The 10th anniversary event for the “Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?” series announced on Saturday that the anime is getting a fifth season. The company unveiled a promotional video, teaser visual, and logo for “Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? V”.

  • wjs018MEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    Is the anime version of this story any good? I have read most of the manga adaptation and it has good points and bad points, but seems to omit portions of the novels so it can be tough to follow sometimes. Wondering if the anime might be better in that regard.

    • Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      8 months ago

      I haven’t read the light novel or manga.

      But I’ve watched every episode and the movie and the spin-off.

      And compared to most every other similar series, it’s miles ahead of keeping my attention+character development on top of good production and fight scenes/effects. ✅

      (Second only to Re:Zero for me personally)

      The three episode rule for fall 2023 season is killing me.

      • wjs018MEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Thanks for the insight! Sounds like it is worth a shot. The manga just literally would skip whole LN volumes and I was needing to look up new characters and plot points that would just show up, so I am glad to hear that isn’t the same in the anime. Like you, this season is going to be tough to fit anything else in, but now I want to give it a chance.

          • wjs018MEnglish
            2·
            8 months ago

            A light novel, in the context of Japanese publishing, is pretty much just a (usually short) book aimed at the same general audience demographics as manga/anime (shonen, shoujo, etc.). It is almost entirely prose with maybe a handful of illustrations sprinkled throughout the book, maybe at chapter beginnings or climactic scenes. Manga, on the other hand, is art-first and is fully illustrated the whole way through (see !manga@ani.social). A lot of anime series start their lives as light novels (Danmachi, the subject of this post, is one of them). They are then later adapted to anime format, similar to how many Western movies are adaptations of books (Jurassic Park, LOTR, etc.)

    • Neshura@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      It’s so-so. Heavily depends on the season but overall the LN does a way better job. The anime really struggles with his inner thoughts imo which takes out the tension in a lot of scenes

      • wjs018MEnglish
        3·
        8 months ago

        I have run into this with other LN adaptations. The first thing cut in the adaptation is usually the inner monologue. Some series can make up for that through clever and expressive animation. Others just come across a bit soulless and character motivations can be lacking. I have this series on my LN to-read list, but I am working my way through the Konosuba novels right now.

        • Neshura@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          Just a word of warning because it irritates me as well sometimes: Bell, for some reason, is stuck in semi-permanent naiive mode. Like he has his moment of determination, pulls out an Argonaut charged attack and 2 seconds later he’s back to almost passing out from a hug. It’s slowly getting better as the story goes on but does get on my nerves from time to time.

          On the flipside Hestia isn’t nearly as insufferable so that’s a big win.

    • WTreeOPEnglish
      21·
      8 months ago

      I haven’t seen this anime or read the source material so I can’t tell.