Hows this blow up?

Scores aside, I felt similar: I tried to enjoy the Anime, but it somehow felt extremely generic. So, that girl was eaten by a dragon, and is supposed to be the male adventurer's sister. But the reactions of the group were generic, unambitious and fake as possible. There was no real will. It was like they would suddenly remember 'oh yes, that's how we were raised, how society taught us. We have to go and rescue her, even if we don't feel like it.'

The next thing supporting what I previously said: The anime shifts to be about food. All worries about the girl eaten by a dragon seems to have vaniashed. And now the male adventurer tries to reach his dream-goal: To become a Monster Cook.

And still in the very first episode, they meet a Cook who specialized for 10 years in Monster cooking. That basically completely destroy the struggle they usually should have to go through, via Trial and Error, to create eatable dishes and to get perfect recipes. - but instead, now they have a cook who already knows everything perfectly.

This feels like a generic, visualized recipe/cook show to me. But literally, like in TV, where a dish is presented and then the watching people are guided step by step how to cook.

Ngl, the premise itself felt interesting, but the execution feels generic as possible, making it really boring for me. The Dialogues seem to exist, solely for the sake of having dialogues implemented. It feels like the characters don't really have proper personalities but are generic Dummies/Ragdolls.

But to be fair: I only watched the first 2 episodes, but they unfortunately felt boring because of what I told here already. Is the Anime going to get better, especially with personality, generic feeling, and struggles with cooking?

@some1uused2know

The personalities of the characters and their relationships with each other are developed as the show progresses, so I would assume they would feel less generic to you if you continued watching.

There will also be times when the party comes across a monster Senshi has not cooked before, but struggles regarding creating a perfect recipe or trial and error when preparing food is never the focus of the show or the primary conflict in any episode.

Knowing what kind of trash gets relatively high scores on MAL this is besides the point.
Quality is usually not appreciated here. For example the highest Natsume is in 75-th place and another example is Uchouten Kazoku 2 being 528-th.

My impression is people generally speaking liked Dungeon Meshi. Not sure why, definitely not because it's objectively a well produced show, they don't cared about such things. It appealed to them for some reason...maybe because of the dark humour, maybe because it's quite nerdy or maybe because people a craving for non-isekai fantasy.

Still with a score of 8.55 it's definitely not a crowd pleaser.