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I'm Cyan (or anything you wanna call me) this blog started as just a stash for Dungeon Meshi extras and worldbuilding details but expanded as people asked questions and I did my best to answer! Hope you find it as useful as I do. I try my best to categorize my posts so they're easy to find but sometimes I forget.
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Hello again!
I've made this post to better summarize all cover art findings!
We have been able to find cover art for volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12 and 14.
Some of the images even have layers, and I'll put all of them after the cut, or in a reblog.
Sources are listed after the cut
Alternative Volume 2 and 12.
Pieces for Volumes 1-2-7-8. Pieces are available also for volumes 10-1114, I'll put them in a reblog.
Sources:
All J-POP Direct numbers available online [35-144] have been uploaded on the internet archive at this link. They were all originally hosted on the official website.
Volume 1 parts come from JPOP Direct 41, found by @kyregcy on Tumblr.
Volume 2 parts come from JPOP Direct 46 and 47, found by @kyregcy on Tumblr. Some pieces were stitched from the official cover. The alternative art was found on danbooru at this link.
Volume 3 parts come from JPOP Direct 51.
Volume 4 parts come from JPOP Direct 49.
Volume 6 parts come from JPOP Direct 63.
Volume 7 parts come from JPOP Direct 76.
Volume 8 parts come from JPOP Direct 82. Some pieces were stitched from the official cover.
Volume 10 parts come from JPOP Direct 106.
Volume 11 parts come from JPOP Direct 111.
Volume 12 parts come from JPOP Direct 115. The alternative art was posted by u/Emotional_Arm8682 on Reddit.
Volume 14 parts come from JPOP Direct 115.
Sadly i cannot post all images in one post, i'll put the pieces for volume 10-11-14 in a reblog
excuse me, do you know where one can find textless/borderless versions of the volume cover arts? i managed to find volume 7-8-10-11-12, i would like also the others, if they are available somewhere
Hello! I'm not sure actually... If you could share the ones you have I'd be very thankful though 👀
Only place I can think of is the Ryoko Kui Exhibition
My post about the covers got flagged as mature for some reason 🙄 but here's some of the pics
I don't really have just the cover illustrations in good quality
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hi mr meshi... im looking for that one extra (or maybe,, proper panel??) Which explains why shuro is out & in the world (the one where his brothers are all lined up and thinking "this again?")
Hi! Here you go!
💬 6 🔁 147 ❤️ 756 · Adventurer's Bible Character Extra - Shuro
I wanted to ask, since we have Shuro being very clearly Japanese and Marcille Italian, do you have any thoughts of what the other character's nationalities might be in a modern setting? I've heard people say Kabru might be Nepalese as he is named after the mountain, but I'm really at a loss when it comes to Senshi, Chilchuck and the Toudens.
I'm very excited too!
For that you should probably look to @room-surprise they have a whole essay about real life inspirations in Dungeon Meshi.
Thank you so much for the shout-out, @dunmeshistash !
To answer Anon's question, based on my research I believe the cultural coding of the characters is:
Northern and Eastern Continents: Mix of Germanic (dwarves) and Slavic (gnomes) as the dominant cultures, with historic influence from the West (elves), and recent immigration from the Eastern Archipelago (the far East)
Toudens: Saterland Frisian (North Sea Germanic) and Scandinavian.
Chilchuck and the half-foots: A mix of Irish and Jewish (European diaspora) as well as the dominant Germanic and Slavic cultures that surround them.
Senshi: This one is more complicated, since the dwarves are strongly coded as Germanic, but Senshi and Namari have names that are the phonetic spelling of Japanese words, as if they weren't Japanese. This is primarily a joke, and probably not meant to be taken very seriously - but it's also logically consistent with Kui's worldbuilding, as the dwarves are very close neighbors to the Japanese region on the Dungeon Meshi world map, so it would make sense that the dwarves have absorbed some Japanese culture (words, foods) into their own. So Senshi's cultural coding appears to be Germanic, with a bit of Japanese mixed in.
Anonymous didn't ask for the rest of the cast, but I'll give the short version here, for anyone that's interested:
Elves: Ancient Greco-Roman, West Asian, and South Asian, possibly a touch of the Americas and North Africa
Marcille: Italian and French
Izutsumi: She was raised in "Japan" (Wa island) by the local people, but is implied to have come from a neighboring large island with a Central or North Asian culture.
Kabru: Nepal, North India, Eastern West Asia
Rin: East Asian with a West Asian/North African influence
The Golden Kingdom: Germanic (Frankish)
Ogres: Central and North Asia/Eastern Eurasia
Orcs: They have bits of all the other cultures in theirs. Some of the names may come from several different aboriginal groups.
Kobolds: Based on clothing and geography, North Africa, West Asia, South Asia. Kuro's real name and nickname are both Japanese, but like Senshi and Namari, these are jokes and probably not meant to be taken seriously.
Please keep in mind that this is of course only my opinion, but it's based on quite a bit of research and fact-checking. Hope this is helpful to someone!
I wanted to ask, since we have Shuro being very clearly Japanese and Marcille Italian, do you have any thoughts of what the other character's nationalities might be in a modern setting? I've heard people say Kabru might be Nepalese as he is named after the mountain, but I'm really at a loss when it comes to Senshi, Chilchuck and the Toudens.
I'm very excited too!
For that you should probably look to @room-surprise they have a whole essay about real life inspirations in Dungeon Meshi.
hi! idk if this is the right place to ask but do you have any clue who the artist behind these are? or if these are all even the same artist? i really love this art style and i wanna see more of their work but i've had no luck figuring out who made these lol, i see these laios chibis on alotta merch and the colouring page is sourced from here: https://delicious-in-dungeon.com/special-ymn.html
Hey!
Yes I remember the monster coloring book pages... I dont know who's the artist though, it's probably someone at trigger but from what I can tell the exact artist isn't listed in the page or anywhere I could find.
At first I thought the coloring pages were done by Kui but now looking closer I'm not sure
Can't tell... well actually, looking at the mermaid it's probably not Kui?
Checking the memorial book for similar styles (since there the artists are credited) there's these page by Shimada Sayaka (嶋田清香) and Kataoka Chiharu (片岡 千春)
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Hiii!! I wanna ask if you have the English translation of the comic from daydream hour where Laios, Toshiro and Kabru are eating together? It’s where Laios is like customising the food or something ( that’s all I can get from looking at the pictures) sorry if the description of this is confusing 😭😭 but I just can’t find an English translation, I hope you can find it!! Thank you :))
Hey there!
Here you go, happy to help 🫡
💬 2 🔁 592 ❤️ 1701 · Hi, love your blog :). I was wondering if you have a translation of the comic in daydream hour where Laios, Kabru and
Super sorry in advance if this question seems weird at first, but I promise it’s purely analytical. I’ve been thinking about how dungeon meshi plays with its themes about devouring and how it sometimes uses.. like.. sensual/sexually charged visuals to enhance that theme. Like, to devour someone or something wholly, not only to eat it with the mouth but the whole body almost, until the two things are both changed by one’s consumption of the other. Laios’ final confrontation with the demon comes to mind most immediately but I know there was subtler stuff before that with less overt violence to it. So all of this is to say— can I have your collection of pages you think fit this bill? I wanted to do a full re-read through to find all the scenes that are “unnecessarily erotic for a cooking manga” and compare them but I thought maybe it would be faster to ask the stash (^^)” sorry again if this is a strange one and no problem if you’d rather not answer.
Hello!
That's alright I don't mind talking about the more sexual aspects of dungeon meshi, though I'm also not very observant of that LOL
I do know what you mean though! "eating", or rather, "consuming"? does have a erotic aspect in Dungeon Meshi especially when it comes to the demon, at least those are the parts that come to mind right away, like you mentioned there's Laios confrontation with the demon, the scene where the demon invites Laios to consume him is very seductive
He also does something similar in a thistle flashback
There's also the moment where they eat the barometz fruit in Laios' dream, I think it's kinda hot but I might just be a freak tho
In the same way I think this scene from ch 87 is a little sensual, the one where the human eats the demon in fruit form.
Before I mention other heavier Demon stuff here's some other ones, there's well... this...
I've also always thought this Falin was kinda hot but maybe that's just me??
I mean her being hot doesn't necessarily mean it's sexual but we should always look at Falin, which reminds me of the whole scene of Falin eating the Curry, lots of it has de vibe of forbidden desires, no? (Am I just in love with Falin?)
(the way she hesitates before putting the fork in her mouth)
There is a few I find that it's more "intimacy" rather than full on sexual, like Senshi feeding Yaad the fluffy pancakes
And some that are intense but in a cute way like Izutsumi blissfully enjoying the barometz
I decided to leave the rest of the demon ones under the cut cause it might be triggering, sexual assault TW
The demon consuming Mithrun, I've seen more eloquent people talking about it, but Mithrun is very much being violated by the demon in more ways than one
The ones against Thistle are also quite violating
I can't really think of more from the top of my head, but here's unsexiest eating ever to lighten the mood
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hello! i wanted to ask you if there is a guide on what different magic tattoos mean? (for OC and AU reasons!) mainly for the beastmen but i'm unsure how weredeer, werecats and other werebeasts' magic tattoos would be like
Sorry this took a while to answer... There's no proper guide for the tattoos but you could try checking the magic tattoo tag on this blog, for the most part I think you can just make it up and have it be somewhat similar to the ones we see, especially since "adding random stuff" is canonically part of magic tattoos
Poor Leviathan, never in Bible, not in dragons behavior sketch (Eastern and Green dragons aren't here too 😔), too little screen time, at least it seen in beginning of Chapter 71
