Comment on Is Dungeon Meshi worth it if I'm not into anime?
jafajakaja@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I tried a few episodes because I thought the premise sounded kinda cute. On the plus side, it didn’t have a lot of the anime bullshit that makes something completely unwatchable (the amount of jiggling tits is a fairly reasonable 0), the art is cute, and it does kinda capture that feeling of watching a fun group’s D&D campaign as an anime.
In the negative… I tried watching like 4 or so episodes and they just all kinda felt samey. Every episode I watched followed a very similar arc, very similar jokes, and didn’t really hold my attention.
Nonspecific spoilers for what I meant by episodes being very samey:
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It felt like every episode arc was “party encounters threat (generally a monster). One party member tries to boldly go ahead and tackle the threat and fails. Another party member figures out or reveals they already know the gimmick. They kill the monster. One character starts cutting up and cooking the monster. Other characters object because it sounds really gross. In the end, they all try the food and like it more than they expected.”
I’ve been assured the plot really develops at some point so maybe I just quit too early, but it just didn’t grab my attention at all.