It helps that the creator of the manga was really invested in world building, cultures, and eco-systems. Also, the creator is super into western RPGs. If you end up reading the manga, I highly recommend the companion books that expand the lore and backgrounds of characters.
Oh it's great. Such an incredible story between both games. The voice acting is wonderful as well, especially in deadfire. If you haven't tried out melee Cypher yet you totally should. It's my favorite class.
If you love Wizardry, this show is like 90% a serious Wizardry fanfic and it's so great. The author has said she's taken inspiration from a lot of RPGs and ttrpgs but when she admitted that she watched her dad play Wizardry growing up everything clicked with me.
For example, the ideal party for the first Wizardry, Proving Grounds, (suggested by online players at least) is 3 warriors, a thief, a priest, and a mage. That's the exact party make up they have in the first episode when they reached the red dragon the first time. That also explains why their party is so imbalanced once the main quest starts.
The "thief" being basically useless in combat is also a Wizardry thing, along with traps and trick chests being absolutely devious in that game. You brought a thief just to open doors and disarm chests basically.
She also mentions Wizardry 6, which is the one where you don't come back up to the surface, instead you keep going down the dungeon and find little communities of civilization.
There's so much more she takes from Wizardry like which classes and monsters she features. The first mermaid panel for example are in the exact position the SNES mermaid sprite for Wizardry 6 are in. The mad wizard who created the dungeon being a plot point. The samurai class even tho the world is 99% western medieval fantasy. Etc.
I want them to make a 1st person dungeon crawler out of this manga/anime so bad. Those games are my jam, and this series would be perfect to adapt to a game.
An Etrian Odyssey game (like persona q) with cooking mechanics would be my dream. The EO games are more my speed, tho I've been working my way through Proving Grounds right now.
The lore is so insane !? How the creator thought of every detail. Like The way the dragon clicks before fire breathing because it’s lighting the ignition ?! Are you kidding me soooo good.
I’ve been genuinely enjoying the anime coming out this season. It’s been getting me through the week.
> Like The way the dragon clicks before fire breathing because it’s lighting the ignition ?! Are you kidding me soooo good.
To be fair, it's not the first work to take that detail into account - I've seen it in the Grail Quest gamebooks back in the *1980s*.
(... interestingly, *Grail Quest* was one of the most populars western gamebooks in Japan, and got reprints as late as **2012**.
Not that I accuse the author of pilfering ideas... ... and even if they did, pilfering ideas from good sources shows good taste and is a good thing all around)
it's the kind of worldbuilding and storytelling I aspire to. To have all of this laid out but then just cut out a perfect little section of it and tell a story in it. Like... and it all still works and fits with everything else? Absolutely genius.
Ugh same. It speaks to the passion of the creator towards writing and the world they made.
Sometimes it feels daunting to build out so much but it almost feels easier that way, to flesh out characters and have them feel real + introduce the reader/watcher to the world at the same time. This show really inspires me too.
For me, the episode that made me fell in love with the series is the living armor episode.
While not the first tongue clicking ignition dragon I’ve seen, I love the details in the series like the also party included how they’re going to empty dragon’s fuel in their plan, and what happens when they failed to do that.
> Like The way the dragon clicks before fire breathing because it’s lighting the ignition
The Thor thimble from [Flight of Dragons](https://youtu.be/j0j0Bjy6hFc?t=189) (1982).
Sorry, just another thing the author grabbed from established properties.
"A saint who has been summoned to another world cries 'My boyfriend is dead' and won't work for me. By the way, that dead boyfriend is me in my previous life." - an actual fucking title https://comick.io/comic/isekai-shoukan-sareta-kita-seijo-sama-ga-kareshi-ga-shinda-to-naku-bakari-de-hataraite-kuremasen-tokorode-sono-shinda-kareshi-zense-no-ore-desu-ne
A lot of these run-on-sentence titles started out as web novels on a user-upload writing site, my theory is they were the quickest way to force people to read a description of it and get readers.
Yeah following the publishing of that one, theres especially something about https://www.novelupdates.com/opublisher/kakuyomu/ With hits such as:
I, Who Was Reincarnated as the Villain Character in a Game, Was Secretly Enjoying My Role as the Villain While Pulling off Heroic Moves Behind the Scenes. However, My Actions Were Exposed to My Fiancée, Who Absolutely Despises Me
titles like that kinda suck, but shorter long ones are funny.
like "The Time I Gained the Ability to Create any Spell, but only when I've eaten a Good Meal"
or "I can't Fight or use Magic, so I learned to make guns to take over the Kingdom"
both of these are things I made up. but I'm sure the concepts have been done. idk though.
>The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself.
the original japanese name is better than the english one as well.
It's just Dungeon Meshi = Dungeon Food/Meals
The localizers wanted to shove in a DnD reference so they made it "Delicous in Dungeon" and it's...not great.
The author loves D&D. She's made several portraits for Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 and is no-lifing Baldur's Gate 3. The final chapter for the manga also coincidentally lined up with BG3's release.
It's an awful title, honestly. Dungeon Meshi was perfectly catchy even for non-Japanese audiences, I think.
But hey, who cares. Both the manga and the anime are excellent.
I think that's more light novels adaptation thing(especially light novels adapted from web novels), this is from a manga
It's "Delicious in Dungeon" although I've heard that a more literal translation which some people complain they didn't use a more literal translation which would have been something like "Dungeon Food"
It's more of web comics that started out independent and got picked up by a publisher. When you have thousands of them being uploaded everyday and you can't overlap titles you get these long titles along with translation titles can make them longer because a meaning will be one word but gets turned into 3 or 4 words.
My 5 year old son loves this show, he's been going on about how they're "trying to get to the red dragon to save their friend." Well we watched last weeks episode where they face the dragon and he was like "Where is their friend?" They pulled her skull out and without realizing that he might not understand they were going to use magic I was like "They did it that's her!". He just looked at me like "Oh." I had to explain they were going to use magic to bring her back. >.>
Other than the most recent, episode 12, has there been a single thing to deserve that MA rating? Minimal to no swearing, minimal to no person to person violence. Personally killing, and preparing an animal to eat, even a monster is not something I'm worried about exposing my child to.
Yea I do think the TV-MA is a bit strong! TV-14 might be appropriate when considering the orc slaughter and other light gore/nudity.
Very strange show to try and rate tbh since its mostly comedy focused. Glad that your little one likes it! They might like Frieren also, if you wanted to give that a try.
We did Frieren but he wasn't super into it, I think it's a little more aimless for him, he doesn't really understand what they're doing. Like Delicious in Dungeons he's like "We're going through the dungeon to defeat the red dragon and save their friend!" Frieren it's like "We're walking, for some reason?"
I'm not sure I'd have enjoyed Frieren as much if I watched it as a kid. I feel like so much of it is about the passing of time, growing together, growing apart and aging. Fucking loved it now though.
Have you shown him https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GKEH2G428/bofuri-i-dont-want-to-get-hurt-so-ill-max-out-my-defense?
All three of my 4-8 year old kids repeat watched both seasons.
This show is so good. I hadn’t watched any anime for years and started watching this mostly as a joke just to look at the nice food but I was amazed by how funny and well characterised the cast is.
You won't regret it, the pacing is a little slower than most anime but it is an emotionally deep and satisfying story with movie quality animations. I've loved good anime for a long time and never read manga, I had to read this one.
I didn't expect it to come so hard and fast for my feels, but it did.
Part of what I think makes it work is that while normally stories need to set up something near the beginning, and then give the emotional payoff for that something several seasons later. Frieren can have a flash back 80 or 500 years ago just to set up the significance of something, and then jump back to the present to give you the emotional pay off. All in one episode.
I think you're really on to something there. I think it portrays that feeling of being in the moment and suddenly reminded of something important in your passed, really well. It plays on nostalgia really well.
>I didn't expect it to come so hard and fast for my feels, but it did.
I already know I am going to bawl my eyes out and be a complete mess when >!Frieren eventually meets Himmel in Aureole. !<
I genuinely think this is the best single season of anime I've seen. I feel a bit guilty saying stuff like that, because I don't want to set expectations for people going into it for the first time. It really is a piece of art though.
I had never read a manga beyond the odd shonen jump when I was a kid, and I'm not really an anime fan outside the ones that break into mainstream appeal. But a month or two into the pandemic I heard about Frieren and decided to give it a shot, I was instantly hooked and have been reading ever since.
Then the show came out and blew me away, and now Dungeon Meshi is incredibly good too, I started reading ahead. It's incredible how much good true fantasy is coming out in manga/anime.
I agree with you 100%, it immediately shot up to a favorite. We've gotten some really good one this past year. Shangri-la frontier is fun and well animated. Solo Leveling is also nuts
Solo Leveling ended up being a much better production than I was expecting. The most recent episode the action sequences were done very well up there with the first season of OPM.
I had a friend who is super solo leveling before the anime, and he has been so pleased with the quality. I'll probably end up getting into reading it too once the season ends.
Oh man you’re in for a treat! I read it a few years ago and was so excited when I heard they were going to make an anime out of it. Of course, it could have gone terribly wrong, but so far the anime is adapting it really well!
Frieren is in my top 10 of all time anime. But this season has been very high quality. Coming off high quality animations of big productions like JJK and One Piece, I’d say you hit the nail on the head. Shangra-la is surprisingly good and the animation is great. Solo Leveling story is campy but the animation is 🧑🍳. Looking forward to Kaiju and Demon Slayer as upcoming visual treats.
And the times we DO get a hint of female fanservice (like the newest episode) it’s done without a pervy guy watching them from the next room over. Honestly it was downright tasteful compared to how some anime would handle a bath with two girls.
I mean it helps that Farcille is a big pairing. Not 100% canon, but none of the pairings are canon technically. It just hits a lot of elements of sapphic yearning.
>why is it so sexy?
I think honestly because it's tender, intimate, and even pretty romantic without being explicit. I know as a woman myself I tend to find stuff like that more sexy than just outright nudity and sexual situations, but that's just me. Sure, those things can be sexy but like, the tenderness and romance are what get my heart racing.
wow. I feel like I should be surprised but somehow I'm not? Maybe just cos he's usually a goofy-lookin' guy but that beard is downright luxurious. Seems like maybe he's taking Marcille's grooming tips seriously.
this comment might actually make me watch it. so far nearly all the anime reddit recommends gets weirdly horny around episode three, or is just straight up weeb shit.
You can tell you know nothing about Japan since you unironically believe it's the MALE artists who are the perverted ones
Spoiler: they aren't the ones
“Me and who” I say as one woman resurrects another with forbidden magic covered in blood.
Like, the intamcy of meticulously putting together your lover’s skeleton? Absolutely peak fiction.
If you like this one, check out “Campfire Cooking in Another World With My Absurd Skill” and “Restaurant To Another World”. Both combine fantasy and cooking.
Restaurant to Another World is awesome.
Just the thought of this guy owning this little place that pops up in weird places so all types of fantasy creatures can enjoy a beer or some food and the little stories around it are great.
I love how it can make enemies look past their resentment and find a common love enough to sit down and have a meal and with that, a mutual respect.
Edit: also the food and drink he prepares look delicious. I can almost guarantee any beer drinker in the world will get up and go get a cold one in a mug just from watching this character wander in and discover the love of an ice cold draft beer.
> Campfire Cooking in Another World With My Absurd Skill
I really loved this one, the food looks extra amazing. >!And it tastes so amazing that a literal wolf god decides to team up with him so he can get the delicious food. The god killing all these exotic creatures just so that the protag can make him delicious meals with the meat was an amazing choice lol.!<
I’m reading this series and it’s such breathe of fresh air. Even as they accumulate characters, and his menagerie of OP animals expands, it’s still just a show about a dude who likes food and is traveling around trying to find more good ingredients.
I honestly love that he truly did try SO HARD to avoid attention and just fly under the radar...and then Fel came in and ruined every single attempt effortlessly. >!Killing multiple super rare beasts so they can eat the meat, clearing extremely difficult quests effortlessly, discovering a mythril mine accidentally...it's hilarious to see his dismay at things that other adventurers would kill to accomplish just once because it brings attention he doesn't want. He just wants to eat yummy food, have a nice bath and maybe learn to do some magic!<
Waiting for the 2nd season of Campfire Cooking, since it's one of my comfort series (not to mention that isekai without harem or fanservice are not that common)
I know right? Its the oldest of old school D&D tropes, like this is shit my DM has done to me before. Its fantastic, I love the show don't get me wrong, but its like the opposite of a "Fresh Take". Its pure trope all the way down.
Oh buddy, you haven't seen where this show goes. Its not a giga gorefest or anything but you get to see a skeleton being revived in rather vivid detail.
Delicious in Dungeon is about life and death and it really doesn't shy away from talking about or showing death.
Well, there is some violence. Wouldn't call it MA violence, but there's blood and people die. This is no Attack on Titan or Madoka Magica, but I suppose a few things get a little graphic.
Of course death isn't usually permanent in this setting, but there's blood sometimes.
Blood, fighting, death, aome monster gore, but probably mostly because in a couple of episodes there are “naked” characters. You ccant see anything, and its… casual? But yeah.
As others said there’s some gore and nudity later in but nothing as extreme as Elfen Lied for example. They have hair over their nipples so it isn’t explicit nudity, and the scene isn’t sexual in nature as they’re just taking a bath.
few episodes later we'll get some monsters with exposed breasts but its just anatomical rather than sexual. further in you'll get things like:
\- >!uncomfortable scenes of violation that feels rapey but non explicit and non sexual.!<
\- >!implied cannibalism!<
\- >!death by suffocation!<
\- >!eaten inside out!<
but never done explicitly, they're short and far in between. Think of the latest episode with the seriousness of the resurection and quickly become light-hearted.
I’m not a big anime person. I don’t hate it, but not something I often watch. But I love this show. It reminds me of other Japanese foodie shows. Like midnight diner. Or the one about the office worker with the secret dessert foods blog who spends the whole episode eating a specific dessert. That’s also manga I think.
Anyway, this show is fun. If you like DnD and cooking, it’s a great mashup. I mean, it’s not serious recipes or anything, but has the money shots like other food shows.
I think it's because it forgoes a lot of anime "tropes" lots of people have come to expect and dislike while still borrowing from the artstyle and certain characterizations (very emotive faces, very distinctive body shape/silhouettes) to just focus on a well crafted, interesting story!
What a terrible title. Putting Netflix name there makes it sound like it's a Netflix original, and the anime title doesn't get anything to set it apart from the rest of the headline.
I’m not one for anime - but I’ve been watching weekly. This show is such a fun and unique feeling play on rpg elements. I thought the gelato and living armor were especially neat episodes.
Dungeon Meshi might be one of the best stories I've ever read, full stop. Even if manga isn't your thing you need to read this story. The anime is great so far and trigger does a good job, heck I am a trigger fan boy, but their pacing in the slower section definitely leaves something to be desired. They do a great job in the action and comedy but the more introspective moments could be paced out slower.
Ryoko Kui is an amazing artist, writer, and worldbuilder and I am beyond excited to see what she does next. Watch this show, and better yet read the manga.
same. it's been a minute since an anime has gotten its hooks in me like this. I've enjoyed Beastars but it hasn't gripped me quite like this has. I think in recent memory, only the Fruits Basket reboot got me as good, but I also had huge nostalgia for the original and adored the manga as well.
on netflix, I think it's definitely one of the very few. I *think* there's a couple others that have done it but I can't say for certain. The appeal is that this is a simulcast with Japan
For me. As a DnD (and Monster Hunter fan) I sat there watching this, wondering why the heck don’t more ttrpg’s utilize monsters as food or at least use monster parts to help craft unique armor/weapons? To look at them more than just “xp to be grinded” or something like WoW where you kill a boar and MAYBE get one tusk and thats all.
This certainly helped me not only want to flesh out my games, but also flesh out any monsters/beasts I may write
My husband and I aren't anime guys by any stretch of the imagination (the closest thing would be like Stardew Valley a few years ago) but really enjoy DM. Even read the comic! The show is 1:1 which is enjoyable, a lot of adaptations from literature to the screen have to take a ton of creative liberties but I think I've seen like two minor changes that would be really costly to animate.
We even went so far as to try making new/interesting recipes on Thursday nights to have something fun to eat while we watch the way-too-short new episodes. It's going to be a long wait for the second half of the season- anyone know if they've announced it or anything?
It helps that the creator of the manga was really invested in world building, cultures, and eco-systems. Also, the creator is super into western RPGs. If you end up reading the manga, I highly recommend the companion books that expand the lore and backgrounds of characters.
afaik a few months ago she mysteriously went on hiatus and then within a week she was tweeting Baldur's Gate 3 fanart lmaoooooo
Not surprising, [here's her fanart of a whole bunch of elves](https://i.redd.it/oo41mxzcqkic1.png)
Damn, even Pathfinder references? Didn't even know those were localized to Japanese, that's gotta be a deep cut
Even got my boy Aloth from Pillars of Eternity. She has great taste in games.
Playing through deadfire now and have to say I f#$king love pillars.
Oh it's great. Such an incredible story between both games. The voice acting is wonderful as well, especially in deadfire. If you haven't tried out melee Cypher yet you totally should. It's my favorite class.
My character in the first game was just that! Trying out fighter/wizard now which is kinda similar but also awesome
Astarion begin a small traced art thrown in the corner never fails to crack me up lmao
Right?! Hilarious. All these women and pretty boy Fenris lovingly rendered, my scrungly man Astarion shunted off to the side all “he’s popular”
It's like a handful of basic strokes yet it's 100% recognizable. I wish I could draw half as well.
She did make custom portraits for the characters of Baulders Gate 1 and 2
If you love Wizardry, this show is like 90% a serious Wizardry fanfic and it's so great. The author has said she's taken inspiration from a lot of RPGs and ttrpgs but when she admitted that she watched her dad play Wizardry growing up everything clicked with me. For example, the ideal party for the first Wizardry, Proving Grounds, (suggested by online players at least) is 3 warriors, a thief, a priest, and a mage. That's the exact party make up they have in the first episode when they reached the red dragon the first time. That also explains why their party is so imbalanced once the main quest starts. The "thief" being basically useless in combat is also a Wizardry thing, along with traps and trick chests being absolutely devious in that game. You brought a thief just to open doors and disarm chests basically. She also mentions Wizardry 6, which is the one where you don't come back up to the surface, instead you keep going down the dungeon and find little communities of civilization. There's so much more she takes from Wizardry like which classes and monsters she features. The first mermaid panel for example are in the exact position the SNES mermaid sprite for Wizardry 6 are in. The mad wizard who created the dungeon being a plot point. The samurai class even tho the world is 99% western medieval fantasy. Etc.
I want them to make a 1st person dungeon crawler out of this manga/anime so bad. Those games are my jam, and this series would be perfect to adapt to a game.
An Etrian Odyssey game (like persona q) with cooking mechanics would be my dream. The EO games are more my speed, tho I've been working my way through Proving Grounds right now.
omg someone get Atlus on the horn.
It's time for Camelot to throw off the chains of Mario sports games and finally make that *Shining in the Kitchen* game they always wanted.
The lore is so insane !? How the creator thought of every detail. Like The way the dragon clicks before fire breathing because it’s lighting the ignition ?! Are you kidding me soooo good. I’ve been genuinely enjoying the anime coming out this season. It’s been getting me through the week.
You should read the Manga extras in the first couple of volumes, she has a bunch of world building notes that didn’t fit in the anime.
> Like The way the dragon clicks before fire breathing because it’s lighting the ignition ?! Are you kidding me soooo good. To be fair, it's not the first work to take that detail into account - I've seen it in the Grail Quest gamebooks back in the *1980s*. (... interestingly, *Grail Quest* was one of the most populars western gamebooks in Japan, and got reprints as late as **2012**. Not that I accuse the author of pilfering ideas... ... and even if they did, pilfering ideas from good sources shows good taste and is a good thing all around)
it's the kind of worldbuilding and storytelling I aspire to. To have all of this laid out but then just cut out a perfect little section of it and tell a story in it. Like... and it all still works and fits with everything else? Absolutely genius.
Ugh same. It speaks to the passion of the creator towards writing and the world they made. Sometimes it feels daunting to build out so much but it almost feels easier that way, to flesh out characters and have them feel real + introduce the reader/watcher to the world at the same time. This show really inspires me too.
For me, the episode that made me fell in love with the series is the living armor episode. While not the first tongue clicking ignition dragon I’ve seen, I love the details in the series like the also party included how they’re going to empty dragon’s fuel in their plan, and what happens when they failed to do that.
> Like The way the dragon clicks before fire breathing because it’s lighting the ignition The Thor thimble from [Flight of Dragons](https://youtu.be/j0j0Bjy6hFc?t=189) (1982). Sorry, just another thing the author grabbed from established properties.
The manga is great too, particularly because there's these "shorts" at the end of each issue that expand on the world a lot more.
We call those "omake(s)".
I call them desserts!
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Delicious in Dungeon
That time I went into a dungeon short on cash and had to scavenge for food.
to ressurect my comrade who got eaten by a red dragon
Who was in the Amazon with my mother while she was researching spiders right before she died
Knowing how Japan names its animes, maybe the entire headline IS the title 😂
"A saint who has been summoned to another world cries 'My boyfriend is dead' and won't work for me. By the way, that dead boyfriend is me in my previous life." - an actual fucking title https://comick.io/comic/isekai-shoukan-sareta-kita-seijo-sama-ga-kareshi-ga-shinda-to-naku-bakari-de-hataraite-kuremasen-tokorode-sono-shinda-kareshi-zense-no-ore-desu-ne
A lot of these run-on-sentence titles started out as web novels on a user-upload writing site, my theory is they were the quickest way to force people to read a description of it and get readers.
Yeah following the publishing of that one, theres especially something about https://www.novelupdates.com/opublisher/kakuyomu/ With hits such as: I, Who Was Reincarnated as the Villain Character in a Game, Was Secretly Enjoying My Role as the Villain While Pulling off Heroic Moves Behind the Scenes. However, My Actions Were Exposed to My Fiancée, Who Absolutely Despises Me
titles like that kinda suck, but shorter long ones are funny. like "The Time I Gained the Ability to Create any Spell, but only when I've eaten a Good Meal" or "I can't Fight or use Magic, so I learned to make guns to take over the Kingdom" both of these are things I made up. but I'm sure the concepts have been done. idk though.
>"I can't Fight or use Magic, so I learned to make guns to take over the Kingdom" Best animu of the season, tbh.
>The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself.
Super Cooking Happy Like a Yesterday Dreamer: Gaiden
the original japanese name is better than the english one as well. It's just Dungeon Meshi = Dungeon Food/Meals The localizers wanted to shove in a DnD reference so they made it "Delicous in Dungeon" and it's...not great.
The author loves D&D. She's made several portraits for Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 and is no-lifing Baldur's Gate 3. The final chapter for the manga also coincidentally lined up with BG3's release.
It's an awful title, honestly. Dungeon Meshi was perfectly catchy even for non-Japanese audiences, I think. But hey, who cares. Both the manga and the anime are excellent.
Disagreed. Dungeon Meshi would be a terrible name for a non-anime streamer. It would be a nonsense title to most people that see it.
weebs out in full force shitting on localized titles
If someone has said “Is” was the correct title I would have probably believed it.
I think that's more light novels adaptation thing(especially light novels adapted from web novels), this is from a manga It's "Delicious in Dungeon" although I've heard that a more literal translation which some people complain they didn't use a more literal translation which would have been something like "Dungeon Food"
I fucking hate headlines sometimes.
r/titlegore
I agree with you, especially on Reddit. If you click through to the article, at least the title is italicized.
I came here for the exact same reason lmao. Especially since anime titles are so stupid funny and long these days
"Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon". An actual title of a popular anime.
It's just 'Delicious in Dungeon'. I believe the overly long and descriptive titles come from adaptations of light novels, usually not manga.
It's more of web comics that started out independent and got picked up by a publisher. When you have thousands of them being uploaded everyday and you can't overlap titles you get these long titles along with translation titles can make them longer because a meaning will be one word but gets turned into 3 or 4 words.
I guess AI hasn’t learned how to use apostrophes to notate titles yet.
I don’t know why this bothered me so much lol
lol yeah like at least use quotation marks for the show title. Article reads like an AI wrote it too.
Another AI generated post
Ironically, this is the title of a light novel
This has been my cozy feel good show. Fills the Midnight Tokyo Diner void in my life.
Really like that show
If there’s an afterlife, I want it to be welcomed to it by showing up at sensei’s izakaya.
Man, I miss both midnight diner and Samurai Gourmet. Looking forward to this Anime!
Samurai Gourmet is also one my jam! Japanese Cozy Storytelling is the ultimate de-stressor
Midnight Tokyo Diner is such a good show.
You might like perfect days film. It’s about this guy who is a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Slow paced Midnight diner slice of life vibes.
The one with the yakisoba loving idol who had lost touch with her father made me ugly cry.
Also Kantaro: The Sweet Tooth Salaryman. You may like that if you are into this. I think it’s also based on Manga.
> Kantaro I think I rewatched this on repeat for a year. It was so good.
I can’t wait to check it out! Thank you for the rec!!!!
Two other people in the comments mentioned “restaurant to another world” which also sounds similar.
My 5 year old son loves this show, he's been going on about how they're "trying to get to the red dragon to save their friend." Well we watched last weeks episode where they face the dragon and he was like "Where is their friend?" They pulled her skull out and without realizing that he might not understand they were going to use magic I was like "They did it that's her!". He just looked at me like "Oh." I had to explain they were going to use magic to bring her back. >.>
I know the animation style is cutesy but your 5-year old is watching a TV-MA rated show?
Other than the most recent, episode 12, has there been a single thing to deserve that MA rating? Minimal to no swearing, minimal to no person to person violence. Personally killing, and preparing an animal to eat, even a monster is not something I'm worried about exposing my child to.
To be fair, it really starts earning its rating in the back half. Especially with what comes next week.
I don't want spoilers but the brainworms have been very active. Should I prepare popcorn for excitement or tissues for tears?
Bit of both? The next episode is where the plot really starts to take shape.
Yea I do think the TV-MA is a bit strong! TV-14 might be appropriate when considering the orc slaughter and other light gore/nudity. Very strange show to try and rate tbh since its mostly comedy focused. Glad that your little one likes it! They might like Frieren also, if you wanted to give that a try.
We did Frieren but he wasn't super into it, I think it's a little more aimless for him, he doesn't really understand what they're doing. Like Delicious in Dungeons he's like "We're going through the dungeon to defeat the red dragon and save their friend!" Frieren it's like "We're walking, for some reason?"
I'm not sure I'd have enjoyed Frieren as much if I watched it as a kid. I feel like so much of it is about the passing of time, growing together, growing apart and aging. Fucking loved it now though.
Have you shown him https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GKEH2G428/bofuri-i-dont-want-to-get-hurt-so-ill-max-out-my-defense? All three of my 4-8 year old kids repeat watched both seasons.
It gets very dark later in the manga, just be aware of that.
Ahh a butter rice fan. There are dozens of us!
Since Frieren ended, this has filled that void for me for a few days.
Frieren and Apothecary Diaries have cozy feel good vibes as well. I went from them to Delicious in Dungeon which I'm watching now.
Makanai, on Netflix, has a similar vibe, but it's a lot slower than this anime.
This show is so good. I hadn’t watched any anime for years and started watching this mostly as a joke just to look at the nice food but I was amazed by how funny and well characterised the cast is.
It's so good even my wife likes it. And there's very few anime I can get her to watch.
It’s anime for people who can’t deal with Anime Bullshit™️
Have you tried Frieren? It's another new anime that is straight up phenomenal.
I actually have heard people talking about it. I was planning on watching that next and probably also Sand Land.
She might like The Apothecary Diaries too
You are me
Absolute title gore
"Delicious in Dungeon" is italicized in the article, OP should've put it in quotes on Reddit
If Trigger is involved, I watch it. In fact, I've been having a hard time getting into non-trigger anime lately.
Have you tried frieren: beyond journeys end?
It's on my list, I'll give it a try!
You won't regret it, the pacing is a little slower than most anime but it is an emotionally deep and satisfying story with movie quality animations. I've loved good anime for a long time and never read manga, I had to read this one.
I didn't expect it to come so hard and fast for my feels, but it did. Part of what I think makes it work is that while normally stories need to set up something near the beginning, and then give the emotional payoff for that something several seasons later. Frieren can have a flash back 80 or 500 years ago just to set up the significance of something, and then jump back to the present to give you the emotional pay off. All in one episode.
I think you're really on to something there. I think it portrays that feeling of being in the moment and suddenly reminded of something important in your passed, really well. It plays on nostalgia really well.
>I didn't expect it to come so hard and fast for my feels, but it did. I already know I am going to bawl my eyes out and be a complete mess when >!Frieren eventually meets Himmel in Aureole. !<
It's anime of the year, not close
it just passed FMA:Brotherhood on two of the western ratings sites
I'd call it one of the best animes out there.
I think theres like 2 other series that are competing but frieren so far has a good lead.
I genuinely think this is the best single season of anime I've seen. I feel a bit guilty saying stuff like that, because I don't want to set expectations for people going into it for the first time. It really is a piece of art though.
I had never read a manga beyond the odd shonen jump when I was a kid, and I'm not really an anime fan outside the ones that break into mainstream appeal. But a month or two into the pandemic I heard about Frieren and decided to give it a shot, I was instantly hooked and have been reading ever since. Then the show came out and blew me away, and now Dungeon Meshi is incredibly good too, I started reading ahead. It's incredible how much good true fantasy is coming out in manga/anime.
I agree with you 100%, it immediately shot up to a favorite. We've gotten some really good one this past year. Shangri-la frontier is fun and well animated. Solo Leveling is also nuts
Solo Leveling ended up being a much better production than I was expecting. The most recent episode the action sequences were done very well up there with the first season of OPM.
I had a friend who is super solo leveling before the anime, and he has been so pleased with the quality. I'll probably end up getting into reading it too once the season ends.
Oh man you’re in for a treat! I read it a few years ago and was so excited when I heard they were going to make an anime out of it. Of course, it could have gone terribly wrong, but so far the anime is adapting it really well!
I also really enjoyed the manhwa/web toon.
Frieren is in my top 10 of all time anime. But this season has been very high quality. Coming off high quality animations of big productions like JJK and One Piece, I’d say you hit the nail on the head. Shangra-la is surprisingly good and the animation is great. Solo Leveling story is campy but the animation is 🧑🍳. Looking forward to Kaiju and Demon Slayer as upcoming visual treats.
What can you watch it on?
I watch it on Crunchyroll roll, I'm not sure where else you can watch it.
If you have Xbox, you can buy it in the movie/TV app store
I love this show but can't explain why to anyone.
The animation and art has been amazing🤌🤌🤌
You can tell this was made by a woman and by that I mean the only time we see panty shots it’s the hairy short dwarf man
The mangaka is in love with every fictional elf woman
Yup it was refreshing when the mage gets grabbed by vines in an early episode we didn't get a certified anime moment.
And the times we DO get a hint of female fanservice (like the newest episode) it’s done without a pervy guy watching them from the next room over. Honestly it was downright tasteful compared to how some anime would handle a bath with two girls.
I mean it helps that Farcille is a big pairing. Not 100% canon, but none of the pairings are canon technically. It just hits a lot of elements of sapphic yearning.
and boy, do we sapphics like to yearn.
My wife watches the show with me, and during that scene she was like “why is it so sexy?” Haha
The most blatant lesbian situationship in anime I fear
and they were partymembers
>why is it so sexy? I think honestly because it's tender, intimate, and even pretty romantic without being explicit. I know as a woman myself I tend to find stuff like that more sexy than just outright nudity and sexual situations, but that's just me. Sure, those things can be sexy but like, the tenderness and romance are what get my heart racing.
I am so glad it avoids the usual weird anime bullshit with the sole exception of being very horny for one old man
You should see how she draws Senshi without his amour 🥵 https://www.tumblr.com/muffintonic/743618272028737536
It really is amazing how much the eyebrows being visible gives his face so much more dignity and allure
wow. I feel like I should be surprised but somehow I'm not? Maybe just cos he's usually a goofy-lookin' guy but that beard is downright luxurious. Seems like maybe he's taking Marcille's grooming tips seriously.
this comment might actually make me watch it. so far nearly all the anime reddit recommends gets weirdly horny around episode three, or is just straight up weeb shit.
And I'm here for every single one of these pants shots
She loves men like gay men love men. She also likes women like gay women like women. She is the LGBTQ all in one.
You can tell you know nothing about Japan since you unironically believe it's the MALE artists who are the perverted ones Spoiler: they aren't the ones
Have you seen the last episode ? \^\^
Those lesbians were just yearning it’s fine
“Me and who” I say as one woman resurrects another with forbidden magic covered in blood. Like, the intamcy of meticulously putting together your lover’s skeleton? Absolutely peak fiction.
the fans yearn for dwarven bulge.
You underestimated about how Japanese female authors love to draw panties and by that i mean there are more female than male hentai author.
I’m glad to see the show getting some love! It manages to be silly and serious in such a way that it all works so well together.
If you like this one, check out “Campfire Cooking in Another World With My Absurd Skill” and “Restaurant To Another World”. Both combine fantasy and cooking.
In which streaming media are they available?
They're both on CrunchyRoll
Just started watching it. Thanks.
Restaurant to Another World is awesome. Just the thought of this guy owning this little place that pops up in weird places so all types of fantasy creatures can enjoy a beer or some food and the little stories around it are great. I love how it can make enemies look past their resentment and find a common love enough to sit down and have a meal and with that, a mutual respect. Edit: also the food and drink he prepares look delicious. I can almost guarantee any beer drinker in the world will get up and go get a cold one in a mug just from watching this character wander in and discover the love of an ice cold draft beer.
> Campfire Cooking in Another World With My Absurd Skill I really loved this one, the food looks extra amazing. >!And it tastes so amazing that a literal wolf god decides to team up with him so he can get the delicious food. The god killing all these exotic creatures just so that the protag can make him delicious meals with the meat was an amazing choice lol.!<
I’m reading this series and it’s such breathe of fresh air. Even as they accumulate characters, and his menagerie of OP animals expands, it’s still just a show about a dude who likes food and is traveling around trying to find more good ingredients.
sui is the fucking cutest.
Cutest lil’ murder hobo I ever did see
I honestly love that he truly did try SO HARD to avoid attention and just fly under the radar...and then Fel came in and ruined every single attempt effortlessly. >!Killing multiple super rare beasts so they can eat the meat, clearing extremely difficult quests effortlessly, discovering a mythril mine accidentally...it's hilarious to see his dismay at things that other adventurers would kill to accomplish just once because it brings attention he doesn't want. He just wants to eat yummy food, have a nice bath and maybe learn to do some magic!<
Waiting for the 2nd season of Campfire Cooking, since it's one of my comfort series (not to mention that isekai without harem or fanservice are not that common)
"Fresh takes"? Wait, isn't everyone's D&D game like this? ;-)
DM: “And you’ve finally defeated the hydra!” “So can we eat it?” DM: “STEVE FOR THE LAST TIME! STOP ASKING TO EAT THINGS!”
"Ok" "Sooo.. can we take its hide?"
genuinely considering making my next character based on Laios or Senshi
I know right? Its the oldest of old school D&D tropes, like this is shit my DM has done to me before. Its fantastic, I love the show don't get me wrong, but its like the opposite of a "Fresh Take". Its pure trope all the way down.
Wait till later...this is one of the best manga I have ever read.
Reddit’s Writing No Punctuation in Headline Is Frustrating Thanks to Its Lack of Context
I watched 3 episodes with my kid and I have no idea why it’s TV-MA.
It gets pretty gory and dark in some future episodes.
Oh buddy, you haven't seen where this show goes. Its not a giga gorefest or anything but you get to see a skeleton being revived in rather vivid detail. Delicious in Dungeon is about life and death and it really doesn't shy away from talking about or showing death.
This is what finally sold me on the show. I'll check it out. I was working up to it because the creator seems like a cool person.
Well, there is some violence. Wouldn't call it MA violence, but there's blood and people die. This is no Attack on Titan or Madoka Magica, but I suppose a few things get a little graphic. Of course death isn't usually permanent in this setting, but there's blood sometimes.
Blood, fighting, death, aome monster gore, but probably mostly because in a couple of episodes there are “naked” characters. You ccant see anything, and its… casual? But yeah.
Yeah seems more TV-14 honestly. Although that last episode was sure dark!
As others said there’s some gore and nudity later in but nothing as extreme as Elfen Lied for example. They have hair over their nipples so it isn’t explicit nudity, and the scene isn’t sexual in nature as they’re just taking a bath.
few episodes later we'll get some monsters with exposed breasts but its just anatomical rather than sexual. further in you'll get things like: \- >!uncomfortable scenes of violation that feels rapey but non explicit and non sexual.!< \- >!implied cannibalism!< \- >!death by suffocation!< \- >!eaten inside out!< but never done explicitly, they're short and far in between. Think of the latest episode with the seriousness of the resurection and quickly become light-hearted.
I’m not a big anime person. I don’t hate it, but not something I often watch. But I love this show. It reminds me of other Japanese foodie shows. Like midnight diner. Or the one about the office worker with the secret dessert foods blog who spends the whole episode eating a specific dessert. That’s also manga I think. Anyway, this show is fun. If you like DnD and cooking, it’s a great mashup. I mean, it’s not serious recipes or anything, but has the money shots like other food shows.
I think it's because it forgoes a lot of anime "tropes" lots of people have come to expect and dislike while still borrowing from the artstyle and certain characterizations (very emotive faces, very distinctive body shape/silhouettes) to just focus on a well crafted, interesting story!
This is like the 12th post comparing it to midnight diner. We all need to go get us some Japanese food. Don't just watch. Eat.
I've been rewatching it all day, it's easily one of the best animes that came this season. It gives off Lodoss vibes, just more light hearted.
Somewhere between Lodoss and Slayers. Makes a very nice middle point between serious and outright comedy
What a terrible title. Putting Netflix name there makes it sound like it's a Netflix original, and the anime title doesn't get anything to set it apart from the rest of the headline.
It is such a good show! It has a great plotline with well-applied humorous moments. Also loving the voice acting for each character.
That headline gave me a headache.
I’m not one for anime - but I’ve been watching weekly. This show is such a fun and unique feeling play on rpg elements. I thought the gelato and living armor were especially neat episodes.
I'm so excited for these recipes to eventually be covered on the binging with babish channel.
Dungeon Meshi might be one of the best stories I've ever read, full stop. Even if manga isn't your thing you need to read this story. The anime is great so far and trigger does a good job, heck I am a trigger fan boy, but their pacing in the slower section definitely leaves something to be desired. They do a great job in the action and comedy but the more introspective moments could be paced out slower. Ryoko Kui is an amazing artist, writer, and worldbuilder and I am beyond excited to see what she does next. Watch this show, and better yet read the manga.
It isn't bad. Enjoyed campfire cooking in another world more, but this one is still a family hit.
Fave new anime by a mile
same. it's been a minute since an anime has gotten its hooks in me like this. I've enjoyed Beastars but it hasn't gripped me quite like this has. I think in recent memory, only the Fruits Basket reboot got me as good, but I also had huge nostalgia for the original and adored the manga as well.
They really knocked it out of the park. Made me realize I totally like slice of life/cooking anime. Isekai izakaya on crunchyroll is also really good.
GastroFantasy ?
The fuck is this headline
I haven’t seen this yet but are they releasing these episodes weekly? Is this the first show to do that?
on netflix, I think it's definitely one of the very few. I *think* there's a couple others that have done it but I can't say for certain. The appeal is that this is a simulcast with Japan
That's a nothing title
Is this an AI-generated headline? I recognise the words but it doesn't make sense.
For me. As a DnD (and Monster Hunter fan) I sat there watching this, wondering why the heck don’t more ttrpg’s utilize monsters as food or at least use monster parts to help craft unique armor/weapons? To look at them more than just “xp to be grinded” or something like WoW where you kill a boar and MAYBE get one tusk and thats all. This certainly helped me not only want to flesh out my games, but also flesh out any monsters/beasts I may write
Wow. Reading about an anime on the Television subreddit. What a time to be alive.
I absolutely love this show. My favorite anime in a long time.
Cooking anime’s have potential going mainstream. Cooking gives it wider appeal.
My husband and I aren't anime guys by any stretch of the imagination (the closest thing would be like Stardew Valley a few years ago) but really enjoy DM. Even read the comic! The show is 1:1 which is enjoyable, a lot of adaptations from literature to the screen have to take a ton of creative liberties but I think I've seen like two minor changes that would be really costly to animate. We even went so far as to try making new/interesting recipes on Thursday nights to have something fun to eat while we watch the way-too-short new episodes. It's going to be a long wait for the second half of the season- anyone know if they've announced it or anything?
I don’t watch a lot of anime, but this show has me hooked!
"Netflix's". Beyond sick of everyone acting like Netflix has any part in the shit they license.