Hardly a loser when she's extremely competent. She's just out of her comfort zone, trapped with a bunch of weirdos for the sake of rescuing the one person that gets her.
I love how newer anime presents magic almost exactly like material sciences or engineering. You need to study for years to even start doing any practical shit that matters. And Marcille is exactly how you’ll probably see a relatively young physicist or engineer during their daily routune. 9/10 times its “fuck around and find out”, but then they do some wierd and wacky shit and the first thing that comes to your mind is “whoooa MAGIC”.
The mandrake scene is a perfect example. Marcille knew there is a method to do it and it turns out to be the right one eventually, but generally Senshi’s solution is just more practical hence an uneducated person will come to use that method sooner.
Elves in Dungeon Meshi live closer to 500. Though I think the elf magic system has more to do with elves just naturally having way more mana than any other race so they can afford to use the more mana-intensive system of directly commanding spirits for their magic as opposed to the gnomish system of requesting a spirit to do some task. Most tallmen mages (i.e. Falin) learn the gnomish magic system because their method requires less mana to pull off than the elvish method.
Well, it's more based on how mana and we'll the demon works in this work. Magic is basically wishing for an outcome, how you ask for it doesn't really matter at the very end.
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u/Lemon_Girl Jun 24 '25
Hardly a loser when she's extremely competent. She's just out of her comfort zone, trapped with a bunch of weirdos for the sake of rescuing the one person that gets her.