Last weeks thread - 15 Comments

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.

Laios’ party finally runs into Shuro and his retainers! And along with them, Kabru and his mini-cult.

We learn about of the smallest creatures in the dungeon, and we finally get to know some of the girls that Shuro is dragging around.

One of them has very good hearing.

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.

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzOPMEnglish
    4·
    7 months ago

    The western elven nation is a world power, and they’re the ones primarily suppressing research into certain types of magic. In that sense, the Tansus and the governor are playing with geopolitical fire.

    Marcille is a bit of a rebel, and booksmart as she is looks at things objectively. So as there’s no clear reason why a spell that pulls energy from another dimension should be off-limits, she’s comfortable looking into things the law says she shouldn’t. It’s the entire reason she is on the island, as she’s been looking for someone or something that can teach her more about this magic and its applications.

    “The dark arts” are outlawed by most nations, yes, but the real reason people won’t touch it with a ten foot pole, was mentioned by Chilchuck in a previous episode.

    Even before considering local laws, people get disappeared by the elven government, even outside their borders, just for being tangentially involved with mere artefacts that might be related to forbidden spells.

    • arya48@lemmy.world
      3·
      7 months ago

      I see, I’ll have to check last week’s episode, completely forgot what Chilchuck said. Thanks for the info, will all this be covered in future episodes?

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzOPMEnglish
        3·
        7 months ago

        Marcille insinuated that Chilchuck should have learned magic, and he retorts that the only people he could have learned from among his own kind, got abducted by elves.

        When we met the governor, he and Tansu also discussed that the elven government is pressuring the governor to abandon the dungeon and give up the land it is on.

        Thanks for the info, will all this be covered in future episodes?

        Yes and no. A lot of exposition is never explicitly covered in the story. Most of my details are put together from reading the manga several times, as well as the bonus chapters and the world guide that I’ve been posting pages from. (you can find it on mangadex, but it’s full of spoilers, so if you like, search “world guide” in the community to find all the pages that are spoiler free for an anime watcher)

        I’m limiting myself to only very slightly expanding on what it’s possible to put together from what we’ve seen so far in the anime.