#ryoko kui said:

[suiheisen]

those!!! are!!! his!!!! tits!!! be gentle 👉👈

#i love how the series finds new and exciting ways to objectify him every chapter #dunmeshi is just one long wet fever dream… #laois touden #senshi of izganda #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #anime #manga #dungeon meshi spoilers #spoilers #also as the server said: #congrats on the top surgery babe <3333 #ryoko kui said: #trans rights #\m/

[authenticyuri]

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dunmeshi #ryoko kui #daydream hour #laios touden #shuro #kabru #they just fucking watched him fuck that up so badly and said nothing. they wanted to see him fail

[koipepo]

That omake of little Kabru not being able to show off his howetown sweets because of Misril gets to me a lot so...

Here's a happier Kabru (and Lairu)

#kabru #lairu #labru #laios #dungeon meshi #my art #my fanart #fanart #idk why i resort to fluffy fanart even tho i keep thinking and seeing gag/hornt lairu stuff #kabru is just so.. fascinating and actually endlessly tragic #i kinda like that ryoko kui doesnt try to over-explain or dramatize her characters that have tragic backstories. it makes her world that- #-much more believable and realistic. that being said i will devour more kabru stories from her #i kinda cant stop thinking abt kabru (and to an extent lairu) #ik in Lairu/Labru fanart Kabru is usually depicted as humorously in denial guy #but i see it everywhere and it made me think more of their more understanding phase in the epilogue #maybe laios is ooc here but i think he will also warm up to human connection now that he actually has people he cares abt around him #(and maybe because kabru is teaching him tips and trick to be a Normal Guy lmao) #im also not very good at humor so theres only so much i can do with gag lairu 😂

[savaralyn2]

Dungeon Meshi - Rins Laugh

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dm #did #translation #i previously said rins smile would be kinda cursed looking but this is lovely :( #rin #ryoko kui

[ehhgg-art]

you ever think about the fact that laios won not by being a monster but by being human.

monsters as we’ve seen throughout the manga are predictable, they have this rhythm to them that, once someone understands, can be used to take them out. take kelpies like anne where laios states that she is just a monster and cannot be trusted. even kensuke is “just a monster after all”, running away from danger when laios needs it most. kensuke is beloved by laios not just because he is a monster, but because laios, in human fashion, anthropomorphized him in his mind (giving him a name, etc.)

but people are different. they are multifaceted, non-monolithic creatures. long lived races are not all pious and apathetic towards short lived races as we see with marcille and senshi. chilchuck actively works against the prejudice against half-foots. tallmen from every region have their cultural differences as we see with shuro and laios/falin. even “demi-humans” like orcs have depth to them, having rich culture and values despite the general idea that they are a violent pillaging race.

even laios’ family and village, the nexus point for his dislike of people, have depth to them. though their parents did not actively protect their children, they did not wish harm on them either. the exorcisms performed on falin by their mother was harmful in laios’ eyes, but helpful in his mother’s perspective.

laios himself, despite loving monsters and hating humans, is so very painfully human. he hates humans but has risked life and literal limb to save his sister and his party. he loves monsters but is aware of their dangerous nature and spares them no mercy.

(big spoilers under the cut)

the winged lion mistook laios as a one dimensional entity, one which only operates on a one track mind without paradox. it thought laios to operate like a monster, and so it approached his desires like one. it believed that laios, being so obsessed with monsters, must behave like one as well, so completely disregarded the fact that laios could have something up his sleeve.

but laios is not a monster, he is human. he has ulterior motives, overlapping beliefs, contradicting values. it is his humanness that made him explain to his party what to do when things went awry. it is his humanness that allowed him to lie. lie to the world about his true plan as well as lie to the winged lion about his intentions.

sure laios WANTS to be a monster, that much is definitely true. but what he IS is a different story. laios is an unpredictable, sporadic, messy human being. it is that fact which the winged lion overlooked, and ultimately led to its downfall and laios’ victory.

#ohh the multifaceted nature of human beings and the beauty of the human condition #ryoko kui really outdid herself #dungeon meshi you will always be important to me #anyways don’t mind me i’m just having Laios thoughts #ignore the fact that i accidentally said two dimensional entity the first time i know language i swear #laios touden #laius thorden #??? #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dunmeshi #dunmesh spoilers #the winged lion #rambles #ryoko kui #anime #manga #analysis

[ace-lemonade]

never before have I seen hayfever being portrayed so accurately as the unstoppable annoyance that it is

#ryoko kui said lemme introduce you to the next monster; seasonal allergies #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers

[amygdalae]

Biting his ears wld fix me actually

#who said that #ryoko kui always draws him w full faced blush whenevee hes flustered u know hed turn so red. sorry who said that #dungeon meshi

[inthecarpets]

I love how most shipping for Dungeon Meshi feels unnatural. There is a few ships that stick but most of possibilities not really. And i feel like it's so rare to see in stories with such big cast of characters.

The world and the characters are just so nuanced, each character having their own goal, personality and worldview, that if you try to do shipping of anyone in a serious manner (and not as a one line joke); then it breaks flat hard.

Even something like "Absolutely no workplace romances." might be mentioned by a character on a sideline. And it's going to be so connected to their mentality that cannot be ignored if one wants to ship it with all the seriousnes

#it's also interesting how the most natural ships that one could pair are all/mostly wlw #carpet talks #it's like Ryoko Kui was writting and said 'i'm going to create characters that are so unshippable >:)' #fsdfsdkfsjfd #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon

[mollusken]

falin review of her time as a big chicken

#once a monster fan always a monster fan #dungeon meshi spoilers #dungeon meshi #falin thorden #this is canon ryoko kui told me herself #SHES GONNA COME BACK ITS GONNA BE FINE OKAY #I can’t draw lately this is the best I’ve done in a month so. take it #like I said this is a dm fan blog now #I’m kidding…. or am I…… #fanart #mollusken

[lucky-fydraws]

Dungeon Meshi x Beastars AU, panel redraws.

Chilchuck as a red fox.

Reasoning: small species (compared to the rest of the main cast, at the very least), but among the tallest fox species (Chilchuck is a tall half-foot), fairly big ears, fur coloration similar to his hair (+ small joke with the “silver fox” expression, as he’s the oldest in the party. Even if he isn’t an actual silver fox here). Red foxes tend to have a reputation of being thieves, while also being incredibly smart, cunning and agile. Real foxes know how to break into hen pens, after all. Unlocking chests and disarming traps is only a short leap from there. Some old texts depicted them as smooth talkers too. I guess that doesn’t fit Chilchuck completely, but hey! He tends to drip with sarcasm whenever he opens his mouth, so I’d say it’s close enough.

I think most half-foots would fit as different fox species or mustelids. I can see Mickbell as a fennec fox, and Dandan as an bat-eared fox, or an American mink for a little bit of diversity (+ it draws a parallel between fur-farms and half-foots being considered as expendable by adventuring parties).

#dungeon meshi #chilchuck tims #beastars au #traditional art #ink drawing #I know I said I would try to use watercolors; but I think I’ll just let the inks as they are and maybe pick one to color digitally #to serve as reference #(I’m thinking of giving him grays hairs; as Ryoko Kui intended before realizing it would be a pain to draw in a comic aha) #dandan dunmeshi #mickbell dunmeshi

[tortoiseguy]

I think people are too obsessed with "canon" and trying to use source material to justify certain readings of the characters that were intentionally placed there by the author. You'll have characters very obviously written to be gay with so many allusions to the fact in their behavior and story themes and people will be all pissy it isn't "canon". As though having that arbitrary title slapped on will make the reading any more valid.

Like idk man I think if the writer puts a bunch of obvious gay sub text in their story, then maybe it being gay is already canon. Having the writer of the cool media you enjoy officially saying "ya its gay btw 😉" doesn't make your queer readings any more valid than they already are.

#this post is about marcille and falin in dungeon meshi btw #i saw a lot of people talking about events in the story as though they somehow disprove the fact that marcille is VERY OBVIOUSLY a lesbian #like its not even subtext that marcille is in love with falin its straight up how her and falins relationship is written #you dont need ryoko kui staring at a camera saying marcille and falin are dating for it to be true #dungeon meshi anime #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi marcille #marcille donato #falin touden #fandom #vi and caitlyn also have this problem of the fact that its not said explicitly makes the fact that theyre obviously written to be romantic #disappear suddenly

[possamble]

Bonus of being so strong: Falin can now scoop Marcille's 113 pound or so ass into her arms

i feel like she could do that beforehand anyway for a few minutes if she REALLY had to. but now it's just truly effortless and good for her!!

#asks #a little creature #at first i was like 'wow 113 is such a specific number' before i realized ryoko kui probably actually said how much kg she weighs #im gonna go look it up. and if she truly has the same dimensions as i do im just gonna laugh #dungeon meshi

[viina-art]

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

#guys i think this manga might be good #just gets better the more you think about it honestly #and i've said it before but ryoko kui is genuinely a genius #dungeon meshi

[mori-no-majou]

so we’ve established by now that we’ve all acquired an inner Senshi that tells us to eat properly and an inner Chilchuck that tells us to be mindful of our rights in the workplace, but what about Laios and Marcille? their self-care schticks are a little bit more abstract than the other two, so I’m curious as to what everyone’s learning from them

#dungeon meshi #personally my laios tells me to stop forcing myself to wear clothes that are Bad Sensory just bc I’m going out in public #I have a specific pair of Leaving The House Trousers that everyone always says are very stylish and androgynous #but they’re made of scratchy fabric and have an annoying seam and don’t keep my shirt properly tucked in #so I’ll be standing in my loose jsk (good sensory but gets me a bad grade in transmasc) looking mournfully at the trousers #and that’s when laios will pop up like ‘well I wouldn’t pick the trousers. anyway do you want to hear a monster fact’ #on the flipside my marcille mostly helps with motivating me to take care of my appearance on days when I wouldn’t otherwise have the spoons #particularly maintaining my hair (yeah I know) #I’ve said this before but ryoko kui did such a good job of tricking nerds into taking care of ourselves in every possible respect haha

[savaralyn2]

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #meshi #dm #deer #weredeer #???????ok very uncomfortable #also the translation totally threw me since it just said 'gorilla' like??? #i may be wrong here #ryoko kui #translation

[beyondplusultra]

hello everyone. go read dungeon meshi

#a talking mango #i just finished it!! its very short for a manga (97 chapters including little extra chapters) #and has some of the most amazing wordbuilding/characters/pacing that i've ever experienced #a friend said 'i want to sit at ryoko kui's dnd table' AND THAT IS SO TRUE. RYOKO KUI IS A GENIUS.