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sabertoothwalrus · 2 days
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poll under the cut for *MAJOR MANGA ENDING SPOILERS*
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important to note that immediately after this, Thistle’s spell breaks and Melini rises from the sea
edit: ALSO IMPORTANT TO NOTE. the MAJOR theme of the story is that “eating is the privilege of living” and Thistle refuses food here
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owainigo · 9 days
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in the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed are kings
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triptrippy · 2 months
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dunmeshi doodle dump.... for advanced readers onley
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flawlessflesh · 2 months
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1,000 YEARS
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mondbeere · 2 months
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body pillow(s)……
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namaris · 4 months
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OP - Sleepwalking Orchestra
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luchichufer · 1 month
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Drew some dunmeshi designs bc they're so important to me! 🍛🐉
(Ft. a little extra Thistle)
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savaralyn2 · 2 months
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Mithrun is NOT helping.
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pollyanna-nana · 1 month
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One of the most tragic and compelling aspects of Dunmeshi, to me, is that we’ll probably never know (unless Kui tells us lol) how Delgal actually felt about Thistle. I’ve seen people say that he genuinely cared for him as a brother and his journey to the surface was to save him from his madness as much as it was his people. I’ve seen people say that he saw Thistle as nothing more than a fancy accessory or tool that ended up going astray. Others I’ve seen (and personally agree with) say that the truth lies somewhere in the middle. But honestly, I think any one of these interpretations has the potential to be correct… and that’s just heartbreaking.
After all, Delgal is dead. Like, dead-dead. The very first chapter of the manga starts with his spirit leaving this mortal coil, taking that answer with him. And…
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How he talks about Thistle here… it’s interesting. He does not ask for him to be talked down, or captured or imprisoned, but instead “defeated”. Which Mithrun interprets as asking for his death… which is reasonable, because that’s likely how the vast majority of adventurers interpreted his words, too. Obviously as he was crumbling to dust he probably didn’t have the capacity to be particularly verbose or explain the complex backstory to how the kingdom ended up this way, but the effect is the same no matter how he may have felt with it. He asked for Thistle to be killed.
But… even in situations where he wasn’t under any such time limit to explain what was going on, he still seemed not to. Most glaringly:
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Yaad seemingly has no idea that it was Delgal’s fault that Thistle sought the demon’s power. Obviously he couldn’t talk to him about it because Thistle was, uh, a little out there by that point, but why didn’t Delgal explain? Was he embarrassed? Mournful? Couldn’t find the words?
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Delgal was scared of dying. He wanted prosperity at any cost, and how could Thistle possibly refuse? Did he even realize that what he was the one who pushed his own brother— One who basically helped raise him despite being a child himself, and in many ways is still a child— down this path? Or was it like watching an overzealous employee misinterpret directions?
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The way Yaad describes things here makes it sound like Thistle simply dug too deep in his studies and fell into madness, but we know that’s not true. Delgal didn’t “suggest” he learn magic, he wanted a mage who could help himself and his people defy death, which he admits to Thistle openly:
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So, why? Why not tell his grandson, at least, the truth of the matter? Did he worry it might make the remaining residents more likely to upset Thistle, and therefore suffer the consequences? Did he just not care? For what it’s worth though, Yaad does suspect the truth from Delgal’s behavior.
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He “always blamed himself” for his descent into the dark arts. This is just Yaad’s observation, and that’s without knowing that it was quite literally Delgal’s fault Thistle went down this path. So, why? Why was it all kept a secret?
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Of course, this made things ripe for the winged lion to manipulate to its advantage. Clearly despite knowing he’d pushed him into using it, Delgal still thought the lion was a force of good that was misused by Thistle as a result of his madness. His face in that last panel is particularly haunting. He looks terrible, gaunt and pale with overgrown hair and missing teeth. Had he gone mad, with grief and sorrow, as well?
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Could he no longer see Thistle the way he did when they were younger? No one can ask him, because he died long before the story even began.
To go back to the original question, well, how did Delgal see Thistle? None of the previous points make a definitive answer any clearer, and I think that’s just brilliant. And so, so tragic.
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gin-no-g · 4 months
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last one before I go to sleep
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dungeon meshi text posts 5/?
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sabertoothwalrus · 2 months
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lets hear it for the lesbians woo
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bikkue · 3 months
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ayamemes · 2 months
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kabru and yaad continuously telling laios to grow out his hair and beard so he looks more kingly and every time they mention it laios starts frowning like this
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lgbtiba · 24 days
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WHITE BABY!!! HES FINALLY REAL🎉🎉🎉
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breegadey · 2 months
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I love that in the final splash page Yaad gets to be included in the main/key characters table! What an upgrade!
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hearthwrm · 2 months
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𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍 𝐀𝐒 𝐈 𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐘𝐎𝐔 // 𝐈 𝐀𝐌 𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐆𝐎.
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kui, ryoko. delicious in dungeon (ダンジョン飯, danjon meshi, lit. “dungeon food”). yen press, 2018. 14 vols. / sophocles. three theban plays: antigone; oedipus the king; oedipus at colonus. translated by robert fagles, penguin books, 1984
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