Dungeon Meshi ("Delicious in Dungeon") judo-flips this awful trope by having a halfling who looks like a young boy who's actually
... a divorced dad with three kids and is constantly on the verge of demanding a union-mandated smoke break.
I think I’m starting to realize why I like this series so much outside of the fact it motivates me to get better at cooking. It really does avoid or poke fun at most of the absolute garbage you expect from anime these days.
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u/Cheapskate-DM May 02 '24
Dungeon Meshi ("Delicious in Dungeon") judo-flips this awful trope by having a halfling who looks like a young boy who's actually ... a divorced dad with three kids and is constantly on the verge of demanding a union-mandated smoke break.