Delicious in Dungeon (anime)

Delicious In Dungeon is a fantasy anime about adventurers delving into a dangerous dungeon to achieve objectives important to them. Along the way they encounter a wide variety of monsters and devise ways to prepare them for consumption

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

Tropes used in Delicious in Dungeon (anime) include:

Acid Trip Dimension: The party passes through one after interacting with the spirit in episode 21.
Alien Lunch: Most of the food consumed by the party incorporates at least some monster into it, which is seen as weird in universe.
Animal Eye Spy: Marcella uses familiars to help Senshi in episode 22.
An Axe to Grind: Senshi wields a poorly maintained axe.
Art Shift: Done briefly in the living armor episode. In the scene where Laois recalls his memories of the egg sac on a stick, the animation becomes far more fluid, featuring a camera rotating around the characters, a different color palette, and in general a more expressive animation style.
Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny: Kobalds can be easily distracted, as Laois proves when het gets one to run through a door by throwing a bell.
Badass Beard: Senshi has a very impressive beard.
Baleful Polymorph: Those who step into a ring of changeling mushrooms are transformed.
Basilitrice: A Basilisk features in episode 2, and a Cockatrice in episode 15.
Bathtub Bonding: Happens with Falin and Marcille.
The Berserker: Kobolds who smell blood are prone to go berserk, and won’t stop fighting.
Big Creepy-Crawlies: The scorpion in episode 1 are extremely large, about the size of a pet.
Big Bad: The Mad Mage is this for inhabitants of the island, and dungeon explorers.
Bishie Sparkle: Senshi has these after he is transformed into an elf.
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.
Came Back Wrong: The circumstances under which Falin is revived leads to her becoming influenced by the Mad Mage.
Changeling Tale: Laois says that stories of changelings and children come from the homeland of Chilchuck.
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.
Dug Too Deep: Senshi's party reaches the dungeon long before most other characters, save the orcs.
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.
Familiar: Employed by Marcille. She comments that she doesn’t know how the Mad Mage can handle so many at a time.
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.
Food Porn: The pictures of delicious food are usually very detailed, and often appetizing despite their ingredients.
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.
I Ate What?: Marcille is able to sus out that she probably ate fishmen eggs during the shapeshifter episode.
Improbable Weapon User: The cooking pot is used as a shield or weapon a few times.
Impossibly Delicious Food: Most, but not all, monster based food is this for Laios. Others are more objective, but are still frequently surprised by the quality of the monster food.
Limited Animation: Occasionally used for comedic effect, such as cropping in on a derpy face.
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.
No Party Like a Donner Party: Senshi is afraid of Griffins, because he isn’t sure the last meat his doomed party provided him was Dwarven or Griffin. It turns out it was Hippogriff.
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 Gargoyles Rock: Gargoyles are considered tough opponents, and are capable of flight.
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 Gryphons Are Different: A griffin features in episode 22.
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. They can be seen in a flashback to Kabru's village.
Plant Person: The Dryads.
Portrait Painting Peephole: A portrait with moving eyes can be seen early in episode 6.
Rapid Aging: 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.
Sense Freak: Inverted, Tall Men have duller senses then the half foot. As Chilchuck finds after being transformed by the changeling.
Sirens Are Mermaids: The more humanoid mermaids are sing like sirens.
Sole Survivor: Senshi may be this from his original party. At most there are one to two others, who’s death is not seen, but is highly implied.
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.
Teleportation Sickness: Happens to Senshi after being pulled through an Acid Trip Dimension in episode 21.
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.
Unicorn: One is seen pulling a cart in episode 21.
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.