When it comes to anime I definitely have my favorites like Cowboy Bebop, Fullmetal Alchemist and Tri Gun. However, I’ve never really been that much into cutesy style animes and gravitated more towards more serious subject matters. That being said, I was dragged, kicking and screaming, initially into the realm of Delicious In Dungeon. Now that I’ve watched it, I’m here to tell you my thoughts about the concluded season on Netflix.
As always our reviews are broken down into story, acting, and overall. Let’s dive on in!
Story 5/10
The story of Delicious In Dungeon is about a group of adventurers who unfortunately, due to being hungry, are taken out by a red dragon within a magical and mystical dungeon. However, in the last moments our main character’s sister is able to whisk away freely all of her companions, save for herself, stuck within the stomach of the beast.
Our main character Laios decides that he needs to go back in immediately to save his sister before there’s nothing left inside its stomach. This dungeon is not like traditional places around the world. Souls are bound to their bodies and want to be revived so much, that even basic healing spells can almost revive the dead back to life.
However, making great haste in entering the dungeon and not having the resources to survive. Sacrifices are made. Several of the party members leave the group right off the bat, while only a couple members remain on for the purpose of saving Falin. While making their way down. However, one of the biggest sacrifices was not being able to bring food with them, and the decision is made to start eatting the monsters they defeat in the dungeon on their way down to save time.
This is uncommon and unheard of by many of the people inside the dungeon who look at this as inappropriate and disgusting. However, in their journey and efforts to proceed forward and eat their way to the lower levels, they discover a dwarf ally, Senshi, who is more than willing to help them cook their way through this dungeon.
There’s definitely some very serious subject matters within this series, however, it is forced into the background as the series regularly focuses on what is the next dish they’ll cook and how they prepare it. This feels more like a cooking show than it does an adventure and rescue fantasy series.
Acting 6/10
I primarily watch the show with the American voice actors, as opposed to the Japanese, and I can say that there is definitely a lot of energy and thought put into the voice actors roles in this series. Standouts for their voice acting performances, however, go out to SungWon Cho who plays Senshi and Laios, the main character voiced by Damien C. Haas, who regularly fan girls out over the concept of eating monsters. It really gives him a variance and being heroic and stoic to truly losing his cool over the idea of trying a new food.
At the end of the day, the performances carry a lot of the weight of the cute energy of the show, and also push and pull on the idea whether it’s okay to eat monsters within the dungeon.
Overall 7/10
While the series is incredibly cute, the dark backstory and multiple story lines proceeding in the background are definitely enough to keep my attention. While the humor and interest in what dishes they decide to prepare off of monsters and the back and forth discussions about whether at is right or wrong to do so is very interesting and engaging in the series.
If you like lightheart animes, this show definitely hits that general energy throughout the series. That being said it also does have a lot of deeper storylines hidden underneath, but you do have to spend a little bit more attention to pick up on them since so much of the show is mainly about cooking.
Conner’s Final Thoughts
This series has already confirmed that it’s been picked up for a second season on Netflix, so now is a perfect time to watch the 24 episodes already available on the streaming platform and prepare yourself for the second season’s release, because hopefully there will be a lot more seasons to come.
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