Anime like Dungeon Meshi

Sousou no Frieren

Also known as Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End.

Studio: Toho , MADHOUSE , Shogakukan , Nippon Television Network , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , Aniplex , Dentsu
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy

The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about. Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. But Frieren will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to understand what life means to the people around her? Decades after their victory, the funeral of one her friends confronts Frieren with her own near immortality. Frieren sets out to fulfill the last wishes of her comrades and finds herself beginning a new adventure…



Tags: Travel , Magic , Elf , Female Protagonist , Time Skip , Philosophy , Medieval , Found Family , Kuudere , Demons , Foreign , Shounen , Adoption , Rural , Asexual , Iyashikei , Heterosexual , Aromantic , Dungeon , Feet , Spearplay , Religion , Snowscape , Rotoscoping , Food , Dragons , Horticulture , CGI

Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi

Also known as Campfire Cooking in Another World with my Absurd Skill.

Studio: MAPPA
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy

Mukouda Tsuyoshi, an ordinary salaryman, is suddenly transported to another world one day. The unique skill he gains upon arrival in this world is the seemingly useless "Online Grocery." Mukouda is discouraged at first, but the modern foods he's able to bring to his new world using this skill prove to have some unbelievable effects!



Tags: Food , Found Family , Isekai , Iyashikei , Camping , Animals , Outdoor Activities , Travel , Male Protagonist , Gods , Creature Taming , Magic , Work , Economics , Dragons , Goblin , Dungeon , Kaiju

Tongari Boushi no Atelier

Also known as Witch Hat Atelier.

Studio: BUG FILMS , Avex Pictures , Kodansha , Twin Engine , Crunchyroll
Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy

In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: she wants to be a witch. But everybody knows magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with a gift for magic. Resigned to her un-magical life, Coco is about to give up on her dream to become a witch … until the day she meets Qifrey, a mysterious, traveling magician. After secretly seeing Qifrey perform magic in a way she’s never seen before, Coco soon learns what everybody “knows” might not be the truth, and discovers that her magical dream may not be as far away as it may seem...



Note: Tongari Boushi no Atelier episode 2 was streamed a week in advance on Crunchyroll, ABEMA, and Netflix, alongside episode 1. Streaming is one week ahead of the TV broadcast.

Tags: Magic , Conspiracy , Witch , Memory Manipulation , Female Protagonist , Drawing , Coming of Age , Primarily Female Cast , Found Family , Philosophy , Primarily Child Cast , Medieval , Ensemble Cast , Travel , Seinen , Politics , Disability , Revenge , Teacher , School , Rehabilitation , Body Horror , Tsundere , Foreign , Dragons , Twins , Achromatic

Dorohedoro

Also known as Dorohedoro.

Studio: MAPPA , Netflix , Toho
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Horror , Mystery

The story revolves around Kaiman, who does not remember who he was before he was transfigured by a Magic user. This transformation left him with a reptile's head, and a desire to find out the truth about who he really is. Accompanied by Nikaido, his female companion, he tracks down Magic Users in "The Hole" and unceremoniously chomps down on their head, hoping to find out who it was that put him in this state. One by one, they witness this "second man" inside the head of Kaiman, and after pulling them back out of his mouth he asks them all a question... "What did the guy inside my head say?"

Tags: Dystopian , Monster Boy , Anthropomorphism , Magic , Amnesia , CGI , Full CGI , Gore , Surreal Comedy , Body Horror , Seinen , Ensemble Cast , Curses , Anti-Hero , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Henshin , Primarily Adult Cast , Revenge , Found Family , Restaurant , Demons , Female Protagonist , Food , Body Swapping , Nudity , Tomboy , Class Struggle , Skeleton , Vore , Post-Apocalyptic , Zombie , Drugs , Gangs , Baseball

Made in Abyss

Also known as Made in Abyss.

Studio: Kinema Citrus , Media Factory , AT-X , Sony Music Communications , Sentai Filmworks , Cygames
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Horror , Mystery , Sci-Fi

The "Abyss" is the last unexplored place in the world. Strange and wonderful creatures roam within, and it is full of precious relics that present humans can't recreate. Those that dare to explore the depths are known as "Cave Raiders." An orphan girl named Riko lives on the rim. Her dream is to become a Cave Raider like her mother and solve the mysteries of the cave system. One day, Riko starts exploring the caves and discovers a robot who resembles a human boy.



Note: The last episode aired with a runtime of ~48 minutes as opposed to the standard 24 minute long episode.

Tags: Survival , Outdoor Activities , Primarily Child Cast , Environmental , Travel , Chibi , Body Horror , Tragedy , Cosmic Horror , Curses , Lost Civilization , Dungeon , Philosophy , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Gore , Amnesia , Orphan , Wilderness , Robots , Male Protagonist , Steampunk , Anthropomorphism , Food , Tanned Skin , School , Crossdressing , Agender , Religion , Rehabilitation , Time Manipulation , Dissociative Identities , Maids , Femboy , Amputation , Nudity , Eco-Horror

Golden Kamuy

Also known as Golden Kamuy.

Studio: Geno Studio , Funimation , Good Smile Company , Twin Engine , TOKYO MX , JR Higashi Nihon Kikaku , Sammy , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy

In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi “Immortal” Sugimoto scratches out a meager existence during the postwar gold rush in the wilderness of Hokkaido. When he stumbles across a map to a fortune in hidden Ainu gold, he sets off on a treacherous quest to find it. But Sugimoto is not the only interested party, and everyone who knows about the gold will kill to possess it! Faced with the harsh conditions of the northern wilderness, ruthless criminals and rogue Japanese soldiers, Sugimoto will need all his skills and luck—and the help of an Ainu girl named Asirpa—to survive.



Tags: Historical , Snowscape , Seinen , Survival , Outdoor Activities , Military , Ensemble Cast , Indigenous Cultures , Primarily Adult Cast , Food , Guns , Primarily Male Cast , War , Wilderness , Gore , Anti-Hero , Male Protagonist , Educational , Assassins , Crime , Body Horror , LGBTQ+ Themes , Episodic , Gender Bending , CGI , Archery , Transgender , Twins , Torture , Medicine , Oiran

Sousou no Frieren 2nd Season

Also known as Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Season 2.

Studio: Toho , MADHOUSE , Shogakukan , Nippon Television Network , MADHOUSE , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , Aniplex , Dentsu
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy

The second season of Sousou no Frieren.

Tags: Travel , Elf , Magic , Wilderness , Female Protagonist , Found Family , Iyashikei , Medieval , Time Skip , Philosophy , Demons , Heterosexual , Rural , Swordplay , Primarily Adult Cast , Snowscape , Dragons , Urban , Fishing , Shounen , Tragedy , Economics , Coastal

Little Witch Academia (TV)

Also known as Little Witch Academia (TV).

Studio: TRIGGER
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy

In a time when magic is on the decline amid society, Atsuko Kagari is a cheerful girl who enters Luna Nova Academy in order to accomplish her dream of becoming a witch like her idol, Shiny Chariot. Shiny is a famous witch who disappeared from public view many years ago. On her way to school, Kagari meets the kind Lotte Yanson and the mischevious Sucy Manbavaran and the three become friends as they share a bedroom in campus. At the academy, Atsuko soon discovers she is in serious disadvantage compared to the other girls since she doesn`t come from a magical family and is required to learn the magical curriculum from scratch. Having found an item that once belonged to Chariot, Atsuko must discover how to activate and properly use the mysterious Shiny Rod as she hopes it might lead to finding out what has truly happened to her vanished idol.



Tags: Magic , Witch , Boarding School , School , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Episodic , Primarily Teen Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Urban Fantasy , Yuri , Heterosexual , Ojou-sama , LGBTQ+ Themes , Swordplay , Kemonomimi , Shapeshifting , Ghost , Super Robot

Isekai Shokudou

Also known as Restaurant to Another World.

Studio: SILVER LINK. , Sotsu , Avex Pictures , TV Tokyo , flying DOG , Shufunotomo , Dai Nippon Printing , Nikkatsu , Crunchyroll
Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Slice of Life

There is a certain restaurant in the first basement level of a multi-tenant building in one corner of a shopping street near the office district. The historical restaurant, marked by a sign with a picture of a cat, is called "Western Cuisine Nekoya." This restaurant looks completely normal through the week, but on Saturdays, it opens in secret exclusively to some very unique guests. During these hours, doors in various areas of a parallel world open to allow customers of many different races and cultures into the restaurant.



Tags: Food , Work , Isekai , Ensemble Cast , Episodic , Monster Girl , Restaurant , Elf , Urban Fantasy , Demons , Dragons , Primarily Adult Cast , Mermaid , Fairy

Akujiki Reijou to Kyouketsu Koushaku: Sono Mamono, Watashi ga Oishiku Itadakimasu!

Also known as Pass the Monster Meat, Milady!.

Studio: Asahi Production , TBS , Crunchyroll , Movic , Kodansha , BS11 , Asahi Production , KLOCKWORX
Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Romance

Any proper noble lady must cultivate refined tastes, and Lady Melphiera’s delicacy of choice is…monsters! Unfortunately, society frowns upon such unladylike cravings and brands her the “Voracious Villainess.” At a banquet, she’s attacked by a monster, only to be saved by the feared “Blood-Mad Duke.” He’s brutal, mysterious, and charming. Could he be the one to appreciate her monstrous appetite?



Tags: Food , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Ojou-sama , Marriage , Magic , Royal Affairs , Heterosexual , Villainess , Dragons