Delicious In Dungeon Episode 6: Court Cuisine/Boiled In Saltwater
Being a manga reader, I really don't have much to say in the world of story for Delicious In Dungeon. Conversely, I have a world of stuff to say about the adaptation end of things, but I'll keep it short.
Keita Nagahara, the storyboarder for this episode, perfectly understood the assignment. They know what Trigger does best, and they know how to make the most of the source material.
Comedy, action, excessive character animation, Nagahara's episode has it all in spades, wrapped up under very solid awareness of dimensionality and space.
Their use of foreground obstruction to force depth and awareness of space is incredible, and insanely novel. Using party members as those obstructions is impeccable, and I love how they further subvert expectations by using party members for first person perspectives as well.
It's certainly recency bias telling me that this episode is the best of the season, but at the very minimum it is 100% on par with episode 3. Makes me wonder if every episode that's a multiple of 3 will be this good.
We have a proverb, in Italy, that roughly translates to: "ugly in the cradle, beautiful in the public plaza". It refers to the belief that ugly babies will become/beautiful handsome as they grow up.
And, I mean:
(Btw, personally I find newborn Kacchan to be very realistic, considering Horikoshi's face standards)