Delicious in Dungeon (aka Dungeon Meshi), by Ryoko Kui, translated by Taylor Engel
In a world of dnd-ish dungeon crawls, one person's dream is to cook and eat monsters to discover what kinds of food you can make of them. Follow this adventuring party as they travel deep into a dungeon, eating well as they go, on a quest to save a party member who was eaten by a dragon!
I adored every bit of this manga!!! The main characters are all a delight, and it's the kind of story where the author sees and shows you the inherent personness of all characters, including antagonists. And the world created to make sense of the dungeon's existence is fascinating, as are all the ways the ecosystems within the dungeon are expanded upon to make sense of the creatures living within it.
And it's a story that knows what its themes are, too, and is able to tie them all together in extremely satisfying ways in the climax of the narrative!
