Dungeon Seeker

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Overall: 9 The story is fine. The plot being a fantasy RPG where main character and people in his world get transferred to another world isn't the most unique but I don't find it repetitive at all. The art isn't outstanding but it fits the dark texture that surrounds the plot. Character is great and takes a nice 360, hopefully the development goes well. Really enjoying this manga, I read a few fantasy RPG mangas and this one updates slow but still delivers a nice punch. The RPG world doesn't really have any explanation to it so far which can be annoying but if you ... can tolerate it you'll enjoy the RPG the main character goes through.

I am reviewing this manga as isekai junkie (someone who likes consuming isekai even if its bad), so please be aware that this will definitely affect my enjoyment and view on the subject. In a time when you have so many copy and paste isekai, its nice to have something that breaks from the mold a little. Although it might not seem like it early on it gets more eclectic/original as you go on. It basically takes an Arifuerta-esc premise, and just stuffs in a bunch of Made in Abyss style depression. If you just blast through it, I think you'll just get much less ... out of it than is there. The manga is less about the plot and is more so about the characters that are in it.

Trope-loaded isekai revenge manga done very well. It doesn't really have any shocking deviations from the standard, but it doesn't have anything annoying about it either.

There is no annoying forgiveness of a girl because she's hot, no annoying harem, no giving up on revenge due to being a wimp, no protagonist running around raping people and buying slaves because nobody can stand him, none of that bullshit. It's just good, solid, revenge.

Characters are consistent, and while it doesn't go super-deep, they all work. Story also works. Art is quite good. This is all the good things in isekai without the typical things that ruin ... a series, so it's quite enjoyable.

The ending was fine. I'm not sure why people have so many complaints about it. It was mildly rushed, but it finished everything that had to happen.

It changed something appalling in the novel and made it good. Someone wrote a spoiler in the comments that made me almost drop it, but it turned out the spoiler was from the novel and said event doesn't happen in the manga.

Overall, if you're looking for a good isekai, this is it.

Story - 7 - Very cliche but I'm enjoying the new dark spin they're putting on it I'm sick of happy go lucky super OP harem fest other-world manga. It definitely seems like their might be an OP mc but it might be a little ways off. So far I love it. I hope there won't be a harem though it'd be out of place in this manga but it considering how many otherworld manga there are it might need fan-service to stay afloat.

Art - 8 - Basic art but the art makes the monsters look nice so far. It's pretty good if you ... aren't picky like some. Overall, it's not bad

Enjoyment - 9 - I'm biased as fuck and love otherworld manga. A fair rating would be 8.


Character -9 - So far, the character's personality is badass.


Overall - 10 -So far im enjoying it.
I have high hopes. I love t so far. It will be interesting to see this become animated.

Best I can explain why there are low scores on this masterpiece is that it just ain't for everyone.

Story: 9 - Isekai, yada yada... Starting point is final boss... blah blah blah, Main character wins by a stroke of luck, and so on~ though that's as far as it goes for the unproductive plotline, the story seems chaotic, there is no end goal as most isekai stories evidently display, the dungeon being a place uninviting to the insentient and a death trap even to the luckiest of the bunch, makes way for the writer to take any route he wants after the vengeance ... arc is over.

Art: 8 - Just my opinion, don't care about yours. The manga/manhua/manhwa doesn't need to have fills, rich background or complex details in every panel to be great, so long as the characters visibly display emotion, the surroundings of importance are discernible and the level of detail isn't completely botched as an uncolored webtoon.

Character: 7 - Most characters are poorly written, little leading motive, but it's just about counteracted with the development of the protagonist, which gradually recovered from his hatred only to have it fueled with extra topping just moments after his life was finally looking up for the first time. He has grown onto me, I thoroughly adore someone who could bear to lose himself in order to win whatever he has set his mind to.

Enjoyment & Overall: 10 - You're literally observing a teenager as he ventures into layers of hell as though every following level is made to torture him in a different area of his being, he is a ticking timebomb and we await to see this stem of hatred bloom into a beautiful flower of madness!

Hey! Are you of of those people who always create recommend threads about "WEAK MC GETS OP" or "MC WHO LIVES TO SORROW" or "MC GETS CUCK *huff..huff*" or "ANIME WITH TWISTED MORALS"? if yes then it's the one that you might lookin for! *cringe*

Yey! Another typical Isekai manga... and it's a soft-gore one..

The story is good but cliche, Characters are pretty cliche too, especially the "WEAK MC GETS STRONKER"+"MC WITH SAD LYFE" type MC and crappy people who surrounds him that gets kind as he gets stonger blah blah...

The art is pretty good (pure personal opinion)

Enjoyment? I'm not a type of person who always ... look for "Recommend Mangas that is similar to Berserk"(reads gore manga) but still this one is good and decent(if you don't compare it with other one) I kinda like the god and his servant.

Overall. I think it's niceu just don't overthink about stuffs while reading it.

tl;dr: shorter and slightly better arifureta because the author blatantly plagiarized large sections of arifureta

Plagiarism: For those that don't know, Dungeon Seeker started off as a "I can do better" attempt after the author read the Arifureta WN. Imo, they succeeded for the most part. Unfortunately, they stopped giving a shit in the second half and started copy/pasting large chunks of the story with a few name swaps here and there. Dungeon Seeker was more popular at the time, so when the Arifureta creator sued for copyright infringement, the DS creator tried to sic his fans on them among other underhanded tactics. Thankfully, the DS ... creator lost and all revenue from DS goes to the Arifureta creator, but it still damages the work in question. It goes from being "one of the few properly paced isekai" to "they rushed an ending because they got caught".

Story: It's not nearly as good as Berserk/Revival Man, but at least it never goes as low as Shield Hero. I enjoyed the brisk pace throughout instead of the usual slog through dime a dozen fantasy worlds. Everything tied together nicely, even if it was a bit overdone at times.

Characters: You'll probably end up hating almost everyone, but I suppose that is the point. At least the main character has a proper reason to be cynical this time, and never ends up buying child slaves.

Conclusion: You'll enjoy it if you enjoy trashy isekai, as it's slightly better than your average one.