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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.
It’s a classic episode! With the gang just running around finding stuff to eat! Except things get way closer to going wrong each time, now.
The gang is now far deeper in the dungeon, in much more dire conditions.
This time around they run into some sexy-looking plants, and they deal with a Cockatrice! Marcille ends up taking one for the team.
However, this episode still continues the high concentration of lore that the series has now worked up to. Marcille teaches Lios magic, tells us more about the forbidden kind, and we get to witness the dungeon itself take a breath as it transforms right before the eyes of our quartet.
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.
I really enjoyed this episode. Some great humor and some great monsters this episode. I think I connected a lot with the monsters this episode because I once ran a D&D campaign in which a dryad and a flock of cockatrice played significant roles for part of the journey. So, seeing them both in one episode was fun. Also, I feel like I inadvertently posted my basilisk clip at just the right time as a preview for the cockatrice segment. I swear I haven’t read the source!
Two jokes really got me this episode. The first was grandpa Senshi sitting Chilchuck down to give him the talk (and really grandpa Senshi in general feeling like he is surrounded by kids). Second was Marcy turning into stone while doing a tsukkomi. If you aren’t familiar with it, a tsukkomi gesture is something you see a lot in Japanese humor and comes from a specific type of standup comedy called manzai. In this situation, Laios was filling the boke role by preparing her to turn into stone.
I am curious what the rules around magic are in this world. Is there a reason that Laios is able to learn magic, but Chilchuck/Senshi can’t? Is it ideological differences? racial differences? too busy thinking about food to care? It was interesting that Laios was able to see the ghosts of the city while he was on his magic trip with the pretty colors. I feel like if Laios was a bit more observant he might be able to piece more of the story together between the paintings, the interaction with the magician, and now the ghosts. Alas…he is too busy doing…Laios things I guess.
Finally, I just want to say that homemade sauerkraut is delicious, but it takes absolutely forever to get that way. When my family made it, we would let it go for at least a month before diving in.
Anyone can learn magic.
Dwarves and Halflings have tiny mana-pools though, meaning they won’t ever be able to do a ton with it.
Humans are pretty good, but elves outclass all other races in that respect, though gnomes aren’t far behind.
Thanks! So, there are definite racial differences when it comes to magic. Do the same rules apply when dealing with the forbidden magic that pulls energy from an alternate dimension? That concept reminds me of Fullmetal Alchemist (not Brotherhood).
Yes, in the sense that opening the connection still has to be done using a person’s own mana.
But technically, anyone could be a dungeon master if they do as Marcille explains, and set up permanent connections that constantly replenish the mana around.
You might have noticed that the master used the flesh of the dragon to cast his spells, he is using the mana that’s just “around” to do his thing.