waifu.
This new Darkness figure was announced with a promotional image in which we can see this beautiful paladin, who had a more prominent role in the third season of the TV anime KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World!, wearing a striking lingerie set that highlights the physical attributes and curves of this waifu so beloved by the otaku community. In addition, the product will belong to KADOKAWA’s figure division known as KDcolle.
Konosuba! – The feminine charm of Darkness will be embodied in Figure
As previously mentioned, the production of this new scale figure of one of the main protagonists of the Konosuba! anime, Darkness, was announced at the Wonder Festival 2024 event, which took place last weekend. The illustration was created by Kurone Mishima, the original illustrator of the light novel Kurone Mishima, and presents the more flirtatious side of Darkness who is seen with a blushing face, something that highlights her beauty and feminine charm.
It is worth noting that at the moment not much information was released about this new product. However, it is expected that with the passing of the months the publisher KADOKAWA will provide the public with new updates on the upcoming release of the Darkness scale figure and a few screenshots of its prototype.
“Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!“, abbreviated as “Konosuba!“, is an isekai genre light novel that is written by Natsume Akatsuki and illustrated by Kurone Mishima. This fascinating light novel began publication under Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko imprint of Kadokawa Publishing House on October 1, 2013, and concluded its exciting journey on May 1, 2020. During this time, Kadokawa Publishing published a total of 17 volumes, consolidating the narrative of this captivating world.
The story also has a manga adaptation, illustrated by the talented illustrator Masahito Watari. This manga was first published in the pages of Fujimi Shobo’s Monthly Dragon Age magazine in September 2014.
On January 13, 2016, the light novel Konosuba! released its anime adaptation, which is made up of three seasons (31 episodes in total), a movie and two OVAs. The animation studio Studio Deen was in charge of the production of the first two seasons of the series; however, the third season had a change of animation studio, with the work falling to DRIVE, who was in charge of producing this new installment. The series is legally available on the Crunchyroll platform and has English dubbing.
Konosuba! introduces us to Kazuma Satou, our protagonist who on his shopping trip takes a dramatic turn when he sees a girl in danger of being run over by what he believes to be a truck. In a heroic and unusual act of bravery, he rushes in to save her, only to die… or at least that’s what he had in mind.
Contrary to his belief, Kazuma was not run over, but died of fright when he thought a slow-moving tractor was a truck in the middle of a race. This ridiculous ending, so absurd that even the doctors and his own family mocked him, leads our protagonist to wake up in an impressive and unknown room. There, he meets a beautiful goddess, Aqua, who, after mocking his death, offers him an irresistible proposal: a new life in a parallel fantasy universe.
In this new world, Kazuma would have the opportunity to live incredible adventures, face terrifying monsters, learn powerful magics and fight against a demon king, who rules this world and become the true hero among heroes who manages to defeat the demon king. For this adventure, Aqua offers him a weapon, skill, item and even a being to assist him on his journey, however, after hearing the taunts of the goddess Aqua, Kazuma decides to take her with him into this new world.
Aqua insists that this is not possible, but to her bad luck, this proposal is accepted and her place as the recipient will be taken by another goddess, while she is dragged into the new world to help Kazuma in his adventure to defeat the demon king. Get ready to dive into this incredible adventure that will fill you with many emotions and also great moments of comedy.
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