Anime Like Delicious in Dungeon: 12 Parties Worth Joining

Most lists of anime like Delicious in Dungeon reach for other cooking shows. Wrong shelf. Laios does not love food; he loves monsters, and the meals are how the show proves its dungeon has an ecology. The walking mushroom has a life cycle, the mimic has a habitat, and the party has to understand both or go hungry. Chilchuck’s exasperation, Marcille’s disgust, and Senshi’s patience are the other half of the appeal: four people who would never have chosen each other, stuck at one campfire.

So the picks below are sorted by which of those things they keep. Two are about a crew that cooks what it kills. Two are about worlds that make sense. The rest are shorter matches for one specific pleasure. The 24 episodes of Delicious in Dungeon end mid-story, so the manga is the honest answer to “what next”; this is the list for when you want animation.

Golden Kamuy, for hunting, cooking, and a crew of maniacs

The closest match Golden Kamuy

• 12-episode first season
• five seasons, 62 episodes, complete

A war veteran and an Ainu girl hunt tattooed convicts across Hokkaido, and eat very well along the way.

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Sugimoto survived the Russo-Japanese war and needs gold. Asirpa knows how to skin a deer, which mushrooms kill you, and why you put miso in the stew, and she is appalled that he puts miso in the stew. Every few episodes the treasure hunt stops so someone can cook something, and the show explains the recipe with the same care Delicious in Dungeon gives to its basilisk. Nobody else does the “survival is a skill and skills are interesting” thing this well.

The crew grows into a gang of murderers, deserters, and one very polite serial killer, all of whom are funny, and the whole thing finished in 2026 with its final season. Expect graphic violence, a lot of it, and jokes about nudity that go on too long. The first season’s animation is rough; it improves.

Ranking of Kings, for a fantasy world that takes itself seriously

For the world Ranking of Kings

• 23 episodes
• one complete arc
• manga continues

A tiny deaf prince nobody rates, a shadow creature who becomes his only friend, and a kingdom with actual politics.

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Bojji cannot hear, cannot lift a sword, and is first in line for the throne. The show looks like a picture book and behaves like a court drama: succession, a stepmother whose motives keep shifting, and a dead king whose choices are still hurting people. What it shares with Delicious in Dungeon is a refusal to treat its fantasy world as set dressing. Magic has rules, monsters have histories, and the giants and demons are people with grievances.

Pick it if the dungeon’s layered history was what held you. It is more sentimental than Delicious in Dungeon and the middle stretch loses momentum, but the kindness at its core is real. Abuse and violence toward a child are on screen. The 10-episode “Treasure Chest of Courage” is side stories and is skippable.

Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash, for survival with a price tag

For the stakes Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash

• 12 episodes
• one arc
• light novels continue

Six strangers wake in a fantasy world with no memories and no money, and learn that killing one goblin is hard.

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The party in Grimgar are the people who could not get into a better party. Their first goblin takes an entire episode, several of them cannot look at what they have done, and the money it pays for is barely dinner. That economy, in which food and rent and the cost of a new dagger are the plot, is the closest match here to Delicious in Dungeon’s insistence that adventurers have to eat.

The show is slow, watercolour-soft, and sad in a way the premise does not advertise. It ends after one arc with the group changed and the story open. Choose it for the friction of a party that is still learning to trust each other, and skip it if you want Senshi-level competence from anyone.

Silver Spoon, for the systems behind a meal

For the food, honestly Silver Spoon

• 11-episode first season
• 22 across two
• manga continues

A burnt-out city kid enrols at an agricultural school and finds out where bacon comes from.

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Hachiken picked the farming school because it had a dormitory and was far from his father. Then he names a piglet, and the show spends the rest of the season on what it means to raise something you are going to eat. No fantasy, no monsters, but the same author as Fullmetal Alchemist and the same interest in how work actually gets done: milking schedules, the price of an egg, why the pizza tastes better when you built the oven.

This is the pick if the cooking segments were the part you rewound. Two seasons of 11 episodes each cover roughly a year of school; the manga goes further. Slaughter is treated frankly, which is the point, and there is no action rhythm to fall back on.

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For the party, quieter Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

• 28 episodes
• second season exists
• manga continues

Same season, opposite temperature: a fantasy party where the arguments are about memory instead of dinner.

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The other big fantasy of early 2024, and the one with the opposite temperature. Frieren, Fern and Stark squabble about money and about who has to drag Frieren out of bed, but their real subject is memory, and the show would rather solve a problem than fight it. The best link is small: Frieren cannot resist opening a treasure chest even when she knows it is a mimic, and gets swallowed head first, a joke Laios would take notes on. Slower and sadder. Twenty-eight episodes, then a 10-episode second season, with the manga still running. It has its own guide.

For the ecology Made in Abyss

• 13 episodes
• a film and a 12-episode second season follow

A hole in the world with layers, creatures, and a curse, all explained. Then it hurts the children.

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Nobody builds a dungeon ecology more carefully. Nobody is more brutal about it either. Riko climbs down the Abyss after her mother with Reg, a robot boy with no memory, and every layer has its own plants, predators and price: coming back up even a little makes the body pay, with nausea near the top and with your humanity near the bottom. That is Delicious in Dungeon’s rule that a dungeon has a system, pushed as far as it goes, and the children spend real time working out what is safe to eat. The violence is graphic and aimed at kids; know that going in. Thirteen episodes, then the film Dawn of the Deep Soul and the 12-episode The Golden City of the Scorching Sun, with the manga still going.

For the craft Hakumei and Mikochi

• 12 episodes
• self-contained

Two thumb-sized women in a forest town: carpentry, cooking, and a market day, in loving detail.

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The gentlest match here. Hakumei is a restless handywoman who will take any job with a hammer in it; Mikochi cooks, bottles preserves and sells them at market in the forest town of Makinata. Everyone is a few centimetres tall, so a single fruit is a load to carry home, and the show gives a pot of stew the same patient attention Senshi gives a pot of scorpion hotpot. It keeps Delicious in Dungeon’s pleasure in how things are made and drops the monsters and the danger. If Senshi’s cooking was your favourite thing and you want no stakes at all, this is the one. Twelve episodes of short stories with no plot to finish, from a manga that is still running.

For the meals Restaurant to Another World

• 12 episodes
• a 12-episode second season exists

A Tokyo restaurant opens a door into a fantasy world every Saturday, and dragons come in for beef stew.

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An anthology: one customer, one dish, one small story per half-episode. Western Restaurant Nekoya is an ordinary Tokyo diner the rest of the week, and on Saturdays its door opens elsewhere, so elves, soldiers and a dragon called the Red Queen come in and order the same dish every time. Aletta, a demon girl who sneaks in for shelter and is hired as a waitress, is the closest thing to a lead. It shares Delicious in Dungeon’s delight in fantasy people eating well, but nothing is hunted, nobody is in danger, and the menu is omelettes and fried food rather than monsters. Two seasons of 12 episodes with no story to end. Comfort food as a format.

For low stakes Campfire Cooking in Another World

• 12 episodes
• a 12-episode second season exists

A summoned office worker whose only power is online grocery delivery, and the giant wolf he feeds.

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Isekai with the fighting mostly removed. Mukohda is summoned by a kingdom that wanted heroes, works out that the king means to use them, and slips away with one odd skill, Online Supermarket, which buys groceries from modern Japan. His cooking earns him a companion he did not ask for, Fel, a legendary wolf who kills anything standing between him and dinner, and later Sui, a baby slime. The overlap is meals made from monsters, since Fel keeps bringing home things to cook. The difference is that nothing is ever hard and nobody bickers. Two seasons of 12 episodes, with the source novels continuing. Fine background viewing, and Fel is a good character.

For cooking as care Sweetness & Lightning

• 12 episodes
• manga complete

A widowed maths teacher who cannot cook learns how, so his small daughter can have a proper dinner.

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Senshi feeds the party because people who eat properly survive, and because nobody else will. That is this whole show. Kōhei Inuzuka has been giving his daughter Tsumugi convenience-store meals since her mother died, until Kotori, one of his students, whose mother owns a restaurant and is rarely home, offers her kitchen, and the three of them learn one dish per episode. There is no fantasy and no danger, and grief sits under every meal. What it keeps is the pleasure of watching someone get competent at food for the sake of other people. Twelve episodes cover part of a manga that has since finished, and the anime stops at a kind resting point.

For the systems Log Horizon

• 25-episode first season
• 62 across three

Thirty thousand players are trapped in a game where all food tastes of crackers, until someone learns to cook.

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The famous hook is Delicious in Dungeon’s question in reverse: what does a world need before people can live in it? Players wake inside the online game Elder Tale, and every dish made through the menu tastes of soggy crackers, until someone finds that food cooked by hand, by a player with the cooking skill, has flavour. Shiroe, a strategist in glasses, turns that discovery into a burger stand and then into leverage over the city of Akiba. Politics and economics follow. The first two seasons run 25 episodes each and the third is 12, and the story stays open. The later seasons drop off.

For the ensemble Little Witch Academia

• 25 episodes
• complete

A magic school comedy with a big, loud cast and a world that turns out to have rules worth caring about.

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Trigger made this and Delicious in Dungeon, and it shows in the rubbery faces and the way a spell goes wrong. Akko enrols at Luna Nova because a stage witch called Shiny Chariot inspired her as a child, and she has the Marcille energy: enthusiasm, competence in the wrong direction, and friends who cover for it. Her roommate Sucy grows poisonous mushrooms and tests them on Akko, which is Laios’s attitude to research with a pointier hat. It is a school story for all ages with no gore. Twenty-five episodes and a complete story.

Before you pick

A “food” tag on a catalogue can mean a cooking contest, a restaurant workplace, a cosy slice of life, or a survival mechanic. Those are four different evenings. Decide whether you want the meals, the ecology, or the party before you filter on anything, because the tag will not tell you.

The fantasy guide has more worlds with working rules, and the adult protagonists guide covers Golden Kamuy’s neighbours. For the catalogue’s own suggestions, open the Finder with Delicious in Dungeon selected and read Yuki’s line under each card before trusting the percentage.