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slugbutterfly · 11 minutes

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#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #fear and hunger

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slugbutterfly · 19 hours

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#this gives short people energy too #im short people #dungeon meshi

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slugbutterfly · 2 days

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Every time I return to campus

#Jthm #johnny the homicidal maniac #i feel sick #devi #devi I feel sick #very relatable and understandable behavior

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slugbutterfly · 2 days

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Whats with the Shuro/Toshiro hate?😭 Guys its completly fine for a character to be in the wrong and not being a bad person.

The conflict between Laios and him stems from him coming from high context culture and Laios is from low contextual culture (+his neurodivigenci ). Laios is alredy seen as "annoying" or "dense" by his friends so how do you expect a nobleman who had etiquette beaten into him from a young age? He himself probably feels emotionaly repressed and he even addmits at the end of the episode that he envies Laios his straighfowardness: "that is the part of you that I hate...to envy you"

That is the reason he never said anything to Falin about his feelings, only when he proposed to her. I dont think his atraction towards her was as shallow. Or maybe it was... but he never could force himself to get closer to her (even tho he probably tried, like when he invited her to dinner that Laios crashed lol.)

His anger at Marcille and rest of the party for reviving Falin probably stemms from his noble upbringing that thaugh him strict morals. Its obivous the "black magic" viewed as very serious and moraly wrong crime. Its like someone addmited they made medical experiment to cure someone you loved.

Im not saying he isnt in the wrong for how he reacted. He definitly was and it was made clear in the story. But he isnt that horrible of a person people made him out to be.

#im sorry for all the typos i have made. im dyslexic/dysgraphic and my english suck #im not defending shuro for his crimes against autistic comunity ✋#dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi manga #dunmeshi #delicious in dungeon #dungeon meshi shuro #dungeon meshi laios #laios touden

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slugbutterfly · 5 days

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I love how matter of fact things are bough up in DunMeshi. You actually have to pay attention to dialogue to get all the tidbits and not just skimm over the pages. But that also means that some people will miss things and misunderstand stuff in a way that got me grinding my teeth and trying to calmly remember that this is just a made up fantasy world and no blood should be shed over it.

#This is just for hahas im nature and non violent person #delicious in dungeon #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #dungeon meshi manga

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slugbutterfly · 12 days

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We were robbed of this chilchuck moment😔

#I love annoyed chilchuck😔#dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi manga #dungeon meshi episode 16 #delicious in dungeon #anime vs manga #chilchuck #My favorite middle age divorced dad of 3 #chilchuck tims

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slugbutterfly · 13 days

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Everyone in half-foot form is such cutie patootie

#dungeon meshi chilchuck #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi manga #dungeon meshi laios #dungeon meshi marcille #dungeon meshi senshi #dungeon meshi izutsumi #izutsumi #laios touden #chillchuck #marcille donato #senshi #delicious in dungeon #don't let me near them the cute agression would took over

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slugbutterfly · 14 days

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Some people need to chill tf out and touch grass😭

im tired of this discussion lol

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dont be creepy guys

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slugbutterfly · 17 days

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One of my favorite moments from Dunmeshi

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dungeon meshi laios #dungeon meshi chilchuck #laios touden #chillchuck

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slugbutterfly · 21 days

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I feel like this is very possible future path for my life. (i procrastinated whole year and now im supossed to animate whole 5 min fil in less than a month.)

its funny until it happens to you

#jthm #jthm johnny #im literally him #in the worst possible way

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slugbutterfly · 21 days

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"I've been waiting for ages for somebody to unmask them."

This moment tends to elicit negative reactions in a first read through, and I've got some opinions about why where Kabru is coming from here actually makes a lot of logical sense. So I thought I'd elaborate on that.

I think people hear this and go, "He thinks they must be hiding something because they gave money to someone? What a cynic." Or "he dislikes them because they did charity?? What's wrong with this guy!". And obviously, a lot, a lot is wrong with him. But I think this makes more sense than it seems at first glance! What people evaluating this judgement miss is why Kabru is paying attention to Laios and co to begin with.

Kabru knows of the Touden siblings because (he's a little bit of a stalker-) he is keeping an eye on all the relevant parties in events developing on the island, in order to be able to guide them to his preferred outcome. This includes adventurers because they are the ones actually exploring the dungeon! He's well aware that something as minor as internal tensions between party members could be key to the historical events that are developing. (He would love the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.)

His desired outcome is that whatever the rewards are of breaking the dungeon's curse, whether that's kingship or the ancient elven secrets of dungeons, are claimed by:

A) a short lived person

B) Someone who will be a good, effective leader and/or use those secrets and the power they carry wisely, with foresight, and to establish a political bloc for short lived people.

The person he can best trust to do this is, of course, himself. But due to his PTSD regarding dungeons and monsters, he's not able to develop the necessary skills to conquer the dungeon. Once he realises this, he starts looking for someone else who he can support to that end.

But most of the adventurers don't have any intentions of conquering the dungeon, don't have the skills, or are unsuitable in other ways. In fact, it seems like some potentially suitable people are the Toudens. There are a lot of good rumours about them going around - they actually seem to have a very positive reputation! That's what Kabru means when he says "unmask".

So when Kabru is observing something like them giving money to an old comrade from their gold-peeling days, he doesn't consider it a problem because "they're giving money to this person who doesn't actually need it" or because they must have some dark secret if they act superficially nice. I think he actually understands this situation and what it implies about Laios (in particular) perfectly well.

Laios and Falin gave money to an old comrade who got injured and couldn't work. That person then healed up but kept taking their money. Then he used the money to start smuggling illicit goods to the island.

The key is that for Kabru, the problem here is the same as with the corpse retrievers - people using the dungeon's resources to fuel dangerous, selfish, or violent pursuits cause problems for the island, attract more criminals and people with motives other than breaking the curse, and increase the chances of the whole situation ending in tragedy.

Kabru is willing to work with the Shadow Lord of the island if it gets him to his goal - he isn't scrupulous - but the criminal element of the island increasing is something he sees as a major issue.

Also, when you're evaluating someone as a candidate for power, riches, secrets, potentially kingship - then being curious about how the money you give to people is going to be used is kind of a relevant trait!

Interpersonally, Kabru's actually very easygoing - I mean, Mickbell isn't exactly an upstanding guy, is he! But Kabru likes him and they get along well. These traits wouldn't be a problem at all in a friend, or a comrade, or someone Kabru was confident he could use. But he can't get a handle on Laios, and Laios is someone who has the potential to be a major player!

On Laios' end, this is the same as with the marriage seeker who joined their party. She kept asking for things and he gave them to her, because he tries to be nice to others. He even gives her money! It's the exact same thing.

That's fine, but it became a problem because he basically wasn't interested in her motives, didn't notice she was trying to manipulate him, and it also didn't occur to him that the other party members would notice or be affected. We can assume the situation with the gold peeler is the same. When Kabru says that "It's not that they're bad people, they just aren't interested in humans," he isn't wrong.

The extent to which this is true of Laios is linked to his autism imo, (because it isn't just disinterest - he genuinely isn't able to notice nonverbal cues that people are lying to him or have ulterior motives) but to a greater or lesser extent I think it's a very common trait. Most people aren't actually that interested in other people who aren't close to them. Kabru is the weird one here. It isn't an issue except as a leader - which is why we see an immediate comparison to the Island's Lord, because that's how Kabru is evaluating them.

And disinterest in/lack of ability with people to the extent Laios exhibits it, it does, actually, make him a worse leader... it's just that as we see in the story, people can help him out. The rest of the party tell him the marriage seeker is taking advantage of him so he tells her he can't give her special treatment anymore. They're pissed and it's a crisis point - he couldn't have recovered their trust without Marcille and Falin - but that's exactly the point. With Marcille and Falin, he was able to recover their trust.

And he has other good traits that make up for it, such as his intelligence, strategic knowledge, open-mindedness and sense of fairplay.

Kabru doesn't disqualify Laios as a candidate based on what he sees about him from afar, though - he still tries very hard to get close to him, obviously hoping that if he manages he can steer Laios to defeat the dungeon and make up for his lack of people-skills in the aftermath. (Which... he does eventually achieve that goal!) He completely fails until the events of the story, so... definitely I think "They just aren't interested in humans" could also partially be a stung reaction to Laios' complete disinterest in him.

Anyway, that's my read on what exactly Kabru's "issue" with Laios is. Obviously, once he does find out what Laios' true nature is like - about his love for monsters - he develops an entirely new set of fears about Laios' priorities. But since Laios kept that a secret until the start of the story, he has no idea of that yet.

Given all that, I think it's interesting that he says that he doesn't think that the Toudens are suitable to defeat the dungeon, and that he's hoping they'll turn out to be the thieves. As some of his few potential candidates, people who he thinks may play a big role in the island's future, you'd think he'd hope they would be good people!

I suppose it's better, in his eyes, because it means that he's involved in something "interesting". They haven't just had their stuff stolen by regular criminals (boring, puts them further away from his goal) - they've been caught up in the beginning stages of "a historic event". The desperate and dwindling group forgetting morals in their quest to retrieve their lost comrade probably appeals to his sense of melodrama. Because he also just... loves drama.

Despite it being "uglier than anything he was expecting", he still pursues Laios as the person he wants to conquer the dungeon pretty much as soon as it becomes clear that he won't be able to do it himself and they are out of time. That's because... well, to be fair, there aren't any other options. And he fits standard A: he's short-lived!

and Kabru still hopes he can fit standard B, too, and be persuaded to use the power he wins for good. No matter how many nightmares he has about Laios, or whether he thinks about killing him. He doubts him, but ultimately he puts his faith in him and seems happy after the manga's ending that he made the right decision.