#it just makes me so uncomfortable bcz there's all these inbuilt assumptions about orcs and elves etc that viewers will bring with them

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i do rly love dungeon meshi so far and i do see that the mangaka is trying to rehabilitate the dnd tropes and make them more thoughtful and less racist and this is not so much a judgement, more an observation, but the dnd tropes originally are so racist that i kinda wish that the mangaka was completely inventing her own worldbuilding instead of building off of them. like maybe at some point we should as a society move away from and throw away dnd tropes in the trashcan where they belong, just a thought you know.

#the fact that many fantasy based stuff builds off of dnd tropes without doing much is not great #do we need to keep concept of races in fantasy? can we just not be like these people have long ears because of the climate and food etc #and same for orcs could be like they live in the mountains and are rugged and all #it just makes me so uncomfortable bcz there's all these inbuilt assumptions about orcs and elves etc that viewers will bring with them #most of the orcs in dunmeshi so far are darkskinned and it seems like a holdover from dnd which is obv visibly borrowed from tolkien #they tried to explain in the anime how orcs had no choice but to loot and plunder but still it just feels unsatisfactory #also the creepy af elf being dark skinned like hmmm darkskinned elves being evil is also a trope from dnd #tbf i still need to read the manga so maybe the elf thing is explained there #i am currently only watching the anime #but yeah this is 2k24 can we pls not do race science in the background of any fantasy adventure i am le tired