KonoSuba Season 4 Reveals Staff, 2027 Debut at 10th Anniversary Event
The studio change to ENGI marks the fourth different animation studio to work on the main KonoSuba television series, a pattern that has become a defining production characteristic of the franchise.
Key Facts
- KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! 4 will air in 2027.
- Studio ENGI is the animation studio for season 4, replacing Drive which handled season 3.
- Takaomi Kanasaki returns as chief director, and Manabu Kurihara is the new director.
- The announcement was made at the "Colorful" 10th anniversary event on July 26, 2026.
- The third season aired in April 2024 with 11 episodes.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, Anime Corner.
The fourth season of the KonoSuba anime, titled KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! 4, was announced at the "Colorful" 10th anniversary event on July 26, 2026. The season is set to air in 2027. Studio ENGI will handle the animation, taking over from the previous studios that worked on earlier seasons. Takaomi Kanasaki returns as chief director, while Manabu Kurihara, who previously directed The Detective Is Already Dead, steps in as the new director. Makoto Uezu returns to oversee series scripts, Koichi Kikuta returns for character design, Yoshikazu Iwanami returns as sound director, and Masato Kōda returns to compose the music. The event also revealed an "ultra teaser visual" and a 10th anniversary video featuring a new arrangement of Machico's song "fantastic dreamer" from the first season. The third season aired in April 2024, and the sequel was first teased after the Bonus Stage OVA in March 2025.
Original light novelist Natsume Akatsuki is supervising the Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o! ~Kono Ai Subeki Machi ni Hanei o! mobile and PC game, which is set to launch this year. Kurone Mishima, the novel's illustrator, is also collaborating on the game's production.
Studio ENGI becomes the fourth studio to work on the main television series. Studio DEEN animated the first two seasons, which premiered in January 2016 and January 2017. Drive handled the third season, which aired in April 2024 for 11 episodes, as well as the 2023 Konosuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World! spin-off. J.C. Staff animated the 2019 film KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! Legend of Crimson.
The 10th anniversary event also showed a new arrangement of Machico's song "fantastic dreamer" from the first season. Crunchyroll streamed the first three seasons as they aired in Japan and also carried an English dub. The sequel was first teased after the Bonus Stage OVA screenings in March 2025.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.