Dungeon Meshi

Description

When young adventurer Laios and his company are attacked and soundly thrashed by a dragon deep in a dungeon, the party loses all its money and provisions and a member. They're eager to go back and save her, but there is just one problem: If they set out with no food or coin to speak of, they're sure to starve on the way. But Laios comes up with a brilliant idea: "Let's eat the monsters!" Slimes, basilisks, and even dragons. None are safe from the appetites of these dungeon-crawling gourmands. (From Yen Press)

Note: Nominated for the 9th to 12th Manga Taishou Award from 2016 to 2019. Won Best Comic at the 55th Seiun Awards in 2024 and the Harvey Award for Best Manga in 2024.

Type

Manga

Associated Names

Danjon Meshi

Delicious in Dungeon

Dungeon Meshi. Lochy i smakołyki (Polish)

Gloutons et Dragons

Mỹ Vị Hầm Ngục

Požemio Maistas

Tragones y Mazmorras

Подземелье вкусностей

Підземелля смакоти

สูตรลับตำรับดันเจี้ยน (DEXpress)

ダンジョン飯

迷宫饭

迷宮飯

던전밥

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Status in Country of Origin

14 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1 (S1)

Ends at Vol 8, Chap 52 (S1)

User Reviews

N/A

Forum

2 topics, 2 posts

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User Rating

Average: 8.9 / 10.0 (775 votes)

Bayesian Average: 8.8 / 10.0

43%

26%

19%

Last Updated

April 10th, 2025 11:31am PDT - 2 weeks ago

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Genre

Action Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Seinen Supernatural
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Author(s)

Artist(s)

Year

Original Publisher

Enterbrain

Serialized In (magazine)

Harta (Enterbrain)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Gempak Starz (14 Volumes - Complete)

Yen Press (14 Volumes - Complete)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #300

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Monthly Pos #339

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3 Month Pos #339

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6 Month Pos #269

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Year Pos #209

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World building and Character

by seihanda
2 years ago

Rating: N/A

Yes it was only a dungeon and not the whole world. But in that dungeon the whole worldbuilding is so detail.
Also the chemistry of between the characters are top notch.

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It's okay.

by skynet5c
2 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

First, let's talk about the one good thing about this manga, and really there is only one good thing: attention to detail. The author has clearly put a lot of effort into making the world-setting coherent, and making the characters and politics feel realistic. I agree with the other reviewers that the characters in this manga feel realistic.

Now, let's talk about the bad. Initially, the story was the MC and his team fighting monsters, sometimes using clever and non-conventional tactics based on the rules of the setting. That was fun and exciting and it made sense in the context of the setting. But as the manga dragged on, the plot just veered off in nonsensical direction, with the protagonists fighting the dungeon master who was practically a god, using tactics and logic that felt like they shouldn't work but somehow they do? I have to say that the story felt more and more unrealistic and nonsensical as it went on. The MC is a goofy type, who is only obsessed with researching monsters and cooking them, and not really interested in politics (at least that's the way it comes across in the manga). If events had proceeded more logically, then most likely the ending would not have been a happy one for the MC. But, a series of happy coincidences resulted in a happy ending for the MC. I didn't like that.

Another thing I didn't like about this manga was that there was too much cooking. Pages upon pages filled with nothing but dialogue about the cooking and eating of fantasy monsters. In the beginning it was okay, I thought maybe this was just some comedy joke thing, but as the manga went on, it got worse and worse. As the series neared its end, there were more and more pages in each chapter that was purely just cooking and eating monsters. Pages upon pages of characters just talking about eating fantasy creatures. It became increasingly tedious and boring for me but I powered through it and got to the end at last. Now, don't get me wrong, I like eating food as much as anyone. But I cannot stand a manga that was literally just about eating food.

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One of the Best

by big_red01027
2 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Regardless of topic, genre, demographic, or any other measurement: Dungeon Meshi is among the best manga I've ever read, an easy (and well-deserved) 10/10.

It carries my highest recommendation, and I'll say no more because it speaks so brilliantly for itself.

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It's quite unique

by Samken
2 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

Lyos and his party are wiped out, and his sister is eaten by a dragon, so they need to go back to the dungeon ASAP and rescue her before she is digested, but their funds are quite low, and they're not sure how supplies will last on the endeavour, but well, they meet a dwarf, and he introduces them to dungeon cuisine, aka eating monsters.

Characters are fairly dynamic and interesting, the start is kinda slow and episodic, in more of a "dish of the day" format but there is a story buried underneath that starts to show up later on.

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One of the Best Manga I’ve Read

by MaruNeko
4 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

I started out with this series early on thinking it was just another fantasy food manga, which I like. I’m currently up to chapter 74. The plot ends up being multi-layered after the first 20 or 30 chapters, though, while still keeping the food theme as part of it. The party has multiple goals so it is slow, but well-paced. It doesn’t feel like things are dragging out pointlessly. In addition, the art is amazing and varied; I admire the mangaka’s skill conveying characterization.

While the protagonist is a happy-go-lucky simple guy, he doesn’t get annoying because all the different characters balance well without feeling overwhelming or repetitive. A must-read!

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Not the average "food fantasy manga", give it a chance (read below)

by grandexeno
6 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

Give it a shot: it's true that the pace is slow and is kinda uninteresting for a bit of chapters, but around chapter 20-30 it changes pace and the plot finally unravels, we could say "beginning" the real story and even the worldbuilding itself.
So while you're "bearing with" the initial chapters, treat them like cute little fantasy slice of life standalone chapters, while knowing that this IS going somewhere. It will be easier on the reader, and you won't skip on the still nice details.

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Quite interesting

by PZcolo
7 years ago

Rating: 7.5 / 10.0

It start in a very episodic fashion with the dish of the day format but there is a story underneath and it starts to show later on.
Chars are interesting, dialogues are decent and the story is... to soon to tell maybe. In any case, it's entertaining to read and has some comedy mixed in too that's actually funny, sometimes.

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Undoubtedly great and refreshing

by Seregosa
8 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

It's a good read. It's refreshing and fairly funny, although the cooking tends to be pretty boring and repetitive. Sure, it's interesting how they make use of all weird stuff they find, but I will never find cooking to be exciting or awesome to read about. Don't get me wrong, I personally like cooking good food at home, but reading about it in a manga? Nah. I would prefer it if they cut down a bit on the cooking parts, there's too much focus on food, I'm not saying it should be removed, I just think it'd be better if there was a little bit less and perhaps not every chapter. Sure, it's called "dungeon MESHI", but that doesn't mean there has to be so much of it since it tends to get repetitive quickly, especially if you're experienced in cooking and not a blank page.

I feel like people give out a 10/10 score way too easily. Currently, when I write this, 46%(114) people gave it a 10. That's ridiculous. Yeah, it's fine, it's pretty good, but even if I loved the cooking, I still wouldn't give it a 10. You know what 10 is? It's a perfect score, flawless. There's nothing to improve on. It's the ultimate work you can think of and you're unable to imagine anything that could be done better and your enjoyment parameters are through the roof. But do people feel that way? Nah, most people just think "Oh, this was awesome, I loved it" and drops a 10/10 because they really enjoyed it without anything notable they felt they needed to complain about... Sigh... I mean, a 9/10 is already ridiculous enough for a score, giving it that score means there's almost nothing you think could be done better and you loved it, enjoying it immensely and not having any moments where you thought it was a bit dull, repetitive or so-so. I feel like most of the people giving a 10 should probably give an 8/10 instead, the score always gets so screwed up when people rate something without caring about what is actually required to get such high ratings. It's amazing how this manga has almost no votes under 7 though, that just means it's great, and I agree. It's easily worth around 7, which is "Great", some complaints but nothing too major.

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Don't let the synopsis stop you from reading this.

by fassina2
8 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

The focus is hardly on cooking, most of the focus is of how you'd survive a long journey into a massive dungeon. Yes there are at least a couple pages every chapter dedicated to food, but that is an important part of surviving a long journey in a dungeon that's often ignored.

Just talking about it already makes it more interesting than most dungeon type stories.

There is also a LOT of world development, they explain how the revival system works for instance, it has rules like you need the corpse, for example.

Which is very interesting and creates very interesting things like people who work and get paid to go into the dungeon and bring corpses of dead adventurers back to be revived.

How everything works is very detailed, like the monsters ecosystems.

It's basically a really cool biology study of monsters and a really realistic and believable look at dungeon and how they could exist and be explored in a realistic environment where people don't have infinite food, or the ability to carry anything they want in magical inventories.

It's really cool and you should give it a chance.

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It's Dungeon Meshi. Why aren't you already reading this?

by Swifft
9 years ago

Rating: N/A

I could go on and on about the ways this series is great and I have in a review I wrote about it. To summarize that review: Dungeon Meshi is a series that sticks to its somewhat weird Wizardry/D&D-inspired setting down to how these adventurers aren't trying to save the world, just trying to do one small thing within it. Interesting cooking abounds, the series is hilarious, Marcille is a great major female character (not a love interest, that's a plus), internal consistency is down pat. Well done, Kui-sensei.

Full review:
https://terrenceswiff.wordpress.com/2016/04/27/dungeon-meshi/

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