"Sword Princess Ais Wallenstein and the Loki Familia take to the Dungeons below Orario once more. This time, there may be more lurking in the shadows than mere monsters."
— Amazon Prime description
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side: Sword Oratoria is a series of Light Novels that serves as a parallel story to Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? set in Aiz's point of view, written by original series creator Fujino Omori and illustrated by Kiyotaka Haimura (also the illustrator of A Certain Magical Index). The series began publication in 2014 under the GA Bunko label, and is available in English via Yen Press.
The novels have a manga adaptation by Takashi Yagi which began serialization in Square Enix's GanGan Joker magazine in May 2014, and an anime adaptation by J.C. Staff which aired in 2017 for twelve episodes.
Provides examples of:
- Adaptation Distillation: The manga adaptation largely skips over the Rakia Invasion arc from the original light novels, only mentioning it in a flashback.
- Bond Villain Stupidity: At least it looks like it when Revis sees Filvis/Ein beside Lefiya in the Kronnos in Vol.7, only to see the latter alive in Vol.10.
- Cliffhanger: In S1E05, when the boss for 38th floor appears and Aiz wants to fight him solo. She's been in emotional distress and hasn't been eating for several days.
- Darker and Edgier: Sword Oratoria compared to the main series. While it still has its fair share of humor, it's a great deal more serious with higher stakes for the characters.
- Draw Aggro: This is known as a "pass parade" and is a rather common thing in the Dungeon. In particular, a rather massive one known as the Nightmare of the Twenty-Seventh Floor is a huge cornerstone of this story's plot, although it happened a long time ago.
- Due to the Dead: In the manga adaptation, Aiz Wallenstein throws herself into battle against a huge army of monsters who've killed at least two other adventurers, whose eyes are open even in death. A few panels later, the corpses' eyes have been closed, making them seem much more at peace.
- Free-Fall Fight: In S1E11, Lefiya got thrown into the big hole that connect the floor 52 to floor 58. Bete, Tiona and Tione jump in to rescue her while fighting wyverns that come into the hole to greet them.
- Inspirational Insult: When the Loki Familia are in danger of losing to a Spirit/Monster hybrid, Fynn manages to get them to rise back up again by saying they can't compare to Bell. Of course, the familia who are high-levelled take issue with being called inferior to the then level one Bell.
- Love at First Punch: It is a racial tendency of the Amazons that they fall in love with any strong man that beats them in battle. It does not happen all the time, but it happens more than enough times. Tione fell in love with Finn due to him beating her in combat when recruiting her to Loki Familia. The Amazons of Kali Familia largely fall for the men of Loki's Familia after their defeat. Lena of the fallen Ishtar Familia falls in love with Bête after he got her with an actual punch.
- Mass "Oh, Crap!": The elites of the Loki Familia knew they were in trouble when they came across a Demi-Spirit on the 59th Floor. Their despair was heightened when it began to chant, but their fears weren't fully realized until after it had nearly decimated them with its first usage of super long chant magic, only to immediately begin the incantation of a second spell.
- Mood Whiplash: In their darkest hour while trapped in Knossos, Aki gets Raul to give a pep talk to their group. It is so hilariously bad that the mood instantly changes from crushing despair to some semblance of hope.
- Pit Trap: In vol.12, Lefiya, Bete plus half of the attack team fell into a trap opened by Ein.
- Punched Across the Room: Almost every adventurer have experience this.
- Ship Tease: The tease between Bell & Aiz is a lot more potent in the novels and manga adaptation, since the scenes once show from Bell's perspective is redone from Aiz's, and her thoughts make clear she has some sort of affection for Bell even if she herself doesn't understand her feelings.
- Shout-Out:
- In the beginning of this story, Fynn mentioned while the Loki Familia intended to perform an expedition towards 59th Floor, they would also need to perform a quest requested by Dian Cecht's familia to obtain water from Cadmus' Spring on 51st Floor on the way.
- A character named Fels plays with this somewhat: he asks Aiz to complete a quest, seemingly behind the Guild's back. Aiz immediately recognizes that this is the same questgiver who nearly got Lulune killed, but does not retaliate as Aiz's intuition tells her that Fels can be trusted. This "sidequest" ends up becoming the "main" quest for several episodes of Sword Oratoria and at least one volume of the light novels.
- The Stinger: S1E07 of the has Lefiya and the amazoness sisters searching a library for a book on Aria.
- Talking Is a Free Action: Averted like in the main series. The incantations used by Lefiya and Riveria are lengthy, elaborate and must be recited perfectly with absolute concentration by the caster. Monsters interrupted or distracted Lefiya in the first episode of the anime leading to the collapse of her magic circle.
- Will Talk for a Price: Subverted. When Lefiya and Bete ask Bors for information on what Aiz is currently doing, Bors tries getting some money out of them for it. However, Bete has no patience for Bors attempts to milk them and threatens him, which prompts Bors to freely give what he knows out of fear.
- Wolverine Publicity: Despite being Aiz's story, the Anime has Bell and Hestia both in the opening credits.
