At least in Dungeon Meshi, there is a canonical explanation. The dungeon cleaners (episode 16) would make sure that all the floors/walls are maintained.

That is the logo for Studio Trigger, which animated the anime.

I am not really that familiar with the non-premium experience on CR (or the dub version of the show), so I can’t really help you too much there. Sailing the high seas of the internet is always an option. As much as I am an advocate for supporting official distribution channels, sometimes they are just really, really bad (HiDIVE used to be horrendous, but has gotten a bit better with some time).

Not pictured: Falin passed out just off screen (in my head anyway).

I LOVE cooking at home

Oh man, you are speaking my language. I just wrote about how I have become a fan of the cooking genre of anime/manga as I have gotten older. If you haven’t seen it, you might want to check out Campfire Cooking in Another World. It does a bit of a mix between fantasy ingredients and irl brands and ingredients.

As for Episode 11, the thing that made it really stand out to me was how the OST was employed and it marked a major turning point for the show in tone. I wrote a ton more about it in the episode discussion thread. Now that you have watched it, you can go in without worrying about spoilers.

Episode 11 was one of my favorite single episodes of anime in the past year for me. Look forward to it!

Obligatory shoutout to !anime@ani.social if you want a more anime-focused discussion. Of what I have watched (or seen enough of to make a judgement) there are a couple standouts. Note that I haven’t really watched much western animation in recent years.

• Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End - !frieren@ani.social
• The Apothecary Diaries
• Heavenly Delusion
• Delicious in Dungeon - !dungeonmeshi@ani.social - This one is done by Studio Trigger, so it is a bit stylized, but I adore the animation in this series
• Jujutsu Kaisen - I haven’t watched this, but I have only seen tremendous praise for season 2’s animation (despite the studio’s working conditions)
• Demon Slayer - another show I haven’t watched, but have seen plenty of gorgeous clips

Wildcard answer would be Star Wars Visions. Each episode is done by a different animation studio, so it can be up to personal preference as to which ones you like, but there are some great showcases in the show.

Edit: If you care a lot about animation quality, I would recommend checking out the SakugaBlog. It goes into deep dives on Japanese animation. For example, they did a whole running series on Frieren (link to the first article).

A lot of the anime-related communities have consolidated over time to the ani.social instance. There are historical reasons for this (largely due to hostility from the ml admins), and if you want a brief history for just the general anime community, I previously wrote a post here.

That being said, the ani.social instance has been growing with new communities being added. Here are the more active ones:

General Communities

• !anime@ani.social
• !manga@ani.social
• !lightnovels@ani.social

Series-Specific Communities

• !dungeonmeshi@ani.social - Delicious in Dungeon community
• !frieren@ani.social - Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End community
• !nokotan@ani.social - My Deer Friend Nokotan community (currently airing show)
• !dandadan@ani.social - Dan Da Dan community (show airs this fall)
• !dragonball@ani.social - Dragonball community

Misc.

• !vocaloid@ani.social - Very new community just started by @hisao@ani.social about vocaloids. Check it out!
• !vtubervids@ani.social - Community to discuss and share videos from and about vtubers
• !seiyuu@ani.social - Community about Japanese voice actors behind the scenes

A couple fandom communities:

• !nokotan@ani.social - Currently airing show, has weekly discussion threads
• !dandadan@ani.social - Show that will be airing this fall, has threads for manga chapters
• !frieren@ani.social - Show that aired a couple months back, currently mostly fanart posts
• !dungeonmeshi@ani.social - Show that aired a couple months ago, currently mostly fanart posts
• !seiyuu@ani.social - Community to discuss Japanese anime voice actors behind the scenes and share clips

This is an excellent point that I thought about when a previous community I was active in got shut down on the ml instance due to some admin whims. Since then, for the two communities I run, I have an external wiki that I maintain with things like complete rules or an index of past weekly discussion threads, etc. These wikis are set up on a VPS that I am responsible for, independent of the host instance of my communities.

ani.social and the admin, @hitagi@ani.social, has been excellent, and the instance is a logical place for anime/manga communities. I have also tried to keep up donations to keep the server running, but people’s lives change, not always by choice. Having some form of communication independent of the lemmy instance makes sense for those scenarios, if for nothing else except for communicating a migration to a different instance.

Not the OP, but…most instances (including ani.social) auto-convert any uploaded images to webp to save storage space since they are run on user donations. That conversion will impact image quality.

Edit: Also, this is semi-automated through some post-creation tools by the OP and some of the booru images are really, really big. So, having a reasonably sized version makes sense for the formatting.

I didn’t mention it in my post, but the animation work during that gargoyle fight sequence was something else. They got real stylized and wacky with it in the best way possible.

Lots of Kabru hate in this thread so far. I don’t get it. He is an ambitious and goal-oriented person. He even has a noble goal of ending the dungeon’s curse to prevent monsters from spilling out and killing people. He will see it done, no matter how many people he has to kill to make it happen! Wait…

I really like Kabru (maybe not as a friend though). He is a bit like an adventurer version of Sherlock Holmes. He seems to be extremely observant and has a lot of insight into people. However, he doesn’t seem to have his version of Watson nearby to help act as his conscience. I am curious to know what the endgame he has in mind if/when he comes into contact with Laios’s party. He doesn’t seem like the type to simply want revenge for a perceived slight. I get the feeling there are machinations at work below the surface with his character that we don’t have insight into yet.

As for the other members of his party, Kuro and Mickbell were fun. I laughed at her basically saying “OK Boomer” to the idea of Chilchuck. Also, Kuro is a good boy, a very loyal boy. It was a nice touch that he was simply confused while under the illusion. I assume its because what he was seeing was not matching up with what he was smelling. The last one I wanted to mention is Rinsha. I swore I recognized her voice, only to look it up and find out it was Megumin herself, Rie Takahashi. So, no wonder Kazuma Kabru wanted to prevent her from getting a spell off.

Finally, we got to see Shuro’s new party. Seems like he went with a different plan to try to get to Falin, reuniting with his fellow countrymen. I am looking forward to seeing more of this group as they seem quite capable. Also, I am not sure how Shuro is going to react when he hears about everything that has happened with Laios’s group while they were separated.

Edit: Forgot to mention that Dungeon Meshi had an exclusive interview with the mushroom monster that they published for April Fool’s. It’s in Japanese and I didn’t have the patience/energy to work my way through it, but the pictures were funny.

Your lead image, where he is intimidating the basilisk, killed me. I don’t often literally laugh out loud while watching anime, but the VA work during that scene came so out of nowhere and was so different than the normal character that it caught me really off guard.

I mentioned this in the other thread, but I am glad that they are setting up Marcille to be more than just a gag character. She hasn’t really gotten to show off yet (other than accidentally during this episode), but I know it’s coming.

Also, seeing all the great reaction faces Marcille has really makes me appreciate that Studio Trigger is doing this series. Some of the best parts of Little Witch Academia were the really cartoony antics of Akko, and Marcille is living up to that heritage. They way she was animated while under the effects of the mandrake was derpy as hell, but I loved it.