Review of the light novel Is It Wrong to Try to Pick-Up Girls in a Dungeon Volume 8 by Fujino Omori.
An installment consisting of a number of short stories about love and family, set against an invasion by a foreign nation.
LIGHT NOVEL INFORMATION
TITLE: Is It Wrong to Try to Pick-Up Girls in a Dungeon
AKA: Danmachi, Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru no Darou ka, ダンジョンに出会いを求めるのは間違っているのだろうか, Familia Myth
AUTHOR: Fujino Omori
ILLUSTRATOR: Suzuhito Yasuda
PUBLISHER (English): Yen On
RELEASE DATE (English): April 18, 2017
PURCHASE (Amazon Affiliate Link): http://amzn.to/2nCjXNv
PUBLISHER (Japan): GA Bunko (SOFTBANK Creative)
RELEASE DATE (Japan): June 12, 2015
VOLUMES RELEASED (Japan to Date): 12 (most recent released May 24, 2017)
ANIME SERIES: 13 episodes, covering volumes 1-5
From the back cover:
The Rakian Kingdom is on the march, a thirty-thousand-strong army headed by Ares, God of War. The target of their sudden invasion is none other than the world’s greatest metropolis, Labyrinth City Orario. As the armed menace approaches in thunderous lockstep, the city’s inhabitants can do nothing but…continue about their completely peaceful lives??? A prum proposes marriage, one sweet boy becomes a bodyguard, the city girl’s secret comes to light, while mortals and gods alike are swept up in romance–these are the ordinary days of timeless deities and their dazzling children in the fateful city of Orario!