The Anime That Gets Worldbuilding Right

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  @serennity0906 · 1 year ago (edited)

  One little tiny thing I noticed from this anime is ... every characters that travels dungeon had their backpack, and it is really functional, and they even often put 'em down first to make battling monsters more easier, and ... yes, that's the little tiny DETAIL.

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• AL

  @almostcheesecake · 2 years ago

  The way they reacted so nonchalant about death does such a great job of getting you interested, because why are you guys so chill about Falin being digested?

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• AR

  @argella1300 · 1 year ago

  If the creator doesn’t immediately capitalize on making an official dungeon meshi cookbook I’m gonna flip my shit

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• GA

  @galacticgila219 · 2 years ago

  I find it funny that while watching the show, I was thinking about the monsters in a very similar way to Laios- like during the Living Armour episode, I was thinking about how you could easily farm them while Laios was thinking about how to eat them- and during the Golem episode, I immediately thought of how cool it would be to use them for farming, (I read the title of the episode) a group of golems wandering around following the sun and resting in a water source- and Lo and behold, Sensei lives on the floor uses the golems for farming!<br><br>I also adore the way they tackle creatures that aren’t typically biological. Like Mimics have always been something like Coconut Octopi to me, but then in Dungeon Meshi, it’s a hermit crab! Using chests and cabinets as shells! It’s so fun

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  @plazma0325 · 2 years ago

  You can also see the casual racism in the doppelganger episode!!! Every party member&apos;s doppelganger is influenced by the views that the characters have of their races. Like the Chilchuck clone being more cutsie and childish than real Chil, because that&apos;s how half-foots (half-feet???) are viewed by most races!!!

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• CH

  @CHARCHAD9 · 2 years ago

  Your first part about natural world building helped me put to words something I noticed about Dungeon meshi. <br>People are so used to DIS heavy-handed exposition dumps that they completely miss the subtle world-building.<br><br>Many people missed that resurrection is the reason that Laios is seemingly relaxed about his sister being dead.

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• FR

  @frile2005 · 1 year ago

  Also really cool thing is that in the episode in which Laios tries to get food from the paintings it tells you the entire story of King Delgal in a subtle way. You get to see his birth, the murder of his father and his coronation while also showing how kind he is by not punishing Laios for literally falling on his table. It&apos;s natural and also a nice way of explaining everything since no one in the party should know a thing about Delgal and it would be weird to listen to Thistle info dumping all of that for no reason

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  @MelvaCross · 1 year ago

  Kui understands that food is a huge part of every culture. There is no meal that doesn&apos;t tell a story. Each ingredient has a history. Each way of preparation has a history. And of course, those who cook the food have a history.<br>Making a manga about food also meant that she makes a manga about history. And darn, she hit the nail on the head with her work. The world building is such a delicious treat, after suffering the slop served by DSI

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  @Nyerguds · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trtyC7VaUbc&amp;t=448">7:28</a> The feeling of that dialog was <i>exactly</i> Minecraft&apos;s &quot;oh shit I died in the mines and my stuff is going to despawn.&quot;

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• ZI

  @ziiia · 2 years ago (edited)

  i love hearing smart people explain all of the feelings i have about something. like yeah that&apos;s it, this is every reason why i love this series, and you explained every reason perfectly. reading dungeon meshi made me love worldbuilding again (and you&apos;re so right, laios is the biggest fucking freak it&apos;s so refreshing)

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• JE

  @jerryunderdog5912 · 2 years ago

  I honestly adore what they do with changelings, its such a unique take on them with the perfect excuse for a body swap plot

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• W3

  @w3ss3l88 · 2 years ago

  The instances of racism are fascinating to me especially because of some of the character coding. i think it&apos;s very very interesting that when marcille is teaching laios magic, she says &quot;you must have a pure bloodline&quot; which is a very specific way of phrasing that. she could have just said &quot;it runs in the family&quot; but she specifically mentions that his bloodline is pure. This sort of ties back into the sort of white supremacist coding the western elves have. Just because marcille hasn&apos;t spent much time in the west where the elves are from doesn&apos;t mean she&apos;s never unintentionally picked up some of their racist tendencies. there&apos;s TONS of extremely subtle word usage like this annd it&apos;s what makes dungeon meshi so incredible.

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