2015 fantasy, adaptation of a light novel series, 12 episodes:
AniDB. In
a world where gods dwell among humans, Bell Cranel is a novice
adventurer. Full title: Dungeon ni Deai o Motomeru no wa Machigatte
Iru Darouka: Familia Myth, or Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in
a Dungeon?.
This is another show where the rules of the world are the rules
of a dungeon-bash RPG, with explicit levels and proficiency slots and
so on; nobody is curious as to why it works that way, it's just how
the world is. (Unlike several other anime series with this concept,
there's no suggestion that this is a virtual environment or people
have been somehow punted into it from the "real world".) You go down
the dungeon, you kill things, you bring back the "shards" they explode
into, you sell them, you get more powerful.
Apart from the fights, the underlying structure is fairly classic
harem: pretty much every woman, including one goddess, falls in love
with Bell (who is Really Nice and has no idea what's going on, though
he's pining after the one woman who isn't draping herself all over
him), some of them squabble over him, and there's no resolution. There
are rather too many characters, and I'm guessing several novels were
compressed into this short series – especially since there seem to be
political goings-on among the gods which never quite interact with the
main story.
Have low expectations, basically. It's all right as a basic
nobody-to-hero story, but it doesn't really go anywhere, and lots of
other series cover that sort of story and do have something else to
offer.
Technically, the character designs are dull, but backgrounds are
decent (especially in town), and the incidental music is very
effective. There's nothing really wrong here, but everything that
this show does right I've seen done better elsewhere.
Comments on this post are now closed. If you have particular grounds for adding a late comment, comment on a more recent post quoting the URL of this one.