Dungeon ni Deai

Uh... I have mixed feelings. It feels so weird that what took months to read happened in 20 minutes (monthly release manga).
I'm glad they picked these voice actors. Almost exactly how I imagined them to sound in the manga. Actually expected MC to have an even softer voice since he did look like a crybaby there.

Maybe would like everything to go slower as it feels like stuff happen way too fast...but overall, not disappointed at all ^^

P.S. I won't be able to add much discussion to this as I already know future eps

 

The first episode was alright. It has potential for sure. I'm embarrassed to say, but judging off the cover image (same as above), I though Bell was going to be a girl... oh well.

 

It might be they just wanted to speed through the set up. Like get passed him growing from a useless wimp who is all alone besides his goddess to where he gets a little competent and starts to really meet people. After all I'm guessing this is just a 12 episode series so they don't have a few episodes for him to get off the ground.

Anyway the first episode seemed interesting and I like how he didn't stay a useless idiot for long although from what you said he only reached that so fast because they sped through the intro part.

 

He doesn't stay crybaby in manga for long too but I mean it just felt weird for me how everything happened so fast in one episode that took manga to cover a few chapters. Interesting part is that they didn't really skip anything important, so we are all good with this pace.

 

I have to agree. They might as well have had him say "This is my de-motivational speech to make the MC feel like shit to give him the push he needs to improve and everything I say, including the part about the sword princess NEVER wanting to date him, will be proven wrong sooner or later". I get why they had it there and I"m kind of glad they just got it out of the way instead of dwelling on it. But still who talks like that even drunk "Hey comerade who do you like more me or some little kid who you met for two seconds before he ran away" does he do this all the time? "Hey Princess who would you rather date me or what one merchant we passed on the way here". They could have speed through it and not been so forced with that line.

But again the whole "bully motivates MC" is pretty cliche in general so I'm just glad we're past it here and not wasting an entire episode or two on it.

 

The anime is adapting Light Novel. Manga is pretty much the same tho but it is on monthly release and I am sure anime will eventually get ahead of manga :/

 

The anime seems very interesting, wonder how good will it be later on

 

Well according to Ovyda it's not even a harem but I only read the first chapter some time ago so I wouldn't know. So far he only has one or two potential love interests which is just a love triangle at best so if it doesn't go beyond that then it won't be a harem.

I think Shonen have taken to skipping over the training because every other shonen and even many non shonen in the past were devoting entire arcs to training. Sometimes the training could involve a pretty awesome adventure or character development but it was still a break from the main plot for several chapters to show the MC get stronger. So the idea of showing the MC's training in detail has become cliche and I think most people don't care much anymore. Then One Piece did the unthinkable and skipped the training arc. They did a bit of a preview showing them starting their training and finishing their training after the time skip but besides showing that it was happening they skipped over the details. Since then Fairy Tail and other series have done similar things where they show the training happening but one way or another they skip the details and move on with the plot. I think it's interesting as this means stuff like character development and showing the characters struggles must either be shown in what little training they do show or must be done during the story.

 

They didn't used to skip them though. It's just people got a bit tired of them since ALL they did was develop character which could also be done within the plot related arcs if paced right. So at some point shonen series started to skip them more often than not or they'd mix the training into the main plot arc and just train slowly along the way. But it seems devoting several episodes or a whole arc to just training has fallen out of style.

Also think about it from this perspective you already know pretty much what would happen if they showed the training arc. He'd work hard, struggle, probably almost give up, pick himself back up, get stronger, and done. People already have a pretty good idea of what kind of growth happens during training without it having to be shown. Besides I doubt this is the end of his growth all last episode did was show him grinding RPG style all night long.

 

Well it isn't a harem at where manga is right now but it's adapting LN so it might go into harem route.

 

So wait is his skill basically an EXP boost or is it a bonus stat boost upon level up?


Also Loli boobs forgot to give him the knife.

 

As I understand his skill is that lets him get stronger faster than everyone else who will do the same kind of "training". I don't think he gets stronger by doing nothing.

Checked back in manga how it's described.