I Must Be Getting Old

Kadokawa has announced that Natsume Akatsuki’s light novel series Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o! (Give Blessings to This Wonderful World!) will be getting an anime TV series adaptation. The story revolves around a goddess who says to a Japanese schoolboy, “I’ll take you to an alternate world. You may only bring one thing you like with you.” So the boy responds, “I’ll bring you.”

Among the 22 responses to the news on the Anime News Network forum, the title is compared to Sword Art Online, Gate, Nagi no Asukara, Shinsekai Yori, and D-Frag, yet none of the responses mention Ah! Megami-sama. My first reaction upon hearing the “KonoSuba” plot summary was, “schoolboy selects the goddess to stay with him’; that’s Ah! My Goddess being combined with the traditional Leda/Rayearth/No Game No Life “transported to an alternate world” trope.