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Dungeon Meshi is a well liked manga, and an adaptation by Studio Trigger is now airing. If you haven’t picked this one up, consider joining us. Both for fun and as a way of contributing to activity on Lemmy.
This week we get learn a lot about the phenomenon known as “dungeons”. Marcille points out that the dungeon they are in has been carefully designed accounting for a mind-boggling amount of complexity, and that she studied the science in school. But then the dungeon that Falin discovered seemed like a natural occurrence?
So which is it? Man-made, or natural phenomenon? And can the dungeon master really be taking every little detail into account? Are they omniscient within the dungeon?
This is the tipping point. This is where the story begins to crack open the floodgates on what is really going on.
Remember not to spoil anything if you’re a manga reader, but feel free to elaborate on tidbits of lore that may not be coming through in the adaptation.
Today’s episode clearly had different director with more sharp edges and slightly different expressions. I liked the fight with that water sphere. Our Quartet clearly run out of luck, Laios went down with food poisoning and Marcille got wounded pretty hard. I wonder if they will be up to the task to kill the red dragon.
Things aren’t looking good for them. One thing I am not clear on is whether Marcille can naturally regain magic if they just wait and heal up. The boys can go get some food for a while, give our girl some rest.
She can, magic is kind of like a chemical that strives to exist in equal quantity everywhere. Living things naturally get “polluted” with it as they breathe and eat. That’s why eating mandrakes from a dungeon gives mages a boost, for example.
Dungeon’s are particularly dense with magic, as marcille comments when entering the one Falin showed her. All the magic in the world flows outwards from dungeons, simply being closer to one, or even inside, makes mages more powerful.
However, for the stuff to actually move inside the body, is really slow. As in, up to a week to regain full strength. Marcy is kinda fucked, unless our gang comes up with something.
True. I also noticed much more “Trigger” in the style of the animation, and even the stills. Stills especially have been sticking close to the artstyle of the manga, so far, rather than what is typical for Trigger.
Only one more floor. The orcs told our party that the dragon has been active in the “residential area” which is located on the fifth floor, which used to be part of the city around the castle that became the dungeon.
Back when they entered the fourth level, the narrator mentions that you can see through the floating water of the lake, down to the fifth floor and the city buildings below.