THIS IS INSANE! 👹 Delicious in Dungeon Meshi Ep 19 REACTION & REVIEW!

[@jabiiis]

No way I just noticed, these things were in marcille's pillow all the way from episode 1 when she had the nightmare about her mom

[@meino6465]

Wait they were?? If so thats some cool foreshadowing. Timestamp?

[@majorkool]

@@meino6465 Near the end, when they sleep in the tree after hanging the body they found (~23:45 of episode 1)

[@ZEEQ657]

​@@meino6465As a mangareader, there are many foreshadowing in this story. Gotta pay close attention to the detail.

[@whatthehellisthisname]

no wonder she sleeps like shit, imagine dealing with these dreams every to almost every night.

[@kasid4759]

@@majorkooljust to confirm, we can’t actually see but it’s kinda implied by her having a nightmare?

[@nunyab-]

fun fact, most of the portraits were added in by the anime! they didn't come out of nowhere though, it looks like the anime team is drawing on later chapters to embellish this one. cool to see!

[@Clarste]

Nightmares being clams is because they're being conflated with Asian mythology where there's a type of clam monster that creates illusions/dreams.

[@juntawflo]

Exactly , that was my first thought. And like Laios said , the monster is from the dragon family. Same as Shen/shin (Tomoe) in Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai , the mirage/illusion dragon. She used pure illusory Reality (Eternal dreams, illusions) against Makoto

[@ponycai]

yes you can find the wikipedia here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_(clam-monster)

[@PatrickWoo-pu6ww]

yeah its our Chinese mythology！i had watched this monster in china legend book，it is one of kind of dragon though it is so different with dragon

[@ponycai]

​@@PatrickWoo-pu6ww yeah! Even though I knew the Shen monster (as a clam that causes mirages and illusions), I only knew it was one kind of dragon (or "loong（龙/龍）") after I read the later chapters of Dungeon Meshi. I'm really glad that Kui adopted such a Eastern monster concept into a western-style dungeon story

[@TheZapan99]

Notice how the Mad Mage book has an eye with a double pupil forming a figure 8, the symbol of infinity, and Marcille said before that Black Magic taps into a dimension where infinity exists.

[@XShrike0]

2:21 Marcille has been using a magic circle to generate heat pretty frequently. Her using one enchanted the water, she boiled, enough to awaken the undine. Her and her copy were using them to cook during the shapeshifter event.

[@andrewli6606]

Kinda shows that Senshi is now more accepting of magic. Episode 1 Senshi would've refused to use the magic circle and have made a fire.

[@highlycalm]

There's also the detail of Marcille's ears being more rounded/less pointy than her mom's or the mad mage's ears

[@yuusan.0v0]

Marrcille is only 50 years old and she only has friends who are short-lived species which is the scariest thing for me

[@ameixa9432]

and even senshi whos a dwarf is already middle aged so hes not gonna live as longer as if he was a young adult

[@BelBelle468]

Chilchuck is already middle aged so It’s really sad to see

[@kaynebula2093]

@@ameixa9432is he though? He is in his 30s in his backstory, and 10 years have passed so he would be 40 now, which isn’t much by dwarf standards.

[@ameixa9432]

@@kaynebula2093 senshi is 112 yo currently in the story

[@SodaFlavour]

20:55 That’s actually her mom. But pay attention to the hidden clues in the background, they will come back in future episodes

[@standingbylife]

Glad you're paying attention to the background portraits! There's serious foreshadowing here, so best keep this episode in the back of your mind!

[@ДаниярИткулов]

Love how Dunmeshi so casually mentioned that Laois is a military deserter

[@dra-boys-despair9806]

Actually, Laois failed military school and is not a deserted soldier

[@deltap6967]

They couldn't handle his tism

[@Chaindustries]

Fun fact: half-donkey, half-horse offspring, known as mules, tend to be healthier and longer lived than both their parents but are also infertile.

[@disky1784]

The foreshadowing and story development in this chapter is insane. Also like the falin doll, iconic

[@aviongris4233]

Indeed

[@j-bonkers1887]

Need myself one of dem Falin Fumos fr

[@Gogito4]

Izutsumi joining and the nightmares were completely seperate chapters in the manga, that's why it's like, a hard split between both here. But yeah, you're absolutely right about her dad and how Pipi also lived over half a century!

[@Banana_John]

Wow dog Laios in the mirage is so cute lol. Also, i just want marcille to be happy :( Edit: Feels like her nightmare monster is a manifestation of time. Like how the slow passage of time just take away everyone from her by literally aging them.

[@nutzor9594]

Indeed. She can "run faster" away from time because she is a long lived elf. The others eventually slow down (age) and succumb to it.

[@Nessmess001]

They do imply that marcille's dad was a tall-man (human) so that would make her a half-elf, yes.

[@DeathWishMonkey]

She didn't cough up a hairball, she straight up puked at poor Marcille. I have a cat like that. You have you feed him a portion of his meal at a time. If he ate his kibbles all at once, he would vomit from swallowing unchewed food.

[@hieutruong7456]

This is quite an important episode since there are like 3 Chekhov's guns in it

[@gherve222]

What’s a chekhov gun ?

[@gristen]

​@@gherve222its foreshadowing, basically. its just a fancy term for the seemingly random things added to a story that are mentioned solely because they will eventually be important to the plot (ie: when a story mentions theres a gun hanging on a wall while describing a room as a way to foreshadow that that gun will be used later on)

[@MX_sharkpup]

in Dungeon Meshi, Elves live about 500 years, tall-men about 60, half-foots about 50 and Dwarves about 200

[@rmbadoo4831]

And Orcs, Kobolds, and Ogres are all between 50-60

[@rileydunlop3389]

Don't the half-elves live significantly longer? Pretty sure it follow a "hybridization" idea where the genes actually get stronger (for some tradeoffs) instead of weaker because "Fantasy le human blood le weak".

[@leonardomarquesbellini]

​@@rileydunlop3389No, they just have inconsistent growth and maturity rates throughout their life and even individuals halfies will age differently from others like them

[@notmyfullname598]

​@@rileydunlop3389I'm pretty sure that is right

[@yuusan.0v0]

@@rileydunlop3389 yup, SPOIL: Marcille can live around 1000+

[@SebastianWeinberg]

The first spell on Izutsumi seems so sinister: it's wound around her neck like a collar, it goes off if the subject is away from the caster for longer than a set time, and when triggered (as happens accidentally during the episode) it summons a terrifying, knife-wielding Hag demon figure. What else could it be but an enslavement bond? In the manga, there is a hilarious extra that reveals it was actually invented by Maizuru as a _babysitting_ tool that activates, if the child is out past bedtime. She thinks of the horrible paper doll spirit that is conjured by it as a benevolent child-minder, who gently ushers the wayward tyke back home, when it's time to stop playing outside, and she appears absolutely oblivious to how terrifying it is. Shuro was completely traumatised by an encounter with it, when he stayed out too late as a child, one day.

[@sirbig8292]

Loved all the talk about Marcille's parents. Look forward to what's to come!

[@valvadis2360]

Marcille and Laios and Farlin are indeed from the same region, the Northern Continent. The story takes place in a island of the the Eastern Continent, not to be confused with the Eastern Archipelago from where Shuro, Rin and Izutsumi are from. The Elves everyone talks about are the "Western Elves" of the Northen-Central and Southern-Central Continents. Kabru and Kuro are from the actual Western Continent by the way.

[@hyobro8392]

Given your interpretation on what half elves are like in general, I'm excited to see your thougts on dungeon meshi elves and half elves when the topic comes up

[@FlubbedPig]

Yeah, these two chapters the episode covered don't really relate to one another at all, but it's just kind of a consequence of adaptation. As separate chapters it's fine, but when you have to package them into a single episode, they don't form a cohesive set.

[@Green-FUKUFUKUFUKUFUKUFUKU]

12:13 "Tell everyone.. life wasn't so bad!"

[@BOLDcast]

[@Banana_John]

👁️

[@therealslimshawty1854]

Laios is SPECIALZ.

[@noll7779]

It’s interesting how we get to tackle the issue of lifespan difference of humans and elfs from Marcille and Frieren perspective. Frieren is her regret of not getting to know people arround her do to her perspective of time because of her super long lifespan that has made them more loners. Marcille other hand seems to be more on the death aspect, the thought that one day your parents are going to die before you, but in Marcille case it’s pretty much everyone except for other elfs.

[@МихаилЛарионов-я8ъ]

Probably my favourite episode so far. Peak storytelling

[@leonardomarquesbellini]

One of the extras gives the birth place of a lot of characters and Laios (as well as Falin) and Marcille all come frrom morre or less the same region of the same continent, unlike other tall-men like Shuro, Kabru and the Tansu Twins who all come from other continents. Any resemblance between Laios and Marcille's dad is probably just on account of their shared ethnicity.

[@Green-FUKUFUKUFUKUFUKUFUKU]

regarding holding the spoon and not eating mushrooms, i'm the same. if you mix them in without my knowledge i'll eat them, though.

[@XShrike0]

She gulped them all down on the first bowl. It wasn't until the second that she noticed.

[@Green-FUKUFUKUFUKUFUKUFUKU]

@@XShrike0 exactly!

[@zanthe_]

Im happy to say that we *will* get more on Marcille's age and parentage and stuff in the future.

[@hieutruong7456]

25:45 it's actually a secret third way but you'll find that out in time

[@urielcastaneda761]

Also, that book is at the end of the credits.

[@carpiim]

THE KIBTY HAS ARRIVED 🐱

[@kimiami]

all hail the great kibty

[@simmie912]

Dunmeshi's elves (and other races too) are more likely inspired by DnD rather than Tolkien.

[@cat86581]

I don't know how I feel about dunmeshi manga readers casually dropping spoilers without any warning. :(

[@forotherpurpose3671]

I'm a manga-reader, and many "spoilers" here aren't actually spoilers bc it's technically not from the manga. It's from the Adventurer's Bible or smth like that; it's some kind of supplementary book of Dunmesh that helps enrich the story and the world-buiding; many of the informations on this book did not make it into the manga bc the plot would be too convoluted, lol. So it creates this kind of gray area where it's not really a spoiler since it's not from the manga, but on the other hand, it kinda ruined the element of surprise? I completely understand that anime-onlies would love to learn these infos themselves - not from random people telling them. But some manga readers might've thought "hey, since anime-onlies are only gonna watch the anime, and the anime won't cover the Bible, they're gonna miss a bunch of super awesome cool things from the Bible! Let's spoil the Bible to let them know how awesome the show actually is!" ... Yeah, even me as a manga reader has a mixed feelings about this. 😅

[@cat86581]

@@forotherpurpose3671 I'm a manga reader too, imo if it relates in any way to a plotpoint that's important coming up later then it is a spoiler

[@forotherpurpose3671]

@@cat86581 true enough.

[@Artuditu123]

Dungeon Meshi's lore spoilers below: "Fun" fact about races in Dungeon Meshi. Half-Elves are in much worse situation than in D&D. Their aging process is all weird, and can be unable to walk for years after being born, while being able to live twice as long as Elves (so up to 1000 years). Marcille's fears have solid foundation.

[@デカすぎる-e5f]

Mules are a crossbreed between horses and donkeys and live longer than horses and donkeys.

[@kimiami]

people without context are confuse af rn hahaha

[@Razgriz_01]

@@kimiami Yeah, it's a minor-spoiler, but a spoiler nonetheless.

[@rmbadoo4831]

@@kimiami It's true though

[@ingridnvdal5179]

8:27 the head turns lamo

[@bijoychandraroy]

Of course, even dreams are edible

[@cGoryeo]

No spoilers, but chimera like Izutsumi's instincts being strongest where their souls overlap like when she's hungry or sleepy will come up later. But good luck to Chilchuck ever explaining that to his ex-wife or daughters regarding why a teenager kept crawling into his sleeping bag. She does it because her cat part likes how warm and snug it is, and he hates it, but good luck

[@amf8648]

He will just tell them he had to adopt her because Laios kept being inappropriate with her (not in a creepy way but the "I think you're more of a monster than a person" way)

[@MrDUneven]

Soul is tama and egg is tamago so it's a pun or a play with words.

[@Reliccontent]

I love Laios he figured out that entire dream thing on his own Laios never fumbles his knowledge of monsters is impeccable and I know you’re supposed to view him is stupid because the writer of use my stupid and down plays him a lot but he still wrote him to be MVP it doesn’t matter how bad the situation as he is always calm he is always collective always has some sort of plan or idea he rarely makes mistakes Most of the time is failures just because something is beyond his understanding Chilchuck is aware of mimics, but he got locked in a room with one and failed to check for the proper traps and the mimics location. He didn’t pay attention at all and he knew that it was there. Marcelle new wouldn’t undine was and knew they were very creatures in the water and even knew how undeans were made, and still poured boiling water in the river Senshi is honestly second best he would survive the longest without them obviously his big cardinal sin is just trusting a kelpee that’s kinda it that’s more of a lapse in judgment, and just not paying attention Laios it’s pretty much almost never not paying attention he’s the one who came up with the frog plan, the one who came up with the idea to kill the dragon Even as a male character, he’s a different in their portrayal of masculinity is not like a Deku “where is conquest in ambition, quenching my thirst as I look over the sea and mentally other words, I’m going to be number one hero” or Eren Yeager where his masculinity comes from bucking the system being combative and authoritative you know, punching Armin and trying to kill everyone and stuff so he can take that control of his life Laios’s is different from a lot of anime characters that go with the typical Deku route which is really just Naruto’s route. I Laios he’s calm and collected. He’s driving. Motivation isn’t necessarily to be the best at something but it’s to protect the people he cares about and explore the world around him He’s a very kind although I wouldn’t say he’s nice he doesn’t make mistakes as a result of not paying attention to the surroundings, like the others he makes them due to a lack of understanding he’s even able to keep his composure, and think one Farlyn is turned into a hybrid monster Laios is very good at cooperating with people and his knowledge is what makes him honestly as useful as senshi is in the party As a male character I think he is written exceptionally well in how they choose to show that he is amazing, not true power ups or quirky, predictable, personality traits, but through subtle actions that he takes throughout the story even in this episode, he’s coming to somebody who just threaten to kill him and threatened someone he cares about

[@sh3n3ng]

The inception episode

[@sammed473]

PEAK STORYTELLING

[@Jake-sy3xr]

No uncut on patreon?

[@ChubuPeng]

not to nerd emoji but pipi looked more like a cockatoo

[@amf8648]

I think it gotta be a cockatiel because they can live to be around 30 but cockatoos can almost reach a 100. It fits Marcille's story better

[@Reliccontent]

Laios’s is different from a lot of anime characters that go with the typical Deku route which is really just Naruto’s route. I Laios he’s calm and collected. He’s driving. Motivation isn’t necessarily to be the best at something but it’s to protect the people he cares about and explore the world around him He’s a very kind although I wouldn’t say he’s nice he doesn’t make mistakes as a result of not paying attention to the surroundings, like the others he makes them due to a lack of understanding he’s even able to keep his composure, and think one Farlyn is turned into a hybrid monster Laios is very good at cooperating with people and his knowledge is what makes him honestly as useful as senshi is in the party As a male character I think he is written exceptionally well in how they choose to show that he is amazing, not true power ups or quirky, predictable, personality traits, but through subtle actions that he takes throughout the story even in this episode, he’s coming to somebody who just threaten to kill him and threatened someone he cares about it it’s not turned into a big deal like how Naruto does it or “Deku and where the show is like I know you do a lot of bad things, but let me extend my hand. Look at how nice I am.” Laios is closer to Denji in his forgiveness Denji is a very forgiving person I swear his 180 honestly more like a 540 with power cause he went from hating her to loving her is something to be respected his patients with a leech devil even after she took his arm is something to be respected he tried to talk to her before deciding that she needed to be eliminated He is so patient with people and it’s honestly crazy even when Aki pushed his face into the wall upon meeting him denji was calm and explain himself Laios is no different as a guy there’s something cool to me about just having restraint particularly with other guys show it it’s not like Denji or Laios doesn’t have the capacity to retaliate and they certainly can’t fight that as well is very important but it’s that they choose not to because they don’t have to you don’t always need to swing a sword and shoot a gun to get things you want from people Laios got a girl to not only but not her guard but not immediately smack him for touching her head by being friendly, Denji did things to strengthen his relationship with Aki like talking to him Aki during chapter 71 and helping him get revenge on katana man in Chapter 26 they found other ways to make these people less violent towards them for taking time to get to know them and for giving them for past behavior he spoke to Aki on numerous occasions and he may not think he has a heart, but he’s so sympathetic Laios does some of the same stuff and it’s these types of things that makes me love them Ironic that they’re both considered dogs

[@AkariAkariX3]

if the season reaches their fight against the lunatic magician, marcille's fear and true desires will be revealed 😉

[@Latome]

08:27

[@SeagullOnAFish]

In dungeon meshi hybrids work like real life hybrids, like how mules are better than horses and donkeys or ligers are stronger and bigger than tigers and lions

[@plstmb6000]

Real life hybrids isn't that simple. Like how Ligers are stronger and bigger than Tigons, so is that means male elf with human female would produce weaker half elf compared to the other way around? Also hybrids usually are sterile and have health issues. If this is used here, that means Marcille could be sterile too.

[@leonardomarquesbellini]

Calling mules better is a stretch when they're not as good at horse things as horses and are also sterile, and ligers are only bigger, but much less athletic and prone to diseases.

[@whiskeredwolf4861]

isn’t this a spoiler? I’m pretty sure they’re going to explain it in a later episode.

[@TamsCake]

There was no reason to say this now

[@KazeTheCursedOne]

I really feel this episode highlights that giving catgirls skincolored fur is mildly cursed.

[@Green-FUKUFUKUFUKUFUKUFUKU]

right!?

[@asparr0w]

i think it's more that her fur is so fine & short that her skin peeks through it on the white parts, making it seem pink (kinda reminiscent of certain sphynx cats - look up cornish rex) it's clearer on the volume 7 cover art

[@gatoelegante7384]

Marcille y su perro de terapia

[@thetuerk]

SPOILER FOR THE EPISODE. I love this episode! Writers say Trauma builds Character? We say fuck that, give the elf a happy dream playing trasure hunt with a scruffy dog and a Falin dog!

[@dariogaelreyes7534]

Somewhat spoilerly but in supplementary material explaining different monsters, we find out what would happen if chilchuck had Nightmares. It would be the death of his 3 daughters, which given how cynical and ride he usually is, its actually quite wholesome

[@Ash_Yu]

It's easy to miss, but in addition to paintings of her family there is also a painting of Falin in Marcille's dream.

[@KinDGrove]

Definitely harder to adapt the Marcille nightmare in the anime than the manga, I felt like the manga had more time and space to explain various aspects of Marcille’s nightmare whereas the anime kinda had to fit it into the 2nd half of this episode so a lot of small aspects were left out that would let you glean into Marcille’s backstory a bit more.

[@kephalai]

its interesting how the western mindset focuses on racial purity - mixed children would only be half as potent as their pureblooded parent. while eastern mindset tends to think that racial diversity strengthens traits of the parents - like how saiyan mixed with earthlings are technically stronger, how gohan, goten and trunks can easily achieve super saiyan state.. well at least that was toriyama's plan before he was forced to powercreep goku and vegeta over everything else XD

[@edwardrobinson8027]

Can you PLEASE react to Bleach!!!! Best anime oat you'll like the journey!

[@JathenJacksonr2d2]

She is a half elf. Have you noticed her ears are round and not pointy? Look on the wiki

[@syzler8664]

idk why they cut the small part out where izutsumi says she's more comfortable holding it her way, likely due to her long claws, making senshi ableist

[@carpiim]

I dont think having claws is a disability? and if you're talking about her just being more comfortable, he wouldn't be ableist, just inconsiderate

[@Green-FUKUFUKUFUKUFUKUFUKU]

@@carpiim a curse is basically a fantasy disability, though. ableism is discrimination in favour of able-bodied people; in this situation, Izutsumi is disabled.

[@carpiim]

​@@Green-FUKUFUKUFUKUFUKUFUKUoh I see

[@grinstrashcan]

But she doesn't actually have any problems holding the spoon even with her claws later on. She's more comfortable holding the spoon the other way because that's the way she just learned to use it and no one ever bothered to teach her proper manners.

[@mustafaqasimi1084]

Yall are willing to call anything ableism ong