Please add to it when you have time because I won’t have any this week
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.
I hope you all had fun with this club! I don’t have access to my copy right now so i can’t comment too much, but i remember this being one of my favourite early chapters because of the look into kui’s unique take on dungeon ecology
Yeah it was a fitting conclusion for the first volume. It’s the culmination of the concept. I was surprised that there was no mention of the situation with the dead sister however. It almost feels like this plot line has been completely forgotten by raios at this point and he’d rather just eat weird stuff.
It’s kinda that there’s nothing to be accomplished by rushing there, and nothing to be gained about angsting about it the whole way. In fact, rushing there was what earned them the TPK in the first place. They have time - due to the dragon’s slow digestion, they’ve got a few weeks to rescue Falin. Laios’ biggest concern was being able to get started, but now that they’ve started, their momentum will get them there in time.
If you do want to know when we get some payoff in that respect, though: it’s in volume four.
Laios says that he thinks that creatures which are poisonous/venomous would not hide or conceal themselves; the ostentatious basilisk being an example of that.
The footnote calls out that “actually, there are such creatures”. Or being more literal with the する you could read the whole thing as “poisonous critters don’t hide!” → “yes they do!”
I really enjoyed it! So far the chapters are not very interconnected nor the story line is super important so I thought it was nice to read at the club’s pace. Would love to join an offshoot and keep reading together! already grabbed all the volumes during a previous sale
- Week 8
