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raven is not a goth but normal high schooler who doesn't know what's wrong with her. raven is a half-demon, deeply unsettling young woman raised by a pacifist order of priestesses who knows exactly the stakes of what's going on and is desperate to do anything to stop it.

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One of our editors has been having a difficult time post-surgery -- if you're able to share this, it would be much appreciated.

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Not gonna lie, we’ve been watching YuYu Hakusho alongside the release of Delicious In Dungeon and uh

It’s been illuminating

Like on the one hand hoooooooboy you can taste the 90s animation techniques (and the Netflix version is somehow more strobey and seizure bait, and they’ve fucked random chunks of audio?? I have the dvds I can prove they’ve fucked around)

On the other hand… yeah, it really, really highlights what people have already been talking about with the Delicious In Dungeon - the pacing issues, especially with going shot for shot from the manga instead of embracing their own medium

Cuz I will stand by YuYu Hakusho being the best anime version of a manga I’ve ever seen. It’s true to the manga, but keeps up the pacing and fleshes things out by leaning more into the side characters, and particularly our audience surrogates, Koenma and George

The fights all pace well because we cut to the people watching them, so it’s not just repetitive punch punch punch shots (although we do get those)

Whereas this week’s episode of DunMeshi in particular…. Really suffered from skewed pacing on that fight

They had way too much time just standing around talking, both with the harpies and in between Falin’s attacks, and I’d bet even an anime-only fan could pick out which shots were literal panels in the anime because nothing moved to flow between them

Those shots of the separated groups especially; this is anime, not manga. Those people could have been moving, interacting, doing things instead of panning over a still

I get that it takes more time and money but this was a really significant fight and it does make me worry a little for season 2, because the red dragon fight also had some pacing problems (although to a much lesser degree) and season 2 is when the combat pops off

I really do appreciate them wanting to do a faithful interpretation of the manga and sticking close to Ryoko Kui’s vision, but anime is its own medium and by sticking too closely they’re not taking full advantage of that medium

You have more time to fill in an animated episode vs a manga chapter because your characters literally move and flow, and three panels of action happen in a second

They’ve been folding two or three chapters into each episode, but this week’s especially (ep 17) really played too close to that two chapter timeline, instead of taking out the important story beats and the time to fill and working out how to pace around that instead

(Funnily enough though, they actually nailed the exact same kinda pacing issue in the exact same episode for the Laios and Shuro fight; that one was fucking great, it was clear that action was ongoing even while we focused on other people, and it had good weight and emphasis despite being largely offscreen, just like the harpy fight should have been

I. Guess. They coulda put more work into that than the Falin fight? Cuz it’s a huge character moment but for fuck’s sake Chimera!Falin SHOULD be the bigger one! We the audience got hints but this was the REVEAL)

Honestly just… the 1000% disinterest in the harpy fight was jarring, and it leading immediately into the Falin fight that was basically stop motion without the time lapse didn’t help

Cutting to Marcille and Shuro on the shirt tear was fucking great though, chef’s kiss, someone out there is still watching over us, I just hope they work out a happy medium soon

I get that there’s lots of iconic and fantastic panels in the manga, I made a complete summary of every single chapter, but the anime shouldn’t be showing them as stills

The characters should be moving in between them, not snapping from one face to the next like a slide show

In a perfect world I’d also love some more little character asides and things a la YYH, but there just isn’t the same easy audience characters to cut to

But but but

Thistle reacting a la Koenma to some snippets of the bullshit in his dungeon would give me fucking LIFE he can’t be watching all the time for obvious plot reasons but I want him to find a veggie golem

I want him to see the kraken and find some leftovers and be searching for Delgal and plotting their dinner and wondering why he can smell something delicious and what is it and can he make that

Move the background stuff that got cut from the Tances’ episodes, cut to Namari and the twins hanging out and talking about leg guards, there’s SO MUCH supplemental material

It might be less one for one to the manga but it’d stop the weird dragging out and give us something more, something extra to appreciate the anime on its own merits

It’s nice to have an anime experience that is very close to reading the manga, but it’s something really special to have the anime shine and add to the experience on its own

Anyway next week is the shapeshifter and I’m so hype for that and wondering if they are gonna include just a smidge of meta knowledge since Kui did tell us whose impersonations are whose 👀

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To me. Especially given his “that’s the part of you I envy” line. Toshiro reads a lot like someone who is also autistic but has learned masking and social cues the hard way as someone with a much stricter upbringing.

And yeah if you have been shamed into thinking that being direct is bad and openly emotional is shameful then running into someone who ignores those rules even when it’s causing problems is incredibly frustrating. It’s not fair to the other person but being forced to learn to mask and meeting someone who can’t or won’t can cause intense resentment.

#toshiro nakamoto #dunmeshi analysis

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Pattadol, Marcille and Leed Dynamic idea

Leed occasionally as a guard for the castle could occasionally be on shift to watch over Marcille when she's having tea with the "shifty foreign elf diplomat" Pattadol.

And elaborating on the post saying its possible Leed was "adultified" due to her brothers position and the fact the stripes that mark an orc as a child would not be visible...

If Pattadol and Marcille learn that Leed had any sort of deprived childhood they'd probably insist on a "girls day out"

Pray for Leed.

#dungeon meshi spoilers #leed dungeon meshi #dunmeshi fanfic idea #marcille donato #pattadol

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Letting Knives meet Laios can either save humanity or speed up its destruction. I do not know which

#dungeon meshi #trigun #dungeon meshi spoilers

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i know the funny way to go with this is kink but my brain went STRAIGHT to the autistic need for deep pressure... someone get this boy a weighted blanket

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i think if laios had dinner with hannibal he would make it so awkward

laios would IMMEDIATELY realise that this is some kind of meat he's never eaten before and ask a whole bunch of questions about what kind of animal it came from and so on

meanwhile hannibal is trying to do his poetic metaphor shit and it's going right over laios's head

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this whole page is not in the anime and it's a shame because it seems that grumpy mcpants doesn't travel anywhere without his wife :3 (in the anime it seemed like he came alone) and his thoughts on the dungeon and its effects on the island are also interesting

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the true way to a touden's heart: care about their special interest

based off of a post by @possamble

#farcille #dunmeshi comic #dungeon meshi spoilers

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Another crime against me specifically, they cut Kabru's lame "You remember my name right" expressions in the anime.

For some reason they thought Maizuru being mad and his leaving pose were more important

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they kinda just end up tagging along in the anime without this being pointed out but I love how the two of them had NO clue where she's going or why and went anyway

the person crying (because someone they care about has not yet been retrieved from the dungeon?) and Kaka's reaction (to the smell?) are also not in the anime

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hi! i find your stance on ai art a very interesting perspective that definitely makes me challenge what i've previously heard regurgitated about it. i myself have an interest in a topic that can be considered theft of intellectual property, but is still fascinating to me. generative ai and the workings of it is a really interesting topic to me. i feel like ai has become this "boogeyman" of intangible art theft to most people, which makes it hard for me to discuss what i find interesting. anyway, thanks for the challenge to what i've previously been told

hi!

thanks for sending this - this is really ultimately what i (and most hobbyists) want to do - the mainstream discourse around this has been so utterly dominated by one, extreme, uninformed opinion - and it really sucks for those of us who genuinely love or just find interest in this really new, experimental, still-constantly-shifting medium!

i agree w this - i think a lot of varying anxieties and fears artists - esp illustrators and digital artists - have sort of culminated into this perfect singular "Bad Thing" that, to them, is like. this artistic Anti-Christ, almost? instead of this.. just, complex piece of technology with varying degrees of origins ranging from cool, open source, collaborative stuff (like stable diffusion) to career-ending, layoff inducing, closed source garbage (open AI do NOT interact)

in order to tackle the actual problems and threats of AI and machine learning, you gotta actually understand it. and that includes understanding the good and interesting of it, too!

as an aside - this is probably why such giants of digital, experimental, and derivative art like neil ciceriega/lemon demon are fans of the tech, use it for fun, and defend it online (much like i do). it's really not as different from other kinds of derivative artforms as people act

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I had a dream that I went to a video rental store (???) and they had a gundam manga where everything was the same except the entire cast was cambrian creatures (?????)

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@littleapocalypsekitten

You know what AU this is

#trigun #trigun-meshi #trigun maximum #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon

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The girls are here!!!

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marcille's monster food objections are so frequently either a) entirely reasonable or b) objections most people would have that the reactions to her astound me i think we all need to recalibrate and remember that, in this context, she is actually the normal and sane party member