Hey, Let's Visit Another World! (そうだ、異世界へ行こう！, Sōda, Isekai he Ikō!) is the eighteenth chapter of the KonoSuba manga series, and covers:
- The short story gifted at the 2015 Sneaker Bunko Isekai Fair that is included in the second Detour anthology of the light novels
- Chapter 4 in Volume 2 of the light novels
Cover[]
Image of Aqua.
Summary[]
Wiz shows up at the mansion solicitating a magic box to Kazuma, Megumin, and Darkness, citing that it can send those who open the lid to another world, although the trip only lasts twelve hours, the memory of which will be lost afterwards. Aqua proceeds to confiscate the faulty merchandise, until Kazuma decides to buy it when Wiz reveals how it sends people to Japan.
The party afterwards appears in Japan, where Megumin and Darkness are awed by the mobile phones, automatic doors, automobiles (one of them driven by somebody looking like the Ruffian), and airplanes. After making plans for going back to his home where he needs to do something after his family is asleep, Kazuma with the Japanese yen he brought with him before death takes his conspicuous companions to Akihabara by train.
At the district where the girls' attire fits in, Kazuma brings them into a game centre, where people thinking that Megumin is cosplaying the famous anime take pictures of her posing. Kazuma goes off to pass the time with fighting games, where he goes on a winning streak using a character that looks like the construction foreman, until Darkness thumps a medal game machine while an employee looking like Luna tries to stop her. Dragging Darkness off, Kazuma is next faced with Aqua smacking the claw machine, forcing him to help her take the Pekachu keyring.
Later at night, Kazuma takes his satisfied companions to his home, where he tells them to wait outside as he slips in. Making his way back to his room without his family noticing, Kazuma turns on his computer and deletes the secret files he doesn't want anyone seeing, though he is shocked when faced with the reminders of him being dead. He goes back out only to see Darkness and Megumin arguing with some policemen who think they are foreign prostitutes, when at that moment the party disappears back to the other world.
Finding themselves back at their mansion, the party has no memory of anything that had transpired after opening the box. As they speculate having indeed gone to another world, Kazuma goes to bed while Aqua finds the Pekachu keyring. Yet the following day, Kazuma is wakened by an emergency broadcast about the Mobile Fortress Destroyer approaching the town.
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Differences to other versions[]
- This chapter occurs in the light novel at a much later point of the story timeline, which is somewhere after the party's return from Arcanletia.
- It is because of this reason that the manga omits Wiz's fear for personal safety as a reason she hard-sells the magic box to Kazuma, since the character who threatens her so in the light novel has not yet appeared in the manga series.
- Also, unlike in the light novel Kazuma at this point doesn't know what the Destroyer is.
- Before taking the train, Kazuma in the light novel refuses Aqua's suggestion for him to Steal money from ATMs, then leads the girls to a fast food restaurant for lunch.
- In the light novel, following the train ride Aqua buys drinks from a talking vending machine much to the otherworlders' surprise.
- The manga omits the part where Kazuma leaves the eris currency he has on hand behind for his family, but adds the items they left for mourning his death.
- The warning of the Destroyer's approach occurs in the light novel on the morning after the botched Succubus service right when Kazuma is cleaning Anna's grave.
Trivia[]
- This chapter was specially inserted into the manga series to be promotional material for the anime series which had just debuted at around that period, hence the many references to the anime as well as the appearance of people looking like anime characters such as the Ruffian, Luna, and the construction foreman.
- The company name printed on the delivery truck driven by the Ruffian is the Japanese pronunciation of him.
- The Pekachu featured on the keyring is a parody of Pikachu from the Pokémon series.
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