50 Fun Facts About DanMachi: is it Wrong to Try to Pick up Girls in a Dungeon?

DanMachi is set in which fictional city, built over the Dungeon and home to gods who limit their powers?

Orario sits directly above the Dungeon, so its gods recruit adventurers to dive in. The crystal shards that monsters leave behind are traded for money and crafted into magic items.

Which DanMachi deity forges the Hestia Knife after Hestia spends hours begging on her knees?

Hephaestus agrees only if Hestia pays the full price, however many centuries it takes. The blade is a living weapon that grows stronger as Bell does and is useless outside his Familia.

Which monster is about to kill Bell Cranel when Ais Wallenstein rescues him at the start of DanMachi?

A Minotaur that fled from Ais's own expedition party chased Bell through the upper floors. Being saved by her is what makes him vow to become as strong as she is.

Which part of Hestia's DanMachi costume set off a 2015 craze copied by cosplayers and everyday women in Japan?

A blue ribbon tied under Hestia's chest and around her arms became a fad the Daily Mirror called the weirdest craze ever. Free copies were even handed out in Akihabara.

Bell Cranel's grandfather, who raised him on hero stories in DanMachi, is later revealed to be which god?

Zeus faked his own death so that Bell would set out to become an adventurer. His Familia was once one of the two strongest in the city.

Which voice actor, also Kirito in Sword Art Online, plays Bell Cranel in DanMachi and set a Guinness record doing it?

Yoshitsugu Matsuoka was certified in 2019 for the most lines performed by one voice actor in a mobile game. He recorded them all as Bell for a DanMachi smartphone RPG.

In DanMachi, which alias belongs to Ais Wallenstein, the top fighter who began adventuring at age seven?

Sword Princess is the alias Ais carries as one of the city's top fighters. She has killed over a thousand monsters and turned down just as many suitors.

Where do Bell Cranel and Hestia live at the start of DanMachi, before their Familia wins a mansion?

An abandoned church hides the single basement room they share while Hestia works part-time jobs to cover their expenses. They move out only after winning a rival god's estate.

Which DanMachi deity of beauty leads the city's strongest Familia and schemes to make Bell Cranel hers?

Freya senses Bell's potential early and secretly arranges trials to make him grow. Her obsession later drives her to charm the whole city so she can keep him.

White-haired, red-eyed Bell Cranel is nicknamed after which animal in DanMachi, including in his Level 4 alias?

A rabbit is what Bell's white hair and red eyes bring to mind. His first alias was Little Rookie, but the gods renamed him Rabbit Foot once he reached Level 4.

Which animation studio produces the DanMachi television anime and also animated its 2019 feature film?

J.C.Staff launched the anime in 2015 and stayed on for the sequels. The director's chair did change, with Hideki Tachibana taking over from the second season.

Which author created DanMachi, winning the grand prize at a light novel contest with the story?

Fujino Ōmori entered the story in a publisher's award contest, won its Great Prize and received a publishing offer. The same writer later launched the fantasy manga Wistoria: Wand and Sword.

Which tiny DanMachi porter with an enormous backpack first teams up with Bell Cranel planning to steal his knife?

Liliruca Arde hated adventurers and cheated them out of money and items to get by. Bell rescuing her from a Killer Ant colony turns her from thief into his partner.

Which DanMachi blacksmith joins Bell Cranel's party yet refuses to forge the magic swords his family is famous for?

Welf Crozzo believes magic swords bring out the worst in people and wants his ordinary work to stand on its own. He still wields one to help Bell bring down a giant floor boss.

Which elf waitress in DanMachi is secretly a feared former adventurer once blacklisted by the Guild?

Ryu Lion, nicknamed the Gale Wind, was blacklisted after avenging her slaughtered Familia with traps and assassinations. The Guild once put a bounty of 80 million on her head.

Which spell does Bell Cranel learn in DanMachi after reading a magic book borrowed from a waitress?

Firebolt so excites Bell that he rushes to the Dungeon to test it and overexerts himself into unconsciousness. Ais finds him there and rests his head on her lap until he wakes.

Which skill does Bell Cranel gain on reaching Level 2 in DanMachi, born from his wish to become a hero?

Argonaut lets Bell charge up an attack for a last-minute power boost in a crisis. He uses it to land the finishing blow on a floor boss that keeps healing itself.

What is the currency of DanMachi, which adventurers earn by trading in the crystal shards dropped by monsters?

Valis is what monster crystals are exchanged for, and Hestia quietly owes 200 million of it for Bell's knife. Would-be recruits flee her Familia when the debt comes to light.

Which half-elf Guild adviser in DanMachi worries over Bell Cranel like an older sister and takes him armour shopping?

Eina Tulle insists on better armour before letting Bell go deeper, then gives him an extra wrist guard herself. She turns up dressed for a date, which leaves him flustered.

Which DanMachi warrior begins the story as the city's highest-ranked adventurer, the only one at Level 7?

Ottar reached the top rank by beating the previous strongest adventurer in a duel. He serves as captain and right-hand man to the goddess of the city's most powerful Familia.

Which DanMachi deity challenges Hestia to a War Game in the hope of winning Bell Cranel for himself?

Apollo loses the castle-siege War Game when Bell strikes down his captain. Hestia then claims his possessions, dissolves his Familia and exiles him from the city.

Which DanMachi deity runs the city's red-light district and has Bell Cranel kidnapped to spite a rival?

Ishtar finds that her charm has no effect on Bell, and the kidnapping brings a rival Familia down on her district. She is knocked from her own tower and sent back to heaven.

Which fox-eared Renart is rescued by Bell Cranel and Mikoto in DanMachi's second season and joins the Hestia Familia?

Haruhime Sanjōno loves old hero tales but feels unworthy of being saved like their heroines. Her rare magic can boost an ally's level, which is why her captors planned to seal away her soul.

Which talking vouivre girl does Bell Cranel find in distress on the 19th floor and take home in DanMachi?

Wiene is named by the Hestia Familia after Bell brings her home out of pity. Defending a monster who can speak soon costs him the respect of his fellow adventurers.

What name does DanMachi give the intelligent, speaking monsters who dream of living peacefully on the surface?

Xenos eat the magic stones of defeated monsters to grow stronger and shelter in hidden villages inside the Dungeon. One god suspects they are monsters reborn after dying, much as humans are.

Which floor boss guards the way to DanMachi's 18th-floor safe zone, respawning every two weeks after a kill?

Goliath spawns in the room just before the safe zone, and Bell's battered party barely slips past it. A black variant later invades the safe zone itself when the Dungeon senses a deity inside.

Which small town sits deep inside DanMachi's Dungeon, in the safe zone on the 18th floor?

Rivira is where Bell's party recovers after barely surviving the middle floors. Monsters with human intelligence overrun the town in season three after poachers capture one of their own.

Which DanMachi deity's Familia hosts the Monsterphilia festival, where captured monsters are shown to crowds?

Ganesha wears an elephant mask in honour of his namesake. During the festival a goddess sets one captured monster loose and orders it after Bell.

Which DanMachi deity's Familia is hooked on a divine wine so addictive that adventurers hand over fortunes for a taste?

Soma agrees to stop a battle after one young follower resists his wine and pleads with him directly. He then has his scheming captain arrested and lets her leave the Familia.

Which DanMachi monster does the Dungeon spawn as a defence mechanism whenever it takes excessive damage?

Juggernaut has razor-sharp claws and armour that reflects magic, and it once destroyed two rival Familias. In season four it slices off Bell's arm.

Which deity, an old friend of Hestia, recruits Bell Cranel for a quest in DanMachi's 2019 feature film?

Artemis insists on Bell because her spear chose him for his pure soul. The film reveals she is only a fragment of the real goddess, whose body is trapped inside a monster.

Which ancient sealed monster do Bell Cranel and his allies hunt in the DanMachi film Arrow of the Orion?

Antares absorbs a goddess's body to wield her divine power and conjures what looks like a second moon. Bell destroys it with a god-slaying arrow that had been passed off as a spear.

Which DanMachi spin-off, adapted as its own anime in 2017, follows the Loki Familia instead of Bell Cranel?

Sword Oratoria centres on the swordswoman who rescues Bell in the opening chapter and runs parallel to the main story. Its light novels began in 2014.

Which DanMachi mobile RPG, launched in Japan in 2017, premiered prequel stories later published as light novels?

Memoria Freese mixed non-canon side stories with major prequels written by the original author. Its international service shut down in February 2024.

Which publisher releases the DanMachi light novels and manga in English across North America?

Yen Press put out the first English volume in December 2014 under its Yen On imprint. It announced the manga rights at New York Comic Con that same year.

Which voice actress, also heard as Rem in Re:Zero, plays the goddess Hestia in the Japanese version of DanMachi?

Inori Minase took the role in 2015, and one Anime News Network critic named her performance among the reasons the show took off. She won a Best Lead Actress award the following year.

Which artist, who also drew the Durarara!! novels, illustrates the main DanMachi light novels?

Suzuhito Yasuda's designs are the basis for the spin-off novels too, even though a different artist draws them. He is also the manga artist behind Yozakura Quartet.

Which DanMachi god joins Hestia's rescue party in the Dungeon and later hails Bell Cranel as the last hero?

Hermes was asked to watch over Bell and keeps testing him, even arranging a duel against an invisible opponent. Gods are forbidden to enter the Dungeon, yet he goes in anyway.

Which Hostess of Fertility waitress packs lunch boxes for Bell Cranel and slips him a grimoire in DanMachi?

Syr Flover also hands Bell a good luck charm that helps him win his duel in the War Game. The grimoire she lends him is how he first learns to use magic.

Which DanMachi deity of justice led a Familia whose sole survivor went on to work as a waitress?

Astraea left the city after all but one of her followers were killed in the Dungeon. She has since begun rebuilding her Familia elsewhere.

Which monster's slaying is the last of DanMachi's Three Great Quests, the one still waiting for a true hero?

The Black Dragon already crushed the two mightiest Familias of an earlier age when they tried to kill it. Even its shed scales are enough to keep other monsters away from a village.

Which kingdom, itself one nationwide Familia under a war god, keeps failing to invade DanMachi's main city?

Rakia's soldiers all carry their god's blessing, but with no Dungeon to train in they stay weak. It lost its trump card, a clan's magic swords, after burning elf forests angered the spirits.

Which man-made labyrinth in DanMachi was begun by the architect Daedalus to rival the Dungeon itself?

Knossos binds every descendant of its designer with a curse that drives them to keep building it. One of them funds the work by poaching monsters for the black market.

What is the name of the traditional meeting where DanMachi's gods decide on adventurers' official aliases?

Denatus sessions leave Hestia upset at how much interest the other gods take in Bell. One of them hands him a new alias after he reaches Level 4.

What kind of creature is Marie, whose blood reattaches Bell Cranel's severed arm in DanMachi's fourth season?

A mermaid living on the Dungeon's water floors, Marie finds Bell after he plunges into the water and heals him. She first meets him when he is thrown over a waterfall and guides him back.

Which high elf sorceress of the Loki Familia is considered the strongest magic user in DanMachi's main city?

Riveria Ljos Alf seems aloof but cares for Ais almost like a daughter. She is also the mentor who helps a panicky junior mage stop freezing in front of strong enemies.

What does DanMachi call the helpers who carry loot and supplies for adventurers inside the Dungeon?

Supporters can expect rough treatment: one is stunned when Bell splits the day's earnings evenly, because her earlier partners paid her almost nothing. A first-season episode is named after the role.

What hidden discovery inside the Dungeon do Bell Cranel and friends stop to enjoy in the first DanMachi OVA?

A hot spring turns out to be a monster trap whose water burns away everyone's swimsuits. Bell has to defeat its guardian, a giant angler fish, before the party can head home.

DanMachi's Japanese title literally asks if it is wrong to seek what in a dungeon, rather than girls?

Encounters is the literal sense: the Japanese word deai means meeting someone new. The English title swapped that for the far more specific wording fans know.

Which Loki Familia beastman mocks Bell Cranel as trash in DanMachi before later coming to respect him?

Bete Loga looks down on all low-level adventurers and jokes about Bell's ineptitude in a tavern while Bell listens. Bell's rapid level-ups eventually win him over.