I went off anime when the isekai and moe craze took off about 10 years ago.
I tried to get into modern anime, but couldn’t (JoJo is based off an 80s manga, that doesn’t count as modern to me).
But I’m on episode 3 and I’m really digging Dungeon Meishi/ Delicious in Dungeon. I’m watching the English dub and It’s like if Monster Hunter and Dimension 20 had a baby. The humour is great, I actually laughed out loud a couple of times. The world is cool too.
I like how it isn’t following the anime tropes. The characters aren’t high schoolers, the women act like real human beings, there’s no Shonen toy commercial BS. It’s just a good fun adventure.
My only criticisms are that it’s a little videogamey, it makes me hungry and that the title Delicious in Dungeon makes no sense, it should be Delicious in THE Dungeon.
Senshi is my favourite.
Pst! The title is goofy in English because a creative decision was made to make it sound like both a play on D’n’D and a cooking show on public television, for example “Barefoot Contessa” or “Welcome to Homegrown!” instead of doing a direct calque of its Japanese name and calling it “Dungeon Meal.” Real clunker, huh?
shoulda been Dungeon and Dining
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Dungeons, Drag-ons and Skrives.
On a quest for the Funky Kobold Medina.
I once saw someone suggest “Dungeon Delicious” and even that sounds better
I think “Lord of the Wings” takes the cake.
Everything dungeon meshi related should come with a big certification sticker that says “Contains no isekai content!”
I’d have checked it out even sooner if I saw that sticker.
It is an honest to god dungeon crawl in the old tabletop sense, where the characters triumph due to their knowledge and cunning rather than raw power. Everyone’s personality is believable, and each member of the party has complimentary strengths and weaknesses.
Ryoko Kui plays CRPGs and it shows, but she also transcends the videogame logic by centering the narrative on the party’s mastery of the environment (the dungeon, the monsters, the nature of magic and so on) rather than a series of pitched battles. I recommend it to pretty much everyone who has an interest on anime or computer RPGs.
But more importantly, I want to eat the ice cream.
You will live in the dungeon. You will eat the mimics.
But more importantly, I want to eat the ice cream.
I wish my house was haunted so I could use holy water bludgeons to make exorcism sorbet.
Literally me
Amazing.
Senshi is raw sex appeal.
You come to this level often?
There are so many reasons to recommend this manga / anime. Like that Laios is undeniably autistic—that man loves monster meals the way I love dinosaurs.
(I write this as my daughter and I are arguing about whether or not Butterfree’s wings are intrinsically toxic or not. The Pokédex says that it can flap its wings to release toxic scales / powder, but that doesn’t necessarily imply that the wings themselves are comprised of toxic scales! These are important questions to ask when assessing a Pokémon’s snuggleability.)
pretty sure if human skin and oils touch butterfly or insect wings it heavily damages them right? 0 on snuggleability factor
He also has a lot of affinity with dogs. He’d go to furcons for sure if his world had them.
the title Delicious in Dungeon makes no sense, it should be Delicious in THE Dungeon.
It’s trying to be a pun on DnD but the english title doesn’t translate well.
WHY DIDN’T THEY CALL IT DISHES & DRAGONS
Damn that is a better name… or maybe Dungeons and Dishes
That is also an excellent name.
FUCK! That IS a missed opportunity.
I like the Spanish version mazmorras y tragones which is kind of a blend of dnds names in both English and Spanish and also the play on words between tragones and dragones
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I like Chilchuck the best myself, the idea that he’s a professional working on a contract with a family back home speaks to me I guess.
He’s a fun subversion of “this childlike anime waifu is actually 1000 years old even though she talks acts and looks like a child” creep pandering; he acts and even talks like a grumpy middle-aged man because he is.
Ok my friend recc’d this one to me just the other day and i had been blowing it off as “one day”. But you reiterate some good things she said said and some magic words she didn’t and now I have to check it out. Here goes
Edit yup this is funny. When she fed that adventurer the antidote i lost my shit
The videogamey goes right out the window very soon. One of my favorite manga.
It somehow dodges that “what if bibeo bame” isekai exploitation shit entirely and gives decent lore explanations for what’s left. Excellent.
I’d even argue that the video game vibes are more down to our conditioning as viewers and consumers of media in general. Also any fantasy anime that isn’t an isekai will have a decent chance of being a good show. We even had frieren recently. Unless it’s trash like goblin slayer. And the only fantasy type anime that’s worse than goblin slayer is surprise, an isekai. The dogshit trash that is Gate. It’s wild how people forget Imperial Japanese were basically the Asian Nazis and this let’s nationalist garbage like Gate be produced. Then there’s mushoku tensei… holy shit isekai sucks ass.
Then there’s mushoku tensei… holy shit isekai sucks ass.
I never heard of that one, but you seemed to imply it’s worse than Goblin Slayer, Surprise, and Gate. I don’t dare look it up even for curiosity.
The MC is a pedo. And he’s reincarnated.
I assume it’s one of those “kiddie creepers care about kids and are so misunderstood about their intentions” cognitohazard messages.
I mean I straight up think it’s just the authors own fantasy. Like having a pedo reborn as a kid and the implications of that isnt even good propaganda. Although I don’t think any pedo propaganda can even be good. Rebranding as maps hasn’t done anything for them. Probably the best niche for pedos is to become right wingers.
It’s really disturbing also that this anime is extremely popular. I sometimes wonder why anime fans get a bad rap. Then I see a situation like this.
Definitely another “dare ye enter my magical realm” creepy maker issue. Similar deal with the sex pest that made Ready Player One and his issues with consent and respecting boundaries especially in his shitty book’s shittier sequel.
Worse than that, “Shield Hero” was an incel revenge/power fantasy that takes their deep fear and hatred of “false SV accusations” and turns it into punitive SV with slavery characteristics.
Goblin Slayer is basically an Isekai minus the Isekai part, it’s the exact same wish fulfillment stuff for socially inept losers and waifu pillow manufacturing machine that they all are, it just didn’t start with the goblin slayer travelling to the fantasy world after being hit by a truck.
True. I don’t know why I went the technically route with that.
My only criticisms are that it’s a little videogamey
I had to dig up and old post @Cromalin@hexbear.net made where the author was talking about games she liked and games she played with her dad on twitter, plus some of her CRPG fanart
Now watch dragon pilot
I will convince you with this ed https://youtu.be/hG-ahxkDPCA
Honestly a lot of anime coming out these days are so much better than the isekai dark ages. Dead dead demons destruction is absolutely goated and probably the best thing I’ve seen in a while.
Dead dead demons destruction is absolutely goated and probably the best thing I’ve seen in a while.
Agreed, it’s been killing it.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
It’s going to get better further as the world and lore opens itself. The world has a surprisingly well-established tabletop DnD rule, with each race given fairly sufficient lore just like the edible monster that you have seen so far. I also highly recommend going to the manga after you complete the anime, as the manga has concluded (it is only 90 or so chapter) and the art is gorgeous. Unlike many other manga that drags on, the author wraps it up where it makes sense with very satisfying book-end (although some people suspect that she did wrap up the series just in time for BG3 release last year, the author is a massive western CRPG fan, she’s too much of an anti-social to actually play DnD with other people).
although some people suspect that she did wrap up the series just in time for BG3 release last year
This is confirmed. The final chapters were delayed slightly because BG3 came out in August.
The premise is cute but i bounced off the animation. Not DiD-specific, i had the same issue with the new batman. The current generation of cg cartoon animation looks so flat and, idk… austere? I’m not sure what the call it. But it doesn’t speak to me or generate visual interest.
The manga is gorgeous, and has a lot of cool establishing shots of the dungeon that the anime just skips over.
There’s no CG in dungeon meishi from what I can remember. The animation quality is worse in the first few episodes than the rest of the show, I remember watching an action sequence in episode six and thinking “oh hey, the animatioj budget turned up”
Yeah, aesthetically it’s more or less perfectly capturing the manga in a way that looks better on paper on than it does as an animation. It’s pretty visually disappointing coming from a studio with a history of doing incredibly vibrant and dynamic original work like Kill la Kill, BNA, and Edgerunners.
Although I wouldn’t say this is a modern problem, because they’re doing a very good job of mimicking a very specific aesthetic style. It’s just that their own original work has historically been a lot better looking including their other most recent series Edgerunners.
Gotcha. That’s understanable, i didn’t realize it was a stylistic choice.
Yeah, my experience with it was “wow, I don’t really like how this looks but I’ve heard enough good things about it that I’ll stick it out anyways” and then I ran out of anime and read the manga and it all made sense, because it’s just straight up shot for shot the manga turned into animation.
Has the best character been introduced yet?
I think she shows up in episode 17 or something. She’s amazing every time she’s doing anything I go hoohoohehehehe
