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Dungeon Meshi is a well liked manga, and an adaptation by Studio Trigger is now airing. If you haven’t picked this one up, consider joining us. Both for fun and as a way of contributing to activity on Lemmy.
Episodes are available to stream on Netflix.
Laios' party finally runs into Shuro and his retainers! And along with them, Kabru and his mini-cult.
We learn about of the smallest creatures in the dungeon, and we finally get to know some of the girls that Shuro is dragging around.
One of them has very good hearing.
Remember not to spoil anything if you’re a manga reader, but feel free to elaborate on tidbits of lore that may not be coming through in the adaptation.
Watch out Kabru. This man may not be able to outsmart anyone, but he has yet to meet anyone who can outdumb him.
I want to talk about the retainers a bit, and tell you about them in more detail than what gets revealed during the course of the story. I like all of them, and one in particular, whom we'll get to spend a lot of the series with.
Shuro is from a different continent and culture, and a member of a powerful family. "Retainers", are slaves. They are beggars or purchased children that show some kind of promise, brought into the family and provided for, in exchange they are groomed for a life of servitude.
Maizuru in particular is clearly very fond of Shuro, and though she is a bit older than him, she was his tutor for all things scholarly as he grew up, during which they formed a bond. Shuro used to like her back.
What I'll write next is never stated outright in the main plot, but must be discovered by reading bonus chapters and charachter sheets.
Shuro can no longer look at Maizuru straight, because he found out his father was screwing her. This is even more fucked up because Maizuru became a retainer of the family as a child. She is also vehemently hated by Shuros biological mother because of this. But when it comes to things that members of the clan want from their retainers, the word "no" does not exist.
I'm fairly neutral on Shuro. He does not take learning how Falin was revived well, but likely only because if put in the same position, he would have made the very same call. Not that his party would've had the option of saving her at all. While he'd like to do the obvious and bring Laios before the law. He can't.
Still. Falin could do better. Not in terms of position, but while Shuro is a fairly decent person, he is sheltered and terminally upper-class. I'm not sure he's wised up to the fact that having "retainers" is pretty un-cool.
Meanwhile Kabru is just standing around enjoying the shit out of other people's emotional turmoil, like the drama-whore he is.
I want to sock this piece of shit even more than last time we saw him. Look at him smiling about someone using dark magic like a kid in a toy store.
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Fully expecting Kabru to use this as blackmail in the future, and to further cement in hating him.
It's worse. Kabru actually knows why forbidden magic is forbidden. He's legitimately just hyped for the consequences.
And I think he's the type who'd kill Laios just for talking to Orcs, and then walk home grinning, fully certain he's put in another days work making the world a better place. He's just holding off for fun.