AH NAW HE WILDIN'! | Dungeon Meshi Ep 14 Reaction
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So yeah, what this episode shows is that Kabru's party isn't weak, they're just a bad fit. They can't fight monsters for shit, but they're a brutal PVP party,
For real. That guy does what he does well. Maybe too well.
Wanted to say this, on the other hand, laos party absolutely lethal against monsters but not so good with other humans.
So it's like Jogo's situation then...
Laios' party: Great at PVE
Kabru's party: Great at PVP
Kabru's only real problem is that he is forgetting Hanlon's razor
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
Kabru be like: The machinations of the minds of those Touden Siblings are an utter enigma.
Laois and Falin: *that gif of milk falling onto the table in SpongeBob *
XD
Kabru's measures everyone by his standards, and we know for a fact he's fucked up, so he thinks EVERYONE's just as bad as he is.
@@sph1988 not really, he knows he´s a bit extreme but he doesn´t assume anything, that´s why he wants to learn more about Laios
also because he doesn´t know that Laios is just a huge dumb dumb
@r.a.fgattaiguy845 he does get alot better developed later but at the current episode not quite yet
Zuko: "Truly, this avatar guy is a master at evasion."
Katara and Sokka: "You have no idea where we are, haven't you?"
I love that Dungeon Meshi just casually has a whole ass fascinating, deep, op as hell (as long as it's rational sentient/human beings he's dealing with) side character in Kabaru that could easily be the protagonist in any other series, and the way you are introduced to him is by having him be a gag character whose party gets wiped just for the main cast to stumble upon them throughout the first arc.
"Your issue is not with their actions but the follow-up of their actions." I mean, regardless of Kabru's own motives people who are unable to recognize when they're being scammed because of their inability to really connect with and understand people probably are bad recipients for large amounts of wealth and power lol.
Agreed, as much as I love Laios, I would not want to live in a kingdom where the ruler was that naive. Even if he was well meaning, he'd just get manipulated into doing the bidding of the nastier politicians
@@kjarakravik4837 This reminds me a little of the beginning of the Yona of the Dawn manga.
I also agree, which is why he is incredibly lucky to have friends that'll help him with that and not take advantage of him, though I will say if it weren't for that glaring flaw he'd otherwise be a fairly good leader
Chilchuck insisting all contracts be official through the guild is probably a good thing his people, because shady contracts is something that people tend to associate with them. It's also funny that the guy complaining about it is the one making a super shady contract with a lower-intelligence species. Kuro is likely ONLY being paid in food and nothing else lol
Kabru always felt to me like the total opposite of Laios.
Laios is a sweet bean, that cares a lot about other people while being socially awkward.
He is skilled and knows a lot about monsters and the dungeon. But is very bad at dealing with Humans.
Kabru on the other hand feels like a very cold person and doesn't like people unless they fit his specific world view.
But is nonetheless very charismatic and skilled at dealing with people, while being completely oblivious about monsters and the dungeon.
EDIT: Apparently I had a lot more to say :P
This author in my opinion does a very good job at writing characters with various levels of and characteristic neurodiversity.
With Laios showing clear signs of Autism being fully capable of having and expressing strong emotions and empathy, as well as social attachments, without being able to properly read or express them.
Clearly caring deeply for his friends and family, and even total strangers. Going out of his way to help and care for others. But still failing to read social situations often coming off as rude or inappropriate despite his good intentions.
And Kabru showing varying degrees of sociopathy, where he has a difficult time feeling empathy or forming strong attachments, but nonetheless developed advanced emotional intelligence and social skills. Being able to decipher and deduce complex social interactions, like he did to reach the conclusion that they were following Laios' Party as well as their current circumstances.
But still failing to realize that the siblings had no ulterior motive for the financial help they provided or acknowledging that kissing Rin was deeply meaningful to her. As he cannot understand peoples feelings beyond cold logical reasoning.
And Both of them displaying incredibly vast and deep knowledge of a strictly limited number fields, that they have obsessed over.
With Laios being utterly fascinated by the dungeon and its monsters, from their anatomy to their ecology, and yes the culinary opportunities they present. Using every chance he gets to tell people interesting facts he knows, and trying to make them eat monsters.
While Kabru seems to be genuinely interested in socio-economics and geo-politics. Analyzing the actions of those around him as well as the systems they use, from their emotional states to how the nobility manages its land and resources as well as international pressures. Being clearly at ease and exited to share his theories and personal philosophies.
To be clear I AM NOT AN EXPERT, But I am Autistic and have done extensive research on the subject of Neurodiversity.
I'm also an anime only and have neither read the manga or any other external sources like Interviews or Author Notes. This is simply my very limited personal opinion.
Its also Important for me to clarify that neither character is inherently problematic or excused. Laios should not be punished for his inappropriate remarks, but should still be reminded when he is being inappropriate. And Kabru despite being shown to be somewhat manipulative and outright brutal, should not be vilified.
The major difference between the two at this point is that Laios has a support system that recognizes and tries to correct his poor behavior without being judgmental, while Kabru is surrounded by sycophants that do not point out his problematic behavior and instead praise it. That should be the focus of character analyses and not a simple Laios Good, Kabru Bad.
Kabru is basically the anti-thesis to Laios.
Laios has massive interest in monsters, very little interest in people. That's why he's great at dealing with monsters, knowing their strengths and weaknesses, studying their behaviour, things like that. On the flipside he's bad at dealing with people, because he just doesn't care about them enough.
Kabru is the exact opposite. He doesn't know how to fight against monsters, because he just sees all of them as the same thing: A monster you need to kill. He doesn't care about their individual strengths and weaknesses, the reasons in their behaviour. On the flipside, he's really interested in people, the weirder the better. That's why he can remember so many details about different people, why he can manipulate them so easily. He's completely fascinated by humans and wants to know every aspect of what they might do and why they might behave a specific way.
They also got opposite skin colou-
Great analysis! I just want to add that Kabru and Laios were both influenced by their respective trauma during their youth that we will learn of later and it's fascinating how they developed from those. There is something that is explained about Kabru in the official Dungeon Meshi Guide is the very extensive and... let's say "intense" education Kabru received that shaped who he is today. Again a great contrast with Laïos on that subject.
@@tobiasreinhold7642 I utterly agree, the Author has the clear intention of posing Kabru as a narrative inversion of Laios, showing how someone who has essentially the same limitations as him (mentally speaking, just in different areas) can produce two very different individuals.
The only thing you said that I would not so much disagree with but definitely word differently, is that Laios doesn't "Care" about people.
Laios certainly isn't "Interested" in other people but he definitely "Cares" about them, going out of his way to keep them safe, and offering his help to others, even complete strangers, and showing distress when they get hurt.
@@mathieumartineau3121 I'm definitely going to dive right into those when the anime wraps up. This Author has caught my interest, and I look forward to see how much dept he has put into these characters. Thanks for telling me about them :D
24:25 I think his issue is that they don't care about the ramifications of their actions, in this case, kickstarting smugglers. If they were to defeat the mage, their actions would affect everyone, so hes kind of right. Before the meeting with the orcs, Laios hadn't even though as far as defeating the mage...
Kabru before
Alicia: Laaaame. Loser. Take the L.
Kabru after
Alicia: *Oh.* He's a sociopath with red flags abound...Oh my...
Everyone's favorite Manipulate, Manwhore, Manslaughter-er
I view the Laios and Kabru dynamic as they’re both equally autistic (or at least some form of neurodivergent) but with opposite interests.
While Liaos is really bad with social interactions, he’s obsessed with monsters. Their biology, fighting styles, diets etc. That’s what’s always at the forefront of his mind. He’s a sweet guy who loves his friends and is very involved with his party tho.
Kabru on the other is the opposite. He’s fascinated by people and how their minds work, what makes them tick. Being in the dungeons is fun for him because every person they come across is a new puzzle piece he gets to fit into this maze of interpersonal relationships and different driving motivations. He’s here for the TEA. And knowing so much about people means he knows how to kill one easily. (Like he said, no matter the race, they all have the same vital points) unfortunately he can’t fight monsters for shit tho, which is why they keep dying lol.
And this is why he’s been so interested in Laios. He can’t for the life of him figure out this guy’s motive
And all this results in Kabru being trying to befriend Laios and Laios never remembering him 😆
After Kabru and his team spend they time describing everyone in the party like they are the scum of the earth, the First image of the Party is Laios and the boys hugging eatch others with Marcil knock the F out.
Oh, the episode in which you realize Kabru's party is actually not weak. As some people have pointed out elsewhere, they just aren't a PvE party, they are better at PvP.
You can see Kabru is as much of an anthropology/politics nerd as Laios is about monsters. And because of that, Kabru is not as good at fighting monsters even though he is quite a competent fighter, while Laios thrives in the dungeon to a surprising extent considering how much of a goofy guy he tends to be.
EDIT:
17:11 Yup, they are pretty much foils to each other.
21:35 It is funny that Senshi and Marcille treat Chilchuck as a kid (because they are from long lived races, and it does not help that half-foots look a little childish even if they are older), but from the perspective of a younger half-foot, Chilchuck is basically a middle aged union man that plays by the book, insists on proper procedure and that you pay your taxes.
Chilchuck prefers to do things by the book because of how much people can screw you over without a contract
Mickbell is the typical more money but doesn't realise that it's risky af to go without contracts. So half-foots like Mickbell are the norm, screwing people over. That's why Namari dislikes weapon shops tended by half-foots
@@hayakueon3230 The characters are written in a simple but believable way, it is a really charming style. Even if you find them acting in stupid or counter productive ways, it is usually consistent with their personalities and motivations, and the author really doesn't drop the ball in that regard. So yeah, Mickbell is the young enterpreneur that finds the rules to be overbearing and constricting, but they are in place for a reason.
@@cristianotsurudaprocopio8757 We can even see that Mickbell doesn't even pay Kuro the Kobold an actual wage, just food. In a way, Mickbell is one of the reasons for the Half-foot stereotypes.
If Kabru is meant to be more like a generic protagonist it makes sense. In a lot of manga and anime fights the hero is always picking apart how the villain fights to figure out a weakness. That is actually something common with modern series because One Piece, Dragon Ball, Toriko, and such had heroes fighting monsters constantly as often as humanoid foes.
The big parallel is that Kabru is invested in humans while Laios is invested in monsters. This is reflected in their combat abilities with Laios using his knowledge to slay countless monsters while Kabrus uses human anatomy and thus freezes up when dealing with monster anatomy. His big issue with the Touden siblings is that they aren't interested in other people and only really open up somewhat with those they spend a lot of time with. Fallin is caring but is also a loner as seen in school while Laios would rather go on about monster trivia than deal with people and their issues. Neither of which likely even want to become the ruler of an entire kingdom in the first place.
Kabru truly is here for the TEA, the DRAMA
I think Dub Kabru critiqued Laios for not being a leader instead of not caring about people. At least not a leader who could handle this large of a domain. Which is a much more valid criticism. Laios hasn't given thought to ruling, but his party is one of the best still in the running. So there's a very real chance that if the offer of the king who turned to dust in the opening scene of the first episode holds water, Laios could become king of the Dungeon. Also that king may well have been Delgal trying to escape, so the Mad Mage might be looking for a body when there's not even a ghost.
2:32 "They didn't do like a *normal cour break"*
Oh boy, they did it. They successfully normalized cour breaks.
Despite i dislike them, seeing how exploited are the workers of animation industry in Japan... maybe cour breaks can be a good thing, or at least not a bad one (i know im being too hopeful)
@@elterrestresinmanos5078 I don't have a problem with waiting, but either schedule the production better so you don't need them, or call it "season 2". We don't need every anime to follow AoT's confusing asf naming scheme.
@@elterrestresinmanos5078Trigger actually finished the series well in advance of the show’s first episode, so at least in this case, there’s no need to worry about the animators.
I'm glad you're liking Kabru as a character. Even the shadiest people can be intriguing lol
So Kabru is is real charismatic but is paranoid that everyone else is up to no good? Oh shit we found Alicia's self insert.
What you said about Namri is true, it's not her fault but the lord of the island didn't care and blamed all the dwarfs for what her dad did. And after that the dwarven community basically banished her due to their dwarven culture and laws. Dwarfs are big on community, they care more about local politics more than their own king. So when one guy made them all look bad on the island, they had no choice in their laws but to punish the entire family with Namari included.
Which really sucked because her dad skipped town and left her to take all the heat. She didn't know what he was doing, she just considered him a dead-beat and stayed away from him as much as she could. But she was the only one from that family left on the island so she had to bear the brunt of the hatred. And she didn't have enough money to buy passage off the island so she was stuck.
It is also why Namari is so focused on getting paid. Her only hope to make amends and be accepted back is to pay back everything her dad stole. Or at least she feels that that is the only option she has left at this point. I don't know if that'll actually work but she's desperate at this point. It's also why she worked with Laios and later the old gnome guy and his party. She literally can't work with any other groups that have another dwarf in them or it'll cause problems. Senshi is probably the only exception to the other dwarves on the island because he's basically the equivalent of a crazy hermit living alone in a pit. He's the ONLY dwarf on the island who wasn't affected by what Namari's dad did and he's not part of any other dwarf community...
I hope you get to see Senshi's back story this season.
The reason Kabru is suspicious of Laios is because he thought they were secretly funding the criminals on the island, and he wants to take them down just like he did to the crooked corpse retrievers.
Kabru really have that unholy Griffith vibes and Casca looks
Griffith vibe is right, he does look very andro.
I never tought of that, but Alicia made a good point. Kabru sound a lot like a cult leader.
"You're crazy! but i fuck with you still" literally perfect summary of kabru to be honest. he's so fucked up and scary but i want to study him
Fun fact: Half-foots aka (chilchucks's species, yes it is a different species) only live till their 50's!
Great job at analyzing Kabru and his team, Alicia. I think you will like to learn more about the character backstory later on and I am genuinely interested to see what will be your take on it. That's why I like your reaction videos. 😀
He is like son of Casca and Griffith from the Berserk
The people who don't know: 😊
The people who know: ༼;´༎ຶ ༎ຶ༽
I hate how accurately that describes Kabru.
Character design-wise, right? 😄
...right? 😐
This opening is one of the ones where the lyrics are super happy an positive, but the people who have read the manga look at them and go "OH GOD NO"
I think they should´ve switched the openings, it´s weird they chose the happier one for when the series starts getting darker but kept all the foreshadowing and mystery in the first opening when the series was mostly silly and comedic
Okay but can we address how both out of character and _also_ inexplicably smoking hot Kabru's mental images of Laios and Falin are?
Until that part I thought that Kabru’s team was to be the noob’s team, falling in every trap, being the running gag. And this happened and I guessed that they deserved more.
Alicia you misinterpreted Kabru's story slightly (Manga reader here I'm not gonna put spoilers just repeat something that was already said) Even if they were compassionate to their teammates who were "sick" the outcome of that story was that the extorters didn't go back to the honest work of dungeon exploring and instead smuggled goods. Though well intentioned if the end result leads to a bad outcome then you shouldn't get the job. Like would you want someone who gets easily tricked like that and/or is neglectful to the outcome to have all the power and AUTHORITY that beating the dungeon would reward?
Kabru is genuinly insane, like there is something "off" about him
Kabru would be a sociology major, I love this guy.
Kabru's parallels to Laios are very deliberate. Laios' neruodivergency leads characters to mischaracterize him as a psychopath or sociopath, while Kabru, an actual Sociopath technically good intentions but extremely brutal methods is the perfect foil. one is head empty heart full, the other is heart empty, head full.
Kabru has the face and social abilities of a "Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss", while having the strength and capabilities of a "Manipulate, Manhandle, Mansplain" (and quite possibly Manslaughter).
it ain't manslaughter if it's straight up murder because he INTENDED to kill lol
If Kabru is a CZcamsr he's definitely a drama channel CZcamsr.
So true lmao
He's the Karl Jobst of the dungeon.
He’d be an old school drama channel youtuber that’d get exposed for some fucked shit fr
Murdering humans is where Kabru's skill points are put in.
So Alicia hasn't figure it out that Half-foot and Tall-man are what they call Chilchuck and Laios races
7:35 How did you even predict that?? 💀
18:32 Marcille is upset here, because Falin cut her own bangs. Seriously, it's in the manga.
Kabrunation rise up, we are ready to move! I just came to really like this dude (as have many others), even though he is reaaaally weird sometimes he is also very logical. He saw Laios give away a fortune to people who didn't even need it, so either Laios had some sketchy shit going on or he was easily deceived and whatever of those options he truly is, none of them would result in him being a good King. He is such a nice opposite to Laios, one is thinking way ahead of the story and wants to take care of the ultimate goal, while one is just in the now and goes by instinct. Also Kabru is the gayest character in the story, even though we have Marcille and Falin basically dating lmao
3:36 "I will only charge you for the goat?" What goat?
You need raw materials for resurrection, so the old man used goat flesh and blood to replace what Kabru's party had lost.
3:27 bro how he smell that he was a rogue? Those are their races.
Finally, the episode where we realize Kabru is just as much of a freak as everyone else in the cast, I love these weirdos
😂😂😂 Alicia and the Eastern girl had the same face
welp... those first few seconds locked my face in "dafuq??"" mode XD
Not me searching for Falin in the new op 💀 💀
Kabru has that melanin advantage. That sun-kissed blessing is the only magic he needs.
The Griffith vibes are strong with this one
I'm slowly catching back up to the series/reactions. So far I'm thinking Kabru is like a chaotic good (like trying to be so good he misses the point) or a lawful neutral (making plans to manipulate, but strictly adhering to laws so much he's killing bandits because they're breaking them). Also might be a tad power hungry/entitled, still gotta feel him out though.
he´s basically a mentalist, he acts nice to get you to trust him and proceeds to manipulate you, and has no issues taking people out when they don´t fit his standards
A lot of people adore Kabru and maybe watching him this time round instead of reading will make me love him too but I just cant deal with his judgemental, manipulative attitude and this introduction to him is really unflattering .
how many episodes until Alicia realizes that's just the race names for humans and halflings, I am taking bets going ONCE, GOING TWICE . . .
creep alarm
Hard core vigilantism and ninja babes.
Yup. Big bad vibes from Kabru.
Once again. Kabru has funkin Griffith vibes. I can’t believe that mothafacka.
10 seconds in and I learned Alicia could speak whale
You will find soon enough, nothing is what it looks in the dungeon
26:17 that's my girl!
Niceu
Hey Alicia, I just wanted to pop in to recommend reincarnated in another world with appraisal skill, it is a currently coming out anime that is really well paced and I think you can enjoy it, it gets into topics and overall I recommend it personally.
day 647 of needing alicia to realize "half foot" and tall man" are the names of races.
Tho shes probably doing it on purpose by now, haha
Psssst it’s a bit like how I call it racist every time someone calls someone’s race in the show. It’s fun to my brain
Day 248 of asking Alicia to play Nier:Automata!!
What I like about Kabru is that he has no problem permanently killing the troublemakers. Cuz he had the bodies of the resurrection scammers dumped into the water to make sure that they’d never get revived. I’m sure they’re all fish food by now…
Kabru is a great foil to Laios. They're both somewhat similar, but whereas Lauos is obsessed with monsters and isn't good with people, Kabru is the complete opposite. He finds people fascinating and is bad with monsters.