Kabru, after killing 5 people without hesitation or mercy: This laios guy is so weird because he gave money to people, he's so weird😒

I like the fact that Laios come off as creepy at first and then you see that he is a nice guy later, as Kabru is the opposite, at first he seems like a naive adventure and then you see him and his party killing without mercy.

Chil being the middle-aged union tradie despite looking the youngest is actually so funny to me Edit: Actually, he's not just a tradie, he's the half-foot union rep to the entire dungeon - that's even funnier

Kabru is just a different flavor or neurodivergent than Laios, which is why they end being hilarious when put together

Kabru being able to fight people but not Monsters making him the polar opposite to Laios is really funny and makes him an interesting foil. He and his party cannot survive the same way the OG party can which keeps us 1 step ahead of him.

The first time I saw Kabru starting to psychoanalyze Laios' party, I was like: "Bro you got into a wrong job! You should be a politician or something, not a dungeon crawler" Kabru is way out of his depth here.

Mickbell being a scab will never not being funny

I never really understood Kabru's distaste for the Toudens until watching it adapted here... he's not saying they're unfit to rule the dungeon simply because they gave money to shady people; he takes umbrage in the fact that they never interrogated the motives of the people they gave the money to, noticed they were exploiting them, and stopped. He sees someone who would be naive enough to overlook bad actors like that as unfit to rule... Time will tell how his opinion holds up after actually meeting Laios (I know I'm just being cryptic)

I smiled all the way through the episode, because as a long-time D&D master, I can assure you the dialogue in the Kabru's team mimics what can happen with a player's group if you focus not so much on the dungeon crawling, but on the world building. You, as the master, have the full story under your eyes - you know the beats, the characters, their motivations. Meanwhile the players are left guessing with the information they have, and they can misinterpret or misremember things - thus giving birth to entirely new narrative possibilities. One of my most hilarious memories are of a team of players that were introduced to a party of NPCs that were supposed to become their allies. Except, one of the players was unusually aggressive towards them, kept assuming the worst of their every move and words, and kept making cutting remarks and veiled threats to the other team's leader. Long story short, I decided to let the story unravel naturally, and what was supposed to be an alliance became a fierce rivalry - the two groups almost wiped each other out, before coming to an unsteady truce. I think one of the best masters' abilities is to draw inspiration from the players, and to railroad them as little as possible.

I was NOT ready for Kabru to be as scary as he is

I find it funny that Kabru thinks Laios is sus when he’s over there literally analyzing the best way to take you down. He’s like if Laios was interested in people instead of monsters… Kabru is like the dark mirror to Laios. They’re so similar (they’re both hunters) that Laios creeps Kabru out (because he recognizes the hunter in Laios), but Laios is blind to human desires and is therefore blind to the threat that Kabru poses. On the other hand, Kabru is very attuned to the danger from humans, he is woefully unprepared to face monsters… their mannerisms and attack patterns are too alien to him.

kabru's so fuckin cold here and it's the moment that made me love the man lol

I love how Kabru and Shuro have this distaste for Laios (GET IT?!) stemming from him being socially awkward (possibly on the autism spectrum) but he's not only the best qualified to handle the dungeon, but also has the moral qualities neither of the people he *just wants to be friends with* either can't or won't see. They're trying to either play 4D chest or have this rivalry with a guy who just wants to show you this cool bug he found and he's sorry that it creeps you out but he's trying his best!

5:57 it's also the track that plays when they assembled Falin 💀

5:44 This possible decision of not saturating the meat might be because A-It’s pretty normal meat you could buy, nothing extraordinary compared to the meals of our main party B-Because the food is like that, saturated and really red meat could indicate freshness, this is just salted meat that lost that fresh factor

I love Kabru's entire character arc and backstory so much, and how good he is as a foil to Laios. But I'm dying because it's such a case of Supplemental Material Bonus and we're probably not gonna get much more than the basic Utaya explanation in the anime. Which also means we're never going to get Laios being like "hmm, you DO kinda look like a wasp (genuine compliment)" in the anime, which is a damn shame.

The way the Anime sets up Kabru as this sort of imposing threat unsure if he’s going to be just a foil or an antagonist to Laios’s party is a real tensioner for me

The scene of Kabru destroying those corpse finders has so much more impact when you can see how quickly and smoothly he does it. Shows what Kabru is like so well

"Dungeon to Table Cuisine" is a wonderful turn of phrase .

genuinely cannot wait for the episode after this week’s, when kabru finally meets laios. he’s PEAK crazy there in the manga, i hope they make his ass even crazier in the anime. i love it the most when he gets to be a little creep

Kabru finally gets his time to shine. While Laios and co are more interesting as individuals and as a group, Kabru stands out in his own way in this tale. Looking forward to the next episode.

Its so nice that you post these as far away between episodes as possible so that we could snack on your vids while waiting. Keep up the great work mate!

5:55 Ah, it's the same musical sting they used for Falin's skeleton.

I like this guy he's a bit messed up, and he contrasts so well against Laios Kabru has all the rizz that ladies blush when he talks to them, while Laios manages to make sirens get away from him

Just got caught up with the Manga. But when watching the Anime Kabru feels like the PvP specialist who keeps on getting wiped in the PvE dungeon, while Senshi and Laios living their best life in the Dungeon.

This episode had good use of economical animation and shots. Definitely enough to make you go “they’re saving time and energy here”, but not enough to the point of being outright detrimental and distracting.

HE IS. HES SOOOO UNWELL BUT HE ONLY WANTS THE BEST FOR EVERYONE FR

I enjoyed the way Kabru version of stoping a spellcaster's chant with no physical damage

Feels like they're saving resources for something big...

Asebi (Asebi)

Yup, wouldn't want Kabru to get the throne. Not at all sir.

Ah great more unhinged sociopaths, just what the dungeon needed

Name: Laios // Kabru Race: Tallman // Tallman Age: 26 // 22 STR: 4 // 4 STA: 5 // 5 MAG: 3 // 3 INT: 4 // 4 SOC: 1 // 5 "I'm you, but better" "Thanks for saving me. Hi, I'm Kabru" ~ *Kunoichis blushing,* *water level rising* My man can't turn off the CHARISMA.

I don't even watch this show, but the animaiton is so good I can't help but enjoy looking at it - and this video breaking down the squash and stretch of the characters and the lighting choices is full on *chef kiss* AMAZING. I really really really hope you make more of these because listening and watching the animation breakdown is so cool/enjoyable/satisfying, I'm going to go see if you have more! Thanks for the breakdown, well done.

Doni and Fionil in the ed makes me so happy, best couple. also you forgot to point out that in the anime, Holm ate meat even though in the manga he doesn't, because of religious reasons. It kinda threw me off when I first saw it.

Ngl, when I was reading the manga, Kabru came off like a cult leader to me along with his party being his followers bc of how they kinda praise and follow him. Which felt off-putting compared to the main party where everyone isn't really following anyone specific heavily, it's more of a team effort. I like how they show both of the parties and how there are a lot of differences.

I love how menacing they did Kabru

I'm wondering if the desaturated meat is intentional. The meals Senshi make are from monster flesh so they could come off exotic and therefore more vibrant where as regular meat from Cow or Pigs wouldn't be as interesting. Makes me think of Namari's perspective of the Undine soup where it was dull and unappetizing but the moment she tries it, the colors pop.

I used to absolutely despise Kabru, but after reading the manga ive realized that not once has he ever did anything to harm Laios' group, in fact literally everything hes done up to this point was to help/protect Laios and his group from various enemies (not saying for spoiler sake).

I love that you have been doing this! Honestly, been desperately wanting more to talk about the show !!! without reading the manga because spoilers so thank you!!!!

I just stumbled on your channel and I'm loving this analysis!! I'm really glad dunmeshi is getting the appreciation it deserves, even the littlest details are so dear to me

I read the whole manga but only realised that Mickbell is a bloke after watching this episode, I was so confused when they called 'em a he

Love your content, analyzing the art and story of an Anime. I'm not good at drawing or animation but I love the process of storytelling and how different mediums can present the story.

Your attention to the animation and the story are what make your reviews SHINE!!!

This episode set many parallels and contrasts to leave you wondering what will happen next, and it worked better with all those subtle details you pointed out. Thanks Jawn, please keep up with the weekly meshi snacks ✌🏼

I like how Kabru is freaking out inside when he finds out Laios is serious about monster foods

Why is the grey haired corpse collector hot. I love his smugness and design

I really hate Kabru in the fact he still believes Laois ''just'' robbed them. he was able to perfectly profile the main parties situation and reasoning as to why they arecurrently venturing into the dungeon and even deducted why they are with a new dwarf. that being said, even when they now know the corpse collector was a thief and liar, they dont think for a second about the first story they were told. No, they still believe everything prior of what was told, but besides that they perfectly deducted so many facts about our MC and they parties current situation, like ... come on... 2nd guess that first story that was given to you by the guy that just tried to murk you for money !!!!

First time really seeing your Channel look so good!

Great analysis as always!

Reading the Manga Translation and watching the Anime has thrown me for a loop at times with the genders and the way Japanese works at times. Mik and the Mad Mage specifically

thank you Swamp Jawn for enlightening us again

i was thinking the same, how i was looking forward to the dryad episode (soon...) but it does work very well to put kabru's chapters here before we hit the road again!

thanks for posting!

I really think that by the time they fight, there will be some BS like Lyos has eaten so many monsters and studied them that he moves more like one, making it harder for Kabru to fight him. Just an assumption. That or Senshi'll step in. I feel like Lyos moves like the living armor, as well. Which seems on purpose.

Laois said at the beginning that monsters are really interesting and he wants to know all about them. Kabro exactly mirrors this with his rant about people and social nets.

I'm looking forward to seeing how they structure the next few episodes since we have some extremely long and important chapters coming up that would be hard to split into different episodes. It seems like trigger likes to give two parter chapters their own episode, so I'm not surprised the order of chapters was shuffled around. Edit: Well the kadokawa teaser showed three chapters for the next episode so now I'm really curious on how they'll tackle the three chapters after that.

Excited for Kabru moments especially his moment with mah boi Mithrun

It's been a while since I read this series but I'm not sure if Kabru murdering the bandits was really all that harsh. Medieval societies had far harsher punishments and I wouldn't really bat an eye if you told me a bandit party was killed by the party they were trying to loot. It should also be noted that Laios and Falin have an extra (somewhere, not sure where) where they detail how barbarians around their hometown were killed when spotted, about how they had to be killed because you couldn't communicate with them. They do it in a nonchalant tone, telling you that they just accept it as is. Not a spoiler because I didn't even find these extras until I had already finished the story, has nothing to do with the story, just fun extras. This set of extras is also where the Elf Supremacist meme comes from, if you know what I mean. TL;DR: Kabru is most definitely the foil to Laios, not sure about the murder part specifically. Even in their design you can see it. Laios has yellow eyes, Kabru blue. Laios is lightskinned and blonde haired, Kabru is darker skinned and darker haired. You can also see it in how they move, as you mentioned.

ngl i get this feeling that Kabru might be a sociopath

I’m super late to these awesome animation reviews but whatever. The backing score at 5:55 is a really neat contrast. While the shot of the regular provisions is desaturated, the music is orchestral and light, typical of a whimsical fantasy. The piece were used to from Senshi’s cooking is percussive and bold. The horns have that medieval flair and the timpani emphasize the spontaneous nature of most of their meals. It’s also evocative of the hunt, which is basically how they earn their meals in the dungeon.

Great video! Thanks!

“Everybody here is so weird. Thank god I’m the only normal person.”

I thought Mik was suppose to be a female? I guess I didn’t catch that. Regardless, I'm really liking the way they keep animating the Half-foots. So much energy

Calling Chilchuck a Union Man had me dying Dog Rights!

Honestly this episode os really good! And when they talked about the body retrievers i found it interesting.

Ahh yes, Kabru. Looks like male Casca, thinks like Griffith.

Yo!! On episode 15 check out the Spanish dub!! On the senshi healing scene when laius touches senshi he said “he touches my man boobs” instead of “that felt weird” or anything like that

Kabru is what happens when your special interest becomes masking.

Story wise this chapter did a great job, Kabru went from silly to a menace, not only is he skilled in combat,he is smart and can figure a combat strategy in seconds, even his eyes for me went from gentle to "demonic".

Kabru: I want to either kill that man and/or be his best friend.

The unofficial english release you refer to at 1:05 is the fan translation of the original chapter-by-chapter release of the series in the Harta magazine. Volume compilation of the chapters allows the author to fix it however she wants and the chapter order difference is one of those fixes.

Great Stuff!

A very fun thing for me is seeing people react to Kabru for the first time. I actually started reading the Manga somehere around this point (I think the dryad screenshot got me actually) so Kabru being _like that_ was nothing new to me and I already know what his whole deal is, so seeing the people in the comments of the site where i've been watching the show speculating he's going to be the big bad and such is really amusing

Laios's party: pve enjoyer Kabru's party: pvp enjoyer

Laios was in the living armor maiting cat walk thingy?! How did I miss that

The Best chapter is the one where Shuro and Laios start trhowing fists and raw truths to each other Can't wait to see It animatede!

Can't wait for the Behelit pumpkin

To anyone thinking it weird that Mickbell pays Kuro [the dogman/kobold] in food... it gets worse. In Daydream Hour 4, a sort of mini series addon also by Kui- we find out that *Kuro is Mickbell's slave.* Yes, its horrible and no it is never brought up or addressed aside from the same mini-comic where Mickbell tells Kabru to not talk to Kuro in his native language, says HE is the owner, and finally warns Kuro against people that might steal him.

that's why i love this anime every characters is unpredictable

I am going to look very closely to the outro now.

I describe Kabru as "The Rogue that ended up designated as a Front-line fighter because he was the Leader of the group." If he where a DND character he'd be a Rogue that Prestige Classed in Assassin with a couple levels of Fighter, and has bonuses to fighting against Humanoids. Laios is Fighter, with a couple levels in Ranger, and working on getting a level in Sorcerer.

Kabru, if Griffith and Casca had a child... WAIT... NO NO NO NO NO

I watch the anime episode, followed by kowakunotsuboDX's video then this youtuber's breakdown. Pretty comfy

Darling, everybody is a freek 😂

Very nice videos, love them all, but I do wanna say something Vis a Vis Kabru. 4:40 I understand what you're getting at, but it's worth noting that Kabru's actions are not unprovoked, seeing as the corpse retrievers did just try to trick his party into killing each other, express hope that Kabru's party would catch up to Laios's party and kill each other, and also try to buy their way out of trouble by offering up the retrieval fee on a soon-to-be corpse, trying to get Kabru's hands bloody too. The corpse retrievers were very untrustworthy at that point, and to be honest I would be more than willing to believe that they would have tried to get Kabru nailed for the killing of the unconscious retriever. Considering what we find out later on in the season, Kabru does also have a very fair reason to want everyone working in the dungeon to work towards its destruction rather than their own profit. Regardless, I do like your analysis of Kabru otherwise!

I love my freaks (Edit) The new opening and ending look really good. I had to pause at some parts to get all the little details in the ending. Spoilers: I can't wait for Mithrun's fight scenes to be animated. It's going to look so cool!

I definitely respect Kabru, he knows when to just get straight to the point of a fight and finish it with as few deaths as possible. He’s gotta learn to control himself though.

1:05 As an unofficial-only, this is news to me. That chapter was released first, so I have no idea why it would have been rearranged for the volumes.

I'll be honest and say Kuros terrifies me. That whole episode I was horrified. Love it

is somebody gonna match his freak ~

Only place to have discussion on dungeon meshi

Kabru is my favourite character. He is like 2nd protagonist and very opposite of Laios.

On the topic of Kabru (it may have been addressed in comments or future videos already), I feel that Superdude's video on Dungeon Meshi makes a good point at casting both him, Laios and even Falin as on the spectrum. Laios specializes in monsters but can struggle with social situations. Kabru however, got the lottery win with understanding human social theatre and navigation, even if there are some moments he doesn't like... or folks he thinks should sleep... forever. But Kabru can't last against a monster that doesn't care about human customs. Superdude does better at explaining: Dungeon Meshi - Spelunking On the Spectrum. Give it a watch.

Is there some way I can convince you to do a video on the importance of Marcille as a character?

This anime have so much diversity in character designs and its refreshing to look at And the cooking materials aren't modern for once, unlike with other Fantasy Cooking anime

The thumb nail in this is funny because this guy dies constantly throughout the story.

I didn't realize Mickbell was male until this video

We need a dungeon meshi omake for all the supplimental material

Damn Kabru is really sinister for real