Third Season & New OVA for 'DanMachi' Announced

[Koby]

The 12th and final episode of the second Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?) season ended with a third season and a new original video anime announcement on Saturday. The new anime season is scheduled for a Summer 2020 premiere, and the original video episode will debut on January 29, 2020.

Voice actress Rina Hidaka (Kawaikereba Hentai demo Suki ni Natte Kuremasu ka?, Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari) will join the cast as the character Wiene.

Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka, also known by its short name DanMachi, adapts Fujino Omori's adventure fantasy light novel of the same title, which he originally submitted for the 4th GA Bunko Award in 2012 and received a publication offer. SB Creative began printing the novel with illustrations by Suzuhito Yasuda in January 2013 and shipped the 15th volume on June 15. DanMachi has a cumulative 12 million copies of its volumes in circulation.

Kunieda launched a manga adaptation in Young Gangan in August 2013. Taisei Yagami took over as the manga artist beginning with the magazine's 18th issue on September 6. Square Enix published the tenth volume in June 2018.

The first anime season aired with 13 episodes in Spring 2015. The second season premiered on July 13. Crunchyroll simulcast the second season, while HIDIVE streamed an English dub. The light novel also inspired the Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka: Orion no Ya anime film, which opened in theaters in Japan on February 15.

J.C.Staff also produced a 12-episode television anime of Omori and illustrator Kiyotaka Haimura's Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka Gaiden: Sword Oratoria side-story novel in Spring 2017, adapting the first four volumes. SB Creative published the 12th volume on July 13. Square Enix shipped the 14th compiled volume of Takashi Yagi's manga adaptation on July 12.

Sentai Filmworks licensed the anime series in North America and released the first season and the Sword Oratoria side-story anime on Blu-ray and DVD in March 2017 and May 2018, respectively. The company also screened the Orion no Ya anime film in the United States theaters on July 23, and will ship it on Blu-ray and DVD on October 22.

Yen Press licensed the original light novel and the Sword Oratoria side-story novel, as well as their respective manga adaptations in English in 2014 and 2015. The 13th light novel volume and the ninth Sword Oratoria novel volume went on sale on March 19 and June 18. The tenth manga volume and the eighth Sword Oratoria manga volume was released on January 22 and August 6, respectively.