In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Kundera writes, “What is unique about the ‘I’ hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine is what makes everyone like everyone else, what people have in common. The individual ‘I’ is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be unveiled, uncovered, conquered … Using numbers, we might say that there is one-millionth part dissimilarity to nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine millionths part similarity” (199). Dungeon Meshi’s characters are so endearing precisely because its creator skillfully highlights the one-millionth part dissimilarity in each.