Is it Wrong to Try to Pick up Girls in a Dungeon?
Well, is it? Yes. Because out of all the girls who Bell might end up with, the one girl who he meets in a dungeon is the last on my list. This show is kind of like Torchlight 1, and the characters know they're adventurers who "level up" and gain skills, as well as get drops off the monsters they kill. The monsters even have respawn timers. It mixes action, comedy, and a touch of romance (like, a tiny touch), showing Bell as he's a newbie adventurer trying to level up to impress a chick. The meta aspects are enjoyable if you like things like Order of the Stick. Not so much that they know they're in an anime, or in a fantasy world, but just the fact that they level up, by way of the god that runs the adventure guild they're in. So it's just meta enough. But it's not just about the dungeon crawling. There are a host of characters to introduce, and learn about along they way. They're all likable in their own way, and I'm particularly fond of Lili, due to some personal reasons. The dub cast is solid, lotta people I'm mostly unfamiliar with, but they all play their parts well.
But I'll be goddamned if this is yet another that leaves you hanging, and feeling unfinished. It introduces this fantasy world filled with monster killing, loot gathering, and multiple races (we see cat girls and elves and half-elves, as well as the gods), but doesn't really bother to explore a lot of it. The ending was very unsatisfactory, and basically introduces another plot point. Considering the far gap between Bell and Ais in terms of power, there is so much more story to tell and so much more world to explore. The good news is that as I was finishing this anime, news came out about a project being worked on that is speculated to be a season 2 (a game is already known, but lucky me, no PC release because fuck them)
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/dai...roject/.126434 . So, maybe I'll get lucky, and in three or four years when this gets dubbed by Sentai I'll get to see the conclusion. Overall, very fun show, especially if you're into some RPG elements (without forcing it into the Isekai genre). But...fuck, man.
Also, the
opening theme is nice, but starts off sounding exactly like the opening of
Chunibyou.