And that’s why his death her so hard, why now she’s investing so much time in trying to learn about her friends. Elves have such an advanced age, but their time it takes to develop emotional maturity is the downside of it. I never looked at it like that. You’re right, that is SO sad.

What is really important to remember is that Frieren and the Elves in general are not emotionless. They are simply different than humans because they live in a different time than humans. Humans meet and get married and have a family within the first 30 years of our lives in most cases. An Elf doesn't have to be that constricted. They can pursue their hobbies for 500 years, meet someone nice during that time, spent a couple of centuries getting to know them, and then get married and have a family. It's the same thing a human does, but with a different time perception. And that is a normal elf's mentality. A normal Elf would have understood everything Himmel tried to convey to Frieren and all the things that he did for her that showed his love for her. But Frieren didn't pick on that. Why? That is because Frieren is emotionally distant. Frieren is not a reliable narrator and that is something most people miss when they see the show. As we have established the Elves have emotions, the same range and with the same intensity as humans. Frieren's comment that the Elves don't have romantic and reproductive urges is wrong because that is her perception alone and this claim has already been debunked by the anime and manga. If they lacked romantic and reproductive urges then they would have gone extinct a long time ago because no new elves would be born and no families would exist. But that is not the case as we have seen that Frieren herself lived in a village with her family, and the village had families and more importantly CHILDREN. That means that the Elves do have romantic and reproductive urges. They are simply living in a different time than the rest of the races of this world such as humans and dwarves. The reasons that the Elves are going extinct are different. The first reason is the near total war that the demons declared on them that led to a lot of casualties and the second is their different sense of time. While they do have reproductive urges and romantic feelings, because they live for so long it is not necessary for them to find a romantic partner and create a family within the first 2 to 3 decades of their lives as humans usually do, meaning that the birth rates of the Elven race are significantly lower compared to the other races. Add to that the war with the Demons for more than a millennia and you have a recipe for disaster. The elven population was decimated as a result of the genocidal war with the demons and the elves are now few and far between with their population dwindling and dying out. If they could get together and create a secluded community they might save their species, but that would be difficult because they would have to start actively searching the continent to find the remaining Elves and bring them together. Now why is Frieren different than a normal Elf? That is because of the way she grew and lived. Frieren was the sole survivor of the attack on her village when she was a young girl. After that she lived with Flamme that taught her that the best possible way to fight effectively against demons is to be an unknown quantity. To hide her mana and to have never made a name for herself so that the demons would have never heard of her. While they visited towns and cities for supplies and news, they never interacted for anything more than shopping with anyone. So, Frieren's social skills and manners are nothing more than what is needed to interact civilly with another for work and shopping. After all, after Flamme's death she secluded herself in her forest and lived as a hermit. She only visited towns and kingdoms for supplies and news. Nothing more. She has no real idea how to behave around people, she had no real friendships or relationships of any kind until Himmel and his party pestered her to go with them. Himmel, Heiter and Eisen were the first real friends she had since Flamme! So, of course she didn't understand most of the things Himmel did for her! She didn't because she doesn't know even now what he really meant to her. It's only now that she has started to understand her own feelings and Himmel's feelings. That is the tragedy of their story. Being an Elf of course has it's own place in the story, giving us that different sense of time an elf has in contrast to a human, but it is really a combination of factors that led to the tragic love story we see before us.

Because he is _him!_

Love how you put quotation marks yet you failed to quote lmao

I like to think that it's symbolism. Like, the only thing comes between Frieren and Himmel is time.

The clocktower however has an arch underneath it. Frieren will get to pass through time, and eventually find out what Himmel was wanting to say.

I've been playing Zoltrak on repeat

Yoko kanno has entered the chat lol

Tbh its worth 😂

...Who cares? 🙄 Don't you have parents?