Now this Anime I can ride with. Well written characters, love the chemistry of the group, love how they incorporate real world cooking techniques into a fantasy context, and I love how they disguise this cooking anime as a fantasy adventure.
I feel like it’s a slice of life hidden under a cooking anime hidden under a fantasy. Like, the food brings people together, and the food comes from a well-thought up fantasy world we all enjoy one way or another
Dungeon Meshi is 100% about the human experience of eating. Emblematic of this is the last line of the series... "Come on, it's time to eat! What shall we have today?"
Manga reader here: The food is not "just" a gimmick, but it will come back with themes and motifs surrounding eating, with philosophical questions of death, mortality, human desires, ...
"Has researched dungeons and dragons rules books before writing dungeon meshi" GIRL Kui's been playing Western RPGs for ages- she's a Pathfinder girlie. She ended Dungeon Meshi so she could play BG3 without interruption. She didn't just research DnD- those games ARE DnD.
Yeah, but you can still research something specifically in better detail for something you're working on, even if you already know a ton about it from enjoying it as a hobby.
The episode where Marcille argues with the orcs as theyare all making bread was really neat, a literal example of two enemies "breaking bread" together. Starts with an argument, and ends with a meal.
*Beginning the show*: This is a manga about cooking *Halfway through*: Food is only a small part of the world and story, it feels like an afterthought at this point etc etc *At the end*: This is a manga about eating.
I am amazed that you managed to grasp the themes of this story based on only anime episodes so far. You are so right on the way food brings people together and there are more and more such topics the story gives as it goes on. Dungeon meshi takes something as simple as an act of eating and explores it in all directions
I am genuinely so excited for more of this series because it is such a wonderful examination of humanity under absolutely ridiculous circumstances. You really hit the nail on the head at the end regarding the primordial and communal act of sharing a meal together. In the middle of all of this chaos and through whatever strife happens in this story, there is still time made to eat because it’s important to eat.
Fans of Dungeon Meshi and those who share my enthusiasm for other fantasy anime need to watch Record of Lodoss War OVA series (1990) asap. You'll find a lot more about Ryuko Kui's inspiration for Dungeon Meshi. Trust me!!!
Anime has always loved food. Since Y2K, every single anime that has a scene in which somebody eats something, they spend a whole minute worth of animating frames and writing dialogue to praise every aspect of how this flavour blends with that texture and whatever. And before Y2K, while they didn't break down the food into emotional analysis that borders on religous worship, they still show the utter joy and delight at eat, or even just seeing, food. There have been some Isekai that make food the focus (like the one where the protag isekai cheat is having access to internet shopping, so he goes ahead and tames boss-level monster Fenrir with his cooking (can't remember the name of that show)). But non have elevated food into religous fevor more than Dungeon Meshi.
Something I love about Delicious in Dungeon is that there isn’t the typical fan service. Marcille and Falin were having a bath, where a lot of their bodies were shown but they weren’t unneededly oversexualized. None of the female characters were used as things for male viewers to drool over. No pantie shots, well except for Senshi. Honestly kinda funny anytime he gets flipped over and his underwear is just in the open air. I think it is mostly because the author is woman, she didn’t include the oversexualization of character (even if they are adults). Just a breath of fresh air honestly, one my favorite anime’s absolutely.
If there's one anime this season deserve the overhype, dungeon Meshi is. People who still stick with their isekai/harem/op MC anime need to check that dunmesh is not just about light cooking show.
Hard to deny it's an excellent anime IMO. Great characters (Marcille is hilarous), very interesting world building with a good animation on top of that.
Alright. First there was a time I called it medieval fantasy, but this find of fantasy is define as Sword & Sorcery with I discover that recently. And you should use that too when there's fantasy and magic (not always action are during medieval times). Second Farlin isn't mage. She's a healer and she known great spells like healing, teleportation, blessing, exorcism and even resurection.
I wish there was more anime like this 1 - I like that this show does not sexualise characters to the point it effects characters (Fire force with that one girl) 2- I like how it builds its world Its the same with Frieren Anime tends to really stick to its cliches and tropes and rarely evolves beyond that Once you have seen one fantasy anime you have seen most of them Once you have seen one Shonen anime you have seen most of them Once you have seen one Isekai anime you have seen most of them Very few genres do not suffer from this issue But shows like Frieren and Dungeon Meshi prove that you can not follow the tropes and still succeed I think this is just due to how much managers effect production in the mang industry Like how the most common sighted advice in shonen jump competitions is - Sexualise female characters -Female MC, bad change it too male -Female character is more powerful than male character. bad change it It constrains creativity.
What you said resonated with the manga finale, which is seriously one of the best closures I have ever read. This is no easy task for a 14-volume manga that had run for 10 years. Considering how many manga have actually never ended before the author gave up/died/still going, or ended it prematurely because it was cancelled, or were given a shitty end because editorial forced it to overstay its welcome, the ending that is the entirety of Volume 14 if you think about it, was truly amazing. For the popular audience, several scenes spelled out in words the overarch themes of the Meshi, but were presented in a light and airily manner, dare I even use the word sublime. Were it a Hollywood or fucking Marvel property it would have ended with some pretentious assholes shouting on top of the hill like some goddamn Moses. May be that's what I find so annoying about Western properties today, be it the MCU/DCU, the endless parade of Tolkien fantasies, Harry Potter YA garbage (East of West here, especially the isekai stuff... except for Samurai in Another World), century old vampire shuffles and re-shuffles, please-die-already Star Wars and zombie flicks, and in general not-another-sequel/remake/re-franchise (Mad Max, King Kong, Saw, Fast & Furious, now even Dune and John Wick). They have nothing to say, or what they have to say are muddled, preachy, even infuriating but always forgettable (try any Disney and Pixar lately?). So thank god for Meshi, Frieren, and a few other popular or about to be popular manga/anime titles (that would surely send most self-respecting gate-keepers into conniption if I were to mention the name), for filling in that giant hole here in the West that we call "poverty of the Imagination".
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Now this Anime I can ride with. Well written characters, love the chemistry of the group, love how they incorporate real world cooking techniques into a fantasy context, and I love how they disguise this cooking anime as a fantasy adventure.
I feel like its more a fantasy anime disguised under a cooking anime title and base
I feel like it’s a slice of life hidden under a cooking anime hidden under a fantasy.
Like, the food brings people together, and the food comes from a well-thought up fantasy world we all enjoy one way or another
Dungeon Meshi is 100% about the human experience of eating. Emblematic of this is the last line of the series...
"Come on, it's time to eat! What shall we have today?"
Exactly! “To eat is the privilege of the living”
Praise our king, devourer of all things Horrible
@@Raghetiel I think "of the three heads" was a cooler title. The people are fools
@@genericname2747 nah, that title fits him much better)
Both in his character, and in his historic feat
@Raghetiel Yeah but having three heads is cool
Manga reader here: The food is not "just" a gimmick, but it will come back with themes and motifs surrounding eating, with philosophical questions of death, mortality, human desires, ...
"Has researched dungeons and dragons rules books before writing dungeon meshi"
GIRL Kui's been playing Western RPGs for ages- she's a Pathfinder girlie. She ended Dungeon Meshi so she could play BG3 without interruption. She didn't just research DnD- those games ARE DnD.
Yeah, but you can still research something specifically in better detail for something you're working on, even if you already know a ton about it from enjoying it as a hobby.
she’s done fanart for the pathfinder games too lol they are very cute and in her own art style
"Let me finish!"
Damn, you could have said "let me cook!"
And ofc I love the show too.
MAN, I'm kicking myself now xD
The episode where Marcille argues with the orcs as theyare all making bread was really neat, a literal example of two enemies "breaking bread" together. Starts with an argument, and ends with a meal.
*Beginning the show*: This is a manga about cooking
*Halfway through*: Food is only a small part of the world and story, it feels like an afterthought at this point etc etc
*At the end*: This is a manga about eating.
I love Sautéing the horrors
Dungeon Meshi always makes me think of that, glad I’m not the only one
I am amazed that you managed to grasp the themes of this story based on only anime episodes so far. You are so right on the way food brings people together and there are more and more such topics the story gives as it goes on. Dungeon meshi takes something as simple as an act of eating and explores it in all directions
I am genuinely so excited for more of this series because it is such a wonderful examination of humanity under absolutely ridiculous circumstances. You really hit the nail on the head at the end regarding the primordial and communal act of sharing a meal together. In the middle of all of this chaos and through whatever strife happens in this story, there is still time made to eat because it’s important to eat.
Fans of Dungeon Meshi and those who share my enthusiasm for other fantasy anime need to watch Record of Lodoss War OVA series (1990) asap. You'll find a lot more about Ryuko Kui's inspiration for Dungeon Meshi. Trust me!!!
Thanks for the recommendation!
FYI this isn't a protagonist story, it's an ensemble cast. Laios is just one of many protagonists
Now this anime is finger licking gud.
YES YES KEEP IT COMING MORE DUNGEON MESHI ANALYSIS VIDEO
we WILL boost anything dunmeshi
200 views complimentary video? we take those, like, comment
People call this a cooking anime. But it's actually an anime about eating, having a meal, ie the "Meshi" of Dungeon Meshi.
The two types of dungeon meshi review
1.) the hyping it up "omg it's so good!!!"
2.)Lily orchard.....
Why aren't more people on CZcams talking about this show?? Thanks for making a video on it man!
"Food is our common ground, a universal experience." - James Beard
Anime has always loved food. Since Y2K, every single anime that has a scene in which somebody eats something, they spend a whole minute worth of animating frames and writing dialogue to praise every aspect of how this flavour blends with that texture and whatever. And before Y2K, while they didn't break down the food into emotional analysis that borders on religous worship, they still show the utter joy and delight at eat, or even just seeing, food.
There have been some Isekai that make food the focus (like the one where the protag isekai cheat is having access to internet shopping, so he goes ahead and tames boss-level monster Fenrir with his cooking (can't remember the name of that show)). But non have elevated food into religous fevor more than Dungeon Meshi.
Sharing food together is a great interactive setup for a scene. Lots of anime do this.
This show is already one of my all time favorite animes.
Something I love about Delicious in Dungeon is that there isn’t the typical fan service. Marcille and Falin were having a bath, where a lot of their bodies were shown but they weren’t unneededly oversexualized. None of the female characters were used as things for male viewers to drool over. No pantie shots, well except for Senshi. Honestly kinda funny anytime he gets flipped over and his underwear is just in the open air. I think it is mostly because the author is woman, she didn’t include the oversexualization of character (even if they are adults). Just a breath of fresh air honestly, one my favorite anime’s absolutely.
They made a whole anime out of that cooking minigame in Dragon's Crown?
If there's one anime this season deserve the overhype, dungeon Meshi is.
People who still stick with their isekai/harem/op MC anime need to check that dunmesh is not just about light cooking show.
Frieren took the overhyping away from this, but it did end and this is still running, so maybe people will hype this up just as much coming from that.
Notice how this anime does not have sexualization? It is good!
What do you call Senshi?
It has sexualization... But instead of doing it with girls, it does it with Senshi
@@honoramongassasins8056sexy beast
Izutsumi is the best catgirl ever. She's so cat.
The real purpose is to get to the bottom of the dungeon and become the next king.
Delicious in Dungeon is named this way, because D in D is a reference to DnD.
Hard to deny it's an excellent anime IMO. Great characters (Marcille is hilarous), very interesting world building with a good animation on top of that.
I care far less about the plot and far more about what monster they are going to eat and how. It's like comfort food; the show.
Delicious in Dungeon, Dungeons and Dragons. DinD, D&D
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Alright. First there was a time I called it medieval fantasy, but this find of fantasy is define as Sword & Sorcery with I discover that recently. And you should use that too when there's fantasy and magic (not always action are during medieval times). Second Farlin isn't mage. She's a healer and she known great spells like healing, teleportation, blessing, exorcism and even resurection.
Me reading the hobbit & watching this anime got me starvation & wanting to go on adventures
I was waiting years for this anime to drop, and the release almost instantly made me at least 5x as annoying to my friends
I wish there was more anime like this
1 - I like that this show does not sexualise characters to the point it effects characters (Fire force with that one girl)
2- I like how it builds its world
Its the same with Frieren
Anime tends to really stick to its cliches and tropes and rarely evolves beyond that
Once you have seen one fantasy anime you have seen most of them
Once you have seen one Shonen anime you have seen most of them
Once you have seen one Isekai anime you have seen most of them
Very few genres do not suffer from this issue
But shows like Frieren and Dungeon Meshi prove that you can not follow the tropes and still succeed
I think this is just due to how much managers effect production in the mang industry
Like how the most common sighted advice in shonen jump competitions is
- Sexualise female characters
-Female MC, bad change it too male
-Female character is more powerful than male character. bad change it
It constrains creativity.
Top 10 anime
Kadokowa is it?I'm listening
Currently, Ryoko Kui is writing Marsil, which will die after 1000 years.
[Lie.】
what source do you have on her reading DnD rulebooks?
It's from an interview she did with Famitsu in February of 2024.
the anime is so good i had to read the manga 😂 (and reading it so much better too and a lot funnier)
It's better than food wars no competition
What you said resonated with the manga finale, which is seriously one of the best closures I have ever read. This is no easy task for a 14-volume manga that had run for 10 years. Considering how many manga have actually never ended before the author gave up/died/still going, or ended it prematurely because it was cancelled, or were given a shitty end because editorial forced it to overstay its welcome, the ending that is the entirety of Volume 14 if you think about it, was truly amazing. For the popular audience, several scenes spelled out in words the overarch themes of the Meshi, but were presented in a light and airily manner, dare I even use the word sublime. Were it a Hollywood or fucking Marvel property it would have ended with some pretentious assholes shouting on top of the hill like some goddamn Moses. May be that's what I find so annoying about Western properties today, be it the MCU/DCU, the endless parade of Tolkien fantasies, Harry Potter YA garbage (East of West here, especially the isekai stuff... except for Samurai in Another World), century old vampire shuffles and re-shuffles, please-die-already Star Wars and zombie flicks, and in general not-another-sequel/remake/re-franchise (Mad Max, King Kong, Saw, Fast & Furious, now even Dune and John Wick). They have nothing to say, or what they have to say are muddled, preachy, even infuriating but always forgettable (try any Disney and Pixar lately?). So thank god for Meshi, Frieren, and a few other popular or about to be popular manga/anime titles (that would surely send most self-respecting gate-keepers into conniption if I were to mention the name), for filling in that giant hole here in the West that we call "poverty of the Imagination".