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gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
Hey, at least someone is actually translating it now. For like a year we only had the first chapter.

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gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
tabletop gaming is not very popular. mmos are.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
I don't think dungeon meshi should be an extended epic.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
I am perfectly fine with hinamatsuri having a very long run, though.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
If senshi wanted to eat people there are fresh corpses available pretty much all the time in the dungeon.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
Nah, that was serious backstory about the dungeon. Something is up with the dark elf dude!

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
I figured he was actually the person who cursed the kingdom. The image of the ruler of the dungeon being a skeleton might not be accurate, as no one has ever seen it.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
It is incredibly similar to only sense online, but with all of the gender-swap weirdness removed.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
It is just a big eel.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007

DrSunshine posted:

And the dwarves, always delving too greedily and too deep, had nothing to do with it all. :rolleyes:

Hey, they didn't hurt anything by simply discovering the dungeon. It isn't like anything dangerous comes out of there, or at least nothing will until Laius brings his sword out and it grows and spreads before consuming all sentient life.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
That plan seems like something the dungeon master would get upset about.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007

Ytlaya posted:

Yeah, each chapter just seems to be "A person, who may or may not be skeptical, enters the izakaya. Some common izakaya food is introduced and treated as if it is literally divine."

Ugh, that sounds like such a wankfest.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007

Compendium posted:

There's an web novel called Otherworld Dining Hall which is basically Izakaya Nobu except the Japanese diner is only available to generic fantasy people on Saturdays (just google it, results will give you a page w/ 15 translated chapters).

I think the reason why it works when it's just gratuitous food porn is that there are regular customers who order certain foods that fit their taste and the author always gives backdrops to the fantasy world's own food culture and why certain dishes from the restaurant really strike a chord with them. Also lizard people eating omelet rice. Wankfest, certainly, but I'm not surprised a Japanese author would center it around Japanese specific/stylized dishes.

That said, I hope Izakaya Nobu gets a better translation, I don't think it needs to be anything more than what it is already. If you wanna read something more sincere about people eating everyday food (no fantasy though, just good ol' slice of life) then Shinya Shokudou might be more up people's alley.

The mercenary cook one takes place in a world where there is no food culture. There are all these spices and ingredients available but no one in the history of that world ever did anything with them. That's really more of a comedy, of course.

Though really, palates vary a lot and any place that adopts foreign cuisine changes it to suit the local tastes. But then you have fantasy world denizens who can't get enough of food specifically tailored for japanese people.

Shinya Shokudou is better than all of those dumb ln's put together, though.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007

Gale Raziya posted:

That is true, Japan has made an art of going insane over food, whether it is deserved or not. On the other hand, you have the third chapter's character, who is a pale imitation of the antagonist from Ratatouille, going through the same forgotten-childhood beats while losing himself to the taste of Napolitan while referencing bolognese and puttanesca. The former is not going to be better, except if this was to be nothing but back-patting for Japanese/izakaya food.
Also the art on the food is really boring and naming it after Nobu is really embarrassing. But the waitress girl is cute.

What would be a better story would be that eager knight following the chef or the assistant into the modern world and going in-depth on a food journey. A medieval palate trying WcDonald's could be fun. Then again, that isn't going to be KARAAGE OISHII~~~~~

Wait, they are referencing the garbage japanese invention napolitan as though it was italian food?

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007

Compendium posted:

Napolitan's fine, not italian, but it's fine.

ketchup sauce

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
or you could use tomatoes or tomato sauce of any kind and make a better dish. saying it is edible when you do everything possible to mask the main ingredient is not a very good endorsement.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
american ketchup, but same.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
it was so bad that it turned me off ketchup entirely

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
as with most things, wakako-zake gets it right. she enjoys her pub food without having weird food orgasms.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
Laius, you really need a real sword and not an arthropod monster.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
They still haven't explained what is up with the dark elf dude who made the dungeon. I don't really expect them to resolve that situation, but I would at least like to know more about it.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
oso holds up way better, yeah.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Dungeon-Meshi/Ch-026--Red-Dragon-IV?id=300783

i love so much that they didn't skip past the aftermath. nope, gotta show the butchering and corpse retrieval in detail.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007

Everything Burrito posted:

yeah :smith:

I keep thinking back to the chapter where they explained how much of you needed to be left for a proper resurrection...

which chapter was that?

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
all this sad stuff is really dragging down the inevitable dragon cuisine.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
it might have worked if the dragon had been sleeping all that time.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
the problem is that there is no flesh to resurrect. they may find a way around that, but otherwise i don't think a skeleton is enough.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
they were basing their predictions of dragon behavior on their natural habits. nothing that happens in the dungeon is natural.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
they established that ghosts only hang around when something is holding them. if they take farlyn's bones out of the soul trapping labyrinth that would probably suffice.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
yay, a happy ending(?). all it took was a little hard work and a lot of forbidden dark arts which pervert life itself.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
i think even chilchak and senshi are aware of that much. they were horrified by everything that happened in this chapter.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
there is also the horror of how they are going to feed farlyn from the same carcass that her flesh and maybe some of her consciousness came from. the carcass which fully digested the flesh she used to have, no less!

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
oh poo poo, a wild main plot appears! the dark elf dude is obsessed with the lost kingdom, and he trapped the souls of everyone who dies in what is now a dungeon. but now he knows that someone in the dungeon has a forbidden resurrection spell that doesn't require an intact body.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
she was the straight man, a role which was taken by marceline. the one shot was kind of vague about how this new person hooked up with a bunch of monster eaters, so yeah she was redundant.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
dungeon & dining

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
best faces in the manga, which is saying something considering the competition

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
that describes ainz, except he actually has the combined purchases of a whole guild of whales.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
worgs are the cruelest creatures ever devised. here are the softest smartest dogs in the world, but they hate you and will never let you pet them.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
yeah and togashi said that the english spelling of chrollo's name is quwrof wrlccywrlir. just because someone is a talented writer and artist doesn't mean they can speak other languages well.

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gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
both those parties are cute as heck

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