[Archive] The best example of its highly-popular subgenre

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.  A shut-in gamer, a self-obsessed goddess, a volatile arch mage, and a masochistic tank wander into an MMORPG party.  No?  I didn’t think so.  “Konosuba” utilizes what is quickly becoming one of the go-to anime plot setups, a young man being thrust into a video game or a fantasy world with video game mechanics, surrounded with attractive women and sent on a noble quest, and takes great delight in lampooning the trope.  Irreverent humor, self-awareness, and witty subversion abound, all the while building a cast that can’t really be called likeable, but is certainly entertaining.