

I wanted to watch the anime, so I was wondering if the anime adapted the light
novel closely. Did the anime skip something or made changes to the plot?


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Is the Konosuba anime a close adaptation of the light novel?


You can watch the anime without first reading the LN, but there is a lot more
stuff after the anime ends. There's not much difference during the anime other
than slight changes and some of the jokes in the anime are improvised by the
voice actors. The LN and manga go further about the lore and characters more
though.


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I am currently doing both, having watched both series of the anime only last
week, and now reading the LNs.

The LNs have more information in them, but the anime is definitely funnier, as
the physical jokes and expressions gain from the visual aspect, and you get a
VA performance that gets across the tone of the dialogue (there's a lot of
scenes of characters crying out in comic distress that come across much
funnier seen than read).

As for a close adaptation, the benefits of it being a LN are that the
character design is straight off the picture pages of the LN; and the dialogue
was between close and exact from what was in the LN.

You will miss out on some extraneous detail - a certain recurring character
has their introduction done in a flashback as opposed to the full chapter it
gets in the story - for example, but very little from the first LNs that the
two series are based off was missed.

In my opinion, I'd go with the anime first. It won't take long to do, and
you'll get the full impact of the visual jokes that you'd know were coming due
to having read the LN. If you then go back and read the LNs, you'll receive a
little more backstory on certain characters, but you won't have missed out on
anything important.


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