Line #30 YMMV/DeliciousInDungeon


1	* AccidentalInnuendo:
2	** One of the adventurers Team Touden runs into is named Kaka. Which is most likely a homophone for "caca", slang for poop in Spanish, French, German, and Dutch.
3	*** His twin sister Kiki arguably has it even worse. "Kiki" is slang for screwing in Spanish and for penis in French.
4	** When the [[spoiler:Winged Lion]] starts to eat [[spoiler:Thistle's... [[DoubleEntendre desire]]]], he licks and savours it ''very slowly'', with the latter being rather reactive about the whole process.
5	* {{Adorkable}}: Laios, most definitely. He's nothing less than a [[NightmareFetishist huge monster nerd]]. He just loves everything about them and his enthusiasm is both endearing and infectious.
6	* {{Anvilicious}}: Eat well! Live healthily! Learn proper nutrition! If you don't you're only hurting yourself! The series isn't exactly subtle about these messages, especially because Senshi literally screams it out in the third chapter, facing the reader no less. It couldn't ''possibly'' be a more direct message.
7	* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt:
8	** Ryoko Kui is a very talented manga artist. Everything from her character designs (which are [[CastOfSnowflakes all distinct from each other]]), to her monsters, to the many, many dishes of FoodPorn in ''Dungeon'' is drawn beautifully.
9	** Studio TRIGGER brings their usual incredibly high-quality and dynamic animation to the table for the anime. While calmer and less action-heavy episodes are animated at the level of quality you'd expect from a really good anime, they ''really'' up the game in certain episodes (most notably episode 3, 6, and 8), pulling out all the stops and putting the studio's famously stylized animation add to the events of the manga with comically exaggerated expressions, dynamic fighting, and {{Animation Bump}} galore.
10	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "Party!!", the ending theme, is a very fun and catchy blend of rock and disco (plus some jazz in the full version).
11	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In the first chapter, Marcille refuses to eat monsters so hard she starts breakdancing. This is never commented upon and never appears again afterwards. [[spoiler:However, it's briefly brought back to Marcille during her "dying flashback" in late chapters. She's a bit ashamed about it.]]
12	* BrokenBase: Over whether the scanlations or the official English translation makes for the better reading experience. Fans of the former complain that the official release is overly literal with stiff and awkward dialogue, and changed spelling of the cast's names from what they are used to with the scanlations. Fans of the latter disagree and accuse scanlation fans of just wanting to keep getting the series for free instead of buying it and supporting the creator properly. Then there's the third group who don't care either way and are happy to read both.
13	* CrazyIsCool:
14	** Senshi, who beats earth golems unconscious so he can plant vegetables in them, moved into a dungeon so he could hunt and eat monsters, and uses an adamant shield as a cooking pot. Apparently its nigh-indestructible nature also applies to fire, since it heats up very evenly, perfect for cooking!
15	** [[spoiler: Laios letting the Red Dragon bite off his leg so he can get close enough to kill it.]]
16	* CreepyAwesome: [[spoiler: Falin's chimera dragon form. It's very unsettling to see her that way, but the design is really, really cool.]]
17	* CrossesTheLineTwice:
18	** The encounter against [[KillerRabbit Dungeon Rabbits]]. [[spoiler:A near-total party kill? Tragic. Having to Animate Dead your teammates bodies to act as meat shields? Sad. Having your new army of the dead, consisting of your teammates and slain rabbits, perform ridiculous dance moves as a result of your dodge attempts? Hilarious.]]
19	** The final battle [[spoiler:against the Mad Sorcerer ''begins'' with everyone but Laios killed by dragons. What crosses the line is that Thistle makes light of the party being made a meal just as they've been doing to the monsters. The deceased party members even get ''recipes'' when they die, extra irony for Senshi being cooked in a pot.]]
20	* DiagnosedByTheAudience:
21	** Fans have noted that Laios shows many autistic traits, such as having a special interest (monsters and eating them), being bad at social cues, and coming off as weird to others (he has a history of not fitting in, both in his hometown while growing up and after he joined the army). Shuro, who Laios had considered a close friend, even tells Laios that he can't stand him because of his lack of social skills, an unfortunately common experience for some autistic people. Laois is understandably upset, but also confused as to why Shuro didn't just say something. Laios' English voice actor, Creator/DamienHaas, who himself is autistic, has [[WordOfSaintPaul expressed his support]] for this interpretation.
22	** Falin is also theorized to be autistic due to being Laios' sister (as autism has repeatedly been shown to be hereditary in real life) and having a very similar personality to his, albeit more toned down. Like Laios, she [[NightmareFetishist thinks monsters are cool]] (though unlike Laios, it's not her main interest and she's more interested in normal animals), and she wasn't able to make any friends at magic school aside from Marcille due to her odd habits.
23	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
24	** [[NiceGirl Tade]]. The infectiously adorable oni girl [[spoiler: from Shuro's party.]]
25	** Leed, the orc captain and Zon's little sister, for her ProudWarriorRaceGuy tendency and BrutalHonesty coupled with an UglyCute design.
26	** Chilchuck's daughters (Mayjack, Fullertom, and Packpatty), who are only mentioned in the main story and otherwise only appear in omakes and supplementary material. A lot of this is due to the inherently funny reveal that Chilchuck has a wife and three grown daughters [[OlderThanHeLooks despite his appearance]]. Mayjack especially gets attention for basically being a [[StrongFamilyResemblance gender-flipped version of her dad]], including her also being a locksmith.
27	* FanNickname:
28	** Kabru's party has been called by fans as either the Scrub party, Fail Party, [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Team Rocket]] or Team Loser due to having been easily killed and saved by Laios's party twice and mistaking the latter for thieves.
29	** After getting more exposition, fans sometimes call Kabru "Cabron" instead, thanks to his hypocritical, negative way he thinks of other people ("Cabrón" is Spanish for "jerk", "bastard", "asshole", and similar words).
30	* {{Fanon}}: A chunk of the fanbase considers and draws Falin as being chubby; in reality, underneath her baggy robes she has a fairly average build, albeit with a larger frame than other female characters in the series.
31	* FanficFuel: Laios's comment about milking a minotaur has gotten some risque fanart from the Bara fandom.
32	* FriendlyFandoms:
33	** With ''Manga/GoldenKamuy''. A tumblr user even joked that the venn diagram of ''Dungeon'' fans and ''Kamuy'' fans was "practically a circle".
34	** Oddly enough, with ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}''. Fans were clamoring for a banquet finale like the Gauls get for years.
35	** A memetic one with the ''VideoGame/FearAndHunger'' series, due to their diametrically opposed takes in the mix of food and dungeon crawling (this one, a family friendly comedy about FoodPorn using ingredients from typical fantasy settings, and the other, a horrific dark fantasy about trying not to starve to death in a dungeon filled with [[EldritchAbomination otherworldly horrors]]). This has resulted in memes about the characters of each title interacting with each other to highlight their differences.
36	*** To a lesser extent, the same happenned with the ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'', for similiar reasons, resulting in existence of a mod allowing you to add Touden Party to playable characters.
37	** With ''Manga/FrierenBeyondJourneysEnd'', due to sharing having a memetic elf character in Frieren and Marcille, and both series airing anime adaptations in the same season. This goes double for Latin American viewers, as both elves even share [[Creator/ErikaUgalde the same voice actress]], and lampshaded like hell and back by her.
38	** Fans of ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' that discover the series tend to take a very quick liking to it due to similar focuses on ecology.
39	** With ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', partially due to a slew of similiarities, like exploration of similiar themes and motives, lots of well developed characters, especially a rich cast of varied female characters, or the fact neither really ever loses its humorous side, even as they become more plot heavy.
40	** A small one formed with ''VideoGame/HadesII'' due to the visual similarities between Senshi and the game's depiction of Hephaestus, as both are bearded [[BigBeautifulMan Big Beautiful Men]], with horn ornaments on their head and long black hair.
41	* FountainOfMemes:
42	** Marcille's tendency to act very humorously in response to exasperation at her party's craziness, reluctance to eat monster-based food, and other reasons means most of the more memorable scenes for the series come from her, such as her breakdancing/handstand of refusal, disbelieving stare, post-mandrake FishEyes, and of course her disgusted crying face associated with the "elves are not lewd" meme.
43	** The Touden party itself grew into this, as fans found incredibly fun to use them to see their zaniness thrive in other fantastic worlds, resulting in things like having them end up in ''WebOriginal/TheBackrooms'', have them cook and eat ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', and explore the dungeons of ''VideoGame/FearAndHunger''.
44	* GrowingTheBeard: While the early chapters are enjoyed for their comedic and world building elements, it's generally agreed the story really gets going once the party [[spoiler:reaches the Red Dragon]]. At this point, the story changes from being largely a comedic MonsterOfTheWeek story to having more of a proper story arc. But while it gains a more serious storyline, it never loses the comedy or collection of monsters and monster-made dishes that made the story popular to begin with.
45	* HarsherInHindsight:
46	** When he learns what Marcille did [[spoiler:to revive Falin]], Kabru claims that it might be better if Falin stayed dead. At first, he seems to just be doing it to see what Shuro and Laios's reactions are, which is a bit cruel whether or not he really meant it. However, not too long after this, [[spoiler:the audience sees Falin again... and she's turned into her nearly-mindless chimera form]]. Kabru may have had a point after all.
47	** After defeating the dungeon rabbits, Marcille is the only one left alive, drags her party's bodies to the cabin where they're staying and sits by them. Emotionally and physically drained, she ponders to a temporarily dead Laios how he thinks it would feel for her to be surrounded by everyone's dead bodies. While the scene is sobering and somber after a darkly comedic fight, it gets worse when not soon after, [[spoiler:it's clear that Marcille just experienced a brief glimpse of her greatest fear: watching her friends die as she has to live for a thousand years.]]
48	* HeartwarmingInHindsight: When the party meets Mr. Tansu's party, he uses Namari as a shield from a deadly attack without hesitation. But when Kiki, another member of his party is attacked by tentacles, he looks much more worried about her. [[AllThereInTheManual In Ryoko Kui's artbook]], it's revealed that Kaka and Kiki were adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Tansu as children.
49	* HilariousInHindsight:
50	** In his review of the first chapter, [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] jokes that Senshi's name means "poop farmer" in Northern dwarven dialect. Come Chapter 8, and it turns out Senshi really is harvesting poop to make fertilizer for his vegetable fields.
51	** The fact that [[spoiler: Falin's resurrection involved sculpting dragon flesh into organs and other things her body needed]] became this in 2021, when Creator/WizardsOfTheCoast released monster statblocks for [[spoiler: dragonflesh grafters.]]
52	* IKnewIt:
53	** Fans long suspected [[spoiler: Asebi/Izutsumi would join Laios's party due to her appearance in the one-shot.]]
54	** The reveal that Marcille is [[spoiler: a Half-Elf was a pretty common theory before being confirmed in chapter 68, with some even correctly guessing that her more rounded ear tips were a clue]].
55	** Many readers strongly suspected that when [[spoiler:the Winged Lion cursed Laios to not have his greatest desire granted, that desire would not be related to Falin's resurrection. Sure enough, Falin's resurrection goes off without a hitch and it turns out the actual curse is that Laios will never see another monster again.]] Laios's own teammates immediately and simultaneously also guess it isn't what Laios thinks.
56	* InformedWrongness: Part of the premise of the series with the InUniverse taboo against eating monsters. Wanting to avoid eating humanoid monsters is understandable thanks to CarnivoreConfusion but eating those that are animalistic is wrong because... it just is. Even though most of them are safe to eat and many of them are essentially just bigger, more beastly versions of normal animals. Most characters encountered balk at the idea of using monsters as food despite how much easier it makes DungeonCrawling thanks to relieving adventurers of the burden of buying and carrying large amounts of supplies. There are adventurers who do it (someone had to write Laios's guidebook after all) but it still seems to be an interest that's niche at best and reviled at worst.
57	* IronWoobie:
58	** Laios. He loses his sister to the dungeon [[spoiler: twice, his best friend tells him that he's actually always hated him, his team may be arrested and imprisoned forever if and when they return to the surface, and he seems to have a bad relationship with his parents to the extent they haven't spoken in ten years.]] Does he let it get him down or stop him moving forward? Nope.
59	** Senshi, after his backstory is revealed. [[spoiler:Years ago, his group of friends was trapped in the dungeon and killed off by a hippogriff one by one. After the last two got into an argument and only one came back, Senshi was tormented for years over the fact that he could've unwittingly eaten another dwarf.]] Even then, he chose to keep living in the dungeon, and the only thing that breaks his quirky TeamDad persona is when the group encounters [[spoiler:a griffin]] down in level 6.
60	* ItWasHisSled: [[spoiler: Team Touden resurrects Falin with forbidden BloodMagic and then she falls under the control of the Lunatic Magician, who mutates her into a dragon chimera. Doesn't help that Falin's chimera form is so CreepyAwesome that fans love to post fan art of it all over sites like tumblr and pixiv.]]
61	* JerkassWoobie: Kabru. He's extremely judgemental and often falls into full on BlackAndWhiteInsanity when it comes to how other adventurers view the dungeon, but that's pretty understandable when it's revealed [[spoiler: his entire village was wiped out when the monsters from another dungeon came above ground and slaughtered everyone. He wants to destroy the dungeon to make sure this never happens again and sees anyone who wants to profit from the dungeon, rather than destroy it, as being willing to put their personal gain over the lives of others.]]
62	* JustHereForGodzilla: A dub-specific example. A lot of fans of ''Series/OnePiece2023'' tuned in to see Emily Rudd in her first voice-over role as Marcille.
63	* [[HoYay Les Yay]]:
64	** Marcille is very close with Falin, and she does spend an awful lot of time blushing around her. At times she seems to be even more desperate to find Falin than Laios. Also, they share a bed and bathe together. [[spoiler: It's worth noting that when chimera!Falin goes to tear off her top (her breasts are now covered by feathers but no one knows this at the time) the two characters who freak out are Shuro, who is canonically in love with Falin ...and Marcille.]]
65	** One Omake has Namari talking with Kiki and Kaka about leg pouches, and how she thinks that tallmen look good when wearing those leather straps on their legs. Kiki then starts raising her dress and asking if Namari wants to see them wearing leg pouches for her, which leaves Namari a blushing, silent mess. The world guide returns to this topic and has Kiki tease Namari, asking if she wants to feel her legs.
66	* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: Did anyone really think that [[spoiler: Team Touden wouldn't eventually get Falin back from the Red Dragon? They lose her again pretty quickly, but still.]]
67	* MemeticLoser: Kabru and his group. They're far from the worst party in-universe but the fandom loves to laugh and poke fun at "Team Scrub" too much to care.
68	* MemeticMutation:
69	** [[http://tredlocity.tumblr.com/post/168057025880 This]] strip has made the rounds on tumblr.
70	** Laios Voreden. [[labelnote:Explanation]]A combination of the fan translation of Laios's surname ("Thorden") and the joke that Laios has a vore kink.[[/labelnote]]
71	** "[[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/elves-are-a-proud-and-noble-race-we-are-not-lewd Elves are a proud and noble race! We are not lewd!]]" [[labelnote:Explanation]]One of several parody edits in which Marcille gets angry over lewd comments about elves and is bullied by the rest of the party. Often used in reference to not only the series itself, but also to parody the fetish aspects of elves in fantasy fiction in general.[[/labelnote]]
72	** Marcille: [[Webcomic/{{Gunshow}} No sense of right and wrong]]. [[labelnote:Explanation]]A joke spawned from certain dubious decisions on Marcille's part involving use of dark magic. Derived from Gunshow's "Wizards: No sense of right and wrong".[[/labelnote]]
73	** Italian Marcille. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Marcille's family name is Donato, a rather common Italian surname, and Chapter 81 shows that Marcille used to cook her father pasta, leading to jokes about Marcille being Italian.[[/labelnote]]
74	*** German Marcille. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Marcille in the German dub of the anime is particularly expressive when complaining about eating monsters, which fans took and ran with, including an edit of the English dub where [[https://twitter.com/DeltyThe73rd/status/1743325355057037426 only Marcille speaks German.]][[/labelnote]]
75	** Senshi pantyshot.[[labelnote:Explanation]]The manga generally eschews fanservice of most kinds... except, hilariously, Senshi, the portly dwarf, who regularly ends up in positions where the audience can see his underwear[[/labelnote]]
76	*** TRIGGER HAS DELIVERED![[labelnote:Explanation]]One of the concerns for the anime was that Studio Trigger would downplay or even outright ignore said shots where the audience can see Senshi's underwear. Come episode 3, those fears were gone, as the fight with the living armors features a very prominent shot of Senshi's from under his vestments.[[/labelnote]]
77	** Senshi is hotter than [X].[[labelnote:Explanation]]On Website/{{Tumblr}}, it's common to see vote based posts voting which character (between Senshi and a more conventionally attractive anime character) is more attractive, with Senshi winning those votes. This results in fans joking about Senshi being "the hottest character". [[/labelnote]]
78	** Senshi sitting.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Episode 6 of the anime features a lingering shot where Senshi is boiling the mimic and sitting patiently next to the stove waiting for it to cook, with the cooking fire crackling behind him. Given that the shot is very open with a lot of empty space around Senshi and the fire, it became popular to photoshop in other characters sitting next to him. Alternatively, some fans cut Senshi out of the image and pasted him in elsewhere.[[/labelnote]]
79	** Senshi wants you to eat a balanced diet! [[labelnote:Explanation]]Senshi being used as a way to vehicle good eating habit messages, or appearing as a spiritual mentor to people who are not eating like they should.[[/labelnote]]
80	** Falin's dragon dick.[[labelnote:Explanation (spoilers)]]After Falin's resurrection as a draconic chimera, a number of people have taken note of the fact that that the dragon half of the chimera was specifically a ''male'' dragon--combine that with a few shots that show a very clear bulge between her back legs, and you have a lot of people joking about her having "new equipment", so to speak. The revelation at the ending that she kept at least some aspects of her chimera form didn't help.[[/labelnote]]
81	** Girlfailure. [[labelnote:Explanation]] A memetic description of [[CuteClumsyGirl Marcille]].[[/labelnote]]
82	** Izutsumi (Izutsumi). [[labelnote:Explanation]] A written form of a reoccurring joke in the manga of Izutsumi's thoughts being only a picture of herself, formatted in the style of the Vriska (Vriska) meme from WebComic/{{Homestuck}}.[[/labelnote]]
83	** Cancelling the manga to play ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII''. [[labelnote:Explanation]] Ryoko Kui, the manga's author, is a fan of the ''Baldur's Gate'' series, so when the manga ended a month after ''Baldur's Gate III'' was released, people joked that she quit writing the manga to play it.[[/labelnote]]
84	** They seemed like they were childhood friends or something.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Kabru's evaluation of Marcille and Falin's relationship in chapter 33, shown alongside a flashback of him watching Marcille fuss over Falin. Given the immense ShipTease between the two girls, it became a meme that Kabru was comically oblivious to the true romantic nature of their relationship, and that he had actually been spying on them while they were on a date. A couple of fanart even has Marcille and Falin ''outright kissing'' and Kabru still failing to see the exact nature of their relationship.[[/labelnote]]
85	* {{Moe}}:
86	** You could count on one hand the number of fans who don't want to hug cute, NiceGirl Tade.
87	** Senshi as a halfling is really adorable. Especially when he gets teary-eyed when Marcille scolds him for putting healing ''salves'' into the food. Everyone else in the party quickly begs for Marcille to have mercy.
88	* MoralEventHorizon: If the Lunatic Magician doesn't cross it for [[spoiler: [[BodyHorror what he does]] [[BrainwashedAndCrazy to Falin]], he definitely does when it's revealed what he did to the residents of the Golden Kingdom. Namely cursing them with immortality and ruthlessly executing any who try to escape.]]
89	* NauseaFuel:
90	** One of the creatures Team Touden eat is a gigantic parasite that Senshi cuts out of the kraken. We see it wriggling under the kraken's skin and everything. Then, eating it raw gives Laios his own parasite that spends the night burrowing into the walls of his stomach. ''Bleugh!''
91	** One of the supplementary {{omake}}s clarifies that the fairies the Canaries use like magical walkie-talkies are actually a homunculus created from a fermented mixture of ingredients that include ''semen and horse manure'', and the embryo-like humanoid requires injections of blood every day for ''forty weeks'' straight before it's viable [[labelnote:note]]This is in fact how UsefulNotes/{{Paracelsus}} claimed to have created a homunculus in real life[[/labelnote]]. Marcille is absolutely revolted by the process and disgusted by the Canaries touching the fairies like they aren't made out of the vapor that comes off fermented semen and poop.
92	** The world guide has Holm explaining how undines are tended and helped to grow. They need regular infusions of mana, which can be transferred through touch, but they prefer it in liquid form. Kabru immediately asks for clarification, and Holm says dungeon water, monster blood... or the bodily fluids of humans, going on to say that the age, race, etc makes a real difference. Kabru has one of his usual reaction shots - that is, he retains a polite smile and doesn't respond - and then, when Mikbell and Kuro are enjoying a shower provided by Holm's undine, Kabru keeps Rin from joining them.
93	* NightmareRetardant: As creepy or scary as some of the dungeon monsters are, it's hard to stay intimidated after you see them cooked into delicious FoodPorn.
94	* OneTrueThreesome: Laios/Marcille and Falin/Marcille are both incredibly popular ships, so logically the next step in fandom is to have both Toudens share Marcille.
95	* PortmanteauCoupleName: Farcille (Falin/Marcille).
96	* ShockingMoments:
97	** [[spoiler:Laios allowing the Red Dragon to ''bite off his leg'' so he can maneuver close enough to stab it in its weak point.]]
98	** [[spoiler:Falin reappearing as a monstrous dragon chimera.]]
99	** [[spoiler:Thistle summoning Chimera Falin to the first level. Any hopes of Team Touden keeping her chimera form under wraps are completely out of the bag now.]]
100	** [[spoiler:Laios killing his own sister by suffocating her to death. Even knowing she can be resurrected doesn't make the scene any less heart-wrenching to both the characters and readers.]]
101	** [[spoiler:Marcille releasing the Winged Lion and becoming the dungeon's new lord.]]
102	* SelfFanservice:
103	** While Laios is already built like a wrestler in the manga, he is often drawn a bit more muscular, and in art with modern clothes, tight fitting shirts. He is rarely given a six pack though.
104	** Falin is also occasionally drawn as a BigBeautifulWoman, likely due to the baggy clothing she usually wears (official artwork of her in other outfits show that while she has a larger frame and broader shoulders than most other female characters, she isn't overweight at all).
105	* SlowPacedBeginning: It takes a while for the series to get going due to the GagSeries episodic feel at the start where Team Touden is mainly just going around the dungeon's first floors killing and eating whatever monster they come across. It only starts to delve into deeper storytelling once they encounter Zon the orc chief in Chapter 9, and Kabru's party gets introduced in Chapter 10. The Red Dragon arc is where things really get kicked up a notch.
106	* {{Squick}}:
107	** Senshi's beard being so caked with monster blood and fat that it actually nullifies magic.
108	** [[spoiler: When the Red Dragon is biting through Laios's leg, it makes an audible crunching sound. Worse, when Marcille uses her healing magic to reattach it after the fight, he complains that it's itching. ''On the inside'']].
109	* {{Starboarding}}: It's very easy to interpret Laios as having a crush on Shuro but not realising it since, well, [[TheDitz he's Laios]]. If he does, then obviously Shuro doesn't return it [[spoiler: since he a) is in love with Falin and b) hates Laios's guts. A post-series omake certainly encourages the impression that Laios has a crush; when waiting to see Falin's answer to Shuro's proposal, Laios says that if he was Falin, ''he'' would say yes.]]
110	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The English translation of the manga originally transliterated the Lunatic Magician's name as "Sissel", as it wasn't until the Adventurer's Bible released that spelled out his name in plain, clear English as "Thistle" (they also referred to him with she/her pronouns originally). Rather than change it, they revised the Adventurer's Bible entry in the English translation to make it seem as though it was always Sissel, rather than admit the original translation was a mistake (as the fan translations for the manga have frequently done). Most fans consider the official translation sticking with "Sissel" rather than changing it to the accurate "Thistle" to be a stupid choice (considering "Sissel" is a nonsense word while "Thistle" is the actual name of the flower he's named after).
111	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Fionil, the teary-eyed elf found with a newbie party on the second floor, is the only elf aside from Marcille shown in a dungeon-delving party (the Canaries don't count as their reason for going into dungeons is very different). Marcille is quite insistent on helping Fionil's injured companion, which ''could'' be a suggestion that she knows her and wants to help, but that's the only sign. [[spoiler: The World Guide shares that in fact she's a half-elf like Marcille and only thirteen years older than her. She was sent to the Island on behalf of the Western Elves to keep an eye on things for them and wasn't supposed to join a party and go into the dungeon at all, so when the Canaries come she lies low. This doesn't really show in the manga itself - she looks nervous standing with Donni as he volunteers as a character witness for Laios to Flamela, but that's about it.]]
112	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Senshi is largely stoic and keeps many of his thoughts to himself, staying quiet a lot when the other characters bicker or chat. These thoughts are elaborated on to a degree in his journal, [[AllThereInTheManual included in the world guide]], which reveals a previously invisible degree of TeethClenchedTeamwork and hidden disdain involved in his working with the Touden party. Not only was he even more uneasy about magic than he let on, he felt a degree of FantasticRacism and despised Laios and Marcille for employing a "child" like Chilchuck in the dungeon, and resolved these issues himself, by himself. The first edition of the world guide had his journal be up to date at the time; the second covered the rest of the series but didn't reveal as much showing [[spoiler: a little bit about his succubus while still keeping its identity concealed]] and a bit more about his plans for after the end of the series.
113	* UnconventionalLearningExperience: The manga has been commonly referred to by readers as one of the most motivational reads they've ever had as far as actually going through with eating healthy meals and improving daily habits.
114	* UglyCute:
115	** Kensuke is quite adorable for a stalk-eyed, squishy mollusc monster.
116	** Leed the orc captain. She looks like other orcs, fat, muscular, with pig-like features. But she's also drawn with some cute features like a round face and big eyes.
117	* ViewerGenderConfusion: Dryads and Elves all look [[ElfEminate androgynous]], and it can be hard to tell which are males unless the story explicitly states it (characters familiar with elves don't seem to have any trouble telling genders apart, but those who aren't sometimes struggle).
118	** The group of dryads the party encounter in the 4th level has three with breasts and one without, otherwise being identical. Weirdly, those with breasts are the ones with pollen, making ''them'' the true males.
119	** "The Canaries" can easily be mistaken as an AmazonBrigade, but Captain Mithrun and Lycion are men. In a gender-bend of the Canaries in a supplementary drawing, the differences are minimal. Mithrun and Lycion have small breasts, everyone else doesn't, and Lycion wears very slightly more clothing - the only prominent difference is their respective heights changing. The author apologizes to the audience for the drawing not being very striking.
120	** [[BigBad The Mad Sorcerer]], Thistle, is also rather ambiguous for a while due to his long hair, short, slender build, and skirt, before it's eventually confirmed he's male. The official English release of the manga implies that this trope is in play in-universe, with characters having to remind themselves that he is male.
121	** Mickbell, the half-foot in Kabru's party, is [[ShesAManInJapan actually male in the original Japanese]] and in the World Guide (but is referred to as a female in the English release). The ponytail and childlike facial features don't help matters. In a gender-swap of the party shown in supplementary drawings, Mickbell looks ''exactly'' the same.
122	** Kabru himself tends to be mistaken as a girl by those who aren't familiar with the series, due to his slim build and androgynous-looking face. This happens most often with newcomers to the fandom who are sapphic women, as they frequently express disappointment that Kabru isn't actually female like they thought.
123	* TheWoobie: Poor, poor Falin. [[spoiler: As if getting eaten by the Red Dragon isn't bad enough, no sooner has she been resurrected than the Lunatic Magician takes control of her and mutates her into a monstrous, mindless chimera, then forces her to attack her own brother and their TrueCompanions, followed by her brother [[MercyKill mercy killing her]] via asphyxiation. Poor girl just can't catch a break]].
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