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[[File:Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon.jpg|thumb|400px|Bell and Hestia, from the first Blu-ray release cover]]
{{quote|''It doesn't matter if I look lame. I don't care if they drag me through the mud. Even if it's the last thing I do... I'll save her. I'll be her hero!''|Bell Cranel|season
'''''Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?''''' (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, ''Danjon ni Deai o Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darō ka'', literally "Is It Wrong to Try to Meet Someone New in a Dungeon?"), also known as ''[[DanMachi]]'' (ダンまち), is a light novel series that started in 2013, being adapted into an anime series starting in 2015. As of early
Once upon a time, the gods descended to the "Lower World" where the mortals live, in search of entertainment. They agreed to [[God's Hands Are Tied|give up their godly powers]] in exchange for living with mortals. The one power that they keep is the ability to gift mortals with the ability to become adventurers, able to descend into the local Dungeon to slay monsters. The people who accept this gift become part of the "Familia" of that god or goddess.
The main story is about Bell Cranel, an idealistic -- one might say naive -- young man who is (at the beginning of the story) the only member of the Hestia Familia. He has just begun to adventure in the Dungeon below the city of Orario... and at the beginning is saved from peril by the swordswoman Ais Wallenstein. This leaves him with a desire to catch up to her level of ability. In his journey to become a hero, he meets and befriends many people: Eina Tulle, his advisor in the Guild of adventurers; Syr Flover and Ryū Lion, waitresses at a local inn, one of whom is much more than she seems; Liliruca ("Lili") Arde, the Supporter who carries his supplies and provides ranged attacks; Welf Crozzo, the smith/adventurer [[Ultimate Blacksmith|who can make magic swords]]; Mikoto Yamato, the swordswoman (and ninja) from the Far East; and others who help him in his self-imposed task - and who he helps in their own self-imposed tasks.
''Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side: [[Sword Oratoria]]'' is a side-story in the same universe with many of the same characters (and a few of the same scenes repeated). As of early
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** Hestia decisively wins a battle of insults against [[Rule 63|Loki]] in the second episode of the main series by calling her flat-chested.
** In ''Sword Oratoria'', it's made quite clear that Tiona Hiryute and Loki suffer from having flat chests, to the point of doing breast-expansion exercises during a Familia meeting.
* [[Absolute Cleavage]]: Freya's "at home" outfit is cut so low that her entire navel is visible. It's also sleeveless and strapless. Since the gods aren't allowed to use their powers when they're in the Lower World, one has to wonder how the outfit stays on.
* [[Ain't Too Proud to Beg]]: Early in the first season, after Hephaistios refuses to do Hestia a favor, Hestia
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Lefiya Viridis - background character with two lines in the entire first season of the original series, [[deuteragonist]] of the first season of ''Sword Oratoria''.
* [[Amazon Admirer]]: Ais Wallenstein is not only one of the most powerful adventurers in Orario, she's ''the'' most powerful swordswoman in the setting. The running theme in the main storyline is how Bell Cranel is improving himself in order to become worthy of dating her.
* [[Badass Damsel]]: Ais is the "cross between Action Girl and Proper Lady" type - she's innocent in many ways, while still being one of the most powerful fighters in Orario.
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]:
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* [[Category Traitor]]: Ryū is called a traitor to elves because she used magic swords - the weapons that destroyed the elf homeland - during the war game between the Apollon Familia and Hestia Familia. Her reply is that loyalty to friends is more important than an old grievance.
* [[Crossover Cosmology]]: The [[Classical Mythology|Greek]], [[Hindu Mythology|Hindu]], [[Norse Mythology|Norse]], [[Shinto]], [[Babylonian Mythology|Babylonian]], and [[Celtic Mythology|Celtic]] pantheons all have gods appearing in the series.
* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: There are a few in the third season of the main story, most notably Wiene (who in-universe is called "cute") and Rei. The fact that they even ''exist'' is what drives the season's plot.
* [[Divine Assistance]]: The "give heroes gifts" subtype of the trope. The gods aren't allowed to use their godly powers in the Lower World, but Hephaistios is still able to craft magical blades even with her powers sealed... and does so at Hestia's request (which included a [[Pose of Supplication]]) so that Hestia can assist Bell in his dungeon delving. The Hestia Knife is a living blade that works only for members of the Hestia Familia; for everyone else, it's essentially a dull piece of metal.
* [[Divine Parentage]]: It isn't believed to be possible, but two characters may have it. {{spoiler|It's outright stated that Bell's grandfather is Zeus}} (not that it helps, and so far everyone's said he's adopted... but consider who we're talking about here), and {{spoiler|Ais's mother appears to be an angelic-rank being}} (which is more of a hindrance than a help).
* [[Dragon Rider]]: Our heroes, during [[The Movie]]. The dragons were provided by the Ganesha Familia, and are used solely for fast transportation.
* [[Dungeon Bypass]]: Used to avoid an ambush set by {{spoiler|the Apollon Familia during the war game with the Hestia Familia}}.
* [[Dungeon Shop]]: A town full of them (and inns, and taverns)
* [[Eye Awaken]]: Bad enough that there had been a murder in episode 4 of ''[[Sword Oratoria]]'', and that somebody wants the episode's [[MacGuffin]] badly enough to kill for it - but when our heroines discover the MacGuffin is alive and its eyes open, things go [[From Bad to Worse]].
* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: From what we've seen of it and the people from it, "The Far East" is Sengoku-era Japan in everything but name.
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** Bell, Lili, and Welf - strangers to each other when they formed their Party of adventurers (with Lili and Welf not getting along with each other very well), friends after surviving the journey forced upon them to level 18 of the Dungeon. {{spoiler|And, before the halfway point of the second season, part of the same Familia}}.
* [[Focal Character]]: It sure looked like the elf mage Lefiya Viridis was going to be the protagonist of ''Sword Oratoria'', until it became obvious that she was the [[deuteragonist]] of the side-story.
* [[Fluffy Tamer]]: There's an entire class of dungeon delver called Tamers; they specialize in taming monsters at least to the point where they're docile and bringing them to the surface, only killing monsters when there is no other option. The ones we see are all part of the Ganesha Familia.
* [[Genius Bonus]]: The stories reward a knowledge of various myths:
** If you know more than just pop-culture references regarding Norse Mythology, you'll know who Mia's patron deity is as soon as you hear the name of her restaurant in the very first episode of the first season. If you don't, you won't know until Hermes mentions the name late in the second season.
** Who gave Syr the good-luck charm she gave Bell during the war game? You'll never know... unless you know the typical depictions of the gods from Classical Mythology.
* [[God's Hands Are Tied]]: All of the gods have tied their hands in order to be able to live in the Lower World with the mortals instead of Heaven. All they can do is bestow a small amount of power to mortals and let them grow stronger on their own.
* [[Gonk]]: Phryne, the Amazoness leader of the Ishtar Familia. She's firmly convinced that she isn't ugly.
* [[Groper Girl]]: Loki in ''Sword Oratoria'', to the point of it being a [[Running Gag]].
* [[Have You Seen My God?]]: In the second-last episode of the second season of the main story, most of the main cast goes looking for Hestia... who they already know has been kidnapped by Ares.
* [[Hero of Another Story]]: Ais Wallenstein in the main story, Bell Cranel in ''Sword Oratoria''.
* [[Hot Springs Episode]]: The first
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Most but not all of the episodes of the main series have two titles, both of which relate to the episode. (Most but not all of the episodes of ''Sword Oratoria'' don't.)
* [[Instant Runes]]:
** If an Elf mage needs to chant a spell in order to cast it, she (or he) will have Instant Runes appear during the casting. It's shown that if the caster fails to concentrate on keeping the runes manifested until the spell is completed, the spell fails... but the "Concurrent Casting" technique lets the caster postpone the manifestation of the Instant Runes to near the end of the incantation.
** Lefiya also copies ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (anime)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''{{'}}s "magic circle as gun barrel" effect with her most powerful attack in the sidestory ''[[Sword Oratoria]]''.
** [[The Movie]] shows that Arcanum, the power of the gods, also uses Instant Runes.
* [[Kill the God]]: Since the gods' powers are sealed, killing one is as easy as pushing him or her off a ledge, or running a sword through the god's heart... and it's shown to have happened more than once. The god doesn't actually die, but is sent to (the setting's very boring) Heaven with no way to return to the (interesting) Lower World.
* [[Lap Pillow]]:
** More than once, Ais rests Bell's head on her lap when he's knocked out for whatever reason. Bell being a [[Chaste Hero]], he invariably panics when he wakes up and realizes where he is.
** In [[The Stinger]] at the very end of the first season, it's Hestia's turn to let her lap serve as Bell's pillow.
** And at one particularly bleak time for Bell in the third season, Syr offers her lap as a pillow... which Bell ends up accepting without panicking.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: [[The Other Wiki]] has [[w:List of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? characters|a spoiler-laden list]].
* [[Loads and Loads of Races]]: Human, elf, half-elf, dwarf (with noticeable sexual dimorphism), [[halfling|Prum]], [[Little Bit Beastly|beastfolk]] of various races, and more... and that's outside the Dungeon.
* [[Loophole Abuse]]: Only the Familias directly involved in a war game are allowed to take part in it - but there's no rule that an allied Familia can't help with a peripheral matter that strengthens a Familia taking part in the war game. Thus, Ais and Tiona can (secretly) train Bell without repercussions to the Loki Familia while the Takemikazuchi Familia helps the Hestia Familia prepare for the war game between the Hestia and Apollon Familias.
* [[No Hero Discount]]: It's established in ''Sword Oratoria'' that the shopkeepers on the "safe" level 18 of the Dungeon drive ''very'' hard bargains, because they know they're the only game in town. However, the trope is thoroughly averted in the final episode of the first season of the main series, when it's obvious that there's no way to avoid a boss fight; the weapons-shop storekeeper tells the adventurers "If you lose your weapon, just grab another one!"
* [[Once a Season]]: Each season of the main story has an episode titled "Argonaut" (although the alternate titles are different), in which Bell has a major change to his fortunes.
* [[One-Man Army]]: The penultimate episode of the second season shows that a single Level 5 (or higher, on a seven-level scale) dungeon adventurer is able to defeat an entire mundane army without breaking a sweat.
* [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same]]: Played with. Gareth, one of the three original members of the Loki Familia, is about as stereotypical a Dwarf as one can find. Mia, the owner of the inn where Syr and Ryū work, is tall, beardless, and obviously female... but still wants her patrons to order a lot so that she gets plenty of money, and can break a wooden bar counter with her bare fist.
* [[Outdoor Bath Peeping]]:
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** [[Gender Flip]]ped and [[Played With]] in season two of the main series, when Hestia tries to peep on Bell at an indoor bath.
* [[Overwhelming Obsession]]: Mikoto loves hot springs so much that she can track them down by scent. For a while, this was her ''only'' defining character trait; she became a better-described character during the second season.
* [[Paper Cutting]]: [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]] in the third season, when Dix Perdix attacks Bell with a weapon that leaves an apparently small wound... that magically won't stop bleeding.
* [[Red Light District]]: Orario's has accrued around - [[Band of Brothels|and is run by]] - the temple to Ishtar, where there's very little differentiation made between sacred prostitution and the other sort. One story arc involves rescuing a childhood friend of Mikoto from this district.
* [[RPG Mechanics Verse]]:
** The Dungeon is based on video game dungeons - monsters spawn from its walls, and the very environment has a rudimentary intelligence (similar to a video game AI).
** The adventurer characters have levels and character statistics which are updated on-screen from time to time... and they get new copies of their own character sheets upon each update.
** Welf Crozzo is shown to [[Item Crafting|make a high-quality knife from raw materials]] (a dropped item from the Dungeon and an ingot of steel) in a single day.
** The Floor Boss that appears at the end of the first season has [[Contractual Boss Immunity]].
* [[Rule 63]]: Loki and Hephaistios are female in this setting.
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** Bell has to rescue Hestia twice during the first season: once from a rampaging monster (which involved a [[Bridal Carry]]), and later from a kidnapping. Then he has to rescue her again (with another Bridal Carry) during the first OAV.
** The pattern repeats in the second season: Bell has to rescue Hestia from an rival Familia attack, then later has to rescue her again from a kidnapping.
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* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]: The Big Bad in season 3 wears Scary Shiny Goggles. [[The Reveal]] about the nature of his organization happens when they finally come off.
* [[Sobriquet]]: Every adventurer gets one upon becoming a Level 2 adventurer, although they aren't all mentioned in the stories. Bell is "Little Rookie" (changed to "Rabbit's Foot" when he makes level 4), Ais is "Sword Princess", Lefiya is "Thousand Elf".
* [[Star Scraper]]: There's an incredibly tall tower above the Dungeon, so tall that we ''never'' see its top, no matter how far up the camera pans (although there is one scene in the first season where the tower extends into some clouds, and there is no tower shown where we would expect to see it continue above the clouds, so there ''is'' a top). Hephaistios and Freya both live in it quite comfortably, with plenty of room for other occupants. Of course it's named Babel.
* [[Throwing Down the Gauntlet]]: After having a false accusation levelled at her Familia, her Familia's home destroyed, and being personally hounded by the Apollon Familia, Hestia finally snaps. She confronts Apollon at his own home, ''orders'' one of Apollon's trusted advisors to give her ''his'' glove (so that she doesn't have to use her own), and immediately throws that glove at Apollon's face, thus accepting his challenge to a war game.
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: Simply learning the "Concurrent Casting" technique (mentioned under "Instant Runes") was enough to change Lefiya from a [[Glass Cannon]] to [[Little Miss Badass]].
* [[Training Montage]]: How the stories show Ais teaching Bell to fight.
* [[Trial Balloon Question]]: In the third season of ''Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?'', Bell asks Ais a hypothetical question about what she would do if she ever met a self-aware, intelligent monster in the Dungeon. Her reply convinces him to refrain from revealing the existence of self-aware, intelligent monsters in the Dungeon.
* [[Unspoken Plan Guarantee]]: Used in episode 5 of ''Sword Oratoria'' to turn the tide during the first battle with the season's recurring antagonist. The entire description provided is, "Remember that combo we used in the past? We're using it!" It works.
* [[Unwanted Harem]]: Bell, being a [[Chaste Hero]], doesn't even realize he has one. But Hestia, Lili, Syr, and possibly Ais know... and Hestia's the jealous type.
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* [[Wingdinglish]]: The signs and posters in Orario. But not too Wingdinglish - the letter forms bear a (sometimes vague) resemblance to those in the Latin alphabet. With a bit of practice, English-speakers can read the signs and posters in Orario quite easily.
* [[Work Off the Debt]]: How Hestia pays Hephaistios for creating the Hestia Knife. Considering [[Shockingly Expensive Bill|how much it cost]], it's a good thing that both goddesses are essentially immortal; the working arrangement will be going on for a long. long time.
* [[You Called Me "X" - It Must Be Serious]]: Hestia is quite able to pronounce Ais Wallenstein's name correctly, but usually calls her "Wallen-whats-it" because Hestia is the jealous sort. [[Once a Season]], when things are serious, Hestia calls Ais by her full name.
* [[Zero-Approval Gambit]]: Bell launches one in season three. The first step toward having the people of Orario [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|accept a group of monsters as intellegent beings instead of mindless killing machines]], is to bring that group into Orario. And ''everybody'' hates him for it, even his advisor in the guild (who up to this point had been his surrogate big sister). In the end, {{spoiler|it doesn't work; the monsters have to try to escape from Orario before they're killed, and Bell's reputation appears to be permanently destroyed; it takes a huge amount of work to undo the change to his fortunes.}}
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Ais's usual outfit is Rank A, as is the store-clerk uniform that Hestia wears when working for Hephaistios. (Lefiya's usual outfit is also Rank A, but she wears a long overskirt over it as part of her usual [[Elegant Gothic Lolita|Elegant Not-Really-Gothic Lolita]] outfit.)
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