Featured Image: Anime Expo 2024 to Welcome Delicious in Dungeon Creator Ryoko Kui as Guest of Honor

Anime Expo announced that Ryoko Kui, the creator of Delicious in Dungeon, will be attending Anime Expo 2024 as the Guest of Honor. This marks Kui’s first visit to North America. The event will be on July 4 -7, 2024 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in California, USA.

Fans of the Delicious in Dungeon series, with its eccentric characters and unique storytelling, will have the opportunity to meet Ryoko Kui and get a signature from the creator herself. To celebrate Ryoko Kui’s visit to the Anime Expo 2024, Yen Press revealed a special acrylic stand that is exclusive only to the Anime Expo event. It features the beloved characters of the Delicious in Dungeon series. The item will be available to purchase at the Yen Press booth. Further information on this exclusive item will be announced at a later date. Fans can follow Yen Press and Anime Expo for future updates.

Ryoko Kui is a manga artist and author who is well-known for her Delicious in Dungeon series. She made her manga debut in 2011 with The Dragon’s School Is on Top of the Mountain: A collection by Ryoko Kui. Her Delicious in Dungeon series was serialized in Kadokawa’s HARTA magazine in 2014 and ended in September 2023 with a total of 14 volumes.
An anime adaptation by Studio Trigger premiered in January 2024; the second cour is currently ongoing. Netflix is streaming the Delicious in Dungeon anime.

Yen Press has licensed and is publishing the manga in English. There are currently 13 volumes out with the last and 14th volume coming out on July 23 of this year. Yen Press describes the first volume as:

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…and a member! They’re eager to go back and save her, but there is just one problem: If they set out with no food or coin to speak of, they’re sure to starve on the way! But Laios comes up with a brilliant idea: “Let’s eat the monsters!” Slimes, basilisks, and even dragons…none are safe from the appetites of these dungeon-crawling gourmands!