Funny / Delicious in Dungeon

Elves: truly a proud and noble race.

Spoilers are unmarked.

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• In General:
  • Studio Trigger brings all their experience from their previous works to bear when it comes to the facial expressions in the anime, particularly Marcille who seems to hover somewhere around disgusted, horrified, and exhausted in every single shot. One memorable moment in episode 15 turns Marcille's somewhat tired expression into what looks like she's underdoing serious addiction withdrawals.
  • There's not a great deal of fanservice of the female characters. Marcille has a skirt but she wears baggy pantaloons underneath it. On the other hand Senshi's legs are bare under his skirtlike garment. If he's knocked around or shown from a low angle, his underwear is often visible. Such moments are memetically referred to as "Senshi panty shots". Far from avoiding them, Studio Trigger actually adds some in dynamic low angle shots.
  • Whenever the characters are running from a threat in the anime, it's depicted with extremely over the top animation and absurdly exaggerated movements and expressions.

Main Story

• Chapter 1:
  • In the English dub, Marcille sees Laios harvest a walking mushroom and says "Laios, no. No!" in the same tone one would use for a dog eating something they shouldn't.
  • A bunch of inexperienced adventurers run out of the dungeon, terrified... of a small walking mushroom just hobbling about, which Marcille takes out in one hit with her staff. In the English dub it's funnier, as she wonders why they keep letting noobs into the dungeon.
  • Laios suggested eating monsters. Marcille's reaction? She refuses it so hard she starts breakdancing. This is but the first of her many, many, many freakouts over Laios's monster-hungry antics.
    • The anime substitutes/clarifies this with a temper tantrum going into a hand stand.
  • When Laios points out that some of the monsters they've seen looked pretty tasty, Chilchuck imagines a living tree, a giant fish ...and a white bunny rabbit. Apparently the dungeon has killer rabbits.^note Harsher in Hindsight when they almost wipe the party later on. Marcille, simultaneously, imagines only undead and ghosts.
  • When Laios is about to add the giant scorpion to the pot, Marcille wonders if it's safe to eat because of the poison. Laios says it's fine, bites the tail, and immediately throws up.
  • When Senshi joins the party, he mentions cooking a Red Dragon is his dream. Note that the dragon they're hunting is the one that just ate Falin. The party ponder whether it counts as cannibalism or not.
  • Senshi makes sure to tell Laios, Chilchuck and Marcille that his portable slime drying rack is "patent pending".
• Chapter 2:
  • Marcille is delighted when Senshi tells her it's the season for fruit, since it means they won't have to eat monsters again. Cut to Senshi's "fruit" ...which is growing on monstrous man-eating plants. Marcille is appropriately furious.
  • Marcille is attacked by the plants and Laios saves her, then asks whether being wrapped up by a parasitic plant's vines felt good or not. Cue look of extreme disgust from Marcille.
    • The anime adapts this moment not only by focusing on Marcille's disgusted expression, but by cutting all music and sound effect and zooming in on her face. Even better, they don't redraw the frame of her face; It's literally just the previous frame but zoomed in, like a Youtube edit.
  • Laios attempts to keep some of the plant seeds but Marcille catches him. Cue her burning them with a hilariously deadpan look on her face while Laios wails in the background.
  • Team Touden stumble on a dead corpse hunter (they comment on the irony) and want to make sure he's visible so someone will find and revive him. So they tie him to a tree and hoist him up. It's about as dignified as it sounds. Chilchuck even comments that he looks like they lynched him, and Marcille later has a bad dream because of what they did.
• Chapter 3:
  • Team Touden watches a newbie party get attacked by a basilisk and Laios solemnly comments that turning their backs and running from it is the worst thing they could do. Marcille deadpans that if that's true, why doesn't he go help them?
    • In the anime, it's Marcille herself trying to escape the basilisk, and we're treated to a shot of Marcille desperately stumbling around to get away from it while Laios calmly points out that she'll never escape like that.
  • When Laios takes her advice and does go to help, his method is to make a Nightmare Face and scream at the monster while waving his arms. Chilchuck and Marcille agree to pretend they don't know him.
  • Senshi being leery of giving the antidote herbs to one of the newbie party members because he planned to use them for cooking and it's too early for lunch. Laios and Marcille practically start dancing to try and convince him they're hungry enough to eat now. Senshi is pleased by their hearty appetites.
  • Marcille accidentally trying to cast a healing spell with a basilisk drumstick instead of her staff.
  • Laios explains that even though the basilisk looks like a giant chicken with a snake for a tail, in reality the snake is the true body, and the chicken is the tail. Marcille is appropriately baffled◊.
  • The newbie team vow to get strong like Team Touden. A few days later, they suffer a Total Party Kill from man-eating plants.
• Chapter 4:
  • Marcille's reactions as Chilchuck and Laios point out how inefficient her method of collecting mandrakes is.
  • When Senshi simply uproots a mandrake and cuts off its head before it can scream, Marcille's shriek is enough to stun Laios and Chilchuck. The look on their faces is priceless.
  • Marcille's expression◊ after the dead giant bat falls on her. (It Makes Sense in Context: She'd tried to rope that poor bat to pull out a mandrake so she could prove her method was better. Didn't Think This Through doesn't even begin to describe it.)
    Marcille: (Sporting Fish Eyes) I am the picture of good health.
  • The anime gives her a slurring Simpleton Voice during her brief period of Fish Eyes.
    Marcille: Yuh. Igoodnevurfelbettur.
  • Despite Marcille's indignance at having gotten only one mandrake for all her trouble, it turns out that Marcille's way of harvesting mandrakes makes them taste better. To show his gratitude for teaching him something new, Senshi offers Marcille the most nutritious part of the meal: the mandrake's head. See the page image.
    • The anime takes the circle focus reaction panel and turns it into a cartoony Iris Out with a Cuckoo Clock sound effect to enhance the goofiness of her crying face.
• Chapter 5:
  • The cover illustration starts this chapter out strong: Chilchuck is patiently working to unlock a chest, and his teammates cheer him on... From about ten feet away. Just to be safe.
  • In the anime, after Chilchuck explains that they have to follow his footsteps exactly, we see Marcille and Laios carefully stepping from stone to stone... and Senshi casually strolling after them, setting off a trap that nearly skewers Chilchuck.
  • After Chilchuck teaches him a little about flamethrower traps, Senshi's immediate response is to start planning how to use their fuel to make fried food. Chilchuck's completely shellshocked expression when he informs Senshi that the stuff is "100% not meant for cooking" is priceless.
• Chapter 6:
  • Laios is told that he can't eat living armors because they're metal animated by magic. His disappointment makes him seem like a dog who just got told they can't eat something that'll make them sick. He also tries to suggest eating the leather straps, which Senshi turns down because it's impossible to chew and there are better options available.
  • In the anime, when Marcille distracts the living armors, there's a single frame, only visible if you go through it frame-by-frame, where she accidentally hits herself in the face with her own staff.
• Chapter 7:
  • The animators of the anime have fun with the movement of the living armors. Most of the time, their stiff movements are intimidating, but occasionally, such as when Laios throws the eggsack for them to run after, it instead shows them as awkwardly scrambling after it like they don't have time to move with precise steps.
  • Also in the anime, Marcille objects to eating the armors by hooking her staff around Laios' head and shaking it around, while his body remains perfectly still. The effect is remarkably similar to a bobblehead.
  • After musing how he should cook the mollusc-like creatures inside the living armor, Senshi decides to steam the "head" (meaning the helmet of the egg-laying armor). Cue him just plonking the helmet onto a pot and Chilchuck giving it an extremely freaked out look.
  • When the living armor is ready to eat, Laios notices the rest of the team giving him deadpan stares. They tell him that eating it was his idea, so he should go first. Being Laios, he's only too happy to. They mutter together that if he dies, they should just leave him.
  • After being delighted at the taste of the stir fried mollusks, mollusk soup, and "classic" mollusks (that is, served in the shell like regular oysters), Laios decides to try out the steamed ones, thinking they'll taste even better. Turns out that steaming them in the helmet was a bad idea, as the helmet smell carried over and they taste like mold.
• Chapter 8:
  • Laios begging Marcille to teach him how to make a golem. She tells him not a chance. Chilchuck wonders what the heck he'd even use it for.
  • The Beat Panel where Marcille, Laios and Chilchuck realize why the toilets in that area of the dungeon are so well taken care of and just where Senshi gets his fertilizer for the golems. Needless to say, the two are connected.
• Chapter 9:
  • The very first panel is one, with Team Touden struggling to carry all the food they harvested from the golems. Laios's armor is stuffed with cabbages and carrots and Marcille has a cabbage stuck in the hole in her staff.
  • The seedy merchant's reaction when Laios tells him they want to trade vegetables. After a Beat Panel that seems to say: "Seriously...?" he melts down completely and just starts screaming at them to get out.
  • Senshi mentions that he used to sell his produce by putting them on a shelf and leaving a treasure chest for people to leave money in, relying on the honor system. This worked... except someone always stole all the money, and he had to stop. After hearing this, Marcille and Chilchuck realize with some guilt that it's no wonder the chest always had money in it.
  • When it turns out Senshi's "plan" is... to make bread. The others start yelling at him and Chilchuck even yanks on his beard, which the anime exaggerates to full on standing on Senshi's belly while hanging by his beard.
  • At the orc village, Team Touden is put into a pen and Senshi starts to make bread. He gives it to Chilchuck to knead when Zon comes over to give a "history lesson" to his son on the war between the orcs and the other races. When Marcille and Zon get into an argument, Chilchuck tries to calm Marcille down and Zon yells at him to stay out of it, while Senshi simultaneously yells at him for his poor kneading technique. Poor halfling!
    • While they're arguing, Senshi hands them the dough, putting their anger from the argument to use kneading.
  • The =___= face Chilchuck makes as Zon and Marcille keep on arguing.
  • The anime version has Senshi getting very...insistent on the orcs giving them yeast to make bread.
  Senshi: GIVE IT TO ME! COME ON! I CAN MAKE BREAD WITH IT! BREAD! BREAD! BREAD! BREAD! BREAD! BREAD! BR (gets cut off as the orcs throw a bag of flour and the jar of yeast at him, hitting him in the face)
• Chapter 10:
  • The Beat Panel where Marcille realizes the treasures are actually treasure bugs. You can almost see the "NOPE" in her eyes.
  • Senshi separates the edible treasure bugs from the inedibles. After they eat, Marcille and Chilchuck ask if they should just throw out the inedible ones. Senshi says yes. As they're throwing them away, they ask Senshi what's wrong with the inedible ones; are they poisonous? Senshi just says that obviously you can't eat actual treasure. Cue Marcille and Chilchuck freaking out.
    Marcille: Tell us that before we throw them away!
• Chapter 12:
  • When Laios tells the group his idea to eat the food in magic paintings, Marcille has an Imagine Spot of him and the woman in the painting getting in a slap fight over her bunch of grapes.
  • Laios getting beaned in the back of the head with a broom by an old woman after he jumps into another painting. His eyes even bug out like a cartoon character.
  • When Laios finally manages to get to some food in yet another painting, one of a sombre dinner when the new king is being crowned after the sudden death of his father, he proceeds to stuff his face like crazy. The expression of the man sitting next to him is priceless.
• Chapter 13:
  • Chilchuck's flashback to the first time he encountered a mimic. He opens the chest with a huge beam on his face... which stays fixed there as the thing stabs him in the neck, killing him. This is then followed by the second time he gets killed by a mimic, cautiously hopeful as he assumes a locked chest won't have one, and the time he assumed a chest was a mimic and opened it from behind while other party members stood in front of it with weapons, only to realize that this wasn't a mimic, it was an explosive trap.
    • In the anime, the second mimic, after killing him, waggles its upper lid as if laughing.
  • When Chilchuck finally tells the others his age: 28, which is middle aged for a halfling. Senshi and Marcille still think he's a kid, while Laios is in awe and even calls him "Mr. Chilchuck". The halfling is suitably irritated.
• Chapter 14:
  • Marcille is looking forward to washing her hair and says Senshi is probably feeling the same about his beard. One Beat Panel later and Marcille has pounced on him and is demanding to know when he last washed.
  • Then she tells him he can share her soap and afterwards she'll braid his beard. Cue Imagine Spot from Laios and Chilchuck as they picture Senshi surrounded by flowers and sparkles, with his beard in pigtails.
  • Senshi throwing a tantrum like a little kid when Marcille tells him they'll need to use magic to cross the water. What makes it even better is his expression doesn't change from its usual stoic stare even as he's flailing about.
  • Senshi's appearance after Marcille washes his beard. Both she and Chilchuck are freaked out and Chilchuck even asks falteringly if Senshi will ever go back to normal. When the beard dries, it goes from hanging straight down to poofing out so big it's almost as wide as Senshi is tall! With the amount of work it took to wash and dry it, Marcille is left panting in a Primal Stance.
  • During Laios's explanation of why charming monsters are bad, there's a picture of him being enchanted by a kelpie... followed by Falin chasing after the two with a mace. Evidently, his knowledge comes from experience.
• Chapter 15:
  • In the anime dub, Laios' remark upon seeing Kabru's party floating in the water is delivered hilariously deadpan, as if he's remarking on some annoying everyday occurrence rather than dead people.
    Laios: There's something floating over there, and I'm worried it's people, let's go.
    Chilchuck: Uuugh, do we have to?
  • The anime adaptation includes a group of mermaids singing their alluring song. When another voice joins in, appearing to harmonize with them, they are bewildered to see that it's Laios trying to sing with them, but he's terribly off-key. They swim off in disgust, and Laios complains that he went through all the effort to memorize their song and never got to finish it.
  • When Chilchuck and Laios argue about whether it's okay to eat piscine type merfolk, Chilchuck ends up dragging Laios across the surface of the lake by his tunic as the latter wails for an explanation on why eating the merfolk is wrong.
    Chilchuck: Don't touch me!
  • Chilchuck's Oh, Crap! face when he realizes Laios added merfolk eggs to their meal.
• Chapter 16:
  • Senshi bouncing across the surface of the water like a bearded beach ball.
  • When the kraken hits him, Senshi folds his arms and looks more thoughtful than anything else as he tumbles through the air. He even starts planning their next move!
  • Marcille realizing she just gave Laios the idea to eat the kraken.
    Laios: Why don't we try [squid] right now, then?
    (Cue a Beat panel with Marcille's horrified facial expression.)
    Marcille: I WALKED RIGHT INTO THAT ONE!
  • In one of his less intelligent moments, Laios decides to eat raw parasite, thinking it'll taste good no matter what. Unfortunately for him, he quickly learns why you cook your food as the parasite ...had parasites, ones that would've been killed had he just been patient enough to let it be cooked. He spends the entire night in intense gastrointestinal pain as the parasite wrecks havoc upon his insides, and he swears off eating raw parasite ever again.
• Chapter 17:
  • One of the students insisting she's just created a new breed of sprite in her dungeon terrarium and her classmate snarking that it's just mold.
  • Marcille telling Laios that Falin praised him a lot while they were at school together. A flashback shows Falin telling Marcille that Laios ...does an amazing impression of a dog.
• Chapter 19:
  • Tansu's voice actor in the English dub goes all in for making him arrogant and condescending before facing the undine, and then completely deadpan when he returns with a dead Namari and admits that Laios was right.
  • Laios's face after getting stung by the tentacles. It's so puffed up his eyes look like a pair of 3s!
  • Senshi and Laios praising Namari for her marksmanship only for her to admit she'd never fired a crossbow before.
    Laios: (Imagining himself with an arrow stuck through his head) Huh?
  • At the end of the chapter, Mr. Tansu asks Senshi if he's the leader since Senshi is the only member of the party not currently involved in a screaming match.
    Mr. Tansu: You seem to have your work cut out for you...
• Chapter 20:
  • Laios being the only member of the party not to realize Shuro is in love with Falin.
• Chapter 21:
  • The party wears suits made of frog skin to protect themselves from stinging tentacles. Their deadpan expressions just accentuate the goofiness of the suits even more. Not to mention the tiny details like Senshi's beard poking out, or that Chilchuck isn't wearing a suit, but a randomly stitched-up sack from the leftovers (made even funnier if you noticed Laios was taking his measurements earlier). The kicker is the "compliments" for Marcille:
    "It looks super cute!" "With your ears sticking out, you look even more like a frog!"
  • Because they didn't have time to tan the skins properly, the frog suits get stuck to their clothes. Cue Marcille yelling at Laios, asking if they're going to fight the Red Dragon dressed as giant frogs.
• Chapter 22:
  • The single panel of Mr. Tansu's recollections of Laios's party: Laios, Senshi, and Marcille all looking forward, smiling with dead-looking eyes while holding bowls of soup, and Chilchuck looking to the side as if he lost all care in the world. Even better, he actually thought they "were a capable party" even with the above image.
  • Namari trying to find out if the resurrection center has Falin's body is somewhat heartwarming... but then it turns hilarious when she can't figure out how old Falin is. The worker yells at her to get her eyes checked, and she defensively replies that she can't tell how old people of different races are.
  • One of the pub workers asks if Kaka is Namari's new boyfriend. Her response is defensive enough to almost make her sound like a tsundere, and, if you looks closely, you can see that Kaka (who has been mostly quiet and serious up to this point) is blushing.
• Chapter 23:
  • Laios thanks his team for coming so far with him and it's a truly heartwarming moment... slightly ruined by the fact that Marcille, Senshi and Chilchuck all have mouthfuls of food so they have to chew and swallow instead of replying to him!
• Chapter 24:
  • Chilchuck cussing out Laios in his own language after Kensuke runs away during their fight with the Red Dragon and Chilchuck realizes it's a Living Weapon that Laios kept all this time.
    Chilchuck: The common tongue doesn't have enough words for your stupidity! (Starts Cluster F Bombing in Half-foot language.)
    Laios: I'm being insulted in a language I don't understand! And it sounds REALLY nasty!
  • Chilchuck lamenting that they're going to be stuck hiding underneath the Red Dragon's crotch for the rest of their lives.
  • The very fact that Senshi has a mithril cooking knife. Chilchuck mentions that if Namari had found out, she would probably have murdered Senshi. He agrees.
• Chapter 26:
  • After managing to kill the Red Dragon, Marcille decides to use her healing magic on the injured Chilchuck and Senshi. After she treats Chilchuck, he immediately yells and tumbles in pain, which is a side-effect of being healed quickly. Seeing this, Senshi is terrified of Marcille using her magic on him.
    Marcille: Now it's your turn, Senshi.
    Senshi: [Trembling in apprehension] No thanks, I'll fix it myself.
    Marcille: But that'll take you months. Falin was always better at healing magic, but I at least have the confidence of being able to heal quickly.
    Senshi: B-But... isn't that why it hurts so bad?
    [Cuts to Chilchuck, who is still vomiting from the pain, all while Senshi is screaming in the background as his bones & organs audibly crack]
    • In the anime, when Marcille tries to reaffirm Senshi, he is visibly terrified all while her reflection can be seen on his eyes and sweat droplets. Marcille's reflection shows her hands are covered in Dragon blood, all while she is smiling.
    • This episode of the anime goes from the very dark shot reverse shot of a horrified Laios through the remains of his sister to his view of her bloody skull... right to the bubbly, excited end credits song. KIMI NO TAME NO PARTY DA!!! Mood Whiplash anyone?
• Chapter 27:
  • Laios, Chilchuck and Senshi taking a moment to admire what a beautiful skeleton Falin has is darkly hilarious. Senshi even comments that she must have had lots of calcium in her diet.
• Chapter 28:
  • When Marcille finds out about Kensuke, she freaks out and slaps Laios's face between her hands so hard he can barely apologize.
  • Falin happily admitting she wants to eat Kensuke to see how it tastes. Marcille just stares skyward in despair.
• Chapter 29:
  • When the dragon's body begins to liquifiy, the boneless dragon hams that Senshi prepared earlier begin to roll on their own to join the pool of blood. With the dish title and ingredients list that appeared alongside it following them as they do.
• Chapter 30:
  • In the anime, Chilchuck Screams Like a Little Girl when he opens a door and runs into the orc scouting party.
  • In a funny callback to Chapter 14, the orcs don't recognize Senshi because he doesn't smell the same.
  • The orc captain administers medicine to Laios by filling her own mouth with it and roughly forcing it into his in what looks to be an incredibly unpleasant experience that leaves him drooling and semiconscious. Then she turns toward the also-injured Marcille. The look on Marcille's face says everything.
• Chapter 31:
  • Starting off sweet and funny, the guys continue the group hug from the end of the last chapter while ignoring Marcille in the foreground, passed out and still having orc medicine drooling out of her mouth.
  • Senshi mistaking a group of mating dryads for humans and covering Chilchuck's eyes so he can't see them kiss. Even when the dryads attack, he still doesn't let go of Chilchuck's face!
  • Laios, Senshi and Chilchuck returning to Marcille with extreme hayfever from the dryad pollen. She shrieks when she sees them.
    Senshi: It's completely safe in there...
    Marcille: LIAR!
  • Marcille's reaction when Laios pulls an armful of dryad fruit out of the bushes. They look like pumpkins crossed with severed human heads, with a side of behelits. Senshi chops the top off of one and serves soup out of it.
  • In the anime, when Marcille starts arguing that Laios should learn some healing magic she keeps hold of her dryad bowl, shoving its face at his.
  • Later, Senshi tries teaching Chilchuck about "pistils and stamens". Chilchuck is understandably horrified at this.
• Chapter 34:
  • Laios, having to try using Healing Hands, worries about seeming "weird" so he roughly grabs Marcille's scratched ear. She slaps him hard. In one translation she says "You impudent lout!"
  • When Laios is practicing his healing magic on Senshi, the way he puts his hands on him looks like he's trying to cop a feel of his chest. Both Laios and Senshi are highly embarrassed.
    • In the Spanish dub of the anime, Senshi responds to this by saying "tocó mis senos de hombre," roughly "He touched my man boobs!"
  • Marcille, Chilchuck and Senshi jump off a ledge to avoid being crushed by the ever-shifting dungeon. They laugh at their lucky escape... not noticing they've landed right in front of a cockatrice nest. Cue horrified screaming and fleeing for their lives next panel.
  • Marcille is Taken for Granite after a battle with a cockatrice. This would normally be horrifying, if not for her getting petrified right in the middle of a tsukkomi act, resulting in an extremely unflattering pose and expression. The party, resourceful as always, used her as a pickling press while waiting for her to recover.
    Marcille: Don't ever use a person as your pickle press.
• Chapter 35:
  • When Chilchuck works out the system to the way the dungeon is shifting, the others praise him by... pinching his cheeks and telling him what a little cutie he is. Chilchuck bats them off with a rolled up map.
• Chapter 36:
  • Chilchuck panicking over whether to go with Laios or Senshi when the group splits up. He's not sure which of them will cause more mayhem while left alone. After an Imagine Spot, which pictures both of them as drooling chibi heads, he settles on Senshi.
  • Even Shuro gets one in this chapter. Immediately after the serious discussion of what's happened to Falin, he wants to ask another question. Cue a Beat with him gearing himself up to ask... why Laios was eating a brick. Laios proceeds to explain (all too eagerly) how they've been eating monsters the whole time, and poor Shuro nearly goes into shock.
  • When Laios tells Kabru that the orcs won't bother them, Kabru misunderstands and asks Laios what they tasted like.
• Chapter 38:
  • After Kabru stabs her, chimera Falin begins to rip off her shirt causing Shuro and Marcille to freak out. Turns out her chest is covered by feathers now.
    • Made even funnier in the anime by the fact that the dramatic music playing in the background abruptly comes to a halt when cutting to Shuro and Marcille's flustered reactions.
• Chapter 39-40:
  • Marcille, Senshi and Chilchuck pelting Laios with snowballs after he belatedly mentions he met the Lunatic Magician in the paintings.
  • The party is confronted by a group of doppelgangers that have taken their forms (based on each others' perceptions). Laios is the only one that is above suspicion, as all his doppelgangers look obviously fake. Through a process of elimination, they manage to narrow down the other clones to only a few options, but for the final ones, Laios decides they should all cook food to show that they're the real ones. Having to Spot the Impostor has never been so hilarious.
    • Behind his back, the real Senshi points out that since this is Laios, there's a non-zero chance that he'll find the imposter more appealing and take them instead. The rest of the party agrees that they'll have to watch their backs.
  • There's a funny callback to Chapter 24: Laios notes that one of the Chilchucks insults him in common tongue instead of his own language.
  • All of the doppelgangers are created via the memories and impressions of the characters by other members of the party, which has some hilarious implications: All of Laios's doppelgangers are dimwitted idiots, one Senshi is weirdly attractive, and one Marcille is a gonk and won't stop shouting about how she uses dark magic. This means that all of the party members see Laios as a dimwit, one of the party members thinks Senshi is hot, and another one thinks Marcille is ugly and won't stop blabbing about her powers.
  • How Laios manages to discover and bring out the monster that created the doppelgangers: going on all fours and barking like a dog. The rest of the party (and their clones, which they're fighting) immediately stop what they're doing and stare in amazement, because apparently Laois sounds identical to a dog. Bonus points for being a Brick Joke to the time Falin smugly told Marcille that Laios does a fantastic impression of a dog.
  • Laios managed to deduce the originals from the dopplegangers due to each of the fakes making a minor but uncharacteristic mistake: Chilchuck sitting too close to where there would be mimics, Senshi's disregard for the dungeon's ecosystem, and Marcille's carelessness in handling water, which would have gotten her attacked by an undine like before... though in Marcille's case, that mistake is what made him think she was the real Marcille.
• Chapter 42:
  • Marcille is unable to wake up due to a nightmare infecting her, so Laios has to go into her dream to help her. Before he can do so, he has to face his own nightmares: his inadequacy with social matters and general fear of failure and mediocrity. But once he realizes he's dreaming (and that it's his dream)...
    Laios: (Raising a hand to the sky) Come forth, my most powerful servant!
    (The giant chimera that Laios imagined in chapter 3 falls from the sky and squashes his nightmares of his parents and former companions flat.)
  • Then he very nonchalantly rips off his own skin, revealing a wolf form, which he uses to dig down into Marcille's dream. That's right: Laios has a canon fursona.
  • Marcille's... uh... creative use of her grimoire during her nightmare. Which is also frankly incredible.
  • Despite Laios giving her pep talks and helping her through a terrible mental crisis, from Marcille's point of view, which, to Laios's chagrin, is what the nightmares show, Laios is rendered as an adorable fluffy dog.
• Chapter 43:
  • Naturally the thing Laios is happiest to find at the old battle site is his underwear.
  • Izutsumi tries to take off her clothes in front of everyone, feeling sure no one would find her attractive ...only for Marcille to tackle her while Senshi and Chilchuck hold Laios down and blindfold him. Laios genuinely doesn't seem interested in the sight in a creepy sort of way, but he does want to know important biology facts like how many nipples she has and how her tail attaches to her spine.
  • Also, Izutsumi cleans herself like a cat. She literally licks her fur clean.
  • Chilchuck being gobsmacked that Senshi's helmet actually comes off.
  • While waiting for Senshi to finish dinner, Marcille brushes Izutsumi and uses a clump of stray fur to make a tiny kitty head. It's simultaneously adorable and hilarious.
• Chapter 44:
  • Laios scaring off the dire wolves with his dog impression.
• Chapter 46:
  • Team Touden find an immortal village within the dungeon who utilize monsters as livestock, and with that this incredible exchange happens:
    Laios: They let me milk a minotaur!
    Chilchuck: Oh, fantastic! Now just keep that fact to yourself.
  • Yaad prepares a feast for the party. When a servant reveals that Laios requested minotaur meat... Marcille naturally glares at him, and Laios just looks away and pretends to be innocent.
  • The omake for this one has Laios made to wear a minotaur-skin hood so the minotaur will pick him up and cradle him in her lap, because if he touches her udder before she's ready she'll stomp him. He loves this and says it's an old dream come true. Chilchuck, being told about the experience and seeing an Imagine Spot in his head, is only somewhat less horrified when Laios finishes his thought, that the dream was of becoming a ranch cow.
• Chapter 47:
  • Izutsumi finally snapping out of the barrier-induced trance that made her act like a docile and affectionate kitty-cat, and remembering exactly how she was acting during that time. After a Beat panel of her shocked expression, she's slumped against a pillar looking absolutely mortified.
• An omake that was published a little after Chapter 47 gives us Rule 63 versions of the entire main cast. It's basically just a whole page of comedy gold, from Apron Matron Senshi to Yamato Nadeshiko Shuro ...and poor Laios being stuck in a Shotgun Wedding situation thanks to the high pressure on girls to get married and pop out babies in his culture.
  • The female Shuro in this reality is implied to have fallen for Laios, of all people. Marcille and Falin are more than shocked at this confession from the female Shuro.
  • At one point, Laios is inexplicably shown in a relationship with what appears to be a female Kabru, with even the characters remarking on how it came out of nowhere.
  • What little we see of the timeline where everyone switched genders is a smoldering pile of rubble, with no explanation for how or why it happened.
• Chapter 48:
  • Senshi has been kidnapped by a Griffin, so Marcille creates some familiars to find him. Her first attempt results in ...tiny, blobby, cartoony birds. Cue a large, dramatically shaded Reaction Shot of Laios glowering in disappointment. Further, because she needs to be in sync with her familiar when controlling it, to make the familiar fly, Marcille furiously flaps her arms.
  • After the first and second familiar get destroyed, Laios gets overexcited and starts carving the third familiar into a hyper-detailed "double-head fire ice dragon". Marcille chides him for it, saying he's still in that phase.
  • Marcille forms the last familiar into a skyfish, a long, tubular creature with small wings. This means that, when controlling it, Marcille furiously wiggles her body on the floor.
• Chapter 50:
  • Thanks to stepping into a Changeling ring, Senshi is now an elf. Not just any elf either, an extremely handsome elf who gets surrounded by flowers in various panels, just to drive it in!
  • That's not all. Laios turns into a dwarf. Marcille is now a halfling. Chilchuck is a human (with a five o'clock shadow), and Izutsumi is a kobold... albeit still with cat ears. Once everyone realizes what's happened, they all start screaming as they look at each other.
  • Everyone else has to reckon with Chilchuck actually being a grown adult and not a child, something even the characters who know about half-foots only looking young struggle with sometimes. Chilchuck ends up manhandling and carrying around cute little Marcille as someone whose usual slight clumsiness makes her a bit inept at being small.
  • Later they start making dumplings while still in their transformed state. The ones made by Izutsumi have fur sticking out of them.
• Chapter 51:
  • Laios' Imagine Spot of what will happen after they defeat the Lunatic Magician: Laios and chimera-Falin happily trotting in the town, while the townsfolk are screaming in terror at the sight of her.
  • When the group are attacked by gargoyles, they find out they can utilize the changeling's shapeshifting powers and defeat the gargoyles with it. The first gargoyle turns into the Bocca della Verità. The second turns into the Manneken Pis. Which immediately "showers" Laios.
• Chapter 52:
  • The group has figured out how to save Falin. They will cook and eat the dragon part of her.
• Chapter 55:
  • At the end of a rather serious three-chapter arc involving Kabru and the Canaries dealing with the dungeon, Kabru and Captain Mithrun seemingly sacrifice themselves to take down the Lunatic Magician and the Chimera Falin, with Kabru's last thoughts being to leave the matter to Laios and his party. Cut to them having been transformed by walking mushroom versions of changelings off-screen, turning Senshi into a cute little halfling and Marcille into a huge, hulking ogre.
    • Unlike the last time they were transformed, they don't swap clothes around but make their meal/an anti-changeling potion while dressed as they are - meaning Marcille's clothes are straining over her ogre muscles and showing abs she doesn't normally have, and Chilchuck's dwarf body has completely burst his shirt open leaving him barechested. Once again Chil is older-looking and succumbs to considering a halfling party member as like a child - he takes over chopping and mixing from blushing little Senshi.
    • Senshi makes a sauce out of the anti-changeling potion Marcille was brewing and she picks him up to yell at him, while at her waist height, dwarf Chilchuck and gnome Laios fret. They all eat it anyway, but this edible version of a topical ointment she made changes their bodies back while leaving their heads.
• Chapter 56: Laios rationalizes that because bicorns are the opposite of unicorns and unicorns prefer pure young girls, bicorns must like corrupt adult men. Cue everyone looking at Chilchuck.
• Chapter 58:
  • The party encounters succubi, monsters that take the appearance of the target's ideal person. While we don't see what form the ones that drained Laios and Senshi took, we do see Chilchuck and Marcille's. Chilchuck's succubi appear as naked, blonde halfling women. Marcille teases him, wondering if his wife is blonde. Marcille's? An exaggerated caricature of a Long-Haired Pretty Boy elf on a white horse, wearing an eyepatch with "Death" written on it, complete with flowery background effects and who refers to her as a princess. Everyone agrees that Marcille's taste is terrible.
  • Most people can't fight their own succubi, going weak in the knees despite any efforts to remember that they're monsters. So adventurers facing them have to stick together, each attacking the others'. Marcille blows the heads off the succubi going to Chilchuck and is very casual about it, while he seems rattled. However, when Marcille's succubus arrives rather than attacking it Chilchuck starts laughing and only realizes he's made a mistake when two succubi settle besides him.
  • There's also Izutsumi's exasperated "dead inside" expression as Marcille explains what happened.
• Chapter 59: Izutsumi creates what is possibly the worst recipe of the series, "Succubus Hot Milk". Its ingredients are "succubus milk (3 liters)" - which is really the white milky-smelling fluid from the stomachs of the succubi that had fed on humans - and "unidentified white powder (a lot)".
• Chapter 60:
  • The chapter begins with a flashback to when Laios was bitten by one of the succubi, and we see it take the appearance of Marcille before turning into a Scylla version of her dubbed "Giga Quad Head Marcille". She then attempts to persuade Laios by suggesting that she turn him into a monster as well by biting him. When he asks about the others, she says that she already bit them and we see an illustration of Senshi and Chilchuck turned into "Giga Double Head Flame Ice" versions of themselves, while Izutsumi ...is still just Izutsumi.
  • Immediately after the panels fade to black and Laios gets bitten, we see the Winged Lion for the first time. His very first line to Laios? "What are you, a total idiot?"
• Chapter 61: When Mithrun and Kabru encounter the shapeshifter from Chapter 39, Mithrun throws Kabru at it without asking. He then explains how it creates perfect copies of people from their companions' memories of them — all while Kabru looks at the sloppy cartoon sketch version of himself that came from Mithrun's memory.
• Chapter 62:
  • Kabru recognizes that others would find it difficult to remember the many characters that make appearances in Mithrun's backstory. So when he retells it, he simplifies things by having only Mithrun be named, with everyone else being referred to simply as "The Others". By the time the recap is finished, Mithrun is less than amused by the fact that Kabru left out a lot of details from his telling the story.
  • Mithrun uses a scroll of teleportation (sent by a raven familiar) to try and get himself and Kabru out of the dungeon and back to the Canaries' hideout. As soon as the portal opens, they get an eyeful of Lycion's butt for a few moments, before Lycion hastily explains that Pattadol went nuts waiting for the two to get back. They have to wait for five more minutes for the commotion to die down before the portal can be opened again.
• Chapter 65:
  • Deadly! Killer! Rabbits! Alone, worth a good chuckle, even if they are effective murderers in practice that almost pull off a Total Party Kill. What crosses them into hilarious territory is that every time they're shown attacking in the background or other far shots, they do so with fighting game moves, like bicycle kicks, spinning drills and even a hadouken!
  • In one of the most darkly hilarious scenes in the series so far, Marcille uses necromancy to control the bodies of every one of her friends that got killed and the bodies of each dead killer rabbit she finds. They all move exactly like her, but are, of course, dead. It's hilarious watching each of them mimic Marcille's actions, even gasping and crying along with her.
  • Marcille imagines what Laios would tell her to do to make sure the stunned rabbits don't wake up. Imaginary Laios cheerfully tells her to snap their necks, complete with a scared looking rabbit.
    Laios: See? Easy squeezy!
• Chapter 67:
  • After Falin tastes a bit of the Head-Chopping Rabbit Curry she has an ecstatic vision of the rabbits who went into it dancing up a spree.
• Chapter 68:
  • Thistle, as new Lord of the Dungeon, creates some monsters by altering normal animals, which is shown with a few panels in which he takes chicken eggs and hatches basilisks. Getting those chicken eggs apparently means fleeing from a normal, angry rooster.
• Chapter 69:
  • Thistle, mad as hell over having his house ransacked, starts ranting on how Marcille being a half-elf makes her inferior, while Marcille rebukes his elven supremacist arguments. In the middle of this, Laios occasionally backs his friend up by comparing her to a mule.
  • Thistle shrinks the party and then sics a gaggle of miniature dragons on them. As the dragons pick off the party one by one, the panels that follow treat their bodies as recipes, such as "Baked Senshi", "Seawater Pickled Izutsumi"
• Chapter 71:
  • Having managed to physically subdue Thistle on his own, Laios can't leave him alone but has to get moving - so he ties the Lunatic Magician to his back with the book Thistle uses to cast spells sandwiched between them. Thistle's legs are left dangling free. There is no dignity in defeat.
  • Laios tries to resolve things peacefully by sitting down and having a meal with the Lunatic Magician. Unlike every other meal made with monster ingredients, this one just tastes terrible.
• Chapter 77:
  • As the dungeon shifts, the newbie adventurers from Chapter 3 are once again faced with a basilisk! In the corner of a wider shot they start to fight it, and it looks like this time they actually manage to hold their own.
• Chapter 78:
  • When Flamela orders the Canaries to prepare to defeat Laios, who they erroneously believe is the new lord of the dungeon, Laios's friends protest that he wouldn't become an enemy. Flamela brings up the rumors that Laios loves monsters and asks if they think he wouldn't create more monsters or turn people into monsters. After a Beat panel, Namari, Shuro, Maizuru and Tansu (the latter of whom don't even know Laios all that well) all mentally admit that they can't actually say he wouldn't, featuring an imagine spot of an excited Laios conjuring up a five-headed dragon.
  • The adventurers that Team Touden rescued in Chapter 3 step forward to act as character witnesses, explaining how the party saved them... and roasted the basilisk meat to perfection.
    Flamela: Okay, this conversation just took a weird turn.
• Chapter 81:
  • It's not very funny when Laios gets called out for not getting to know Marcille well outside of adventuring. What is a little funny that of all people Izutsumi is the one calling him out for it.
  • Before he got sick Marcille's father was a bit of a glutton and fairly fat, to the point where as a child Marcille would ask if he was pregnant with a new sister for her.
  • The party makes a dish they call "Marcille's Local Cuisine", consulting a doppleganger of her dead father to learn about foods from her childhood. Judging from those memories and his name being "Donato", it seems to be an equivalent to Italy, and they know they have to make a pasta dish. The food they make, however, is pork ramen. Izutsumi, despite being from a version of Japan, protests that they got something wrong and this is nothing like the food in Marcille's memories.
  • Marcille does eat the ramen quite enthusiastically but leaves immediately rather than talking to the party. They try to follow but are stopped by the doppleganger, which effortlessly flings them around. Laios knows the doppleganger will be defeated by seeing its reflection; earlier, he'd tried old silverware, a bottle, and a bowl of water but found none of them reflective enough. Now he picks up Marcille's bowl - she's polished off her portion so completely that it's literally polished and shiny enough to work.
• Chapter 82:
  • This is mostly a serious chapter as various people outside of the dungeon react to the situation. As the Godzilla Threshold is breached the Queen of the Western Elves reaches out to representatives of the other two long-lived races, the dwarves and the gnomes, who all converse about the dire severity of the situation. She speaks to them through a communication fairy, the dwarves have what looks very much like a phone, the gnomes use a crystal ball... after the pronouncement that the Canaries and the dwarf and gnome forces will not be able to contain the situation and the world as they know it will be radically changed within a day, the involved parties are shown all in one panel as if they're in one place contemplating the disaster. One of the gnomes, though, is looking at the Queen, who seems to be bare-chested under a draped cloak, and thinking "That's quite an outfit".
• Chapter 84:
  • After giving it some serious thought, Laios concludes that perhaps the dungeons power isn't a good thing after all. An infuriated Kabru cries that that's what he'd been telling Laios all along! He directly told Laios that it was just a way for the Demon to escape to the surface! Laios concedes that that sounds familiar.
  • Newbie adventurer Don (from chapter 3! and more recently having fought a basilisk again!) is among the forces trying to contain the horde of monsters. He's more courageous than some of the other adventurers, who run when more serious monsters show up... but he's still hopelessly underleveled and is seen struggling with a batch of non-giant walking mushrooms.
• Chapter 85:
  • The party is trying to get to Marcille by appealing to her desires, like wanting to eat good food or seeing Chilchuck's family, which, due to her power as the Lord of the Dungeon, comes to pass. Izutsumi expresses her desire to get a rowboat so she can find the person who fused her soul with a cat and kill them. Mariclle instead gives her a library of books, including one on maps and charts and another on ethics and morals.
• Chapter 89:
  • After re-attaching Laios's head, the Winged-Lion-in-Laios's-body politely asks the others to pretend they didn't see that, as if his fly had been unzipped or something.
• Chapter 90:
  • Among all the shocking reveals, everyone imediately thinking the chimera Laios has turned into looks goofy and cringing when they realize it's a monster of his own design. The group passing his journal around to each other and Laios preening himself makes it even worse.
• Chapter 91:
  • Laios defeats the Winged Lion by turning his wish against it, eating its desire to eat. This causes the Winged Lion, an Animalistic Abomination from The Infinite, to take a dejected look like a Lazy Neutered Pet.
  • It's completely ambiguous whether Laios gave his ideal monster the ability to eat desires as a sneaky way of defeating the demon, or if it's just another cool monster feature he added to it like the wolf head and he was curious about the taste.
• Chapter 93:
  • Laios gets everyone to agree to the meal he promised before fighting the Winged Lion... then promptly shows everyone Falin's corpse, finally introducing them to his plan to eat her chimera parts. Everyone's dumbfounded faces are funny on their own, but poor Shuro's cross-eyed blank stare must be seen to be believed.
  • The next page has everyone's reaction to Laios' request, but special attention goes to Shuro trying to strangle Laios by his neck guard again.
• Chapter 95:
  • Kabru, insisting that Laios become king, comes up with a heroic, legendary spin on the events of the climactic chapters: when the demon threatened the world, Laios took the form of a giant dragon and gobbled it up in one bite, after which the grateful people made him their king! Laios is stricken with horror, to some degree because he thinks dragons are much less cool than his ultimate monster.
  • Senshi tells Izutsumi that she's free to decide what to do herself now and that's a fine thing but she should try to make some effort to eat healthy. He has a finger in her face when he says that, and like the cat she is Izutsumi bites it. She's then picked up by the scruff of the neck by Zon and hangs in an extremely feline pose.
  • Zon proposes Altar Diplomacy to his little sister Leed. If she becomes a consort to Laios, orcs will be regular citizens in the new kingdom! Senshi's eyes bulge in shock. Leed bravely says it's no sacrifice and she'd be proud to secure the future of her people, but she has an Imagine Spot of Laios leering and wondering what orc sweat tastes like and starts crying into her hands, while Zon sheds Manly Tears and hopes for her forgiveness.
  • Half-foots led by Chilchuck are going over Falin's dragon intestines, preparing to clean them and make them into sausage. In one panel, Kuro is urging Mikbell to join them, though Mikbell doesn't look happy about it.
  • Izutsumi is moved by Marcille's earnest request to live a long life so that she can see her again... and then Marcille starts crying and hugs her wailing that she has to try to live at least 700 years! This freaks the Cat Girl out and she runs away with her fur all spiked up.
  • After a chapter of being annoyed by everyone's serious considerations of a future they largely don't seem to be enjoying the thought of, Izutsumi circles back to Laios and has a O.O.C. Is Serious Business moment where she wearily dispenses a bit of wisdom while the wind catches at her scarf and hair. Laios is stunned to see this from her of all people.
• Final Chapter:
  • When Laios reveals he has misgivings on whether the final resurrection attempt on Falin will really work since the Winged Lion cursed him to never achieve his greatest desire, everyone looks solemn at this news. Chilchuck then ushers the others away from Laios and when out of earshot they all unanimously agree there is no way in hell that resurrecting Falin is Laios' greatest desire. We learn, years after Laios settles into being king of the Golden Kingdom, that his actual greatest desire is being around monsters, and the Winged Lion's curse makes them refuse to go anywhere near him (which incidentally keeps the denizens of the kingdom safe from both the monsters and anyone seeking to invade).
  • The closing tapestries are chock-full of visual humour:
    • The illustration depicting Laios' curse has a wonderfully detailed diagram of monsters being repelled, and a poorly drawn head of Laios in the center.
    • Most depictions of Laios look just as regal as they do uttely bored while on the throne. Everyone else looks like they should on the tapestry, while Laios himself is slumped over in his chair looking elsewhere like a bored student. Special mention goes to a close-up tapestry of him lamenting what his curse really turned out to be, since he is very literally the only person his curse is causing issues for.
    • While trying and developing new foodstuffs to give to the people, Laios once again gets food poisoning from eating a Walking Mushroom, with him dramatically slumping over in bed with Falin bawling over him and Marcille looking annoyed. Kabru, despite sticking around for Laios' reign, has his only appearance in the tapestries here being he's always been around our hero — incredibly pissed off in the face of Laios' impulsiveness.

Monster Tidbits

• Monster Tidbits 1:
  • We learn that walking mushrooms are very popular among monster enthusiasts. Laios shows Marcille a book about a man who ate walking mushroom every day. The picture shows he's transformed into some kind of mutated mushroom golem. Marcille screams that she will never eat walking mushroom again!
  • Apparently Laios managed to hide some man-eating plant seeds after all and has grown them into a small potted plant. He excitedly exposites to Marcille how the plants could have countless uses and benefits to humanity. Marcille sets the plant on fire.
• Monster Tidbits 2:
  • Zon points out his wives and asks if Laios finds them ugly because of the different standards of beauty between orcs and humans. Laios is a bit too enthusiastic in his denials and Zon almost squishes him for it.
  • Laios explains that young mimics conceal themselves with smaller items like tablewear, pots, and bones. One appears using a helmet as its shell, legs and eyestalks sticking out in an homage to The Thing (1982), causing a head to scuttle off. The next panel features an impassioned Marcille using her staff as a flamethrower to kill it while Chilchuck yells encouragement and Senshi stands by with fork and knife in hand.
  • Marcille and Chilchuck find out that the treasure bugs they just ate could have been sold to collectors for a high price. Cue them freaking out again.
• Monster Tidbits 3:
  • Discussing the dissection of the Kraken, Laios is inadvertently shot in the face. Given the discussion of nematocysts earlier, one might suspect it's one of those. Nope, it's a spermatophore, and it's just embedded itself in his forehead in an attempt to fertilize it. This only increases Laios' ire towards cephalopods, not helped by Chilchuck and Marcille's obvious inability to mentally process what just happened.
• Monster Tidbits 4:
  • Chilchuck imagines going into business selling giant frog skins to adventurers to help them deal with tentacle monsters. His demonstration goes terribly wrong when the frog skin dries out ...and loses its protective coating in the process.
  • Laios tells the group that the amount of information they have on dragons is comparable to that of walking mushrooms. Marcille wonders why the heck they have so much info on walking mushrooms.
• Monster Tidbits 5:
  • Following the dryad encounter Senshi's still trying to teach Chilchuck about the facts of life, starting by telling him that people don't get pregnant by kissing ...only for Laios to pop up and point out that dryads actually do reproduce through kisses. Senshi freaks out and bonks Laios on the head for ruining his lesson.
    • This bit is made even better in hindsight after the reveal that Chilchuck is married and has children. He's literally the last person in the group in need of a birds and bees talk!
• Monster Tidbits 6:
  • Laios's further explanation of nightmares is interrupted by fresh dream-visions in the form of episodes of a serial television show, complete with theme music, which they all stop to watch. Senshi quickly moves on but the main three are soon enthralled and are moved to Tears of Joy by the time they reach the finale, only to lose interest and drop off during the "second season". Except Izutsumi, who gazes on, visibly becoming more exhausted.

Daydream Hour

World Guide

• World Guide and supplementary material:
  • In the world guide, Shuro and his two younger brothers were kicked out by their father◊ and told that whoever brought back the most interesting thing would inherit.
    "I cannot entrust the house to sons as boring as you."
    • A later omake shows Shuro's middle brother explosively demanding to know why all his retainers are men - the youngest brother has co-ed retainers and Shuro himself has entirely women. A panel also shows that he too is dungeon delving but apparently in the Darkest Dungeon.
      "What is with this dungeon? Isn't this a bit advanced for me?"

Adventurer's Guide

• Chilchuck and his daughters are invited to a party with his friends at the Golden Kingdom. Packpatty and Fullertom are freaking out about being unwed, but Chilchuck informs them that everyone at the party will be unmarried. When his daughters realize that it also means the king is unmarried, they're suddenly super excited. Meanwhile Chilchuck reels in horror over the idea he inadvertently put in their heads, and desperately tries to talk them out of it.

Other Material