#Dungeon Meshi official Materials

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PSA

You. Yes, you. The person who just read or perhaps watched Dungeon Meshi and is toying with the idea of running a similar campaign in D&D.

Before you do that, consider checking out RELIC. It's free, much lighter in terms of rules, only 42 pages long, broadly compatible with most Old-School D&D material (including modules and bestiaries) with little to no conversion required, AND it has pretty cool built-in mechanics for cooking and eating dungeon critters.

EDIT: I wasn't aware of this at the time of making this post, but the latest version of RELIC seems to have removed a few mechanics and procedures from earlier versions, including the Monster Menu section. I didn't realize when I made the post bc I was still using an older version of the game. However, the RELIC Companion PDF contains a lot of these mechanics that didn't make it into RELIC v3. It used to be available on the official itch.io page but it doesn't seem to be there anymore, so you can find it here.

So reblog this version of the post instead please.

#ttrpg #dungeon meshi

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Rin Masterpost

Rin! Rinsha Fana! Beloved side character I think about far too much (or maybe not enough?)

I decided that it might be nice to put together an informational post about Rin, since she has some of my favorite background details of any character in Dungeon Meshi. This is partly as reference for myself, and partly for anyone else who might be interested in her but not know where to chase down the tidbits we we get of her, both in canon & extra materials. There’s also a little bit of theorizing and analysis sprinkled in for fun.

If anyone spots something I missed, please let me know and I will add it in!

Alright. Time for ultimate #rinposting

History and Timeline:

We don't have an official timeline for Rin (even in the expanded Adventurer's Bible, sadly), but we can put a lot of pieces together based on Kabru's timeline & their respective ages.

Rin is 2 years older than Kabru, and they met when he was 9. Assuming that he met her soon after she was taken to the elven capital, that means that the elves took her when she was 11.

Before that, she lived on the Northern Continent. Interestingly, when Mickbell asks about Shuro, Rin says she was born "here."

Since "here" doesn't mean the actual Island itself, it must mean simply "not the east." She is described in the Adventurer's Bible as having "no real knowledge of or attachment to the East," so maybe that's why she draws a "there" verses "here" line.

I'd also like to add a note here that the elves don't seem uh... they don't seem great about respecting the value of other cultures, especially those of short-life species. Milsiril seems to have discouraged Kabru from eating or remembering food from his hometown, at least, and that's even as an adoptive parent who cares (at least in some way) for her child. As I will touch on later, the "care" that Rin was under probably had even less respect for her history or ties to either Eastern or Northern culture.

That is all to say, considering that Rin spent many years with the elves, I'd take her having "[no] attachment to the East" as more of a comment on how she feels now, and less as a definite choice she made. She may genuinely have chosen that approach and opinion for herself, she may have been pushed towards it by the elves, and she may have had little choice at all in the matter - all are valid interpretations, though I personally lean towards the thought that it's unlikely the elves didn't have at least some hand in it.

Anyway, Rin does seem to know at least a bit about her heritage - she can presumably name and identify the specific island her parents are from, and she recognizes that "Shuro" isn't a name used there. She also knows that different places from the Eastern archipelago speak different languages, so she knows at least a little about the other islands as well.

Some additional extrapolations I'll make based on these facts: she never mentions, and probably isn't in contact with, any family from her island. This may be because her extended family died, because her parents didn't (or weren't able to) maintain contact, or because she lost contact when she was taken by the elves. Somewhat relatedly, she also prooobably doesn't speak the language, at least not fluently, though her being able to comment on the state of language in the archipelago makes me think that she at least learned a little as a kid.

Anyway, Rin's parents were refugees from the archipelago, though we don't know what specifically caused them to leave. There is this little tidbit of info we get (from the cover of chapter 48, of all places), though:

So yeah, that seems like it would be the backdrop of Rin's parents fleeing. As I said earlier, it's unclear if Rin might have any living family left back on her island. The listing she has for “family” in the Adventurer's Bible is just a dash, but so is Izutsumi's, for instance, and we know that she was taken from her family with no knowledge of who might still be out there. It's possible everyone else was killed, it's possible they were separated... it's possible that Rin's parents didn't even know.

As an additional note, and this is speculation on my part, but I think there is an argument to be made, with this tidbit from the cover as well as the Nakamoto clan's specialty in espionage and use of ninjas, that the politics of the archipelago are partially based on Sengoku era Japan. Not necessarily super relevant here, but I think it's interesting context for all... of the archipelago characters, honestly.

(Especially considering it seems like the Nakamoto clan is in a relatively comfortable position, and yet clearly are involved, or at least prepared to be involved in larger conflict. How stable is their position, really? How is Shuro's father viewed by the wider region and archipelago as a whole? What about his lord? NOT THE POINT THIS IS A POST ABOUT RIN. BUT IT'S VERY INTERESTING TO THINK ABOUT.)

Okay, back to Rin's parents.

Whatever caused them to leave, they made their way to the north, where they made their living with their magic for a time. There are no specifics about what kind of magic they used, but we know at least some examples of jobs that magic can get you, based on the flashback to Laios and Falin's childhood in chapter 26. Laios proposes that Fain could use her magic to be a priest, gravekeeper, or wandering exorcist. Though these are specific to Falin's affinity with spirits, they give some idea of the shape of the work that might be available. It's important, but it is also on the outskirts of society - not necessarily admired or appreciated by the average person.

And Rin’s parents were killed by vigilantes for that magic. It's not entirely news that superstitious villages in the area would sometimes kill magic users - we see a small drawing of people being burned at the stake in a panel towards the end of the manga:

Nonetheless, Rin is the only person in the main cast who has experienced this brutality firsthand. And she did experience it firsthand, having been found by the elves as the sole survivor within the burnt ruins of her home.

It is unknown exactly how she survived, or what happened to her parents before and during the fire. Rin lived, and they did not.

The elves came some time after the fire, intending to investigate reports of ancient magic. They (and we) don't know if Rin's parents actually did use ancient magic, or if the reports and murders were simply spurred by general fear and superstition. Rin was the only piece of "evidence" that remained, and so she was taken back to the west with the elves when they left.

We don't know much about her time on the Northern Central Continent (where the elves/Canaries are based), but it doesn't seem like she was adopted or taken in by anyone the way that Kabru was. According to the Adventurer's Bible, after being taken into custody, "under their care she was treated as a captive animal would be." I would guess that means very basic food and shelter, little to no education. Probably the most social contact she got was from Kabru, as well as maybe, occasionally, from elves treating her as a curiosity, such as in this bit in the Adventurer’s Bible:

Assuming she left with Kabru (which seems like it is the case, there's no info about them having separated during that time), she spent 9 years with the elves, and has been with Kabru on the Island in the 4 years since then.

She also stays in the Golden Country after the end of the story, apparently working as an alchemist.

Additional Details (& Speculation):

What does she remember of her family and home?

I'd like to take a moment here to explore a little of what Rin might remember of her parents and home.

For reference, we can look at Kabru. The canaries came to Utaya when Kabru was 6, and he arrived in the capital when he was 7. He remembers the events of the tragedy in his home, and has some memories of his mother and life in Utaya, including memories of local dishes.

Rin lost her parents and home at 11, so she presumably has much clearer memories of the events that lead to her being taken by the elves... or she might, assuming that they haven't been completely blocked by her trauma from the event.

Yeah, I am fairly damn sure that she's got some memory issues from trauma and PTSD. For one, this is the state she was found in:

As already mentioned, she was also treated like something of an animal by the elves. She probably didn't have a lot of contact with other people, which would further perpetuate that sense of isolation and dehumanization. What I'm getting at here is that Rin probably didn't have much to help pull her out of this place, or heal these wounds. She had Kabru, who was also a kid and even younger than her, and she had herself.

Obviously trauma leaves different scars on everyone, and everyone responds and copes in different ways. But I do think it is interesting that we never hear anything about Rin's parents or life before the elves, and there are no real details about it given in the Adventurer's Bible the way we have for Kabru. What's presented is more surface level facts: they were refugees, they made a living with magic, they were killed.

I'm inclined to believe that things are laid out this way because that's how Rin holds on to these things. She knows things about them, but possibly remembers them more as things she was told/knows to be true, rather than actual memories she can picture herself experiencing.

Rin's Magic

In an interesting counterpoint to her potentially spotty memory, I do actually think Rin may have learned magic from her parents (or started learning, and was self-taught from there). She never attended a magic academy, and actually has a bit of grudge against people who did - owing to the social protection afforded to "upper-class mages," which her parents did not have. She also almost certainly wouldn't have been taught by the elves, who not only treated her as an animal but also knew her parents may have been involved with ancient magic.

Falin began to show signs of magical talent at 8, and was sent to the Magic Academy at 10, and that was as someone who had absolutely no guidance about or exposure to magic in her home town. Raised by two mage parents, I think Rin absolutely could have been learning some things by the time she was 11.

In terms of continued learning, I'll add that Rin is able to identify Marcille's magic as being A) from an Academy student, and B) cast by an elf:

This makes me think that she continued to study magic on her own while held by the elves, and probably even more so after leaving with Kabru. They didn't form the party until two years after they left the elves, which would give Rin plenty of time to try and learn from other adventurers on the Island, or to study up on her own. She'd probably be able to pick up some dungeon-crawling basics (like the water walk spell), as well as become familiar with the skill level and expression of skill common in different people with different backgrounds (hence why she is able to comment on the "textbook" academy wards).

Much like Marcille, Rin also seems to rely on a 'one size fits all' Big Boom method of dealing with monsters: lightning. We see the best example of its power in the fight with Chimera Falin:

But we also see her cast it pretty recklessly in a few other places, including the end credits of the new anime ED, which I think provides a good example of the downsides to such an approach...

Yeah, it is very much a 'get out of the way or get zapped' spell.

Especially since Marcille's offensive magic is self-taught and works very similarly, this definitely reinforces the idea that Rin figured most of this stuff out herself.

Outfit and Character Design

Dear sweet Rin of the Red And Black... how I love her design.

First of all, her clothes are damaged. Despite the fact that Rin looks relatively well put together overall, her outfit is worn out. I have some theories on why this is that I'll get to in a bit, but for now I'll just touch on what this design communicates in general about it.

I think, just like with Kabru's horribly messy room, it creates a sense that there is something more complicated underneath the surface. Something that isn't being addressed or seen to, just as the dress hasn't been mended or replaced.

It also reflects her not caring a ton about her appearance. She's neat, but she's not concerned about being pretty, so she doesn't bother with fixing up her outfit after her dungeon crawls. This also fits with her perpetual scowl (which I will talk more about in a bit), and slightly disheveled hair.

Next: the gloves. At first I thought they might be a sort of uncomfortable-with-touch thing, but after skimming through the manga and some bonus content, I have another theory. Rin takes the gloves off to eat, as well as a few other instances, such as when working on a spell with Holm and Marcille in chapter 36

This one is especially interesting because she has them on in the next chapter, during the fight with Falin. Since she also isn't wearing gloves during some of the Daydream Hour art of her outside of the dungeon, that leads me to believe that they are specifically for combat.

What does she need them for, though? Most other casters we see don't wear gloves. Well... just look at the other half of the page where she attacks Falin with lightning:

She is enveloped by this spell. I said it before was pretty reckless magic, but maybe its not just a problem for her teammates, but for her as well.

So here's my theory: maybe the gloves are rubber, or some other electricity-resistant material? They might help protect her from her own magic. I don't know why a caster would need gloves for combat otherwise.

I also think this might be why her dress is tattered at the bottom, by the way. Especially since the Daydream Hour genderswap design doesn't have a similar problem with his outfit, since the tunic isn't as long.

I will admit this is a bit of stretch/guess, but I think it's a fun one, and I wanted to share. I do think I'm right about the gloves being for dungeons/fighting specifically, at least. That seems pretty consistent throughout all of her appearances.

I also mentioned her scowl, so I'll touch on that briefly as well. The (fairly confirmed) explanation for Rin's expression is that she intentionally wears a frown to prevent her other expressions from showing through. I think it's important to emphasize that it's not just smiling that she is trying to suppress here - it's any strong emotion:

Anyway, because I can, here is the art of Rin smiling.

Rin and Kabru

I have talked a bit about Rin and Kabru's history, but I think it deserves its own section.

I think it's very interesting that Rin is pretty much the ONLY character in all of Dungeon Meshi that has explicit canonical romantic interesting in someone. It's literally part of the main summary sentence in her character profile.

This could be sort of reductive as a way to describe a female character (and in some ways it still is), but I think in part the simplicity and directness of it actually is part of what makes it so interesting. Especially when on the very next page we see the comic about her backstory. "This mage is in love with Kabru" -> one page of a horribly traumatic event and a child frozen in shock with no one to comfort her. What does that do?

Well, in my opinion, it shows how much Rin focuses on Kabru as something to keep her in the present. In contrast with the immense loss she has experienced, her love for Kabru is current and alive. He has presumably been her anchor for years, and I think that her love is part of that anchor.

Adding to this, in contrast with how explicit her feelings are, she never seems to actively pursue Kabru. She complains about his potential interest in other women, but she doesn't really flirt. She doesn't let herself smile around him any more than anyone else, and she doesn't hide her bitterness or anger from him to present a more appealing persona.

As much as she craves Kabru's attention, and has stayed by his side for years, I don't know that she really wants to possess him. He seems to know about her feelings, more or less, and she seems to know that he knows. Maybe she believes he doesn't reciprocate and is respecting that, maybe she's afraid of what she could lose if she tried to change things, or maybe the change itself frightens her. In any case, though she's not exactly happy with the way things are between them, she doesn't seem to be trying to change that status quo.

A specific thing I'd also like to talk about with their relationship, beyond Rin's love for him, is her fear for him. As the Adventurer's Bible puts it, "she worries that his knack for dealing with whatever life throws at him might lead him to get too full of himself and end up in serious trouble."

Rin is an interesting mix of restrained and explosive, herself. Her magic is destructive, her temper seems to run hot (she gets annoyed easily, at least), and her feelings for Kabru are apparent. At the same time, she doesn't let her emotions show on her face, she is the one who bluntly states that the group has hit the limit of their abilities, and she doesn't act on those obvious feelings for Kabru. It's interesting, then, that what she fears for Kabru is that he won't restrain himself.

And a small personal idea about that as well: I wonder if she somewhat blames her parents for getting killed. Again, this is very speculative, but I think it's interesting that her fear for Kabru is that he will get too full of himself. Take up too much space. It's never really stated what Rin thinks of her parents, but it can be easy in grief to search for control, and control often means blame. If they hadn't been so confident, so flashy, would they still be alive...?

I don't know if she's ever thought like that, and it could well be that her fears for Kabru come from a totally different place. But it's an interesting connective thread between her past and present - the idea of "getting in trouble" for taking up too much space and being too confident in one's own abilities.

Miscellaneous Tidbits:

On that note, I'd like to wrap up the main part of this post, and move on to a few extra things that I couldn't find another place for.

Rin plays with her hair when she's stressed

Using stressed as a pretty big umbrella here, because I think it's hard to perfectly pin down all the emotions at play, but it is a habit of hers. Best displayed in chapter 32, but it shows up in other places, too.

Her design contrasts with Marcille

This is a small thing, but I just love how much they are visual opposites.

Rin wears red and black and has dark hair, Marcille wears blue and white and has light hair. Marcille cares a great deal for her hair and puts it up in elaborate hairstyles, and Rin's is mostly loose and a bit messy. Marcille was even educated at the Magic Academy, which Rin dislikes. They both have little capelets. Also they both look very cute in each other's clothes.

Rin knows Flamela (and they meet again in canon)

Nothing much is done with this in canon, but I think it’s super interesting that Flamela's squad are the ones that find Rin as a child and take her away to the west, and then they end up stuck in the dungeon together for a bit.

Two days??? I'm so very curious what things were like between these three.

Aaaand I think that's all I have to say about Rin! For the time being at least. There's a lot more analysis that could be done about her and Kabru especially, but for this post I wanted to keep things at least somewhat anchored to canon facts, with only a layer or two of speculation on top.

If it isn't already obvious, I think Rin is a super interesting character with a ton of potential depth to explore. She mostly interacts with Kabru in canon, but has ties to a bunch of other characters: she and Marcille fill similar roles in their parties but have differing personalities and histories, she and Falin (and Laios) have been tremendously shaped by xenophobia and fear of magic common in the Northern Continent, her parents fled from conflict in the same region Shuro and his retainers are from, and she has history with Flamela and some of the second canary squad.

Her temper, her fear, her love... her repression and passion - they all inform her character, even in small ways, even with as little time as she spends on the page.

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #rinsha fana #rin dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers #dunmeshi analysis #thank u to anyone who takes the time to read this ♥️♥️♥️ I love rin and lot

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Dungeon Meshi as Monster Culture

-jeffrey jerome cohen as a framework for dungeon meshi

i. The Monsters Body is a cultural body

Vampires, burial, death: inter the corpse where the road forks...it will haunt that place that leads to many other places, that point of indecision...The monster is born only at this metaphoric crossroads, as an embodiment of a certain cultural moment—of a time, a feeling, and a place

ii. The Monster Always Escapes

We see the damage that the monster wreaks, the material remains...but the monster itself turns immaterial and vanishes, to reappear someplace else.

No monster tastes of death but once... Each time the grave opens and the unquiet slumberer strides forth("come from the dead, / Come back to tell you all"), the message proclaimed is transformed by the air that gives its speaker new life...monstrous interpretation is as much process as epiphany, a work that must content itself with fragments (footprints, bones, talismans, teeth, shadows, obscured glimpses—signifiers of monstrous passing that stand in for the monstrous body itself).

iii. The Monster Is the Harbinger of Category Crisis

The monster always escapes because it refuses easy categorization...they are disturbing hybrids whose externally incoherent bodies resist attempts to include them in any systematic structuration. And so the monster is dangerous, a form suspended between forms that threatens to smash distinctions.

The too-precise laws of nature as set forth by science are gleefully violated in the freakish compilation of the monster's body.

Full of rebuke to traditional methods of organizing knowledge and human experience, the geography of the monster is an imperiling expanse, and therefore always a contested cultural space

iv. The Monster dwells at the gate of difference

The monster is difference made flesh, come to dwell among us... the monster is an incorporation of the Outside, the Beyond—of all those loci that are rhetorically placed as distant and distinct but originate Within.

Representing an anterior culture as monstrous justifies its displacement or extermination by rendering the act heroic..A political figure suddenly out of favor is transformed like an unwilling participant in a science experiment by the appointed historians of the replacement regime: "monstrous history" is rife with sudden, Ovidian metamorphose

History itself becomes a monster: defeaturing, self-deconstructive, always in danger of exposing the sutures that bind its disparate elements into a single, unnatural body.

V: The Monster polices the borders of the possible

From its position at the limits of knowing, the monster stands as a warning against exploration of its uncertain demesnes...curiosity is more often punished than rewarded, that one is better off safely contained within one's own domestic sphere than abroad, away from the watchful eyes of the state

To step outside this official geography is to risk attack by some monstrous border patrol or (worse) to become monstrous oneself.

The horribly fascinating loss of Lycaon's humanity merely reifies his previous moral state; the king's body is rendered all transparence, instantly and insistently readable. The power of the narrative prohibition peaks in the lingering description of the monstrously composite Lycaon, at that median where he is both man and beast, dual natures in a helpless tumult of assertion. The fable concludes when Lycaon can no longer speak, only signify.

Whereas monsters born of political expedience and self-justifying nationalism function as living invitations to action, usually military (invasions, usurpations, colonizations), the monster of prohibition polices the borders of the possible, interdicting through its grotesque body some behaviors and actions, envaluing others.

victims are devoured, engulfed, made to vanish from the public gaze: cannibalism as incorporation into the wrong cultural body.

vi: Fear of the monster is really a kind of desire

The monster is continually linked to forbidden practices, in order to normalize and to enforce. The monster also attracts. The same creatures who terrify and interdict can evoke potent escapist fantasies; the linking of monstrosity with the forbidden makes the monster all the more appealing as a temporary egress from constraint

Escapist delight gives way to horror only when the monster threatens to overstep these boundaries, to destroy or deconstruct the thin walls of category and culture. When contained by geographic, generic, or epistemic marginalization, the monster can function as an alter ego, as an alluring projection of (an Other) self. The monster awakens one to the pleasures of the body, to the simple and fleeting joys of being frightened, or frightening—to the experience of mortality and corporality

The habitations of the monsters ...are more than dark regions of uncertain danger: they are also realms of happy fantasy, horizons of liberation.

the scapegoated monster is perhaps ritually destroyed in the course of some official narrative, purging the community by eliminating its sins. The monster's eradication functions as an exorcism and, when retold and promulgated, as a catechism

vii: The monster stands at the threshold of becoming

Monsters are our children. They can be pushed to the farthest margins of geography and discourse, hidden away at the edges of the world and in the forbidden recesses of our mind, but they always return.

And when they come back, they bring not just a fuller knowledge of our place in history and the history of knowing our place, but they bear self-knowledge, human knowledge—and a discourse all the more sacred as it arises from the Outside. These monsters ask us how we perceive the world, and how we have misrepresented what we have attempted to place.

They ask us to reevaluate our cultural assumptions about race, gender, sexuality, our perception of difference, our tolerance toward its expression.

They ask us why we have created them

#dungeon meshi #Technically there's not spoilers for the manga but I think if you read the manga you'll get more out of this #laois touden #Marcille donato #falin touden #the canaries dungeon meshi #the canaries #senshi of izganda #thistle #thistle dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #delicious #delicious in dungeon

[lily-orchard]

I'm curious about your stance on Dungeon Meshi, given that you tried Spy x Family and liked it.

There's a big difference between watching something for fun and covering it for work.

First of all, if I watch something for fun I don't tell you guys about it. I don't want the things I enjoy off work hours to be ruined by the inevitable 20 Questions and defensive arguing. Which is why my official stance on any show I haven't decided to cover for work is "No."

You guys have seen me shut down the idea of checking out the latest trend media before, only to turn around weeks later an announce a video on it, and that's because if I'm not covering something I'm not going to be honest with you about if I'm watching it or not.

Second, in order to cover something for work, I need the following:

There has to be something to talk about

There has to be enough material to make a video out of it. At least 1 streaming season, or half of a regular season.

I need accessible footage.

So even if an anime comes out that I want to cover, I have to wait until I have all the resources available to actually do that. And with anime in particular I need English Dub footage.

Even if I was willing to cover the subtitled version of a show (if I did I'd likely cover both anyway and compare and contrast them) I would still need dub footage for editing because subtitled anime has the subtitles baked into the video and editing with visible subtitles is just fucking tacky as shit.

"Oh but Lily, anitubers do that all the time! You don't have to use clean footage!"

I don't have to do a full body shave either, but it is a preference of mine.

Then because most anime these days only airs it's English dub on Crunchyroll and fuck me I'm not paying for Crunchyroll, I have to wait even longer for it all to be on a piracy site. And that's just to start watching it.

So when you factor the following

Something to talk about

Enough material to talk about

Accessible footage available for download

English dub footage for a minimum of clean editing

Streaming services can fuck off

I can't even start watching these things until they're uploaded to piracy sites

And you have the explanation for why I made a video on Spy x Family 2 months after it came out.

I think you guys forget sometimes that I'm not a content mill. I try to cover as much as I can in one video rather than churn out 60 videos on a topic. That's why the Avatar remake video has taken me a month to make because it's actually 17 videos rolled into one.

It makes absolutely no business sense to do it this way, but I just can't stomach the idea of making videos any other way. It's for the same reason I don't take sponsorships, because even entertaining the idea makes me feel gross. And I'm NOT working at burnout levels anymore. I have a 6-hour workday, and I take Fridays, Sundays and the day after a video goes live off.

This is the important part: Most of this is out of my hands. So pestering me about a given show isn't going to make any of it happen faster.

[asoftspotforangels]

so I was tagged three times lately so I am putting it all in one post XD

from least to most difficult askfhjadkhfjkdlhaf

from @hardboiledteacozy 💝

⟡ rules : answer + tag 9 people you want to get to know better and/or catch up with!

⟡ fav color : green 💚

⟡ last song : Moment's Silence (Common Tongue) by Hozier

⟡ last movie : Barbie (I haven't seen any movie since last year lol). tv series - 1670

⟡ currently reading : I just finished I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy and started 1F: Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant Work Log by Tatsuta Kazuto

⟡ currently watching : Dungeon Meshi 🍳

⟡ currently craving : some nice juicy oranges 😔 if anyone has tips on how to choose the best oranges, let me know pls

⟡ coffee or tea : I like coffee only if it's a sweet treat (so with milk and sugar or some sugary syrup); tea, however !! 🥰 a few days ago I opened a blend I got who knows how many years ago and from where or from whom, it's green and white tea, and it's soooo gooood~

from @minnichan 💗

Rules: pick a song for each letter of your url and tag that many people. my url is too long for that lol

I have a playlist for songs I currently listen to, let's see if it's enought to complete this game… there's not a huge variety of artists tho ^^"

A - Appaloosa by Lor S - Sinktank by Inabakumori O - Overdose by Natori (hi minni!!!! I saw a cover of it in one of your asks lately!!! :3) F - fanfiction by Lor (yes, that's a lyrics video on their official channel xd) T - Tail by Sunmi (when will she come back to Poland TT__TT) S - Sweet Dream from Alien Stage by C!naH / by BL8M (I have both versions on my playlist, yeah) P - Post Shelter by Inabakumori O - Order of Silence from Genshin (ost from Cyno's demo) T - Trafalgar Square by Lor F - FightSong by Eve O - Overture from Jesus Christ Superstar 1996 R - Ruler Of My Heart from Alien Stage ( ‼ spoilers from Alien Stage here ‼ cw: blood, violence, death, panic attack) A - agaki (亜ガキ) by Ora (sometimes the background music skips between left and right side and I love it) N - Nonsense Bungaku by Eve G - A Gentleman's Fantasy from Honkai Star Rail (amazing boss theme!!) E - Ezra Was Right by Grandbrothers (this one starts quite slowly, if you're impatient you can start at 3:15 xD) L - Lagtrain by Inabakumori S - $hrek 2 by Lor (cw: guys without shirts fighting at school)

Lor is a Polish band that I recommend with my whole heart :3

many Eve's MVs are like short animes, I love them so so much

the whole Alien Stage is quite short, because it's basically made of music videos and there's less than 10 rn (here's a playlist for anyone interested) (but it can be quite triggering sometimes)

fuck gachas and their gambling, but genshin and star rail have amazing music

here's a very fun fact: I started listening to Eve and Inabakumori last year on April 17 and May 4 respectively, so about a year ago!!

from @dangerliesbeforeyou 💖

list 5 topics i can talk on for an hour without preparing any material

this one's difficult!!!! because I can endlessly talk about my fandoms and blorbos........only. I don't feel knowledgeable on anything specific, but I could, however, ramble on about my interests

I'm back to that Stardew Valley Grind™ rn so I could talk a lot about my farm. my first farm. year three, winter, and it's probably the ugliest farm you've ever seen. and. and also. my cyhaino sdv au brainrot. 😳

genshin, especially my ultimate blorbo Alhaitham 🌱 idk, I just like this guy, I saw first leaks and I was like 👉 this guy. this is my dude.

my babeys blue lions from fire emblem 3 houses 😭 I chose them in my first playthrough and I still do NOT care about anyone else (that's an exaggeration, I care about others, but... not as much... 😔) also, Sylvain is there and flirty red guys are my ultimate weakness. I know he can, just, switch to your house if you're playing female Byleth (lol), but I don't want to separate him from his friends 😭 they're all traumatised and need hugs

painting and drawing! lately I fell back in love in traditional art and I picked up acrylic painting, and I'm watching a lot of videos and learning a lot - by my own trial and error too, but it's fun!

various handcraft I learned - embroidery, crocheting, knitting, punch needle, sewing - and stuff I created. I don't do all these all the time, only when I feel like it so.....irregularly lol! but I have lots of ideas and some plans, and unfinished works

tagging: @natowe @one-trash-alek @hardboiledteacozy @dangerliesbeforeyou @minnichan

@vanyafresita @giosele @shuuenka @thebrokenwriter911

tagging everyone for everything, do whichever you want or nothing at all, no pressure ✨

(but I love reading other people's answers :3)

pretty dividers from @cafekitsune (x)

#Agnieszka talks #I had to separate the tagging because I couldn't @ more than 5 people in one line ._.

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

So this is just me rambling, but I read a lot of manga these days and am either fandom involved or fandom adjacent to a chunk of it (even if that’s just sharing stuff on tumblr), and one thing I struggle a bit with is my reaction to a lack of… I guess you’d call it “consistency” for fandoms where the source material doesn’t originate in English (I’m mostly using MHA here in my examples because that’s my main fandom).

How does a work get referred to? Is it Dungeon Meshi or Delicious in Dungeon? And how should it be categorized on an archive/site (AO3 splits the difference by including both in the name, but files it under Japanese name first)

How about spelling? Is it OchaCo or OchaKo? And what about additional U’s? Is it Shoto or ShoUto?

Name order? Should it be Midoriya Izuku or Izuku Midoriya?

Honorifics or no honorifics? (Not helped that different publishers have different takes on this and the previous)

My own personal first thought is to defer to whatever the official translation uses, if one exists. But second thoughts kick in and I think about how a) some of that is my own natural deference to authority talking (Something I know i really struggle against. Like, part of me literally says “we’re being told what’s correct) and b) how some official translations tend to take a good bit of Japanese cultural context out of a work. We’re no longer on at the “jelly donuts” level of localization, but the name order thing or removing honorifics do make a work a little less Japanese, remove some nuance, and do a little dumbing down so English speaking readers don’t have to try and grasp new cultural concepts.

So maybe not great.

I have no real answers, but as someone who reads a lot of fan fic and has seen these go all over the map depending on the writer, it’s just thoughts that can go through my mind. The same goes for here on tumblr, with how works or characters might get tagged.

If you’ve read this far, thanks for listening to me ramble.

#manga #anime #fandom #tumblr #translation #translations #localization

[chronussy-bc]

Annon-Guy: If Black Cat got a second anime adaptaion that follows the manga (more faithfully than the first one), do you know a good animation studio that can do it justice?

I do have some candidates in mind. There is a high chance that they're planning a remake already, with the issuance of goods, creation of an X account, and permission for the anime to be broadcast on many official platforms. Personally, I love the animation work of studio Orange (Trigun Stampede, Beastar,...) but I don't think their current polished artstyle would fit Black Cat. The best options would be Madhouse and Bones. Their art style follows the manga closely and the animation is amazing. However, these two are big studios with many ambitious projects, so the possibility is quite low. I guess the safest bet is David Production (Undead Unluck, Jojo,...) and Trigger (Dungeon Meshi, Cyberpunk: Edgerunner,...). They have time to pay attention to projects not so well-known nowadays like Black Cat; their artstyle fits, the animation is clean and as I far as I see, they respect the source material for most of the work. All that should be enough for a good remake faithful to the manga.

Also, thanks for your concern. I'm doing fine but a bit busy around this time so you may not see me on here as often. However, there is nothing to worry about!

#black cat #anime and manga #I gotta group the answers in one post so that the content is still Black Cat related but thanks alot for caring!

[wrothian]

want to post more regularly esp because lately i have curled in on myself and barely said anything anywhere that wasnt private chats. the issue is then what the hell Do i even say. maybe i need to make stupid daily updates on whatever im reading/watching/playing

so: been playing disco elysium. love kim. games way too fuckin good man. still working thru it tho. replaying tales of the abyss too. reinforcing my love of jade that ive held since a young little freak myself also been rereading blood on the tracks. trying to be responsible and wait for official material release so i may as well reread all the prev chapters slowly. its addicting how vile it is and to have a front row seat to such horrible people. the composition, linework, and flow of panels is always so tasty there are so many pages that speak infinitely louder than any text. may have to collect and post some favs. speaking of his work ive never read the flowers of evil or happiness but i Did read sweet poolside (unnecessary unless you rly need a fix of that sexual-nonsexual tug of war that youll drink anything for it) and inside mari (still constantly thinking about this one. god damn. love the gender love the skin-crawling nastiness of it love the desperation to be something else) on my eventual watch/might need to watch: braven, tho i watched a couple eps and caught up and stopped. idk it was only fun when there was some gay bs happening. dungeon meshi might finally remove the last brick supporting my restraint but i know im gonna be so sad laios isnt like i want him to be. idk if im ready. and also i need to catch up with the new vanguard season for SURE #WELSTRASWEEP #BLITZBOYS

[balfazra]

spoilers for dungeon meshi concerning the ship Farcille

To the people who have not read the manga but started watching the anime, you might see a lot of tumblr posts about the ship between Fallin and Marcille. In the manga, there is a lot of material for Farcille, so much it's hard to believe they are not a couple, but in the manga, for a lack of better term, it's up to interpretation ? They don't officially end up as a couple, there is no canon declaration of romantic love between them, so i fear that a lot of non manga reader might be disappointed by the ending, might feel they were lied to by farcille shippers on tumblr, some might even say it was queerbaiting.

Just wanted to warn that in canon, there is no farcille kiss. However, like i said, there is a LOT of farcille material, there is a reason why it's i believe the most popular ship in the fandom (now that i think about it, is there another ship that fans like in the manga ?)

So if you ship Fallin and Marcille, enjoy the ship, and have fun, and support tumblr artists who provide us with awesome farcille content.

#dungeon meshi #spoilers #dungeon meshi spoilers #farcille #marcille donato #fallin

[kookiyu]

I don't mean to be That Bitch but new fans of dungeon meshi should support Everyday Heroes, the scanlation group that handled dungeon meshi from its initial oneshot all the way to the final chapter. It's not an exaggeration to say they are responsible for why dungeon meshi feels so good to read in english and why it has fans in english speaking countries in the first place; Their translation is almost unilaterally better than the official release, which I found strips almost every character of their personality down to bare minimum functional prose that doesn't do nearly as good a job at conveying tone and intent as the EH version. If you read manga illegally like 90% of all english speaking manga readers it pays to tap in and keep up with individual groups, who may do a better job of curating recommendations than just waiting for something to materialize from the ether of your tumblr dash or twitter timeline.

like for context, these are the same people who translated Golden Kamuy lol. also you can download chapters directly from MEGA but they also upload all of their work on Mangadex if you prefer reading online.

#sorry i just saw someone recommend reading dunmesh on fucking Mangapark and it made me feel crazy #i know we joke about mangadex front page but theres a reason groups upload there directly #it genuinely feels like a disservice to their work to read rehosted chapters on worse websites

[thatsmimi]

enderesting >> @thatsmimi

portfolio: @enderesting art blog: @enderscribbles alternatively my art tag here is #my art ko-fi | youtube | itch.io

hi guys this is my personal tumblr! currently insane about dungeon meshi. feel free to send me asks about it

i dont have commission set up formally but i'll doodle a request if u throw me like 5 bucks

check #captioned for all my captioned reblogs. i'm not that great with keeping up with them but i try to tag all my art at least

check #spambot apocalypse for my documented experience of getting my activities blown up

check #translations for some leak translation i did. they're all translated from chinese into english so please take any information with a grain of salt and wait for official material.

play the demo of my game!

#mimi.txt #pinned post

[humming-fly]

If you put nail polish on Greed’s nails when he’s using the ultimate shield does the nail polish disappear when he goes back to normal? (And vice versa.)

Oh we’re getting into the REAL Questions now

Ok the crux of the answer here depends entirely on what the heck is going on with greed’s claws vis a vi where do they come from where do they go cotton eye joe

Option A is that as the shield forms over his skin it generates the claws automatically over his existing nails, sort of like slipping on one of those shitty green plastic witch fingers they used to hand out on halloween you know the ones - this means the claws are a pure extension of the shield and the regular fingernail is still intact underneath  PROS: makes the most sense, doesn’t involve additional subhuman anatomy to pull off CONS: lame and we can do better. also nail polish would almost certainly get pushed off of the nail since the shield is so close against it - think taking a 2 or 3 atom thick razor of carbon and sliding it against the top of the nail, peeling any sort of polish clean off. Upside is nail polish removal is a breeze. Another argument against this idea is that when ed destroys greed’s shield, both the claws AND his regular-ass fingernails vanish along with the top layer of skin so that’s something 

Hell they even make a point of immediately showing that the nails are gone since they magically regrow as soon as greed heals himself

What does this mean? Probably that the animators used a base overlay so they could do a comprehensive effect without worrying about the silhouette! BUT WE’RE NOT HERE TO THINK RATIONALLY FUCK THAT NOISE  Option B is that the claws are physically just his regular nails and are somehow retractable, and that instead of the shield forming over his nails it just literally converts the makeup of the nail to graphine along with the top layer of skin - this means the claws are totally separate from the shield and Can be used Whenever like in this image but greed’s just a fucking coward in canon 

now you may be asking, isn’t this official art just someone obviously forgetting to color in the shield? Of course it is! But Counterargument: It’s 2am and I don’t give a fuck!! PROS: Nail polish stays on the nail since only the material underneath it is changing but not pushing it off - also is cool creature design and means even with greed gone ling is still a verifiable circus freak should he choose to demonstrate  Enjoy this image that both illustrates my point and also illustrates my taste in top-tier manga entertainment go read dungeon meshi

CONS: Definitely isn’t canon - also if he wanted the paint the base of the claw he’d have to extend them first and do it all at once and idk how well that’d work if they retract but Who Knows it’s probably fine CONCLUSIONS: oh it’s definitely option A UNLESS YOU’RE NOT A C O W A R D

#hi friends' it is 2:30am right now #fma #meta #i fcking guess????? #it may be 2:30 but guess who's gonna stay up later reading the new hungergames boookk #as this post proves i refuse to make good decisions ever #Anonymous #reply #long post #blood #this should be under a read more but that would have some semblance of decency and decorum and we can't have that here