Last weeks thread - 13 Comments
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.
Dear me this episode goes hard! Trigger pulls out all the stops on their signature quality, smear frames and rapid movement all over the place.
Laios and the gang finally fight the Red Dragon. Nuff said.
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.
We open on yet another statue of a winged lion... And then it's straight to kiting the dragon.
I fucking loved this episode. Trigger has always had an affinitiy for blood and gore, just look at Kill la Kill and Edgerunners, it still cought me off guard seeing Senshi cough up blood, Laios lose a leg, and then Marcille run around healing the gang while ignoring her blood-soaked hands.
Felt like seeing Akkos arm torn off, trigger has flawlessly maintained the wholesome lighthearted tone so far, only carefully teasing what's to come and somewhat downplaying the one instance of bad luck with Marcy's encounter with the undine.
The digging around in the dragons innards continues the downward spiral in tone...
I've been promising it for a while, and the episode ends on the tone of the show taking a dive off a cliff, revealing that as the dragon did not hibernate after its meal the way they usually would, Falin was by now very, very digested.
I recently posted some manga pages that were cut from the anime, which feature exposition on the fact that the effectiveness of resurrection magic rapidly diminishes if more than one thirteenth of a persons body has been lost. Falin is far beyond that point, which may not be landing for some anime-only watchers.
And this episode is ominously titled "Red Dragon 1".
It could have been worse, since the dragon uses indigestible parts as fuel for its fire breath....
Indeed. If they hadn't screwed up, and executed their plan to exhaust the dragons fuel, Falins bones would have ended up as ash.