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Dungeon Meshi is a big plate that has full meal for you!! Whether you like it or not you will watch the entire series.
WARNING for vegans & vegetarians planning to start the series, well some scenes you will hate it and some scenes you won't mind it but over all I guess it could be triggering at times to watch this show. (I'm not vegetarian btw) But this anime is a gore anime. Like there will be bones and blood.
Anyways let's start the review shall we?

Art, character design and world building: 10/10
This anime has the best art I've seen so far. Wish Earthsea had an ... adaptation and it looked like this. Character design and world building and everything feels so vivid, very cozy and extremely up-to-date like so 2024. Everything looks like it was drawn out of deviantart and reminds me of how art used to be before the AI. Characters and movement and the expressions seem all very organic, real and funny.

Plot: 8/10
Food is the plot. I mean it has that sense of humor you could see in manga like Dorohedoro or Dai Dark where characters are carefree and focused on things but not 100% locked into their goals so many other things happen while they are on their way to their main goal. It's like every episode there is a main plot and gears are spinning but they are totally on the background and usually they have fun and a lot of things happen. I think compared to anime like Naruto where main plot episodes are really serious and progress is really slow then they add up fillers which are completely irrelevant, this is a better way to process plots. Like lots of fun and things happen slowly one by one.


Overall rating: 9/10:
I'm not a business man but I can be busy but I finished this anime in one sit. Like entire 24 episodes I binge watched! But my rating is 9/10 because I know that this anime may not be everyone's cup of tea.

General review: 9/10
I have read all the negative reviews and watched so many YouTube videos about why the story is disappointing and the animation is terrible. In my opinion this movie was great! I laughed so much. I loved the direction Ghibli took with this movie's animation it looks incredibly detailed very heartwarming, clean and pure. I can feel the texture of everything and also the smell. I will never understand the harsh criticism. Please consider the hard work which is going into these type of things. I think this was amazing. I enjoyed so much.

Art: 10/10
Call me mad for this but one of the ... things I admired was this beautiful art style. Everything was so good. It's hard to describe but very in between a full house CGI neither a cartoony like. It's so good. Looked like a Ghibli movie but from a different lens. Also looked like real life too and I loved it. I think this is an amazing new direction in terms of art.
Story: 7/10
I think the story was very unique and the ending was predictable but I loved the feeling of being a girl like Aya and discovering the house as a recently adopted kid.
Character: 7/10
Aya was a lovable character and I love how she gets under people's skin with her words. She is the true magical witch. Character designs were amazing.