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Dungeon Meshi
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The first season of the anime adaptation can be found on Netflix. Season 2 is confirmed and presumably currently in production.
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I can never ever predict where this show will go next, it's insane how nothing ever proceeds in a way that I expect and it also never feels unnecessarily subversive, so good! Even though it's supposed to be a very old-school style fantasy, it's such a fresh story.
It helps that it's all been plentifully foreshadowed.
The paintings, the kingdoms history, the ghosts on the fifth level, the winged lions all over the place.
The previous mentions of other dungeons, the elven nation, the pressure they've been putting on the governor.
It's so damn well done!
Yeah it's really cool how something initially seems not important and later gets elaborated on, nothing ever feels like it came outta nowhere.
Exactly! It feels like so much media does subversion by just taking things in whatever direction that makes the least sense.
They're so scared of some fans putting together enough hints to have an idea of what's coming, they actively sabotage the internal consistency of their stories to force the subversion of expectations.
I came to say this!
I was watching this show because it poke fun at all the dungeon crawlers from the 80s-90s I used to play. And yet it continues to expand how I mentally think about dungeon crawling. It's great!