#ryoko’s thoughts

[spaceacexino]

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[cloverandcrossbones]

Laios Touden Period Cramps moodboard

[image ID: a 3x3 moodboard of alternating Dungeon Meshi manga panels and Delicious in Dungeon anime screenshots of Laios suffering from cramps and stomach pain, arranged in sequential order to show how his pain progresses. Laios is a blond tallman (human) in grey plate armor. In some images, there is a closeup of his face with a pained expression or crying, while the rest show him doubled over on the ground. In two manga panels, Laios says, "My stomach. Urrgh..." Narrative text from the other panels read, "Laios tried to say something... But overwhelming stomach pain and nausea wiped all thoughts from his mind. For an entire night, it felt like his stomach was being carved open from the inside." End ID.]

[dunmeshistash]

Dungeon Meshi - Character Eyes and Profiles

[manguopudding]

i think they should have all worn dresses :( what a missed opportunity TCH

[venavuoto]

panel redraw to honor a new obsession

[level1cleric]

dungeon meshi ch 85 spoilers

i've been meaning to make this for a while, but this part, this moment right here was beautiful. it made me laugh, it made me cry. it was a clear re-dedication to the core principles of the story, it let me know everything was going to be okay, no matter how weird or dour the remaining chapters got

we have:

laios saying shit in a heartfelt but terribly worded manner

direct comforting of marcille's anxiety about the passing of her friends from her friends in a way that doesn't belittle her feelings but does provide a path forward

(which is the callback to chapter 3 with senshi's advice to the new adventurers)

and we get a sort of call back to marcille crying out of frustration about eating monsters from chapter 4

but now she's surrounded by friends

i'm still getting misty-eyed from making this post...

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Danse Macabre

[Commission]

[shiroganejpg]

SHE CHIL ON MY CHUCK TIL I TIM 🔥👀🔥💯💯‼️💦👀💯‼️‼️

[dailyarchean]

might be a bit odd or a stretch and written poorly by me (sorry if its rambly basically) but mithrun has such interesting but devastating symbolism and importance for a message in dunmeshi.

(TW SA/ABUSE MENTIONS)

the goat (demon) being an abusive relationship that to you who is in it only sees a nice perfect person doing anything for you, only for things to slowly get worse and worse… leading to SA (it’s not actual SA but the imagery has subtle implications of it) and other forms of physical and psychological abuse.

this leaving mithrun in an intense state of depression, ptsd and other issues like getting mana sickness really easily, which is also connected to the physical disabilities he got from said abuse. and due to these states he finds he can not desire anything anymore, he can only feel empty, not even a desire to get help and only feels a strong anger to the person and tries to prevent anyone else from going through the same.

but he’s not a lost cause.

“so.. even vegetable scraps have their uses, huh?”

he blames himself for his trauma, he sees himself as worthless and not one to be desired anymore because of what he went through. and realizing this, realizing that he actually has grown a desire to BE desired even just in a simple way to be needed (helping with falin) he finally can crack through that depression. the ptsd is still there, the physical disabilities are still there, but through surrounding himself with community of people with different views and trauma has helped him realize he is not broken and shouldn’t be blaming himself for something that was out of his control.

he wants to do new things, he wants to live now and it’s so beautiful to see.

plus, as kabru says here how the desires being eaten is not what it seems like is such an interesting fact. sure the demon ate his desires he had in that moment, making him believe he could never desire again but in fact he could get new desires (change/grow/heal) plus, traveling with kabru, he did show desires whether they be small or not.

in this moment he showed full horror about this memory. now if he was loss of desire, then he shouldn’t even desire to feel fear about this right? shouldn’t he only feel anger due to the revenge? which once again, shows his whole healing journey.

he’s such a great character with so much representation, and in turn is also a character that can show hope for someone like thistle who now is going through similar things and is practically hospitalized.

there is hope, you will heal, you are gonna be okay and your trauma is real but it does not shape you as a person, you are safe now.

dunmeshi is such a great depiction of that

[ehhgg-art]

you ever think about the fact that laios won not by being a monster but by being human.

monsters as we’ve seen throughout the manga are predictable, they have this rhythm to them that, once someone understands, can be used to take them out. take kelpies like anne where laios states that she is just a monster and cannot be trusted. even kensuke is “just a monster after all”, running away from danger when laios needs it most. kensuke is beloved by laios not just because he is a monster, but because laios, in human fashion, anthropomorphized him in his mind (giving him a name, etc.)

but people are different. they are multifaceted, non-monolithic creatures. long lived races are not all pious and apathetic towards short lived races as we see with marcille and senshi. chilchuck actively works against the prejudice against half-foots. tallmen from every region have their cultural differences as we see with shuro and laios/falin. even “demi-humans” like orcs have depth to them, having rich culture and values despite the general idea that they are a violent pillaging race.

even laios’ family and village, the nexus point for his dislike of people, have depth to them. though their parents did not actively protect their children, they did not wish harm on them either. the exorcisms performed on falin by their mother was harmful in laios’ eyes, but helpful in his mother’s perspective.

laios himself, despite loving monsters and hating humans, is so very painfully human. he hates humans but has risked life and literal limb to save his sister and his party. he loves monsters but is aware of their dangerous nature and spares them no mercy.

(big spoilers under the cut)

the winged lion mistook laios as a one dimensional entity, one which only operates on a one track mind without paradox. it thought laios to operate like a monster, and so it approached his desires like one. it believed that laios, being so obsessed with monsters, must behave like one as well, so completely disregarded the fact that laios could have something up his sleeve.

but laios is not a monster, he is human. he has ulterior motives, overlapping beliefs, contradicting values. it is his humanness that made him explain to his party what to do when things went awry. it is his humanness that allowed him to lie. lie to the world about his true plan as well as lie to the winged lion about his intentions.

sure laios WANTS to be a monster, that much is definitely true. but what he IS is a different story. laios is an unpredictable, sporadic, messy human being. it is that fact which the winged lion overlooked, and ultimately led to its downfall and laios’ victory.

[lunarin64art]

Why did no one tell me that Ataru is the OG tsundere? smh...

[dealerlover]

i could never ever flame someone for their opinions when these are the characters i like

5 of these are at the top of my tierlist. type 1 if im cooked

[dunmeshistash]

While looking for something I found an older Ryoko Kui Blog and there's some proto-dungeon meshi art there. I've seen these around before but didn't know the source!

I'm not sure if the last comic is related but it was in the same post titled ダンジョンRPG的な (Dungeon RPG-Like according to google) from 2012

[curapicas]

And then when nobody can stop him, he goes and does exactly that. This party rues the day when they realized they care about him.

Ryoko Kui was asked in an event what's Laios' biggest flaw and literally said it's that he doesn't care for himself... and yeah, that tracks.

Considering this and Laios, eh, tank-like tendencies (using his shoulder to down a bicorn, for example), his ending in the Kensuke extra is actually a happy thing. He ends up renouncing dungeon exploring altogether out of self-preservation and a healthy wariness of death - something only Senshi had at the start, btw

[princescar]

PIXEL ART PRACTICE BC MY TABLET NEEDS TO COOL OFF

Dr1 pixel style

Pixel Chibis

Dr1 underwear (yes, they are different, the have different bit rates):

Dr2 and V3 underwear:

If this does decent enough, I'll probably do the rest of the dr cast as dr1 chibis (they are my favorite sprites)

Flavor descriptions for undies under cut

Yasuke's Underwear

A simple pair of boxer briefs with a pattern of the face of the main character from his favorite magazine, Comic PonPon. Despite the very childish looking briefs of a very serious young man, they are worn out. Clear signs that they are very well loved.

Ryoko's Underwear

Very plain panties with a simple bow and generic strawberry pattern, befitting of her sweet but boring personality. Bought from a simple department store, its unclear why these are deemed her favorite pair. She'll probably be looking for them tomorrow... Maybe you should return them.

[gaybuttyogurt]

do you have the raw image of mithrun aggressively making the noodles from the kitten post... i can't remember when that happens, i tried googling it to no avail 😔💔

yes! it is from chapter 94, page 9, specifically when the canaries are brainstorming hobbies for Mithrun to have :3