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Dungeon Meshi is a well liked manga, and an adaptation by Studio Trigger is now airing. If you haven’t picked this one up, consider joining us. Both for fun and as a way of contributing to activity on Lemmy.
Episodes are available to stream on Netflix.
The elves have arrived.
This episode opens on Shuros and Kabrus parties returning to the surface, and the events on the surface that follow. It seems representatives of the elven nation are here, consisting of the canaries. Military special forces, and experts on dungeons in particular.
Why are they here?
Meanwhile, Laios and his gang are invited deeper into the dungeon than anyone has been before.
Remember not to spoil anything if you’re a manga reader, but feel free to elaborate on tidbits of lore that may not be coming through in the adaptation.
Welp, the elves are here. It seems like in this world, when the elves show up to take care of a dungeon, it ends up like the Fire Nation just attacked. So, best boy Kabru has a plan (and a backstory). I know Kabru is not the most popular character out there, but I say we let him cook…
Speaking of cooking, I think this week’s dish is probably the tastiest looking one I have seen yet. I mean, just look at this thing:
I watched this episode while eating dinner and seeing that made me realize how much I would have preferred to eat that instead of the beef and broccoli I was eating (it was still good though). Another dish well made Senshi…
Speaking of Senshi, we got a heaping portion of sultry Senshi this episode. I know people have been talking about shipping Laios and Marcille, but how about Laios and Senshi?
Silliness aside, this was a pretty lore heavy episode. Laios is the chosen one? Our party has been isekai’ed into a village of immortals? Izu is tame now? Some winged lion deity has prophesied their coming? Lots of interesting stuff going on. No idea how this season is going to wrap up from here.
I think Senshi might be too much Senshi for anyone to handle.
Only three episodes left. If the current style of adaptation continues, we’ll end on chapter 52. That chapter and all the ones before it, focus on Laios’ party.
The very next chapter would continue the above-ground plotline, but it feels kind of weird to cut off there, to only have seen that the elves arrived, and that’s all. And the underground chapters wind down again, not up. (Though they are great chapters, still)
I’m really kinda puzzled, it seems the series might leave us with serious narrative blue balls, and not even in the traditional sense of an intentional cliffhanger.
Maybe they’ll rejigger the order of the chapters a bit, as the above-ground stuff and underground stuff doesn’t necessarily need to follow the same back and forth order as the manga.
Laios reads too ace for me to want to ship him with anybody lol, but yeah, they never miss a chance to provide the people with some good Senshi fan-service XD