Also, just to clarify, Marcille said at the beginning of the episode that well-maintained hair is crucial for conducting mana. That's why Senshi sank the first time they used water-walk, his lack of hair hygiene basically deadened the magic.
Funny you guys were so diatraught about the kelpie. The moment they said its name, I knew it would try to drown Senshi, cause thats how they always work in myth. Usually its a maiden they lure into riding them. But lets be real, Senshi is the prettiest maiden of all.
I usually roll my eyes at betrayals in anime, but for this one...I was really thinking Senshi had somehow formed a friendship with her and that she wouldn't do this to him even if she would drag any of his fellow adventurers in there...I really felt that betrayal 😢😔
@@pauline_f328 good advice for life from Laios: never think you always know what an animal is thinking. in the end, it really is an animal, it doesn't have the psychological ability to fight its instinct.
So in Laios' defense, extras in the manga DO explain that Fish-Men and Mermaids are seperate things, and that Fish-Men are specifically men-shaped fish, not fish-like men. They birth from eggs, they're indistinguishable from fish until adulthood, and Mermaids actually straight-up hunt and eat them. Mermaids on the other hand are specifically mammals, and are more "demi-human" than Fish-Men are. They're both kind of in this fuzzy area between monster and demi-human, and the distinction isn't super well-defined, but still.
@@thelneffableus3236 I highly doubt that they made those spears themselves, considering that they're fully aquatic and therefore cannot work a forge. Still though, they do undeniably have tool-use, even if they don't have, like, metallurgy.
7:25 half-foots have very good hearing, so much so that sailors always travel with a half-foot onboard to detect mermaids, there is an extra where laios mentions this and chilchuck realizes that laios used him as a mermaid detector and gets mad at him
This episode really shows how much Laios knows about monsters. The moment he saw the Kelpie, he was dead set on killing it. Like, this is the guy that is a huge nerd about monsters. If he says a monster needs to be killed, is *needs* to be killed.
from day 1, they've been using the monster infodump to find bats and deal with mimics, but I think this was the one time they ignored Laios monster knowledge. Never again 😬
Thats what i felt too, it was a good scene to add. It also helps sets up the difference betwen Senshi and Laios, since to this point they seem to more or less be on the same page.
Honestly, the reason the writer does what she does with the kelpie is pretty simple. She’s pointing out to us “Why is eating THIS monster so different from eating a different monster?” Laios himself asks “Why do people think it’s fine to kill bugs and plants and stuff, but we’re so particular about mammals (or things we perceive to be mammals)?” And why is eating a kelpie any different from eating a cow or a pig? Where do we draw the lines? And chilchuck answers that it really IS more about feelings than any kind of logic or reason. The logical thing to do is to use all available resources. The emotional response is “that thing looks too much like me for me to be comfortable eating it”
All that this anime has been, besides the cute slice of life cooking, has been the question “what makes US different from THEM?” Which is a really poignant question to ask these days
I agree with you but the line for "why is it any different from eating a cow or a pig?" is for a more humanoid creature, the fishman, I can def see having more trouble eating say an ape over a cow because it's more human looking even if lets say the ape was a mermaid and not a mammal. I'd personally be in Laios camp though, you try to eat me, I eat you. I like that he uses two arguments in this episode and contradicts them, Oh lets eat mammals doesn't matter if there cute, oh lets eat fishmen because they aren't mammals, I get his justification it's just funny to me.
Apparently the bigger the squids is the greater the concentration of ammonium chloride in their body, it seems like the substance helps the squids buoyancy mechanism. And ammonium chloride should taste like something that can be describe as "bitter, salty, and a little sour."
@@cokecan6169 "It's edible, but the texture and smell? [the flesh] contains ammonia (resembling urine), so it's nearly the same taste as giant squid, but it's much more muscular - tougher. It tastes very bitter. Not so good for humans." -This passage taken from an article named "Colossal Squid Could Grow to 1,600 Pounds (750 Kg)" from softpedia
Kelpies in Scottish and Irish mythology are shapeshifters that resemble horses and that have a taste for human flesh. When you're on their back, you can't get off and they will drown you and devour you underwater. If Senshi hadn't gotten on Anne's back she wouldn't have attacked him. It's just like Laios said: you can't really be sure about the feelings of these beings. Maybe Anne really did appreciate Senshi or maybe she wanted to eat him this entire time. There's no way to know for certain.
I love that despite how monster-enthusiastic Laios is, he still understands how dangerous they can be, like the description of Anne being more dangerous because it can charm people.
22:43 it’s like a sea otter that secretes a substance they rub on their bodies that helps keep their fur from absorbing water. Senshi is so coated in monster guts and blood that the magic can’t penetrate it and reach his body to properly work.
Is there a another fantasy universe with a similar magic system? Lore like this would better explain why magic users or species with powerful inherent magic like Elves haven't taken over the world, more than just simply low number count.
@@beomcheolkim8543 I can’t think of one off the top of my head outside maybe Full Metal Alchemist? Oh, maybe Slayers? Slayers is a lot more goofy but they do often have to resort to using different components to make up their magic, and there’s lore for why some magic works on some enemies and not others. I dunno, not many high fantasy shows get into the weeds like Delicious in Dungeon does.
@@jimlight5137 I miss Slayers, loved that series. Sadly Crunchyroll removed it before I finished season 3 and I heard mixed things about season 4 and 5. I really need to finish it one day.
@@beomcheolkim8543The Elder Scroll has multiple ways to neutralize normal magic, some come from the fact that species with an inherent quality for magic also tend to have a natural resistance to it, others thanks to the fact that there are people who can absorb the spells by birth. and convert them into magic and finally there is the fact that there is a whole branch of magic reflection spells. Although in the particular case of these, magical people and races do occupy a dominant position, precisely in the past the mers (the race to which all elves and their derivatives belong) ruled the world with such pure cruelty that extermination of entire castes was not enough to erase the influence and power they have in the shadows.
They don’t really need to explain it since they drop enough context clues. I’ve only watched the anime, but it became pretty clear just a few episodes in.
3:18 So, like Marcille said a little earlier, hair and taking good care of it is important for the Magic of this world to function, or at least the style of magic she uses. Since Senshi's hair is dirty, it's making him magic-resistant.
5:16 that’s just how kelpies work. They present themselves to travelers in the form of friendly horses or ponies and try to coax them into climbing onto their backs then they beeline for the water to drown their passenger and sometimes eat them
Laios may be an unhinged monster fanatic, but he’s not stupid. He knows what monsters are dangerous/kill on sight. So I’d trust him when it comes to anything monster related.
Kelpies are mythological creatures that, well, eat people. Drown them and eat them. That's just what they do. And the reason people fall for it is because they're beautiful and seem trustworthy and peaceful. So if you were entranced by the kelpie and felt betrayed by the author when it turned on Senshi, well... mission bloody well accomplished, right? Kelpie would have got Senshi if not for Laios, and would get most of us, too, unless we knew the legend. A very effective monster!
the subs are wrong on this one since fishmen and mermaids are two different species, which is why Laios tries to mental gymnastic his way to eat the fishmen since they're really more fish than man
The way I understood it was that Marcille's magic didn't work on Senshi because his beard was basically resistant to it since there were all sorts of nasty fluids mixed into it throughout the years and probably decades of different monster encounters that it got so impure that the magic couldn't get through it. And they prepared the parasitic worm instead of the Kraken because Senshi wasn't exactly sure where to get the tasty parts from it and when he considered taking the meat from somewhere else, the worm came out instead. And my theory is that the other group is quicker at moving through this dungeon because they have food supplies. They don't have to hunt down and prepare monsters, they can move around every monster that doesn't block their path if they can allow it, making it easier for them to get further into the dungeon, while Laios's party has to find monsters, kill and prepare them, which additionally slows them down.
Marcille says at the beginning of the episode that hair is a conductor of magic, that is why Senshi's dirty beard blocked the spell, it is not because of the "impurity" of the monsters, since they are created by magic, that is why Marcille was able to enchant to the kraken. Octopuses have ammonium chloride in their body, the bigger they are, the more sour they taste and they have a smell similar to urine, which is why Laios says they stink. the parasite was something easier to eat
You guys didn't seem to understand why the magic didn't work on Senshi. Marcille says that hair is important for magic (which is said in other series as well, though I don't know how common it is). It's mostly that Senshi's hair being so dirty doesn't allow the magic to work as well as it otherwise would with clean hair. Taking care of your hair helps magic work.
Kelpies are from Scottish/Irish folklore. They are shape-shifting monsters that appears as beautiful horses, who seem friendly and inviting to ride on them. Once a human rides on them, they can't dismount as their fur and hide are sticky (maybe by magic?), they then take their victims into water to drown them and eat them. I said magic because that would explain why Senshi was able to dismount in the water and also Laios was not stuck to it once it was dead, so it should be an active skill, at least in this representation. Btw, I said Scottish/Irish as I found references to it in both folk literature. Kelpies are new to me so I'm not sure which would be the actual origin.
28:50 in the intro if you watch carefully you can see a group of travelers hitching up a dog to a rope so they can harvest a mandrake like in episode 2.
8:00 think I mention this from a side chapter eps back. “Humans” would be tallfolk (laios), half doors, dwarves, elf’s and oni/ogre. Demi humans would be orcs, kobolds and similar. What’s difference? Humans are categorized by number of bones in the body which the races I listed for them have exact same. Demi humans have less/more bones then humans. Oni/ogre they have horns but the horns grow from the skull then develop as its own bone.
Another side chapter: the sirens actually mermen/maids when they are babies. When the eggs hatch there is usually tens/hundreds so you would think they would be in mass. The sirens control this by eating the babies swimming around. Once survive by hiding/running or learn to fend eventually grow to full size.
Laios taste is food is interesting. He is fine eating various monsters but he not a fan of seafood, but ok trying out the parasite bug. Laios home is very inland so exposure to seafood is near rare.
I'm really enjoying you guy's reaction to this anime! Yall seem really interested in the plot and actually have insightful things to say. Im a manga reader and I really love this series, so seeing people engage in the anime an seriously enjoy it makes me happy ❤
Lets go out of folklore for a moment, Kelpies are basically animals in this world and the thing that triggers there hunting sense is riding on there back, so it would be no different then being vaguely friends with a lion and then shoving your bleeding arm in it's mouth. Sad but even if Anne liked Senshi in some animalistic way, getting on it's back was always going to get it to respond to it's hunting instincts.
Squids definitely have chromatophors. Look up videos of Humboldt squid and they chamge colors a lot. (They're also rally scary, but that's beside the point)
Actually, in-world there is a definition of demihuman! And it's the number of bones. All the "human" races have the same number of bones, and demihumans like orcs and kobolds have less or more.
@@ragg232 actually, that's the sort of thing real taxonimists use to classify species into genus, family, order, etc. In part because it implies that they are all derived from the same common ancestor. It's not explicitly said, but I'd bet a Kobold skeleton looks more like a dog skeleton than a human skeleton.
@@nnelg8139 Yeah. I know. 😑 Though I should have said that's how scientists define thing instead of just generalizing to all people. But I didn't, so that's egg on my face.
We thought there would be roast squid or smoked calamari, but instead we got parasite worm unaju (Japanese dish of eel grilled with sauce). This author is on something really potent to come up with stuff like this.
Well, the kraken is inedible. This is actually based on real life. Real giant squid is inedible because it contains too much ammonium sulfide and its meat is basically rubber. That's why only whales eat them.
I think it also shows super indepth knowledge from the mangaka because if I remember correctly, giant squid aren't really edible due to high ammonia concentration. Hence why Laios says it taste smelly
Love this episode/chapter. Probably the first confirmation you get that Laios is fairly unhinged. But in all honesty, you're gonna look forward to seeing more episodes where our party is fleshed out further. We haven't scratched the surface yet.
Kelpies are predators. Most predators dont attack unless they have the advantage in a situation. In the water they the advantage and you have nowhere to run from them. Anne did as her instincts demanded, and she waited until Senshi got on her back to make her move. It's an unfortunate but important lesson to learn. 😢
Japanese people don't really love horse meat. The original reason they called it sakura niku (sakura meat) was to hide what it was. Today it's considered a special delicacy for culinary adventurers, same as tanuki nabe (racoon dog hotpot) or bear stew. They're actually very rare.
Sure, it's rare, but I'm not sure "dislike" or "exotic delicacy" are the right words. From what I've seen, horse meat sashimi is pretty common in mid-range Izakayas, and many people enjoy it because it's not too peculiar taste.
there's people irl that just randomly approach wild animals and end up getting killed, you'd think this would happen more with animals like bears or lions or something but it's actually way more common for people to try to befriend large hooved herbivores, horses, deer, bison, bulls, and moose are no fucking joke, they're more deadly than large carnivores simply because of people's stupidity and blind trust, kelpies are obviously not herbivores but Senshi, Marcille, and the audience associated Anne with horses so we assigned a passive personality to her because we like to think of herbivorous creatures like horses as being friendlier than carnivores, but she's a wild animal that needs to eat and kelpies hunt by tricking people into getting on their backs, this is a lesson about how respecting nature isn't just about not destroying the environment, but also about not treating every animal like a housepet, kelpies aren't evil, they're just mid-sized carnivores that engage in offensive mimicry, Laios was right and Senshi should've listened to him (not shitting on Senshi, this is a very believable flaw for him to have but it was still stupid)
So, as I understand it, the kraken had gotten too big for this environment to sustain it any longer. It was already staring to decimate the population of mid-sized predators so much that it was noticeable, even to people just passing through - and _that,_ in turn, was leading to an overpopulation of small creatures, that would usually be kept in check by the mid-sized ones. If the party hadn't slain the kraken, it would have slowly starved, while causing a near-extinction of fish-men, mermaid, etc. The ecosystem would _eventually_ have righted itself, after its death, but it would have taken a lot longer.
It makes me sad how people in the comments need to explain why characters act the way they do to people who do reactions to this series. Especially with Laios.
@@AnimeCriticalif fully cooked (as in cook at/past 165 degrees) you could. But mentally it’s not worth eating and time wise to prep it would be a nightmare with how small/flimsy they are. Bugs like crickets ppl do eat if cook and serve in abundance, but if only a handful that’s a waste of time to gather, prep and consume little.
@@Green-3c34y65vrbu Mate...your not living IN a dungeon are you? Are we both talking about mundane dogs here or are you like projecting trauma or what?
Also, just to clarify, Marcille said at the beginning of the episode that well-maintained hair is crucial for conducting mana. That's why Senshi sank the first time they used water-walk, his lack of hair hygiene basically deadened the magic.
Senshi was unaware his beard had 999 resistance to magic 🤣😂
Funny you guys were so diatraught about the kelpie. The moment they said its name, I knew it would try to drown Senshi, cause thats how they always work in myth. Usually its a maiden they lure into riding them. But lets be real, Senshi is the prettiest maiden of all.
isn't like.. For a maiden victim kelpie will disguise into a handsome man?
@@Ken_Mochi Beautiful horses are more trustworthy than beautiful men
@@Ken_Mochi I would never trust a man no matter how he looks.
I usually roll my eyes at betrayals in anime, but for this one...I was really thinking Senshi had somehow formed a friendship with her and that she wouldn't do this to him even if she would drag any of his fellow adventurers in there...I really felt that betrayal 😢😔
@@pauline_f328 good advice for life from Laios: never think you always know what an animal is thinking. in the end, it really is an animal, it doesn't have the psychological ability to fight its instinct.
So in Laios' defense, extras in the manga DO explain that Fish-Men and Mermaids are seperate things, and that Fish-Men are specifically men-shaped fish, not fish-like men. They birth from eggs, they're indistinguishable from fish until adulthood, and Mermaids actually straight-up hunt and eat them. Mermaids on the other hand are specifically mammals, and are more "demi-human" than Fish-Men are. They're both kind of in this fuzzy area between monster and demi-human, and the distinction isn't super well-defined, but still.
They may still be intelligent though, given that they use weapons that appears to be forged
@@thelneffableus3236 I highly doubt that they made those spears themselves, considering that they're fully aquatic and therefore cannot work a forge.
Still though, they do undeniably have tool-use, even if they don't have, like, metallurgy.
@@AnimeCritical I'd argue that saying the armor mollusks forge their armor is as accurate as saying a snail or oyster forges its shell
@@azureshard1873 I think the point was more-so that the Living Armors display adept tool-use because they have swords and shields.
@@FlubbedPig it's possible the tridents are the same specious as laois sword and the living armour.
7:25 half-foots have very good hearing, so much so that sailors always travel with a half-foot onboard to detect mermaids, there is an extra where laios mentions this and chilchuck realizes that laios used him as a mermaid detector and gets mad at him
It is even worse because Chilpuck is precisely a founding member of the halfling union to avoid these types of practices
This episode really shows how much Laios knows about monsters. The moment he saw the Kelpie, he was dead set on killing it. Like, this is the guy that is a huge nerd about monsters. If he says a monster needs to be killed, is *needs* to be killed.
from day 1, they've been using the monster infodump to find bats and deal with mimics, but I think this was the one time they ignored Laios monster knowledge. Never again 😬
The kelpie part, in my opinion, is the author trying to humble and humanize Senshi, because up to this he is kinda flawless.
This. That's why this was a very important scene to include. He knows a lot, he does not know everything and this conveys it to most readers/watchers.
Thats what i felt too, it was a good scene to add. It also helps sets up the difference betwen Senshi and Laios, since to this point they seem to more or less be on the same page.
Honestly, the reason the writer does what she does with the kelpie is pretty simple. She’s pointing out to us “Why is eating THIS monster so different from eating a different monster?”
Laios himself asks “Why do people think it’s fine to kill bugs and plants and stuff, but we’re so particular about mammals (or things we perceive to be mammals)?” And why is eating a kelpie any different from eating a cow or a pig? Where do we draw the lines?
And chilchuck answers that it really IS more about feelings than any kind of logic or reason. The logical thing to do is to use all available resources. The emotional response is “that thing looks too much like me for me to be comfortable eating it”
All that this anime has been, besides the cute slice of life cooking, has been the question “what makes US different from THEM?”
Which is a really poignant question to ask these days
I agree with you but the line for "why is it any different from eating a cow or a pig?" is for a more humanoid creature, the fishman, I can def see having more trouble eating say an ape over a cow because it's more human looking even if lets say the ape was a mermaid and not a mammal. I'd personally be in Laios camp though, you try to eat me, I eat you.
I like that he uses two arguments in this episode and contradicts them, Oh lets eat mammals doesn't matter if there cute, oh lets eat fishmen because they aren't mammals, I get his justification it's just funny to me.
@@Parasolhyena Think the dude was compartmentalizing a bit in both instances and not realizing it.
Apparently the bigger the squids is the greater the concentration of ammonium chloride in their body, it seems like the substance helps the squids buoyancy mechanism. And ammonium chloride should taste like something that can be describe as "bitter, salty, and a little sour."
@@cokecan6169
"It's edible, but the texture and smell? [the flesh] contains ammonia (resembling urine), so it's nearly the same taste as giant squid, but it's much more muscular - tougher. It tastes very bitter. Not so good for humans."
-This passage taken from an article named "Colossal Squid Could Grow to 1,600 Pounds (750 Kg)" from softpedia
Kelpies in Scottish and Irish mythology are shapeshifters that resemble horses and that have a taste for human flesh. When you're on their back, you can't get off and they will drown you and devour you underwater. If Senshi hadn't gotten on Anne's back she wouldn't have attacked him.
It's just like Laios said: you can't really be sure about the feelings of these beings. Maybe Anne really did appreciate Senshi or maybe she wanted to eat him this entire time. There's no way to know for certain.
Be kinda sad if Anne really was cool with him but senshi getting on her back triggered her hunting instincts or something to that effect.
Would be kinda funny if getting into a kelpie's back was for them seen as a silent agreement to getting eaten for them, and just no one else knows it.
I love that despite how monster-enthusiastic Laios is, he still understands how dangerous they can be, like the description of Anne being more dangerous because it can charm people.
22:43 it’s like a sea otter that secretes a substance they rub on their bodies that helps keep their fur from absorbing water. Senshi is so coated in monster guts and blood that the magic can’t penetrate it and reach his body to properly work.
Is there a another fantasy universe with a similar magic system? Lore like this would better explain why magic users or species with powerful inherent magic like Elves haven't taken over the world, more than just simply low number count.
@@beomcheolkim8543 I can’t think of one off the top of my head outside maybe Full Metal Alchemist? Oh, maybe Slayers? Slayers is a lot more goofy but they do often have to resort to using different components to make up their magic, and there’s lore for why some magic works on some enemies and not others. I dunno, not many high fantasy shows get into the weeds like Delicious in Dungeon does.
@@jimlight5137 I miss Slayers, loved that series. Sadly Crunchyroll removed it before I finished season 3 and I heard mixed things about season 4 and 5. I really need to finish it one day.
@@beomcheolkim8543The Elder Scroll has multiple ways to neutralize normal magic, some come from the fact that species with an inherent quality for magic also tend to have a natural resistance to it, others thanks to the fact that there are people who can absorb the spells by birth. and convert them into magic and finally there is the fact that there is a whole branch of magic reflection spells. Although in the particular case of these, magical people and races do occupy a dominant position, precisely in the past the mers (the race to which all elves and their derivatives belong) ruled the world with such pure cruelty that extermination of entire castes was not enough to erase the influence and power they have in the shadows.
it didn't explain in the anime but chilchuck has really good hearing because his races ears are big.
It also means he knows when the others go to the toilet. Expect Marcille. He suspects she is using magic to silence the sound.
They don’t really need to explain it since they drop enough context clues. I’ve only watched the anime, but it became pretty clear just a few episodes in.
3:18 So, like Marcille said a little earlier, hair and taking good care of it is important for the Magic of this world to function, or at least the style of magic she uses. Since Senshi's hair is dirty, it's making him magic-resistant.
Also, remember how the dead party found Marcille's hair wrapped on their wrists? Yeah, hair is a spell component.
more specifically, the tub of animal lard and blood in Senshi's beard being a magic insulator
5:16 that’s just how kelpies work. They present themselves to travelers in the form of friendly horses or ponies and try to coax them into climbing onto their backs then they beeline for the water to drown their passenger and sometimes eat them
Out sing the Sirens is the best moment on this series for me😂
Oh easily. It manages to beat Derpcille's debut, and that was amazing.
Laios may be an unhinged monster fanatic, but he’s not stupid. He knows what monsters are dangerous/kill on sight. So I’d trust him when it comes to anything monster related.
The Kelpie is where they establish that the monsters are animals, that does not go away.
And that Senshi, while knowledgeable, doesn't have flawless information of everything.
Kelpies are mythological creatures that, well, eat people. Drown them and eat them. That's just what they do. And the reason people fall for it is because they're beautiful and seem trustworthy and peaceful.
So if you were entranced by the kelpie and felt betrayed by the author when it turned on Senshi, well... mission bloody well accomplished, right? Kelpie would have got Senshi if not for Laios, and would get most of us, too, unless we knew the legend. A very effective monster!
the subs are wrong on this one since fishmen and mermaids are two different species, which is why Laios tries to mental gymnastic his way to eat the fishmen since they're really more fish than man
Until you see them wielding weapons, like a Trident, that you start to wonder just how close they are to Human intelligence.
@@Razgriz_01 in this episode one of the mermen pointed his finger at Senshi and kind of spoke to another, so I think they're pretty intelligent
The way I understood it was that Marcille's magic didn't work on Senshi because his beard was basically resistant to it since there were all sorts of nasty fluids mixed into it throughout the years and probably decades of different monster encounters that it got so impure that the magic couldn't get through it.
And they prepared the parasitic worm instead of the Kraken because Senshi wasn't exactly sure where to get the tasty parts from it and when he considered taking the meat from somewhere else, the worm came out instead.
And my theory is that the other group is quicker at moving through this dungeon because they have food supplies. They don't have to hunt down and prepare monsters, they can move around every monster that doesn't block their path if they can allow it, making it easier for them to get further into the dungeon, while Laios's party has to find monsters, kill and prepare them, which additionally slows them down.
Marcille says at the beginning of the episode that hair is a conductor of magic, that is why Senshi's dirty beard blocked the spell, it is not because of the "impurity" of the monsters, since they are created by magic, that is why Marcille was able to enchant to the kraken.
Octopuses have ammonium chloride in their body, the bigger they are, the more sour they taste and they have a smell similar to urine, which is why Laios says they stink. the parasite was something easier to eat
You guys didn't seem to understand why the magic didn't work on Senshi. Marcille says that hair is important for magic (which is said in other series as well, though I don't know how common it is). It's mostly that Senshi's hair being so dirty doesn't allow the magic to work as well as it otherwise would with clean hair. Taking care of your hair helps magic work.
By that logic keeping your hair dirty for weeks gives you advantage aganst mages
@@addmen96 explosive magic would still hurt you😂😅
Dirty hair makes you resistant to support type of magic. I think charm wouldn't work too???
Kelpies are from Scottish/Irish folklore. They are shape-shifting monsters that appears as beautiful horses, who seem friendly and inviting to ride on them. Once a human rides on them, they can't dismount as their fur and hide are sticky (maybe by magic?), they then take their victims into water to drown them and eat them.
I said magic because that would explain why Senshi was able to dismount in the water and also Laios was not stuck to it once it was dead, so it should be an active skill, at least in this representation.
Btw, I said Scottish/Irish as I found references to it in both folk literature. Kelpies are new to me so I'm not sure which would be the actual origin.
17:16 This is the same guy who opted to eat a scorpion without knowing which parts were good to eat. He's enthusiasm tends to outpace his caution.
28:50 in the intro if you watch carefully you can see a group of travelers hitching up a dog to a rope so they can harvest a mandrake like in episode 2.
"every episode he gets 2% crazier, but this episode he got % or 10% crazier" got a sincere laugh out of me
I feel like this episode had the most dialogue cut from manga to anime so far, a lot of context was lost, but overall it's still a solid adaptation.
Half foots like chillchuck have really good hearing. its why he was affected first
8:00 think I mention this from a side chapter eps back.
“Humans” would be tallfolk (laios), half doors, dwarves, elf’s and oni/ogre. Demi humans would be orcs, kobolds and similar. What’s difference?
Humans are categorized by number of bones in the body which the races I listed for them have exact same. Demi humans have less/more bones then humans.
Oni/ogre they have horns but the horns grow from the skull then develop as its own bone.
Another side chapter: the sirens actually mermen/maids when they are babies.
When the eggs hatch there is usually tens/hundreds so you would think they would be in mass. The sirens control this by eating the babies swimming around. Once survive by hiding/running or learn to fend eventually grow to full size.
@@dungeonmaster16 Reminds me of cannibal morphs in Tiger Salamanders, maybe the inspiration?
26:36 Squid do indeed have chromatophores like an octopus or cuttlefish does!
Laios taste is food is interesting. He is fine eating various monsters but he not a fan of seafood, but ok trying out the parasite bug.
Laios home is very inland so exposure to seafood is near rare.
It’s a kelpie, im not sure why you’re all so surprise that a kelpie does exactly what it myth always entails.
Kelpie is kinda like an unicorn... But they will eat you :')
I'm really enjoying you guy's reaction to this anime! Yall seem really interested in the plot and actually have insightful things to say. Im a manga reader and I really love this series, so seeing people engage in the anime an seriously enjoy it makes me happy ❤
They wouldn't get mad cow disease, that's from cows. They could, however, develop prions, which are infinitely scarier.
Giant squids have high levels of ammonia in their tissues, similar to sharks, which makes them taste pretty bad
THE SENSHI PANTY SHOTS WERE SO REAL THIS EPISODE
Took so many screenshots.... Aahhhhh
Lets go out of folklore for a moment, Kelpies are basically animals in this world and the thing that triggers there hunting sense is riding on there back, so it would be no different then being vaguely friends with a lion and then shoving your bleeding arm in it's mouth. Sad but even if Anne liked Senshi in some animalistic way, getting on it's back was always going to get it to respond to it's hunting instincts.
Makes me wonder if the kelpies in this world evolved naturally or were created.
I don’t know about squid, but cuttlefish change their colours a lot, and their color changes dramatically when their brain stops functioning
Octopus too and this Kraken seemed like something of a hybrid maybe.
Squids definitely have chromatophors. Look up videos of Humboldt squid and they chamge colors a lot. (They're also rally scary, but that's beside the point)
While Anne probably did love Senshi she also was still an animal and her instinct was to kill anybody that rides her back
"Do you have salt magic?"
....for the creature native to SEA WATER? lol
Actually, in-world there is a definition of demihuman! And it's the number of bones. All the "human" races have the same number of bones, and demihumans like orcs and kobolds have less or more.
I like how freaking arbitrary that is.😁
That's pretty consistent with how we define things in real life.
@@ragg232 actually, that's the sort of thing real taxonimists use to classify species into genus, family, order, etc. In part because it implies that they are all derived from the same common ancestor.
It's not explicitly said, but I'd bet a Kobold skeleton looks more like a dog skeleton than a human skeleton.
@@nnelg8139 Yeah. I know. 😑
Though I should have said that's how scientists define thing instead of just generalizing to all people. But I didn't, so that's egg on my face.
@@ragg232 the real takeaway here is that kobolds actually are talking dogs
@@nnelg8139 Oh yeah, definitely.
That seems to be a consistent troupe in fantasy anime.
We thought there would be roast squid or smoked calamari, but instead we got parasite worm unaju (Japanese dish of eel grilled with sauce). This author is on something really potent to come up with stuff like this.
Well, the kraken is inedible. This is actually based on real life. Real giant squid is inedible because it contains too much ammonium sulfide and its meat is basically rubber. That's why only whales eat them.
I think it also shows super indepth knowledge from the mangaka because if I remember correctly, giant squid aren't really edible due to high ammonia concentration. Hence why Laios says it taste smelly
Love this episode/chapter. Probably the first confirmation you get that Laios is fairly unhinged. But in all honesty, you're gonna look forward to seeing more episodes where our party is fleshed out further. We haven't scratched the surface yet.
You guys are without a doubt my favorite folks reacting to this show. Really amazing commentary and discussions!
Kelpies are predators. Most predators dont attack unless they have the advantage in a situation. In the water they the advantage and you have nowhere to run from them. Anne did as her instincts demanded, and she waited until Senshi got on her back to make her move. It's an unfortunate but important lesson to learn. 😢
About the format thing, this episode is different because it was from 3 chapters in the manga with some minor moments with kabru’s party cut out.
To Japanese people who love fish and horse meat, Kelpies might seem like the ultimate delicacy.
Japanese people don't really love horse meat. The original reason they called it sakura niku (sakura meat) was to hide what it was. Today it's considered a special delicacy for culinary adventurers, same as tanuki nabe (racoon dog hotpot) or bear stew. They're actually very rare.
Sure, it's rare, but I'm not sure "dislike" or "exotic delicacy" are the right words. From what I've seen, horse meat sashimi is pretty common in mid-range Izakayas, and many people enjoy it because it's not too peculiar taste.
there's people irl that just randomly approach wild animals and end up getting killed, you'd think this would happen more with animals like bears or lions or something but it's actually way more common for people to try to befriend large hooved herbivores, horses, deer, bison, bulls, and moose are no fucking joke, they're more deadly than large carnivores simply because of people's stupidity and blind trust, kelpies are obviously not herbivores but Senshi, Marcille, and the audience associated Anne with horses so we assigned a passive personality to her because we like to think of herbivorous creatures like horses as being friendlier than carnivores, but she's a wild animal that needs to eat and kelpies hunt by tricking people into getting on their backs, this is a lesson about how respecting nature isn't just about not destroying the environment, but also about not treating every animal like a housepet, kelpies aren't evil, they're just mid-sized carnivores that engage in offensive mimicry, Laios was right and Senshi should've listened to him (not shitting on Senshi, this is a very believable flaw for him to have but it was still stupid)
The multitude of Senshi panty-shots 😂 how refreshing from the usual fare!
Anne is a carnivore.
Senshi reminds me that in homm3 dwarfs are resistant to magic
Judging by your reactions, you'd both get killed by a kelpie.
So, as I understand it, the kraken had gotten too big for this environment to sustain it any longer. It was already staring to decimate the population of mid-sized predators so much that it was noticeable, even to people just passing through - and _that,_ in turn, was leading to an overpopulation of small creatures, that would usually be kept in check by the mid-sized ones. If the party hadn't slain the kraken, it would have slowly starved, while causing a near-extinction of fish-men, mermaid, etc. The ecosystem would _eventually_ have righted itself, after its death, but it would have taken a lot longer.
at first the show is let laios cook, then it was dont let him cook let him eat, and now not even that, i feel like laios lacks common sense
In Frozen 2, Elsa battles a Kelpie.
Its a shame that you got fooled just by Senshis words, I thought you are smart guys (
It makes me sad how people in the comments need to explain why characters act the way they do to people who do reactions to this series. Especially with Laios.
Marcille = Kikuri Hiroi(Bocchi the rock)
It never occurred me, but are parasitic worms edible? I’ve seen some really big ones in real life
they're probably edible, but they're already in your stomach eating them seems redundant
@@AnimeCriticalif fully cooked (as in cook at/past 165 degrees) you could. But mentally it’s not worth eating and time wise to prep it would be a nightmare with how small/flimsy they are.
Bugs like crickets ppl do eat if cook and serve in abundance, but if only a handful that’s a waste of time to gather, prep and consume little.
This one looks more like a lamprey than a worm, and lampreys are more or less just eel, but not as good.
Fish have parasites. Cooking fish means eating parasites along with it.
In Japanese cuisine, such as sushi, the chef carefully removes the parasites.
They are not edible.. And dangerous
I just notice your lip what happened or did I Missed something
That herpes sore on your lip looks painful.
The subs from wherevere yall are watching this from is terrible, I was watching this on netflix and the subs there are so much better and concise
we were watching on netflix
Shave your damn hair and be nice to your sis
lol, Senshi trusts Anne like humans trust Pitbulls.
Have you not been around well raised pitbulls?
@@Sara3346 I don't trust demons that try to murder on a whim.
@@Green-3c34y65vrbu Mate...your not living IN a dungeon are you? Are we both talking about mundane dogs here or are you like projecting trauma or what?