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    (NON-FICTION FANWORK) Dungeon Meshi is full of vivid and complex world-building. When you take all the information in the manga as a whole, there are clear and consistent patterns in what real world cultures the author was inspired by, and how she arranges them on the Dungeon Meshi world map.

    In this essay, I will catalog and explain every real world cultural reference I was able to identify in the manga, including character and location names, historical and mythological references, clothing, and of course food!

     

    WARNING: This essay is full of spoilers for the entire Dungeon Meshi manga, all the extra materials, and the anime. Disturbing and violent moments that happen in the series are described, discussed and analyzed. The essay also discusses real-life world history and mythology, which contains sensitive subjects like war, death, slavery, abortion, child killing, sexual assault, incest, and bestiality. These topics are mentioned in an academic context, and not described. Please proceed with caution if this concerns you.

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    23 Jun 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 59

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    "If Cam and I didn’t love you as much as we do,” said Palamedes, “we would take turns throttling you, then give all your magazines to charity.”

    A series of occasions in which Nona elicited homicidal feelings in her housemates.

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    19 May 2025

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    Palamedes wishes Nona was his little girl. He knows that she's really the regressed, amnesiac soul of Harrowhark or Gideon, but he would love to be her father.

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    19 May 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 85

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    Joli is rapidly losing the ability to begin a conversation with her colleague in a way that doesn’t start with the words “I’m worried about…”. She knew what she was getting into when making it her life’s goal to give the kids in the city a better life than the half of her family that had survived their third resettlement had. She spends a lot of time fretting about things, it’s ostensibly what she’s best at, apart from speaking four languages reasonably well and doing the voices when reading from a story book. It’s no wonder then, that the first thing she says while she and Aim are fixing up the rumbling generator with duct tape and a prayer is “I’m worried about Nona.”

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    Five times Nona and Joli were having two completely different conversations at the same time, and one time all the cards are laid on the table.

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    18 May 2025

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    Centuries following the terraforming and colonization of Mars, a brief but catastrophic interplanetary war takes place between Mars and Earth costing both parties billions of lives. The two planets eventually make peace, and a large-scale colonization initiative is carried out by genetically engineered humans called Star People throughout the galaxy.

    Humans (now Star People) then encounter a malevolent and superior alien species called the Qu. The Qu's religion motivates them to remake the universe through genetic engineering. A short war follows in which humanity is defeated. The Qu bioengineer the surviving humans as punishment into a range of strange and horrid forms, many of them unintelligent. When the Qu leave the galaxy, the altered humans are left to evolve on their own, to ally between races, or to wage war between factions. Will they manage to progress enough to fight back the Qu, if their threat was ever to resurface?

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    All Tomorrows is a work of science fiction and speculative evolution written and illustrated by Turkish artist C. M. Kosemen under the pen name Nemo Ramjet, which I do not own. See more in the notes.

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    29 Mar 2025