Dungeon Meshi Episode 18 Discussion

The subs we want start with "We had such a tough time finding those stairs up". "Finding a way back was rough" are dub subs.

10:58 Lmao I love how they just zoomed in the image so we can even see the pixels. They've done this early on in episode 2 or 3 too.

I'm really liking these interactions with the clones, they're hilairous.
16:18, 16:21, 16:23 The untranslated text is what Laios said about them in the previous scene.

18:18 - 18:23 "Anoutolid, Muimui, Fucchi, Nussa, Boff, Dustrag"

Trigger flexing their animation again, damn!
Hey, that one ninja that Shuro's party left behind! I hope they become allies.
Good episode.

Let's talk about who's memories each illusion is from.
To distinguish them I'll be referring to the scenes of every character's illusions next to each other at around 8 minutes.
I'm numbering them from left to right (and clockwise in the case of Senshi).

Laios

• I think Laios 3 is the easiest. At first I thought he was the tallest because Chilchuck looks up to him, literally. But it might be more likely that he's from Senshi's memories, because he is the only one that could produce such a masculine and good-looking Laios.
  
• Laios 2 said "I must eat" and Marcille is the most likely to think of Laios as a monster eating zombie.
  
• Laios 4 is obviously the real one.
  
• Which leaves Laios 1 to be from Chilchuck's memories.
  

Final verdict: 1.Chilchuck 2.Marcille 3.Senshi 4.real

Marcille

• Marcille 2 is so obviously an imposter that it's hard to say who's memories she is from. Since it's hard to imagine Chilchuck or Laios seeing Marcille like that, I'm inclined to choose Senshi. It kind of makes of sense for her to annoying at least; after all, Marcille is the who scolds Senshi all the time.
  
• The other ones are difficult to distinguish from each other. The biggest difference between them is their hairstyle. After discarding the Marcille with the Book of Scribbles (why does that sound ominous?) the two left have straight hair and braids, which are Marcille 4 and 1 respectively. This leaves Marcille 3 to be the one with the Book of Scribbles. Laios studied magic with the real Marcille, so he would know at least the basics; which means that is from Chilchuck's memories.
  
• We later figure out that the real Marcille is the one with the braids, Marcille 1.
  
• Which leaves Marcille 4 to be from Laios' memories.
  

Final verdict: 1.real 2.Senshi 3.Chilchuck 4.Laios

Senshi

• Senshi 4 was exposed as Laios' memory, there's not much that needs to be said.
  
• Senshi 2 is the one that was accused of not caring enough about the ecosystem and also has a more grumpy(?) face. Marcille would of course not apriciate the fact he cares about the ecosystem and obviously thinks of Senshi as the source of her suffering.
  
• The other two are indistinguishable to me; if you are better at "spot the difference" than me, let me know. One has a different pan and spatula, so he's from Chilchuck's memories.
  
• And the other one is real.
  

Final verdict: 1.real/Chilchuck 2.Marcille 3.Chilchuck/real 4.Laios

Chilchuck

• Chilchuck 2 was exposed as Laios' memory, there's not much that needs to be said.
  
• The other ones are difficult to distinguish from each other. I'm not certain about the differences I'm going to list (I could be overthinking this), but this is what I can see being consistently different about them. Firstly, Chilchuck 1 and 4 look cuter (rounder faces and eyes), compared to 2 and 3. Chilchuck 4 seems to always have red cheeks. And finally, Chilchuck 1 consistently has his wisps drawn thicker than the others. After the Chilchuck with different tools is imprisoned, the two ones left are Chilchuck 1 and 3. So Chilchuck 4 is the one with different tools, which I think is from Marcille's memories.
  
• Chilchuck 1 and 4 are interchangeable, but I went with 4 for Marcille, because Chilchuck 1 seems more childish; which might be a better fit for Senshi.
  
• And Chilchuck 3 is real.
  

Final verdict: 1.Senshi 2.Laios 3.real 4.Marcille

Feel free to reply to this comment if you have a different opinion on the matter.
Hope you enjoyed my overanalysis.

The whole thing seems complicated at first but it should be easier to guess if you look at the lenses through which they are filtered.

Laios: lacks attention to detail and projects.

Both his Chilchuck and his Senshi went out before the cooking round so his Marcille is still in (plus this one had a magic book that even vaguely resembles a real one which would only make sense for his version of her as he has actually seen it) which is "Marcille A", the giveaway here is that she worries more about Falin than it would make any sense for the real one to do given the situation.

Chilchuck: views everyone as "too handsome" (for the lack of a better term)

Both his Laios and his Marcille went out before the cooking round so his Senshi is still in which is "Senshi B", the giveaway here is quite obvious so a big L for the group for not filtering him out beforehand.

Marcille: views everyone as way too stupid (has a generally horrible attention to detail)

All of her versions of the other characters went out before the cooking round which is good but is also a huge L for Marcille.

Senshi: views everyone as children (as mentioned in one of the previous episodes)

Both his Laios and his Marcille went out before the cooking round so his Chilchuck is still in which is "Chilchuck B", the giveaway here (aside from the things Laios mentioned) is that his versions look "too cute" in comparison to the real ones.

The fact that "handsome" Senshi managed to stick around the longest out of the obvious fakes on account of everyone collectively agreeing that he's always been that cool is hilarious.


Kinda wanna see how Kuro and Mickbell would react to Laios in dog mode.