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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.
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Izutsumi’s membership in Laios’ party is off to a rocky start. The gang is running low on food again, and unlike our former main quartet, our new feline friend isn’t taking well to the idea of eating monsters, and is taking it out on her new friends.
As the journey continues through the now frozen fifth level, the gang starts looking for the next monster of the week to cook up for dinner, while refusing to treat our new neko-buddy with anything but kindness.
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.
So many Izufaces!
And Marcille (or even the whole gang) has clearly adopted this new baby.
Even as a retainer Izu was acting freer than most, and right as she has gained real freedom, she is now chafing at the restrictions of a survival situation.
The gang is genuinely trying to co-operate and form a relationship of fair “give and take” but Izu has very little experience with being given anything, not without a catch. And while the catch in this situation is very real in that the gang is hoping shell be helpful and pull her own weight, they are not her owners, nor do they want to be.
Voluntary co-operation is very new to this young cat-person. But the gang is refusing to show her anything but kindness despite her prickly attitude, let’s hope they can gain the fickle trust of this feline friend!
And she can move! Chil and Izu dealing with the Ice golem was wonderfully animated, though she didn’t seem to pick up on the fact that without Chilchuck showing her where to apply her combat skills, she would have been screwed, and she ends up taking credit for the whole thing.
Chilchuck is still the bigger person in the end. I love the details in how he, and later Marcy, talk to Izu about what it means to be a functioning person. How being too hedonistic and selfish is counterproductive, and that being more well rounded in how you go about life, requires that you show concern for others and consider the bigger picture.
I belly laughed at Laios’ wanting to “explore” Izu’s body. Of course he would want to know every detail of this exotic creature that is Izutsumi!
I was overjoyed to see Izu in the OP, too! I wondered last week whether they would add her in this week, and sure enough, here she is!
Izutsumi’s a teenager!
She’s very capable, she thinks she knows everything, but quickly gets into trouble without help from others, and hasn’t learned to get along with others yet.
And the gang is already going all parental on her. Chil especially has experience, I’m sure, being a father of three.
They really were acting like proud parents, it was very adorable! ( ＾ω＾)
Congratulations, you are being adopted.
I am late to the party on this episode, but it was a fun one. I think my two favorite bits were both Laios-focused. First there was Laios literally scaring away a pack of wolves through his dog impression. Then there was Laios being a
littlelot too interested in the anatomy of Izutsumi.The inclusion of Izutsumi into the OP and ED was nice and is a good indication that she will remain a core part of the group going forward. I do think that, even if she doesn’t care about the others at all, her actions were a bit reckless this episode. I mean, even if she hated the others, she has to recognize that, this deep in the dungeon, sticking with other (kinda?) capable adventurers raises her chances of survival as compared to wandering around on her own. I mean, even look to the ice golem fight during this episode as an example.
The sheep plant monster is weird…I kinda think I would have stayed away from that one. I trust you Senshi, but I don’t know about that. Give me a candied Mandrake any day of the week over a plant that grows fully formed sheep that taste like crab. That just has God’s mistake written all over it.
The “Sheep growing on a plant” thing is a real historical legend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_Lamb_of_Tartary
Wow, TIL! I hadn’t heard of this one before. It reminds me of the Headless Men myths of antiquity. Thanks for the info!
The medieval people were on some weird shit, man. LSD is a famous thing that comes from moldy rye, but without refrigeration and science-based medicine, who knows what people were ingesting back then?
Funny you should mention god, and his intentions concerning the creatures of the dungeon…
Izutsumi is 17. She’s not quite a kid anymore… But she’s a kid. And Maizuru clearly never bothered treating her as more than a vaguely human creature.
Maizuru might have done well enough with Shuro, but she clearly didn’t put the same effort into her “pet” as she did her “waka-sama”.
When it comes to people to be around. Ones that value good communication, co-operation, and honest interaction (unlike a certain Kabru), Izu could not have lucked out harder on a group to end up with.
Izu has been “taken care of” her whole life, but never by people who concern themselves with who she is and where she is going, the way Laios’ gang does.
I love the way they dealt with Izu scratching up Laios’ face. Marcille comments that it’s horrible, but none of them so much as hint at being vindictive about it. You can just tell that among the Nakamotos, that would have meant corporeal punishment.
But here, no-one stares daggers at her, or tells her she’s a bad person. The only one giving Izu any crap is Chilchuck, and he apologized for it.
Izutsumi’s appearence in the opening caught me off guard.
She’s not a side character, but having her in the OP before that point would have spoiled that.
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