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Sep 6, 2026
At first, I thought it would be a fantasy comedy with a cooking gimmick as its main premise. And at least in the first part, it really was. Many episodes were so fun thanks to the creativity of turning each monster into a dish, plus the chemistry between Laios, Marcille, Chilchuck, and Senshi that brought the dungeon journey to life.
What I grew to like more and more is the way the story builds the dungeon to feel like a real ecosystem. Each monster has its own behaviors and relationships to its environment. Food, resources, and survival are constantly interconnected, making those small details that looked
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like gags in the beginning gain deeper meaning as you keep watching.
The Red Dragon arc was the point where I felt the story clearly shifted its weight. The stakes got higher, and the themes of eating and death started blending together in a way that is quite disturbing. After that, the story opens up into questions around magic, the body, identity, and the dividing line between humans and monsters, which is the part I am most interested in this season.
I love how the story uses monsters or situations in the dungeon as tools to explore the characters, especially the Shapeshifter and the Nightmare, which let us see the perceptions and fears of each character while remaining naturally integrated into the plot. Senshi is also a great example of how cooking can become a matter of memory, survival, and trauma without needing to shift the storytelling style into heavy exposition.
Another interesting thing is that later on, the story starts revealing that the dungeon has its own history and power structures far beyond what I initially expected. The Golden Country, the Mad Mage, and the different groups involved with the dungeon expand the world from the adventure of a single party into a much larger problem. This makes me curious about how far the next season will take the story.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Aug 31, 2026
Somehow I keep coming back to this thing lol.
I really love how the psychological problems of the characters are tied to the world of the story the whole time. Shinji has problems with himself because his life has been shaped by his father, NERV, being an Eva pilot, and other people’s expectations. Sometimes it becomes hard to tell what is actually his own identity and what he has learned he needs to be in order to be accepted by other people.
The later part of the series became much more interesting to me, especially from episode 16 onward. Evangelion gradually becomes less concerned with explaining all
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of its lore and starts using the characters’ feelings as the structure of the story. Episodes 16, 22, and 24 are where I really felt like the form and the psychology became one. The way the story is told makes you actually experience the characters’ confusion, fear, and breakdown.
I also understand much more now why episodes 25 and 26 are so divisive. It feels like Evangelion takes everything it has been talking about throughout the series and strips it away layer by layer, then asks what would be left of Shinji if you took away the Eva, the Angels, NERV, his father, his role, other people’s expectations, and the way other people see him. Episode 25 feels like a deconstruction of identity, while episode 26 feels like an attempt to put it back together. Personally, I really like this kind of ending.
I don’t think everything about the ending is perfect though. Sometimes it states its thesis a little too directly, and some of the characters feel like they are being used as tools for exploring Shinji’s mind rather than characters with their own agency. Even so, I really like that it was willing to destroy the narrative it had built and let the story end with psychological questions instead of trying to explain everything neatly. To the point where The End of Evangelion had to come along and give us another way of filling in the gaps lol.
What I probably love the most is the idea of the self and the other. We need other people to construct our sense of self, while other people are also one of the main reasons we get hurt. If we removed the barriers between people completely, we would no longer have to experience rejection, but our sense of self might disappear too. Having an identity requires some kind of difference between ourselves and other people.
So I think the ending of Evangelion has a really interesting idea about living with other people. We cannot keep running away from the pain that comes with relationships. Having a sense of self also means accepting the possibility of rejection, misunderstanding, and getting hurt by other people.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Aug 19, 2026
I like how the story uses magic as a political structure that’s inseparable from the rest of the world. Ordinary people are excluded from knowledge about magic even though, in reality, everyone can learn it. Is this a form of authoritarianism, I wonder?
The Pointed Hats have a reason for controlling magic because there was a disaster caused by its use in the past. However, protecting people from danger has also turned into a monopoly on knowledge. The Brimmed Hats oppose this system, but opposing the system doesn’t necessarily make their methods right. This makes the conflict more complicated than good vs. evil, which is very
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good for me.
Coco is a protagonist who wasn’t born with some special talent. She learns through practice and gradually understands that knowledge with power comes with responsibility. I find this interesting, and I’m quite curious about how the author will develop her. For now, though, I don’t really want to read the manga yet.
Season 1 still feels like it’s raising more questions than it’s answering. There are many interesting things about law, institutions, education, and the monopoly of knowledge that I want to see developed further. I’m really curious to see where the story will take these ideas from here.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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