You're the first reaction to really call out the "teach it to me scene". You can see that 50 years of just combat and suppression training has eroded Frieren's love of magic. Hiding and abusing something she thinks is beautiful for war. But hearing that her master's favorite spell is a field of flowers, you can see that passion reignite in a second. She demands she be taught right now. The normally super passive and emotionless Frieren becomes so animated (for her standards). Favorite scene.
Man, I'd totally missed the explanation for why her love of magic eroded over that timespan, but it makes so much sense after reading your comment. That's dope
People hype up the fight scenes, but it's the subtle animations in every episode that stand out to me. The way hair moves, the subtle turns and facial expressions, the way cloth flows and warps to reflect character movements. From the scene where Fern sits next to Stark and casually folds her dress under her before sitting down I've been on high alert for all those small things they didn't have to do but still felt necessary to truly flex.
I totally agree. I would add something else too: the incredible level of details on backgrounds. When you mix those day to day animations and the believable backgrounds, it makes the show feel absolutely alive
There's some really good visual differences in fern's fighting from the qual battle to this one, in the qual fight she was lazy and didn't study up and was almost unprepared for the fight, she got blasted backwards and barely got a 3rd shield up in time. In the tiny drawings of her you can barely make out her expressions of effort. Right after the battle she's studying while waiting for frieren on the cart. This battle you see she's absolutely prepared and not even flinching at lugner's attacks, calmly just catwalking around his magic. On my first watch I didn't even realize that fern blasted lugner right through the tower.
Graf granat mentioned in episode 9 that aura's magic has a fatal flaw that whoever has a strong will can resist the spell temporarily. and when frieren told aura to unalive herself, it looks like aura has a strong will to defeat frieren and trying so hard to resist her own spell. that fatal flaw makes aura's death more brutal.
Bro I clap after this episode every time. One of the best episodes in anime I've ever watched. Also I love how you comment on and notice every nice shot and touch of detail and mastery in the animation, music, writing, etc. A lot of people just watch but there really is something to say about how incredible many of these moments are in this show. They took care to make these moments so special so we should recognize them. Great video.
Fun question time - given that Frieren's mana suppression is one of her oldest techniques and certainly her most practiced one, and she's very aware that sometimes lesser demons watch fights of stronger demons... can the audience be sure that she was releasing all of her mana or just enough to make Aura aware of just how outclassed she was? (This isn't a spoiler-y question, its just what I wondered after seening that scene) ...Manga to anime comparison, can be read as a spoiler, so do not scroll down if you do not want it... . .. ... .... ..... .... ... .. . One of the few things left out of the manga to the anime for this episode was a panel of Flamme with her parents, surrounded by flowers and laughter, followed by a few choice lines that add a bit more history to Flamme. Its one of the few emotional gut punches that the show didn't decide to take.
"How did Feiren defeat her before?" She had 3 absolute badass companions. Himmel, Eisen, and Heiter are incredibly powerful. Frieren would have never made it without them.
In one of the fast flashbacks in episode 10 that summarises the hero party’s journey, we see an image of their previous encounter with Aura. Himmel attacked Aura before she could use her magic and the scales flew off her hand. So she probably escaped cause she is a sitting duck. Then the hero party obliterated the remains of Aura’s army. That’s where Linie learnt Eisen’s technique. That’s also where Lugner saw Frieren for the first time. All those flashbacks take place in a similar background and them being with Aura makes sense.
never made it without them? what are you smoking, dude? its been only 80 years ago, Frieren is over 1000, she was just a little weaker back then. she would smash Aura just as easy without them. man, she's not even weakest of them 4. Heiter said her supressed mana is 1/5 of his, and we saw both her supressed and full mana in EP. 10. Frieren has several times Heiters mana.
@@neerajcherukuri4052, exactly. they didn't try to defeat Aura the way Frieren did in EP.10 first time, they just attcked her and she escaped. that's why Frieren did what she did in EP. 10 so Aura can't escape again.
Everything about this show is perfection, the story, characters, animation, sound effects, and music! I have yet to watch an Anime as good as this, tbh as far as fantasy stories it ranks close to LotR imo
You mention the earrings! For a 1000 years after the death of Flamme, Frieren never wears any earrings at all, but once she joins Himmel's party, she begins to wear Red Teardrop earrings just like Flamme with one exception. The earrings are magical, they do not attach to the ear, but Flamme's have a small bauble which dangles below the teardrop. After Frieren joins Himmel, she never takes off the earrings to sleep. Nothing is ever said in the story about this, and it might have no significance, but the timing of it, is very curious. Great reaction and yes, the story does get better. A S2 would include the El Dorado arc, all that glitters is not gold.
Lugner and Linie are actually awesome characters and for enemies and demons, they were really enjoyable. This show does characters right, I swear. I'm super attached to one that isn't even alive anymore lol with Himmel. Also this is a show that does backstory and flashbacks right. They happen so often that it's integral to the show. But it doesn't feel forced and I love it.
They tell you in the first 5 min what will happen and still one of the most satisfying payoff and "combat" scene in anime history. That's how great the writing is...
With regards to starks bandages, Its probably a way to suppress/slow down bleeding pre emptively in case he gets wounded in those areas. Similar to a practice used by the juramentados during the Philippine American war where the warriors would wrap their bodies tightly with layers of cloth bandage so that when they get shot, they dont bleed out too much and can continue fighting
lets be honest, guys, starting an ending not after "the mic drop", not after Stark Fern and other ppl came there, but right after Aura cut her head off was 100% intentional. and i can't think of a better moment for it...
35:55 The time lapse from Flamme's Death until it cuts to Real time when Himmel is arriving to recruit Frieren is 55 seconds long. The time lapse that covers the 10 years they spent together is .5 seconds. Their journey being
The hero party defeated the demon king. Its not freiren alone. They are all equally strong and important during the fight. Freiren was gifted with strong comrades
oh yes, the payoff was so good in those two episodes, the fact that fight scenes are not common it makes them even more impactful. The ending of ep 10 is one of the best flexes i've ever seen, they make you savor it for the entire episodes, setting it up in the flashback with Flamme's teachings and everything. Frieren the Slayer is killing elite level demons just by existing, she didn't even had to do anything (even tho technically it was Aura's own magic, but still epic)🤣
Fun fact! Sou Sou no Frieren is actually the Japanese name for the anime so it's a title drop and can be translated a couple of ways! 1. Frieren the Slayer 2. Frieren at the Funeral
lets be honest, english translation fucked up incredibly hard with her nickname. that "the slayer" doesn't even sound any kind of scary, the direct translation is actually frightening, considering its the deamons who gave her that nickname. basicaly what it means, is that she will be on your funeral. when monsters killing other species just becaue they can, giving someone a nickname like this, that's a sign things go realy bad...
Frieren the Slayer is actually kind of a bad translation. I mean it works kinda...it flows better in English...but it really should be something more like Frieren the one that buries you which I personally find more ominous than just "The Slayer"
Fern was so COLD in this episode. Stoic while hurt. While launching a barrage of spells. She's just focused on the goal to kill her opponent. Honestly, terrifying but amazing at the same time. 🫣
Yeah I presume someone’s explained it but in case no one has yet, in the first 24 episode season we covered 60ish chapters of the manga and currently we have 127 chapters of the manga and we’ve just finished a big arc and starting a new one so either it’ll end with the end of the previous arc or show the set up for the current arc which will be an insane cliffhanger ngl lol
@@Strawboys Yeah it's like 59 or 60 manga chapters and the manga is as of now at chapter 129. Can't confirm nor deny the time skip parts tho just so I don't bias your expectations tho haha but oof it just keeps getting better imo (or, at least, it manages to be consistently as good at all points)
Sousou no Frieren is a pun in Japanese. It means "Frieren who sends someone off at their funeral", but alternatively "Frieren who sends people to their graves", roughly translated. Seeing this series started with Frieren sending Himmel off at his funeral, and that it is simultaneously the term the demons gave here for slaughtering their kind, it is a very clever pun.
Note that Frieren didn't say "take your own head off", she just said "kill yourself", but because decapitation is Aura the Guillotine's preferred method, that's what she chose. Also remember the Graf's son showed that those with strong willpower can resist, hence why Aura take's their heads: Aura couldn't resist.
She did resist though......for a few seconds, you can see the hesitation and fear both as she is raising the blade and as it takes the first taste of blood. Those few seconds were all anyone was capable of, but they were a threat in those moments so she stopped giving them the chance, but she did have the willpower enough to try to resist. Also that could not have been the Grafs son in those willpower flashbacks, he died 10 years prior. Has to have been his father or grandfather. Frieren knew Aura as "The Guillotine" when they fought 80 years prior.
You missed frieren memes. This show was so memeable the "Aura, KYS" scene was everywhere lol also wide Fern. Im smiling like a dumb person while typing this.
i don't understand fans shounen that hate frieren. Frieren not shounen anime that have lot battle scene. Frieren is adventure anime not just selling story telling, but there more like music, BGM, even detail sound cloth like SEIN that not much people noticed it, the graphic that there no 3D dragon and even gargoyle is not 3D(this spoiler you soon). Also battle scene frieren is only few but so beautiful and detail, like this episode you can see fern vs lugner clash is like firework.
Yes, it gonna get even better, I can assure you, there is a good reason this show is hailed as the show to beat Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood from its throne.
@@RishTheMan not really, FMA is a completely finished story, while Frieren is only 1 season so far. So until Frieren is finished I do not think it is a fair comparison. And yes I know that on ranking websites it has beaten FMA. Do not get me wrong, I hope that Frieren keeps this level of perfection up because it is a amazing show so far.
@@TheDonmayo Wrong. It's perfectly fair. It doesn't really matter if it's finished or not. We're only talking about the anime here. If there's only 1 season of the anime (since there's no official announcement yet for a 2nd season), then in terms of an animated series, Frieren has already beaten FMA. It's still at the top of MAL anyway. And that hasn't happened before. Toxic FMA fans on MAL would usually drag down any series that dethrones FMA after a certain time. But it couldn't happen with Frieren because it's just too good.
Now consider this…..Frieren released enough mana to break auras will since she didn’t want her resisting . However , it’s never stated that its Frierens “max” . It could have just been enough to “break” aura TLDR : Frieren is HER
well, season 2 gonna have another mana relise form Frieren. just wait another couple years to see it. at least i hope they take thier time to make it as good as first season, we don't want to see Onepunchman season 2 story again. if they not rush and do things right, season 2 will push FMAB to 3rd place lol
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