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Story	Art	Sound	Character	Enjoyment	Overall
7/10	8/10	8/10	10/10	10/10	9/10
(Good)	(Very Good)	(Very Good)	(Masterpiece)	(Masterpiece)	(Great)

If you're looking for a show with a deep and complex plot, this isn't it.
If you're looking for a show that takes it self seriously, this definitely isn't it.

That comedy tag is quite justified, this is quite the parody show with just enough story and character development to make it more than a series of jokes. On paper this show's recipe could easily have gone horrible wrong, but as it is they pretty much nailed it.
Oh, and this show is definitely in the "blatant sexual references" territory.
This should be spoiler free, though the character descriptions for Megumin and Darkness should be skipped if you want to get the full facepalm value out of their introductions.

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Story: 7
Character: 10

First up, our "hero" Kazuma is a text book Dangerously Genre Savvy character. Which is actually allowed since he has a plausible in universe reason for having that knowledge. A standard shut-in trope, he turns out to actually be the most useful character in most situations simply by being normal and thus capable of maintaining rational thought for more than 5 seconds. He's kind of pathetic at times, but you have to feel sorry for him.
If you like a smart ass with dry wit, you'll like Kazuma.

Next we have Aqua. I had a hard time putting my finger on exactly which trope she best fits but I'll go with Beware the Silly Ones. Deities are supposed to be powerful, wise and all knowing, so go figure that Kazuma gets landed with one that's thick as two short planks and backfires almost as often as she lands an attack. Obviously she also tends to forget to inform the party of her abilities until after everyone else has freaked out that said ability is necessary.

As an offensive mage we have Megumin, a character I can only imagine was created from taking the description "Black Mage Glass Cannon" and running with it. She is the physical embodiment of "Go Big or Go Home", a character that solves every problem by turning in to a crater. She's cute, in a constantly face palming kind of way. She also seems to be sexually attracted to explosions.

And, to round out the party we have poor Darkness. You might think she looks like some kind of Paladin, but you'd be wrong. See she would have taken the book on how to be a Paladin and thrown it out the window, except she'd likely miss the window. A literal meat shield most of the time, and entirely aware of it. To offset the potential for her being pathetic she's also cute and mostly sane and reasonable. Mostly. She's stubborn and reckless. She's also a perverted masochist... this might be handy for a meat shield if she didn't get so turned on by being beaten up.

Surrounding them is a cast of RPG tropes who some how don't come off as being two dimensional, opposing them are some bad guys that seem hilarious when they're not demonstrating genuine lethal capacity.

So, the story isn't outstanding, but it's not terrible either. Really the complaint is more that it's so short, rather than that what there is of it is bad. I figure this will improve when season 2 gets released. The characters sell the show though.

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Art: 8
Sound: 8

No real complaints on either count, just a few slightly off bits.
The art is solid even if it isn't classic masterpiece levels of eye candy, the effects look nice and there's not much in the way of blatantly reused footage that I noted. They probably reused some environmental backgrounds, given the number of scenes that happened in the same core places, but I don't think you'll notice them unless you're specifically looking for them. I'd give it a 9, but I think they had a little too much fun with some of the scantily clad characters.

Sound is similarly solid. The themes are nice, though they don't quite seem to have gotten stuck in my head the way some have. Nothing terrible is jumping out at me about the voice acting or the effects. The only thing that bugged me was that it could be difficult to tell if you were hearing Kazuma speaking or thinking, some more distinction would have been nice.

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Enjoyment: 10
Overall: 9

It's a parody comedy with adult themes. If it's the sort of thing you like you'll find it hilarious, if it misses the spot you'll probably find it a bit meh and drop it. Give it 3 episodes, that should be enough to figure out if you want to watch the rest.

9/10, would "feed" useless party members to a giant toad, again.