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You step out into a cavernous limestone corridor long-since stripped of any value. Your sword at your side, you raise your lantern and peer into the dark. The corridor seems to run on forever. Cautious, you press forward, only to fall back against the stonework, a familiar pain in your gut. A terrible growl fills the darkness. You're pretty hungry. We've just the thing.  Dungeon Meshi, also known as Dungeon Food or Delicious in Dungeon, is a high fantasy adventure series (inspired by the likes of D&D and Wizardry) with a charming preoccupation for cooking. Monsters, specifically. Our intrepid heroes, the Thorden Party, find themselves on a deadline to reach the bottom of the dungeon on a tight budget, with no recourse but to survive off the fat of the land - by which I mean they eat pretty much everything they kill.   Opinions within the party are divided. But not on this website! Dungeon Meshi's been pretty consistently popular around here, so it's about time it got its own thread. This is it. This is the thread. Finally. If you're just joining us, Dungeon Meshi is a veritable treat. Written and illustrated by the talented Ryoko Kui, Dungeon Meshi combines a fondness for old school fantasy adventure, character comedy, and delicious food that will never exist - with an unexpectedly keen eye for understated worldbuilding, monster biology, and dungeon ecology.  Laius, the human fighter, is the leader of the group. A simple man, he wants nothing more than to save his sister from the bowels of the dungeon (or, more specifically, the bowels of a dragon). Also to eat monsters. All the monsters. Seriously. He's been keeping a notebook for years. Marcille, the elven mage, provides the party with some much-needed magical artillery, and would probably be more useful if she weren't always freaking out about having to eat monsters. Reads from the restricted section of the library. Shrimpin' ain't easy. Chilchack, the halfling rogue, is the locksmith and brains of the outfit. Not really a people person. Or a monster person. He's been dead before. Nice scarf-thing. Senshi, the dwarven fighter and newest addition to the group, is a wandering gourmet chef who specializes in cooking monsters and dungeon survival. He and Laius are now bestest buds. Not much is known about him, however. Add salt for seasoning. Enjoy!
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Oct 15, 2018 13:27
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Dungeon meshi is my second favorite manga ever, it is great
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Oct 15, 2018 13:30
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 This series is pretty consistently incredible. Everything that Kui Ryoko has done is great, but in this case she's managed to come up with some really neat takes on classic Dungeons and Dragons/Wizardry stuff. There's lots of isekais and whatever that try to subvert typical fantasy tropes, but Kui just takes these old-school ideas and really thinks them through and how they would actually work within the confines of this world. The whole Mimic part is still one of my favorites in the series and it's such a cool way of incorporating them into the world. HouseofGlass fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Oct 15, 2018 |
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Oct 15, 2018 13:53
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This series is really good
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Oct 15, 2018 13:56
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HouseofGlass posted:isekais
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Oct 15, 2018 13:57
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This is probably my favourite manga. It's all well thought out, with interactions between elements of magic, character and worldbuilding all woven together into something believable within the framework of the world. The characters are all interesting and engaging, there's very little dumb fanservice or tone-deaf sex stuff, and despite being nominally good guys the main cast are all a little... strange. Endearingly strange, but strange enough that people just meeting them are like 'wow you guys have spent too long down here'. I can't wait to see what happens next!
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Oct 15, 2018 14:13
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You're a good egg, Seafood. This here is a delicious manga that we've managed to cook up in this here thread. 
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Oct 15, 2018 14:27
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Dog Kisser posted:The characters are all interesting and engaging, there's very little dumb fanservice or tone-deaf sex stuff, Clarification: there is no fanservice or tone-deaf sex stuff. Not that I can recall at least. It actually gently pokes fun at this when Marcille, the elf, gets grabbed by a moving vine, and then Laius says to her "Being held firmly, but not uncomfortably like that must feel pretty good." And then Marcille makes this  face at him. It's great.EDIT: Also I am so waiting on someone to cook up a D&D adventure module based on this setting. With all the detailed worldbuilding I think it'd be fairly easy! DrSunshine fucked around with this message at 14:33 on Oct 15, 2018 |
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Oct 15, 2018 14:31
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I can’t believe Chilchuck is a deadbeat dad
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Oct 15, 2018 14:33
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Marcille is my role model.
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Oct 15, 2018 15:34
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DrSunshine posted:Clarification: there is no fanservice or tone-deaf sex stuff. Well, we did see the catgirl with no shirt on once. To which everybody's response (including her response to everyone else's response) was fantastic. The characterization is the best part of this manga. Everybody is just slightly unhinged in the best way. Laius more than most. thetoughestbean posted:I can't believe Chilchuck is a deadbeat dad I sort of can. He's a lot more of that roguish personality type than people give him credit for.
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Oct 15, 2018 15:42
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thetoughestbean posted:I can’t believe Chilchuck is a deadbeat dad 
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Oct 15, 2018 15:45
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Dungeons, Drive-ins, & Dives
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Oct 15, 2018 15:48
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I read this fully a while back when there were way fewer chapters, and the living armor explanation always stuck in my head. The idea of living armor being a colony of interlocking shellfish was pretty cool.
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Oct 15, 2018 15:49
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Dungeon Meshi is merely good entertainment, but I'm a forgiving creature
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Oct 15, 2018 15:51
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DrSunshine posted:Clarification: there is no fanservice or tone-deaf sex stuff. Not that I can recall at least. It actually gently pokes fun at this when Marcille, the elf, gets grabbed by a moving vine, and then Laius says to her "Being held firmly, but not uncomfortably like that must feel pretty good." And then Marcille makes this I wrote some monster cooking rules! https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/SkXP2f25m
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Oct 15, 2018 15:53
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Tetracube posted:I wrote some monster cooking rules! https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/SkXP2f25m  Tetra, are you kosher with your monster-cooking rules being in the OP? Seafood, is it cool if you put a link to this in the OP?
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Sorry, did I come off as too loony of a fanboy?  I like 'lore-looking stuff like what you wrote.
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Hahaha, thanks! I'm fine with it being in the OP.
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Wark Say posted:Holy crap! That's just... too cool for words! More importantly, is monster meat kosher?
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Clarste posted:More importantly, is monster meat kosher? Depends but the proper slaughter of monsters for them to be kosher is difficult given that they are trying to rip your face apart
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Oct 15, 2018 18:21
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Only if the cleric is a rabbi.
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Oct 15, 2018 18:22
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This is a Good Manga
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Oct 15, 2018 18:35
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Kuro the kobold is the best character. He's basically a bipedal Akita dog who wears armor, bites monsters, and gets paid in treats.
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Oct 15, 2018 18:54
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The best character is any elf because wow they are just all good.
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Oct 15, 2018 18:55
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The best chapter was the one with the mimics based on their perceptions of each other, and the revelation of how incredibly poorly they thought of each other.
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Oct 15, 2018 18:56
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I like the painting one a lot, its such a good way to dish out a bunch of world building stuff without just being straight exposition. Ryoko Kui is really good at that. The elf one is also good, because I like the elves a lot and those group shots are amazing.
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Oct 15, 2018 18:59
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Plenty of monsters to steal for my own D&D campaigns. The jewel bugs were especially creative.
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Oct 15, 2018 19:10
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I think the living armor explanation is probably the coolest one This is a very, very good series
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Oct 15, 2018 19:16
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So much happen in this last chapter I forgot Marcille's hair style changed once again. I like her new hair a lot.
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I know everyone is probably reading scans but please support the official releases if you can I switched over to them and am not current on scans so won't be sticking around as to avoid spoiling myself lol it's a super good manga tho
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Oct 15, 2018 20:29
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I like Dungeon Meshi so much its one of the few mangas i own a physical copy of
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Oct 15, 2018 20:35
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Meme Emulator posted:I like Dungeon Meshi so much its one of the few mangas i own a physical copy of
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Meme Emulator posted:I like Dungeon Meshi so much its one of the few mangas i own a physical copy of I own four copies (vols 1-4). 
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HouseofGlass posted:There's lots of isekais and whatever that try to subvert typical fantasy tropes, but Kui just takes these old-school ideas and really thinks them through and how they would actually work within the confines of this world. The whole Mimic part is still one of my favorites in the series and it's such a cool way of incorporating them into the world. I love this part of it so much. The author does a great job making it a real world that makes sense with its own logic. In my life of playing tabletop RPGs, it's probably the best take on "Gygaxian Naturalism" I've ever seen. It's really refreshing and fun, and does a good job of making things seem magical and full of wonderment/terror.
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Tetracube posted:I wrote some monster cooking rules! https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/SkXP2f25m YES. Freaking borrowed. If I get a chance I might want to crop a few images of the dungeon layou, the island and town and so on too, to throw in the OP and be more fodder for a potential DM.
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Clarste posted:More importantly, is monster meat kosher? 
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DrSunshine posted:I own four copies (vols 1-4). Missing volume 5 there guy
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DrSunshine posted:I own four copies (vols 1-4). I married my volumes.
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