Dungeon Meshi
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Dungeon Meshi (subtitled "Delicious in Dungeon" in Engrish) is a Japanese mango about a group of murderhobos in a typical fantasy setting with an atypical but innovative premise: if your party is stuck underground and low on food, why not eat all those monsters you've been fighting? The story explores one such party learning dungeon crawler cuisine and bumbling their way through their quests.
Characters
Thorden Party
- Laius Thorden - The human Fighter of the group. He's always had a secret obsession with monstrous biology, and is the first to suggest that they try cooking monsters when they run out of money to buy food.
- Marcille - The elven Wizard specializing in black magic. She's the most reluctant to try eating monsters, even after several of the dishes they try turn out quite well. Laius and Senshi's obsessions disturb her. Has fat ears, isn't lewd.
- Senshi - A mysterious dwarf who joins the group after discovering their interest in monster cuisine. He's been cooking monsters for 10 years and knows all the best preparations and nutritional value of each monster they come across. Unlike your typical dwarf stereotype, he is not good with smithing nor does he taking good care of his weapon and armor, that he turned his mithril family heirloom weapons into a pair of woks and carries most of the cooking equipment.
- Chilchack - The group's halfling Thief. He's mostly there to pick locks and make money. Something of an only sane man. He hates mimics; as the one to open treasure chests, he's the one who usually gets killed by them.
- Farlyn - Laius' younger sister. As a child she showed a natural affinity for communicating with and banishing restless spirits. Eventually, she went to magic school, specializing in healing and purification magic and meeting Marcille. The first arc of the series chronicles their quest to rescue her from the belly of a red dragon. Turns out she still got dissolved by the dragon's stomach acid and had to be resurrected by Marcille's dark magic (which no one had expected). It ended badly with the dungeon master controls the newly resurrected Farlyn and turned her into harpy like monster.
Ex-Thorden Party Members
- Sureau - A Samurai-styled male human fighter. After the Red Dragon ate Farlyn, he quit the team and left Laius behind. Until he came back with his own party.
- Namari - Female dwarf, and quite infamous amongst most dwarves; her family used to serve the local governor, but her dad stole money from him and ran off, getting them kicked out and causing the governor to blame all dwarves. Like Sureau, she abandoned LAius after the Red Dragon ate Farlyn and nearly killed them all.
Gnome Party
Kabru Party
An adventurer party that is currently rising in the ranks and descending deeper into the dungeon. Initially rescued by Laius' party, a misunderstanding meant that they went deeper into the dungeon and continually fail challenges above their CR. Also known as the Scrub Party because they're not as experienced as Laius' party.
- Kabru - A dark-skinned human Paladin (in temperament; otherwise, he's a Lawful Good Fighter). He fights for the weak and the innocent, and seeks to conquer the dungeon so he can purge it before it corrupts the people and the land around it. He also thinks Laius' party is secretly Neutral Evil, and is determined to expose them. Being a paladin, he aggresively condemns the Murderhobo mentality, to the point of executing any murderhobos he meets. Apparently fear monsters due to a traumatic childhood experience where his town was attacked by beastmen, which instantly making him inferior to the monster-obessessed hero Laius.
- Lynnsha - Oriental wizard and Kabru's sort-off girlfriend. Often accuses Kabru of hitting on women of all races, and so comes off as mildly xenophobic because every knife-ear is another woman that could steal her man. Apparently learned her magic from some other magical school than the Academy that Farlyn and Marcille went to.
- Daya - Female Dwarf. Has a bad impression of Laius' party because Namari was a part of it, and Namari's family has a bad reputation among dwarfs.
- Holme - A gnome spellcaster who can apparently "summon" something.
- Mickbell - Halfling Rogue and Kuro's master. Unlike other adventurers, she advocates for right-to-work laws and refuses to join the adventurer's guild despite Chilchak trying to get all the halflings to join it and pay guild fees.
- Kuro - Dog-type Kobold Ranger who provides tracking services for the Kabru party. Kobolds are often discriminated against by civilized people because of their low intelligence, which makes Kuro's presence in the party all the more unusual. Is paid in head pats, belly rubs, and food, and arguing whether or not that's a fair days wages will, without exception, ignite a flame war.
Sureau's Party
Turns out Sureau is a wealthy man from the East (as if his katana fighting style isn't already a big give away). He was probably looking for a foreign white girl to fuck so he came to the West (a subversion of Charisma Man). He has his eye on Farlyn until the accident happened and traumatized him enough to call his servants to rescue her. His servants consist of:
- Hien and Benichidori - Possibly sisters. Ninjas that are cunning and sexy, they are able to move swiftly on battlefield using throwing weapons like bomb.
- Maizuru - Looks like she has wings on her arm as if she is some kind of tengu, but were actually decorations apparently. She was tasked by the master of the household to look after the young master (Sureau) when he was young. Her shrine maiden outfit suggest that she is a caster familiar with eastern ways of magic, which she is and has shown to be able to summon a arachnid-type Ushi-oni to tangle Lauis with its webs. She also knows how to cook eastern food like onigiri and miso soup.
- Tade - A giant brutish horned girl armed with a Japanese style iron club. She is incredibly strong that she KO a giant sea serpent in one strike as well as resilient to attack from harpies that could lethally wounded any adventurer.
- Izutumi (Asebi) - Initially introduced as Asbei but turns out that's just her nickname. She wear clothes that cover her appearance. Hyped by fans as some kind of cat girl similar to that of the author's scraped pilot Lauis party member (replaced by Chilchack of course). Turns out she is! and she is but a beastkin sealed by Maizuru in the past, which she immediately went to seek the Thorden party's member Marcille's due to her knowledge on the dark magic (or ancient magic according to her) in order to dispel her seal, but Marcille lacks that kind of mastery over the eastern magic seal so they failed. Still, it does not stop Laius from asking Izutumi to join the new Thorden party. Apparently came from a bad upbringing that she is not only a picky eater, has bad table mananer, she enraged Senshi and is so bad at cooking that Maizuru tell her to back off.
They are currently working along with Kabru's party, whether or not they will be deceive by Kabru for his own agenda. Currently leaving the dungeon with Kabru's party.
Plot
After getting his sister devoured by a dragon and losing all their supplies in a failed dungeon raid, Laius and his party are determined to save his sister before she gets digested. Completely broke and having to resort to eating monsters as food, they meet a dwarf who will introduce them to the world of dungeon meshi - delicious cuisines made from ingredients such as the flesh of giant bats, walking mushroom, or even screaming mandrakes.
Reading on an empty stomach is not advised.