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”.

  • 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.)