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'Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Sword Oratoria' TV Anime Slated for April

Why can't they continue the main story? I really don't want a spinoff that will end up with no progress in the main plot which may never get a second season.

But while riches and renown are incentive enough for most, Bell Cranel, would-be hero extraordinaire, has bigger plans.

He wants to pick up girls.

Is it wrong to face the perils of Dungeon alone, in a single-member guild blessed by a failed goddess?

Why can't they continue the main story? I really don't want a spinoff that will end up with no progress in the main plot which may never get a second season.

It's the same crap with Hidan no Aria. I did not need a freaking cutesy prequel spinoff there either.

Everyone is just taking cues from A Certain Magical Index now. Advance the friggin' main plot already!

Would point out that the first DanMachi series covered the first five volumes of the novels, and volume 11 only came out a couple of months ago in Japan

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But while riches and renown are incentive enough for most, Bell Cranel, would-be hero extraordinaire, has bigger plans. He wants to pick up girls. Is it wrong to face the perils of Dungeon alone, in a single-member guild blessed by a failed goddess?

Does anyone else feel like this description (which was the one that we had before the first anime came out) seems disingenuous and very misleading. I mean Bell is nothing like that, like at all. Hell, he is the opposite of that description, it's so weird that this description is still stapled to the work when it couldn't be farther from the true.

Didn't they just rush through those novels though. Like I read a lot of comments about what was left out and it was a lot. So, to be truthful, the amount of novels can be dissuaded as a real obstacle.

Rinkwolf wrote:

Quote: But while riches and renown are incentive enough for most, Bell Cranel, would-be hero extraordinaire, has bigger plans. He wants to pick up girls. Is it wrong to face the perils of Dungeon alone, in a single-member guild blessed by a failed goddess? Does anyone else feel like this description (which was the one that we had before the first anime came out) seems disingenuous and very misleading. I mean Bell is nothing like that, like at all. Hell, he is the opposite of that description, it's so weird that this description is still stapled to the work when it couldn't be farther from the true.

If I recall correctly, picking up girls was his original motivation to get into adventuring. Considering spoiler[who his grandpa is alluded to be (Zeus) at the end of the anime], this doesn't really come as much of a shock. That changed when he met Aiz. He had been a registered adventurer for a little while before he met her, however.

I'm sorry but I don't buy that. Bell never went into the Dungeon before he had a Familia, his first priority was to get into a Familia and then to become a adventurer, he showed no signs putting "Picking Up Girls" his priority or even agenda because he was earnestly trying to build up his new Familia with Hestia. The fact that this grandfather once mentioned to him that it's a great way to pick up girls was just that, a statement and one I don't see evidence of Bell pursuing in the show.

Point is, the summary hold no grip to the reality of the situation and Bells character, it gives a completely opposite view of how he really is. He is earnestly trying to build up his Familia, become a top ranked adventurer and holding Aiz in the highest regard firstly because she is strong and then later he builds a crush on her. I wouldn't even argue that he would have had a similar reaction if Aiz was a man. He first noticed her for her strength and showed admiration to her, which developed into affection to her because he found her beautiful. On of this shows a shadow of what the summary is indicating.

Yes, he was earnestly trying to build up his Familia, but that doesn't change the fact that his whole reason for coming to Orario and becoming an adventurer in the first place was to pick up girls. That was clearly-established at the beginning of the series, whether in novel or first animated episode form. So the summary isn't any less accurate than the summary for any other series which is only based on starting conditions.

Rinkwolf wrote:

I'm sorry but I don't buy that. Bell never went into the Dungeon before he had a Familia, his first priority was to get into a Familia and then to become a adventurer, he showed no signs putting "Picking Up Girls" his priority or even agenda because he was earnestly trying to build up his new Familia with Hestia. The fact that this grandfather once mentioned to him that it's a great way to pick up girls was just that, a statement and one I don't see evidence of Bell pursuing in the show. Point is, the summary hold no grip to the reality of the situation and Bells character, it gives a completely opposite view of how he really is. He is earnestly trying to build up his Familia, become a top ranked adventurer and holding Aiz in the highest regard firstly because she is strong and then later he builds a crush on her. I wouldn't even argue that he would have had a similar reaction if Aiz was a man. He first noticed her for her strength and showed admiration to her, which developed into affection to her because he found her beautiful. On of this shows a shadow of what the summary is indicating.

You do know that time that Bell gets trapped by the minotaur wasn't his first time into the dungeon, right? The story starts after he had already met Hestia and been living with her for a time.

I'm not saying the blurb for the show (or even its title) is a good description of what its like after episode 1, but it's not technically wrong either.