All the other characters transformation get talked about but we don't talk enough about Kobold Izutsumi imo
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All the other characters transformation get talked about but we don't talk enough about Kobold Izutsumi imo
Look at her
Fellas it’s that time of day again
For what
Every morning, a beam of pure light fires into my toilet seat. I believe this has some religious implications. I feel closer to God when this happens.
Please don't be gross about this (it does)
i never get tired of this joke
Laios welcoming Falin into the world
They did this scene okay in the adaptation but there's something about these three little panels that made me hurt when I read it. Monochrome just works sometimes.
The secret Dungeon Meshi sauce that's getting people to eat better is that it's so non-judgmental. Senshi and the rest of the gang never talk about what not to eat besides things that taste bad and literal poison. They don't even talk about "health" that much besides the importance of a balanced diet. It's so much easier to eat well when you think of food simply as something your body needs, and that it's often worth the extra effort to make it taste good, especially when you understand how to connect "things your body needs" with "things that taste good"
I love that when marcille says she really wants some cured ham senshi says "oh that means your body is craving fat which is actually a very good and normal thing. Let's go kill a snake chicken and have a picnic."
One thing people get immediately about Dungeon Meshi is that so much of it is about Dungeons and Dragons. I think a less discussed thing is Dungeon Meshi is also very much about backpacking.
I used to backpack for a living as part of my job and the logistics of how much food I could carry was very much a limiting factor of how far we could get in a week before we had to turn around.
We had to do so much planning about food, I counted calories for the first time in my life not to lose weight but to establish a bare minimum of how much food I needed. I started with 2000 calories before realizing that they decided that number was an average for people who hiked way less then 8 hours in a day. I went up to 2400 calories a day, I would have done more but reasonably I could only carry so much food on my back. I made sure a good portion of it was salty because after the first day my sweat would taste like water and if I didn't pack enough gatorade powder my legs would cramp. Pringles have never tasted as good as they would on day 3 of a hike when my body craved salt the most, at home they were disappointing. Food was about what my body needed and what would let me keep hiking.
I would often train new volunteers and impressing upon them how much food they needed to pack and how they needed to think about it differently was always hard. The hardest was young woman. They would tell me they only ate 1400 calories in a day, they were never hungry after that, they couldn't possibly eat that much. They always listened to me in the second week. No one ever brought enough in the first week man or women.
The logistics of carrying enough food was a frequent topic, we discussed yes, if we were going to a lake, could we fish? Would that be reliable, could we save pack weight and money (dehydrated food is expensive) on that? We would talk about what fresh ingredients we could bring, how long they would keep, how we could cook them. Like a lot of adventurers mention when running into Laio's party, the kind of dried food that goes well in a backpack wears on you after a while, you want something actually cooked, not dried or at best rehydrated. The problems about food they discuss in the manga are the exact same problems I have sat around and discussed with people I worked on the trail with.
So this is just my take, but the key to understanding Kabru Dungeon Meshi is understanding that the Touden's party was one of the top parties in the dungeon.
You eventually learn the mission they were on when they encountered the red dragon, and it involved going as far into the dungeon as anybody had gone before. Their party lineup was two top-level mages, Marcille and Falin (okay, Marcille's practical magic skills are kind of questionable, but we're told that Falin was extremely talented within her areas of specialty) Two excellent fighters: Shuro and Namari, and Chilchuck, who considering that he runs the guild, is likely one of the most experienced half-foot trapsmiths working on the island. Laios is party leader, and while he's not the greatest fighter, he's quite good, and his obsessive knowledge of monsters means that he can guide the others. You see how Laois's knowledge helps the party already, now imagine if they had a support caster, a dwarf whose almost certainly a much better fighter than Senshi, and another tallman who is almost certainly a much better fighter than Laois all working on that knowledge.
So with that in mind, lets revisit Kabru and his obsession. Kabru knows people, and can read them very well. He's also got a wider perspective on the nature and danger of dungeons due to his backstory. Kabru isn't here to get rich delving the dungeon, he's here to Solve A Problem. He's a relatively recent arrival to the island, that or his mismatched skillset means that he and his party are much slower to progress through it than the Touden's party. Either way, he spots the Touden party as The Party To Watch when it comes to conquering the dungeon. Laois, as party leader, is obviously of particular concern. So, Kabru turns all his insight onto Laois and he gets...nothing. Laois cares about money from a pragmatic standpoint, but isn't especially concerned with it. He's easily conned. He's not driven by hatred, greed, or ambition. There's some curiosity there, but it's not the driving curiosity of an obsessive academic, Laois is an enthusiastic hobbyist who has figured out how to make his particular interest into a valuable skillset. Kabru is looking for the protagonist of an epic fantasy tale, and he finds...just a guy. A guy who didn't feel at home anywhere, and found a place and a life where he was welcome and valued. A guy whose skillset and companions puts him first in a race he doesn't even know he's running. And if you're Kabru, that's infuriating and fascinating in equal measure.
has anyone done this yet
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Im very sorry im so emotional, he's been just looking for a place where he fits in
thinking about how it was emphasized that chilchuck's wife went to stay with their second daughter multiple times and if it's because their eldest reminds her too much of chilchuck
will forever love ryoko kui for depicting spooky evil laios despite him not actually having a villain arc
like thank you. i needed this. laios would never, and yet we have been fed anyway. ah dungeon meshi, as they say. do you get me.
The Touden Siblings are so important to me
A Touden be a Touden after all
kabru my beloved you have got nobody to blame but yourself on this one you just Keep Fucking Doing This