Honestly expected Fri to fail that last test, as soon as seeing Serie be the admin for it. Just had a feeling it would be a case of "family" issues; like how siblings sometimes won't acknowledge each other simply because they are siblings (seen that in some of my friends and families cases). Serie is like Fri's older sister sometimes to me in this anime... at least how I read that room. But to answer the question... assuming it exists in that world; my favorite spell would be one that lets me have access to any one other "copy magic" if you will. Because even though there is so much magic out there in that world; you cannot always learn the spell you want; this is not actually a cheat... the balance is you would copy the by the book version of the spell; not the personally perfected version that properly learning a spell would grant. For example I could copy the Zoldyk spell that Fern uses; but it would be the OG version as it was originally devised. We already saw how that's a weakness. My point being is I like being able to cast any spell I want... copy magic would then allow me to copy any magic; even ones I do not know personally, its my visualization that chooses the spell being copied; but it can only copy what has actually existed in the past or at present. What spell would be your favorite?

Thanks to Naruto's Shadow Clones being so OP; I find cloning powers rarely that impressive after all so many of them are (pun intended) carbon copy of each other. Mr. 4 eyes tho actually never once being an actual body throughout the test... kinda blew my mind. I paused the episode and gave myself a minute or two and processed that info it impressed me so much. Only Twice in MHA ever impressed me that much beside this person. cloning where the clones are disposable but still are more than just tools is just unheard of in most cases. Thats why I was so impressed. In Twices case the fact he can't and no one truly could determine WHO was the OG body or if the OG was still around is what impressed me so greatly. Take Mr. 3 in One Piece as the example of the problem I normally have with clone powers (or Bon-chan for that matter); used really well sure; but only an idiot would rely on sight to determine who the "real" one is; and wax figures are statues that do not breath. toss some tear gas and Mr 3 is easily found. Twice or this guy from Frierin on the other hand it would be hard to tell because all would react or smell or taste so similar that the small details could be missed realistically.

Came here to say exactly that. Also, 69 likes. Nice. Can't ruin that.

I also thought it must have been the demon king fight!

That was the famous fight from 80 years ago. Not much else it could have been, really.

yes, and bet this spell is what turned the battle in thier favor. i don't think that spell finished demon king, but it difinitely did a thing.

and the fact that her clone actually does the same thing, to stop real Übel from using sorganeil too

Its not even that. Its build up to Fern being able to see the fluctuations in Series mana. Its THE big payoff

Also tells us that what Leinen was so praised for, Fern casually bested him at without a second of doubt. Now that's amazing power scaling and in-between explanations

Well maybe not more than we can imagine. Assuming Serie is copying what Flamme and Frieren did, then it means her actual mana level is about ten times that of Frieren.

Frieren suppresses way more than just down to 10% of her mana. When Flamme tells Frieren to suppress her mana to 10% she says First Start by suppressing your mana to 10% and holding it there. That 10% was just the training level. At this point, if we look at the difference between Frieren regularly and when she shows her mana to Aura, that looks far closer to Frieren being able to maintain just a 1% constant output. Now, Serie is who knows how old but it's hinted that she's actually been around since prehistoric times in this world and has actually watched humans form civilization. That she is from the Age Of Mythology, somewhere in the 10,000 years range. Now, Serie suppresses her mana but it's impossible to tell how much. 90%, 95%, 99%. It's impossible to know.

@@bernieburton6520 you may well be right, but didn't Aura state Frieren's mana was that of someone who had trained for a century? The actual amount was over a thousand years, which is ten times what Aura thought, hence my assumption that the suppressed level Frieren maintains is indeed 10%. So Flamme saying for her to first start doing that would have meant doing that was her starting lesson to Frieren, not the starting level of suppression. Which would fit with the idea that Serie is over ten thousand years old, since her suppressed mana is equal to Frieren's true mana, i.e. a tenth of Serie's true mana.

the banishment was for 1000 years. More just a correction. A 1000 years is actually long enough to be a annoyance for Elves.

it was 1000 years which is most how long frieren has lived, frierens banishment is more akin to a 23 year old being banned for 20 years

yea, imagine his face when she did it... i mean, that spell not just don't have mana radiation in the moment of the cast(remember Denken said its impossible to hide the mana in the moment of the cast, so this spell almost breaks the laws of reality), but it also can't be recognized as a spell. which means you can't protect yourself against it by barrier, since you can't figure out when you need to put the barrier. i bet demon king wasn't ready for that shit

That thing is so Tolkien-like, I love it. Pity and kindness destroyed the one ring, tge same way a spell that grows a field of flowers defeated the demon king

I didn’t realise that the “we’ll see you again” was also directed at us waiting for season 2.

And from the look of things, the following student invented the rescue golem.

Fun fact, the student who made the golems is Lernen, the one who attacked Frieren.

@@HeavyTopspin I think that student is Lernen when he was young.

Evan call really hit it out of the park with this one

Two of them actually!!!!!

Much more of it much later

Bro is tasked with the most dangerous task in the world. Making sure Übel can't clone herself

​@@NokyyyyyThat would be horrifying. I also love that he passed because of the sheer audacity of not having shown up. Absolute madlad.

'Serves her right." - Frieren. I loved how proud Frieren was of Fern. Fern is also a mage of peace.

There will be flashbacks of serie fighting, in the second season. No surprise that nobody can even begin to immagine how to defeat her

Welcome to your anime awakening ;). You’ll start to notice yourself getting more sucked into “serious” stories the more you experience them in this medium. Not that you won’t still enjoy the fun stuff but characters /development and writing will become more and more important as you watch more stuff like this. For me it was cowboy bebop way back in the day that shifted my perspective

yes, and you can guess even he wasn't prepared to this...

Considering that Serie focused purely on fighting and training her whole gazillion millenia of existence and Frieren just chased every whim and fancy with only a 50 year training period, AND that Serie said Frieren is relatively unskilled for her age, ofcourse Serie is MUCH MUCH stronger.

@@jaideepshekhar4621 of course, this is just a very crude example.

How did it go?

@@jaideepshekhar4621 I really enjoyed it! More than I expected too. The way I describe it to my friends is its like you're playing a game after you've beaten it and you're finishing side quests and seeing all the ways the world has changed now that the big bads gone. Chill vibes but a lot more than you'd expect happened, and everything is so sweet and beautiful.

@@TheGrossDemon You finished it?

@@jaideepshekhar4621 I did!

@@TheGrossDemon Favorite thing you liked?

Thanks so much mate!

I’m back. This is one of few anime seasons I’ve rated 10/10. Absolute masterpiece

Best of all volume 13 comes out in Japan in a week, so they have enough material to get started quickly, and the series' success is certainly creating an impetus to not drag their feet. No 3-year wait here, thank god.

@HeavyTopspin Mmmmm. If they keep the same pace. They'll be out of material by the end of season 2. Their already halfway through volume 7. The weekly manga is ongoing and possibly could be outpaced by the anime quickly

@@HeavyTopspin It depends on how far along the weeklys are.

It's not that the mimics in Frieren aren't dangerous. It's that Frieren is so powerful they're really just a nuisance to her, while they'd be seriously chomping down on "normal" adventurers.

Frieren’s ability to protect herself with mana like when magic thread guy tried to take her out and she had a casual conversation while being suspended by her neck. That must be handy while using a chef’s knife. Never worry about cutting yourself.

I view that more as a physical representation of her power rather than an actual independent tool.

@@jaideepshekhar4621 I'd say it was probably closer to the staffs that most mages use. A tool to help focus and/or utilize their magic. After all, it does seem to be a physical object.

7 but still, it's true, it's a huge script for that many episodes : )

Serie wasn't planning one way or the other. Primarily, it seemed, her immediate judgement for weather they fail or not was weather or not they were intimidated or scared of her. If they are, they fail. Full stop. If they aren't, than she would be willing to discuss with them, and make a judgement based on that. She most definitely was *expecting* to fail most of them, though. That's why she's pleasantly surprised by the end, and apologizes to Sense.