Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka II OVA

DON'T WATCH THIS. TRUST ME. DON'T. You know sometime when you're watching/reading something, what's under your eyes is so unexplainable that you feel the sudden urge to say "What kind of drug were they taking ?!"Here, more than a lot of things I watched, that is definitively what's coming to my mind. It's not some kind of psychological bullshit with deep meaning behind, it is just a total wreck of a story... We already got a "bath OVA", and now it was time for the "beach OVA", but as the previous one could easily being put at some point of the timeline, and without being great, was kinda enjoyable, this one is just a succession of dubious clichés... With in the end no actual link to the plot or whatsoever. It feels like watching a very bad parody, althougth it is not. Yeah, there is 2-3 funny jokes in the whole 26 min of content, but most of the time you'll just cringe and repeatedly say "WTF !!" whenever something new happens. I understand that sometimes the cast and production just want to have fun, but it's normally under the form of a drama CD or some kind of "chibi low quality" bonus, not a fully animated 26 min long bullshit... In the end, it doesn't respect the original style/vibe of the series, which can have "fan service" (at this point I don't know what kind of "fan" it is serving) moments without going so far, nor add something to the whole series' story (considering the total unclear ending...), so it just feels like a waste of time and budget from the studio and production comity... At least we didn't have to pay for this for us watching it on a legal streaming platform...

𝓒𝓱𝓮𝓬𝓴 𝓲𝓽 𝓸𝓾𝓽, 𝓪 𝓼𝓮𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓬𝓾𝓶𝓫𝓮𝓻, 𝓖𝓡𝓞𝓢𝓢! Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka II OVA starts off pretty usual for Danmachi OVA's where instead of a hot springs, Bell and crew are in "Paradise Island" where rare herbs are bountiful for the picking, however things don't seem right... For the first half of this OVA at least it's your fanservice in a beach episode, mainly from Hestia, Liliruca and Haruhime with Mikoto getting in on the action and it's your typical swimsuit fanservice and with all the harem hijinks that entails with it what with Hestia vs. Liliruca to Haruhime's closeted pervertedness comingin. The fanservice was mildly servicable with the fanservice ranging mostly on the swimsuits to just some ummm "odd choices". It's not until Ais comes in is when it REALLY starts to going in a crazy fever dream direction and like a fever dream, things goes insane and like insanity....insanity is something you do over and over again and expect and different result and ohh boy with that ending and to Bell's as well as the rest of cast's fate is unknown. If anything this reminds LA heavily of Highschool of the Dead's OVA...lighter but with a sinisterly "bad ending" vibe to it. The animation done by JC Staff was pretty much consistent from it's second season so not much to point out there and the fanservice wasn't risque per say, just ehhh to decent swimsuit fanservice. As for the voice cast, LA thought there was something odd with the voice direction with this OVA and man does it show as the OVA kept going, almost self awareness from the VA's especially Saori Hayami as Ryu. The standout VA's to this OVA was probably Saori Hayami and Inori Minase though the majority of the VA's in this OVA seemed to and sounded like they had fun with this OVA. Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka II OVA is much like the first season's OVA, but where the first season's OVA was a pure hot springs fanservice with harem hijinks, this OVA on the other hand was an off-kilter beach fanservice with harem hijinks that goes off it's rocker the further you watch it and that ending..............makes this OVA...weird. Barbeque! Barbeque! Barbeque! Barbeque! Barbeque! Barbeque! Barbeque! Barbeque! Barbeque! Barbeque! Barbeque! Barbeque! Barbeque! Barbeque! Barbeque! Barbeque! Barbeque! Barbeque! Barbeque! Barbeque! Barbeque! Barbeque! Barbeque! Barbeque! Barbeque! Barbeque! Barbeque! Barbeque! Check it out, a sea cucumber, GROSS!

It's another anime OVA beach episode, similar to the last season's. According to MAL-Sync the source of this OVA is from the light novels, and I'm not sure which one because I've been reading volume 14 in the series and haven't stumbled upon a beach scene, maybe it's in the spin-off? Overall it's a goofy OVA, you can't take it serious. I want what the writers were smoking MyAnimeList has told me to enter a longer review, so a longer review I will give. I first discovered the Danmachi series back when season 1 was being aired, and I was quite a fan. A goofy (slightly raunchy) take onthe fantasy world, it's been done before and will never stop being done. I enjoyed the mixture of geek mythology since as a child I had read the Percy Jackson book series. Last spring I had started reading the light novels on my e-reader, and I had realized the amount of detail which was missing in the anime adaptation. As stated above the "source" is the light novel series, the same series which I am reading right now. I might've missed this scene but overall this OVA is just a goofy and fan service episode. My overall score is a 6, or Fair, which is the perfect description for this OVA in my opinion. You can't take it too seriously and just let the silly charm take over your mind, body and soul. I'm no serious critic, I don't care about reading into the voice acting performance, sound design or art styles. If I enjoy something I will enjoy it as simply as that. That is how this OVA is, quite enjoyable. The ending left me wanting to know more "What happened?" "What now?" Questions just kept taking over my mind for minutes as the credits were rolling. 27 minutes of pure bliss, and I hope the entire staff had the same amount of fun producing this OVA because I had quite the fun laughing to another ecchi comedy. Thank you

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