kui is literally so brilliant at well-thought-out anatomy and character design I could just study it all day

Dungeon Meshi - Humans and Demi-Humans

what do you guys want for lunch? please read dungeon meshi. or watch it.

There’s no doubt who makes the calls, who is in charge, and who is superior. (H: 6’8)

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Did anyone else notice that seemingly one of the first things they did after bringing Thistle into the kingdom was cut his hair short?

And given what Marcille says about how important hair is to magic…. That’s probably not a coincidence.

Source: 'Day Dream Hour 4' Rakugaki Artbook

by Ryōko Kui

Link to the full Artbook

a BIG part of the lore of Dungeon Meshi is how ageism is bad. About how the long lived races treat the young lived races like children and thus infantilize them and do not show them the respect and understanding they deserve simply because of their looks or short life spans. Whether its because to them they look like children in their eyes (like half foots and gnomes) or because the adult ages of the younger lived races are still in the child ages for the longer lived ones and so they get treated/viewed as children (we see otta receive comments about getting with minors when in reality she dated adult half foot women. so we already see this view towards things like this are a thing in the lore) We see this with chilchuck, senshi, and marcille where the two later view chilchuck as a child and treat him like one even though he is a full grown man who drinks (and is supposed to have grey hairs) all because he looks young and in the newest episode its revealed he is 29 which is still young children to the two of them. We see how perspectives that characters are children because of their age being a childs age for a different race as opposed to their race or because they look like children is a completely infantilizing and disrespectful behavior that causes so many problems in the long run. a theme that is completely flying over the average tumblr users head.

ive seen people get furious at other people because they sexualize chilchuck and even marcille

“oh they look like kids so dont do that you freak”

you absolute fool you missed a major theme of the fucking story. But because they look young suddenly they are children? have you paid no attention to the story? did you just ignore how the ageisim and weird mindset about ages like that causes so many issues that could easily have been avoided. and as for the age one i see people getting furious at others for being into and sexualizing izutsumi even though she is a year past adult in tall man years, but because she isnt in the adult age range in real life (wild your applying real life society standards to a fictional medieval fantasy world). even though even in lore she would be well an adult able to get married and everything tumblr really does have the media literacy of a toddler.

NOT MARCILLE THINKING LAOIS WOULD BE A BISHIE TWINK BEFORE MEETING HIM 😭

There’s something so viscerally sad about Thistle devoting his whole life body and soul to the family who bought him and put him in a clown costume

Ahh to feel like a little bug next to a giant guy like this one. For straight men it’s not pleasing, but for a little fag it’s like a dream come true (Credit: giantguys.com)

Dungeon Meshi - Extras and sketches from Ryoko Kui's autograph signing session.

Silly little comic, close-ups of panels below the cut