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

[Buffalobiian]

I put fanart of Hestia in the merchandise section. You can count unrelated characters if you want to I suppose.

[shinta|hikari]

I called Argonaut being OP and a tool for lazy writing, and it proved to be so.

Still, it was a pretty decent ending. I watched this after the UBW epilogue, so I am giving it some leeway to account for momentary bias.

I am actually a fan of OP protagonists. I just don't like it when their OPness is so ill-defined. Argonaut basically means he can nuke any boss given enough charging time. Bell never runs out of good will, so that condition is practically solid.

In any case, it was a good series overall. Why? The character designs. Most of the girls were really well done, especially the main ones. Bell himself is the generic goody-2-shoes character, but with all the "edgy" ones we have been getting recently, the cliche actually became a breath of fresh air. A genuine, initially underdog good guy one cannot help but root for. Oh, and the waki-centric clothes. Awesome.

I will surely buy the LNs that go past the anime storyline. I hear the minotaur fight was actually better in the light novel, so I may get that too once it comes out.

[MasterOfMoogles]

While I enjoyed this show, I can't say there was anything too memorable. There were some good fights, and I liked the characters, but they just didn't do a great job building a plot to go with them.

If anything, the boob ribbon is the most impactful thing to come out of DanMachi.

[Munsu]

Just watched the first 3 episodes of this series, and this has turned out better/more fun than I anticipated. I think I should be done by tonight or tomorrow.

Anyways, for those interested there's an upcoming spinoff series Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Sword Oratoria that seems slated for next year:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...v-anime/.99473


There's also an OVA coming out this December from the main sequence:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/dail...mber-7/.105225

Anyways, hope to finish this series soon.

[shinta|hikari]

This is good. Climaxes midway.

[MFauli]

Like so many anime, this one has a good core, but the moment you start "*thinking* about it, it falls apart. Another gay hero who´s surrounded by hot girls that want him.

[KrayZ33]

Another gay hero who´s surrounded by hot girls that want him.

Actually, the show is called like that because he's actively trying to pick up girls by being a badass... and he's actually trying to get that n'Ais ass too, he's just not as bold as grown ups.
Maybe because he's 14 and 2 years younger than the sword princess?



maybe he should try this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYYfjFtYGsY

Would've been better if they were older, but the Harem side of things was mildly interesting at best. It's all about dem sweet level-ups and stat-gains in this show. Pretty much the opposite of SAO.


This show's climax somwhere at the midway point however is probably one of the best and most satisfying I've seen though. Shit was so epic that I bought 1 of the Novels solely because of that.
The ending however was really "meh" at best. It might have been an Anime-Original or something like that... I don't know.

[Kraco]

Although I'm not fan of harems and even less of indecisive main characters, I don't have problems with Danmachi. I very well understand how Bell wants to get stronger, to stand beside her, not behind her, before hitting on Aiz. He also wants to keep Hestia his goddess, not his lover. There's nothing wrong about that. It's a good sign he's actually selective about his women, not just super dense, miraculously not noticing all the characters wearing a skirt are after his pants. My impression was that he was mainly after Aiz. He's just so shy, polite, and not realising his own power (and thus being too modest), that he's not very good at friendzoning girls.

[Munsu]

So I finished this last night...

Overall, mix feelings. It ended up being much better than I anticipated, but at the same time it was a letdown after my first impression. Much of it though is because the last arc is quite weak, and overall the series didn't really end up having a point/goal to it as it's left off quite unfinished and not following throw on what was introduced.

The Minotaur fight was great though.

Hope to see a continuation at some point... guess we'll have to see what is offered in the spin-off and the OVA.

[shinta|hikari]

Middle climax = premature ejaculation. Nuff said.

Spin off is Aiz POV and quite boring I imagine.

[Kraco]

I haven't been finding the Aiz manga boring at all, but of course that doesn't automatically mean the anime would be a success.

[Shadow Skill]

I want more Bell stories and adventures. :/

[Kraco]

Danmachi Onsen OVA 1080p | 720p - Kametsu




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Quite a regular fanservice ova with a bit of fighting. It wasn't bad, although obviously nothing spectacular either. Hestia was being very much Hestia throughout it.

[Kraco]

Sword Oratoria 01

I actually watched the BakedFish release of this episode due to the HS version having imported the shitty subtitles formatting from the original source. BakedFish v2 had corrected that.

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While the main show concentrates on the n00b and his troubles to level up from the bottom, this spinoff is looking at the top players and their struggles against the top monsters. Or at least it should be. However, to be honest, I might be more interested in seeing Aiz interacting with Bell from Aiz's perspective. She's my favourite girls of the story, after all. I don't care if she's plain and boring in many people's opinion.

And yeah, you can't see the minotaur battle from too many perspectives.

[MFauli]

That's my problem with this first episode: Aiz is boring and if the entire anime is focused on her, I don't think it'll be anywhere as good as the original anime. Tbh I don't understand why they didn't make a proper 2nd season. Bell's story is FAR from over and it was all god and exciting. No reason for such an experiment. :/

And I didn't like the bullshit levels in this episode. First we see the monsters' acid cut through massive rocks. Then the boob twin is completely drenched in that same acid and only suffers some skin burns. sigh

And FUCK that magician girl. What was her fucking problem? She had all the time to finish her incantation, but instead of just saying the words, she stopped and started whining ... like a self-fulfilling prophecy, because OFC it wouldn't work if you simply choose not to do it >_<

Last scene was the best part, when Aiz and Bell met. I guess it's hopeless to expect this anime to drive forward the main story. Instead it's basically a re-telling of season 1, from Aiz' perspective.

[Ryllharu]

And I didn't like the bullshit levels in this episode. First we see the monsters' acid cut through massive rocks. Then the boob twin is completely drenched in that same acid and only suffers some skin burns. sigh

You didn't forget all the adventurers have divine protection? The tattoos on their backs grant them power remotely from their Familia's patron deity.

Gods literally walk the earth and contract with mortals as part of some "bargain" where the adventurers go into the dungeon for the gods. Hestia and Hermes broke that covenant when she went after Bell, and the dungeon responded accordingly.

[KrayZ33]

I just hope that this show will actually follow Aiz and not miss "thousand elf"

And I didn't like the bullshit levels in this episode. First we see the monsters' acid cut through massive rocks. Then the boob twin is completely drenched in that same acid and only suffers some skin burns. sigh

You must have forgotten about the stats, , gear, skills and spells each adventurer has.
This show is basically about an MMO.

[Buffalobiian]

Aiz is love. Aiz is life. Too boring for you? Go find a yandere somewhere. At my age, I'm happy with stability.

When I watched the first season I thought they top dogs were pretty arrogant in saying "Oh so sorry you got hurt, it was totally my fault you got owned by the Minotaur. I should have had that, being lvl5 and all. My bad."

But from this perspective.. yeah, it's partially their fault. Guess Induce Fear is a passive ability :P.

[Kraco]

Last scene was the best part, when Aiz and Bell met. I guess it's hopeless to expect this anime to drive forward the main story. Instead it's basically a re-telling of season 1, from Aiz' perspective.

I won't spoil anything, but assuming this follows the manga, this will indeed drive forward the larger story. Not Bell's tiny, personal story, but the huge shit that's going on in that world. Bell never really saw much of it so far, being such a low-level adventurer. So, no, this isn't really a retelling of the main story since we never saw the stuff that happens in this story as Bell wasn't a part of it. But that depends on what this anime concentrates on and how much they will animate. The only retellings should be the parts where Bell was spending time with Aiz.

[MFauli]

But I liked Bell :/