[dungeon meshi] Been catching some of this via react channels and it's good! [now with full anime spoilers]
Definitely hits my worldbuilding+survival/foraging buttons.
Not planning to pick anyone up from it, but if I did, it would probably be Falon, Chilchuck, or Kabru.
Right now, I'm up to where Kabru has revealed his uncanny peopling skills, and I know some of the spoilers that follow, so that's going to be interesting!
oh, i recently read the manga of this series! chilchuck is my favorite 
yessssssssssssssss
(not me looking at Marcille like "holy crap is it time to Play A Girl Successfully" /stares at hands)
It is So Good (tm) and the dub is so well done
I haven't been this excited about Anime Thing since FMA manga concluded, it is an extremely nice feeling
I'm stuck just watching the anime, but I've had multiple friends get into it so now I'm curious
crimsonxiphos he's SO tired of everyones' shenanigans! and I'm having feelings about his "avoiding personal disclosures because so many parties break up over interpersonal relationships" policy now that we know what we know about his personal life ;;
and I'm having feelings about his "avoiding personal disclosures because so many parties break up over interpersonal relationships" policy now that we know what we know about his personal life ;;
Miz_Bluebird MARCILLE YES. her feelings about Falin = chef's kiss<3 and yeah, I was having FMA feels about it too; there's something about the adept, diverse character design and slow encroachment of the wider political/social stuff that has been underlying everyones' behavior the whole time
and how the comedy slice-of-adventurer-life bits are so neatly interwoven with the THIS CAN AND DOES GET DARK SO QUICKLY worldbuilding implications
the whole pacing reminds me of FMA too; it doesn't bloat out with pointless everyone-fights-everyone-else-to-prove-who's-stronger arcs, just straight to the plot and character development
Angelcide me too (and also glancing at spoilers via the wiki and peoples' meta), but I'm not surprised you know a bunch of people who like it!
the "haha this is an anime cooking show but in a dungeon" conceit lets the actual excellent storytelling really sneak up on you 
Having gone through the full anime now, I stand by my previous statement about Falin, Chilchuck, and Kabru. Chilchuck is my "competent but underestimated support character" type, Kabru is the "masks so hard he thinks it's the normal way to fix the whole unfair world" one, and Falin is a delightful nerd who deserves everything and did not ask for this
Morning Voice // Dungeon Meshi
and ok I know the direct translation of "Dungeon Food" for the title isn't exciting enough for marketing but I really think they missed out on "Dungeon Munchies". no I will not be taking notes on this.
Dungeon Munchies is a delightful suggestion
Looking into this a little more, I'm no longer surprised about the FMA vibe I get out of it. The mangaka is a VERY thorough and thoughtful worldbuilder and character designer.
She's the type of writer who drags the reader into her story's reality rather than trying to shove it out through the page with splashy expositiony reveals.
The exposition serves the story rather than trying to be cool enough to attract the reader.
In, say, Bleach, entire chapters would serve as introductions to one or two characters' cool new moves or forms. That doesn't happen here. Getting introduced to cool new monsters is something for the characters to incorporate into their behavior and knowledge of the world around them, not frantically one-up in training arcs.
Bleach or Naruto would have spent YEARS setting up the aboveground politics with travel and diplomatic encounters and "look at all this detail! I bet you're wondering what I haven't told you!" but this kind of storytelling gives you exactly enough to move the story forward and then goes back to the story.
WAIT SENSHI'S DUB VOICE IS PROZD? THAT'S AMAZING
Emily Rudd as Marcille is also a standout
Saw some manga spoilers and now can't wait for Mithrun
THE MANGA ART IS SO GOOD
really makes my artbrain go ping
the panel design is great and the range from seriously detailed to cute/funny stylization is so well done
the animators must have had such a good time with it
RK's so consistent in the ways she adapts her style; that's another way it reminds me of FMA
she's got such a polished, consistent, legible visual language and she uses it so entertainingly
Bwahahahahaha the manga confirmed something I might have missed while skimming the react-channel episodes: Shiro's bell has been constantly ringing and bothering him this whole time 
"ring the bell if you're in trouble" instantly turned it into "he just threw it in his pack where it's been bouncing all over the place ever since"
Your Story is Missing PlantsTangentially related
I love hand-drawn animal/plant books, and the web's contamination with AI further underlines how badly those texts need to be presered
*preserved
especially the ones about woodcraft, foraging, and home uses for plants/lichens/mushrooms, because there are already inaccurate AI "guides" on the market and it's only a matter of time before someone relies on that and dies
there were, of course, scam guides before internet, because scammers have existed throughout time. but they were harder to access, and so were the situations in which laypersons would be tempted to download and rely on the first cheap booklet that comes up on amazon.
I keep arguing with [relatives] that all the stuff they hate about the internet and Today's Culture have been happening the whole time; it's just more widely accessible and that fact takes up more bandwidth in our everyday lives.
^^^^ it's not that there were never village idiots, witch burners, and Ea Nasirs; they're just everywhere and inescapably loud now in a way that feels, like biting ice while wearing wet socks and having a panic attack.
(or is that just my personal doomspiral sensation (tm) )
(it is very unfortunately not just that)
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