Danmachi: Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? V: Episode 12 Delayed

The Friday broadcast has been postponed; a new schedule will be announced at a later date.

The official website for the Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? franchise announced on Tuesday that the 12th episode of the ongoing fifth television series, which was scheduled to air on Friday, has been postponed due to production issues. The new broadcast and streaming schedule for episode 12 will be announced at a later date.
Instead, a special titled "Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? V: Goddess of the Harvest Arc Cast Gathering Year-End Party" will air on the Tokyo MX and BS11 channels on Friday at 24:30 JST (effectively Saturday at 12:30 a.m.). The AT-X channel will broadcast the special on December 30. The ABEMA streaming service will rebroadcast the first 11 episodes in three marathons from 6:30 p.m. on Friday to 7:00 p.m. on Saturday.
The anime's ninth episode was also postponed, from November 29 to December 5.
Dungeon ni Deai o Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darō ka V: Hōjō no Megami-hen (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? V: Goddess of the Harvest Arc) is the fifth season of the Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? (Dungeon ni Deai o Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darō ka) anime. It premiered on October 4 at 24:30 on Tokyo MX, BS11, and ABEMA (effectively October 5 at 12:30 a.m. JST, or October 4 at 11:30 a.m. EDT), and it also began airing on AT-X on October 7. HIDIVE is streaming the series in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
Ikumi Hasegawa is playing Heith Velvet, while Gen Sato is playing Van.
Returning staff for the fifth season include director Hideki Tachibana at J.C. Staff, series composers Fujino Ōmori and Hideki Shirane, character designer Shigeki Kimoto, composer Keiji Inai, production company EGG FIRM, art director Yūki Kobayashi, background artist Jeong Ryeon Kim (along with Akira Suzuki), color designer Tomomi Andō, sound director Jin Aketagawa, editor Kentarō Tsubone, and director of photography Shingo Fukuyo.
The GRe4N BOYZ vocal group is performing the opening song "Shōnen" (Youth), while the sajou no hana group is performing the ending song "Hydrate."
The first season of the anime premiered in April 2015 and had 13 episodes, and the second season premiered in July 2019 and had 12 episodes. The anime's third season premiered in October 2020 after a delay from July 2020 due to the effects of COVID-19. Sentai Filmworks licensed the season, and the anime is streaming on HIDIVE. Crunchyroll also streamed the anime, but then removed it in March 2022.
Dungeon ni Deai o Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darō ka IV Shinshō Meikyū-hen (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV New Arc: Labyrinth), the fourth season, premiered in Japan in July 2022 and ran for 11 episodes. The second half of the fourth season, titled Dungeon ni Deai o Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darō ka IV Shinshō Yakusai-hen (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV Late Arc: Disaster), premiered in January 2023 and also ran for 11 episodes. HIDIVE is streaming the anime under the title Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV.
The anime franchise also includes OVAs (Original Video Anime), the Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Arrow of the Orion film, and the Sword Oratoria: Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side spinoff television series.
Yen Press publishes both Fujino Ōmori and Suzuhito Yasuda's original novel series and the Sword Oratoria spinoff novels, as well as their respective manga adaptations, in North America.
Source: Danmachi: Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? franchise's Website via Ota-suke