Dungeon Meshi Episode 3 Discussion

@Sokah

1) The mollusks aren't typically aggressive unless they're guarding their eggs, which imply they're either dormant (unless you get too close) or simply leave the armor when they've finished their life cycle.

2) If you were able to defeat the armor, the mollusks would be dead. In that case, even if someone found them, they would assume they're just that: mollusks. Dead mollusks, even. Why would you think mollusks of all creatures are animating armor instead of the much simpler explanation of magic, since it's so commonplace?

2.5) Broken armor isn't good for wearing or selling.

3) Marcille mentions that she's never seen this chamber before, so living armor isn't even something that adventurers often find in the first place.

The explanation makes perfect sense.

@Sneasy

1) How would they live if their life cycle had ended? They would be dead and become waste or rust to the armor.

2) It makes no sense that no one else has been able to defeat these armored foes yet these 4 goons did it with very little resources. Makes me think either all other adventurers are crap or too stupid to loot the goods. Either way sounds like a huge screwup from the author, which is incredibly overrated by the fanbase just because she's some DnD nerd.

2.5) WTF do you mean that broken armor isn't good for wearing or selling? They could sell it after to anyone willing to buy cheap defense gear. It looked a hell lot easier to split up the shellfish organisms with blunt attacks than trying to destroy the armor with piercing attacks (duh, knight aprentices knew this in the middle ages). Even if they had missing pieces of armor, it would still be profitable to sell them in pieces, heck Laios armor is missing the biceps covers.

3) Marcille isn't some sort of dungeon expert, like some sherpa would know all the trails of a mountain climb thru repeated expeditions.

Wait, Laios said his first death?
So is it like a video game they can respawn? Or maybe you need a priest to cast a revive spell?

Laios encounter every monsters be like: But is it Edible??

I'm glad i make sure not to eat my lunch while watching Dungeon Meshi.

Hey guys, help me out please. I’m kinda no to anime and I don’t know anything from this manga.
I didn’t like very much the first two episodes, I thought it had more action but it was like 80% of the episodes just cooking and talking about food.
You that saw this episode, it was the same from the first two or had more? If it’s the same, you that read the manga know that has this vibe the entire series? Because if it’s like this the entires time I will leave it. Thank you.

Wait, Laios said his first death?
So is it like a video game they can respawn? Or maybe you need a priest to cast a revive spell?

Laios encounter every monsters be like: But is it Edible??

I'm glad i make sure not to eat my lunch while watching Dungeon Meshi.

Really, panty shots already? keep this ecchi bs out of my anime, why is japan so obsessed with this pointless fanservice, smh, I'm not some horny teenager

@Sneasy

1) How would they live if their life cycle had ended? They would be dead and become waste or rust to the armor.

2) It makes no sense that no one else has been able to defeat these armored foes yet these 4 goons did it with very little resources. Makes me think either all other adventurers are crap or too stupid to loot the goods. Either way sounds like a huge screwup from the author, which is incredibly overrated by the fanbase just because she's some DnD nerd.

2.5) WTF do you mean that broken armor isn't good for wearing or selling? They could sell it after to anyone willing to buy cheap defense gear. It looked a hell lot easier to split up the shellfish organisms with blunt attacks than trying to destroy the armor with piercing attacks (duh, knight aprentices knew this in the middle ages). Even if they had missing pieces of armor, it would still be profitable to sell them in pieces, heck Laios armor is missing the biceps covers.

3) Marcille isn't some sort of dungeon expert, like some sherpa would know all the trails of a mountain climb thru repeated expeditions.

@Kimurah

2) No one said that no one ever defeated living armor; clearly they did if Laios, who died back then, is alive today. Watch the episode again.

The mollusks are crammed deep into the armor, and if you destroyed the armor, you would just find dead mollusks, which can easily be confused for random bugs that got themselves in there. How would you come to the conclusion that the mollusks were the armor itself? It's not a screwup, stop trying to be "smarter" than the author.

2.5) The armor is literally made by the mollusks and not actually crafted towards any particular person. Not very useful for selling. In real life (and fantasy that isn't video games), people don't take random trash that don't fit them. If people ALSO think that the armor is enchanted by magic, why would you want to wear something that someone else can control?

3) They are all experienced adventurers, and if the chamber of living armor isn't something she recognizes, then it's not something adventurers run into often. That's why living armor wasn't documented well until now, until there was a group of adventurers interested in monsters in ways beyond killing.

These are careful details picked out by the author and more and more monsters and chapters will be written like this.

@Sneasy

2) It's ridiculous that you are yapping at me as if you're some sort of expert or teacher giving lessons nobody asked you to do, and acting all high and mighty saying "watch the episode again". I never said that the mollusks were the armor itself (funny you call them mollusks, but the translation said shellfish). I also never claimed to be smarter than the author, but there's also quite the difference when fanboys like yourself try to make any kind of their favorite author some flawless writer just because they blindly like what they read. Stop acting like a fanboy.

2.5) The show never pointed out that the armor was literally made by the shellfish, it only stated that the shelfish lived inside of it. It's very short sightned of you to claim that IRL people don't take random trash that don't fit them. Like for real, go outside for a while, and interact with real people. There's a whole market for sellers that will offer shit that doesn't fit them and probably doesn't fit other people either but they will try to sell it to dumb and gullible people (stolen iphones that are worthless because apple flags them it's a good example). Now back to armors, people in the middle ages would certainly use whatver they could find to protect themselves in battles. what you think freshly trained knights would get an tailored armor that would fit them perfectly? Nonsense. They would do with whatever they could afford and that would also come with flawed piece of armor and armor lacking parts and what not.

3) They are experienced to a certain point (highly questionable when a moron like Laios almost got their whole party killed by the dragon in episode 1, a smart experienced adventurer would had called a retreat before even facing the dragon famished and exhausted), but they aren't the only ones exploring the dungeons. It's expected that other adventurers should had found that same room or a similar one. My point is that if Marcille didn't recognize the armors, that doesn't immediately means they are uncommon to other adventurers. Marcille isn't a sherpa that has run the same trail dozens or even hundreds of times and knows everyone else that has done it. Her testimony isn't worth anything as an "experienced witness".

Regarding your fanboy comment about details, the details on these shelfish are quite iffy. Like why would they need to pick up the helmet to continue fighting? It's not like the top part is either giving the rest of the shellfish actual vision to continue attacking. The armors where pretty empty in terms of numbers of shellfish, which makes me wonder how the heck where they touching each other when their numbers could barely count to move an articulation of the armor (like flexing a knee). What do they survive on, specially if they are many of them and also reproduce quite fast.

It's also hilarious that you immediately curl up and act defensively making assumptions of what I watch or that it somehow I'm supposed to be offended for the isekai that I allegedly should be loving isn't flawless as your favorite manga.