Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?

[Buffalobiian]

Alternative Title: Dungeon ni Deai o Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru no Darou ka?, Danmachi, ダンジョンに出会いを求めるのは間違っているだろうか

Genres: comedy, fantasy, romance

Synopsis: Commonly known as the "Dungeon," the city of Orario possesses a huge labyrinth in the underground. Its strange name attracts excitement, illusions of honor, and hopes of romance with a pretty girl. In this city of dreams and desires, new adventurer Bell Cranel has his fateful encounter with the tiny Goddess Hestia.

Thus begins the story of a boy striving to become the best adventurer and a lonely goddess searching for followers both hoping to reach their goals and perhaps have some romance on the side. -MAL

Links: ANN, MAL, AniDB, Official

Download: HorribleSubs - Episode 01 | Episode 02

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Loli-with-boobs.. it's such a weird sight. Whenever I watch this show my brain goes into discord. Those two things can not exist in such a manner.

Anyway, it's an alright show. Moderately funny and interesting.

[MasterOfMoogles]

Apparently Hestia's uh... boob ribbon?... has become quite the internet sensation: http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-new...-slightly-nsfw

[shinta|hikari]

Blind fools. Look at the waki, not the ribbon (or anything else), dammit.

[Buffalobiian]

That boob ribbon is the most anti-waki device I've seen.

edit: or so it should be...

[NeoCybercoin]

Too bad she is a bit of an idiot. She has the knife with her...yet she doesn't even give it to him when he needs it?

[shinta|hikari]

@Buff - You missed the point of the ribbon entirely. It's precisely because it makes it a chore to raise her (ridiculously exposed) arms that makes it absolute awesome when she does. Check her fanart. A good chunk of them are all wakiness.

@Neo - I generally hate idiots, but I think it's part of Hestia's charm. Dedicated and lovable idiots are nice to see from time to time.

[Buffalobiian]

I was talking about the physical impossibility of it, but as anime goes.. what impossibilities?

I thought the appeal of it was more in line with pseudo-bondage.

[Kraco]

Too bad she is a bit of an idiot. She has the knife with her...yet she doesn't even give it to him when he needs it?

I guess that explains why her familia has so few members? Even a single one seems difficult for her to brain capacity to maintain. Not that the dude would be much brighter.

[Kraco]

Episode 3 - HS




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The dude actually had pretty decent moves once the useless goddess actually managed to give him the knife. He has some personality issues, but he's not half bad when he gets down to it. We have seen previously he has what it takes to accept challenges in order to get stronger. Realistically speaking he should get some company for the dungeon crawling, though. One plus one is more than two in such a situation, with all the possible new tactics and other benefits available for a party.

Hestia is cute, as stupid as she is. Bell could have ended up with a much worse god/goddess. It doesn't change the fact the familia needs additional members.

[Buffalobiian]

I was worried at first that the weapon's power and Hestia's spell actually channelled her life essence into the knife in exchange for power, given how she collapsed. It seems that was unnecessary though.

I'll have to remember to keep the RPG aspect in my mind when I watch this because it's funny watching knives vs monsters otherwise. They don't have the physical length to penetrate deeper arteries of monsters from a realistic perspective, but it's all about damage points in RPG.

[Kraco]

I'll have to remember to keep the RPG aspect in my mind when I watch this because it's funny watching knives vs monsters otherwise. They don't have the physical length to penetrate deeper arteries of monsters from a realistic perspective, but it's all about damage points in RPG.

I don't think the dude is yet ready to fight monsters that big. For all we know, the knife might actually grow bigger when he gets stronger, allowing a deeper penetration (that sounds kind of bawdy...).

[NeoCybercoin]

Yeah that does sound a bit off....

[shinta|hikari]

They can use magic and shit right? That means his knife can shoot beams inside the monster like it did this episode.

[NeoCybercoin]

Well....so far the only magic we have seen are the statuses on adventurers. And the knife. Not sure if there IS magic like Fireball or something like that. I mean even the Gods can't use magic in this realm besides bestowing their blessings.

[Buffalobiian]

HS - Episode 04


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Wrath of a Goddess, or that of Ryu? Either way you're screwed. I wasn't expecting this to be a harem show at the beginning but it's rather tasteful so it doesn't bother me at all.

[Kraco]

Hestia is a really jealous goddess. Fortunately she's also so cute and childish that her jealousy doesn't seem overly dangerous, more like tantrums.

It was cool that Bell's dagger behaved like junk in other people's hands. Such a feature is quite handy. Too convenient he got it back so easily, but disregarding that, his good nature probably made him his first friend with whom to go dungeon crawling. The scene where he did the 50-50 split against the shrimp's expectations was nice, especially since it was so soon after the brat had stolen his dagger. If Lili has any decency, she should be feeling massively guilty. Although she still should switch guilds to Hestia's since there's obviously something badly wrong about her own.

[Kraco]

Episode 5 - HS



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Hmm... What exactly is wrong with the other guild? Is there a clique of adventurers (or all of the adventurers?) who basically hold the rest as debt slaves? How did that debt accumulate or is just like the "we took care of you for n years, so now it's your turn to pay back" kind of debt? However, the sake loving lady was talking about something else entirely I can't quite connect with the brutish extortion stuff. Certainly Lili didn't look like she would be a heavy drinker and it was a drinking debt...

Things go quite smoothly for Bell. He just happened to get a rare, expensive grimoire for free because somebody had forgotten it at the inn. He casts his first spell chantless (I didn't get an impression that was due to the grimoire, but who knows). When he dropped unconscious in the dungeon, instead of some hungry monsters, he was found by the lady he admires and fell for, and got a lap pillow moment, nothing less. Hestia doesn't seem to be a goddess of boobs and booze but a goddess of luck.

[MFauli]

havent read any of the responses above yet, but here´s my take on it:

I think it should be considered okay, yes. For socially inept guys like myself, it´s way easier to get flirtatious with a girl when trapped inside some semi-scary, moody dungeon. Usually, you have to somehow get into contact, then exchange some more or less awkward messages, until finally leading to a first meet-up irl. Just recently I met this gorgeous girl, but I was so awkward around her - barely getting myself to hug her during the "hi!"-phase, then sitting down facing each other while drinking iced tea at Starbucks. Somehow, I could hold up a conversation for an hour, and since then I met her once again, but still, it´s just really hard.

Not so when inside a dungeon. Without even knowing the girl, you´ll have an instant feeling of intimacy. Simply from being all alone with her in this god-forsaken environment. Since it´s kinda scary in that unbeknown, mysterious place, she´ll approach you on her own account, most likely asking you something like "H-hey. I am ... Who are you?" and from there it´s truly easy. What´s best, though, is that you don´t have to make it through any sort of awkward smalltalk/converation, since you´re in a situation where actions are required. So instead of trying to come up with witty, faux-intelligent replies and question, you just say "we have to find a way out of here" and she will follow you. Even better, she´ll get a feeling of security when near by your side. Now, it´s a bit of a double-edged sword regarding what follows. Obviously, you don´t want to get killed by some strong dungeon monster. However, protecting the girl against, say, a single wolf, a swarm of crows or some giant bugs should be doable. And, really, if you can pull that off successfully, you´ll have won her forever. When you´re lying next to the dead wolf after the fight, scratches and some light wounds all over your body, she´ll treat your wounds and thank you and ask you why´d you do that. And all you have to reply is "´Cause youre so damn cute" in a tired, fading voice. As you finish the sentence, you close your eyes from exhaustion, though well knowing that you made her heart skip a beat. For the rest of the journey through this dungeon, you can be sure that she´s madly in love with you.

So, yeah, I think it is definitely okay to pick up girls in a dungeon. It´s a great help for those that aren´t that confident and well-spoken when in a normal everyday environment. And, honestly, it might be even a "truer" way of showing a girl you like her, rather than winning her through mere words.

[Ryllharu]

havent read any of the responses above yet, but here´s my take on it:

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I don't have enough hands to give this the giga drill breaker facepalm it deserves.

[shinta|hikari]

LOL, he was joking wasn't he?