Dungeon Seeker

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Yey! Another typical Isekai manga... and it's a soft-gore one..

The story is good but cliche, Characters are pretty cliche too, especially the "WEAK MC GETS STRONKER"+"MC WITH SAD LYFE" type MC and crappy people who surrounds him that gets kind as he gets stonger blah blah...

The art is pretty good (pure personal opinion)

Enjoyment? I'm not a type of person who always look for "Recommend Mangas that is similar to Berserk"(reads gore manga) but still this one is good and decent(if you don't compare it with other one) I kinda like the god and his servant.

Overall. I think it's niceu just don't overthink about stuffs while reading it.

Well let me start off by saying that if this manga was any longer than 33 chapters, I would have dropped it. It was interesting enough to keep me entertained for a few hours, but I'm vaguely irritated.

It started off pretty interesting but slowly morphed into some middle school edgy bullshit. Don't get it twisted--I really like edgy manga, but only if the edgyness amounts to something. This manga is edgy just for the sake of being edgy. Back in middle school, I remember playing on an Emo Roblox server. Reading this shit gave me the same experience. This manga also tries to get you emotionally invested in characters that you know for like 2 chapters, thinking that you'll be shaken by it's "deep and interesting plot UWU". The conflict resolution is also one of the most unsatisfying that I've ever read, and that speaks a lot when you consider how bloody this manga can be at times. This ending in itself was a clusterfuck, and you can really tell that the author said "fuck it" at then end.

In conclusion, it's a generic Isekai that's edgy (in a bad way) with a shitty ass plot. Fuck you Dungeon Seeker. You can seek these nuts.

tl;dr: shorter and slightly better arifureta because the author blatantly plagiarized large sections of arifureta

Plagiarism: For those that don't know, Dungeon Seeker started off as a "I can do better" attempt after the author read the Arifureta WN. Imo, they succeeded for the most part. Unfortunately, they stopped giving a shit in the second half and started copy/pasting large chunks of the story with a few name swaps here and there. Dungeon Seeker was more popular at the time, so when the Arifureta creator sued for copyright infringement, the DS creator tried to sic his fans on them among other underhanded tactics. Thankfully, the DS creator lost and all revenue from DS goes to the Arifureta creator, but it still damages the work in question. It goes from being "one of the few properly paced isekai" to "they rushed an ending because they got caught".

Story: It's not nearly as good as Berserk/Revival Man, but at least it never goes as low as Shield Hero. I enjoyed the brisk pace throughout instead of the usual slog through dime a dozen fantasy worlds. Everything tied together nicely, even if it was a bit overdone at times.

Characters: You'll probably end up hating almost everyone, but I suppose that is the point. At least the main character has a proper reason to be cynical this time, and never ends up buying child slaves.

Conclusion: You'll enjoy it if you enjoy trashy isekai, as it's slightly better than your average one.

This has got to be for me, the most disappointing manga I have ever, which is surprising because both after and before it i had read so much manga, and i have even read trashy generic manhwas that just repeat the same thing over and over, and I think I actually enjoyed them more than I did this.

The start was good, I really liked it, it was the whole evil god sending them to a different world for entertainment, which to me was pretty nice, but right afterwards it just killed it. It starts of with a literal time skip. We genuinely don't know anything about anything and yet we already got a time skip , with nothing at all interesting happening at all throughout that time skip? The characters at the start were pretty nice and I really like the desperation of the Main Character to survive and the whole dungeon is relatively nicely mapped out, the levels are cool, but that is where the good ends. Without mentioning what happens inside of the dungeon, I will just say that all the intensity, seriousness and feeling just evaporates into thin air. The entire story and plot from after he enters the dungeon just feels so rushed as if it is a speedrun. New characters appear and disappear pretty much in the same chapter and of my main reasons for wanting to continue this manga just vanished. Afterwards a random timeskip, then the final battle, which was disappointing and I felt no emotion whatsoever. Right after the battle there is ANOTHER timeskip, and it ends. That's it. I have never been as disappointed in a manga as I have here. It is actually wild how it started good, then it began a speed run and finished as if in less than 3 chapters. The story felt good at the start, had multiple forces pulling it forward but by the end all those were gone, killed off as if they were extras.

Trope-loaded isekai revenge manga done very well. It doesn't really have any shocking deviations from the standard, but it doesn't have anything annoying about it either.

There is no annoying forgiveness of a girl because she's hot, no annoying harem, no giving up on revenge due to being a wimp, no protagonist running around raping people and buying slaves because nobody can stand him, none of that bullshit. It's just good, solid, revenge.

Characters are consistent, and while it doesn't go super-deep, they all work. Story also works. Art is quite good. This is all the good things in isekai without the typical things that ruin a series, so it's quite enjoyable.

The ending was fine. I'm not sure why people have so many complaints about it. It was mildly rushed, but it finished everything that had to happen.

It changed something appalling in the novel and made it good. Someone wrote a spoiler in the comments that made me almost drop it, but it turned out the spoiler was from the novel and said event doesn't happen in the manga.

Overall, if you're looking for a good isekai, this is it.

Overall: 9 The story is fine. The plot being a fantasy RPG where main character and people in his world get transferred to another world isn't the most unique but I don't find it repetitive at all. The art isn't outstanding but it fits the dark texture that surrounds the plot. Character is great and takes a nice 360, hopefully the development goes well. Really enjoying this manga, I read a few fantasy RPG mangas and this one updates slow but still delivers a nice punch. The RPG world doesn't really have any explanation to it so far which can be annoying but if you can tolerate it you'll enjoy the RPG the main character goes through.

Story : 3
- Mediocre at best. The "dramas" feels extremely forced, and used mainly to advance the plot, which is super cliche and stupid at this point so far. It is your typical average teenage boy getting transferred into another fantasy world. Well while it is true that this isn't a harem series in which the character is overly OP and just an overall trash harem/waifubait of a mess, the premise of this manga isn't unique or refreshing, and have been done better before (Tate no Yuusha Nariagari). While I do have a soft spot for series that take a darker approach on these kind of premises, this manga is a complete mess of a writing. It just showed how immature and incompetent the writer is. I would have given it a 3 or 4, but since it is fairly new, I will give it another chance
Characters: 2
- Oh god where do I even begin... The MC is a typical teenage boy who wishes to have a peaceful life and that's his only damn defining trait( Yeah because we totally never got this type of character before). I'm not against his personality or something but it's extremely dreadful to the point of being dreadful. What's worse is that he is extremely naive, and is an absolute imbecile. I found myself getting angry and frustrated at him instead of the villains. He is the type of guy that would make you want to yell "Use your f***king head for god's sake".
- The Villains have no defining traits except being scummy. Completely and dreadfully shallow and one-dimensional. They have no purposes or motivations, and are there to just move the plot along. I would even call it insulting to my intelligence.
- As for the so-called "God", maybe it's just me but his character designs really piss me off for some reason. Oh , did I mention that the character designs are completely cliche and stereotypical too ? The character designs are completely cliche and stereotypical. Enough of that. God literally just appears out of no-where , uncalled for , and just start dumping expositions after teleporting(?) the characters to somewhere(?). They never really explain what is going on or maybe I just didn't pay enough attention because I was so bored muscling through this garbage. The part where that guy started charging in at God and got killed was just so freaking comically horrible that it was ironically funny. Not that I'm laughing at the funniness of that scene, I'm just laughing at how much of an incompetent hack the writer is. After that guy was slaughtered, everyone was kind of freaked out , in a very awkward and bizarre way. Just made the whole scene seemed like a comic relief instead of a serious moment that should have define and establish the tone of the series.
Art: 3
- Some may call it "stylizing" or "unique" but to me, the art is just complete trash. No details whatsoever, the character designs are cliche and stereotypical, and many more. I could talk more but it's just trash.
Enjoyment: 2
- A complete mess that I dreadfully pulled myself through, even though I only read 2 chapters, the manga is so bad that I just couldnt bear it. I was just thinking and hoping that the series would get progressively better, and It was the only motivation that kept me going through this pile of garbage. The pacing is a clusterfuck too.
Overall :
- So far, it's trash , and it seems like it will stay that way. I DO NOT RECOMMEND this sack of trash whatsoever. Unless you want your intelligence to be insulted through generic and shallow characters, stupid and cliche plots, and abysmal artstyle.

This is a ctrl+c/ctrl+v from what i commented on MD with a few edits. The review is further down.

Interesting manga with a shit ending. 6.5/10 (honestly maybe a 6 is already too much, but i enjoyed it besides the final chapter)
The story wasn't developed enough, they rushed everything after a certain part (more than it already was lol) and the character.. Well, he was an interesting character but wasn't developed enough as well. All i can see is a bunch of potential going to waste here.

Maybe this can be described as a shorter, worse version, of "Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou" ? Both have the same problems but arifureta is a little more developed, has a better character and a more interesting story (imo), this is judging by the current manga ch. btw, i didn't read the novel.

Anyway, Dungeon Seeker ended like a shit movie that was not supposed to get a sequel, i'm quite disappointed.

---Now to the actual review---
You can read the synopsis, so i'll skip that. The manga goes from 0 to a 100 in a matter of a few chapters, and then it falls under a boring part, returns to a interesting part of the story to end with a completely shit conclusion. If you want a quick read, go for it, otherwise don't bother. What you can actually expect from it is the regular isekai thing, with a darker world and a mc that is ok with killing people. Like i said, you can compare it with Arifureta.

Personally i read this thing within a few days while i was in the bus lol

Best I can explain why there are low scores on this masterpiece is that it just ain't for everyone.

Story: 9 - Isekai, yada yada... Starting point is final boss... blah blah blah, Main character wins by a stroke of luck, and so on~ though that's as far as it goes for the unproductive plotline, the story seems chaotic, there is no end goal as most isekai stories evidently display, the dungeon being a place uninviting to the insentient and a death trap even to the luckiest of the bunch, makes way for the writer to take any route he wants after the vengeance arc is over.

Art: 8 - Just my opinion, don't care about yours. The manga/manhua/manhwa doesn't need to have fills, rich background or complex details in every panel to be great, so long as the characters visibly display emotion, the surroundings of importance are discernible and the level of detail isn't completely botched as an uncolored webtoon.

Character: 7 - Most characters are poorly written, little leading motive, but it's just about counteracted with the development of the protagonist, which gradually recovered from his hatred only to have it fueled with extra topping just moments after his life was finally looking up for the first time. He has grown onto me, I thoroughly adore someone who could bear to lose himself in order to win whatever he has set his mind to.

Enjoyment & Overall: 10 - You're literally observing a teenager as he ventures into layers of hell as though every following level is made to torture him in a different area of his being, he is a ticking timebomb and we await to see this stem of hatred bloom into a beautiful flower of madness!

Story - 7 - Very cliche but I'm enjoying the new dark spin they're putting on it I'm sick of happy go lucky super OP harem fest other-world manga. It definitely seems like their might be an OP mc but it might be a little ways off. So far I love it. I hope there won't be a harem though it'd be out of place in this manga but it considering how many otherworld manga there are it might need fan-service to stay afloat.

Art - 8 - Basic art but the art makes the monsters look nice so far. It's pretty good if you aren't picky like some. Overall, it's not bad

Enjoyment - 9 - I'm biased as fuck and love otherworld manga. A fair rating would be 8.


Character -9 - So far, the character's personality is badass.


Overall - 10 -So far im enjoying it.
I have high hopes. I love t so far. It will be interesting to see this become animated.

I always liked the premise of a character who is betrayed and driven by revenge to get stronger, but this manga does not use very well and ends up distorting halfway and ends in a horrifying way.
The manga is very similar to Arifureta, but unlike the one that gives up revenge and begins to focus on how to return to its original world, Dungeon Seeker remains obsessed with revenge, but the ending is so bad that the whole development of the story that It's cool becomes skippable.
About the story: Much of the work is interesting, but the ending spoils with virtually all of manga's development.
Characters: The main characters are well developed, except for the girl who causes the plot twist of the ending.
Art: Beautiful, nothing to complain about.
I recommend? If you like Arifureta and want a manga with a similar premise yes, however you might be disappointed with the ending.

Story - 7 - Very cliche but I'm enjoying the new dark spin they're putting on it I'm sick of happy go lucky super OP harem fest other-world manga. It definitely seems like their might be an OP mc but it might be a little ways off. The drama is rather cliche as well but feels somewhat fresh considering it's an otherworld manga. So far I love it. I hope there won't be a harem though it'd be out of place in this manga but it considering how many otherworld manga there are it might need fan-service to stay afloat. Any ways it's worth a look ignore that harsh ass review above me ( below? ) shield hero is good yeah but I've read EXTREMELY similar manga do it better with better art and a story full of overdone "Woe is me they hate me, the hero of ______." Check my list for the manga Konijiki something it's great.

Art - 8 - Basic art (sorta) but the art makes the monsters look nice so far. It's pretty good if you aren't picky like some. Check it out you'll get what I mean.


Enjoyment - 9 - I'm biased as fuck and love otherworld manga. A fair rating would be 7-8.


Character - 7 - maybe higher it's too early to tell but I like it reall gud.


Overall - 8 - really close to 9 but like I said its early and could possibly take down ward spiral like all manga with popular themes.

The only reason I wrote this is because the other dude was way to harsh for a manga with so few chapters hell you could say I'm being too generous but honestly I have high hopes. I mean obviously the other guy is sick of these manga types so he'll shit all over it. So yeah I urge you to check it out I have very high hopes.



UPDATE: I've began reading the Light Novel for this Manga I hate to say that everything I was praising this Manga for is just null at this point. The drama is gone and the tension is non existent, it turns into a haremy circle jerk about how cool our MC is. The villains are just so hilariously exaggerated because the author cant be bothered to give the any personality other than "We rape girl and kill guys cause were evil I bet you want us to die". At this point I doubt we're gonna see any real revenge dished out but I think you can look up spoilers if you'd like to save yourself the trouble, I'm too far in to just drop this though so i'll just tough it out. I'll leave the previous rating I left in the description above but I'll alter the score for the new rating. I should've listened to the dude below me, he had the common sense not to be tricked by an Isekai into thinking it would be anything but some random Japanese dudes wish fulfillment fantasy.

This isn't a rating for the LN for those thinking I might have done that, this is for the current chapter in the manga and where things are heading.



Story- went from a 7 to a very generous 3, only reason I won't give it anything lower is because MAYBE the manga will stray from the Light Novel in future chapters and redeem itself. If not, this manga deserves no mercy. I read this online for free and I still feel ripped off.

Art- I still like the art, it's been pretty consistent and good in my opinion. 8

Character- MC went from a man with a vengeance to some moron with hot girls who like him for no reason messing around in a dungeon for lulz. 7 to a 3, I've read much worse.


enjoyment- 9 to a 2, terrible characters added onto a story that's just drudging along at a painfully slow pace doesn't make for an enjoyable manga.

overall score is a 3 or 4, I think I rate things too harshly but so maybe a 3 from me is a 4 to anyone else.

The basic premise of dungeon seeker is your basic isekai "revenge" story. Some guy gets transported into another world and gets some form of special abilities but is actually pretty weak at the start, only too become insanely op as you reach chapter 2. Also he gets betrayed and has to fight his way through a dungeon, which is weird cause the manga is called dungeon seeker not dungeon fighter. The poor lad never wanted to seek the dungeon, he was just betrayed.

Story-1 The story starts off mediocre, and is your average edgy manga that you see so often nowadays. At least in the beginning it looked like he had to overcome his difficulties creatively, using tactics and such but then it rapidly declines into a "I going suffer cause I'm edgy and then I'm gonna rekt your ass" kind of story. The story also doesn't really make any sense, with conveniently placed safe zones, inconsistent writing and a couple of unexplained plot holes.

Art-2 The art is below average but what makes it really bad in my opinion is how the artist tries to cramp in as many things as he can into a single fight scene. The enemies and background aren't really that detailed but there's so many objects on the screen that it becomes an absolute mess. You may say that it's to fit in with the edginess of the story, but i find it extremely hard to look at.

Characters-1 The characters in this manga is absolutely terrible. One minute the MC is like "I'm going to get revenge on everyone how could they betrayed me like that" and the next he's "Aw man, I'm sure she doesn't mean it, she just trying to survive <3<3<3". There isn't really any redeeming features other than his edginess and makes him pretty unlikable. All the supporting characters are also written to be absolute a****** to emphasize on the edginess but without any development or backstory, which just makes them forced and unnatural.

Enjoyment-3 The only reason why i gave and enjoyment of 3 is because it's so edgy to the point where it becomes kind of funny. Other than that...it's terrible.

Overall-1 I'll only recommend this if you're really into edgy things or if you want to have a cringe-fest. But if you don't want any of those, I suggest you stay away from this pile of garbage.

I read the manga and it was horrible. The main protagonist is dumped because of a weakling he is.
Then of course his only motivation to clear the dungeon is revenge. He goes from goody two shoes to a harbinger of death..?


The girl who seems full of sunshine and rainbows turns into a bitch and then.. ahh i don't feel like talking about it. Characters are too bad. I haven't seen worse. Okay I did (SAO), but still.

The fights have no logic. The mc can doge easily etc etc because his agility is high? That's an asspull because there were monsters who could kill him easily in the beginning but didn't because he is "the main protagonist".

The ending was all over the place. The ending was so bad that hunter x hunter (2011) ending seems better. The ending brought new character which was never introduced or mad a hint before.

The ending is not really an ending as I believe they intended to make more manga.

Anyway I will end my review here by saying don't read this manga, there are better ones.

I am reviewing this manga as isekai junkie (someone who likes consuming isekai even if its bad), so please be aware that this will definitely affect my enjoyment and view on the subject. In a time when you have so many copy and paste isekai, its nice to have something that breaks from the mold a little. Although it might not seem like it early on it gets more eclectic/original as you go on. It basically takes an Arifuerta-esc premise, and just stuffs in a bunch of Made in Abyss style depression. If you just blast through it, I think you'll just get much less out of it than is there. The manga is less about the plot and is more so about the characters that are in it.

It started off decent(mediocre), I thought it would have been a good revenge story.
But after few chapters the story went like a steep slope.

After reading the whole manga I think that the mangaka had just shown some thought about the story for about the first few chapters, then I think he just wanted to some how complete the manga.There were many things that were unexplained.

There were one character that just pops up and helps the MC so that it can fight the God(for hell knows why).
I Just want to say that, don't read this manga unless your really bored

Volumes read: 4
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Dungeon Seeker, a novel I struggled to not give a full 10. A book full of shock, horror, and an unpleasantly daunting veil of mystery. With no reviews, I’m honestly surprised such an adult addition to the masses of mediocre isekai tales isn’t more of a hit with veteran readers. Let me explain, ‘aye.

Dungeon Seeker is about our young teenage boy, Junpei Takeda, who along with some fellow notorious classmates and a childhood friend, get sent off to a ‘tranquil fantasy world full of wonder and inexplicable conveniences of livelihood’—not. Dungeon Seeker can be seen as a gentle deconstruction to the isekai (“carted to another world”) genre. In most stories with a similar setting and introduction, you can expect your main character to set off as an underdog only to ‘shock the world’ with his “latent talents”; In the case of Dungeon Seeker, whilst there are many instances where the protagonist appears to be godly, this disposition of the reader is expertly exploited by the author wherein we come to grips with the psychological repercussions of ‘arrogance’.

Too many times through this novel did I find myself wallowing in despair at how violent a medieval world can be - not to mention the dungeon part. You see, the story of Dungeon Seeker really sets off after our protagonist is exiled into the most brutal dungeon I’ve ever read about. Mythological creatures beyond reason and strength, villages on the brink of collapse desperately vying for any salvation to their fate, and lone adventurers that have long surpassed the definition of inhumane in order to survive. This dungeon is like no other - defined at some point as what you’d normally call the “extra extra ++ stage” in a game. A survival rate of less than 1%, our protagonist is exiled as a sacrifice by his own peers, wherein begins his psychological reconditioning to a world of endless torment, regret, and the budding of his malevolent desire for retribution unto those he holds responsible for betraying and sealing him in this world.

The characters that crop up are full of personality and unique traits. Most are crestfallen representations of broken human beings, lost in a prison with no salvation. Whilst there are examples of normal people twisted by a medieval world of violence, the majority of characters sow a mosaic of hysteria. It’s quite thrilling - in a morbid way!

If there’s one thing I should warn you about, it’s the intensity of the obligatory immersion of insanity and gratuitous violence in this novel. If you’re looking for a light read, CERTAINLY look elsewhere!... My body and soul felt nothing but an unliftable weight of varying degrees throughout this otherwise thrilling experience - shifting me between slight nauseous anticipation of foreshadowed horrors, to complete immersion in empathy for the insanest of cruelties and suffering, pushing my imagination for pain to its brink - and the book did an amazing job of keeping that tempo up with only brief respites.

If you can’t tell, I enjoyed this series thoroughly. It’s been a while since I last experienced a fantasy world of which I’d never wish to visit, no matter what the price. It honestly made me feel grateful for what I have, because even if the novel is mostly about this mysterious dungeon, it proficiently manages to detail a realistic hell of a world stuck in an age of violence, all in between but a few lines here and there. A medieval world that manages to reason all the common demihumans (mostly through cultures of “harvesting” them for their unique traits due to logical fallacies often left unexplored in most other titles) - like elves with their long lifespans becoming a gourmet health supplement served unapologetically - into a world that shows no signs of technological advancement due to rigid dictator-like monarchies and overwhelming religious institutions driven by conditioning peasants to always remain peasants, and demihumans to always remain slaves; it’s a truely terrifying world you’d never want to venture to, yet given human history, it isn’t much of a stretch from genuine representations of the human race in passed times. With an accurate reproduction of how huge class gaps and the desensitisation of extreme violence towards minorities can lead to a cycle of oppression, wherein the upper classes remain vigilant of there power with excessive amounts of force, it’s likely you’ll come to terms with the severity of how hopeless a true “Dark Age” can be - and how we’ve lingered on that line many times throughout history.

Sounds terrifying, right? As I said, an inescapable prison where even the bad guys are victims of this world. Not to mention the decent human beings who, unsurprisingly, are the first to be baptised by the lunacy.

9/10, only because the art could have painted the picture of the world we’re straining to imagine better. Besides that, be captivated by this gruelling terror of a novel/series that’ll make your heart ache in anguish—you won’t regret it!