other animes: fight goes on for the whole episode or even longer, while the protagonist believes in friendship to stay awake frieren: whole episode shows you why the fight is already over before it begins and why it is not even worth using your own powers vs one of the strongest enemies in the world
I just realized this watching this reaction: The flashback of their conquest against the Demon king was a mere four or five frames, but every time she thinks of memories about Himmel, it's like it's in slow-mo. Shows how little damn she gives about demons and how much she cares about Himmel. Even I admire Himmel as a character now
ive noticed through rewatches of this series, the music has been consistently on fire (and especially heartbreaking, like when flamme asked frieren to plant flowers on her grave)
We all know from the start that Frieren gonna win but whole episode of bildup for this one short moment is great. You only wait when fight start and when it happens, then it's only one cold line from Frieren, drop the mic and we only see how she walks away from Aura perspective when her head fall on the ground not even looking on her...
SPOILER It's not an item Frieren could use anyway. Like curses, the magic it uses is magic humans (including elves) cannot use as it is beyond their understanding. This gets explained more later in the manga.
