#ryouko kui

[submareena]

Delicious in Dungeon World Guide - The Adventurer's Bible

[mediumsizetex]

[immoren]

[risingshards]

Good recommendation, when I think what I want to read after Dungeon Meshi it definitely should be a third grade Canadian math book!

[niten-doraku]

Dungeon Meshi by Ryouko Kui

[nekolah]

Dungeon Meshi (ダンジョン飯) by Ryouko Kui

[tikuo2007]

『俺も暑いのだが？』九井諒子『ダンジョン飯』から。

ファンアート(fan art)。

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[lolmanthecat]

It's so cool how the one cat girl, or jaguar girl if one wants to be pedantic, that we get in all of the show, has this tragic relationship with her body and is portrayed without a hint of sexuality.

I can't thank Ryouko Kui enough for joining the table.

This is legitimately one of our favorite panels/moments in the entire manga. We still remember how it made it us feel when this chapter dropped. The tragedy of it, the transgenderism. We could go on about this moment for ages and the way it so sufficiently shows Izutsumi's self-loathing and personality.

[curewhimsy]

The changeling rings are such a creative concept. For some reason I thought of a character who loves cheese (ME) using the ring to change cheese into all sorts of different types, since the ring was able to change dumplings!

[ribbons-in-autumn]

i translated the new year comic kui-sensei made

i'm looking forward to the annyme very much.... translators note: falin and marcille use the character 龍 ('ryuu' or just "dragon") in the first panel, but laios uses 炎竜 ('enryuu' or "flame dragon") in the second, so he's a bit of a hardass in terminology too...

edit: i changed "real dragon pose" to "correct dragon pose" because that's what he actually says

late edit: i don't know why it escaped me, but 炎龍 is actually the term for "Red Dragon" that they use to describe the species of dragon that ate falin lol. so i probably should've just used that instead of "flame dragon"

[frashka]

I think one of my favourite motifs in farcille is their hand holding tbh because I'm so sure it was intentional, Ryoko Kui is just like that

So, as we know, Falin and Marcille are already very, VERY tactile with each other, but an important separate detail is their hands. They always hold hands when something important and even culminating for them happens. By taking Falin's hand as a child, Marcille takes on a completely new and an unknown life, allowing Falin to teach her something new, to show her something important. By accepting Falin's hand, she accepts new knowledge into her life, new possibilities and, importantly, lets someone to be close to her.

It's also important how Ryouko Kui focuses on their hands when Falin's handing Marcille raspberries, because it's another symbol of Marcille accepting new things and knowledge, thanks to Falin.

Curious and lively and expressive Marcille we, as an audience, know is like that because of Falin in her life. Because she took Falin's hand and let her show Marcille something new. We saw Marcille before that, a little arrogant in her knowledge, and so different from someone we know: serious, unemotional and not so happy. She's lonely. And we see her like that twice in the story: before Falin stepped into her life, and when Falin (in Marcille's head) left her behind. Three years should feel like nothing for a half-elf, right? But Marcille felt that time passing, even mistaken it for four years with how Falin's absence affected her.

Moving forward, it's really important just how much focus we get on Marcille's hands during the resurrection scene: her drawing blood from her palm, powering Ambrosia with it, carefully rearranging Falin's skeleton bone to bone. Despite being pretty fastidious and clean most of the time, here she stains her hands both with dragon's blood and her own.

And after all that, The Bath Scene happens.

Ryouko Kui dedicates THREE panels to their hand holding. Anime adapted this scene nicely, but in manga we feel that slow pacing that makes the whole gesture even more special. It's the act, the way Marcille freezes on the spot, it's how she almost reciprocates before realising what Falin is doing (and ends it more out of concern for Falin's health). This whole scene is about love, trust, care and devotion. Falin realised with what methods Marcille brought her back to life, she knows how dangerous and illegal and draining this magic was and still she trusted Marcille. She takes her hands here because she loves Marcille, because she's greatful to her and because she's worried about her wellbeing. Remember how Marcille cut her palm, how she moved Falin's bones with her bloodied hands? There's a lot about these devoted hands and how tenderly Falin holds them in her own.

Finally, we see the scene before Falin's sacrifice.

It's subtle here, but once again we see Falin holding Marcille's hands. This is the moment when we — when Marcille — understand that this devotion goes both ways. That Falin doesn’t care who gets hurt, who she hurts, she doesn’t care about her own life, as long as it means that her brother and Marcille are alive and safe. They are the most important people in Falin's whole world, and by taking Marcille's hand in hers she tries to soothe her and tell her that everything's alright. That she loves her, she loves Laois, and she wants to make sure that they're safe.

Their devotion goes both ways and runs horrifyingly deep with what they're ready to sacrifice for eachother.

[peerless-cucumber]

if you need more ryoko kui fantasy I highly recommend her one shot collections!!! In order: Terrarium in Drawer, The Dragon's School is on Top of the Mountain, Seven Little Sons of the Dragon

[chanchanchanko]

ok so i am THEEE firstborn japanese son Hater. AND at the same time god i feel for toshiro. the racism is so. like they dont even respect HIS NAME!!!!

like imagine the Most Annoying White Guy You Know just going around doing whatever the fuck he wants without caring about how his actions reflect on him and those around him. how nice it must be!!! how much less painful!!!!! but a few things: 1. this wont work for you. you are first and only ever a Foreigner. 2. you dont even want this, not really. you dont want to be the white man so much as you want the freedoms of a white man.

and at the same time, toshiro is so frustrating because he doesn't recognize that he is also doing this too!! the call is coming from inside the house!!!!! no 1 frustrating thing about asian men is that they dont realize their own privilege. like his retainers -- does he realize how much power he has over them? his family literally owns itsuzumi as a pet. its hard not to draw the conclusion that toshiro determines peoples value depending on how much he personally likes/feels attracted to them (and, much like laios, it doesnt seem like he has this self awareness). tade is right, he is incredibly immature. which, pretty on par for 26 :)

[magnetic-dogz]

*having no idea how fucking deranged I sound* I think a Dungeon Meshi and The Thing (1982) crossover could work probably

[nicastamatis]

GAMERS! pathfinder: kingmaker is like 4 quid on steam rn.

[nekolah]

Dungeon Meshi (ダンジョン飯) by Ryouko Kui