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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.
Lots of Kabru hate in this thread so far. I don’t get it. He is an ambitious and goal-oriented person. He even has a noble goal of ending the dungeon’s curse to prevent monsters from spilling out and killing people. He will see it done, no matter how many people he has to kill to make it happen! Wait…
I really like Kabru (maybe not as a friend though). He is a bit like an adventurer version of Sherlock Holmes. He seems to be extremely observant and has a lot of insight into people. However, he doesn’t seem to have his version of Watson nearby to help act as his conscience. I am curious to know what the endgame he has in mind if/when he comes into contact with Laios’s party. He doesn’t seem like the type to simply want revenge for a perceived slight. I get the feeling there are machinations at work below the surface with his character that we don’t have insight into yet.
As for the other members of his party, Kuro and Mickbell were fun. I laughed at her basically saying “OK Boomer” to the idea of Chilchuck. Also, Kuro is a good boy, a very loyal boy. It was a nice touch that he was simply confused while under the illusion. I assume its because what he was seeing was not matching up with what he was smelling. The last one I wanted to mention is Rinsha. I swore I recognized her voice, only to look it up and find out it was Megumin herself, Rie Takahashi. So, no wonder Kazuma Kabru wanted to prevent her from getting a spell off.
Finally, we got to see Shuro’s new party. Seems like he went with a different plan to try to get to Falin, reuniting with his fellow countrymen. I am looking forward to seeing more of this group as they seem quite capable. Also, I am not sure how Shuro is going to react when he hears about everything that has happened with Laios’s group while they were separated.
Edit: Forgot to mention that Dungeon Meshi had an exclusive interview with the mushroom monster that they published for April Fool’s. It’s in Japanese and I didn’t have the patience/energy to work my way through it, but the pictures were funny.
I’m pretty late to the party here, but in case you never got to read the interview, I wanted to let you know you can use Google translate to translate whole webpages. I can’t confirm the accuracy of the translation, but it seemed like it could have been fairly accurate.
This is the link to the Google translate page, if you are interested.
Kuro is a good boy.
Unfortunately the real reason Mickbell and Chilchuck don’t get along, is that Chilchuck is a rights activist. He’s genuinely fighting for halflings to have a better lot in life, because they are often taken on as “pets” rather than full party members, used like disposable canaries for traps and monsters alike.
Mickbell has sort of become the kind of person who does that to another race, in his employment of Kuro.
I’ll be posting more character sheets as we finally meet much more of the cast again. Kuros page reveals one good thing Kabru has done, which is to teach Kuro to read in secret, because Mickbell won’t allow it for fear of Kuro becoming independent.
I love the new OP. It’s fun, but it conveys really well that the party runs nonstop into troubles (getting “cooked”), while playing with the topic of the series.
Kabru for me is one of those characters that I love as a character - he plays a huge role for a side char, his antics are interesting to watch, and he fills a “character role” well, without being shallow. As a person though? I’d hate him, and I can’t help but agree with OP calling him “punchable”.
No character is a miss in terms of quality. And as sure as I am about disliking Kabru, I’m not so sure the hints that make me feel that way are that obvious to everyone. His flaws are very subtle, and as you say, he will indeed be a major character for the entire run of the story. A really well done one, too, as all characters in Dungeon Meshi are.
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.
