The title of this anime had me hesitating right off the bat, but I found myself enjoying this anime more than Log Horizon in the end. Like some animes, this is one that you have to get a few episodes into until you reach the good part of it.
Story 7/10
At first, we have a young white haired boy that wants to become stronger. He gets attacked by a minotaur and is saved by the "Sword Princess" Aiz. Our main protagonist Bell Cranel falls in love with her. The anime follows out with these two parts of it for a majority of the time. With this you have all your other characters pushing him along their way with their own ideals and personal opinion. I personally disliked that this took up so much of plot with Bell becoming almost obssessed with becoming stronger to the point I couldn't stand it. Although there were parts where I found extremely pleasing to watch, its shine was dulled by the overdone screen time the "supporter" Lili had with her own personal problems and waters down the anime to having just a good story. On a more positive note, there were some enjoyable fights happening unlike some stories that could care less to even bother. I especially enjoyed the extensive ones which I won't spoil any details on. On episode 12, I probably had seen about the worst fight with Bell just getting tossed around. I was hoping for another possibly epic fight, but we have some magic caster that can just go invisible and beat up people. The plot was pretty predictable but enjoyable if you don't pay really close attention to every detail. You probably will hate it if you want a more serious and less heavy smashed fan service anime. The ending will be a hit or miss for some of you. For me, it was personally a huge miss because how predictable and unsatisfying it was. Overall, there were some good fights that weren't a waste of time, but some had me going "why?"
Art 7/10
Here we have a pretty standard art with nothing special to it. It looked consistent and had a bit of a dark color to it throughout, but no wow factor. Everything seemed to be in pretty decent proportion most of the time except for when the heads were oddly shaped in a few cases. Therefore, a solid 7 fits well.
Sound 8/10
The sound to me was crisp most of the time. Background noises fit well in most occasions and nice background music wasn't bothersome to the point I ever really couldn't ignore it. Sometimes I found myself enjoying the music altogether.
Character 6/10
Prepare for a wall of praise and criticism. This is the biggest flaw of "Is it Wrong to Try to Pick up Girls in a Dungeon?". There were 3 characters that I never really wanted to ever smash their face in the entire time, and that's Hephaestus, Welf, and Aiz. Welf has a pretty mysterious background and we learn some interesting things about him. He isn't overly annoying and has a few odd ideals, but that's what makes him a good character unlike the other open book ones. Also, he isn't a huge chick magnet like Bell with everyone not caring if he sees them all naked. I just wish he got more screen time. Aiz, my favorite character, is some apparently overpowered princess with a sword that is attracted to Bell in some weird way that I found myself laughing at. She always has her wow moments and beats the crap out of Bell by barely doing anything. Overall, she's just an interesting character that keeps everything from being completely retarded and in chaotic. I just wish that she wasn't so stupid sometimes. Hephaestus was another cool character that got about close to ZERO screen time. Every other character is just downhill from there. We have Hestia, which is supposedly a goddess but seems just more like a loli punch in the face fan service in her clothes that look like a kid cut up with scissors? She's annoying and clingy which makes sense why only Bell is in her familia. She also just adds fuel to this harem. Bell has his good sides and downsides. He has a great composure as the main to be our central protagonist, but it's more of the obsessive girls around him that ruin him. I feel like if you take them out of the equation, it could be a better anime altogether. (Except for those people that just watch for the fan service..) Bell is also retarded in a way like Aiz, but in a way more outgoing and naive way. He trusts everyone and loses just about everything, then says "Oh well, it's ok!" like nothing ever happened. Also, he is way to overpowered like your Kirito in Sword Art Online. I mean we have a lv2 kid who can destroy everything just because he has the skill to overcome any situation. To keep this from being too long I'm only going to touch on one more poor character out of the load. This may hint to spoilers a bit. Be warned. Freya is some goddess that is obsessed with powerful adventures. She dresses in skimpy fan service packed clothing for some random creepy reason and watches Bell through her magical ways. I could say a crystal ball, but I'll leave it at magical. The authors tried to add her in as a kind of foreshadowing effect, but never do anything with it. I can call this a failure of suspense and failure of a character entirely. If the characters weren't done so poorly, this anime could be a lot better.
Enjoyment 8/10
The concept of giant dungeon MMORPG was portrayed extremely effectively with a pretty decent and standard lore in this shounun. If you're a gamer like me, you'd be drooling over this anime if it were a game. Who wouldn't want to have a world where you kill monsters in a dungeon (with who knows how many floors) to make a living and power up as a game? You gain completely random stats based on your ideals and character. Occasionally, some episodes lacked luster and defines harem, but good ones left a lasting effect for me to completely tolerate any little bits of filler while I tried to process what just happened. If you're not a fan of RPG games or don't care about that, then I don't recommend watching.
Overall 7/10
I can give a solid and respectable 8 for this anime. If we didn't have such annoying characters ruining the actual depth of the story, I could (again being said) give a possible 8. The last major part that weighed me down on this brimming with potential anime was the final fight. I feel it was too straightforward because of Bell's skills. He's gotten boring to watch because of how unstoppable he is now. I would have much rather seen Aiz take that fight on over Bell. We never really got to see her have a major fight, but some other badass moments with her blowing up a minotaur in Bell's face, causing him to panic like a baby without a bottle.
