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littlelightfish · 6 minutes

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Holm nation... I have a heartbreaking announcement to make.

We didn't get to see this panels animated.

(I wanted to see Laios helping him, this one isn't the one this post is all about)

I feel it's important to his character enough that Kui decided to dedicate three panels about how he aproaches and resurrects Kabru.

He is used to resurrecting people, his party sucks at keeping themselves alive. He walks up to Kabru's corpse with a worried look on his face. Then he kneels besides him and takes a second to process what he is seeing. He is seeing a young man, Kabru, dead. It makes him feel unseasy, a bit of shock that he can't take the luxury of process at the moment. He doesn't want to look, so he closes his eyes and focuses on his spell. He is realizing he is the only one alive from his party (he doesn't know where Mick is or how he is). He is the last one standing. The reality of it all slaps him in the face.

The panel of him just... looking at the mess Kabru's corpse is was just... It was important. It talked about him as a character. "I'm not doing this because I want to, but because I have to". He doesn't has time for emotions. He has a job to do.

It's just three panels. But they provide lots of context between the ones that came before and after.

He doesn't just rubs Kabru's head because he's being afective. He does it because he cares. He does it out of relief. "As long as I'm here, any of you'll be dying soon. And I'll always be here. Don't worry." He is far from being OK after all this. Marillier died, Daya died, Kuro died, Kabru died, Rin died, Mick probably died too (but he doesn't saw it). He... By the time he was the only one standing, the fight was over, and he could alredy resurrect them. He wants to feel sad. To worry, to be concerned, to mourn. But he can't. It isn't necessary.

He is a cleric. He for sure has a notion of dead way different than anyone and feels a certain way about resurrection. "Dying is dying, even if you resurrect." It's a bug at the corner of his mind, he doesn't pay it any attention. He gets resurrected multiple times, he is gratefull he is alive. But seeing all his friends dead? And the most of them mutilated? Covered in their own blood? He has this desire to mourn. To cry the loss. To panic. "They are all dead."

He knows they'll come back. He has to make them come back. So he does. And they are alive. But they weren't a few seconds ago. And he just plays it off, he puts his calm face on as soon as there is another party member alive that could ask him what happened that it disturbed him so much. He throws all those sad feelings under the rug and focuses at the task at hand.

They're going to be ok, he just has to do his job: bring them back from death. They shouldn't even be dead. But they are. And he's going to fix it. No point on feeling sad about them dying if they can be alive soon!

I think the concern that the anime puts here it's something that could come close to what he feels inside. Those seconds are the only ones we see him looking something akin to worried for his friends.

But then...

His worry vanishes in seconds. The moment Kabru revives, he does it in such a "Kabru" way, that he tells himself: "This is fine, they're going to be back soon, nothing to worry about, I just have to hurry". He wants them all back to live. We know for sure that in his priority list there wasn't any "reviving Toshiro's party members first". He was going to make sure all his party, all his friends, were alive before even thinking of resurrecting other people if he still had the magic.

Those three panels they didn't animate are something that was there for a reason. To give depth to Holm. This last episode is definitely the one in wich he shines the most. He isn't the main character at all this episode, but he does the most important stuff on the background. He revives them all. This all lack of something if you don't show what Kuy drew on those panels.

Here he just... goes to work. He says: "lemme handle it" and he does. No concern, no worry, no, nothing. He just does. No thoughts.

It makes me sad. Those panels were important. :(

#also thank you for being the president of the holm nation :D #<- i liked this very much

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littlelightfish · 51 minutes

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They did him in the background too :D

Part Two of Holmposting for Episode 17

Today we're gonna focus a bit more on Marillier the Undine! Again, spoilers and violence ahead, with rapidly moving/flashing gifs.

Also, shout out to @/littlelightfish for this post that focused on their relationship:

Man, I really wanna know more about the spirits! The movement of the Undine as it primes itself to attack is really mesmerizing :D

And the way Falin pulls Marillier to her hand is just aaa!

(I didn't add the flash explosion because it might hurt the eyes in gif form)

And then LOOK AT HOLM. HE'S SO SAD D:

I wish they focused on his distraught face in the anime more, to be honest, but the bigger focuse was supposed to be for Kabru stripping his armor.

Here is Holm being in the aftermath, with comparisons to the original!

When the return spell is cast for the parties, Holm would be seen behind Kabru in the manga. In the anime, you only see him as he waits for Mickbell to hurry the fuck up lmao

That concludes part two of holmposting! Sorry for the wait, my cell reception got pissy these last few days.

#i love holm #if no one loves him im dead #you know how this goes #also thanks for @ me #i love this #dungeon meshi #holm kranom #holm #holm dungeon meshi

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littlelightfish · 57 minutes

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Funny things I found out playing with language setting in Netflix while looking episode 15:

Chilchuck's scream sounds HAUNTED in brazilian portuguese. Give it a try if you can.

In spanish dub, Senshi says: "tocó mis senos de hombre", which means "he touched my man boobs" in Spanish. And I think that's the best dub line one so far.

#marry me #PLEASE #YOU DID IT I WAAAAAH

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littlelightfish · 58 minutes

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More Holm! I need to draw him whenever I have the chance... I need.... to draw him.... Alas it is a bit messy for today's drawing...

#OOOOOOOOOO #HOLM NATION #LOOK #he is so fuking preety #oooh #cute precious dumpling #i love him #holm #holm kranom #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi holm

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littlelightfish · 1 hour

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so i was reading about how freckles get darker because of sun exposure and like. was part of the reason chilchuck’s freckles went away because he was always working down in the dungeons

#oh #this is sad #but it makes sense #dunmeshi #chilchuck

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littlelightfish · 1 hour

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