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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.
The party is now on the third level of the dungeon, and we see the first multi-chapter mini-arc from the manga adapted into single episode. Laios and his party have to get past a room full of magical, moving, hostile suits of armor. How will they pull it off? What will they learn about this monster?
Laios very much wants to know, what living suits of armor taste like. The rest of the gang is pretty sure they’re just normal metal with a spell cast upon them. But are they?
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.
Laios was the star of this episode, by far. By simply being Laios: he wants to know how living armours taste like, actually uncovers how they work, gets excited talking about them, and then they eat the monsters together. And then of course, he’s going to behave like a kid bringing home a hidden pet!
Marcille’s reaction to the soup was damn cute, too. Plus Senshi improvising on how to cook a monster that he never saw before.
Clipped it. Marcille is a treasure.
And not only cooking it, but like every cook I know (including myself), instantly self-criticizing and thinking about how the dish could be improved, while Laios is just swooning for the taste, already.
That clip is moe overflow.
Good catch on the “this could be better” self-criticism, I also do this when cooking. And that brings up something you mentioned in another comment, about Laios not being a Mary Sue: the characters are relatable. There’s no superhuman in this series, only flawed people who remind you RL people. Senshi reminds you of some cooks, Laios is intelligent but not overpowered, Marcille is like that picky eater, Chilchuck is that guy who brings everyone else down to earth, so goes on.
Just another day adventuring with Laios…
I was not expecting living armor in a monster cooking show. The colony of shellfish idea was pretty clever; kind of like a hermit crab voltron or something. I also liked the flashbacks this episode. The first of which was Laios and his sister as new adventurers and the second was Laios and his sister as children (with their dog) playing with an insect egg sac.
I want to talk briefly about the second of them in particular. Trigger really played fast and loose with the animation, switching to a very sketchy, dream-like style that clearly set it apart from the rest of the episode stylistically. It was reminiscent of something like an old memory in which you might not remember everything clearly, but you are just left with the impressions or rough outlines. I think the style change there helped to convey some added nostalgia to the scene and in some ways added to the emotional weight Laios is supposed to be feeling as he is on a quest to reclaim his sister’s body.
Finally, loved the galaxy brain moment he had when he realized it was an egg sac:
Yup, Trigger is beautifully stretching the legs on the animated medium, not just adapting but adding complementary artistic expression to the source material.
It’s a treat to see a studio apply these things that they’ve learned doing original anime, in ways studios that do only adaptations seldom do.
I’m enjoying the amount of world building this series has. It’s always a big part of my favorite anime.
Not just that, in this episode Laios gets to show off a lot of charachter. (And Senshi swings that axe around like an absolute chad.) We get to see parts of these charachters other series would trim, like Marcilles dream last episode, and Laios childhood with Farlyn in this episode. Small tidbits that will add up over time.
And it is so refreshing to have lead characters that are competent without being Mary Sues. Instead of fighting the horde of armors he slides the shield with the egg past them to shift their attention away from his party. Laios is intelligent and pragmatic, despite being a total weirdo in-universe.
I love the tidbit that the wings on the sword were held by the monster, and when he starved to death the wings just fell off. Laios is a man that will eat rotten food with straight face and say it isn’t that bad. (Humans love rotten food e.g. Sauerkraut)
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