Delicious in Dungeon

 So, Netflix has hired a studio to bring an excellent manga, Delicious in Dungeon, to the (not so much anymore) silver screen.

 

 

That means it is time for some good old fashioned dungeon crawling adventure!

 

And another one Noshi had already seen before me to scratch of the goal counter...

 

Set in a world where a dungeon is constantly raided by parties, who cannot die due to the magic of the place, they hope to find the Golden Kingdom on it's lowest level.  It begins when a party fails to defeat a Red Dragon, who then consumes one of the party, the spellcaster Falin, and sister of the leader Laios.  Together with the other two party survivors, Chillchuck and Marcille, they go back in to save her, but with supplies and funds low they need to find another way.

 

 

They encounter Senshi, a dwarf cook, and he joins the party in order to provide sustenance by cooking the monsters they defeated in glorious meals.   Almost every story for the first two thirds of the 24 episodes is about a monster of the chapter and the dinner it provides.

 

But then the story starts to take a twist towards darker goals, Laios meeting unknowingly the "End Boss" of the dungeon in his childhood years through a magical painting.  They soon encounted the Red Dragon, slaying it.  Marcinelle uses Black magic, which is forbidden, to ressurect her friend, but it comes at a price as the dragon's soul has fused with her, and she soon transforms into a monster herself.  Attacking the party as well as another group they encountered, they realise it will not be simple to free Falin of the dungeon's and mad wizard's grasp.

 

 

During their search for Falin and a solution, they learn Senshi actually didn't come from above ground, and they are joined by a missing survivor of the other party, Asebi.  Together, they descend into the deeper levels of the dungeon through a lift they found, created by Dwarfs and Senshi actually having found the Golden City in the long past, being one of the very first ever to have entered it.  And so they set off to find Falin in the deepest levels...

 

It wasn't bad at all for an adaption, and it is worth the watch.  Yet somehow, for me it felt at times a bit to much as Food Wars (a manga series I adore) and only started focussing on the story in the final 8 to 10 episodes.  Let's see if a second will be made!