The story is already written, so it won’t have a Trigger ending.
Delicious in Dungeon (Dungeon Meshi) is one of the seasonal anime awaiting us this Winter season. Based on a manga of the same name, it’s a (non-isekai!) fantasy story animated by Studio Trigger (Kill la Kill, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners), and… Look, it’s kind of a big deal. The “Anime of the Year Contender” kind of deal, to be exact. Yep.
The story is amazing
The premise of the story is simple — adventurers gather to explore a dungeon, all promised great riches if they manage to kill its undead master. Our protagonists’ party enters it — and is ambushed by a dragon. They manage to escape — aside from one of them, who is devoured — and they only have a limited time to mount a rescue mission. Despite their rush to rescue their compatriot, they lack basic supplies (i.e. food) — and so, they have to not only kill, but also eat their way through the dungeon’s bestiary. Finding a half-mad dwarf warrior/chief interested specifically in monster cuisine helps.
To put it simply — this is a story about fantasy dungeon crawling (Dungeons & Dragons style, like a less edgy and better written Goblin Slayer), mixed with a culinary show (like Shokugeki no Souma and Yakitate! Japan). In fact, the manga goes out of its way to present recipes that could be replicated at home (by replacing fantasy ingredients with ones from a convenience store, of course) — which is probably where Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill (Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi) took inspirations.
We won’t spoil much besides the initial premise, but if you were looking for a proper fantasy story that avoids countless pitfalls the modern isekai keeps flinging itself head first into, you will LOVE Delicious in Dungeon.
The production looks promising
Look, full disclosure — we might not exactly see eye to eye with Studio Trigger. They love underaged fanservice and ending their stories in unsatisfying ways, we love well-written stories and characters who can legally drink. But they also have a fantastic, dynamic animation style that lends itself to both comedy and epic sakuga fights, you can’t deny that.
And when it comes to Delicious in Dungeon — there is very little they could possibly mess up. The story was already written for them, and the manga is essentially an already made storyboard — so as long as Trigger brings that same technical quality that distinguishes the rest of their productions and doesn’t mess with the script, this will be THE show to watch.
The story is already written, so it won’t have a Trigger ending.
Delicious in Dungeon (Dungeon Meshi) is one of the seasonal anime awaiting us this Winter season. Based on a manga of the same name, it’s a (non-isekai!) fantasy story animated by Studio Trigger (Kill la Kill, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners), and… Look, it’s kind of a big deal. The “Anime of the Year Contender” kind of deal, to be exact. Yep.
The story is amazing
The premise of the story is simple — adventurers gather to explore a dungeon, all promised great riches if they manage to kill its undead master. Our protagonists’ party enters it — and is ambushed by a dragon. They manage to escape — aside from one of them, who is devoured — and they only have a limited time to mount a rescue mission. Despite their rush to rescue their compatriot, they lack basic supplies (i.e. food) — and so, they have to not only kill, but also eat their way through the dungeon’s bestiary. Finding a half-mad dwarf warrior/chief interested specifically in monster cuisine helps.
To put it simply — this is a story about fantasy dungeon crawling (Dungeons & Dragons style, like a less edgy and better written Goblin Slayer), mixed with a culinary show (like Shokugeki no Souma and Yakitate! Japan). In fact, the manga goes out of its way to present recipes that could be replicated at home (by replacing fantasy ingredients with ones from a convenience store, of course) — which is probably where Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill (Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi) took inspirations.
We won’t spoil much besides the initial premise, but if you were looking for a proper fantasy story that avoids countless pitfalls the modern isekai keeps flinging itself head first into, you will LOVE Delicious in Dungeon.
The production looks promising
Look, full disclosure — we might not exactly see eye to eye with Studio Trigger. They love underaged fanservice and ending their stories in unsatisfying ways, we love well-written stories and characters who can legally drink. But they also have a fantastic, dynamic animation style that lends itself to both comedy and epic sakuga fights, you can’t deny that.
And when it comes to Delicious in Dungeon — there is very little they could possibly mess up. The story was already written for them, and the manga is essentially an already made storyboard — so as long as Trigger brings that same technical quality that distinguishes the rest of their productions and doesn’t mess with the script, this will be THE show to watch.
