English Dub Review: Delicious in Dungeon “Griffin Soup/Dumplings 1”

Overview (Spoilers Below):
Back at camp, Senshi finally reveals his painful history with the dungeon.  The next day, the crew is rudely awakened by a perplexing transformation.

Our Take:
The show’s delectable plot thickens when Senshi reveals more about himself.  Of course, that includes him and his mining crew becoming the first people to discover the dungeon and its Golden Castle.  However, the journey through the mysterious dungeon wasn’t pleasant for Senshi’s old crew, as they were killed off one by one by a griffin and even their starvation.  Fortunately, Senshi’s leader, Gillan, killed the griffin and made soup out of it so Senshi could escape alive.  This flashback emphasizes Senshi’s expert experience with the expansive dungeon and its monstrous inhabitants, especially the griffin, which he had a phobia of.  However, after recreating the griffin soup for Senshi to conquer his fear, Laios revealed that the griffin they killed was actually a hippogriff due to the Changelings altering its appearance, meaning that it was the hippogriff that killed Senshi’s crew.  The first half of the episode offered a new side of Senshi, depicting his vulnerability from a near-death experience.  It wasn’t until he tried out the hippogriff soup from his past that he was left with a sense of closure, leaving him able to move forward with his new crew.
For the second half, the crew once again winds up in another difficult situation that could’ve been easily solved in fifteen minutes.  But as it turns out, that wasn’t the case.  The Changelings from the first half have also altered the crew’s appearances and even their skillsets, resembling one of the conditions from a Dungeons & Dragons game.  Laios becomes a dwarf, Senshi is a handsome mage, Marcille is a half-foot, and Chilchuck is a Tallman.  Unfortunately, Izutsumi isn’t as lucky as she becomes a human dog.  So it looks like they might take more than one episode to master their differences until they find a solution to revert themselves back.  On the bright side, it provides enough humor in their switched personas to maintain its fresh appeal amid the griffin soups and delectable hippogriff dumplings.  If this problem serves as the finale of the season, then they might as well conclude it in a humorously epic way.