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Delicious In Dungeon is a fantasy anime about adventurers delving into a dungeon.

It was produced by Studio Trigger based on the original manga and first aired in early 2024. It is available for streaming on Netflix.

Tropes used in Delicious in Dungeon (anime) include:

An Axe to Grind: Senshi wields a poorly maintained axe.
Badass Beard: Senshi has a very impressive beard.
Basilitrice: A Basilisk features in episode 2, and a Cockatrice in episode 15.
Big Creepy-Crawlies: The scorpion in episode 1.
Big Bad: The Mad Mage is this for inhabitants of the island, and dungeon explorers.
Bizarre Alien Biology: Slimes have internal organs, but their entire exterior is their digestive system.
Black Magic: Marcille is a practitioner of this, much to the dismay of Chilchuck.
Blob Monster: The slimes are blobby translucent monsters.
Brainwashed: What happens to people who hear the siren song.
Broke Episode: The first episode - Escaping from the dragon causes the party to loose anything that wasn’t directly on their person.
Chest Monster: Two kinds:
- A more traditional chest monster mimic, really a crablike monster using the container as a shell.
- Prominent in episode 5 where the monster isn’t the chest itself, but the contents are individual monstered that look like jewelry or gold.
Death Is Cheap: Laios discusses his first death in the episode about living armor.
Dem Bones: A skeleton can be seen in Episode 4.
Demihuman: Can be seen in creatures such as mermaids. Chilchuck and Marcille are against eating demihumans.
Does Not Like Magic: Senshi is generally hesitent to use magic.
Dungeon Shop: In episode 1 it is explained that the catacombs near the entrance of the dungeon is heavily traveled, and merchants operate there.
- Another less savory one exists deeper in the dungeon.
Eat Dirt Cheap: Possible for normal folks via cooking the coin monsters.
Eldritch Location: Dungeons in general, but especially the main dungeon.
Elemental Embodiment: The Undine is a water elemental.
Emotion Eater: The nightmare spirits are said to feed off of emotions.
Empathic Weapon: Laois acquires a sword with a living creature inside it.
Enthralling Siren: These sing to lure people into danger.
Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong: The Shadowtail plant implants seeds underneath the skin of a victim.
Face Heel Turn: Happens to Falin as a result of interference from the Mad Mage.
Fantastic Racism: Orcs don’t like elves and humans.
For Want of a Nail: Had the party not been hungry and distracted in their fight against the dragon, it may have gone differently.
Golem: Featured in episode 4 to use for gardening, both as labor and as the garden patch itself.
Half-Human Hybrid: The demihuman mermaids and harpies.
- Izutsumi is one as the result of having another soul in their body.
- Falin becomes one as well.
Hellish Horse: The Kelpie when aggravated is an aquatic version of this trope.
Heroic BSOD: Marcille experienced one after hearing the mandrake scream in episode 2.
Heroic Sacrifice: Falin focuses on whisking the rest of the party to safety, rather than trying to escape the dragon herself.
Hobbits: Chilchuck is a small humanoid adept at lock picking.
Human Shield: Tansu uses Namari as one when being attacked by the Undine.
Improbable Weapon User: The cooking pot is used as a shield or weapon a few times.
Kill and Replace: Said to be a tactic of shapeshifters in episode 18.
King Mook: One of the living armors is much larger and more decorated than the others which guard it. {{Spoiler|Or rather, the eggs it protects.
Kraken and Leviathan: A Kraken chases after the party.
Living Weapon: Laios' sword is a very literal example, in that it is a truly living, organic creature, rather than a sword given Life by magic. Encountering a battalion of living armors (which are, in fact, colonies of mollusk-like creatures who use the armor as a hermit crab would a shell) Ryan’s sword is broken, so after defeating them, he takes a sword from one of them. Well not exactly intelligent, the sword is emphatic and reacts to the presence of other monsters, which proves a benefit for Ryan and his allies later.
Man-Eating Plant: Some monstrous carnivorous plants are featured in episode 1.
Medieval European Fantasy: Of the generic sort, the character designs are definitely inspired by European fantasy motifs.
Mundane Utility: The dwarf uses the shaft of his battle axe for split roasting a Basilisk over a fire.
Mushroom Man: The walking mushroom monster.
Ninja: Izutsumi is one.
Now You Tell Me: Marcille has an outburst after getting injured in episode 15, putting her in a situation far worse then if she had not done so.
Older Than He Looks: Despite looking like a human child, Chilchuck is an adult half-foot, and is 29 years old; he even has a wife and three daughters. Amusingly, when he tells the others this, they think he's younger than he looks!
On-Site Procurement: The party ends up trying to survive on food found from ingredients in the dungeon at the prompting of Laios.
Our Dragons Are Different: The dragon at the start is of a western style.
Our Dwarves Are All the Same: Senshi breaks the norm, at least as far as he is concerned. Sure, he's a Proud Warrior Race Guy with a Badass Beard who swings a mean axe, but he has no skill in blacksmithing or mining (having difficulty even telling valuable ores apart) his specialties being cooking, hunting, and farming. This did cause other dwarves to regard him as something of an oddball.
- Namari plays it more straight, caring a lot more about things like weapon quality, materials, etc.
Our Elves Are Better: Marcille serves as the party mage.
Our Ghosts Are Different: Ghosts can be defeated by holy water, which is chilled on impact.
Our Gnomes Are Weirder: Tansu claims that gnomes are close with spirits, and so can safely approach the Undine. He cannot.
Our Goblins Are Wickeder: The forest goblins are mentioned as a type of monster in the second half of episode 1.
Our Mermaids Are Different: Two varieties are seen, a more fishlike variety, and a more humanoid variety.
Our Monsters Are Weird: The dungeon cleaners are a sort of small grey goo animal that rebuilds and maintain dungeons.
Our Orcs Are Different: The orcs maintain a society in the dungeon after being driven from the surface. They’re violent, yet intelligent.
Our Zombies Are Different: Zombies are mentioned in episode 4.
Plant Person: The Dryads.
Portrait Painting Peephole: A portrait with moving eyes can be seen early in episode 6.
Rapid Agina: Happens to Laois on contact with the nightmare spirit. Initially only applies to half his face.
Resurrective Immortality: Played with. Anyone who dies in the dungeon will not have their spirit move on and can be resurrected. The severity of the injury can complicate it, and someone needs to actually find and revive the dead, which isn’t a given.
Role Playing Game Verse: Very clearly based on RPGs.
Sirens Are Mermaids: The more humanoid mermaids are sing like sirens.
Standard Fantasy Setting: The setting in general.
Taken for Granite: Happens to Marcille when they are bitten by a cockatrice in episode 15. They end up getting used as a pickling rock.
Walking on Water: Marcille has support magic to enable this for herself or others.
The Walls Are Closing In: Happens to the party at least once.
What the Hell, Hero?: Marcille suggests tying a dog to a mandrake, then calling it over from a safe distance, pulling the mandrake and killing the dog. The other party members call her out on it.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Each member of the main cast has a fear of a specific monster due to an event in thier past:
- Laios, animated armor, as his first death came from one of them; he gets over it early.
- Marcille, slimes. Again, her first death was the result of one, and was both frightening and embarrassing.
- Chilchuck, mimics. Being the rogue of the group, he's usually in charge of opening chests, and he's been killed by these nasty things many times. He tends to be paranoid about them.
- Senshi, griffins, for a very different reason that the others. When he was a child, he was the sole survivor of a horrific encounter with one of them, which ended with him eating what he believed was part of the corpse of one of his friends. It wasn't until the present day when he learned it was not and was able to put that part of his past to rest.
Wizarding School: A flashback shows Marcille and Falin attending the same school.
Worthless Yellow Rocks: Senshi throws away actual treasure since it’s not edible.
Wrecked Weapon: Happens to the sword of Laios.

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 * [[Demihuman]]: Can be seen in creatures such as mermaids. Chilchuck and Marcille are against eating demihumans.
 * [[Does Not Like Magic]]: Senshi is generally hesitent to use magic.
-* [[Don't Try This At Home]]: Given the show's focus on hunting and preparing wild game, the manga needed this a few times:
-** In the episode where the party prepares mandrakes, the author leaves a disclaimer noting that real mandrake root (unlike the fictional variety) is highly toxic and should not be consumed by humans.
 * [[Dungeon Shop]]: In episode 1 it is explained that the catacombs near the entrance of the dungeon is heavily traveled, and merchants operate there.
 ** Another less savory one exists deeper in the dungeon.