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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.
Last weeks episode ended on quite a cliffhanger, with Laios holding his sisters skull. We now find out how that turns out, with Marcille revealing what she’s really an expert in.
Forbidden magic. The dark arts.
Using an illegal spell, she brings back Falin from nothing but bones, using the flesh of the dragon to fuel the spell.
And so, this arc concludes. With the gang, now joined by Falin, cooking up some goddamn dragon!!
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.
I had thought that this was fairly explicit from way back when Marcy was so insistent on how special Falin was to her in episode 1 and why she needed to accompany Laios back into the dungeon. I had always thought from that point on that Marcille had viewed Falin as more than just a party member. Perhaps that is just my anime/manga riddled brain seeing yuri in places where it doesn’t need to exist though.
Her getting excited about eating monsters was great. Up until that point I was curious if there were going to be any lasting effects to her personality, but the way she was just totally on the same wavelength as Laios in that scene made me realize lasting effects were likely physical rather than psychological.
Aside from Shuros already mentioned infatuation with Falin, romance isn’t really a thing in the show.
But I do love how openly the characters show affection for each other. It’s adorable and heartwarming.
There’s also an age gap between Falin and Marcille that isn’t too pronounced, but the school flashback along with Marcille going “you’ll always be my little girl” makes me think Marcilles feelings are somewhat maternal.
Similar stuff is explored in Sousou no Frieren, where for a long-lived person, the lives of other races fly by almost too fast for them to have a chance to matter.
But Marcille is very different from Frieren, it’s clear she gets very involved in the lives of shorter-lived races. Loving openly and intimately, even if not romantically.
I suspect it’s likely she knew from the start that her secret talents would be needed to revive Falin then and there, when and if they found her digested remains. She was ready to do whatever it takes from day one.
She’s an elven mage who was considered a prodigy, once, but now she’s dungeon delving who knows why. She could be off being a respected scholar somewhere, but her choice of research subject may have burned some bridges with her own kind.
At 50, she’s had plenty of chances to love and lose a lot of people. Right now, the Touden siblings are her family, she’s closer to Falin, but Laios is important to her, too. She really doesn’t want to lose the Toudens, likely dreading their inevitable aging to death.