The official X (formerly Twitter) account of Fujino Ōmori and Suzuhito Yasuda’s Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? (Dungeon ni Deai o Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darō ka or DanMachi) light novel series announced on Thursday that the novels have reached 20 million copies in circulation. The series is the first GA Bunko title to reach the milestone.
🔔『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』シリーズ累計2000万部突破‼🔔
🔥これからもまだまだ続く『ダンまち』にご期待ください🔥#ダンまち #danmachi #GA文庫 pic.twitter.com/9YpLYeRK1G
— GA文庫『ダンまち』シリーズ公式 (@danmachi_GA) May 22, 2025
The franchise also announced that the 21st main novel volume, the spinoff story Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side: Sword Oratoria’s 16th volume, and the Familia Chronicle episode Asfi story will all release in October. The main novel will enter its final arc with the upcoming 21st volume.
Additionally, a new free short story is available to read in Japanese on the anime’s website. The short story, titled “Himo no Shōtai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darō ka” (Is It Wrong to Seek the True Identity of the String?), centers on Hestia’s blue string that she wears across her chest.
©Fujino Ōmori, Suzuhito Yasuda, SB Creative
The series is set in Orario, a city centered on a high tower, with an infinitely complex, monster-filled dungeon below it. Here, adventurers join Familia, organizations that center on a patron deity that lives among them and treats them as their children. Familia delve the dungeon to retrieve treasure and clear it of monsters, with renowned adventurers acclaimed as heroes. Bell, a rookie adventurer who is the only member of his Familia, strives to become an acclaimed adventurer, even if he has to go it with only the support of her goddess Hestia. Soon, he is embroiled in the open conflicts and underground intrigue of Orario that cross between mortal and divine.
Ōmori and Yasuda launched the first novel in the series in January 2013, and launched the Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side: Sword Oratoria light novel spinoff in January 2014. Yen Press is releasing both the original novel series and the Sword Oratoria spinoff novels, as well as their respective manga adaptations, in North America.
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. Sentai Filmworks licensed the season, and the anime is streaming on HIDIVE. Crunchyroll also streamed the anime but then removed it in March 2022.
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. HIDIVE streamed the anime under the title Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV.
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? V, the fifth television anime season, premiered on October 4. The season’s 15th and final episode aired on March 5. HIDIVE streamed the series in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
The anime franchise also includes original video anime (OVA) releases, 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.
Sources: Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? novels’ X/Twitter account, Mainichi Shimbun’s Mantan Web, Comic Natalie
