Dungeon Meshi

Adventuring knight Laios Touden leads a small party through a seemingly endless dungeon, a subterranean maze full of dangerous monsters and precarious traps. Through the use of advanced magic, an explorer can sometimes be resurrected, allowing them to learn from past mistakes and give traversing the dungeon another go. However, when a powerful dragon eats Falin, Laios' spellcasting sister, she sends her brother and his companions back to the beginning to save them from permanent ends.

Though strapped for cash and equipment, Laios resolves to fight his way through the dungeon and rescue Falin before she can be digested by the dragon. Despite some of Laios' allies abandoning him, two remain by his side: elven mage Marcille Donato and halfling locksmith Chilchuck Tims. Due to their lack of funds, the party faces the daunting prospect of starving before being able to complete their quest. However, they find salvation in Senshi, a dwarven warrior with a penchant for cooking and safely eating defeated monsters.

With Senshi's culinary expertise, Laios and his companions struggle through the dungeon while learning about gourmet dining—and each other—along the way.

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Donato, Marcille Main

Senbongi, Sayaka Japanese

Touden, Laios Main

Kumagai, Kentarou Japanese

Senshi Main

Naka, Hiroshi Japanese

Tims, Chilchuck Main

Tomari, Asuna Japanese

Izutsumi Supporting

Kambe, Mitsuho Japanese

Touden, Falin Supporting

Hayami, Saori Japanese

Mithrun Supporting

Uchiyama, Kouki Japanese

Kabru Supporting

Katou, Wataru Japanese

Thistle Supporting

Kobayashi, Yuu Japanese

Inutade Supporting

Furuya, Yoshino Japanese

Ootsuka, Masahiko Producer, Episode Director

Kikushima, Kazufumi Producer

Usa, Yoshiki Producer, Executive Producer

Shida, Shunsuke Producer

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Nov 20, 2024

Tanikaze

Recommended

Dungeon Meshi is a big plate that has full meal for you!! Whether you like it or not you will watch the entire series.
WARNING for vegans & vegetarians planning to start the series, well some scenes you will hate it and some scenes you won't mind it but over all I guess it could be triggering at times to watch this show. (I'm not vegetarian btw) But this anime is a gore anime. Like there will be bones and blood.
Anyways let's start the review shall we?

Art, character design and world building: 10/10
This anime has the best art I've seen so far. Wish Earthsea had an ... adaptation and it looked like this. Character design and world building and everything feels so vivid, very cozy and extremely up-to-date like so 2024. Everything looks like it was drawn out of deviantart and reminds me of how art used to be before the AI. Characters and movement and the expressions seem all very organic, real and funny.

Plot: 8/10
Food is the plot. I mean it has that sense of humor you could see in manga like Dorohedoro or Dai Dark where characters are carefree and focused on things but not 100% locked into their goals so many other things happen while they are on their way to their main goal. It's like every episode there is a main plot and gears are spinning but they are totally on the background and usually they have fun and a lot of things happen. I think compared to anime like Naruto where main plot episodes are really serious and progress is really slow then they add up fillers which are completely irrelevant, this is a better way to process plots. Like lots of fun and things happen slowly one by one.


Overall rating: 9/10:
I'm not a business man but I can be busy but I finished this anime in one sit. Like entire 24 episodes I binge watched! But my rating is 9/10 because I know that this anime may not be everyone's cup of tea.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Aug 30, 2024

Lainsbearsuit

Mixed Feelings

Dungeon Meshi or Delicious in Dungeon is a Netflix anime that follows a fairly traditional dungeon group through a fairly traditional dungeon setting on a fairly traditional quest, but the unique flavors and subtle hints of other genres, and maybe a side order of memes and fan-service, are what will make you want to savor every bite of this anime. (This marks the end of the food puns I swear)

Dungeon Meshi is made by Studio Trigger, and some viewers will right away notice the very expressive and stylish animation, lending itself to the abundant comedic moments that really define the show. While there are a ... good mix of battles, in a genre that's already overly saturated with flashy sword and magic fights this show uses character comedy as the primary source of entertainment. While some anime may drop the pretense of the group dynamics during "serious" moments, this show largely sidesteps that and instead leans in to the different personalities and how they interact, sometimes to good results and sometimes to hilariously bad ones. This is a dungeon party show, and almost everything they do is done together as a team.

As far as the characters themselves, Dungeon Meshi tends to emphasize quality over quantity. There is a large revolving cast, and they all have unique personalities and motivations that find them at odds or in cooperation with each other depending on the situation. For the most part however, the series sticks to the core group and emphasizes their differences while exploring their development. This show does tend to suffer a bit from pacing, and too often a character will toe the line between appearing mysterious and guarded to just being bland and uninteresting.

This series is sometimes aided and sometimes diminished by its attempt to be so many different things at once. While the main course tends to be comedy, action, and cooking, there is also a chorus of intersecting plots, motivations, characters, factions, and it all ends up feeling like too much for the show to handle, while also somehow being boring because of the pacing. It's as if one aspect of the show is not nearly enough on its own, so there needs to be more and more wrinkles to the plot, the setting, the backstories, the alignments, etc. The end result is that while all of the attempts succeed, it just feels confused about what the show really is. The actual cooking portion for example is really only a small aspect of the show, once you consider the overall plot and the ensemble of characters that have nothing to do with cooking whatsoever.

Many will enjoy this show but whether it will stand the test of time is definitely in question. There's a lot going on here, and it's all good, but none of it really stands out on its own enough to raise this high above its peers. Hopefully a second season can provide some focus and more to engage with but even if it doesn't solve the issues of the first season it will be worth watching, preferably while having a delicious meal.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Sep 11, 2024

ryanq214

Not Recommended

Funny

The show has some redeeming qualities, and the characters are good, but frankly (despite knowing what it's name is) the show is dragged down by all the monster cooking. Just slows down the story most of the time, and it stops being funny pretty fast.
In addition, it's so weird how casual and not in a hurry the characters are 90% of the time despite them being on a time limit to save their friend. They have to save someone with like a month but they almost NEVER act like they are in a hurry. Just makes the overall story ... feel not important

The show would have been better without the cooking and characters just focusing on helping their friend as an adventure story. Would have been much better as the dungeon and adventurer side of the show is pretty good.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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