Sex & Dungeon!! Wagaya no Chika ni, H Kaisuu=Level no Dungeon ga Shutsugen shita!?

As I don’t follow a consistent pattern with my manga beyond picking whatever looks interesting, all I can say is my curiosity was piqued when the story blurb focused on the sudden appearance of the dungeon and that a requirement for leveling up was lewd acts. What followed was an erotica manga which actually had a surprising amount of character development and twists. Plot with porn, really. Saino Souhei is the son of a pair of adventures bored with his own life. His parents have consistently abandoned him for long periods of time to go on adventures, always refusing his pleas to be brought along. Oneday a dungeon appears in his basement, with strange conditions for clearing. Namely, that sexual acts will level him up. His frustration from never being able to go on adventures and being stuck in a boring everyday life boils over and he jumps into it. The mystery of the dungeon must be solved, and he must be the one to solve it. Let’s get this out of the way, if you’re the type to moralize about hypnotism, just don’t read this. The dungeon initially provides Souhei with items that allow him to manipulate women into sexual activity. Souhei ignores the ethical implications of his actions because of his obsession with proving he’s as good as an adventurer as his parents, but he is ultimately a normal guy. His character development involves mastering his obsession… and developing strong feelings for the four girls he has brought into this mess with him. Two of those girls were interested in him before he started dungeon crawling, so the situation isn’t as disastrous as it could have been once they all find out the truth. The mystery is present from the very first chapter, and the urgency of solving it is never far from Souhei’s consideration. Of course, the mystery of the dungeon means he’s dragged in the women he loves into a dangerous situation with far-reaching implications. As this is plot with porn, it’s short of being hentai, though not much. Fortunately, the designs are well-executed, and the details for battles in bed and battles in the dungeon are both excellently depicted. The sex scenes are regular and the primary focus, with the dungeon battles being relatively quick in comparison. Not that the sex scenes are bad, mind, and they even serve a plot purpose given the focus of the dungeon, but just take it as understood that this is not for you if you’re not in it for the sexy. This is another adaptation, but the source material has been abandoned. Fortunately, this manga has a definitive ending, which by default makes it better than the source. I recommend this for those who like the genre or are interested in reading plot with porn. Obviously, given it’s erotica, I do not give a general recommendation.

Its a borderline hentai series, where MC levels up if he has sex. What else do you need to know? Plot MC finds a dungeon below his house. The dungeon provides a guidebook, to help him understand how it works. While monsters level up by fighting experience, humans level up by having sex (includes oral). The dungeon also provides loot that helps him manipulate girls and then have sex with them. This is how we start building a harem, level up and fight through the dungeon. Review 1. The manga tells a complete story in 40 chapters. All the plot points are resolved and the ending is also perfect.2. It has a great pacing. It never rushes through things, and never gets stale. Please appreciate this. Too many series just mess around trying to pad the story with filler or reset the progress with "misunderstandings" or forced drama or whatever. 3. MC knows that he's trash and the story acknowledges that multiple times. While I am a little concerned about mind control, I realized that harems don't run by logic. 100 girlfriends series has girls fall in love because "fate" written by god. For me, this mind controlling stuff didn't feel that much different, as MC gets pretty wholesome after a while. 4. Lots of sex scenes. Too many series just try to bait with sex, but try to fit a "plot" in there to stretch it out. But this manga just commits to its title and so we have sex + dungeon scenes making up 90% of the series. The art during the sex scenes are not really detailed (which is the only negative aspect I can think of), but I am just happy to finally find a manga that knows exactly what it wants to be and actually executes it well. If you are here for sex scenes, then you are in the right place. Otherwise, just avoid this.

First things first, this is a borderline H harem manga that starts out with the protagonist heavily using hypnotism on the heroines. If that puts you off, then there is nothing about this manga worth reading and you should go read something else. This manga also heavily involves a dungeon that magically appears inside the protagonist’s house. However, for the most part the focus is never really on the dungeon so reading it solely for the dungeon aspect doesn’t make much sense either. The dungeon has monsters and chests and such, but overall it is incredibly basic. There are no traps or hidden paths or anythinglike that. Though there is a levelling system and levelling up results in being able to withstand more hits and results in enemies dying in fewer hits. However, it’s not like there are classes or special abilities or anything like that, so the protagonist and his party basically just use normal weapons like knives and guns in a normal manner. The dungeon crawling is rather boring for the most part, and thus its probably for the best that it was mostly glossed over. The most important thing about the dungeon is that levelling up doesn’t occur through defeating monsters or completing quests, but rather through having sex. And in the chests aren’t things like potions that restore health or armor that increases stats. Rather, the items are to help the user have sex. The first half of the manga is mostly about the protagonist using these items to manipulate four girls into having sex with him. The items aren’t instant complete mind control but rather have limitations, so there’s a level of planning he has to do in order to use the various items effectively. One of the girls also seems to be on to him and thus there’s a bit of a battle of wits. Still, ultimately things enter a pretty smooth harem route. The second half of the manga focuses more on the dungeon itself. By that I mean the story behind the dungeon rather than any story within the dungeon as the dungeon crawling itself is still boring and mostly glossed over. There is a mystery regarding the origins of the dungeon that is slowly revealed. The buildup is pretty good. However, the conclusion to the mystery was a bit too straightforward. The only parts that could be considered twists were incredibly predictable. And the rest was really simplistic and didn’t tie all that well into the rest of the plot. It flowed well enough and told a completely story, but all in all it was pretty unremarkable. Character wise, the protagonist is decent enough. He’s a pretty awful person in terms of what he does to the heroines but the writing manages to gloss over that reasonably well. Beyond that, he has an okay character arc centered around what he truly wants to do in life and his relationship with his parents. The heroines were all pretty shallow. They have tidbits or stories and character arcs but nothing too substantial. Still, they have likable personalities and there’s a pretty good relationship dynamic between them. That results in pretty good harem ecchi fluff. The ending in terms of characters is exactly the type of ending that a manga such as this should have, but such endings are still pretty rare so I hold it in high regard that it got one and am very satisfied with it. The art is decent enough that the action and ecchi work well enough. It’s nothing too special though in terms of style or quality. The character and monster designs were also okay but pretty forgettable. The biggest issue though is probably how the dungeon itself has the most boring generic design possible. tl;dr: A pretty good ecchi harem manga with an overarching plot that is okay but pretty basic.

What can I say? The premise is taken from a dungeon and dragon game, a boy who becomes more powerful when he does very perverse things to people with or without their consent. It's quite strange. For some unknown reason, I feel that people don't read this exactly for the plot, but anyway, the artwork is pretty good, the characters do very questionable things to become stronger throughout the story, and I felt the ending was very rushed or poorly thought out, as if they just wanted to wrap it up quickly, like they never seriously considered giving an appropriate ending to a harem likethis, if there ever was one XD