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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.
Dear me this episode goes hard! Trigger pulls out all the stops on their signature quality, smear frames and rapid movement all over the place.
Laios and the gang finally fight the Red Dragon. Nuff said.
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.
No food this episode, should have went with empty stomach…
When I took a bite I have missed days of counless sweat and tears of underpaid animators. I will need to rewatch this episode.
The whiplash from cheerful ED was something else.
Yeah, this would have been a good episode to transition to a new ED on… But that usually only happens on an episode 13 in a 24ep season.
Of course Senshi got to have an adamantine knife. Of course. And since it’s an actual cooking knife instead of a weapon, he maintained it properly - unlike his battle axe.
The battle against the dragon was cool. Not the sort of battle you’d expect from fantasy, but that’s typical for Dungeon Meshi. And their battle plan went wrong, wrong, wrong, then finally right, if I didn’t read the manga I’d expect it to go wrong all the way.
Overall great episode. It was really fun.
Mithril. The pans are adamantite.
Also more Falin flashbacks. We already know but the anime is doing a good job showing off what a precious person Falin is despite her not being around.
My bad - still, an actual dwarf (like Namari, unlike Senshi) wouldn’t use it for cooking stuff!
As of now, Falyn reminds me a lot Sousou no Frieren’s Himmel. You never see them directly, only through flashbacks, but you still like them because they’re clearly precious people, by the impact that they have on the memories of the cast.
We open on yet another statue of a winged lion… And then it’s straight to kiting the dragon.
I fucking loved this episode. Trigger has always had an affinitiy for blood and gore, just look at Kill la Kill and Edgerunners, it still cought me off guard seeing Senshi cough up blood, Laios lose a leg, and then Marcille run around healing the gang while ignoring her blood-soaked hands.
Felt like seeing Akkos arm torn off, trigger has flawlessly maintained the wholesome lighthearted tone so far, only carefully teasing what’s to come and somewhat downplaying the one instance of bad luck with Marcy’s encounter with the undine.
The digging around in the dragons innards continues the downward spiral in tone…
I’ve been promising it for a while, and the episode ends on the tone of the show taking a dive off a cliff, revealing that as the dragon did not hibernate after its meal the way they usually would, Falin was by now very, very digested.
I recently posted some manga pages that were cut from the anime, which feature exposition on the fact that the effectiveness of resurrection magic rapidly diminishes if more than one thirteenth of a persons body has been lost. Falin is far beyond that point, which may not be landing for some anime-only watchers.
And this episode is ominously titled “Red Dragon 1”.
It could have been worse, since the dragon uses indigestible parts as fuel for its fire breath…
Indeed. If they hadn’t screwed up, and executed their plan to exhaust the dragons fuel, Falins bones would have ended up as ash.
For once I’m not even a little hungry after watching the episode. Ouch that was an awful cliffhanger.
No food porn this time.
Just a hard-fought victory, followed by tragedy.
I just finished catching up after being on vacation the past couple episodes. This episode was a thrill ride in both a great way and a dreadful way.
I often gush about the Trigger animation in this show (and it was excellent once again this episode), but I think the thing that stood out to me most from this episode was the OST, or rather, the lack of OST. Many of the most important and tense moments this episode are when the OST completely disappears:
- When Marcy drops the building on the dragon and we are all waiting to see if the plan worked or not
- When the dragon’s head is directly over Laios and Chilchuk while they hold still only for Kensuke to give them away
- When Senshi shatters his axe against the dragon, losing the last of their weapons (until he pulls out his cooking knife)
- Amazingly, the whole time from when Laios had his leg chomped initially through the end of the dragon and up until the ghost appears in his dream sequence
- From the first cut into the dragon corpse all the way until they find that the stomach is empty
I have no idea what the directorial intent behind the choice to limit the OST in this way might be, but I think it is really effective. As media consumers, we are so used to big action sequences being accompanied by big scores as well. Think of any Marvel or Bond movie as an example. However, here they strip all that scoring away during the peak moments of action, leaving you with the great Foley work and the excellent VA work (lots of heavy breathing this episode). As a viewer, we feel that something is missing; that something isn’t right. So, when Laios gives his big hero speech to Marcy, we aren’t reassured, we already know subconsciously that this isn’t the grand finale that Laios thinks it is because the whole episode hasn’t been scored as a grand finale.
I think this is also what makes the transition to the ED feel so jarring. The whole episode has had either a lack of OST or a rather subdued one (literally ending on something akin to church bells), and then the bass comes in with a super happy ED literally titled Party!
That ED hit hard. Would have been interesting if in this episode they rolled the credits without the music.
Would have extended the unease of that moment with Laios holding Falins skull throughout.
Oh, cool, so they’ll be able to bring Falin back, no problem, right?
…right?
(don’t actually answer)
Yeah, no problem, easy peasy!
Not an answer, but if you missed it, I posted some manga pages that provide exposition on resurrection that were cut in the anime. Right after Namari visits the resurrection office she has a meal with Kaka and Kiki, and they discuss the downsides of resurrection magic.
It’s a little weird that it was cut cuz it specifically provides context to the reader for the problem that finding Falin in this state presents.
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As everyone else noted, what a great episode!
The little details, like Laios tying Kensuke to his hand as he’s about to get launched at the dragon’s head, to keep Kensuke from running away again.
Then all the things they’re able to do with the mithril cooking knife…
As they’re carving their way through to the stomach, I’m thinking how are they going to refrigerate all this meat?
I hope they went back and were able to recover the adamantite pot lid
