Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka III

Danmachi season 3: the latest edition to the series i can only describe as "meh". While it isn't the worst anime I've ever seen, it's a long way away from being considered a really good one, settling down at the "bearable" range.

Story - 3

The story for this show is, to put it bluntly, crap. The whole story is surprisingly similar to something i wrote in 6th grade, and it just isn't that great. This latest season in particular is really bad, throwing in whole new sides of the story and new mechanics for us to try and fit into our interpretation of the world, and ... you really can't make sense of the show without just thinking "oh, so i guess that's a thing now". The story really relies on the viewer just accepting everything they see, not questioning motive or incentive.

Art - 10

What can I say, other than it's beautiful. The studio really put in effort for this show, making it at least visually appealing for the Danmachi fans.

Sound - 10

Again, this was aced. the art and sound really make the show a lot better, and while the lack of a good story might turn some away, just listening to a fight scene gives at least some immersion.


Character - 4

Being honest, the characters of this show are really forgettable, usually one-dimensional gimmick machines. Bell, the main character, is the one nice guy protagonist that really doesn't make any romantic advances, but for some reason still has a plethora of women around him for no reason. On that note, even the women around him barely have anything resembling a personality. Hestia's main quality is being way over possessive, and Ais's only real quality is being kind of dumb. Welf and Lili do actually have half decent personalities, and I might even go so far as to call them good, but they never really do anything in the show so i wont let that influence the score.

Enjoyment - 6

While the characters may not be to great and the story may suck, that does't necessarily mean it's bad as a show. If you watch this show for a good laugh or to be on the edge of your seat during a well choreographed fight, hey it might as well be a 10. But if you want anything that gives a real effort to tell a story, you're better off looking elsewhere.

Overall - 6

It's an OK show to watch if you have nothing better to do, but if you have something better to do, you'd be better off doing it.

Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka's third season surpasses its predecessors in all aspects. In contrast to the first and second seasons, the third season dedicates all 12 episodes to a cohesive and captivating narrative. It introduces new and compelling characters while significantly expanding the story's scope. The action scenes maintain their high-quality animation, and the characters remain visually appealing. The pacing is flawlessly executed, consistently propelling the narrative forward without any sluggish moments. Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka III eclipses its earlier seasons, leaving viewers eagerly anticipating what lies ahead.

"Look at how they massacred our boy." Mediocre is one of the words that you can describe this danmachi season. Niche plot, cringe characters, and average, yet, disappointing season.

To be honest, the only reason why I'm still watching this anime is because of the first season; I'm just hoping it would at least become decent. This season is pretty much the anime's worst season. It was simply unbearable to watch. Overall, it was not a good season. Watch it if you like the first season and hoping it would be better, and skip or postpone it if you don't like wasting your time.

I would give DanMachi as a series a 7, it's decent anime with way better animation and music than an anime with it's name should ever have. but this third season, story wise, I can only see as lazily written and dreadful to watch. I often found myself tapping the right arrow key to skip past scenes that felt like the writers raided my grandmothers kitchen for old worn out cookie cutters. because that's what the new characters and story arc are for this season is for the most part; just paint by numbers levels of character dimension and story beats.

Wow, finally our beloved Bell managed to "pick up a girl in a dungeon"

What to say about Danmachi 3... It's basically the same old thing as the other seasons were, but a little bit better in my opinion.
After a pretty bad S2 i was hopping into S3 with little to zero expectations, just to waste those 20 minutes once a week.
It came out resulting probably the best Danmachi season so far ( it's not a great accomplishement considering which series we are talking about, but it's an improvement ) even if it's still full of problems.

STORY: 6

The plot is not ... even that bad, i see what they tried to do here, but the realization feels flat and lackluster.
Basically Bell saves this monster that was being attacked by some adventurers and brings her into the Hestia Familia's mansion. They later give her the name "Wiene".
She can properly talk and have feelings like a human but she's still biologically a monster.
Later on Bell and crew discover that Wiene is not the only entity able to speak and feels emotions, there are a lot of other monsters like her and they are called "Xenos"; they live hiding in the dungeon while being supported by the guild.
Bell makes friends with them pretty fast and suddenly realize that humans and monster are no different and feels regret for all the monters he killed through his life.
These Xenos have the dream to be able to go outside the dungeon.
Long story short they manage to escape from the dungeon but in a violent way with the result being that the people are afraid of them and hating them even more than before and a lot of adventurers are in charge to kill them.
That's where one of the biggest flaws of the show is: these creatures managed to escape the dungeon, they can properly talk and have a conciusness but still can't manage to even say "ah" in front of anywone who isn't from Bell's squad... Obviously being able to speak is a huge matter since they could be able to interact at the same level with humans but no. they prefer to remain with their mouths shut for absolutely no reason. So basically from episode 6/7 onward the plot just keeps feeling forced and badly written

ART: 5

Danmachi is a thing since 2015 but it feels it's a show from 2005 and i swear to god i don't see ANY improvements on the technical side of things. The drowings are not really that detailed even in close-ups shots; the background drowings are even worse ( ehi, at least they're not CG ).
The lighting and the shadows are basically not existent.
The animation feels, for whatever reason, like it's lagging or something: 10 second before you have a fluid and smooth transition, 10 second later you have like a 6 FPS poorly drawn pile of pixels.
In the whole series i haven't noticed even a slight increase of the standard quality of animation, zero sakuga, zero dynamic camera angles, zero remarkable special effects... nothing.
And it's not like JC Staff isn't good enough to provide them; just last season they had Railgun that was a lot above avarage in term of artistic quality.

Sound: 5

Other that the sound effect of dying monsters there's literally nothing remarkable in this category. Not a single memorable OST and the other sounds/musics are just pure avarage.
I guess the voice acting in good, at least.
Opening/Ending are irrelevant for my judgement

CHARACTERS: 6

Danmachi is not really famous for his legendary characters ( outside for Hestia that, let's be real, is just a busty loli whit a mild personality ) and this season doesn't really change the game.
The old characters have pratically zero character development, despide all the "shit" that happens; the new characters feel like they are relevant just for this season and will be easily forgotten in the next ones so they're not really that interesting.
The only character that has his good moments is Bell. You can feel the internal conflict he's going through being the bridge between humans and monsters, between good and bad, between predators and preys. He tries his best but realizes for the first time that, no matter what he does, every decision will make someone happier and someone sadder.
The way he stands before the transformed Wiene in front of the whole Loki Familia was a good moment, not gonna lie

ENJOYMENT: 6

We all know that Danmachi is not a masterpiece nor a great piece of animation, but it's still somehow decently entertaining. The fantasy setting isn't even a favorite of mine but it never made me think "i'm dropping this shit". Despite all the cons it's still enjoyable.
Being 20 minutes once a week or a binge session, time flies when i watch Danmachi and i don't even know why or how.
The only thing that keeps me from giving 7 on this aspect is that the power, lvl and stats system is still a mystery that has been poorly explained in S1 and never touched again after; If you set a show in a world where characteristics are the key and you don't focus on them you are missing the point.

OVERALL: 6

Danmaci is a light series, there's no need to be too harsh on it since it's not "pretentious" in the first place.
If you can just shut down your brain for a bit without being too critical you can have good time.
As i said i actually think this third season is the best among the three so overall i enjoyed this ride.

PS: SORRY FOR MY ENGLISH ^.^

I think what drew me to the first two seasons of this was the progression that Bell Cranel was making as an adventurer. His stat and equipment and the like. This season didn't have any of that, and just had a rather predictable (not that predictable is always bad) and generic moralist story. Ais Wallenstein has been rendered completely unlikable too, which really sucks because her and her relationship with Bell was built up so much. Anyway, I wasn't really a fan of this season. There was a kind of interesting b-plot running throughout it surrounding Daedalus, but it felt abandoned towards the end for ... the sake of a much less interesting plot about Wiene.

Well, everything about this season didn't make any sense to me, but that may be because I am a cynic bastard, who knows. I was going to truly drop this if it wasn't for the fact that I've been watching since it came out. The ONLY good thing, and that kind of saves a little this season is how they took a core narrative element from the first season and integrated it in the form of re-match at the last chapter to show how the main character is in a different place now, coherently showing it in the result of the match. That is all. ... They had something really interesting as a central ethic and moral dilemma but... nothing comes out of it, or perhaps the fact that nothing can really change, which is surprisingly not manichean for a show like this, but the way they handled it... not good.

The most recent venture into the dungeon with DanMachi Season 3 has managed to accomplish nothing over twelve episodes and more than two months -- the whole season is filler through and through. Season 3 is plagued with the worst of the prior seasons, with none of the heart or character moments to make up for it. Simply put, season 3 was a disappointment.

Warning: There will be some minor spoilers discussed in this review.
-Story-
Bell Cranel, the hero of DanMachi, has his world turned upside down when he rescues a vouivre -- a human-like monster with the ability to speak. After taking the creature home ... and giving her a name (Weine), Bell and the Hestia Familia learn she is not only capable of speech but all the same emotions as themselves. Over the season they befriend a whole community of sentient monsters in The Dungeon, who are hoping to live a peaceful life away from the threat of adventurers. With this new knowledge, Bell realizes he can no longer kill monsters indiscriminately like he had before -- but not everyone sees it this way. There are people who refuse to see humanity in these monsters, and they have Bell and Wiene in their sights.
As is, this is not a bad concept for a story -- taking something that was previously clear cut to the characters and adding some gray area. It's clear Bell struggles with this new information; he knows he can't decide the value of another life so similar to his, but the monsters in the dungeon are still a threat. There's a lot of conflict built-in to this plot; it's nigh impossible for monsters and adventurers to co-exist no matter how hard the Hestia Familia tries, or how many minds they try to change. Ideologies clash and Bell has to stick to his beliefs as allies turn against him.
Unfortunately, in practice it isn't as dramatic. With little convincing, Hestia and the rest of the Familia support Bell's choice to harbor Wiene and welcome her as one of their own. The Ikelos Familia -- the group of poachers who had been hunting monsters like Wiene -- are shown to be utterly deplorable, with no redeemable beliefs or qualities. This may be a clash of ideologies, but the Ikelos Familia do nothing to deserve viewer support or sympathy. This is done best with the Loki Familia, who are understandable in their drive to keep monsters out of the surface world, and put down the "uprising" shown in the final episodes. By the time the credits roll on the final episode, however, this leaves little impact on the characters or the world of DanMachi.

-Characters-
The characters in this arc are the clearest evidence that this season was filler. Wiene, the inciting actor in this drama, is quickly reduced to another name in Bell's harem. She's a loli trope who clings to Bell like a younger sister, who's motivations are centered around what would make Bell happy, what Bell would do, how to be closer to Bell. In fact, it's this way for all of the once colorful cast of heroes in the Hestia Familia, including the goddess herself. Instead of acting of their own volition, every single character takes part in an echo chamber to support every one of Bell's decisions. Even Hestia, who clearly has concerns about bringing a monster to the surface world, only shares smiles and nods with Bell when he plans anything. A plot that was ripe with conflict and development becomes barren as even Bell's closest allies don't even hesitate against him.
On the other hand, there's Ais Wallenstein -- a character who has goals in very clear opposition to Bell. It sounds like a fantastic setup: as part of the Loki Familia, Ais wants to kill all monsters (on the surface or otherwise) in order to protect the city, become more powerful, and maintain her Familia's impressive status. All reasons why she and Bell would clash, heightened by the personal friendship/mentorship they share. Bell's accelerated growth (the Liaris Freese skill) is based on his feelings for the blond sword master, so a threat to their relationship could jeopardize his growth or entire adventuring career. So much interesting is going on here, but of course falls flat by the end. While the pair do have an impressive fight near the end, Ais eventually sees things Bell's way (like everyone in his social circle) and by the time the season is over the status quo has returned. The Liaris Freese skill is never mentioned, and they are shown training together again. No lasting impact was done on their relationship, and the pair end the season just like they were at the beginning.
The same thing happens to Wiene. The most important thing to Bell all season, the reason he put himself and his familia at risk, is brushed away by the end and moved to an unidentified location within the dungeon. The relationship between Bell and Wiene ends the season exactly how it was before the season: like she wasn't there at all. That's filler, where "nothing of value was gained or lost."

-Art and Sound-
Like the other entries in the series, season 3 brings competent animation to the table. Despite being explored over three seasons and a spin-off series, the Dungeon always looks exciting. New floors look unique and old ones keep consistent. I appreciate being able to look at a floor and recognize it from past adventures -- it buildings the geography of the world and makes it feel real and explorable. While there is nothing jaw-dropping to see in Season 3, the animators employ some interesting camera shots to make basic scenes a little more exciting. The conflict of the story lends itself to some meaningful fights, and the animation keeps up. These battles driven by emotions were easily the best part of the season, and the voice actors amplify that tenfold. When the characters are given the opportunity to act, their faces do well conveying their feelings, and the voice artists know what to do to get that same feeling from you.

The worst part to me, was how much I wanted this to be good. Every episode I started thinking "this will be the one where it gets good" and it would finally all come together. Then everything would happen like I laid about above and disappointed me, but I still got sucked in. Twenty minutes later they'd end with just enough of a cliff-hanger, just enough thrill, that I'd start the cycle all over again the following week. In the final week, the season ended and I felt like the rug had been pulled out from under me; it never got better, and it never paid off. Thinking back, so much happened in seasons one and two, the story covered so much ground. Instead, it opts to get in Bell's way and keep him planted where he started -- and no growth is a fatal sin for any adventurer.

3rd Season of Danmachi sure bring new POV to the table. Usually we see Bell try to explore the dungeon but this time Bell will have to help the monster in the dungeon. These monster are smart and they can communicate with human so there is no reason to kill each other. But the good story always need a conflict to spice it a bit. So this time Bell have to face professional adventurers that used to hunt these monster.

We will see the capability of New Hestia Familia face off against other adventurers just so Bell can save a little random monster that he picked ... up in the dungeon. But this is not a whole story, the 3rd season still have a big surprise for their watchers who still watch the series until the end.

In a conclusion if you think the first and second season is good enough for you. You should continue to watch 3rd season. Especially we will have the 4th season near in the future. The story is average but it expand the possibility of the ending of Danmachi.

Kinda spoiler review

This time lets follow the adventures of Bel "Jesus Christ" Cranel as he transforms into Bel " Harriet Tubman" Cranel. Honestly the show was trying its best present the viewer with a commentary on inequality. Sadly it falls short on this for me. Why? Because of Bel, in this power fantasy isekai there is never any doubt the MC will come out on top. He will always have higher ground morally and just has to talk to get to be right on most occasions. The message the creator was trying to gets overshadowed by what is convenient to the plot. This ... is what made me dislike this season there was potential but it was squandered.

Spoilers on characters ahead.

Some of the characters were even more unlikable this season for me it was the glorified pack mule. While initially having a valid reason to act the way she did it get thrown away because like every female character they want their bell rung by Mr. Cranel. Therefore the loli vampire had to feel her pack mule wrath. The villans could not get any more generic and were disposed of as easily as the message that the anime was delivering. At least I got to see Bel get clapped.

Animation
They didnt bother to animate some of the characters speak.

In the end I knew what I was getting into watching a power fantasy. Still I had some expectations when it came to the premise this season presented. Sadly Bel has to always be Jesus and be in the right and everything was resolved accordingly to what benefits him the most.

It is a far cry from the precedent of the first season; mediocre in almost all aspects, and unfortunately the prequel short that preceded this set up a taste for this season.

The new characters are loli damsels in distress and two dimensional supporting henchmen - the twists are predictable, the CG is incredibly plain, and the animation is at times paltry. There is so little that changes things that the whole season is merely a stale rehash of the same dungeoneering tropes. It's not about the intrigue of gods about Bell and the narrative that should be story changing about the monsters and ... the social hostility and history towards them is just so weak that it really sucks the soul out of the season. The melodrama is high, the climax highpoints are low. There is little wonder introduced and it is frustrating seeing everyone behave as one handed sidekicks.

While narrative, sound, and plot structure aren't broken and it could certainly be worse, it does little to be good. It is a solid 5 for me, and does little to justify another season.

Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka III

This season is by far the strongest in terms of content and the best in terms of implementation of "Danmachi".

However, as expected, it failed massively due to implementation. The structure of the plot and scenes, as well as the result of the events. I understand what this season was getting at and this could have been interesting. Unfortunately, the writing style is just dull, lacking in originality and deterring.

The season dealt with an important topic.
"When does a boundary between monsters and humans begin" and this was understood subtly. Unfortunately, little effort has been made to ... get this whole plot going. The episodes just ran, the story happened, and you had a final battle.

What surprised me, however, was the actual final battle that season. Not only was it dynamic and visually handsome, but in some ways unexpected.

However, this season also had some characteristic highlights. On the part of Bell and the new female protagonist. Most of the supporting characters have largely been meaningless after doing their part on the right or wrong issue.

On the part of the plot you got at least slight hints about the dungeon and the possible roles of some key characters. The monster hunt was still in the foreground.

The intro was average. I noticed positively the increase in the Osts and the quality.

In terms of animation, it mostly felt like season 1 and apart from the final fight there was nothing remarkable.

The biggest problem with Danmachi is that the series isn't bad for the most part. Had someone more capable sat down on this story, we would definitely have gotten an interesting "Adventure" title.
Unfortunately, the quality is not convincing in the least. At least the final season achieved every claim to be considered average. I personally liked this season, but it hurt me as well.

This season of the anime was fair, it definitely is different from the other two seasons and I see why. In the first two seasons, we saw something different not completely world-breaking but it wasn't cliche either it was a balance of almost there just needs a bit of a push. They should have added another season between seasons two and three to really bring it together.

They executed this really poorly though. In the first two seasons, there was a lot of harem stuff going on and that has its own charm but it looked like the writers were trying to branch out more into ... the adventure/fantasy categories. While this isn't a bad idea to keep the anime going they also wanted to keep the harem scene going so it ended up just being a pile of harem adventure mix which was very overbearing. It was the textbook definition of "Can't have your cake and eat it too."

Then the story, This anime could have been really amazing but the plot was so cliche and really boring. It's your average "boy wants to get strong, helps side that no one understands and everyone agrees in the end besides one big bad guy." I'm sure everyone agrees that it's nice when an anime has good plot twists, the plot twist you see in is it wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon you can see from a mile away, they are very basic and seen a million times before.

There is one main reason that I rated this season a six instead of a five and that because of the characters/character development. It's nice to see Bell grow from a mindless dungeon slayer to a warrior that has something to fight for. They also introduce a new character (Wiene) who is adorable but the character development for her is pretty straightforward and obvious.

In all honesty, I don't like the DANMACHI series I only watched this season because I already watched the others and couldn't just leave a show unfinished.
there are going to be spoilers so beware.


Story (7):
I usually didn't mind the story of this show it wasn't that bad while predictable it was still enjoyable, but here came this season, this was the most unoriginal season yet, I swear I have seen this exact same situation a billion time and yet they made it worse by being even more predictable at every turn and twist there was.

Art (8):
the art for this show has always been one of ... its redeeming factors and I don't have any major complaints.

Sound (9):
just like the art, J.C.staff does it justice by not wasting efforts and putting their all into it, and not sparing expenses.

Characters (2):
probably the worst part about this show, I hate about every goddamn character in this show and don't remember any name besides "Bell" and "Hestia", the only characters I could put up with are Hestia and Hermes the others are generic unoriginal, and infuriating at the minimum.
and don't get me started on "Bell", I hate everything about him and this season made it worse it's not that I hate the goody-two-shoes MC type it's that he's so poorly made he makes me mad with every word he says and every decision he makes.

Enjoyment (1):
not really, I pretty much had to force myself to watch this shit every week shit if this wasn't weekly I probably couldn't have watched this.

Overall:
I hated this and hope this is the end of my suffering this is my opinion you can't change it and no I couldn't give two fucks about what you say or why you think this is good, but for me, it simply wasn't.

tl;dr a social commentary little mermaid story but its only shonen quality

This will probably contain spoilers.

I have not read the manga, but am a fan of this anime series and its characters regardless of the various failings both have. However, I was not impressed by S2 and certainly not by this season. It's deviated further from the original idea of a boy-becomes-hero and monster slaying, and I frankly have no clue where it can logically go from here.

The issue with this season is rooted in its premise. In introducing sentient monsters, the creators have attempted to introduce a new level of depth to consider. Yet ... while the understanding that your enemies are not truly "monsters" is valuable and indeed commendable in reality and realistic media, social commentary in anime is difficult to do well and unpalatable when done poorly. At no time during this anime did the viewer feel truly empathetic to the monster's cause beyond a heavy-handed "look at the monsters suffering now feel bad." Twelve episodes is simply not enough time to properly explore this idea without giving off a feeling of hurried artifice and it is this feeling that detracts the most from enjoying this season.

I will not say that there weren't poignant or memorable moments, especially in the latter half of the season, but as a whole this season did not live up to expectations, and I hope for a return to more of the feel of previous seasons.

I’m just going to run through each aspect then give a conclusion/tl:dr.

Story: the story of Dungeon is sour to the taste. Something about it doesn’t sit right with me. Other seasons never bothered me but this one had so much weird twisting to it. It gave me a feeling of “wowowowowo, another plot twist”. If you’ve read a bad mystery book you know the feeling.

Art: Banging. Only word to describe. I only caught myself twice thinking: “wow that looks dumb”. I don’t know how many times I went: “HOLY CRAP THE TAKEDOWN!” During fight scenes. Just generally sweet fight scenes and all the girls ... “big personalities” are drawn well but not annoyingly horny animators style. Only complaint is that op spoils too much and without spoiling myself why don’t some mouths move when they talk.

Sound: BANGING! Loved it. Sweet. The roars of monsters and the clashing of swords never sounded better. You can hear the impact and I love it.

Music: mediocre. Never cringed at it but like, never vibed to it.

Character: out of all the character I only felt that gros actually changed. The rest didn’t feel like they did anything and bell effectively reverted back to his post season 1 stage. but now like a bodybuilder he’s moved past impressing girls but instead is wanting to beat his rival in (god please no) season 4.

Enjoyment: the pacing was pretty terrible. And although the good comes with the bad and the bad with the good, there was way more bad. Fight scenes and a few other superb scenes are the only ones that were really enjoyable. Some episodes I left with the thought “this was a good anime, rip”. It just wasn’t enjoyable most the time.

Conclusion: although the last episode was clearly hinting at another season I felt this season and any more to come are unnecessary. Let’s this anime die peacefully. Because if that doesn’t happen it’s corpse might get damaged being stuffed into its grave(think new Star Wars trilogy).