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REVIEW: Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Astrea Record Novel One Review

Even after reading this volume, your review seems to be assuming this miniseries is covering the Astrea Family history already covered in v14 of the main series, but these three volumes are telling an earlier turning point in their history--and frankly, they're bit players in this story.

(Also, why is the credits pulling in the original character designer but not the artist for this volume? I assuming that's a technical failing, based on previous comments, but you might need to manually add the actual illustrator's name somewhere.)

Having read all three volumes in Japanese, I'd go so far as to call this just about the worst thing Omori's ever written, and really only for die-hard completionists. Less because it's dark and brutal but just because the villain's junior high school moral dilemmas are soooooo fundamentally stupid it's just not worth reading any scenes they're in.

The other video game novelization, Argonaut, is fantastic, though; hopefully Yen picks that one up, too.

Even after reading this volume, your review seems to be assuming this miniseries is covering the Astrea Family history already covered in v14 of the main series, but these three volumes are telling an earlier turning point in their history--and frankly, they're bit players in this story.