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Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 14 by Ryoko Kui

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted tense medium-paced

4.25

What a ride! The series could have been longer for better story progression and character development—Dunmeshi is actually so rich in lore that I was surprised it was this short. I feel like Ryoko Kui has a lot more to say, still. But!! That being said this was an absolute joy to read. Dunmeshi is right up there in my list of fav manga of all time. Out of all the new series that grew in popularity recently, Dunmeshi is the only one I tried that didn’t fall off or end up disappointing me *side eyes FNAE*. 

Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 13 by Ryoko Kui

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.5

Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 12 by Ryoko Kui

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

4.25

Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 11 by Ryoko Kui

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

4.5

I have many things to say abt how Ryoko Kui draws the winged lion, but let’s just say I would fall victim to it in .03 seconds. 

And I don’t know if this is a popular sentiment, but Ryoko Kui should dabble in horror more. Besides masterfully drawing unsettling creatures that would otherwise appear pretty normal, she has a great grasp of all the elements required to make a page truly horrific (her next page reveals tend to be abrupt though… these become even more noticeable in the succeeding volumes, but I’d understand considering the amount of details she has to work with and… the deadlines). I’d even argue that it’s how she gets to shine even more, which was SUCH a pleasant surprise because obviously most of us did not expect Dunmeshi to get this dark. 

TL;DR I think Ryoko Kui is one of the only artists that could make a monster that you could fawn over (among other things…. monsterfuckers unite!!) AND make your stomach turn. Usually it’s just one or the other.

Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 10 by Ryoko Kui

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

4.5

oh my god the horrors never cease. Ily thistle you’re my number one baby

Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 9 by Ryoko Kui

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

4.75

ryoko kui's art is sublime

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Gore

Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 8 by Ryoko Kui

adventurous funny tense medium-paced

4.25

Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 7 by Ryoko Kui

adventurous emotional funny tense medium-paced

4.0

Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 6 by Ryoko Kui

fast-paced

4.0

Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval

dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

3.75

#girlrotting. Literally. A solid 3.8! At times exquisite, visceral, stinky, and .wet. It’s mostly repulsive, really but I do like nasty things. The ending felt like the time when someone really hot dumped me on a Tuesday night when I had work the next day and a new project to handle. Anyway this could have benefited from being just a tad less literary… or from being a smidge longer, but I still enjoyed it but cant rate it higher because Pym’s presence was nearly pointless and his role was really trite and something I really really hate seeing in stories with wlw

They bring up pee about 9? 10 times in the book? Didn’t mind it at all though. There are nastier things in the book.

… it really is quite narsty. she’s a freak she’s a weirdo. but the readers who get it will Get It, and that’s beautiful. Let’s all hold hands in support of weird pervy women. I don’t think I have a piss kink??????? But I think we should get more stuff like this every now and then lmao