English Dub Review: Delicious in Dungeon “Sea Serpent”

Overview (Spoilers Below):

Back in an upper dungeon level, Kabru and crew wake up to find their supplies missing and are ambushed on their way back to the surface.

Our Take: 

From the title alone, we would expect Laios and his gang to make a meal from a massive sea serpent during their journey back to the surface. However, that doesn’t appear to be the case, as the serpent doesn’t appear until the tail end of this week’s episode. In fact, the episode doesn’t focus on the protagonists at all. Instead, the series shifts its focus yet again to Kabru and his party, who are resurrected by Namari’s crew after getting killed by fish people.  

If you’ve been following Delicious in Dungeon, this isn’t the first time it depicts a different adventuring party other than Laios’s. Several episodes showcased Kabru and the others on their journey through the dungeon, but only briefly. So, I find it surprising that we have an episode dedicated to Kabru’s crew without resorting to them eating monster food. It was a risky gamble for the episode to toss aside its usual formula in favor of a typical dungeon-crawling side-quest featuring a different party. While it made me wish we’d returned to more monster-eating scenarios with Laios and the crew, the episode offered just enough to tolerate Kabru’s presence regarding their scenarios and personalities.

The scenarios in the episode include Kabru and his friends confronting the corpse retrievers seeking to profit from killing adventurers and speculating about Laios’ team members. But the crucial part of the episode occurred at the end, with them being rescued by another former member of Laios’s team, Shuro, who happens to have a crew of his own, similar to Namari. Shuro has been mentioned numerous times throughout the series, so for us to finally see him in action was worth spending twenty-five minutes with another dungeon-crawling party. Of course, Shuro’s help is definitely needed if Kabru and his party hope to survive the dungeon.