Call me a freak, but I’m absolutely here for adventurers being frugal and eating their way through monster-filled dungeons. It saved a ton of resources and allowed them to be creative given their restrictive financial situation. What did you think of Delicious in Dungeon Episode 1?
Is it too weird of a premise for you?
Delicious in Dungeon Episode 1 Review
I might sound like an absolute freak for saying this, but I believe Laios is a man after my own heart.
When they were in the castle top portion of the dungeon and Senshi pulled out the seeds of the man-eating plant, I wondered if they would be able to grow again. Then, Laios tries to keep the seeds to grow before Marcille threw them in the fire – leaving both myself and Laios crushed.
I know that’s weird as hell to say, but I really felt that.
As I type this right now, I’m on my second round of homemade guacamole with my garden-fresh frozen tomatoes from the summer alongside my perennial herbs I grow with avocado and tomatillo I literally brought from the store solely for the seeds. Yesterday I had water everywhere on my kitchen counter because I used too small of a glass dish to puree the water to extract all of the tomatillo seeds from the flesh.
What I couldn’t extract, I threw the pulp on a paper towel and stored it in my compost bag to throw outside next week. So while even the “garden-talk” of the man-eating plants composting their prey and sometimes eating dead bodies is gross…it’s highly realistic.
As Laios pointed out to Marcille, dead and decaying things are the reason her “clean” food tastes so good. Bloodmeal is made from the blood of animals (allegedly) and bonemeal is from the bones of animals (allegedly because again – how would we really know the difference?). I primarily make my own compost and fertilizer now from various plants and throw my decayed plants (along with some comfrey) in my garden beds and it creates this disgusting, black sludge when broken down followed by white bacteria and then mushrooms everywhere from the fungi.
This symbiosis of the plants is what allowed me to have 7-foot late season tomato plants and nearly 9-foot sunchokes grown in a kitty pool in poor clay soil I am still amending. I know I’m like a dog and a bone with this topic right now, but I really appreciate how Dungeon Meshi actually went into detail about why those “disgusting” plants and animals are necessary for a balanced (and nutritious) ecosystem to survive and thrive.
Delicious in Dungeon Story Synopsis
Delicious in Dungeon centers around an adventuring party who after a battle with the Red Dragon, nearly died and were saved by their party’s mage. The mage happens to be the group leader Laios’ little sister, Falin. After losing all of their money, gear, and two party members who resigned – they set out back into the basement level of the dungeon in search of the Red Dragon before Falin is fully digested by it in a month’s time.
There is also a very interesting subplot concerning the creation of the dungeon itself by an alleged mad magician who is holding an entire civilization captive underground. I’d love to learn more about that eventually but for now, I really want to see how Senshi plans to cook up this Red Dragon once they find it again. I think I’ve mentioned this before, but I am a collector of antiquarian books. I also know a lot of old legends, stories, and fables from across our realm.
A Little History of Dragon Lore
The old histories and annals (I’m talking books given to royals and held in the Library of Congress and other prestigious organizations today) mention talk of dragon meat.
It is said that to consume its flesh may drive you mad or give you infinite wisdom (which seems like one and the same in that case) and that is why a many dragons were slain in the olden days. Others were slayed for glory (like Sozin and Uncle Iroh in Avatar: the Last Airbender) while other dragons were worshipped as teachers and keepers of wisdom for humanity (like Paarthurnax in Skyrim).
Dragons were sacred in my own culture and we were even called snake people, or ‘Naga’ at one point in history. Our temples and pyramids like The Temple of the Feathered Serpent dedicated to Quetzalcoatl (the plumed serpent) at Teotihuacan in Mexico is one such place that shows the cultural significance of dragons. The Serpent Mound in the highly sacred place of Ohio, is another. Come to think of it, I think there’s an anime called ‘Drifting Dragons’ I’ve been meaning to watch that focuses on hunting and eating dragons for their power.
Anyway, I think I’ve droned on long enough about gardening and dragons. I guess you can really tell I want to see what recipe Senshi uses for the Red Dragon out of sheer curiosity. Or rather, I want to see if it lines up with the old historical books like most popular ‘fiction’ does…
Did you enjoy the first episode of Dungeon Meshi? What do you think about eating monsters found in a fantasy world?
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