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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.
The cast grows by 5! Namari is back, for a short while at least… While Marcille isn’t too hot on seeing her again, it’s clear Namari isn’t as callous about leaving the party as Marcy might suspect.
Again, we learn many new details about the world, the Tansus are real experts on the dungeon and they share some tidbits on what makes the place so different to the outside world. Though both them and their adopted twins tend to look down on “normal” adventurers.
Marcille cooks up a stew, new relationships are formed over a meal, and an old friendship gets repaired.
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.
That was not a cool way for Namari to die. The Tansus certainly don’t give off a good first impression. Ignoring Marcy’s injuries, straight up getting Namari killed when WARNED that the undine was dangerous.
We are now at three parties introduced. Laios, Kabru, and the Tansu couple. There’s also a mention of the other member to leave Laios party upon being returned to the surface by Falin, Shuro.
Namari is a bit taken aback by a dwarf who doesn’t know how to care for his weapon, nor realize that his cookware is made of the rarest and strongest metal there is! But she comes around to appreciating the kind of person he is.
And handsome, too! Senshi takes off his helmet for the first time, look at those eyebrows and sideburns! It’s a good thing he ran into Namari after Marcy made him wash his beard :D
I like her a lot. She’s competent, and while not self-sacrificially suicidal on the level of Falin, she still cares about others. She quickly recognizes the good in Senshi, and has long since learned to take Laios’s baseless hunches seriously. She doesn’t join the Tansus lightly, but fully intending to do more than “just the job”.
I’m so happy to see Marcille back in good health, and for her and Namari to let bygones be bygones despite their recency. She didn’t leave the party because she doesn’t care. Chilchuck already knew. Namari is trying to deal with a personal problem of her own, one which means she needs to be making money.
Also, the show has now revealed enough details about the dungeon that it’s possible to begin putting some things together. Mr. Tansu comments on the magical script of the dungeon being Elven in origin…
Man, helmet-less Senshi is something else. With his helmet on, he is such a goofy-looking character, but take that off and wow. I mean, just look at Namari’s reaction in that screenshot, she is just as shocked as I was.
He’s a total cutie with the helmet on.
And then he takes it off…
In defense of the Tansus he can resurrect a dead person. Having Namari die in his place makes sense. He can and did being her back to life. Had he died she probably could not resurrect him.
It wasn’t necessary to endanger her in the first place. He’d been warned of the undine and simply walked into danger knowing he could have a person die in his stead.
On her own, Namari likely could have pulled out of the undines range safely. She might even have been able to do it while protecting Tansu, had he given her a heads up on the plan instead of restricting her ability to act down to being little more than a meat shield. She can’t do her thing if he gets her killed in the first split second of a fight, and then he has the gall to accuse her of incompetence.
The Tansus don’t communicate, even their adopted kids aren’t let in on their leadership decisions, they just do what the Tansus tell them to do when told to do so.
They expect to do all the thinking, while the party acts like chess pieces that do not act on their own. They don’t even consider the possibility that Namari has the experience to think for herself and be co-operative, rather than simply subordinate.
Had Laios not been there to formulate a plan before acting to deal with the Tentacles, Tansu would have just thrown people at the monster until the party or the monster was dead. Instead, with Senshi and Laios there, Namari feels comfortable completely ignoring Tansus orders, while Kiki gets herself nearly killed following his instructions.
Mrs Tansu can cast the resurrection spell as well.
I feel like Tensus must pay them a lot to be so imperious with Nimari and others.