Please add to it when you have time because I don’t always have any
Characters and Concepts
Characters and concepts
Multiple races exist in Dungeon Meshi. The five major races are Tallmen/人間 (baseline humans), Half-foot/ハーフ フット (Halflings), Dwarves, Gnomes and Elves, but a few other species also exist which we won’t get into here.
Also as a Welsh person, Leeks and Welsh Onions are slightly different. BUT - Leeks are one of the national emblems of Wales. Ironically, welsh onions aren’t actually welsh!
I keep trying to comment on this chapter then getting overwhelmed. I really like everything about this so far, and even though this manga has more new vocab than anything else I’m reading I still sped through this week’s reading before starting any of my other book club reading.
it is definitely a vocab overload but i’ve found the actual sentence structures and such are largely fairly straightforward which is a blessing. definitely the manga that really taught me to just pick a few words here and there to add to my SRS and move on though
Mostly it’s the academic discussion of the various carnivorous plant subspecies. Since they literally never appear again after this chapter, in this instance, I concur with “just move on”.
Yeah I find this easier to read than our two previous picks. There’s a lot of vocab but a lot of it can be inferred from context or non-critical. The grammar and overall narrative are pretty straightforward too.
it gets a bit more of a pain in the ass in later chapters where they do ‘stop and recap’ or ‘let me explain wtf just happened’ sort of thing but that’s a ways off and by the time you get there you’re more used to the vocab
For the other I just skimmed it, I read my share of monster descriptions in videogames, I didn’t feel like going that deep into the lore. The giant bat is a vampire, the giant rat has “pig like meat” I think? The goblin does something “in the interval of the foliage” (hide, presumably) and is skilled with bow and arrow, the armour is decorative and empty and you have to be careful that it doesn’t sneak behind you (maybe?) etc…
Since it’s all truncated it’s a bit tricky to parse.
- Week 3
