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It has been three years since the first dungeon, a massive cave teeming with monsters, appeared. In a world where dungeon raiders are commonplace, Yoshimura, who has been living a mundane corporate life, surprisingly (and perhaps regrettably?) finds himself at the top of the global rankings! Desiring a more relaxed lifestyle, he decides to retire and venture into the dungeon. Armed with mysterious skills he's acquired, he joins the frontlines of the dungeon raiders. What lies ahead for his carefree life?
Contrary to most info dump stories its done well.
Something to mention for both the novel and the manga is that a lot of the time is spent away from the core of the series and more on their interactions which can be great but falls into an issue of faffing about. Add onto it that everyone that isn't the main cast are dumbed down and can't even guess what kind of grift they're doing kind of grinds my gears as the tension dissipates because they always get away with stuff and no one else can think of any of this on their own unless the main cast tells them. Then we have the issue of the main cast just being nerds referencing pop culture and their wide breadth of knowledge, where you have pages of text which side tracks the story constantly when you are trying to read about the projects they've done. They also have an issue of creating their own problems in ways that probably seem dumb as heck.
I was not expecting this kind of manga to have such a firm grasp on its world and characters, not to mention showing a broad knowledge of many things in enough depth you at least believe the author knows everything they're writing about.
The art is nice, and the world building is fantastic. The two main characters feel like they're real people, and their relationship as friends who aren't afraid to poke fun at each other—which feels genuine and is good fun—becomes something special when they often team up to poke fun at other people and things.
They aren't together—at least not yet in chapter 33—but I think they're the first characters I've truly shipped since Ichigo/Senna or Ichigo/Tatsuki back when Bleach was still in serialization. It's weird to feel this way again after over a decade, but good weird.
The political parties feel real enough, and no one country or leader feels like they're too stupid to be in the position they're in. The who and how of each government official, regardless of nation, do things in ways that feel plausible in real life.
Dungeon management and the rules of the dungeon have been thoroughly thought through and make sense, and there's plenty of intrigue to be dug into, bleeding into the plot effortlessly.
There are some issues where something done didn't make sense, but those are inconsequential to the story and only feel like an occasional minor nuisance. There's also the issue that some of the recurring side characters aren't as fleshed out as everything else is, but it's not a big deal.
This story is more of a slice of life than an action or adventure, so it can be a bit slow, but I wouldn't change that, personally.
Overall, I highly recommend this one.
This is basically Gate - Jietai Kare no Chi nite, Kaku Tatakeri but with more focus on the dungeons' real world political impact. It's also interesting how it takes the game-like mechanics of the dungeon seriously rather than just relying on it as a crutch for world-building like other garden-variety isekai.
Boring. It's so boring I can't be quiet about it. Better read Meikyuu Metro