Translated by Taylor Engel
199 pages
Published 2017 (English translation published 2018)
Read September 1
Rating: 4 out of 5
A new month, a new batch of manga to enjoy! This time, I’m hoping to limit myself to just a couple tankōbon each from Delicious in Dungeon and Witch Hat Atelier; my bank account has not been enjoying this new-to-me medium as much as I have.
I don’t know whether it’s because I’m already familiar with the story thanks to watching the anime, or if it’s because the manga is genuinely better at pacing and character development than the anime was, but I feel drawn in so much more to even the secondary and tertiary characters here. It took me a while to warm up to Kabru and his party in the anime. At least at first, I felt impatient whenever they were onscreen, like they were a distraction from the main story. In the manga, they already feel more fleshed out, and their role in the overarching narrative seems more significant.
Anime and manga alike, one of my favorite aspects of Dungeon is how Kui puts so much thought and effort into the ecology of different monsters, and how the dungeon functions as a cohesive ecosystem. Fuck magic systems — this is the kind of fantasy worldbuilding that gets me hooked.
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