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Rebecca Blue

This show really is just awesome, I immediately had to binge the manga instead of waiting for season 2, which I am excited to see in anime form. Marcille's dream is very obviously amazing, and there's a lot of background details hinting at later stuff. Laios's is also great in its simplicity. Have you ever realised you were dreaming mid-dream? I managed it once, while going down some stairs. But I realised immediately after that this meant the floor wasn't real, and then my foot just went through the next step, and I fell and woke up. As for Izutsumi being obvious, yes it absolutely was, but also that cat-eared hat thingy is called a Kuroko hood (search "黒衣" if you want to see images) and they do have a vague cat-ear like shape to them anyways. Also, Asebi, the name Maizuru and that were using for her, might be intentionally insulting. I found this out later, but the kanji used for the name Asebi can be 馬酔木, with the first two being "horse" and "drunk" so not the most flattering of names. (The last one is tree, but that's fine and in a lot of names anyways.) Though in the manga they do just use kana so I'm not sure whether or not this connection would have been intentional.

Vilmu

About the thing with Izutsumi initially being called Asebi: the retainers who serve a household receive a new name. For a Japanese reader, Izutsumi's name sounds like gibberish, so the implication is that she probably doesn't have an original name (as far as she remembers, anyway) and made up a name for herself instead, because she didn't like them naming her. Which further shows her bond with her ogre friend who is aware of the name Izutsumi. An extra comic also clarifies that the hag spell was cast on her, because she kept trying to run away so much. It's original purpose was to be sort of a babysitter that kept an eye on Toshiro as a kid, but the retainer Maizuru who created it is oblivious to how scary it is. So it's a bit ambiguous how dangerous it actually is. Then again, they don't seem very fond of Izutsumi and the hag spell on her is described as an improved version.

Vilmu

There's also the fact that cat people aren't a naturally occurring species like the dog people in this universe. I dunno if Asebi is meant to be an insult, but all of Toshiro's retainers are named after flowers.

Rebecca Blue

I didn't know they were named after flowers, thank you, but now that I do: Asebi is specifically this flower (https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%BB%E3%83%93) which I would not recommend you eat due to it being posionous and can/will (I'm not an expert) kill you. It gets its kanji because when horses would eat the flowers they would act drunk due to the poison. And yes, the dog people are kobolds.

Vilmu

Yup, kobolds were dog-like in the earliest editions of Dungeons & Dragons and got the reptilian/draconic portrayal later. In Japan, the dog-like kobold remained more popular.