2024 fantasy/comedy, 24 episodes:
AniDB. Going down the dungeon is a
full-time job, but you need to cycle your loot into money for
equipment and food. Unless you can live off what you kill. vt
Delicious in Dungeon.
Our heroes are the remnants of a party who met a dragon, lost one
of their mages, and teleported out. They want to get back in and
resurrect her before it's too late. Good thing they run into Senshi
the dwarf, who can make delicious food out of anything…
Be aware, first, that this is a manga adaptation; these episodes cover
events as far as somewhere in chapter 8, out of 14 overall, and as
usual the series cuts off rather in the middle of things. A second
season was announced, but it hasn't been released yet.
But also this series is very much in two parts (indeed, with different
title sequences). The first half establishes the situation and the
characters, and is generally light-hearted fun; the second tries to be
far more serious, and while I still appreciated it, I was in the mood
for more of the first. It's still worth watching, but if you get to
the end of the first half and aren't won over by the characters, I
suspect the second half won't change your mind.
There's some worldbuilding about the actual nature of "dungeons" in
this universe, and how they grow and change, as well as what the elves
are up to; if any of that pays off it'll be in future episodes.
My taste ran more to the focus on weird food (like me, the writer of
the manga was told she was a fussy eater as a child, and I wonder
whether like me she seeks out weird foods now) than to the more
conventional wandering about trying to work out what to do against a
far more powerful foe. So it goes.