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Funnily enough, the creator said in an interview, that she never played DnD or is a good cook.

My favorite part of Dungeon Meshi is when Laios is preparing the mushroom creature for cooking, and realizes that it's easier to cut up-and-down rather than across, concluding that he should go for vertical strikes when fighting them in the future. It's a great depiction of stumbling upon useful discoveries. :)

Fun facts about the author!
1) I'm pretty sure she's stated that she's actually a picky eater.
2) She rushed to finish the manga (not to say the ending is rushed—it ends very satisfactorily), so she could play Baldurs Gate 3 uninterrupted and has drawn some fan art for it.
3) She's aggressively elusive. There are little to no pictures of her; she has only a handful of interviews done and literally has no social media presence.
4) I mentioned before that she played Bladurs Gate 3, but that's only one of the many games she talked about playing. She's played others like Red Dead Redemption 2, The Witcher 3, and Cyberpunk 2077 (which is her all-time favorite).
5) The biggest inspiration for Dungeon Meshi is a slew of fantasy games and novels (shes noted to have read Lord of the Rings, etc.). But the biggest inspiration is by far Wizardry, and the second biggest would be The Legend of Grimrock.

i finally realized why in the dnd movie the intellect devourers passed the group by. a bard, barbarian, sorcerer, and a paladin; they didnt even have two braincells between them.

One of the coolest moments is when shenshi jerry rigs holy water to defeat spectres but instead of spraying it on them pours it into a glass vial closing it and attaching it to rope  to use as flail.

Dungeon Meshi really reminds me of old Advance DnD in just the ways they navigate the dungeons and surviving in it. We didnt eat the monsters but there was so many times of clutch near death moments that this anime reminds me off and how we spent half of it half naked beating monsters to death with rusted swords and turning giant dead snakes into makeshift loot sacks.

Also, every player group has a quirk. For some it's collecting books, or visiting shrines, and for this one is cooking anything and everything. And the best part is that the worldbuilding of the "DM" helps the narrative that the players want to encounter. It feels like the best dnd you ever played.

ine thing i noticed about this anime, is that, if you think about it, Chilchuck is acctuly the leader... Laios, Mrcile and Senji all make important contributions and take the leade in the moment they need to, but if you pay attention, everybody always look to chilchuck when they are planing, he is the one that usuly makes the final decision on what will be done

The concept of a dungeon as alien ecology, but with internal rationalities you can learn, is pretty fun.

I don't know if everything has to be a direct D&D equivalent. The general principles of dungeoneering can be used in different games.

One event I liked was that Namari and Shuro straight up resigned. Your goons are not fanatically loyal, they got stuff to do. And they don't disappear from the world, they can still be encountered.

NGL when I saw the trailer my first thought was “pass” I didn’t need some food anime. But a mixture of people saying it was good and me being bored one day I tried it… damn I enjoyed it so much as a DnD player. Especially as a DM I wanted to steal some stuff from the show to implement in my own game. They could make a setting book for this and it would be fantastic.

It really feels like Dungeon Crawl Classics to me.
There is a Fighter, Dwarf, Elf and Halfling. (Yes, those are all classes).
The way they are forced to relly more on cunning and cenario interaction rather than pure uses of spells really sends home how it feels to play DCC.

she literally stopped the manga faster cause she wanted to play Baldur's Gate 😭

That intro sequence was awesome!

this just made me think what if fallens player wanted to play something else and so made senshi so still be able to make sure the party stayed alive

I kinda hope Ryoko Kui will make a DND or Pathfinder playbook based on her world.

Nice video. Kudos to the producers behind the anime, for giving it a decent budget, and studio trigger for a good job. Anime is full of good stories getting poor adaptations, and therefore the story/source material doesn't get more recognition. Dungeon Meshi is have it's moment in the spotlight and deserves it!

I DO really like how D&D naturally builds in flaws for your characters, not just in backgrounds, but yes, in stats. Unless you 'roll your stats at home', you are very likely to roll some good and bad stats (or if you sensibly use point buy, you have to choose between being good at some things and bad at others, or very average at everything.)

This character is also just that, a character, with a background and personality, which can have more flaws, which you can choose to relate to your stats or not!

Great explanation of D&D! Together with Dungeon Meshi makes it extremely inviting.

So, the frogs are smart enough to disarm the party but not smart enough to stay at range. Yeah, that sounds like how a lot of DMs run monsters.