Delicious In Dungeon / Danjon Meshi

About

Delicious in Dungeon, known in Japanese as Danjon Meshi, is a fantasy comedy manga series written by Ryoko Kui. The series follows an adventuring party on a quest while striving to save money by cooking monsters they slay in a dungeon. The manga ran for nearly 10 years and an anime adaptation debuted on Netflix in 2024, leading to an increased online presence and fandom surrounding the series that year.

History

Danjon Meshi is written and illustrated by Ryoko Kui and ran from February 2014 to September 2023 in Harta magazine.^[1] The series follows an adventuring party of Laios, Marcille, Chilchuck and Senshi on a quest to retrieve Laios' sister after she was eaten by a dragon in a dungeon. However, the party is short on money, and Laios endeavors to cook monsters the adventuring party slays on their journey. The manga was well-received by both critics and readers.^[2][3]

Anime

On January 4th, 2023, Netflix premiered an anime adaptation of Delicious in Dungeon, created by Studio Trigger (trailer shown below).

Online Presence

The manga series drew a dedicated online fandom replete with fan artists and memers. For example, on January 17th, 2015, Pixiv^[4] user 暁 posted art of Senshi, gaining over 100 reactions on the platform in nine years (shown below, left).

On January 4th, 2024, following the anime's release, Twitter / X user @Caiman_Pool^[5] made a crossover meme between the show and the infamous Filet Minion meme, gaining over 1,300 retweets and 7,800 likes in four days (shown below, right).

Related Memes

Draw Your Favs Getting Cooked In Soup

Draw Your Faves Getting Cooked in Soup is an art trend on Twitter started by littl3_din0saur in March 2023. The trend involves artists adding their characters to the pot of soup, or redrawing the scene entirely with their characters and art style.

The art trend originated on March 29th, 2023, when Twitter user littl3_din0saur posted the following tweet (shown below) in response to the Dying In A Glue Trap meme. In the tweet, they ask "why drawing glue traps when you can draw your faves getting cooked in soup like this" and included a clip from the manga Delicious in Dungeon that shows the catgirl character Izutsumi relaxing in a pot of hot soup. The tweet received over 13,500 likes and over 3,100 retweets in over two days.

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