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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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* [[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.
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** 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!"
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<!-- ** Brutally played with in [[The Movie]]. ... but that's a major spoiler, so don't un-comment this line, please. -->
* [[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]].
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