Dungeon Meshi: A Meal Greater Than Its Parts
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- Dungeon Meshi is fun, suprisingly thoughtful, and all around amazing adition to this already stacked fantasy season for anime.
Twitch: / locklanstareyes
Twitter: x.com/LocklanS...
Sorry, this was kinda thrown together but I did my best to bring my thoughts together! I'll be doing a larger review once second season drops!
Also for those interested, I'll be streaming tomorow on twitch at 7pm CST!
It's ok Starry, your good.😊
@@wendywe37 thanks wendy
If we desribe this story like gourmet...
The chef serves us with one of a kind unique appetiser that grabbed your attention at the first place.
Then between the waiting period of each main course dishes, we are served various light refreshment.
On the end, the gourmet ended with a satisfying dessert.
I love Dungeon Meshi's gradual descent into horror. It's not a series about cooking, it's a series about eating, and being eaten.
And it's not like you have any right to be surprised when they pull Falin's bloodstained bones from the dragon; after all, the party has been killing, skinning, gutting, cooking, and eating creatures since the first chapter, and no detail was ever spared for the way those monsters' lives were untangled and used up for someone else's benefit. It disarms you by treating a human character with the same brutal pragmatism it treats the animals they eat.
And if the dungeon itself is a body, with a digestive system and an immune system, monsters amd adventurers roaming around like bacteria in the gut...what does it eat?
Laios is one of my favorite representations of a character with autism as someone with a brother who is autistic. Laios has a weird and extreme obsession with monsters and fails at reading the room, but he isn’t dumb and he isn’t so obsessed that he stops caring for his party.
The issue with how many stories portray autism is they make the character completely incapable of normal human interaction instead making the character come off as completely alien and incapable of having any sense of normality. Laios doesn’t feel alien he feels like a regular guy who happens to have autism.
To eat is the privilege of the living
I'm literally watching this right now😂. I'll be sure to come back to this video once I'm done! (5 more episodes to go!)
Thanks! But yeah don't want to spoil anything
@@LocklanStareyes I'm back nowww
10:42 I went into this anime under the impression that it was a fun slice of life😭🤣. It was definitely still a fun watch but was way heavier than I expected going in😅
I like Dungeon Meshi and I like this video about dungeon meshi!
At 13:00 I fully expected you to say "in dungeon meshi friendship is magic."
I’ve never watched MLP so it wasn’t in my brains autofill
@@LocklanStareyes darn, it would've been really funny tho😂
I really enjoyed hearing your thoughts and this video in general. I'd like to say one thing though: Having read the manga (half way into the anime I realized I wouldn't be happy to wait a year or two for second season, it's just too good), I would argue Dungeon Meshi very much is a philosophical master piece. I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but be ready to let it hit you I'd say...
Alright now im intrigued
Remember, this isn't about cooking. It's about eating.
You were spot on in a lot of your closing thoughts, you're gonna love season 2!
Also, nice Octopath music 😊
Lol I'm not normally a stickler for name pronunciation, but this was killer for me XD
For the future and your future reference:
Mar - seal
Lie - OS
Chill-chuck
The video was amazing work otherwise!
And Fal in
This is genuinely one of the greatest dunmeshi analysis(es?) I've watched! It also inspired me to rewatch it even though iv'e finished it not so long ago :)
@@BimblyWimbly glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the video! It's a really nice and smooth recollection of the series which gives the needed time to every aspect of the show. Good job!
I absolutely adore Dungeon Meshi. From the meticulously well crafted dungeon itself to coffee-spitting humour (Laios siren song, you'll always be famous), from charming characters who feel very real and alive to the animation and style of the whole show, full of expression. Dungeon Meshi is a darling of mine, I am so happy this show exists!
A good base to start from is the Shrek 2 game for GameCube. Since it's multiplayer, you could also add more newer game dynamics. It'd be a fun game tbh. Considering Mario sunshine is a thing I can see greatness if people took their time to develop this game
Laios is smarter than everybody gives him credit.
Let's say he utilise his IQ in a different direction.
Laios is less zookeeper and more apex predator. They’re eating their way through the dungeon, and even at the end of the story he wins by eating the main villain.
Uh spoiler.
@@w0rstart1st5 SPOILERS!!! The dude who eats everything in the dungeon eats everything in the dungeon.
@@kokofan50 Considering the main villain up to this point is The Mad Mage, yeah that's a spoiler
@@genericname2747 you can read it as me saying the Mad Mage isn’t the main villain; I forgot his name and just said villain; I was being vague to confuse people; or I was talking in archotypical terms.
@@kokofan50 Mate, its really not that complicated. You're letting people know the main villain is eaten. So Laios is either a cannibal or there's another villain. That's a major spoiler either way.
Seshi got closure from cooking... Very satisfying.
Reminds me of old school naturalists back when species were first being catalogued scientifically. A lot of those Galapagos tortoises ended up in peoples bellies. Or those 'exotic' dinner parties for people who wanted to know what owl and other unusual things tasted like.
I watched another video essay about DunMesh before this one, but I gotta say, I like yours better! And also I had no idea you were a vtuber until the very end, nice!
Thanks dude! Glad you liked it and glad the vtuber model didn’t turn you away
Incredible video, please continue to make more
Thanks and will do!
Lovely video as always! I look forward on your thoughts on season 2 when it comes around! I'm off to go read the manga though I can't wait that long🤣😅
laios my autistic beloved
he just like me fr
EDIT: that moment when the mage went "hey there, dragon" and farlyn immediatly reacted as though on instinct... thats when i knew that something was insanely wrong.
@@BlackReshiram oh yeah totally, very ominous moment
As a manga reader, I would say that the first season is about cooking but the second...
....is going to be EATING
p/s: Great analysis video, I hope you keep making this content.
Thanks for teaser, and I definitely will keep cooking this kind of content!
Watch it weekly almost every Thursday, im sad to see it end ,however im glad it will get a second season. (please dont rush or strain the staff trigger)
All corrected pronounciations (Source: Eng dub [very good btw])
- Marcilleh --> Mar-sille
- Laos --> Lie-os
- Fallin --> F-AH-lin
Good video essay! Liked the clear explanations you gave the audience.
Thanks for the clarification!
"Dungeon meshi is not a philosophical masterpiece."
...speak for yourself again, after season 2. ❤
Honestly I’m so happy it’s sounds like I’ll be proven dead wrong
@@LocklanStareyes maybe you will end up underwhelmed so I don't want to say much more, but dungeon meshi does really engage with the topic of food and eating on all possible layers of meaning imo.
Without spoiling, Bon Appetit in season 2.
I mean, the philosophy pretty much boils down to "eating is the privilege of living."
Its so much fun and I really like it.
It very much is
Thumbs up.. no no don't apologize about it being thrown together. I liked the format.
and yes I felt the same about the beats in this anime. So it's all good.
be honest about the things that you like.
I personally am looking forward to season 2 as well.
PS personally the thing that stood out to me the most was the food prep and recipes and although i work in a different field my origin is bakery and cooking fyi
NEW LOCKLAN VID LET'S GO
Thanks Hel!
When I blast Octopath music, the world of Dungeon Meshi always comes to mind. Good taste
Thank you!
finally continuing the video and 12:00 onwards actually made me cry ngl
I remember how a lot of people mistook this show for a shallow episodic cooking adventure during its first cour, which I mean, fair, but it goes to show how much audience that might've liked it a show loses by not frontloading its best moments
That’s fair, hopefully word of mouth drags some people back in
Though at the same time, the way it catches you off guard when it goes red dragon mode is just beautiful!
Canadian marcille
marsilly
Konosuba mentioned 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
I really need to get to watching season 3
I've dropped it after 2 episodes. But since you recommend this anime... I guess I'll give it another try.
Nice, hopefully I don't steer you wrong but it definetly starts picking up after a few episodes
The cooking just got annoying after awhile, especially since time was urgent to save the sister.
Definitely give it another try, I'd say its after that point (3 episode rule!) that things get more engaging!
@@dartlanthat what's people most misunderstood badly. There's no urgency to begin with, since she 100% to be dead from the beginning. They only need to bring the corpse to be resurrected. The plan only go south because the dragon moves a lot not because they took too much time cooking.
That's why the author gives you the samurai parties which having urgency with no result.
@@dartlanthey give a timeline, but when you watch more of the show (if you decide to), Laios and Co. often bring up how their first fight against the red dragon failed BECAUSE they were hungry and tired (from being hungry). Basically, most of the show is survival all the way through, it's just semi-comfortable survival
I would love if there was a Dungeon Meshi video game. Especially if it was made by Larian Studios.
YES
Larin released Creation Kit... Somebody going to utilise that to replicate
as someone w/ autism- yeah laois is likely on the spectrum 😭 he misses a lot of social cues and is awful at reading rooms. his monster knowledge prolly comes from a hyperfixation. he mentions a couple times he wishes falin were there so she could act as a social buffer between him and his party. i enjoy the show immensely bc he misses stuff i would miss lmao, but this time i can be in on the joke
Here's a comment so the algorithm shows the video to more people
thanks King
Whaddup, haven't seen ya in 7 months dude! Still remember me?
Hey Tiny, hope your doing well
commenting so this gets more traction
I appreciate it!
This sounds harmless, why is it MA??????
You’ll see…..
Blood and violence. Remember, they're fighting monsters.
Today's my birthday today 😁
Happy B-day!
1:07 You didn't butcher Chilchuck or Senshi
@@Beyhammer1 ok at least I got 50% right
Comment for even more attention!!!
@@hhh-nt5gl thanks hhh!
where can I find the music you used in the background?
Most of it is either Octopath traveler 2, katamari music, dragon quest, or cooking mama
@@LocklanStareyes well that does sound very on theme with the anime lol, thanks.
@@peet-janissen5838 you’re welcome
:3
funny comment
@@Utfam_202 funny reply
@@LocklanStareyes HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
Why is everyone calling Laios, Laos? It's some English translation error? Or a dub error?
@@painappledad1352not sure, kinda just how I thought I heard it