Dungeon no Naka no Hito

For the last three years, Clay has undergone rigorous training in order to find her father, who was last seen exploring a dungeon. While dungeon exploring is difficult for any regular adventurer, Clay knows her father, a thief who doesn't purely rely on raw power or magic, managed to progress farther than anyone else. Clay sets off after him, following in his footsteps until she encounters a furnished room behind a dungeon wall.

Clay is shocked to find the room is filled with monsters that can talk and a girl who claims to be the dungeons . However, the room is meant to be kept hidden from explorers. Now that she knows the secret behind the dungeon, Clay is hired to be part of their staff. While she never expected to find a job in her adventure, doing so may just help Clay unravel the mystery behind her father's disappearance.

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Belle Main

Suzushiro, Sayumi Japanese

Clay Main

Senbongi, Sayaka Japanese

Kraitze ing

Shimada, Bin Japanese

Binky ing

Arai, Satomi Japanese

Fuuka ing

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Sendai ing

Tobita, Nobuo Japanese

Thief Guild Receptionist ing

Onishi, Aguri Japanese

Darkness Spirit ing

Fukuyama, Jun Japanese

Millielent ing

Oonishi, Saori Japanese

Buggs ing

Tadokoro, Hinata Japanese

Yamai, Sayaka Director

Tateishi, Yayoi Sound Director

Shimura, Jouji Episode Director, Storyboard

Mori, Takeshi Storyboard

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May 25, 2025

johnbradshaw

Recommended

The story follows Clay, a strong adventurer fighting in the dungeon to find her father who went missing there years ago. While fighting, she is shocked to find out that the monsters can talk and the dungeon is run by a young girl named Belle.

Got hired by Belle, she starts to learn more about the mysterious case of her father as well as the exciting new life in the dungeon.

As you can see from the synopsis above, Dungeon People is mainly a slice of life show. It has a bit of comedy, bit of action but most of all, a very well thought ... out anime about life in the dungeon. Usually dungeon in media overall is seen as an obstacle to overcome, with this show, you could see the other side of the coin, the monsters that resides in it.

The tone of the show is quite light and comedic, but the characters are surprisingly ruthless despite their looks. A good slice of life anime is always character-driven and frankly, I do think Dungeon People nails this part nicely.

The OP is quite catchy and the animation is smooth. I think the quality for this show is definitely above average.

That's all, I just wanna talk about a gem that people might enjoy.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Oct 28, 2024

Single_fighter

Mixed Feelings

The review for this anime is that the story concept is quite unique but executed very ordinary, meaning there is no added value from the story, animation, soundtrack, etc. All standard and ordinary. From the story that does not have a clear goal or is ambiguous for the main character, at the beginning of the story the clay character aims to find his father but along with several episodes until the end of the episode the goal of finding his father is not a priority for the main character, I can understand if in the process clay actually works in the dungeon but the goal ... is drowned in the daily life of managing the dungeon. in the end the focus of this story is centered on managing the Dungeon, it becomes boring and ordinary because elements such as comedy are very few and fan service is very lacking, so the story of this anime is monotonous and boring. Stories like this Dungeon manager are usually more suitable for the slice of life and fantasy genres because the center of the story is only in one Dungeon location, if you say this adventure anime is not true in my opinion. The weakness of this story which is in the slice of life genre is usually easy to make the audience bored if the author is not good at spicing up or providing surprise elements either from the plot twists of the story, comedy elements, and relationships between characters can be like romantic relationships, shojo ai, or even yuri. If the story of this anime is added shojo ai relationship between the main characters maybe this will be a sweet story, from what I observe the relationship between the main characters clay and belle is no more like a colleague relationship at work, the character development is very slow. So the conclusion of this anime story is boring with a little comedy and less fan service.

Moving on to the animation, this part is quite bad because the character visualization is very simple and the details of the background of objects, NPCs are very ordinary. Do you know the pictures made by elementary school children? That's what the visualization of this anime character is like, for example: pictures of monsters, wall details, plants, clouds and small details of the background look childish. A good animation part should be able to add value to the ordinary story.
That's all that can be reviewed from this ordinary anime. Thank you

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Oct 5, 2024

Kantyash

Not Recommended

I'll start off by saying that I enjoyed the episode-to-episode watching experience. The characters are likable enough and the worldbuilding was sort of interesting. So what's the issue? Well, the issue is that there is literally 0 plot.

There are *crumbs* of a plot peppered throughout the show but it never goes anywhere. It is a show completely comprised of filler. At the pace it was going I was certain that it was going to have 24 or even 48 episodes because it was unimaginable to me that they could have any sort of satisfying conclusion after 12 eps... And, well, there wasn't one. The show ... goes literally nowhere. Nothing happens. By episode 12 we are basically in the same spot we were in episode 2 or 3.

Don't get me wrong, there are still self-contained stories that are kinda interesting but they don't really impact the bigger picture at all. Clay starts off wanting to conquer the dungeon and find her father but each of those goals has 1 episode dedicated to it and, you guessed it, it goes nowhere. They keep setting things up and there is never any payoff, instead, it's all immediately swept under the cupboard.

I wish I could say I was looking forward to season 2 but there wasn't even a hook in the finale to give us something to speculate about, it just, kinda, ended... There is nothing that I'd be excited to see them explore in s2 because they have already shown that it doesn't matter and it will just be another crumb contained in a single episode and I don't see this series getting 10 seasons so it has enough times for these crumbs to add up to a satisfying conclusion.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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