#the orcs don't actively look for humans to eat but if they're in their territory then why not

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An award to ryoko kui for exploring the concept of eating to such a fucked up degree. Like it's not only in this world is to eat or to be eaten, The Promised Neverland already did that but it was so anticlimactically boring to me tbh so I didn't finish it. Oh but dungeon meshi is totally something else and it's so we'll explored . Eating as a driving force to live, immortal people who don't need to eat and lost their taste and will to live, the innate curiosity that comes with the desire to eat ( Laios wasn't fully conscious in his beast form so I fully believe that's why he was driven to eat the desire, it was mostly an instinct), and then so many symbolical things I can't articulate fully like eating oneself

#dungeon meshi #the thing about where do you draw the line in eating creatures #luckily chillchuck put the rule of not eating anything humanoid #that was more thrown as a question since the author is exploring absolutely everything about eating #orcs eat humans no problem and it's said that humans don't consider their race human like enough to be called humans #so they just aren't humans #the orcs don't actively look for humans to eat but if they're in their territory then why not #unless you're a friend of them #they're used to animosity with humans and we don't know who started attacking who or if that was a thing even but it doesn't matter #the human races would probably not call a race that eat humans human but you can't say no human has never eaten another human #so isn't it in the end a cultural difference and a sense of superiority coming from the humans? #there's so much subtext to explore and question in this manga