English Dub Review: The Dungeon of Black Company “Crazy Death March”

Overview

Shia is determined to continue being a loyal corporate soldier, despite Kinji’s best efforts. However, the company, and the dungeon it manages, seem to have a much more complex plan for her…



Our Take

For the first subplot, It felt like quite an undertaking for Kinji to come up with such a solution to pay off his large debt which spent about three minutes explaining that it seemed like an impossible amount of money only to abruptly time skip and go “his scheme worked and it was all paid off.” Whoever the writer is, clearly seemed unaware that every plan against the proto-devil was “dig a hole.” and just spent what felt like five minutes on the intricate mechanics of things happening off-screen to explain “giant monster appears in the dungeon,” but were they ignoring this on purpose?

For the 2nd side of the story, we primarily focus this time around once again is the new character Shia as we get to know her in this episode and how she’s still pretty energetic despite her past. The whole thing was character-driven and didn’t do too poor a job at developing Shia and giving her a reason to respect Kinji as a character. On the subject of Kinji, but it’s hard to even know where to start because his entire character did a complete 180 for most of the episode to become selfless, competent, and fairly heroic. Which are all opposite traits of his unscrupulous personality from the previous three episodes that made him such a charming scoundrel.

Overall, this show isn’t perfect but keeps a consistent flow in terms of pacing and at times with its animation. Every character is capable of providing good laughter and while the animation and the acting are nothing spectacular, the humor and the jokes are steady enough to never leave you with boredom. I imagine this is the last we’ll see of the mass-advertised monster farm that generates billions a day for zero effort that nobody has thought to do apparently to this point and nobody will be copying. As for the cliffhanger ending, I’m intrigued about where it could lead towards…