In a dangerous dungeon that had never been explored fully, Clay searches for her lost father who made it to the lower levels and never returned. However, while she delves deeper than any known adventurer has ever gone, she accidentally destroys a wall while fighting a monster and reveals a bedroom.
It turns out, the unbeknownst to anyone, a dungeon administrator and a whole organization are responsible for maintaining the dungeon and doing necessary tasks like dispatching monster to fight adventurers and refilling treasure chests.
Discovering the what they do, Clay is offered a job helping Belle, the cheerful dungeon administrator.
An interesting concept, sadly done in a rather standard way. However, it wasn’t a bad watch by any means. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Dungeon People, head on down below.
Anime Like Dungeon People
For Fans of Fantasy Bureaucracy Behind The Scenes
Dungeon of Black Company
Kinji has finally perfected his NEET lifestyle through shrewd money management. However, just when he is able to hang out for the rest of his life, he is transported to another world.
There, he is immediately shoved into a harsh mining job for a black company that cares only about profits and quotas. However, as the world’s laziest and most clever NEET, Kinji is determined to be a layabout.
Similarities Between Dungeon People and Dungeon of Black Company
- Fantasy dungeon settings framed as working for a company
- The main character is a new employee
- Work life series with a large focus on comedy, but also some adventure
Differences Between Dungeon People and Dungeon of Black Company
- The Dungeon of Black Company gets its comedy from its main character being a comical scumbag willing to do anything to advance their situation.
- The Dungeon of Black Company is riffing on Japanese “Black Company”/exploitative company culture. It is less wholesome than Dungeon People can sometimes be.
- The Dungeon of Black Company features more action, and animates it better.
Cool-headed Hozuki
Hell is a bureaucracy and it is running smoother than ever thanks to Hoozuki, the chief deputy of the King of Hell. This is his story of micromanaging and troubleshooting all the problems in Hell.
Similarities Between Dungeon People and Cool-Headed Hoozuki
- Common settings that are actually run like corporations (Dungeons, Hell)
- No-nonsense main character that swiftly solves problems
- Slice of work life plot
Differences Between Dungeon People and Cool-Headed Hoozuki
- Cool-headed Hoozuki is far more focused on creating a “bureaucracy” type corporate workplace.
- The main character in Cool-headed Hoozuki is long-respected in his workplace while Clay is a newcomer.
- There is not much, if any, action in Cool-headed Hoozuki. It is truly a slice of work life comedy.
Cells at Work
The human body has approximately 37 trillion cells that are hard at work every day to keep you alive.
Cells at Work tells the story of a red blood cell and a white blood cell and the tireless work of countless other cells to assure that everything continues to run smoothly.
Germ invasions, scratches, and drama unfold inside this body.
Similarities Between Dungeon People and Cells at Work
- A “look behind the curtain” about how things work (in dungeons, in the human body)
- Both series make the “inner workings” pretty much like an office or corporation of people doing their jobs.
- Moments of action, but mostly slice of work life
- Emotionally muted combat powerhouses
Differences Between Dungeon People and Cells at Work
- The Clay-like character in Cells at Work is not the main character, but is a major character.
- Cells at Work is portraying the functions of the human body as anime characters and a bureaucracy, which is a bit of a different fantasy setting than the rather boilerplate one that Dungeon People uses.
Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle
In order to sow chaos and discord among the human kingdom, the Demon King Tasogare abducted the beloved human princess, Syalis.
In an effort to rescue her, a mighty hero sets forth.
Meanwhile, held in the demon castle, Princess Syalis discovers that being held captive is quite boring. She decides to sleep away her time awaiting rescue, but… She can’t sleep.
Cheap bedding, insomnia, and demonic snores plague her as she tries to get a solid night’s sleep.
Similarities Between Dungeon People and Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle
- Fantasy settings (dungeons, demon lord’s castle) where the main character gets a peek as the comedic, normal bureaucracy happening behind the scenes.
- Emotional muted human main character walks all over fantasy beings
- Light, comedic plots that are often mostly slice of life
Differences Between Dungeon People and Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle
- Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle is about a princess that starts bending her demon captors to her will as she tries to build a cozy place to nap in her prison cell. So she isn’t actually working a job like Clay in Dungeon People.
- The main character in Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle isn’t a fighter.
- Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle is far more slice of life
- Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle turns a dark situation light-hearted while Dungeon People introduced actually kind of messed up things (like how they keep goblin populations up) in very causal ways.
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For Fans of Dungeon Ecosystems
Delicious in Dungeon
After the Golden Kingdom was sunk a thousand years ago by a magician, the king emerged from the depths and said that anyone who can defeat the mage will get his treasure. The king crumbled to dust and adventurers raced into an expansive underground labyrinth to prob its dangerous depths.
Laios is the leader of one such adventuring party. However, when their battle with a red dragon goes awry, his sister Falin is eaten when sacrificing herself to transport them out.
With no money to buy supplies in order to go rescue his sister, Laios and his two remaining companions, Chilchuck the thief and Marcille the healer, decide to eat the monsters they defeat in order to save money on food and get to Falin before she is digested.
With eating monsters considered a bit taboo not to mention gross, they struggle to prepare them correctly since there is little knowledge on how to do so. However, they stumble across a dwarf named Senshi who has a passion for cooking monster ingredients and just so happens to have always wanted to try eating a red dragon.
Similarities Between Dungeon People and Delicious in Dungeon
- They could be normal adventurers, but instead they just delve deep into how and why dungeons work.
- The main character meets the person who runs the dungeon, and unravels the secrets of the dungeon.
Differences Between Dungeon People and Delicious in Dungeon
- Dungeon People is a simple, fun comedy, Delicious in Dungeon is a food-focused, but serious adventure that gets darker as it goes on.
- Delicious in Dungeon follows a whole adventuring party
- The dungeon administrator in Delicious in Dungeon is fairly evil.
The Strongest Tank’s Labyrinth Raids – A Tank with a Rare 9999 Resistance Skill Got Kicked from the Hero’s Party
Rud is the tank for the hero’s party. However, on their labyrinth raids, despite having the highest defense known to man, one of his unknown skills keeps seemingly putting the party at a detriment.
After being kicked out by the hero, Rud is still determined to raid the labyrinth in order to find a wish-granting treasure said to dwell there for his sickly sister. However, he decides to return to visit his sister in his hometown. On his way home, he saves a rare homunculus that has the ability to appraise and identity skills.
Thanks to her help, Rud discovers that he not only has the highest defense, but has several previously unknown skills that, when used properly, would allow him to be indomitable.
Similarities Between Dungeon People and The Strongest Tank’s Labyrinth Raids
- The main character is a fairly powerful explorer that frequently delves into dungeons
- They meet a dungeon caretaker and are filled in on the finer points of dungeon administration
Differences Between Dungeon People and The Strongest Tank’s Labyrinth Raids
- The Strongest Tank’s Labyrinth Raids is a “kicked out of the heroes party” series where he is kicked out, discovers he is OP, then forms his own clan to dungeon delve.
- The dungeon administration discovery is a rather small element of The Strongest Tank’s Labyrinth Raids. It is, as you know, the whole plot of Dungeon People.
- The Strongest Tank’s Labyrinth Raids takes itself more seriously with its flashy, boilerplate fantasy action.
- The Strongest Tank’s Labyrinth Raids has harem elements
Quality Assurance in Another World
Nikola is just a village girl working in ann inn when her life is upended by dragons attacking her village. During this attack, she meets Haga, a Seeker who manages to defeat the dragons even if he does it in an odd and not particularly heroic way.
However, despite clearing the dragons, Nikola and her whole village are wiped out because they were all just an event in the King’s Seeker Online VRMMMO, and the Seeker Haga was just one of several debuggers who were hired to debug the game and then trapped inside unable to log out.
While Nikola is revived, her character programming seems to malfunction allowing her to remember Haga and even to accompany him as he tries to find a way to log out of the game while resisting the allure of ultimate power from debug mode that so many of his peers have embraced for their own fun.
Similarities Between Dungeon People and Quality Assurance in Another World
- Doughy, potato people do fantasy administration things
- Girls have a clandestine meeting with someone who is atypical of their world
- Characters get a “peek behind the curtain” of how aspects of their worlds work (Dungeon administration, Debugging an MMO)
- The main characters always use creative and clever ways to overcome problems
Differences Between Dungeon People and Quality Assurance in Another World
- Quality Assurance has comedic moments, but it otherwise has a serious plot with some action in it. Dungeon People is a more light-hearted affair.
- Quality Assurance in Another World is about debugging an MMO, which is not quite the same as dungeon administration
- Clay often works alone, Quality Assurance in Another World slowly gathers a party.
For Fans of Working Jobs in a Fantasy Land
RPG Real Estate
After the defeat of the demon lord, the world is at peace. Kotone Kazairo is a newly graduated mage who is looking to start her life.
She starts by visiting Rent Plan Guide (RPG) Real Estate, to find a home. The company also happens to be the place she will also work as well.
There, she discovers the company’s dedication to catering to its diverse pool of customers and finding a home to suit all client’s needs is not always so easy.
Similarities Between Dungeon People and RPG Real Estate
- Women working jobs in a fantasy world
- Cute characters with a cute art style
- You learn the finer points of their specific professions
Differences Between Dungeon People and RPG Real Estate
- RPG Real Estate is about selling houses, so not quite as bureaucratic or filled with dungeon adventure as Dungeon People.
- RPG Real Estate is very distinctly Cute Girls Doing Cute Things and moe. Dungeon People just has a cute art style, Clay is not particularly CGDCT-coded.
- There is less action in RPG Real Estate.
Miss Kuroitsu From The Monster Development Department
While Agastia is known to the world as a firm that specializes in theme parks, beneath the surface it is actually an evil organization bent on world domination.
Working in Agastia’s Monster Development Division, Touka Kuroitsu is a researcher who is the frequent victim of the eccentricities of her division seniors.
Each day she is responsible for meeting the ridiculous demands for new monster designs, giving abruptly scheduled presentations, and forced to accompany her monsters to fight the enemies of Agastia that thwart their evil designs of world domination – all for the sake of promotion that may never come.
Similarities Between Dungeon People and Miss Kuroitsu From The Monster Development Department
- Fantasy series about people working bureaucratic jobs in an organization
- Both Dungeon People and Miss Kuroitsu are riffing on common setups for more action-focused stories by not being about action (Dungeon crawling, evil super sentai organizations)
Differences Between Dungeon People and Miss Kuroitsu From The Monster Development Department
- Clay is no-nonsense and does a great job while everyone else is more laid-back. Miss Kuroitsu is a hard worker increasingly crushed by ridiculous demands from her bosses.
- A large majority of characters in Miss Kuroitsu are cute girls and they also have more effort put into their character designs.
- Miss Kuroitsu is more bureaucratic in the company structure for comedy
Heaven’s Design Team
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Next came the long job of creating creatures to populate the earth. However, by then, God was tired so he outsourced it to a small team.
This Heaven’s Design Team features a mediator that speaks to god as well as creative individuals to help create creatures to fill the Earth.
Similarities Between Dungeon People and Heaven’s Design Team
- Characters work jobs in a fantasy land instead of doing fantasy things
- Large cast of eccentric co-workers
- The characters doing their job is a large portion of the plot
Differences Between Dungeon People and Heaven’s Design Team
- Heaven’s Design Team is about creating creatures for earth in heaven, so a different setting than the more boilerplate fantasy setting in Dungeon People.
- The characters are more eccentric for comedy in Heaven’s Design Team.
- Heaven’s Design Team is actually somewhat educational about animal biology and why some creatures can and cannot exist on earth.
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