I had these as a kid so it clicked with me when I first started reading Dungeon Meshi. I've found the hint book on an archival website here for you to see and compare. I believe a lot of the artistic style in Dungeon Meshi is inspired by the early Japanese hintbooks to Wizardry 1. You can see more information about this unknown classic here They then meet a dwarf who introduces them to the world of Dungeon Meshi. Other references to Wizardry's backstory is the "insane Wizard controlling the dungeon" trope which was started by Wizardry's "Werdna." The Dungeon in Dungeon Meshi is also a lost or fallen kingdom, much like in Wizardry.īeyond that most of the tired old dungeon crawling tropes found in Dungeon Meshi and countless isekai come directly from these two CRPGS (and to a lesser extent Dungeons and Dragons in general). Dungeon Meshi 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. After his sister was devoured by a dragon and all their supplies were lost in a failed dungeon raid, Lyos and his party are completely broke and have resorted to eating the monsters they hunt, but are still determined to save her before she gets digested. The strange mixing of "eastern" archetypes like samurai and ninjas into a normally Western European style fantasy is also a uniquely Oubliette/Wizardry thing that Dungeon Meshi is drawing from and NOT Japanese-centric self insertion that I think many would assume. The main plot of the manga is one of the well known game mechanics common to these old CRPG's: Retrieving a dead ally from the dungeon. It has also been published in Italian by J-Pop since May 2017 and in Spanish by Milky Way Ediciones since February 2017.
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The series has been published in English as Delicious in Dungeon by Yen Press since May 23, 2017. While the cooking show aspect of the manga is unique and fun, everything else is basically catering to the hard core Wizardry fanbase in Japan. Dungeon Meshi ranked first in the 2016 Kono Manga ga Sugoi for the Male Readers division. It was and still is more popular in Japan, having more sequals only in Japanese than in English. Wizardry is a Canadian knock off of an old 1977 game made in Chicago that basically started the RPG craze in Japan in the 80's. I thought I'd share the obvious inspiration for dungeon meshi since I haven't really heard it mentioned here before (or really on any article about the manga I've read).ĭungeon Meshi draws heavily on the Wizardry and Oubliette era of Western CRPGs. Devoted to Ryko Kui's award winning hunger-inducing manga, Dungeon Meshi Monsters never looked so tasty 4.1k.
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