#Dungeon Meshi's food genuinely makes me hungry

[ghostienonbibi]

I have quite a few, unorganized thoughts about Dungeon Meshi, but the biggest one rn is.

I Want to Eat the Coin Bugs. Something about that scene. Like I'm imagining that they are sort of a french fry texture, crispy on the outside but a little soft on the inside.

But like even if they were real/someone made a real world version- they are specifically described as tasting a little like shrimp. And I am Allergic to Seafood.

[wondrousmay]

Weekly seasonal anime thoughts

Yuru Camp S3E08: Aki, Aoi and Ena’s Bus Camp continues. This was a mouthwatering episode! All the cooking and delicious-looking food made me hungry haha! It’s nice Toba-sensei again too.

The Many Sides of Voice Actor Radio Ep7: I didn’t expect this episode to make me emotional! The reveal that Yubisaki is a big fan of Yuuhi Yugure and Yasumi Utatane was great because it made her character more interesting to me. I liked that she genuinely felt betrayed/sad that Yuuhi and Yasumi completely changed their image to their current ones. A lot of their old fans felt the same way so it was emotional seeing their fans still support them despite it all especially during the challenge scene.

Dungeon Meshi ep21: whoa, this episode is very interesting!!! We’re introduced to 2 different plot points and it is very exciting! Very curious about the elves and Kabru. Also Laios being the prophesied hero that will defeat the mad magician and be the new king?!?! 🤯🤯🤯

Demon Slayer: Hashira Training Arc ep1-2: I’m genuinely happy that Demon Slayer is back! This season is a great one for character interactions between the cast and it sets up a lot of plot points for the final climatic battle with Muzan.

Hibike! Euphonium S3E07: the buildup of Mayu and Kumiko’s relationship continues to be so good! Kumiko attempts to get closer to Mayu since she felt guilty about being on guard around her and in this ep, she finally understood why she felt uneasy around Mayu. Mayu reminded her of her past self during middle school. The visual storytelling in this ep is amazing and it really shows the distance between Mayu and Kumiko. Very good stuff!!!

Loved seeing Natsuki and Yuuko again as well!

Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night Ep8: this was another heartwarming and emotional episode! JELEE’s first anniversary live didn’t go as planned but they managed to pull it off together. I loved that Kiui was the one who suggested the idea of an online live. The idea that we can connect together despite being in different places is very relevant. The scene with all the JELEE fanarts got me emotional! However, with Kano’s identity being exposed and her mom reaching out to Mahiru, things are about to get messy for sure.

Whisper Me a Love Song ep7: things are getting intense with Shiho and Aki! I do love Himari’s relationships with Momoka and Shiho though. They have such a fun dynamic. Though Shiho doesn’t know that Himari’s girlfriend is Yori yet…

As for the production issues, it definitely sucks seeing the production fall apart but personally, it doesn’t stop me from enjoying the show. I hope people will support the manga as well the anime staff too.

[raitrolling]

anyway uhhhhh. scattered thoughts about Spanner In The Works time

the whole idea for this plot started out because when celise last met epsilo he was very close to just straight-up killing them, and while that crisis was avoided i liked the idea of celise dying and getting resurrected due to vernrot's eldritch influence so i decided to roll with that for my own plot

lucy being the culprit just made sense to me given how it is established that he does kill tourists whenever the various entities at vernrot require a troll sacrifice, and then i was thinking Hey What If That Had Consequences

... and also i had that scene where vallis figures out that lucy is drunk because he's listening to his bodily functions using his eldritch senses stuck in my head and wanted to write that. i love vallis' lowkey freak shit

that was. about the extent of of pre-planning i did before writing those five drabbles LMAO most of the stuff came to me while i was writing, or i was thinking about the next drabble while writing the one i was currently working on

lucy wasn't originally going to call upon the horrorterrors to save celise, but something about that moment of being so delirious from blood loss and regret/grief that you call out to anyone who would hear for some sort of solace was really evocative to me that i just had to include it. and it helped tie vallis into the plot for Part 4 even if he was mostly used as exposition

as an aside, i thought it was really funny how vallis talks about being disappointed that celise wants nothing to do with him, only for it to be revealed in the next drabble that they were so out of it they dont even remember him being there

celise is a frog zombie for multiple reasons 1. they are a frog troll and making them more froglike sounded fun; 2. vernrot's horrorterrors tend to warp people by giving them more aquatic qualities so amphibious bullshit made sense to me; 3. i like frogs; and 4. celise fucking hates weird zombies so this was such an ironic and mean fate to give them. id actually been debating for years if celise should have an inexplicable frog tongue mutation because i thought itd be funny if they could just. eat flies out of the air with it, but i always worried it mightve been Too Weird And Gross that i didnt go ahead with it... Until now. if anyone gets weird about it im beating you to death

i genuinely forgot that celise was a vegetarian too, so i had to pivot hard towards them having to deal with the horror of eating meat in After Pain so that ended up a lot more visceral than i initially intended. though i did have to rewrite one part because i got so into writing a contrast between celise's disgust between eating meat and how their new instincts desperately crave it and it tastes irresistible to them now that started sounding a bit vaguely erotic and i went FUCK OH NO GO BACK LMFAOOO. dungeon meshi changed me as a person

but yeah unfortunately for them their diet has completely flipped and they can only eat meat now! they can stomach animal meats fine but it doesn't sate them nearly as much as troll meat does, and for those who skipped the emeto scene the main thing worth noting is that ordinary food tastes rotten to them now. big rip

also the timeline is just vague enough that its ambiguous who left the offering at the end. was it the horrorterrors looking after their newest creation? or was it lucy trying to repent for what he had done to them? vote now on your phones

and i think i made it clear enough, but the thing that the horrorterrors took away from them was their ability to feel intense amounts of anger, which now when they get angry they start feeling really hungry instead. funny how they constantly denied their ability to feel negative emotions and anger to the point where they dissociated themself from the emotion entirely, and once they finally acknowledged it, it was taken away from them and the absence is so much worse. on the bright side, theyll be a little less insufferable to deal with now, so lucy did one thing right by killing them :)