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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.
AH! A new OP and ED! I like both of them, though this OP isn’t much darker than the last despite the plot taking a turn towards more depressing developments. And so many characters being shown off! We meet some in this episode, too.
Our first fully off-main-cast episode. We follow Kabru’s party with them being revived where our main quartet left them, by the Tansu party, no less!
They dawdle a bit, then it’s time for more new charachters. We finally meet Shuro! And who are all these girls following him around?
This one seems especially unhappy to be there, too.
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.
My dislike for Kabru and his gang is only re-affirmed.
Laios and his party leave them warded from ghosts, they get pissed for having their “treasure” stolen eaten.
Laios pulls them out of the water so their bodies can stick around to be found and revived, and they get even more pissed for having their ruined food “stolen”.
Rin is such a possesive witch crushing on Kabru over looks alone. Maybe she is only like that because deep down she knows Kabru will only ever give her attention as a way to manipulate her, and is desperately trying to prove herself wrong by getting him to look at her outside such a scenario. Still, she is arrogant despite her party’s general incompetence, and vindictive against the party that has literally only made sure she and her party get to live.
I never grew to like these people in the manga (though as characters they are great, and brilliantly written) and now they are pushing all my wrong buttons, all over again.
Like, FFS, Kabru is literally the only one with even half a brain, and he has to use it stopping his own party from killing itself. And that kiss to stop Rin’s spell… He knows she is head over heels for him, yet he doesn’t give a rats ass about sparing her feelings, and in fact takes pleasure in causing her discomfort by doing “the first thing that comes to mind”. Fuck you Kabru, you’re plenty smart to think of other ways to stop her chanting, you just thought this one would be funniest.
Let’s be clear about what happened here. Kabru’s party murders the corpse retrievers in cold blood, specifically to not resurrect them. He has his party dump them in the water, where the bodies will be consumed by monsters. This is murder-murder. Worse, it’s soul-trapped-in-dungeon-forever-murder. They may be shit people, but Kabru is acting like judge, jury and executioner, and literally nothing about him passes the sniff-test on him being a moral being.
I’m frankly a little annoyed Rie Takahashi was cast for Rin. I hate having a twinge of abhorrence invade my normally 100% positive reaction to her. Still, gotta hand it to her, she does conceited bitch like she’s actually a horrible person, I’m already seething at that little hair twirl like it’s a pavlovian response.
And the little rant Kabru does in response to being called creepy for remembering so many details about people… He’s literally a psychotic drama-whore. What kind of person looks forward to crisis with glee?! The way his party subtly drop hints about how they think he is the “chosen one” just makes my skin crawl with the thought of how he must have fed the worst aspects of their characters to make this little mini-cult for himself.
Just look at this punchable piece of shit meeting the love-stricken Shuro. “Another fool I can use like a tool.”
Wow I wrote a lot about how I love hating these guys. On a less angry note, who is that the mad sorcerer is dancing with in the new OP??? Go re-watch episode 6 if you don’t recognize him.
They really nailed Kabru’s character in this episode. I genuinely think he’s one of the most terrifying people in the whole dungeon. Especially later
Late series
When he starts working with the canaries. His sheer calculating callousness comes through well early and makes sense for the later team up.
