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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.
The cast grows by 5! Namari is back, for a short while at least… While Marcille isn’t too hot on seeing her again, it’s clear Namari isn’t as callous about leaving the party as Marcy might suspect.
Again, we learn many new details about the world, the Tansus are real experts on the dungeon and they share some tidbits on what makes the place so different to the outside world. Though both them and their adopted twins tend to look down on “normal” adventurers.
Marcille cooks up a stew, new relationships are formed over a meal, and an old friendship gets repaired.
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.
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That was not a cool way for Namari to die. The Tansus certainly don’t give off a good first impression. Ignoring Marcy’s injuries, straight up getting Namari killed when WARNED that the undine was dangerous.
We are now at three parties introduced. Laios, Kabru, and the Tansu couple. There’s also a mention of the other member to leave Laios party upon being returned to the surface by Falin, Shuro.
Namari is a bit taken aback by a dwarf who doesn’t know how to care for his weapon, nor realize that his cookware is made of the rarest and strongest metal there is! But she comes around to appreciating the kind of person he is.
And handsome, too! Senshi takes off his helmet for the first time, look at those eyebrows and sideburns! It’s a good thing he ran into Namari after Marcy made him wash his beard :D
I like her a lot. She’s competent, and while not self-sacrificially suicidal on the level of Falin, she still cares about others. She quickly recognizes the good in Senshi, and has long since learned to take Laios’s baseless hunches seriously. She doesn’t join the Tansus lightly, but fully intending to do more than “just the job”.
I’m so happy to see Marcille back in good health, and for her and Namari to let bygones be bygones despite their recency. She didn’t leave the party because she doesn’t care. Chilchuck already knew. Namari is trying to deal with a personal problem of her own, one which means she needs to be making money.
Also, the show has now revealed enough details about the dungeon that it’s possible to begin putting some things together. Mr. Tansu comments on the magical script of the dungeon being Elven in origin…
Man, it is so nice to see a happy and healthy Marcy again. The whole episode felt different in tone after the stew. Here’s hoping that our intrepid group can proceed a bit smoother from here. If I remember correctly, they are just ~2 days away from where the dragon is. However, the anime viewer me knows that we are simply on episode 9/24, so there is a lot of story left to go.
Earlier today, I read through the latest production notes entry from Sakugablog about this series and I think it applies to this episode a lot. The basic premise was that Trigger has been smart and deliberate about what episodes/sequences they invest time/money into. This episode is one in which they could stay relatively restrained in their animation, and instead rely on the incredible voice talent to convey a lot of the emotion instead. Things like the barely concealed hostility in Marcy’s and Namari’s voices when they reunite for the first time make it obvious how they are feeling.
Speaking of Namari, her death really shocked me. It came out of nowhere so suddenly. I think that helped get across just how casually death is often perceived by adventurers in the dungeon. It was fortunate that there was somebody in the group that could heal Marcille though. So, you might have been a bit of a dick gnome-dude, but you were a bro when it counted.
Finally, I was happy to see some of the magical genius side of Marcille this episode. I get the impression that coming up with the idea of cooking/eating spirits to regain magic is not a standard thing that is done. So, she managed to connect several magical knowledge dots together to come up with a solution that allowed her to continue their quest. I work professionally in the sciences and this is what innovation looks like. Often, all the principles have existed for a while, it just needs the right connections to be drawn between them for a new discovery to be made and put to use.
Marcille is actually a lot more educated than she lets on. Being an elf she’s had time to hit the books for decades, before finally going into the field for real. But she has a lack of confidence in what she’s learned from literature, which started when she met Falin.
That’s why she’s so naive, yet knowledgeable, at the same time. She’s had time to read up, but not to gain confidence in applying all that she knows. But she knows a lot. Way more than Falin, despite Falin being the more skilled mage.
The difference between Marcy and the Tansus is likely just that she hasn’t spent 150 years on her own research yet.
Senshi can’t keep a weapon properly, doesn’t care about ores, and uses adamantine as a cooking pot. He’s no dwarf! He’s a half-tallman,
quarter-foothalf-half-foot! The beard is just a disguise!Jokes aside this episode was great to flesh out the supporting cast - mostly Namari, but also the gnomes. I like how much depth it gives her; sure, she’ll do odd jobs for money to survive, but not everything, and she doesn’t mind helping out some friends (as she did by holding the adamantine cooking pot, even to the point that her hands were boiling). She’s pragmatic, not cold-hearted.
Poor Kensuke was almost cooked.
[Edit reason: my brain auto-correcting “Namari” into “Nanami”]
Next you’ll tell me his cooking knives aren’t normal, either!
How can he take care of those but not his axe??
Knives are different. A dull knife is more dangerous than a sharp one. They need maintenance. Axe though? Worst hypothesis he’s strong enough to cause blunt damage to the enemies, it doesn’t need that much maintenance, once in a few decades should be enough.
But if he knows how to maintain an edge on his knives, why not his axe? Though even if he doesn’t it’ll continue to deal damage as a club just fine, as you say.
But what if he has never learned how sharpen an edge… because he has never needed to? Again, what are those knives made of!
I can almost hear Namari screaming at the thought. Across the screen.
