TV: Delicious in Dungeon

If you enjoyed the post-battle cooking interludes in the Tales videogame series, you'll love Delicious in Dungeon, an anime about a madcap adventuring party who learns to cook and eat strange monsters:

The show, produced by Studio Trigger (Cyberpunk: Edgerunners) and adapted from Ryōko Kui's longrunning manga, starts off when one of the party members is unceremoniously eaten by a dragon.  To resurrect her, the rest of the party will have to fight their way back through the dungeon and kill the dragon before its monthlong digestion cycle finishes. The problem? They're all completely broke, with not even enough money for food, so they'll have to live off of whatever they find in the dungeon...

The premise isn't groundbreaking (heck, there's even another culinary-themed fantasy anime on Netflix, Drifting Dragons), but Delicious in Dungeon stands out from the pack thanks to its lighthearted tone and heavy emphasis on cooking techniques. New episodes are coming out each week in Japan and on Netflix, so it'll be interesting to see where the series goes.