Delicious in Dungeon: story evolution, beyond dungeons, dragons and laughs

Himmel’s disappearance in Frieren: beyond the journey and those of mothers in Suzume no Tojimari and The Boy And The Heron They are very interesting especially because They are crossed by fantasy and magic, so adventures are created that take us to other worlds literally.

However, none of the deliveries compare to Delicious in Dungeon who managed to cook a story with few ingredients, and managed to get the juice out of each one of them, in the best way. I knew that the title would be one of the best of 2024, but at the time I wasn’t sure why, now we know that the story evolved in a natural and brilliant way.

Remember that the article will be full of spoilers.

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What is Delicious in Dungeon about?: beyond the obvious

At first it seems that we are facing a party that wants to discover more about a world full of mysteries, but these emerged when dungeons began to appear. A mad wizard seeks to protect the heir king from him because the previous one was betrayed and murdered, because of this, the fantastic universe begins the adventure in which dungeons are crucial. In addition to dragons, there is a lion that rules the world —almost like Aslan, yes, his power is strange and inexplicable, but benign.

Finally, what A party is exploring one of the deepest dungeons, but suddenly a dragon appears and attacks them. Falin Touden, who is a very kind and powerful mage, at the limit when facing the creature, prefers to save her companions, even if it means sacrificing herself, so while she is being devoured, she expels them from the dungeon.

The problem is that she takes them out of there without their equipment and since the adventurers need it to survive in the dungeon, when they leave, one of the members decides that she cannot work for free—she has needs—and another, who is in love with Falin, He thinks he needs help to save her and chooses to follow a separate plan, one not so impulsive.

Others Members of the party decide to rush to save her – among them Laios, her brother and Marcille, her best friend – before Falin is digested by the dragon. so they venture without money, equipment, or food, to the bottom of the dungeon. While the party was powerful—something we didn’t know at the beginning—without two members and their materials they are at a great disadvantage. Despite this, They decide to descend—yes, as if they were going down to the underworld—to recover the girl who is “guarded” in the dragon’s belly—yes, almost like in The Princess and the Dragon—.

On their way they meet an eccentric dwarf who breaks the taboos of society: The dungeon monsters are beings that have been created to destroy themselves, however, Sēnshi does not see it that way, he sees living and complex beings. He doesn’t see monsters that shouldn’t/can’t be eaten, e.g. out of disgust. In fact, it respects them and always tries to keep their habitats healthy, despite consuming them.

The party has no choice but to request his help so that he travels with them and feeds them, avoiding the poisons of some creatures, Plus he’s an expert at cooking them, so they never taste bad.

In this way, simply, Delicious in Dungeon It is about some friends who want to rescue a friend and on the trip they cook and eat while they talk and fantasize, however, this is far from being the case and in the second part of the first season everything changes.

Delicious in Dungeon: why is the second part of the series important?

The party eats many strange things and discovers different types of life and species of monsters, slowly beginning to notice different axes of world building. The team continues on their way to reach Falin, always with the idea that she has not been digested by the dragon.

When they finally manage to find him and by divine luck defeat him, they will realize that the girl has been digested, The journey they undertook only allowed them to cling to her, an extension of the denial that the magician would not return. These chapters also give a great graphic twist to the story in which the blood and bones contrast with the animations of the fruit pies and the monsters that are more vegetal than animal.

At this point, Marcille’s optimism and Laios’s confusion that made us laugh so much now make the adventure grotesque. Even more so when they decide to use black magic to revive Falin, despite it being prohibited. Although well, eating monsters was also taboo.

They will gather bones from different skeletons and Falin will appear from the dragon’s blood.

However, What they didn’t count on was that the great red dragon was receiving orders from the mad wizard who will want his minion back, and after a fleeting reunion of Falin with his friends, the dragon’s blood, which is now also the girl’s blood, will be called into service: the girl will be turned into a chimera that is at the command of the mad magician.

After this, the story of Delicious in Dungeon It takes on a new look, it begins to delve deeper into the characte
rs, and their relationships with each other become clearer. Furthermore, the monsters that appear are more of a mixture of mammals and therefore possess blood. History has a new margin that seems to offer a whole range of possibilities in which laughter and fear equally guide a new process.

On this occasion, Laios and company have decided that they want to defeat the magician so that Falin regains consciousness. —and you already saw that it is a murder machine under the command of its creator—. The ending has already been written and it is quite kind, because yes, fantasy, laughter and friendship orchestrate Delicious in Dungeon which, however, does not deny the shadows, the changes and the wonderful, so it strikes with an interesting touch.

And where do the dead go? What do they know that the living don’t? Who comes back after death? And will he be the same person he was in life? Also, what happens to the person you were when a loved one dies? Does he die too? These are questions that the outcome of the story will leave us wondering.

Definitely, Delicious in Dungeon He has an amazing narrative mastery, using classic genres and themes he built a world that seems new, and from the bitterness he made laughter emerge. Have you already seen it, what do you think? Did you like the article? Do you want me to write about the theories about Laios being on the autism spectrum? Tell me in the comments!