Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? II: Is It Wrong to go Searching for Herbs on a Deserted Island?

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 2期 OVA (Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka II OVA)

6.5(62,141)

MAL Score

Ranked #7963

Popularity #2139

Adventure
Comedy
Ecchi
Fantasy
Adult Cast
Harem
Love Polygon
Survival

Episodes: 1
Duration: 26 min
Aired: Jan 29, 2020
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Bell Cranel and the Hestia Familia take on a request to collect scarce medicinal herbs from a seemingly uninhabited island. Hoping to unwind after recent turmoil, they treat the trip as a brief getaway—at least until the moment they set foot on shore.

The calm doesn’t last long. Tensions flare as the girls bicker over Bell’s attention, and the island starts to feel less like a vacation spot when a familiar figure appears and unsettling incidents begin to stack up. With the situation growing stranger by the hour, the party has to push through the sudden hardships and find a way to make it back safely.

Otaku Consensus

This Season II OVA is received as a knowingly disposable but efficient DanMachi cooldown: Yuusuke Onoda’s episode direction and Kiyotaka Oohata’s storyboard keep the fan-service comedy moving briskly, while J.C.Staff preserves the franchise’s bright character appeal. Fans who wanted a breather after Season 2’s heavier drama tend to rate it kindly, but the dominant criticism is just as consistent: it plays like a classic beach OVA with almost no meaningful weight for the main storyline.

Why You Should Watch

Watch this if you want DanMachi in full after-hours mode: harem friction, ecchi sight gags, chibi-style comic exaggeration, and J.C.Staff’s familiar glossy fantasy palette without a demanding lore arc attached. It works best for viewers who already like Bell and Hestia’s ensemble chemistry and want a 24-minute palette cleanser after Season 2 rather than another dungeon progression milestone. The appeal sits closer to a KonoSuba-style vacation disaster than a serious fantasy quest, with the added DanMachi wrinkle that even its “relaxation” episode leans into gods, love-polygon tension, and absurd genre detours. If you enjoy OVAs that exist to let the cast misbehave outside the main campaign, this is exactly calibrated for that niche.

Key Characters

B
Bell Cranel(VA: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka)
Bell remains the harem center of gravity here, less a heroic adventurer than the well-meaning spark that turns every group dynamic around him into competitive comedy.
H
Hestia(VA: Inori Minase)
Hestia’s appeal in this OVA is her volatile mix of goddess pride, possessiveness, and comic timing, which makes her one of the loudest engines of the episode’s romantic chaos.

What Makes It Stand Out

1
The OVA is structurally a post-Season II bonus episode, released on January 29, 2020, and designed as a self-contained comic breather rather than a continuation of the season’s central conflicts.
2
J.C.Staff handles the production, keeping the visual identity consistent with the television series while shifting the emphasis toward reaction comedy, fan-service framing, and ensemble bickering.
3
AniList’s tag profile is unusually telling for a DanMachi extra: Nudity, Tomboy, Meta, and Aliens all sit at 79%, marking it as a deliberately oddball OVA rather than a standard dungeon-side adventure.
4
The credited original story comes from Fujino Oomori, giving this fan-service special a direct source-author connection instead of making it feel like a wholly detached promotional skit.
5
Its reception numbers reflect its niche purpose: a 6.5/10 MAL score from over 62,000 votes and a 63/100 AniList score suggest tolerated, fan-targeted fun rather than broad critical approval.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: Original character designer Suzuhito Yasuda is credited, which helps explain why the OVA’s costume and expression work still feels tied to DanMachi’s established character branding even in a lighter bonus format.
Fun fact 2: The episode’s production credits list four animation directors: Mineko Ueda, Ikuma Toube, Tetsuya Sakamoto, and Yuu Murakami, a common approach for keeping a single OVA visually polished across many character-heavy cuts.
Fun fact 3: Kiyotaka Oohata handled the storyboard while Yuusuke Onoda directed the episode, splitting the planning of comic set pieces from the final episode execution.
Fun fact 4: Shuu Sugita is credited for key animation on the opening, a detail that separates the OVA’s OP work from the main body of the episode in the production data.
Fun fact 5: Fan reviews consistently frame it as a “beach OVA” in spirit: enjoyable for snacks-and-cooldown viewing, but openly recognized as low-stakes franchise padding.