Frieren: EP 25
Added 2024-03-01 17:40:59 +0000 UTCi may have deeped this one a little too much ngl, but THERE WAS SO MUCH TO UNPACK.
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It's a bit of an odd request, but would you be willing to react to the newly dropped music video for Frieren's second opening? It's a fully animated, 4:36 minute video that tells an original story (not related to Frieren), and I'm curious to hear your take on what the story is about. If you aren't sure, or if you want to see what others thought, I read a few insightful YouTube comments (you'll have to scroll, as most of the comments are in Japanese). Speaking of which, the video has official English subtitles, so you'll want to turn those on. At the time of this comment, the video has been up for 17 hours and is at around 740,000 views, so it seems to be pretty popular. Video: https://youtu.be/CkvWJNt77mU?si=MQPwaczn9ukPKWX- Article: https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/latest/2024/3/6/frieren-beyond-journeys-end-anime-2nd-opening-theme-yorushika-music-video
Merfhew
2024-03-06 05:13:55 +0000 UTCi dont think she ever would want to- a part of me feels like its something she'll have no choice to do or something like that- u know?
Faroh Reacts
2024-03-03 00:37:14 +0000 UTCI wonder where you get the idea that Serie fears humans as a threat to elf kind. To me, it feels more like her aversion to helping humans is due to the fear of the era of peace the victory of humankind would bring. As someone who lives an almost immortal existence, it makes sense that that the boredom of living an eternity in a peaceful world would be quite literally torturous to her. I do not feel any "bigotry" from her mannerisms. As you yourself noticed, that despite her words, Serie shows a lot of care for Flamme, like remembering her favorite spell over the decades despite thinking that it was pointless, and remembering in detail about all her dreams and ambitions, while reminiscing about her like the tsundere mom that she is. She does have a gatekeeping kinda attitude about magic, but the qualities that she evaluates on to consider one worthy of being taught by her so far have been talent and ambition, not race. That said, it would still make sense if she is averse to taking on a human apprentice without it being bigotry, as it is only natural that she would not want to relive the pain of outliving someone she cares about again. Every time Serie repeats that she taught Flamme on a whim, it feels like she trying to make herself feel better by telling herself that she didn't care much anyway. The number of times she repeats herself gives me the feeling that she isn't saying that for others to know, but rather to convince herself.
Aditya Chakrabarti
2024-03-02 09:12:43 +0000 UTCShe is just killing the replica. That scene was an epic scene setup with a lead in quote. They like to do this in this show. Fern would never kill Frieren. Scold her yes , but never kill
JAMES D'ALESSANDRO
2024-03-02 00:16:12 +0000 UTCThey are biologically immortal. "How long" is forever. They can die the good old fashion way tho which is sad.
Aziouss
2024-03-01 22:42:35 +0000 UTCYou are really harsh on serie haha. Imo when she says she trained flamme on a mere whim, is similar to frieren always saying her time with himmel was a mere 10 year adventure. There's a bit (lot) of denial hiding in their words. It's the elves' nature to be detached like that. It took over 50 years for frieren to begin exploring what himmel meant to her. It's taken serie much longer (a thousand years) but she's on a similar-ish internal journey. Serie eventually did accept flamme's last wishes, which was to lead the human magic association and train mages. I loved her memory of young flamme, I like to think she cared about flamme the same way frieren cares about fern - not outwardly and not with words - just to a lesser degree.
pooper
2024-03-01 21:33:24 +0000 UTCI would consider Serie's disdain towards helping Humanity as, if not at least PARTIALLY informed by prejudice, a more literal kind of -phobia. Like homo(sapien)phobia, if you will. She has the potential to do great things for Humanity and the world at large by sharing her knowledge, but fears the potential future threat Humanity's ambition could pose towards elf-kind. After all, most forms of bigotry are irrational fear responses allowed to fester into malignant hatred, and you can tell from the fear-loaded justifications you hear for bigoted views I wouldn't say Serie's outright bigoted, she doesn't seem to harbor outright HATRED or want to hurt them in any way, but her passivity definitely hints at a fear of change. To some degree, she's RIGHT to be scared of how powerful Humans can be; out of Frieren's 11 losses where she had the mana advantage, only 1 was to an elf, 4 were to demons, and 6 were to humans. What Serie fails to realize is that Humans aren't like the Demons that committed mass genocide on her kind only 50 or so years ago (god now I'M talking about time like Frieren). She outright acknowledges Humanity could defeat the Demon King relatively soon if given the strength, yet she refuses to help, perhaps because Demons are a familiar evil; they live similar long lives, and she KNOWS how to deal with them. Humans are new, they learn fast and change things up, and she's not used to that. She's quite comfortable lounging around cockily on that throne of hers THAT BEING SAID, she also talks about Flamme VERY SIMILARLY to how Frieren talks about her, and those flashbacks shows that she does have some genuine care for her. SOOOO it's complicated. or maybe i'm completely misreading this, but I like how it sounds LOL
CH
2024-03-01 19:48:26 +0000 UTCrip in peace Blie, a.k.a "Saitama" a.k.a "David Draiman of OW-WAH-AH-AH-AH fame" (idk if he's actually dead or not i'm not reading ahead in the manga for this arc) also wtf kinda Zumba ass shenanigans goin on between Kanne + Lawine at 15:57 that aint even fighting anymore that's just impressive
CH
2024-03-01 18:53:44 +0000 UTC
