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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.
A lot happens this week. Falin re-appears, several people die (and get resurrected), and Laios and Shuro have a soft falling out.
Kabru reaps what he has sowed.
Yet another group opts to return to the surface after encountering Laios and his friends, leaving our core quartet to again head even deeper into the dungeon.
They have a mission again. Not to simply save Falin, things have changed, to achieve even that they must conquer the dungeon itself.
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.
The fight between Laios and Shuro left me speechless. Two men expressing anger in a healthy way. We know they won’t kill each other as they are professional monster slayers.
They love each other and they love the same woman albeit in a different way. They can’t stand seeing the other one throwing his life away for her. The Anger is eating at them and they can’t put it into their words. The slap is thrown and it changes the language of the exchange. Now they are talking with fists. Each punch has behind it, years of annoyance. The swollen face, maybe is left unhealed for petty reasons, but for them it’s necessary step to mend the heart that is ablaze with anger. It’s stark reminder the he heard him and he himself got heard by him.
I don’t think I have seen something like that ever in any media.
I fucking love Shuro’s “Umai” as he chows down on the onigiri after the fight.
He’s got to be famished, tired, and in pain. Can you imagine how good a simple ball of rice has to taste in that state?
And really, he’s talking about so much more than just the taste. For a moment there he is enjoying life in the simple way that he is so envious of Laios for. By enjoying the shit out of a tasty bite of food.
He said he could never understand Laios. But after the fight, that little moment, is a big deal. It shows that now that they’re actually talking, Shuro and Laios might just be able to get each other after all. Eventually.
I really, really liked that they didn’t heal after their fight. It was such a great touch to make that exchange so much more meaningful to both of them.