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felixcloud6288 · 2 months ago

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Dungeon Meshi Adventurer's Bible World Part 9

Senshi's journal (part 1)

In the first edition, the journal goes from 3/15 (The day before chapter 1) to 4/8 (Chapter 51). The Complete Edition extends to 4/29. This part is going to be what was in the first edition.

3/15

Senshi encountered the party because he went to the surface to buy spices. I wonder where he gets the money to do that? He used to run unmanned barter shops on the honor system but stopped because the party kept accidentally stealing his money.

3/16

Senshi very likely came back to this page on several occasions to fill in the details on the party. There's a later page where he misspells Chilchuck's name several times so everyone's names were probably added later. And Chilchuck's section has details that Senshi wouldn't learn until a few days later.

Notice that Senshi originally thought Chilchuck was Laios's little brother. After learning that's not the case and Chilchuck is actually 29, Senshi still thought Chilchuck was a child but now thinks he's an orphan instead.

And his Marcille drawing has the same face shape as his Marcille clone.

I also think he drew the boxes for their names and then wrote their names in them because in Japanese, he seems to be squeezing Chilchuck's name into the box.

3/17

Senshi's being racist.

3/18

Well now I have confirmation on the date chapter 5 happened.

Chilchuck's Japanese pronunciation is a bit more complex than most. It is chi-ru-chi-ya-chu-ku.

The misspellings in Japanese that I can decipher to the best of my ability are "ru", "chi-ru-chi-?-ku", "chi-ra(?)-ru(?)-chi-ya-cha", and "chi-ru-chi-?"

3/19

Senshi has known the orc tribe for at least 70 years at this point. He likely knew Zon's grandfather Dotoy. And I think this is the first time Zon's son Bahay is given a name.

3/20

This entry implies that chapters 10-14 happened on the same day. But the party went to sleep for the night in chapter 13. I think Senshi probably decided to quickly note what happened with Anne without putting a date on it.

I totally get keeping a memento like this. I have some feathers from a turkey I raised that got killed by a racoon.

3/22

Senshi put a lot more effort into drawing Tansu. It's probably because he's a gnome so Senshi has more reason to respect him.

Also, a nice bit of detail here and in several pages is there are charcoal smudges on the next page caused by Senshi closing his journal and some residue on his drawing got on the opposite page.

3/23

Senshi had notes on several tentacles. Did he snack on some while they were passing through?

3/24

Senshi notes his concern about magic use but admits that he might use it if he could. He says Falin and Laios look the same, and it turns out that red dragon meat isn't very good. He went on this journey to eat the red dragon and it was ultimately disappointing.

Her features are still sharper than they should be but this is the only time Senshi doesn't draw Marcille ugly.

3/28

Four days pass between entries. Senshi started writing a date in the upper-left corner of the page but scribbled it out. This entry has some pressed petals from a dryad flower in it so he probably was about to write, realized he should include the petals first, and then started writing after they were pressed.

3/29 - 4/1

Since they're waiting for Marcille to unpetrify, they can't do much. Senshi decided to make a to-do list. He was actually trying to be really nice to Marcille during all this and spend time telling her stories and keep her dust-free.

4/2 - 4/3

This drawing is EXACTLY what Senshi's fake Marcille looks like.

This drawing also caused a charcoal smudge on the next page.

And he just needed to quickly scribble names down so he didn't bother to check if his journal was right-side up. Senshi only wrote down the names of the Shuro party. He never mentions Kabru's party at all.

There's a question mark next to Asebi's name. It's probably because he only got her name in passing rather than asking names directly.

Senshi was eating some pickled dryads while writing his journal entry cause he spilt a little on the page.

Senshi was surprised Laios had the capacity to be sad? What's that supposed to mean? Does Senshi think Laios is mentally disabled and secretly infantalizes him?

Senshi couldn't identify the field ration pellets Maizuru gave him and thought they were dumplings

4/4

For some reason Senshi does not want to talk about chimera Falin nor the shapeshifter encounter.

All Senshi wants to talk about is the party's new cat. And he draws Izutsumi more like a cat. From this point on, he makes notes about Izutsumi's progress with proper posture, holding utensils, being a picky eater, noisy chewing, wandering off, and greeting.

He's using a grading metric in Japan. X means bad, - means not applicable, triangle means partially correct, and circle means correct.

Right now everything except utensils is an X. Utensils is a -.

4/5

Senshi reminisces about the other golems. He says Izutsumi's table manners got better (how she ate the fish) and then worse (how she ate the barometz). Only improvement was "wanders off" went from X to -.

4/6

He drew a map of the village. He probably explored the village a fair bit on his own since he was fascinated by the people raising monsters. One path is labeled "To Forest?". Since this is all inside a dungeon, would you hit an invisible wall at some point if you keep walking?

Senshi's darwing of Yaad looks like Falin. He probably thinks all Tall-men look alike.

Senshi was all for Laios taking over the dungeon.

"Picky Eater" went from X to -. Wanders off went from - to a circle. Both of these can be attributed to the spell that makes monsters docile.

4/7

This is the entry where Senshi ate hippogriff soup. There are water droplet stains all over the pages here.

Senshi pulled out a notebook in chapter 47 and it was actually his journal since he wrote the pillar symbols in it. I can't make any sense of it since I don't know anything about dwarven runes. He did say they were in the south-east area though.

Senshi's journal entry points out that he hasn't actually had any reason to continue traveling with the party since they saved Falin. He joined because he wanted to eat the red dragon (and he ultimately thought it wasn't very good). After helping him deal with his past, Senshi is traveling with the party out of gratitude.

4/8

There's a bit of schadenfreude reading Senshi complain about having all his mannerisms be reduced to anti-elf prejudice. He insists he wasn't acting any different but everyone kept saying he was acting like an elf. I'm glad he learned from the experience. Going forward, he's going to stop attributing Marcille's antics to her elf heritage and is instead just going to attribute them to Marcille just being Marcille.

He also put a lot of effort into accurately drawing Tall-man Chilchuck. Every other Tall-man he drew has the same feminine face, but Senshi was so shocked at how much Chilchuck changed that he needed to draw it as accurately as possible.

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