Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka

This anime is excellent. Especially the music and sound effects are great. The main character is a baka, like every shounen.


But it's just one thing that makes me hate the whole anime: Inconsistency in the number of episodes and the content. We only watch one arc a whole season. There are always long stares in the episodes. Some scenes are just like a slide show. If you want to tell everything, increase the number of episodes to 50. If you're going to make 12 episode seasons, summarize instead of telling everything, idiots. I am really angry. It's like I'm watching One Piece, which has 12 ... episodes. Bruh. I enjoyed the first season, but the following seasons are a complete disappointment. If they made the last 4 seasons as a single season, I wouldn't complain.

The art is good, that's the only thing I can say in favor of the show. The main character is annoying, most of the other characters are too. He immediately get's overpowered abilities for no real reason. His whole driving force for trying harder and the catalyst for getting overpowered abilities is falling in love with a woman he met for five seconds. Yet he also has no interest in a literal goddess he's following and living with throwing herself at him. It's just the same attempt at fanservice and comedy you've seen over and over again but done worse.

The world is basically an RPG, ... they get stats, kill mobs in dungeons and get drops to sell. They just don't use a status window, instead your stats and abilities are listed on a tattoo on your back that magically changes. Ultimately it's the same though. In the first episode, when he just started doing dungeons two weeks ago, he gets an ability that just massively increases his growth.

It goes with the work hard to improve yourself thing while contradicting that by letting him just shoot past everyone who's been working harder for years right away. He gets it, as I said, because of his feelings for a woman he met. It's incredibly rare and the goddess has never seen it before. So either no one's ever loved someone as much as he loves that woman he just met, or they're probably going to say he's special because of some lineage or something.

Outside of the RPG thing, it's also a harem. I watched Tenchi Muyo when I was a kid, I don't hate harems by default, but this one doesn't really have any likeable characters or enjoyable interactions. It seems like it's just a mindless self insert fantasy for the viewer to put themselves into. Attractive women show interest right away for seemingly no reason, despite how annoying he is.

He gets overpowered cheat abilities. He's the first and currently only follower of a goddess, who is also into him, and another goddess becomes fuck crazy for him when she sees him run by her once. If he ever adds more member's to his group, it'll probably be mostly or entirely women with little to no personality. Not that he really needs other members with how overpowered he is.

This dude can't even use his overpowered shit to at least make some good money and buy his own shit, they just immediately have his goddess ask another goddess to make him a special weapon. The weapon is alive and will grow along with him, wouldn't want to ever need new gear right? He just has to have everything dumped on his lap immediately, what's the point of having an RPG setting if everything just gets given to you right away.

Everything gets dragged out too long in an attempt to create tension. His goddess had the sword, she was with him, they get attacked by a big monkey, his normal weapons break when he hits the monkey, yet his goddess doesn't just give him the magic weapon. We know she's going to, but the show drags on for a while before deciding the character can have a brain. This really goes on until halfway through the next episode. It's painfully idiotic. On top of that nothing matters, so it's all just boring.

If this doesn't sound like enough, don't worry, he also gets special magic after reading a special one time use book that was given to him by the lady at the tavern. Yet more power dropped onto his lap, exactly what he wanted, no effort, nothing to work toward, he just gets it handed to him, while the show keeps going on about working hard and getting stronger.

They'll even have one of the side characters investigate someone and then just have a group walk by at a convenient time and explicitly state what's going to happen within earshot. Everything is pointless. Special powers, weapons, even information, will just be given to him or his group.

The main character also has no real personality, other than being shy and nice. He mostly just says he can't accept things and thanks because he's constantly having shit given to him. Other than that he mostly just makes noises. He's got no brains either, not that he really needs them. Everything works out for him no matter what he does. I just don't really see what there is to like about this show.

A pretty mixed bag. It has some aspects that are surpisingly done well and others that are frustratingly poor.

It was an anime that got better the further into the season that it went, with the first 6 episodes being so bad that I dropped it for a while. However, once I started watching it again, by the time I got towards the end I actually found myself somewhat enjoying the anime (keyword being “somewhat”).

This increased enjoyment is due to the focus of the show shifting away from the characters and more toward the action, which is undoubtedly the best aspect of the show. The ... movement looks pretty clean and it’s clear that a good amount of effort was put into making it stand out among its power fantasy contemporaries.

Speaking of the characters, they are also undoubtedly the worst aspect of the show. All of the main characters recieve very basic depth and development so the anime can trick you into thinking that the characters are well-written and not just conventional power fantasy characters.

The MC wants to get stronger to catch up to a girl he likes. Ok, different from the usual MC, what else makes him stand out? Absolutley nothing. Aside from that one gimmick, he is the standard: respect women, overpowered, heart of gold MC that you have seen a million times before.

And given that you’ve seen MCs with these traits a million times before, you best believe that he also gets a harem the size of a small village to boot. It seems like almost every women he gets into contact with throws themself at him. And because he’s such a “unique” MC, he is completely oblivious to their intentions.

That’s all I can say about the characters before I go on a 5 page rant about how poorly written they all are. So let’s talk about the world, another initially unique aspect of anime. The Greek gods give up their powers and come to live with the humans and form guilds in a fantasy world.

Alright that sounds like it could be interesting. What else can you offer that is unique? Nothing. That’s it. Beside that one gimmick, it’s the same as every other power fantasy anime (noticing a trend?). It has the same architecture, the same monsters, the same leveling system as all the other Isekai trash out there.

Oh, you didn’t misread that last part by the way. In a fantasy world that is completely separate from modern technology like video games, the power system is still based off something you’d see in an RPG. Why is this necessary?

It’s necessary in games because you aren’t actually in them, so the game needs to simulate how much stronger you would be getting if you were actually fighting and gaining that experience. This is a redundant system to write into a non-isekai fantasy world were the characters would be improving through the actual experience.

What this tells me is that the creator wanted to use the character and world gimmicks as a way to mask the fact that they are feeding their audience the same creatively bankrupt content that has made money in the past.

If not for the action and voice acting (the MC’s voice actor gave a pretty good performance), a 4 would be a farcry from what it would have deserved.

It’s a solid 4

This is not a spoiler review!!
You can also apply this review to the 2nd & 3rd season of this anime.
TL;DR at the bottom.
"Danmachi" or "Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka" is an Action adventure type of anime, while its not listed as an isekai it feels like you are watching on of the average repetitive isekai animes (The concept of guilds, adventurers, magic, etc) it can be considered a Harem too, since there's lots of girls surrounding the MC (for no reason) and lots of "fan service", let me first state the problems about it ... before you regret wasting your time on it...
The story is pretty simple, its about our MC "Bell" dreaming to be a strong hero, and save girls in a dungeon, bell started as an a normal adventurer under a familia on the famous city of "Orario" populated with some few "Gods" and the rest are humans, elf, dwarf etc...The "familia" is like an organization led by one "God" containing mortal members. So to be considered as an adventurer you need to join the organization and form a contract with its "God", the "Gods" are the ones responsible of managing their members stats (level, strength, magic and skills) , in addition you can't break the contract with a "God" without his permission and you can only be with one "familia".
When you become and adventurer you can raid the Dungeon solo or with the help of a party, the Dungeon is like an entity separated with floors, the higher the harder (floor number) , containing lots of monsters, where every monster can respawn after a period of time... That explains the story I think, sounds fun right? now let's talk about why I don't recommend this show, after you dive into the anime, one episode after another, you will start to feel that nothing makes sense, just a mess, the majority of the characters are girls, end every one of them that the MC meets likes him for literally no reason, a few of them says because he's cute and the rest are just random, lots of girls but there's just one or two that you can consider a bit "unique", the others are just... let's say "Average Copy-Pasta isekai fan-service-only-purpose" characters, it's just you can't care about all of this characters, the screen time reserved for each of those supportive characters is just a mess, most of things that happens in the anime just comes like that with no reason, I can guarantee that all of you can predict at least 90% of the story, sometimes I feel like I'm watching some kind of "meme superhero show"...
the only good thing that I did like about this anime is the fight scenes, the animation is very good especially in season 3, the art is good tho, I didn't read the light novel yet, I see that it has a higher rating, if you are a fan of the novel you can comeback here to the anime, to watch the fights...
TL;DR & Conclusion :
- Bad main character (personal opinion).
- Nothing makes sense after each episode, characters, story, relationships.
- Cringy Harem, every girl in the anime likes the main character, with no exceptions.
- Copy-pasta characters .
- The story is not organized, just a mess of action .
- Sometimes its just a meme 90s superhero show .
- Good art, good animation .
In conclusion I don't recommend the anime for the above reasons, it's just a waste of time, even if the concept seems fun and a bit different, there's better "Isekai" titles that you can enjoy, I don't have any reviews about them by the I'm writing this, but I plan to do so when I have time, so be sure to check sometime... In the event that you do watch it I hope you enjoy it in the way that I didn't.

Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka?

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



I heard a lot about the first season in the past and it all fell silent at some point. Until the third season came out and people started talking about it again. I thought, well, the genres are not mine, but I'll give it a chance.

Did i regret it? Basically not.

Dnamachi's storyline is simple and doesn't evolve over the course of the seasons. It's mostly just about smaller events and rescue operations. The real events are only minimally in the background. In other words, ... thanks to the 100 different story blockers, nothing progresses.

Strangely, the fan service has been reduced by half from season to season, until the latest season it has almost died out. I prefer it that way anyway.

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What bothered me less about the work are actually the characters. Most of them are personable and not annoying, even the stupid personalities.
The main family and its members struck me as particularly positive. They have a pleasant attitude and have quite a bit of personality, self-conflict, and depth of character. This is particularly evident with some of the supporting characters here and with the protagonist in the course of the next few seasons.


Story

The plot offers a concept that has been pretty worn out so far, only for once it is not an Isekai. The concept of the Lvl-SKill system is nothing new either. But there is at least a new approach here, because there are no questionable things like "EXP" in the world, but the status values ​​and Lvl show the actual values ​​of humans and the Lvl Up gives a divine boost.
This makes until now still not much sense, since we get no real explanation why this system was needed in this world.

Apart from that, the plot has no direction so far and goes in circles.

Animation / pictures

Mostly above average, except for the Minotaur, which offered a very dynamic and well-animated fight that will certainly be remembered.

Characters

As mentioned above, the characters are quite personable and, to my surprise, have a lot more personality and character depth than I would have expected in such an anime. It's always interesting to see some characters confront their self-conflicts.

Music

Mostly average. The outro and intro are very monotonous and weak. Only the Osts can keep the atmosphere right.


Conclusion


The anime is not what I imagined it to be and is getting better from season to season. For a prologue this was pretty average in entertainment. Its not bad but not enough to be considered average. Still, it is worth to watch this show.

This is my first review so bear with me ok
What killed the anime for me was the characters at my current stage in my anime life am just starting to break away from shows like this but I still enjoy them from time to time but NOT Danmachi god all the female cast are husks/shells of stereotypes, bland with zero redeeming qualities. I had hopes for Ais but nah she failed to Hestia- she is way to clingy and how long does it take to give someone a knife ughh and Arde - How rude do you have to be to rob someone then ... they forgave you and invited you to their party but you dare say to someone else they cant join like really? and finally Bell Cranell- Goddamn "I want to save girls cause am so nice" eww like bruh I had hope at first but I don't like male mc like those they all seem fake and unrealistic to me like she did all that and he just forgives her like what?? got more to say but I'll leave it at that. Best character Berte bad name just as the show though.

i remember watching this when i was 14 or 15 when i was still new to anime, i really enjoyed this,but coming back to this now,i have to say,i can relate more to the supposed villains in the end than the mc.
you might enjoy this show because there are many seasons,which means that there are people that enjoy this,but im not one of them anymore
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bell is a complete bitch,his suppoter steals his blade which is worth millions and hes just like o well i forgive you,but,wait,she does it again and when he saves her,she hits him and throws slanders at him,but hes ... just like,i saved you because your you and she even says like yeah,i deserved to die,something else he did that irritated me was when aiz wanted to talk to him but then he tried leaving and then bumped into her and,then proceded to act like a complete wuss,go to episode 7 at 6:59 mark you can see how bad it is,i rolled my eyes and then asked myself,why is this called is it wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon when hes only attracted to her,runs away like a bitch when he sees her,and isint attracted to anyone else,when other girls litteraly throw themselves at him,especially in episode 12.like there is litteraly no point in calling it that if he gets none since hes a bitch,like seriously,he is a bitch,even when hes not in the wrong,he appologises or when someone else is appologising bitch does it back,like people almost kill his teamates and hes still trying to say its ok,like what.

on top of that,he gets everything handed to him,his first skill is the the power to lvl up stupid quick,like he becomes op in like 1 1/2-2months while it takes your average joe, like,YEARS to just get to where he is,like it even took aiz 1year or so,and the worst part is that it runs on the power of love,like for fucks sake man,think about all the other character who are in love,but have gotten zero powers out of it,
and another power he gets,is the ability to litteraly 1shot enemys,
while also being stated to be naturally talented on top of all the other things he had going for him,the thing that made me boiled the water over the most was when hestia using/abusing,her power just to get to bell,which is the only thing she can say in the show,bell bell.,.bell kun,or she might get mad and nag/interupt him,about a character he is never going to love,wait,i just had an idea,why not tell him,i love you sense hes dense as a rock?she probably knows that he will never fall for her so chewing him out is pointless and annoying,
moving on....
the opening is cheesy /the ending is ok
the art is pretty good and there were some good fight scenes
the story isint bad i guess
characters?again,bell the bitch man,bell the bitch-_- and hestia is just a fan girl to bitch,also,the supposed bad guys in the end,i fully understand and would probably react the same way if some random ass bitch were at my rank faster than me after grinding with a team for years,and in the bar when Mord Latro was asking bitch to join and to pretty much smash some of the girls,the elf girl almost breaks his hands like a psycho path,o and while i remember,the sylf i belive or the other elf?,made bitch do her dishes witch she was supposed to do as punishment and just runs off,you can find that in episode 9 at 7:49.................
overall/ 3/10
bitch,and his harem of girls which bitch doesnt even care for that swoon over him,really ruined my enjoyment for this

Sorry, this is one of those animes that's mostly popular not because of the storyline.

If you're looking for fanservice well, you get your typical noticeable oppai, scantily dressed sidekick here.

I watched this thinking it's gotta be gamer-related & there's gotta be more to this story than boobs being pushed up by a blue ribbon.

Sadly, that's mostly all that's going on here.

Basically, a nobody forms a bond with a nobody goddess & together they become powerful eccentric nobodies.

Witness the shrieks from the oppai, loli goddess as she chastises & praises the main protagonist. If you're not into that (which I'm not) it's mildly amusing ... & gets boring quickly.

It's similar to SAO, but less plot, less harems & more boobs.

You're not missing much.

This anime is one of the most frustratingly generic pieces of entertainment I have seen in quite a while. With a mediocre-at-best MMORPG-esque dungeon-grind setting and a dreadful cast of one-dimensional characters, my expectations were already low a few episodes in. However, the banal story development and a looming sense of purposelessness managed to drag my opinion even lower as it went on.

We start off with our run-of-the-mill action protag Bell-kun, whose only discernable flaw is the fact that he's novice adventurer and thus isn't very capable at making a living for himself or his patron 'goddess' Hestia. Aside from this, though - he doesn't ... seem to have very many problems. Every woman he comes into contact with falls inexplicably in love with him (despite his obliviousness), he is generally respected by everyone, and manages to hold a naively wholesome outlook on life as his problems are always either solved by someone else or just resolve themselves thanks to luck.

In terms of his 'development', once he's saved in the dungeon by a beautiful swordswoman, his infatuation with her gives him the ability to progress at ridiculous speeds as an adventurer. A few episodes later and he's already OP, gaining an incredibly powerful weapon and unbeatable magic abilities with little to no effort on his own part. Thus, the takeaway we get from Bell-kun is that he's incredibly powerful, loved by everyone, and doesn't really suffer from any internal struggles: i.e., the tension and conflict throughout the show are nowhere to be found.

Writers need to understand that a main character who lacks any meaningful flaws (barring physical weakness, which is basically a given for the beginning of any action-adventure anime...) can easily sour a story with an otherwise interesting cast of characters. Unfortunately, since the side characters in this show aren't particularly interesting either, there's nothing to save this piss-poor cast. They're all just about as vapid as Bell, and either exist to fill a spot in his harem or serve as a temporary plot device.

If all you expect out of this anime is some turn-off-your-brain action and a harem of big tiddy anime girls, go for it. If you're looking for something deeper, you're out of luck, because this show contains about as much meaningful content as the back of the shampoo bottle you read while you take a shit.

I felt completely unmoved by this anime and I found that pretty impressive. Nothing super exciting or horrifying happens to any of the characters, it's just a very dull experience. There are boobs but that can only carry the plot so much. Some of the character designs are kinda cool.

I almost got excited for the final battle but most of it was in red and for some reason that really killed it for me. I was hoping for a sick battle in full color and I definitely did not get that.

If you want to throw on something passively engaging for background noise I would recommend ... this anime.

I decided to watch this because I wanted to know what all the fuss was about, in case I was really missing out on something great, despite appearances to the contrary. I was not, as it turned out. To me, it is incomprehensible that this has gotten so many seasons.

Art is good, voice acting is good, world setting has potential, but as far as I got there wasn't much of a story, and it all felt shallow. The protagonist is an overpowered Gary Stu character, but that isn't my biggest issue. My biggest issue is this: I don't know what age the protagonist, Bell Cranel, ... is supposed to be, but mentally he is a child. And if I were to describe this anime with one word it would be 'childish'.

I only got to episode 7, so maybe it gets better, but so many scenes made me think "Am I supposed to think this is cute?" And I didn't.

Every time a character didn't tell the protagonist what they think just because the harem effect needed to be kept up, I was annoyed. Every time the protagonist made things worse through childish awkwardness, I was annoyed. Every time a female character inexplicably fell in love with him, I was annoyed. Is every woman in this world a pedophile? Harsh, perhaps, but while a childish person might make you feel affection, you certainly shouldn't be getting wet, so I can't really find another word for all these women. Basically, most of them fall in love with him just because he helps them, so I suppose this might be self insert for so-called 'nice guys'. This is not a good thing.

Characters other than the protagonist are basically divided into women and opponents, and the latter category get little screen time. The women are all pretty much one dimensional tropes. I think the first woman you encounter, Hestia, is the one you are supposed to "root for", or whatever, but she is absolutely horrendous, and no sane man would stay in her company. Of course, our protagonist is so sexually frustrated that only his childish ignorance keeps him from being an absolute monster, and has the patience of a saint or three, so he's fine with putting up with a bunch of crazy crap for the sake of tits. Not that he knows what to do with them.

I could go on at length, but I have wasted enough time on this rather poor anime. If what I have already said is not enough to discourage you from watching it, then go ahead, but I cannot say I hope you like it, because I would not really want to think that of anyone.

like sword art online for 14 1/2 year old lower middle class white boys who as part of being a product of divorce, live in a large town two hours away from a big city. sexual exploitation is a big problem in anime, and yes, late nights alone, my boyfriend absent due to lockdown procedures, friends available only through discord voice chats, this kind of trash on netflix becomes extremely easy to watch - including the big tits; an embarrassed, horny teen and all the trimmings. but it is bad. it is boringly bad; bad in a boring way. there's an inherent tension between bell's ... character as a well-wishing sympathetic good boy and the rage-induced masculinised adventurism that's designed to woo his crush. is it wrong to try to pick up girls in a dungeon? the answer is yes. it's not that romance is dead, but that this appeal to superiority and 'chosen one' innate qualities reads as a misogynistic power play. in fact, instead of just being kind + motivated, it's far more reminiscent of kindness as a form of enabling a romantic attachment (an """unintended""" reward); like someone saw naruto and decided to place emphasis on the competitive aspect in a clearly gendered segregation that had the unfortunate side effect of informing a gross level of emotional manipulation. as a result, the way those two contradictory characteristics interact feels like a way to enable [emotional] abuse. This isn't to say that it's necessarily abus*ive*, but that it certainly contains the blueprints for it.

the art is a bit janky but fine. i don't care.

If you're watching DanMachi expecting a swashbuckling dungeon adventure tale or a heart-swooning harem romance, then you'll be sorely disappointed. I decided to give the show a shot since I've been on a fantasy/adventure binge lately, and the show is relatively well-known and has decent ratings. However, 3 episodes in, and I found myself hitting the pause button more than play. Ultimately, I made the hard choice to drop the show from my list, which is something I rarely ever do for one that's rated higher than 7.0 on MAL. However, I simply couldn't continue watching for two major reasons:

1. Lack of plot and confusing ... story development.

I've watched my fair share of shows that have clear plot lines, shows that have no central direction, and everything in between, but DanMachi struck me as the worst of both worlds. The show is confusing, to say the least, unless the series I watch was missing an entire episode. Right at the beginning of episode 1, you are thrown into a narrated action sequence that is supposed to introduce the main character. However, it does so in such a convoluted way that leaves you with more questions than answers: Who is this boy? Why is he in a dungeon? Who is narrating? What is their relation to one another?

After a while, I realized that the show was just trying to do a "show, don't tell", but did so in such a mediocre way that it would have been much better for them to take the traditional approach of background exposition through narration. I spent so much time trying to understand the connection between the MC and the main heroine, and trying to place the MC in the world, that I never really digested what the entirety of the first episode was about.

And it just gets worse. Three episodes in, and things are moving along, but every episode seems to bring more questions than answers. Who are these gods and goddesses? Why the hell are they living among people? What are Familias? Why is the MC a servant of his goddess, does he owe her something? How did the MC and main heroine meet in the first place? How do these characters know each other? Why does he, or rather why does everyone, keep going back into the dungeon? What are these levels?

The show just keeps pulling more and more random trivia out of its backside that never ends up getting properly explained, so you're left trying to figure everything out while the main action is happening, and not in a good, brain-stimulating way.

2. Bland characters

Even though I only watched 3 episodes, this has to be by far one of the worst character development I've ever seen. You essentially get no background on any of the characters that show up, and yet they all seem to know one another. None of the characters also feel like they mature or grow throughout the course of the series, and new characters keep randomly popping up without getting properly introduced. Imagine opening up a Map Editor for a brand new RPG game and then just spawning in every character on the roster. That's how it feels to watch the show. Half the time, you're wondering who they are, where they came from, why they're important, and how they know one another, as the show tries to explain while failing miserably.

Even the most trashy, cookie-cutter, harem fantasy/action does a better job in acclimating you to the characters than this show. I seriously wonder how it managed to get such a high rating, considering the fan service isn't what one would consider appealing.

All in all, I'm very surprised to say, but I would not recommend picking up DanMachi. If you want to see a show that's pretty similar in premise, but executed in a much better fashion, watch Cautious Hero instead.