#moving picture. but also there are smarter ways to reconstruct said framing and they’re not doing it lol | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

mapsofnonexistentplaces · 7 months

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i need to catch up with the dunmeshi anime i’ve only seen like the first episode but man it sure is an adaptation that makes you think “wow! i wish i was reading the original manga instead” i think it just fails at getting across all the lore and more vitally all the details about the food preparation and the small diagrams of the monsters and stuff. like yeah that shit’ll flash on screen for a second or two but that doesn’t give it the same time of day as the manga does and the whole commixing of episodes really loses the whole one meal per chapter narrative gimmick that gives the manga its really tight pacing even if the whole chapter’s slower or more character focused. like idk. i think dunmeshi’s skeuomorphism to a proper cookbook and the way it sanctions its timing is very special and uh. good. and the anime missed out on that so it’s not very uh. good

#and also i think the colors in the anime look UGLY but that’s something else. Lol #.mid #+ also not to say it’s a failure on The Anime specifically i think it just so happens that dunmeshi is not a good series to adapt into the #moving picture. but also there are smarter ways to reconstruct said framing and they’re not doing it lol #like before it dropped i wanted to presume they’d lean into the whole combat action and parallel it with the way food’s prepared because #those are both like. very visual important things. even if it strays from the importance of the food its like #at least something different. at least utilising its medium cleverly #and then i had the much more plausible thought of like. ooooh what if they add a few new monster encounters that can only really be gotten #across in animation! that’d make the anime worth watching! but Nah its so by the book it just feels like a skimmed down copy of it

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