crpgs and nintendo fitness games. i love that for her.

you should read dungeon meshi because the anime simply will not look nearly as good as the manga!

  • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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    11 months ago
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    The manga is about killing animals for food, so I thought it might have some really stinky ideology - I had once read an agricultural time travel story and it became pretty fashy once it started touching political stuff. Also, the other possibility was it being a fairly generic yet weird slice of life fantasy Manga and thus be boring once the novelty wore off... but alas, the writing is too good.

    • Cromalin [she/her]
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      11 months ago

      yeah that's fair, but it's just really good the whole way through instead. even the more 'standard' fantasy elements are cool and clearly have a lot of thought and care put into them

      • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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        11 months ago

        Well, I had a power outage yesterday so I binged the remaining chapters. Good Manga.

        Overall, some thoughts on the series as a whole:

        spoiler

        ++ The series has a weird premise, but my god does that premise carry it a lot. The first half is fantastic

        ++ Great characters, all of them felt really memorable in spite of a large cast. There is one exception and that is the Elf Squad aside from its Captain. They're underdeveloped.

        ++ The artstyle. The author really delivered and more.

        • Entertaining and engrossing from chapter 1 to 97

        • The length. Not too short for it to feel not satisfying, not too long for it to drag

        • The story, in spite of it being fairly conventional in the end.

        • The ending. Kui wrote herself into a corner, but managed to land gracefully nonetheless.

        • Minor remark: Tade's design (Oni girl from Shuro's party) is adorable.

        • The final party member was introduced fairly late and despite being a character you can write a lot about, there was simply too little thereof

        • The story felt kinda written-as-you-go at times. In spite of the foreshadowing etc., some things just stopped being relevant while other were picked up out of nowhere.

        • The dungeon exploration section of the the Manga felt a bit too short and the quality peaked at the reaching of the lowest point in the dungeon. The quality stagnated after that, but didn't fall off too much.

        • Cromalin [she/her]
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          11 months ago

          i don't have much to say about it beyond i basically agree with you. i love it when a series has a unique premise that it does well and has good characters and art and a solid throughline. it's just very good