Dungeon Seeker

Cope.

>got “““axed”””
>still allowed finish
?

The novel got axed, it's separate from the manga and what do i know about jap publishers? They ain't exactly known for consistency.

I gotcha now.

Because it stop following the writer's mediocre WN, and basically did its own thing.

In a very weird, oddly deep way, it's about self-affirmation. They somehow arrived that this by accident, as our poorly-defined hero stumbles through series after series of bizarre setpieces.

it's funny as while this might have been ripping off that garbage arufute this was still a better edge story. I thought the other one had potential but then it gave him a bionic arm/eye patch and a bunny girl waifu... talk about fucking stupid

this at least stayed consistent with killing off any potential love interest he was getting

I thought the manga ended with MC impregnating Noriko?

The first sign that this is going to be a wild ride? After the compulsory NTR-betrayal-revenge plot and an entire plot arc involving a King and a world war that's skipped over in one page, the hero acquires his first weapon:

A fucking gun.

No-one else in the entire series has a firearm. He just gets one. Because apparently a skeleton ghost has a magnum revolver as a rare drop.

Meant to say *novel

No, the manga ends with him killing her and returning to his original world, where he becomes a vigilante. He did use his wish to ensure that a couple he met in the dungeon got a happy ending.

Also he is a camping faggot with it, the bane of online players everywhere.

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it's as kino as the sole of my shoe

I know, I meant to type “novel” though, not manga .

It's funny how, when you get to manga-original content, the gun is completely useless. Like, it's not remotely useful in any of the final battles, it's used as a tool and a distraction.

Seriously though, the final battle has no excuse for being as decent as it turned out to be. It's one of the few final battles where an unusual strategy was actually used. Normally these kinds of fights are just Dragonball Z, or reading out your entire character sheet.

Didn't Hajime do this in Arifuerta?

>a couple he met in the dungeon got a happy ending
The man in the dungeon was actually a boy that he previously met when he temporarily left the dungeon. Time is fucked up in the dungeon, so that’s why he was an adult already.

The gun was weak because he was fighting S-class monsters and was dedicating all his stat raises to his speed.

I also liked the final battle.

The moral, as much as I understand it, is that you need to take control of your own life. Our hero ended up in trouble because he let people manipulate him. A true individualist would have gone "Fuck that, I do what I want".

At the end, he's finally found a kind of purpose in life. The amazing part is that it's clear none of this was intended, they just sort of halfassedly blundered backward into a vaguely applicable moral.

The funny thing about the final battle is that basically no magic was used. Usually isekai protagonists are really magic-heavy. Here, because of the cheap, made-in-China, bootleg version of the gameverse they ended up, it makes for a more raw experience. One fighter is ALL PUNCHES and the other is ALL DODGE. They have like, four skills each and just roll from there.

I’ll give the writer a little credit and assume that it was intentional, but just took a long time for him to come up with.

It honestly seems more manga-original than anything.

I haven’t read it so I can’t say.

It’s good that MC didn’t get an extremely overpowered attack. It seems to happen too often in isekai where a non-offensive MC still gets the strongest attacks.

If that’s the case, I’ll say my post still applies, but to whoever wrote the manga.

What's funny is that he actually got revenge. Arifuerta, which this copies from, doesn't actually have that. Hajime is so ridiculously powerful by then that it's not even a fight. The guy who betrayed him was also sort of a caricature.

Here, Noriko actually has some kind of characterization, and it's explained that she also had a tough road to get to the final battle. It's the cheapest symbolism you get, but they dress like mirror-images of each other in the final brawl. Also, the final battle is actually a fight, not a one-sided pounding. Revenge-man just barely wins by the skin of his teeth, and it's by cunning instead of power.

I do like that his build is just kind of all over the place. Even to the end, he's got basically no offense whatsoever, and has a chaotic mishmash of abilities with no consistent theme. In fact, the girl he's trying to kill is more optimized (that is, offensively) than he is.

Also there’s no harem.