Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? II

ダンジョンに出会いを求めるのは間違っているだろうかII (Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka II)

7.2(524,287)

MAL Score

Ranked #3496

Popularity #230

Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Mythology

Episodes: 12
Duration: 23 min per ep
Aired: Jul 13, 2019 to Sep 28, 2019
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Orario thrives on the constant flow of adventurers drawn to the sprawling, monster-filled Dungeon beneath the city. Bell Cranel—brave, earnest, and quick to blush—continues to make a name for himself as the lone adventurer of the Hestia Familia. Backed by his dependable supporter Liliruca Arde and the skilled blacksmith Welf Crozzo, Bell’s rapid rise through the Dungeon’s deeper floors has earned him the nickname “Little Rookie.”

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? II follows Bell as he strives to bring honor to the goddess Hestia and keep his companions safe. As his accomplishments spread, more gods and familias begin paying close attention—some hoping to claim the promising adventurer for their own.

Otaku Consensus

Otaku Consensus: Season II is a useful but divisive pivot for DanMachi, earning moderate approval on MAL and AniList because it widens Orario into a battlefield of gods, familias, and reputation rather than simply repeating the first season’s dungeon rhythm. The strongest praise goes to its city-focused world-building and the later arc’s pressure on Bell’s growth, while the recurring complaint is adaptation pacing: the War Game material in particular is widely viewed as too compressed for the stakes it carries.

Why You Should Watch

If you want fantasy faction politics and a battle-shounen leveling loop without the bleakness of Re:Zero or the grand travelogue pacing of Frieren, Season II is the DanMachi entry that trades cave mapping for social pressure. Its appeal is watching Orario operate as a competitive ecosystem: gods posture, familias maneuver, and Bell’s reputation becomes a liability as much as an asset. The season is compact at 12 episodes, so it favors quick escalation, relationship strain, and arena-style payoffs over long expeditions. That speed is also the caveat: viewers who came only for Dungeon floor-by-floor survival may find the War Game material too compressed. For fans who like harem comedy attached to actual faction consequences, this is the franchise’s first real pivot from adventurer fantasy into citywide mythological politics.

Key Characters

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Bell Cranel(VA: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka)
Bell is talked about less as a simple earnest rookie in this season and more as a young adventurer whose rising public value starts attracting political pressure from the wider Familia system.
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Hestia(VA: Inori Minase)
Hestia remains one of the franchise’s most divisive comic presences, but Season II gives her goddess status more practical weight by tying her affection for Bell to Familia prestige and survival.

What Makes It Stand Out

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The season’s structure is notably split into two major arcs rather than the more straightforward adventuring progression many viewers associate with the first season. Fan reviews repeatedly single out the War Game section as exciting in concept but too short in execution.
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J.C.Staff keeps the franchise’s clean character-forward look, with Shigeki Kimoto handling character design from Suzuhito Yasuda’s original designs. That continuity matters because the season leans heavily on recognizability, facial comedy, and ensemble reactions during inter-Familia conflict.
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Hideki Tachibana directs with Hideki Shirane on series composition, a pairing that shapes Season II into a fast-moving adaptation focused on social consequences and arc turnover. The result is accessible and brisk, but also the source of the most common complaint: rushed payoff.
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Compared with the first season’s dungeon-adventure identity, this installment foregrounds the ‘Gods’ and ‘Mythology’ sides of the premise; AniList’s tag profile reflects that with Gods at 89% and Mythology at 67%. Viewers expecting monster-floor survival get a season more invested in divine patronage and Familia hierarchy.
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The franchise’s harem-comedy DNA is still visible, with AniList tagging Female Harem at 67% and Nudity at 53%, but the season’s more memorable fan discussion centers on faction disputes rather than romantic wish fulfillment alone.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: Season II aired as a 12-episode TV run from July 13, 2019 to September 28, 2019, placing it several years after the first DanMachi anime helped establish the series’ mainstream recognition.
Fun fact 2: The anime adapts Fujino Oomori’s original story and retains Suzuhito Yasuda as the credited original character designer, preserving the franchise’s light-novel identity even as the anime condenses arc material.
Fun fact 3: Its database reception is large but moderate: MAL lists it at 7.24 from more than 523,000 votes, while AniList scores it at 71/100 with over 4,000 favourites.
Fun fact 4: Despite the title’s emphasis on a dungeon, user reviews consistently note that Season II spends much more time on Orario’s gods, guild-like familias, and character relationships than on extended exploration.
Fun fact 5: Sound direction is credited to Jin Aketagawa, with photography by Shingo Fukuyo and editing by Kentarou Tsubone, indicating a production pipeline built around fast, readable TV action rather than a slower cinematic presentation.