The thing about Farcille vs Laimar debacle is that there's actually mirror to that in Kabru storyline.

Yes, not only his journey and charachter mirror's Laios party, but also interm of relationship aspect.

Kabru definitely has a thing for Rin. Their dynamics already established as such. Similar to Marcille and Fallin. Can also apply to Shuro and Fallin.

However development between Kabru and Mithru also very intriguing, super fun and endearing.

Although not exactly romantic, it invites pretty big shipper for this pair, u can't help but fall for this ship (at least I did)

If people says they ship Kabru and Mithrun, would u say :

"I don't think their relationship is romantic, Kabru kiss Rin"

U wouldn't right? Bcs that would be kinda lame.

This is the same with Marcille and Laios case. The story goes on to explain how their bond gradually become stronger overtime in a fun and endearing ways.

If you acknowledge Kabru x Mithrun, it's just natural that u acknowledge Marcille x Laios.

If you acknowledge Farcille, it's just natural to acknowledge Kabru x Rin.

Basically dunmesh is a buffet for shipping on every gender,sexual preference and genre. U re not limited to weather it's hetero or Gay.

It's the story that matters.

I'm here for the "Senshi is trans" headcanons because of the most recent episode, and I hear you. But an often overlooked aspect of fantasy writing and character design is the for dwarven folk, women can be just as masculine as men. It varies depending on the source, but depending on the culture, author, and/or creator, dwarven women can have beards just as magnificent as dwarven men, and I choose to believe Ryoko Kui knows this and is going to acknowledge this within the world of Dungeon Meshi (if she hasn't already, anime only here). KEEP YOUR TRANS HEADCANONS THO, I DON'T WANT TO DISCOURAGE Y'ALL!!!!! I just think it's a neat little aspect that we don't see often, and I hope to see it in this series.

finished reading all of Dungeon Meshi. completely fucking unhinged. unbelievably moving. climax was weird and exciting and surprisingly apocalyptic. the end of every character arc was bittersweet as hell. I think I'm a different person now. over this silly-ass cooking manga.

I'd be surprised if it wasn't already a thing, but since I'm still fairly new to dungeon meshi and haven't really seen it before: I think everyone should make a dungeon-meshi-sona and draw them like this, I think it'd be fun <3

I really don't know how she did it - actually I do, but I'd never be able to explain it - but ryoko kui wrote in a way that no one in this manga feels like a "villain". It's really difficult to go around hating anyone that appears long enough to be relevant (or maybe Laios really got to me and I don't feel like putting any effort in hating, I'm focusing on enjoying and understanding the story and its characters as he goes about everything around him) (damn he DID got to me)

You literally still think that .

hello everyone. go read dungeon meshi

Dungeon Meshi Chapter 33: Sea Serpent (Part 2)

oh my god i want to frame this panel

dungeon meshi goes to the beach

laios gets buried up to his head in sand

they leave

finished dungeon meshi............... it is so special to me

“Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver x “Dungeon Meshi” by Ryoko Kui

Inspiration under the cut<3

This was heavily (completely) inspired by “a little creature who loves you” by wtfoctogon on ao3 (@wtfoctagon/@possamble on here) and the way they write falin. The second i saw this quote i thought of falin and their story. When i asked if it would be ok to post this they said its the same quote they had in mind when writing her😂 Sadly i am not the genius i think i am, wtfoctogon is just that good at creating such a beautiful and clear picture of falin. I cant imagine there’s very many of you who haven’t, but if you like farcille and haven’t been reading this story you should drop everything and go read it right this second

long disjointed farcille thoughts

I’m so farcille-pilled and I have thoughts, mainly one thought and that is that the events of dungeon meshi have made Marcille a much more fitting partner for Falin. As much as I adore them pre-canon, I think they would not have been good together as they were before. We see in the early story Marcille is, for lack of a better term, kind of a control freak. That’s just her nature, and it makes a lot of sense given her backstory, she’s had to grapple with something out of her control from a very young age-her loved ones dying- so of course she’d be very protective over what she does have control over. This would be fine on it’s own, but Falin, especially before the events of the story, is sooo non confrontational, she’s so gentle and tries not to rock the boat, which also makes a lot of sense given her backstory! But as we see even in bonus materials, Marcille has a pretty solid trap of what she likes and what she wants, and she doesn’t usually take well to that being challenged. Falin is the opposite in every facet. While this makes them great friends, I feel like it just wouldn’t lend itself well to a romantic relationship, especially when you also factor in the fact that romance is another thing Marcille is very set in her ways about. And then Falin gets eaten. 

And boom, suddenly Marcille cannot be in her comfort zone anymore, she has to eat gross things, branch out in her magic and teaching to try her best to fill Falin’s place, and, most damning of all, ultimately give up a power that would let her enforce what she thinks is best with no issue. Marcille’s arc, or one of her big ones, is about coming to terms with things being out of her control and learning to just appreciate being alive, worrying more about making the most of what’s left instead of desperately chasing what could be. 

And while the crux of this post was why the events of the story make Marcille a much better partner for Falin than she would have been otherwise, Falin’s character and development (which, by the way, Ryoko Kui you genius how could you so brilliantly give an entire arc to a character who is comparatively not very present in the story, augh Falin’s haunting of the narrative is so good and Falin herself is written so beautifully) by the end of the story are very good for the possible future Farcille. As more and more information has come out, like Falin’s post-canon talk with Toshiro, we see that Falin’s second resurrection has given her a new kind of confidence and security about herself and her place in the world. In everything from her eyes being open to the clothes that she chooses to her body language, in all the post-canon material we can see so clearly that she is so much happier and genuine with herself, mask off, and that in and of itself is so wonderful. And that, by extension, allows her to be a much more open partner and in a much better space to be in a long term relationship.

The events of the story, a story which stresses the validity of desire and potential, have allowed these two women who adore each other to fulfill their true potential both apart and together, and that’s wonderful to me.

Dungeon Meshi is cool because it takes that "cannibalism as a metaphor for love" thing everyone's obsessed with to its logical extreme, which is "consumption as a metaphor for life itself" - to eat is the privilege of the living, after all.

Love is a big part of it, yes, but so are comfort and desire and obsession and corruption and plain old survival and self-preservation, all shown through food and the act of eating/consuming! Basically, it feels like Ryoko Kui took this fairly simple symbol (eating = desire) and expanded on it and worked it into almost every aspect of her story so effortlessly.

The way it escalates is so smart, too! Like it might seem really simple in the beginning - the story is literally about eating monsters and it doesn't try to hide that, not very complicated - but in the same way that Laios' obsession with monsters isn't just a funny little quirk, but something that becomes so much deeper as the story progresses, the food thing starts out feeling like a silly bit for lighthearted moments, but it really does dictate the entire story even as its tone shifts pretty dramatically at times.

Also while I'm at it, tone is generally another thing I find super fascinating with the way Ryoko Kui has made it work... Dungeon Meshi never gets super violent or anything, but it does have some heavier moments later on, and not only is the escalation so well done but even later in the story the humor never feels out of place, it's that essential to the story and world and characters. Hell, one of the most horrifying chapters (if you really think about it) is one of the most hilarious chapters at the same time!

Idk how to end this it's just. the way everything in this story works so so wonderfully

Ok I'm over halfway through the Dungeon Meshi manga now and it's... it's really good guys. In fact I'm annoyed at how good it is.

I was reluctant to get into it because I didn't think the gag premise of "cooking show manga set in a D&D-like fantasy setting" would sustain a series, and, like... technically I'm right, because somewhere in volume 4 or 5 it stops being episodic gags and focuses on an actual plot... but it also keeps the cooking monsters thing going, just with, like, an added thematic weight to it.

The running gag of cooking monsters in different ways from the early volumes stealthily builds up some of the best fantasy world-building I've ever see, taking tried and true fantasy monster archetypes and crafting a great ecology behind them, justifying how their fantastical traits would work as useful adaptations while also figuring out how you would sustain yourself off of them like any real animal, and at the same time builds this great theme about nutrition and hunger in both the literal, physical sense of those words as well as a more emotional/spiritual one. It's just... really fucking impressive.

And it's got some of the best characters I've encountered in fantasy fiction, I love these fucking nerds. Volume 6 introduces the best manga/anime catgirl since Ayesha Clan Clan, it's great. I am annoyed at how great it is. Ryoko Kui is a fucking genius.

The only thing that im nervous about with the dungeon meshi anime is people starting to water down falin/marcille or COMPLETELY misinterpret them. They arent vanilla ryoko kui is a genius of combining consumption and obsession and love but they are also NOT toxic yuri. If i see people calling them toxic yuri i will die. I think there is so much to their dynamic and a lot of it probably wont be animated i really hope we at least get the red dragon arc animated in part 1 but idk.