Isekai Ojisan 1A = Yōsuke aka “Ojisan”, 1B = “Sui” aka “Tsundere Elf”. Sui’s real name is complicated, and if Ojisan’s YT channel was real I’d seriously watch it.
Edomae Elf. 2 = Elda. Props for her miko (not in the pic) for getting Elda-sama out of the shrine! On her own!
Isekai Shokudō. 3A = Aletta, 3B = Kuro, 3C = “Master”. The series is about opening a restaurant, so they’re the perfect staff for this pic.
Dungeon Meshi. 4A = Laios, 4B = Chilchuk, 4C = Marcille, 4D = Senshi. Senshi could help the Isekai Shokudō crew in a pinch. (Laios would be the taste tester.)
Mushoku Tensei. 5A = Rudeus, 5B = Sylphiette. I’m glad that we can’t actually see Rudeus’ face in this pic, he’s probably being creepy.
DanMachi. 6A = Lyuu, 6B = Bell Cranel. There’s probably some minotaur entering the restaurant, right now, with heart-shaped eyes, looking for their beloved Bell “Tomato Kid”.
Sousou no Frieren. 7A = Eisen, 7B = Heiter, 7C = Himmel, 7D = Frieren. Of course Heiter is drinking, corrupt priest… and Frieren will probably agree for a second meeting in that restaurant, “soon”, and then come back when they’re already old.
I recommend reading #1 (Isekai Ojisan) - it’s fun, the art is unique, and the MC Ojisan’s antics are hilarious. The setting is also atypical, so it “feels” fresh and generally well-written. The anime adaptation rubbed me off the wrong way, I don’t know why, but you might want to give it a try.
Synopsis: The series is about a 17yo Yōsuke going to isekai due to a coma, spending 20y there, and coming back to Earth as he wakes up from the coma. No work skills, his beloved Sega is gone, no home of his own, no more Sega games, the only relative supporting him is his nephew, Sega was sold to Nintendo… did I mention that the guy is obsessed with Sega? He still has the same powers as he had in isekai though, so he puts them to good use - making weird YouTube videos for a living.
So, I am still traveling for work and having to write this on mobile, so I will have to keep it brief. Side note, this is the first time I had to trigger rikka’s post via mobile, so I had to find an ssh client and get things like keys sorted. Really glad I got that all sorted out the previous day in anticipation of this because it took way longer than I thought it would.
Senshi’s backstory was tragic, but at the same time it was kind of touching. His crew just really wanted to take care of him until the very end. Also, don’t think I missed that their group’s horse was named Anne…the same name that he gave to the Kelpie that tried to kill him. Probably makes the Kelpie’s betrayal sting all the more.
The random racial rearrangement part of the episode was interesting. I am not really sure where this aspect of the story is going to go. It doesn’t seem like a solution is immediately forthcoming, so they might be stuck with this arrangement for a while. Perhaps switching back could make for a good season finale event? Looking forward to see what happens with the crew’s new makeup and how they work together.
There is a lot of episode in this episode!?! The ED was omitted entirely in favor of more screen-time for stuff happening, and even with that the runtime pushes beyond any other episode so far.
Fingers crossed the same is true for next week. If we’re lucky, they’re doing something special to wrap up the season!
We finally get to learn something truly pivotal about Senshi. Similar to Marcy losing her human father to old age, he suffered a traumatic childhood event that forever changed him.
Yet another time this anime has made me cry even as I know exactly what to expect, having read the manga.
The changeling chapters are fantastic. For once, Chil looks exactly the way he acts, Marcy’s cuteness is over 900000, while Senshi is WAY TOO GODDAMN ATTRACTIVE. I wonder if that’s essentially what he looked like to Namari.
Almost cried when I saw this too, it’s such a sweet moment. I love how over the course of the show, party has slowly felt less and less like just coworkers and more like actual close friends.
Senshi and Izu are new, of course… But I really liked the moment with Chilchuck pleading for Laios to return to the surface. You feel the weight of a long relationship when he admits he cares, and bares the fact he is scared out of his mind that one of them will end up dead. And not the temporary kind.
That was such a wonderful little arc of going from “Chilchuck is scared cause he’s worried of what’ll happen to him” to “he’s scared of what’ll happen to his friends”.
Marcy’s lack of game throughout her life must’ve flashed before her eyes, hearing a dude half her age is at three kids and an estranged wife.
And the second she gets used to the idea of Chilchuck being a dad, she’ll make the mistake of asking “what are your kids like, they must be cute” only to get “what do you mean, they’re adults” in response.
At least she only needs the one braid to fit in over on !kawaii_braids.
Also her cutting her hair is such a “blink and you’ll miss it” moment. Several times throughout the series she’s expressed that hair is important to mages, and her in particular.
But like with Falin, when it’s time to help someone, she doesn’t even blink.
It was probably the nightmare manga chapter that solidified it for me. I already liked her the most because of her various facial expression in reaction to everything that happens, but that chapter made me appreciate how stoically she lives her life, despite the immense despair that her difference in life-span has looming over her.
She’ll outlive everyone she cares about, and she is deeply, deeply haunted by that fact. But unlike the typical long-lived characters in a lot of series, that avoid heartbreak by avoiding relationships, Marcy’s gone in the complete opposite direction. Forming close bonds with good people, being more open, caring and affectionate with those around her, rather than less.
Writing long-lived characters it’s always tempting to make them aloof, cool and distant, unfeeling, or unknowable. It’s great to see it portrayed in a more relatable way. Just because we humans can outlive several dogs in one lifetime, there is room in our hearts for all of them. Why would elves be any different?
Glad to be getting some Senshi backstory coming up next episode. Looking forward to hearing more and learning about how he got his helmet (and its signature scratches). It’s pretty obvious that it will be a pretty traumatic tale involving a Griffon.
I believe this is the first time that we learned the Mad Magician’s name, Thistle. At least, if we heard it before I don’t remember it. The villagers might be in for a bit of hurt after helping Laios and crew, but at least our intrepid heroes managed to get out before Thistle showed up.
I think the standout thing for me this episode was the way that the animation was used to bring across both the serious and the silly sides of the show. When Marcy is flopping around while controlling her familiar, it is goofy as hell. When we switch to the familiar’s point of view, it is sakuga city with some stellar action animation. Such a fantastic way to use visual cues to complement the story. As an aside, I have been trying to streamline my clip creation process and quickly cut this clip of my favorite sequence this episode, Marcy’s second familiar.
If somebody out there does stitches, could I request a stitch of the panning shot of Laios creating his dual-headed dragon familiar? He looked a bit scary there for a minute…
Finally, I wanted to talk about Marcy’s skyfish. The shape instantly reminded me of a UFO theory I had heard before called rods. If you were to comb through my post history with enough scrutiny, you would find out that I have a PhD in physics. What that means in practice is that any time friends or family have any questions about something science related, they think I must know the answer. I bring this up because I was asked one time about these “aliens” called rods and what I thought of them. It is a popular enough theory that it has its own wiki page. Something I just noticed looking it up this time is that the theory seems to have garnered some cultural awareness in Japan due to the prevalence of Japanese media in the popular culture section, including Dungeon Meshi.
I think this is the first time Thistle was name-dropped. Yaad just called him the Lunatic Mage in last weeks episode. But yeah, he has a name now. I can finally start writing “Thistle” in my comments on here :D
Fantastic! The cartoony dragon in the background gives me Trogdor vibes. Combine that with Laios’s crazed face and Marcy’s incredulity towards Laios’s fervor and this shot contains multitudes.
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