ダンジョン飯 / Delicious in Dungeon
Natively: Level 32
Summary
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.
taken from myanimelist
Availability
Amazon
JustWatch: Delicious in Dungeon - streaming tv show online Netflix
Personal Opinion
The anime is pretty popular. It’s the hardest anime nominated so far, but it’s also being read by the IMC so surely the vocab sheet from there will help somewhat. And it’s “some kind of adventure or fantasy to round out our genres.” And we already watched Campfire Cooking so it’ll help to review more cooking vocab? I enjoyed the anime. It’s a good mix of cooking, fantasy, adventure, and the characters are really lovable.
Pros and Cons
Pros
- IMC is currently reading it, so some of the more common words in the series will already be on a vocab list.
- There’s humor, adventure, fantasy, cooking…and it’s balanced well. The world and characters are fleshed out. There’s an entire ecosystem.
- Characters are easy to root for. Who doesn’t want to rescue Falin?
- The food looks good
Cons
- Level 32 means it’s going to be a decent jump up from what we’ve been watching…but we can help each other!
- Dialogue can be a bit fast
- There’s 24 episodes, so it’s a long one
- It came out in January, so people who saw it as it was airing might not want to rewatch it yet.
- There’s going to be extensive discussions about dungeoneering, conversations about ecosystems and cooking fantasy ingredients. That’s going to be a lot of words.