Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A young single woman working in a salaried job gets drunk on a giant bottle of 'Dragon Slayer' and wanders up into the mountains where she encounters a large green dragon and befriends her. 'Lady Tohru' flies into the city and arriving at Miss Kobayashi's apartment shape-shifts into a maid. She becomes a part of Kobayashi's home life but not up on the norms of human existence gets her learning from the internet. She lets her dragon friends know where she is.
As the series progresses, her location is revealed to the white dragon Kanna (who lives shapeshifted into a very young goth lollie reminiscent of kirsten dunst in interview with a vampire). She moves in with Miss Kobayashi while Tohru is at the shops... and is adopted as Miss Kobayashi's Ward.
Both of these dragons exhibit the ability to shapeshift into a humanoid form and later in the series both open a gate to the planes putting their spell casting powers at 18th level magic-user (BECMI) minimums.
Other Dragons converging on Miss Kobayashi's personal space are a shape shifting black Dragon (whose name slips me for now) and the rather mature Feathered Serpent Quetzocoatl who we find has her own 'place' that seems to involve having moved in with a wizard family (she encountered a very young male wizard conducting a demon summoning ritual in the park and gated through his gate before he did something silly like summon an actual demon). She moved into his bedroom and given her willingness to bathe in his bath he is fairly she is a sucubus there to distress the living hell out of him as she imposes herself on the young wizard's life. We learn the feathered serpent is also goddess of civilization.
Not all dragons are capable of gate travel. A blue Aquatic dragon is unable to gate. Even though shapechange is prevalant, perception blocking (which is both invisibility and non-detection) is something Tohru can do, yet the young Kanna is unable to perform.
After getting a new larger apartment and leaving behind her single life, the black dragon Fafnir (oh hey... I remembered) moves in with Miss Kobayashi's male work colleague because both males bond over a love of mariocart and other Nintendo (WEii?) gaming, and Fafnir gets into Manga publishing (writing two books of world-ending curses that dont sell).
Kanna starts going to school, befriending a particular young female student (they both have Maids) who starts experiencing odd feelings of attraction to Kanna from the slightest physical, or emotional interaction.
The season/series ends with Tohru's father taking her back to the other planes and Miss Kobayashi going to the planes with Kanna's gate travel to confront Tohru's Father over the matter of their Relationship- he doesnt approve. We also get the full story of Kobayashi's encounter with Tohru in the mountains, and a very drunk Kobayashi pulling a seriously epic sword from the wounded Tohru and inviting her to move in with her.
Is it wrong to try to pick up girls in a Dungeon: This is a more D&D fantasy centred tale. The setting is specifically one where the gods have descended/fallen to the world and their strength is measured in worshipers. Enter a chance encounter between a zero XP human and the zero worshiper goddess named Hestia in an alley in 'the town above the dungeon'. They take residence in an old church in the ruins of the outer city. The city isnt just located above a dungeon (50+ dungeon levels). Its centred around a great pillar that looms skyward.
Hero encounters a female warrior named Ains who saved him from a minotaur that invaded the upper levels. Soaked in minotaur blood he flees to the surface obsessed with (getting stronger than) Ains. He has friendships with females at a local adventurers tavern of whom his goddess does not approve- he is her worshiper. He slowly adventures alone-acquiring a young porter (indebted to a nasty guild who worship a barrel of narcotic alcohol). She cheats him but he sticks with her. And she sets him up to be killed, but is betrayed by her guild and left for dead. He sticks with her and she becomes loyal to the hero. Eventually hero progressed in power slaying a minotaur that some other individual has taught to fight with a powerful weapon and encouraged it into the upper levels.
Hero impresses Ains and her Party by defeating the Minotaur.
He joins up with an armourer and the trio adventure together.
Eventually he reaches lower levels of the dungeon having been forced downward by a tidal wave of monsters. His goddess organizes a rescue party to save him, and delves deep into the dungeon.
He becomes a significant hero defeating a Goliath (more on par with a mountain giant) and his goddess becomes popular with other warriors as she starts fighting to protect them as well.
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