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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.
A lot happens this week. Falin re-appears, several people die (and get resurrected), and Laios and Shuro have a soft falling out.
Kabru reaps what he has sowed.
Yet another group opts to return to the surface after encountering Laios and his friends, leaving our core quartet to again head even deeper into the dungeon.
They have a mission again. Not to simply save Falin, things have changed, to achieve even that they must conquer the dungeon itself.
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.
That Chilchuck face killed me. He is normally a pretty collected guy, but he just went full looney tunes there.
I was wondering about this. After this episode I actually had the thought that this point would make a lot of sense for a season break. It really felt like a big finale to one phase of the story and just the beginning of the next phase.
Indeed, at this point the series goes back to establishing things in preparation for the next big goal. First there was the red dragon and saving Falin. We’ve now seen that accomplished, and what it has led to.
Now there’s a new far-off goal. To conquer the dungeon itself and to bring its magic too heel so they can deal with Falin, for better or worse. The next several episodes will feature bite-sized mini-arcs much like the first few episodes of the series, setting up the world, exploring the characters, and moving the locale deeper into the dungeon.
The reason that chapter 51 cut-off worries me is that it’s just a bit AFTER the story again gets back into bigger stuff, which would be a fairly unsatisfying point to be left waiting for more.
A part of me is left hoping that the 24 episode count is a semi-bait-and-switch. And that like Netflix sometimes does with series they fund, S2 has already been ordered and has been in production for a while, meaning the wait between seasons is six months at most.