DanMachi ~Memoria Freese~ (ダンまち～メモリア・フレーゼ～), abbreviated as DanMemo (ダンメモ), is a game created by Wright Flyer Studios for mobile that was originally scheduled for release in Summer 2017. It was later announced to be released on June 19, 2017 and is currently available for both iOS and Android. On August 25th, 2017, Crunchyroll announced a deal for English localization of the game. The North American version of the game was released on March 30, 2018. On December 27, 2023 Wright Flyer Studios announced that it would end all International Services for the game on February 28, 2024.
The game has made several crossover events with other franchises like Kino's Journey, Date A Live, Attack on Titan, Goblin Slayer, Strike The Blood, Another Eden, The Executioner and Her Way of Life, and Crunchyroll.
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Story[]
The game is fully voiced, ranging from the conversations with characters on the main screen to every main story stage and side story scenario, containing over 27,000 words. While the main story can be accessed by progressing through each individual stage, the side stories can only be unlocked by raising a character's CP Level, which can be done by talking with them when they appear in the streets, through experience gained after battles, and giving them presents.
As of release, only eight characters had side stories (Bell Cranel, Ais Wallenstein, Hestia, Liliruca Arde, Yamato Mikoto, Loki, Eina Tulle, and Syr Flova). Later on, Lefiya, Ryuu, Riveria, Freya, Tione, Tiona, Bete, Finn, Hephaestus, and Welf were added.
Also, there is an option to switch between the DanMachi and Sword Oratoria stories, which have an Ais part and a Lefiya part. For the main story, chapters 1-6 cover volume 1, 7-13 cover volume 2, 14-18 cover volume 3, 19-21 cover volume 4, 22-29 cover volume 5, 30-34 cover volume 6, 35-40 cover volume 7 and 41-47 cover volume 8. Currently, the main story ends at the end of volume 13. For Sword Oratoria, the story has been currently covered up to volume 9.
For the second, third and fifth anniversaries of the game the Argonaut, Astraea Record, and Knights of Fianna events were released, which are the only game original stories that are canon.
More chapters are being added which adapt some side stories, such as Episode Ryuu, QuestxQuest, The Goddess' Campanella, Is it Wrong to Ask for an RPG in a Dungeon!? and various others as well. Cut content from seasons 2 and 3 of the anime have also been adapted as side stories to promote the anime. Story, event, and side story stages each have a reward for clearing it the first time through, and the rewards are better the higher the difficulty.
Gameplay[]
Main Menu[]
From the main screen, players can access a variety of options through the buttons at the bottom of the screen or tapping the individual buildings. As of release, all of them are available except for the forge and colosseum options. Progressing through the game requires stamina that can be restored with time or through items.
Events[]
Events are non-canon stories created by the game developers. Each event is available to be played for a limited time, although they may later be available again during a rerun.
Although most events are not canon, the game has some official stories such as QuestxQuest and The Goddess' Campanella since these are adaptations of side stories written by the author himself. In addition to that, the game features its own side stories, some of which are adaptations of cut content from seasons 2 and 3 of the anime to promote it.
On the other hand, although it is not a recurring thing, Oomori sometimes writes the script for certain events. He has been in charge of planning and elaborating the stories for all of the anniversary events as well as some crossover events, in conjunction with the authors of each franchise.
Adventurers/Assist Characters[]
Adventurers and assist characters are mainly acquired through the gacha system, however a ☆1 Bell and Hestia are given through the tutorial. Adventurers can be made stronger through the status board and proficiency strengthening systems, or through gaining experience after battles, though the former method is necessary to properly play through the game. Both systems require special material items, such as experience books and specific falna, that are gathered through various means in addition to having a valis cost for each action.
Adventurers and assist character rarities range from ☆1 to ☆4, with each level having its own color: ☆1 are bronze, ☆2 are silver, ☆3 are gold, and ☆4 and above are rainbow. Despite this, all rarities can be upgraded to ☆6 through the status board system, though higher rarities will have better stats.
All adventurers have a special technique that can be used once the gauge fills to a certain point during a battle, and the gauge will deplete that amount per technique used. They are based off of any magic, skills, aliases, equipment, or items the adventurer has. Examples include Bell's Argonaut Firebolt, Ais' Tempest Lil Lafarga, and Finn's Braver Assault. Some techniques aren't canonically accurate as Gareth's Dvergr Enhance is an axe attack despite it being a skill that increases the user's strength stat.
Although character models and images exist for a lot of characters, only Bell, Hestia, Lili, Welf, Mikoto, Loki, Ais, Finn, Riveria, Gareth, Tione, Tiona, Bete, Ouka, Chigusa, Asfi, Mia, Syr, Anya, Chloe, Lunoire, Eina, Misha, Freya, Hephaestus, Demeter, Miach, Hermes, Ganesha, and Goibniu were able to be used upon release. Filvis, Lefiya, and Dionysus were added with the first event on June 29.
Memoria[]
Memoria are add to the game as a addition assist for the players party. The player can equip up to three at a time. Each Memoria use scenes from the anime or game exclusives art work as a place holder.
Quests[]
Quests can be accessed through the event tab in the adventure menu. There are currently four quests: an excilia quest, a valis quest, a falna quest, and Eina's lessons quest for new players to get used to how the game works. The first three quests have three different difficulty settings that give different rewards based on the difficulty, however higher difficulty quests can also give the rewards of the lower quests. While the excilia and valis quests are relatively straightforward, the rewards of the falna quest rotate every day between strength and dexterity falna, magic and technique falna, and endurance and speed falna.
AIS WARS[]
AIS WARS was originally a mini-game for April 2020 as an April Fools event with its own story. Due to the mini-game being well received by players the game got a direct sequel called Operation: Ishtarean Fortress Assault AIS WARS, this time a permanent mini-game.
Status Board/Proficiency Strengthening[]
The status board is a set of diamond shaped boards comprised of a number of smaller diamonds within each one. Each board has a mix of five falna diamonds (strength, dexterity, endurance, speed, and magic) that need to be filled in, with some boards having a special technique falna diamond that give abilities to characters. Filling in diamonds require the a certain number of proper sized falna along with a certain amount of valis. The number of falna needed can vary based on what the rarity of the character originally was. All boards also have a rank up diamond that requires a number of technique falna, valis, and if ranking up to ☆6, a number of heroic essence.
Once a player has filled in a character's ☆6 board completely and raised their level to 60, they are able to access a feature known as limit break, which is a set of 5 rectangular bars that serve the same purpose as the status boards. A character can limit break a total of 5 times, and a duplicate of the character is needed per limit break along with 50,000 valis.
Proficiency strengthening is also located in the same place. Unlike the status board system, proficiency strengthening is a simple process of gathering excilia books and spending them and any valis needed to raise the levels of characters. Raising character levels increases their HP and mana, the latter being used in battles for abilities and magic. Sometimes when levelling up a character, the process can end up as a great success, doubling the amount of experience gained.
Blacksmith[]
At the blacksmith, players can buy various weapons and armors to equip on characters to raise their stats. Certain weapons are only equippable with certain characters, such as a knife with Bell. If players have completed certain stages of the main story, they can exchange for 2 weapons and 4 armors using the exchange menu. Equipment will also get damaged as players go through rounds, requiring the player to pay the proper amount needed to repair them.
Arena[]
The arena is where players can take on Monsterphilia or PvP against other players in Record Buster, Familia War Game, War Game, and Telskyura Abyss.
Familia[]
Familia are groups that players can form and it is require to join one to participate in a War Game. Deities that players can choose are Hestia, Loki, Hephaestus, Freya, Ganesha, Demeter, Miach, Hermes, Takemikazuchi, Dian Cecht, Dionysus, Goibniu, Ouranos, Soma, Astraea, Erebus, Artemis, Apollo, and Aphrodite.
Music[]
The game's theme song changed from time to time. It has had JOURNEY by Iguchi Yuka, Ivy by Kano, REUNION by Wakeshima Kanon, Lumière by Hayami Saori, Kibou no SIGNAL by Minase Inori, Ryuusei no Yukue by sora tob sakana, Tsuki no Shirabe by Chisuga Haruka, Tropica☆Vacation by Saori Oonishi, Kyokuya by sajou no hana and Hoshizora Letter by Hidaka Rina.
The game also used Tatta Hitotsuno by Iguchi Yuka as the special theme of the second anniversary, Justitia by Hayami Saori as the special theme of the third anniversary, Vesta by Minase Inori as the special theme of the fourth anniversary, Sekiyuu no Uta and Fortia as the first and second special themes of the fifth anniversary respectively, Shiny World by Okamoto Nobuhiko as the special theme of April Fools' in 2023 and Eiri by sajou no hana as the special theme of the sixth anniversary.
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Trivia[]
- Originally, Welf's dialogue was only partially voiced over due to his voice actor being on hiatus. As his voice actor has returned, Welf's character is now fully voiced.
- On June 3, 2019 the game and Matsuoka Yoshitsugu, Bell's voice actor, officially became holders of the Guinness World Record for "the most lines performed by a single voice actor in a mobile game", having been confirmed that he had said 10,175 words in the game.