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Aniplus Asia Airs Danmachi Season 5, Arifureta Season 3
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Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? V will premiere in Japan on October 4.
The returning staff for the fifth season includes director Hideki Tachibana at studio J.C. Staff, series composition writers Fujino Ōmori and Hideki Shirane, character designer Shigeki Kimoto, composer Keiji Inai, production company EGG FIRM, art director Yūki Kobayashi, background artist Jeong Ryeon Kim (joined by Akira Suzuki), color designer Tomomi Andō, sound director Jin Aketagawa, editor Kentarō Tsubone, and director of photography Shingo Fukuyo.
The anime's first season premiered in April 2015 and had 13 episodes, and the second season premiered in July 2019 and had 12 episodes. The anime's third season premiered in October 2020 after a delay from July 2020 due to the effects of COVID-19.
Dungeon ni Deai o Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darō ka IV Shinshō Meikyū-hen (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV New Arc: Labyrinth), the fourth season, premiered in Japan in July 2022 and aired for 11 episodes. The second half of the fourth season, titled Dungeon ni Deai o Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darō ka IV Shinshō Yakusai-hen (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV Late Arc: Disaster), premiered in January 2023 and also aired for 11 episodes. Aniplus Asia aired both halves as they aired in Japan.
The anime franchise also includes two OVAs, the Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion film, and the Sword Oratoria: Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side spinoff television series.
Akira Iwanaga (Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee, The Morose Mononokean) returns to direct the anime at asread (who animated the first season with WHITE FOX). Shōichi Satō returns to oversee and write the series scripts. Chika Kojima again serves as the character designer and chief animation director. Ryō Takahashi returns to compose the music. Void_Chords feat. MindaRyn perform the new opening theme song "Unending Wish."
The first season of the anime premiered in July 2019. Aniplus Asia aired a simulcast of the first season as it aired in Japan. The second season premiered in January 2022. Aniplus Asia also aired the anime.
Funimation streamed the series in North America, and it describes the story:
Hajime Nagumo and his high school class are suddenly summoned to a fantastical land as heroes. But while most of his classmates have powerful stats and abilities, Hajime does not. Underappreciated and unprepared, he tumbles into the depths of a monster-infested dungeon where voracity and sacrifice are his only options. To thrive in this savage world, he'll have no choice but to welcome the abyss.
