Megumin

Megumin's most defining trait is her obsession for Explosion Magic. After being saved by an unknown stranger using the spell, Megumin instantly fell in love with the Explosion Magic's unparalleled destructive power, as well as its heat, the shock wave sensation over the body, smoke and glow, therefore she dedicated years of her life studying and saving points in order to master the spell, while disregarding its many demerits. After learning the Explosion Magic, Megumin started to come up with excuses to cast it every day, both in quests or during her daily routine, recklessly using the spell at the first opportunity, sometimes just to show herself, relieve stress or gain XP, no matter how many problems she causes, although Megumin may grow anxious in delicate situations. While she gets excited about someone else joining her in the "Path of Explosion", Megumin rejects any type of explosion that isn't Explosion Magic, like Kazuma's tinymites. Furthermore, Megumin, as a Crimson Demon, suffers from chūnibyō. She calls herself "the foremost Arch Wizard and wielder of Explosion Magic" in her self-introduction, comes up with catchphrases, and practices cringe-worthy poses, and is obsessed with looking "cool". Her act falls flat easily. Megumin also enjoys "edge" stuff, which is why she has a taste for strange names and gothic fashion, besides cute pets, but Megumin doesn't admit the latter in order to keep her "cool" poise. Due to her chūnibyō personality, Megumin is an attention seeker with expansive delusions. She is boastful, often bragging about her genius and talent, and is usually swayed by praise. Megumin tries to steal the spotlight in quests and battles by kill-steal, in addition to aiming to finish fights before they even starts. She seizes any opportunity to claim titles such as "Devil King" and "Dragon Slayer". Although Megumin is, according to Kazuma, weirdly smart and has the most common sense of her party, she is quite childish and short-tempered, often rising to provocations and even threatening to explode the houses of those who enrage her. Regarding her loved ones, she is surprisingly mature, as while Megumin may be harsh with the ones she cares about, like Kazuma and Yunyun, Megumin is also exceptionally assertive and even empathetic. Moreover, Megumin is very competitive, even having a notebook to count her wins against Yunyun. It is very common that Megumin tries to assert her dominance over her friends, whatever in competitions, plays and even in love life, using her relationship with Kazuma to make them envious. Megumin is also a cheater who does whatever it takes to win, which is why she was considered a "ruffian" in her school. Even though Megumin is already old enough to get married in the Parallel World, she is still treated like a child due to her appearance, which is why Megumin is usually called "Loli" (rori, ロリ), something that annoys her. Therefore, she often tries to act like a mature woman, like asking to drink alcohol and flirting by sending mixed signals, because Megumin thinks that is the adult way of courting. She even has adult aspirations, such as starting a family. Megumin is very self-conscious about her preadolescent body. She often has the excuse that her body will develop later, although her bad nutrition and genetics say otherwise. Megumin envies her friends' more mature bodies, even slapping their bosoms in a fit of rage. She is willing to use any underhand method to survive too, like acquiring Yunyun's lunches in their duels in order to feed and only recognized friendships as an excuse to share her problems and suffering.

Megumin is a young girl with shoulder-length brunette hair (smooth black in light novel) and oddly languid crimson-colored eyes. She has fair skin, doll-like features (being a Lolita type)

As a Crimson Demon prodigy, Megumin has an amazingly high Intelligence stat, being able to make complex potions, craft magic items, and even formulate new spell chants. She also has high Magical Power, second only to Aqua's. However, she chose to specialize in Explosion Magic, which, while the most powerful spell in the Detonation Series, has the demerit of consuming all her mana due to its high cost. Furthermore, rather than make up for her weaknesses, she spends all her Skill Points on increasing her spell's destructive power. As a result, while Megumin is an effective nuker, she is also a one-and-done glass cannon. thumb|Explosion Magic *Explosion Magic: A special branch magic of the Detonation Series that allows the user to summon a single beam of light, that detonates at the target, creating a devastating blast of pure magical power. It is the most powerful magic spell, learned by immortal beings like undead and gods, with enough spare skill points to learn it. Although the spell can damage ghosts, spirits, gods and demons, it has several demerits: it consumes too much MP, being a single shot spell (in Megumin's case, she always collapses since the spell also consumes her HP); the magic is also so powerful it also affects the surrounding landscape, being dangerous to use it in dungeons, that can collapse over the user; lastly, its noise attracts all the monsters in the surrounding area. *Skills: Besides magic, Megumin devotes all of her Skill Points into skills in order to improve the power of her spell, instead of use them to increase her MP: **Explosion Magic Increase: Increases the power of Blasting, Detonation and Explosion Magics. **High-Speed Incantation: Decreases the time of incantation. Thanks to this skill, Megumin doesn't need to recite an incantation, although it decreases her spell firepower. However, in the end of the series, she fully mastered the spell to use its full power without incantation.