Masato Kouda -- Mainichi Mousou（毎日妄想）

 

Despite the all-star seiyuu cast and its popularity in Japan and elsewhere, I've never gotten to see the 2016 "Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!"（この素晴らしい世界に祝福を!...God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!）, aka "KonoSuba", which merges slapstick and screwball comedy and the whole isekai segment of anime. I'll probably get my own copy of the seasons someday but for now, I've been happy with catching the plentiful number of scenes from the show on YouTube. I have to admit though that the one character who's stuck out is the pretty and pretty dang strong but slightly unhinged Darkness, formally known as Lalatina Dustiness Ford. There's always that one character in a lot of anime who has that thing for masochism but Darkness could take the royal prize for enjoying her punishments. My compliment to her seiyuu, Ai Kayano（茅野愛衣）, who has a couple of entries herself on "Kayo Kyoku Plus": "Amanchu!" （あまんちゅ!）and "Girls und Panzer".

However, I won't be placing any song performed by her on the series here. Actually, I'm going with "Mainichi Mousou" (Everyday Delusions) which is pretty much Darkness' theme, and it usually pops up when the character writhes in painful glee after getting physically or verbally hurt. The soundtrack was created by composer/arranger of game music, anison and movie soundtracks Masato Kouda（甲田雅人）. 

One would think that a song to describe Darkness' paroxysms of "Ouch!" pleasure would get the treatment of a sexy saxophone or trumpet in a dirty jazz bar. Instead though, genius Kouda came up with something approximating 1960s cocktail lounge music that could have been used during comical scenes in an 80s Japanese trendy drama. Nice touch as well with the breathy female background chorus...almost expected an ancient cigarette or whiskey commercial after that. 

Even Kayano the seiyuu herself can lose it at times!