The Anime That Gets Worldbuilding Right

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  • Опубликовано: 24 сен 2024

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  • @briochelover
    @briochelover 6 дней назад +323

    Another detail I really like is that the language they all speak with eachother is just referred to as the 'common language'. It really adds to that feeling that the island is a melting pot for the diff races and cultures, and its interesting to think abt how most or the cast is likely multilingual

    • @ThemermaidPearl
      @ThemermaidPearl 5 дней назад +22

      It's a thing often seen in dnd

    • @briochelover
      @briochelover 2 дня назад +1

      @@ThemermaidPearl oh mb i don't know much about dnd lol

    • @ruriva4931
      @ruriva4931 2 дня назад +8

      Yeah so in dnd everyone knows how to speak common and then depending on your race and background you can know a couple of other languages. Some how I always pick the wrong ones and they never get used, last time I picked a language called under common cause it has common in the name so idk I thought maybe I’d get some used to it, but instead esoteric language like Abyssmal came up in my campaign.

    • @shiftoff9936
      @shiftoff9936 День назад +2

      @@ruriva4931 under common is pretty esoteric given most people have never even been to the underdark in the forgotten realms

  • @GeometryDashing
    @GeometryDashing 7 дней назад +154

    why are people saying you woke up from a coma when this is literally just your usual upload schedule

  • @almostcheesecake
    @almostcheesecake 5 дней назад +90

    The way they reacted so nonchalant about death does such a great job of getting you interested, because why are you guys so chill about Falin being digested?

    • @mastermuffles7097
      @mastermuffles7097 День назад

      Watch show

    • @shiftoff9936
      @shiftoff9936 День назад

      @@mastermuffles7097 read comment

    • @CEPangolin
      @CEPangolin День назад

      Good to know reading skills are dying out. Bet your parents are so happy for you idiocy.

  • @willgegg8601
    @willgegg8601 6 дней назад +131

    A little bit about races that I thought was super cool was Kabru asks Rinsha if she recognizes Toshiro's name (though he says Shuro because that's the name he's heard around the tavern). She gets mad at Kabru for assuming she knows all Easterners (especially since he knows where she grew up) and tells him the name Shuro isn't a name where shes from. Later on, when all the parties are together, Maizuru calls on her, Holm, and Marcille. She calls them O-lynn (or O-Rin based on translation), Dwarf (Holm is a Gnome) and "Frog Woman" for Marcille lol. So Maizuru heard Rinsha being called Rin, and called her by what she thought her full name was.

  • @ziiia
    @ziiia 5 дней назад +60

    i love hearing smart people explain all of the feelings i have about something. like yeah that's it, this is every reason why i love this series, and you explained every reason perfectly. reading dungeon meshi made me love worldbuilding again (and you're so right, laios is the biggest fucking freak it's so refreshing)

    • @nekurokitsuraage3984
      @nekurokitsuraage3984 День назад

      You've completely covered the whole reason why I've been binging dungeon meshi video essays for more than a week

  • @galacticgila219
    @galacticgila219 2 дня назад +31

    I find it funny that while watching the show, I was thinking about the monsters in a very similar way to Laios- like during the Living Armour episode, I was thinking about how you could easily farm them while Laios was thinking about how to eat them- and during the Golem episode, I immediately thought of how cool it would be to use them for farming, (I read the title of the episode) a group of golems wandering around following the sun and resting in a water source- and Lo and behold, Sensei lives on the floor uses the golems for farming!
    I also adore the way they tackle creatures that aren’t typically biological. Like Mimics have always been something like Coconut Octopi to me, but then in Dungeon Meshi, it’s a hermit crab! Using chests and cabinets as shells! It’s so fun

    • @michelleadfg781
      @michelleadfg781 День назад

      that's so cool. thanks for sharing your perspective!

  • @Haigen6
    @Haigen6 6 дней назад +94

    Another anime that gets world-building right is Ascendance of a Bookworm. Unlike typical DSI (Dog S**t Isekai) with overpowered characters, this series focuses on the economic and social structures of a medieval society. The mc struggles to adapt society feel realistic, and the show takes its time developing both the world and her gradual progress, making it stand out as one of the most well-executed and thoughtful isekai series.

    • @PabloLacerdaPereira
      @PabloLacerdaPereira 5 дней назад +6

      Yes, Myne is op by she suffers from her opness and needs to learn to be able to do something, at the same time she is someone who knows a lot and needs to learn even more

    • @PabloLacerdaPereira
      @PabloLacerdaPereira 5 дней назад +4

      Myne character started with the skeleton of a DSI and her development made her a masterpiece

    • @Haigen6
      @Haigen6 4 дня назад +3

      @@PabloLacerdaPereira true

    • @cristalido3640
      @cristalido3640 2 дня назад +1

      You people are talking as if worldbuilding hasn't been meticulously treated in anime for ages now, just go watch Cowboy Bebop from the 90s or Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood from the 2000s

    • @Haigen6
      @Haigen6 2 дня назад

      @@cristalido3640 we’re specifically talk about fantasy anime. Most fantasy/Isekai series have world that are generic with zero exposition on how the world works (basic power system and worldbuilding). Shows like delicious and dungeon, assendence of book worm, frieren, and made in abyss have well crafted world with detailed ecosystems, well explain magic system and interesting cultures. Also cowboy bepop and full metal alchemist are og anime, of course they have good world build and most people have already watch them already, and like I mention were specifically talking about fantasy/Isekai anime. What your talking about is anime worldbuilding general, I could say watch hxh and one piece these to anime god like worldbuilding, I didn’t mention since most people already watch them and there not focus on basic fantasy stereotypes like magic, guilds, and dungeons.

  • @ThatNerdKaizen
    @ThatNerdKaizen 7 дней назад +64

    Mans remembered his password

  • @VictoriaBrz
    @VictoriaBrz 7 дней назад +45

    I need a non DSI list, I love Dungeon Meshi and Frieren.

    • @doityourselfa
      @doityourselfa 6 дней назад +26

      try witch hat atelier! anime coming next year i believe but the manga is amazing

    • @0927kira
      @0927kira 5 дней назад +3

      sadly the list of very good ones is very short

    • @louradean9293
      @louradean9293 5 дней назад +1

      Try beast player erin

    • @itsgonnabeanaurfromme
      @itsgonnabeanaurfromme 5 дней назад +2

      Just finished. Campfire cooking in another world with my absurd skill

    • @fuffofox
      @fuffofox 2 дня назад +2

      Ascendance of a Bookworm

  • @willgegg8601
    @willgegg8601 6 дней назад +24

    Thank you Ryoko Kui!

  • @Entwicklungshustle
    @Entwicklungshustle 7 дней назад +22

    Your videos feel really refreshing to me 😂 as someone who looks a ton of anime (also for language learning, but that aside), I also looked through youtube and found several anime analytics type channels, but all of them often focus on negative stuff and I hate it. Every time I watched a video where someone pinpointed one or multiple negative aspects, it actively worsens my experience. Fortunately that doesn't happen today anymore because I basically decided that there is literally no point in looking at negative aspects. I just take them as they are and only look at the good parts, because I don't want to worsen my experience by understanding what exactly is bad and why it is so. And I also get the vibes from your videos that you kind of look at it the same way as I do and basically my point is, your videos just improve my experience, not worsen it, and I absolutely love that and highly appreciate it 😂 because in this case, I actually dropped the show after like 12 episodes due to a lack of interest, but now I am realizing how much I have actually missed 😂

  • @CHARCHAD9
    @CHARCHAD9 3 дня назад +7

    Your first part about natural world building helped me put to words something I noticed about Dungeon meshi.
    People are so used to DIS heavy-handed exposition dumps that they completely miss the subtle world-building.
    Many people missed that resurrection is the reason that Laios is seemingly relaxed about his sister being dead.

  • @cynicg
    @cynicg 6 дней назад +13

    That is one reason why the cartoon of Avatar the last airbender works and the live action doesn't.

  • @Ryogasempai
    @Ryogasempai 6 дней назад +29

    There is an error, orcs arent human, are demihuman, the same as kobolds, the difference is the amount of bones

    • @Hallasammal
      @Hallasammal 5 дней назад +12

      That's just the eastener's point of view, the whole point is that these distinctions are arbitrary and most likely based on racism

    • @icefang111
      @icefang111 5 дней назад +9

      dude the bone thing is literally just fantasy phrenology, that's the whole point TT_TT
      They are humans, they're called demihumans 'cause racism

  • @thefrenchselkie1401
    @thefrenchselkie1401 6 дней назад +13

    this is a really well written video essay!!!! I really enjoyed it!!

  • @VikingShork
    @VikingShork 2 дня назад +4

    You can not forget Witch hat atelier when talking about fantasy anime. it's literally so peak.

  • @prolinechespin104
    @prolinechespin104 6 дней назад +7

    I just finished Dungeon Meshi yesterday, what perfect timing lol!

  • @jokhard8137
    @jokhard8137 18 часов назад +1

    The Living Armor section sold me on the show. That's how unique it was.

  • @monster-enthusiast
    @monster-enthusiast 2 дня назад +4

    Another anime that's gonna end up like Dungeon Meshi and Frieren is Witch Hat Atelier. Granted that the adaptation goes well it's gonna be fire.

  • @batangbatugan
    @batangbatugan День назад +1

    You can also think of resurrection and magic in general as a form of science like medicine where imprecise measurements, unfavorable conditions, wrong syntax and other factors can cause spells to not work as intended. It especially makes sense when mages take years to study and master them and elves, who naturally have more magic than other races, to be better at being mages.

  • @ninjadogs1440
    @ninjadogs1440 11 часов назад

    I usually think of world building and dialogue as 2 separate things to analyse but this tells me how important dialogue is to portray the world well. Love the vid

  • @paige8453
    @paige8453 5 дней назад +7

    Just want to point out that the orc was just as racist as Marcille was being. Don’t know why you focused on her so much, also we don’t know which side is actually right at that time of the episode

    • @marocat4749
      @marocat4749 3 дня назад +1

      Yes but that the orcs seemed to be the opressed that are still hating elves, which very realistic, has reasons to? Its still rassism thou and generalizing. Aso shows marcille get over a lot there. , or the orx are people accepted at least.

    • @paige8453
      @paige8453 2 дня назад

      @@marocat4749 They seemed ok at the end but the orcs didn’t really give a good first impression since they attacked and killed innocent people for no reason when the group first met them

  • @tyronsredux
    @tyronsredux 7 дней назад +9

    Dad has returned with the milk

  • @bottasheimfe5750
    @bottasheimfe5750 5 дней назад +2

    should note that resurrection only works within the Dungeon

  • @felpshehe
    @felpshehe 6 дней назад +6

    Im here for the autism

  • @karlgrimm3027
    @karlgrimm3027 6 дней назад +3

    In the old days there were iseakl that were about cool world building like Escaflowne and 12 kingdoms.

  • @lightvg3566
    @lightvg3566 День назад +2

    Another thing he failed to mention is how Tall-men are considered weak for their size which is something you normal see in fantasy of all small races being about as strong as a human and races around the size of human (except elves) are usually physically stronger then human strength with both namari (a dwarf) and chillchuck( a halffoot) being like oh yeah their weak meaning that it isn't just a stronger race thing of considering them weak smaller races of the same strength consider them weak just do to their size of being bigger they should be stronger

  • @CodyMacArthurFett
    @CodyMacArthurFett 23 часа назад

    You know, there's a certain amount of irony in how patient zero for the "DSI" story, "Zero no Tsukaima," was itself a fantasy world set in an ersatz 1600s directly meant to evoke the classic novel, "The Three Musketeers." Even to this day it's the only fantasy story I can remember being set in such an era ... unless you count the "1632" series, and I don't because it isn't fantasy even if it is an isekai. Since ZnT had trouble with sticking the landing on that though, everyone bases their fantasy setting off of vaguely Medieval setting of Dungeons & Dragons instead.

  • @jerryunderdog5912
    @jerryunderdog5912 День назад

    I honestly adore what they do with changelings, its such a unique take on them with the perfect excuse for a body swap plot

  • @-Raylight
    @-Raylight 4 дня назад +2

    Frieren and Dungeon Meshi... We need more D&D fantasy like anime!

  • @anlord154
    @anlord154 День назад

    thanks you have sold me this show. After your depiction of Meshi world building now I just have to watch it.

  • @justsomeannoyingredpanda
    @justsomeannoyingredpanda 3 дня назад

    I will never forgive youtube for recommending me this video 3 days after it went up.
    Also, thanks for naming the music whenever a new track starts playing. I appreciate it.

  • @Norbert_Sattler
    @Norbert_Sattler 6 дней назад +1

    Is that a sleepy princess pillow? How fitting. ^^

  • @Tony3821
    @Tony3821 6 дней назад +1

    Great editing 😊

  • @minimanr5052
    @minimanr5052 День назад

    Ever since episode one, it’s always been in the back of my mind that the party we see running past them when they first enter, the dungeon, it’s a lot like them, except worse and kind of showcasing what a bad end would be like for them

  • @0927kira
    @0927kira 5 дней назад +5

    i feel the same way about DOG SHIT ISEKAIs
    I have to scroll past through so much harem generic isekai bullshit then I found dungeon meshi, it was such a lovely treat

  • @wednes3day
    @wednes3day 5 дней назад

    thanks for the music credits!

  • @Novastarz6
    @Novastarz6 6 дней назад +1

    Yay I haven't seen your vids in so long!

  • @jemleye
    @jemleye 6 дней назад +3

    Love the analysis and so excited to hear your views on the latter half - coz let me tell you this is JUST the beginning! All the aspects of racism and racial tensions, racial superiority stuff and of course more natural worldbuilding and amazing examples of world- and character building through exemplary set up - payoff pairings and just, ah. Dungeon Meshi is more than a funny cooking show with some depth, it is an expertly crafted meditation and introspective analysis of human condition through our most basic need of food. And it is beautiful. And no, I'm not joking, it is actually that philosophical :D

  • @w3ss3l88
    @w3ss3l88 9 часов назад

    The instances of racism are fascinating to me especially because of some of the character coding. i think it's very very interesting that when marcille is teaching laios magic, she says "you must have a pure bloodline" which is a very specific way of phrasing that. she could have just said "it runs in the family" but she specifically mentions that his bloodline is pure. This sort of ties back into the sort of white supremacist coding the western elves have. Just because marcille hasn't spent much time in the west where the elves are from doesn't mean she's never unintentionally picked up some of their racist tendencies. there's TONS of extremely subtle word usage like this annd it's what makes dungeon meshi so incredible.

  • @ShockedTaiLung
    @ShockedTaiLung 6 дней назад +2

    Hmm yes today I will watch a video praising Dungeon Meshi for the tenth time

  • @hondaaccord1399
    @hondaaccord1399 6 дней назад +2

    Oh wait, Frieren isn't from Dungeon Meshi? What show is she from?

    • @Nourpy
      @Nourpy 4 дня назад

      She's from Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

    • @hondaaccord1399
      @hondaaccord1399 4 дня назад

      @@Nourpy
      Damn bro, the cultural mitosis really did just make me think there was a wistful elf who had lived hundreds of years in the funny food anime

    • @Nourpy
      @Nourpy 4 дня назад

      @@hondaaccord1399 Me too. To be fair, there's like a million anime under this genre that buries the actual good stuff

  • @GeometryDashing
    @GeometryDashing 7 дней назад +4

    your genre abbreviations are frickin killing me help

  • @powerofanime1
    @powerofanime1 День назад

    The most fascinating aspect of the argument between Marcille and Chief Zon for me is that everything you could point to in order to defend or oppose one party is equally applicable to the other. Clearly the history of racism in DunMeshi is just as long and messy as it is in the real world.

  • @martinjakubec5294
    @martinjakubec5294 5 дней назад

    well made video. keep it up man!

  • @deandredukes95
    @deandredukes95 7 дней назад +1

    Look who’s back

  • @marocat4749
    @marocat4749 3 дня назад

    Also their former comrade Kobold employers are pretty great too, the way it fits just in and it throws even more shade at elves as they want some important magic thing ther first to get leverage against them,

  • @XDarkEcho
    @XDarkEcho День назад

    Context, showing and not telling(when needed), and a lot of the believability comes from the reactions, as well as body language of these characters, which really sells the world they're in to be more than set dressing. Even when they're natives of this world, the idea and concept of eating monsters is so alien, it doesn't feel forced or out of place to have the characters explain these things; and also done in a way that questions "what's the difference from eating this, than killing and eating a hog/cow/chicken?". It's not some, overly explained nonsense solely there for the viewers to understand the world, just because our MC doesn't understand anything because he's not from it(most isekais); of course, there are some exceptions like Re: Zero or Log Horizon(even though it can get a bit long winded as well).
    If the writer NEEDS to explain stuff, in order to tell more about the world these characters are in, you really have to make it come off natural. Like a new revelation to the characters themselves, challenging the status quo, trying something new or that's taboo which shakes up the natural foundation of their world because they dared to do something different. In that way, I believe, it really gives us a different perspective as the viewer, compared to the common knowledge of what the MC and cast already do know. I feel mystery can help establish worldbuilding too, without making it feel forced, which we see a lot of in Delicious in Dungeon, on how to kill, let alone eat these monsters.
    I will say though, there IS a problem when you spew out too many terms and details, without given context. It may makes sense IN WORLD, but again, these are fictions worlds for the entertainment of a viewer, so we NEED to be on the same page as well, and not just kept out of the loop. That, in itself, can be considered bad worldbuilding too, I'd argue.
    Also also, I do love when Worldbuilding introduces more than just one specific race, or say, "demographic", to show that there's more to this world than just THIS group of people. Mentioning the East, and how they have their own culture and different kinds of races apart of that culture too, which makes sense realistically given our own world, and how all these interesting characters around the world come to this dungeon/island in hopes of a riches, glory, adventure, etc. It's probably the most natural way of introducing a diverse cast in the first place, without the "forced diversity" you hear people go on about nowadays(though they'd still probably would anyways).

  • @k_aesar
    @k_aesar 6 дней назад +1

    PMD music mentioned

  • @Jessterr2
    @Jessterr2 3 дня назад

    Yes its DSI but Smartphone ended up feeling kinda wholesome.

  • @SamanthaNelson-mn8km
    @SamanthaNelson-mn8km 3 дня назад +1

    watching this as a teacher taking notes on how to have my students more easily learn what i teach

  • @eveie1227
    @eveie1227 5 дней назад +3

    Cute cat👀

  • @vuhoangle6945
    @vuhoangle6945 4 дня назад

    bro just did a thesis about the worldbuilding of Dungeon Meshi while mentioning the food as an aside.

  • @atelalafford4794
    @atelalafford4794 2 часа назад

    great stuff!!!!!!!!

  • @28bees
    @28bees 6 дней назад

    I see that zoom-in on Marcille at the end there 👀

  • @gilperry6782
    @gilperry6782 7 дней назад +2

    my guy finally woke up from the coma just to post about a show i haven't seen

    • @mooncheese7002
      @mooncheese7002 7 дней назад +2

      You havent seen one of the most popular shows of 2024? Just say you dont watch anime bruh.

    • @gilperry6782
      @gilperry6782 7 дней назад

      @@mooncheese7002 sorry im not a seasonal fantasy watcher man

    • @Pyxyty
      @Pyxyty 7 дней назад

      It's the mother of all fantasy anime in recent years. Go watch it ​@@gilperry6782

  • @belldrop7365
    @belldrop7365 5 дней назад

    Holy poop, a review that actually noticed the poop rather than pooping about their lack bowel movement over the sister.

  • @alchemystudiosink1894
    @alchemystudiosink1894 День назад

    Instant Death doesn't deserve to be put in the DSI category.

    • @firefoxvulpix
      @firefoxvulpix День назад

      You're right it needs the DSI XL category.

  • @OmegaUberDeathbot
    @OmegaUberDeathbot День назад

    Most of the anime is just an excuse to cook random monsters. But it somehow works! They are very clever about it.

  • @madelandanar110
    @madelandanar110 День назад

    Yes dungeon meshi appreciation

  • @burrdid
    @burrdid День назад

    she should of done /execute as @a run tp ~ ~100 ~ to teleport everyone

  • @wisppandemonium8106
    @wisppandemonium8106 2 дня назад

    See I like exposition dumps because I'm a huge nerd.

  • @ryansheehan5733
    @ryansheehan5733 5 дней назад

    the mad man does it once again

  • @Qiqimain69
    @Qiqimain69 6 дней назад

    Wait bro's alive

  • @pilot778spartan3
    @pilot778spartan3 День назад

    They cooked, literally

  • @Mjora
    @Mjora 4 дня назад

    good food

  • @stamzthehuman897
    @stamzthehuman897 5 дней назад +3

    I wouldn't call instant death trash. It's a deconstruction of the whole isekai genre. It's like calling The Eminence in Shadow another trashy power fantasy. Kind of but you sort of missed the point

    • @firefoxvulpix
      @firefoxvulpix 5 дней назад +6

      Being a deconstruction of the isekai genre doesn't make it exempt from being trash.

  • @TiagoRodrigues-oz4qs
    @TiagoRodrigues-oz4qs 4 дня назад

    Shield hero, damn.

  • @bladeshot_tim5262
    @bladeshot_tim5262 День назад

    I straight up watched the first season 3
    times its that good ("^"][*+*)

  • @воваомелюх-к8о
    @воваомелюх-к8о 6 дней назад

    Thanks for this video, now i even more understand why i dislike Solo Leveling so much. That anime do the same things in worlbilding like Dungeon Meshi by in absolute opposite way))

  • @moritakaishida7963
    @moritakaishida7963 2 дня назад

    No one cares and its not a topic in tje video, but i dont consider sword art online an isekai, their bodies aren't being physically transported into an alternate world, they're just playing a video game

  • @7ost7ost
    @7ost7ost 17 часов назад

    What anime is that at 20:11?

    • @伊紹菲
      @伊紹菲 15 часов назад +1

      That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

    • @7ost7ost
      @7ost7ost 13 часов назад

      @@伊紹菲 Tyvm

  • @kidddtho
    @kidddtho 6 дней назад

    I wish I could get in contact with you run my light novel by you

  • @catward9417
    @catward9417 День назад

    but...Dungeon Meshi isn't isekai. And I get what you're actually arguing, but...come onnnnnnnnnnn

  • @mr.q8240
    @mr.q8240 4 дня назад

    a other one who disguis his own taste as objective

  • @rhoem1353
    @rhoem1353 6 дней назад

    Only one will say is good is shield one all other yeah shit xD

  • @linearburn8838
    @linearburn8838 6 часов назад

    I didnt like dungon

  • @The1trueLeo
    @The1trueLeo 12 часов назад

    2:08 Hunter Hunter takes place in their own world, though it is heavily inspired by our real world

  • @superluigiac
    @superluigiac 11 часов назад

    1:45 Random Connor is random

  • @stupidsloth8386
    @stupidsloth8386 2 дня назад

    trash

  • @Wulk
    @Wulk 6 дней назад

    You lost me at 0:03 that's speedrun levels of audience retention lost

  • @miguelblair1576
    @miguelblair1576 21 час назад

    2:43 GOOMY MY BELOVED

  • @KaZlos
    @KaZlos 5 дней назад +3

    I'm an 22:41