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Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 9: 04/10/24

Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 9

The recent anime adaptation of Delicious in Dungeon (2024) reminded me that I hadn't read the manga in a while. By while, I mean three years, although it doesn't seem that long.

Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 9 by Ryoko Kui and Taylor Engel (Translator) (2020) mostly deals with the party trying to survive an attack by succubi. The cat character ends up being the one to save the party because she's not as simple a being as the others. She's complex because she has more than one type of desire and they are in opposition to each other.

Chart showing the 9 volumes on the road narrative spectrum

There's also a secondary plot involving another traveling party. I'm honestly not that invested in them and then to blank out when I reading their parts. They do things. They talk about things. So and so forth.

The really interesting bit, though, is an after story for the succubi chapter. We see from Laios's point of view what his true desire had been. The entire time he spends ends outlining more of the dungeon's history and makes it abundantly clear that Laios could end up being the worst threat to mankind anyone has seen in centuries.

Like the previous volumes, this one also sits on the Road Narrative Spectrum. Because the story takes its biggest turn on Laios's vision, he is a priveledged (00) traveler. His destination is one again uhoria, both the past of the castle town, as well as the future for everyone associated with the dungeon. His route there is the maze (CC) for it's changeability and its underlying danger.

Five stars

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