Delicious in Dungeon fans have embraced Senshi the dwarven chef as their sexy cooking daddy

polygon.com:

Any adventuring party is only as good as its members, and the main party of Delicious in Dungeon, both the manga by Ryōko Kui and the Studio Trigger adaptation simulcasting on Netflix, is no exception. There’s the awkward leader, Laios, a human fighter; prickly lockpick Chilchuck, a half-foot rogue; the picky Marcille, an elven mage; and Senshi, a hermetic chef and a dwarven fighter.

With these four leads to choose from, fans have decided that Senshi is the sex symbol of Delicious in Dungeon, and honestly, I can’t say they’re wrong.

Delicious in Dungeon follows the party’s adventures in a seemingly infinite subterranean dungeon full of monsters as they travel toward one goal: reaching and defeating the great red dragon fast enough to rescue Laios’ sister from its belly before she is digested. The hitch is that Laios, Marcille, and Chilchuck are too cash-poor to buy supplies, and so resort to cooking and eating monsters.

Almost immediately after resolving to cook their first dungeon meal, the three run into a dwarven warrior named Senshi, who just happens to be an accomplished dungeon chef. His ax may be dull and dinged, but his mithril chef’s knife is expertly honed, his shield is actually a large wok, and he’s eager to share everything he knows about cooking, eating, and even farming in the dungeon.

How do we get from the slightly oblivious cooking Senshi to the swoon-worthy sexy Senshi? The origin can probably be traced back to how the Delicious in Dungeon manga itself invites the reader to… consider Senshi’s anatomy in a way that it doesn’t for the other members of the party. Senshi is dressed in a not atypical way for a pulp fantasy warrior: a leather breastplate trimmed with fur and fortified with metal plates, which combines mobility with protection by including a leather skirt reaching the knees, and, below the knees, sandals and metal greaves.

What’s less typical in Senshi’s mode of dress is how often we get to see the loincloth (another pulp fantasy