Dungeon Meshi

This is my favorite episode so far.

So many tiny things add up to a series of absolutely fantastic character and lore moments.

Senshi's little senshi-antibodies.

Senshi giving Chilchuck, a father of three, "the talk".

The "pumpkins".

This:

Marcille explaining that the defining difference of forbidden magic is the way it uses spatial magic to open a connection to another dimension from which energy can be tapped, thereby allowing spells to do more than what the mana-pool of the caster would normally allow.

Laios hearing the ghosts of the city during his mana sickness.

Marcille getting petrified mid-sentence.

Laios passing out frothing at the mouth trying to read her spellbook.

"You shouldn't use someone as a fermentation weight."

God this episode is an absolute banger. The list above isn't even comprehensive.

There was this:

The Marcille x Laios fuel is starting to drop.

Relevant.

And I now realize Goth-Marcy would be mega cute.

I really enjoyed this episode. Some great humor and some great monsters this episode. I think I connected a lot with the monsters this episode because I once ran a D&D campaign in which a dryad and a flock of cockatrice played significant roles for part of the journey. So, seeing them both in one episode was fun. Also, I feel like I inadvertently posted my basilisk clip at just the right time as a preview for the cockatrice segment. I swear I haven't read the source!

Two jokes really got me this episode. The first was grandpa Senshi sitting Chilchuck down to give him the talk (and really grandpa Senshi in general feeling like he is surrounded by kids). Second was Marcy turning into stone while doing a tsukkomi. If you aren't familiar with it, a tsukkomi gesture is something you see a lot in Japanese humor and comes from a specific type of standup comedy called manzai. In this situation, Laios was filling the boke role by preparing her to turn into stone.

I am curious what the rules around magic are in this world. Is there a reason that Laios is able to learn magic, but Chilchuck/Senshi can't? Is it ideological differences? racial differences? too busy thinking about food to care? It was interesting that Laios was able to see the ghosts of the city while he was on his magic trip with the pretty colors. I feel like if Laios was a bit more observant he might be able to piece more of the story together between the paintings, the interaction with the magician, and now the ghosts. Alas...he is too busy doing...Laios things I guess.

Finally, I just want to say that homemade sauerkraut is delicious, but it takes absolutely forever to get that way. When my family made it, we would let it go for at least a month before diving in.

Who else thought "Falin!" When they saw the red dragon flying over them?

Fun episode. I am now beginning to see a pattern where Our team got one less team member and someone needs to fill the role.

You know when they said they were gonna go back to the surface I thought it would be a quick trip to the top and then back down again lol. Things just keep going from bad to worse for our poor adventures.

Dungeon Meshi - episode 15

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