I remember that thinking how abrupt that flash of images felt on first watch. What a brilliant portrayal of what "a mere 10 years" feels like.

That is actually so COOL! 😮

Given how subtle most of the writing in BJE tends to be, it wouldn't surprise me if that was intentional. Good shipping material, even if headcanon, tho.

Almost certainly he never dated anyone besides Frieren. He realized he couldn't romance her in the present, so he laid the groundwork for her to understand his love for her in the future, through statues and rings and flowers, on her own timeline.

Read the manga! There's a whole arc

@@bhig3 my fiancee doesnt like when I read manga about stuff she ALSO cares about because I'm "reading ahead," so I'm trapped here. I have this same predicament with Kaguya and Jojo :(

I wouldn't say you're reading too much into it, this is a very popular interpretation even in Japan. (Source: JP youtube comments, of course)

I find the idea that Kraft is older than Serie to be hard to believe, since she is implied to have lived in the Era of Mythology, the same time period when the Goddess of Creation walked the world. Yet, Kraft notes he spent much of his life not believing the goddess ever existed, so he must have been born after that time period (or somehow never saw her during it). Body type may have more to do with the individual elf than with how old they are.

@@Ryodraco or perhaps during the time the Goddess was with them, Kraft simply thought of her as this "Weird neighbor that led a religion and taught strange magic to those blessed enough to make use of it." Only realizing the worth of her teachings later in his life.

@@cirnotheicefairy3609 maybe, but weren't his words "I need her to exist"? Doesn't seem like he witnessed her existence, in which case he might say "I need her to be who she said she was." Plus, his big adventure was recent enough that while people have forgotten the names and other specifics, they do still know the statues depict ancient heroes who saved the world, and oral traditions like that can only stay intact so long. The statues are also in pretty good condition (i.e. if they were ten thousand years old they would be a lot more worn I assume, just look at how much the pyramids have eroded in like four thousand years).

No reason why you'd think kraft is that old

She’s such a contradicting character and I fell in love with her for it!

I am not sure that Serie truly has a Machiavellian view, but her view may be antiquated (given the prevalence of demons in the past, it may have been merely a means of self-defense). she is a very complicated character that shows a lack of self-awareness that is delightful even if one doesn't like her personally.

It's also a great parallel to Frieren who's initially distant and didn't find the importance in getting to know more about humans, but she remembers a lot of mundane small stuff people said and did because she's a great listener and actually is very emphatic.

@@2triedforthis830 Hypocritical is what Serie is. She just doesn't understand that yet. Makes her kind of fascinating.

@@batangbatugan Empathetic, perhaps, is what you mean?

and then you run into races with 6 limbs etc that ruin your attempt.

pretty sure aarakocra are humanoids though

I see what you did there and I think your suggestion is ideal. A Platonic ideal, if you will.

Throws a defethered dead chicken on the floor

BEHOLD, A MAN! - Some ancient homeless guy

Frieren is atypical for an elf but more in a traumatized way than a neurodiverse way.

I came here to say something similar. We can easily call her neurodivergent if our standards of neurotypical are based on criteria for humans. But given that the audience is (presumably) human, it's easy to see Frieren as someone who is living in a world where everyone's norms are so different from how she operates and relate to her as a neurodivergent person.

Agreed, this is definitely one of the best I've seen as well 😊

Also great video! You made me think about the show in a different way that I really appreciate

I'm gonna say that for Japanese show - pronunciation of German words in Frieren is at least much above average. Probably depends on how much time VA's had to prepare. But this is general "problem" (not really a problem, more like characteristic) in Anime and with Japanese language. It is hard to not add "u" at the consonant ends of words for Japanese person. And pronunciation here was good enough. "Khaaft" bit was a bit funny, but IDK all the regional dialects of German.

@@jannegrey593 The show uses exclusively Standart German, or at least I couldnt spot any Dialects

@@jannegrey593 Well I presume for the perspective of a japanese speaker german is more easily to pronounce then english because our words are more phonetic, however there also just certain sounds in german that simply do not exsits in japanese as it is a laguage based on sillybels.

@@timoth4529 Show yes. When it comes to pronunciation in this video - not the Anime, I thought that maybe the way he pronounced Kraft was a bit odd but it might be from some dialect I don't know. Most people criticize me for writing very long replies, so I tried to be very brief and it sadly impacted how readable is my comment. Apologies.

@@jannegrey593 Oh I c dont worry ^^

No, Serie is actually forcing herself into not caring, not cooling others but herself. coz she has lived way longer than frieren and effectively has taken on dozens of Ferns, that have all died through the ages, she can't get attached. And her attacking Frieren is the same as not getting herself caught up in her memories of Flamme.

I just use "sapients" because thats the big hallmark of what makes a person a person irregardless of what they are; no matter their personality or standing, ultimately sapiency is the mark of what makes someone a thinking being

yeah, maybe we should just stop categorizing out of human like or not. and just go with sapient or not. Humanoid brings with it the idea that there is something superior with being human like. But I personally never looked at the Elcor from Mass effect as lesser, just because they happen to walk on all four. and I personally want more fantasy people that are less human like honestly. The star trek idea of aliens gets old IMO

@@martinstensvehagen9161 i think Star Trek's aliens being more or less human like is not an idea created out of anything else but budget and prop limitations. to make the show the best it could be, it was a good compromise. Star Trek isnt a novel, or a game, or similar medium works with more creative freedom than serialised shows in decades past. and 'humanoid' definitively comes from a perspective rooted in human notions and establishes how another being relates to our way of being. this isn't necessarily something negative however. i understand we use the term in the context of fantasy and scifi, but regardless of the fictional genre, we still operate under our reality's perspective. we are humans, what we experience is a human perspective. so in abstract matters, non in-world of fiction, using the term is proper and harmless. just limits possbilities if we ever do encounter other ways of life to exist. but for in-world terms on these fantasies and scifis i think its stupid how they haven reached a more effective term.. authors are lacking.

Dammit.

you have not watched it yet bro

I like it already 😊 And to me, that makes it a good video.

The translation of episode 8's title as "Frieren the Slayer" is odd to me. Maybe it would make sense to a native speaker. 葬送のフリーレン is the title but 葬送 means funeral (more relating to the full process from body preparation to the post-cremation gathering than 葬式, another word for funeral that focuses on the ceremonial core - more what I'd translate as funeral). So the full title of the series is Frieren's Funeral/Funary Arrangements, not Frieren the Slayer.

@@be1tube Yeah, Netflix translate it to Slayer. But the one manga translator translated it to Funeral. I think, you're right. But I find it hard how to make sense in English, so I don't do with Funeral.

So if A Cat has an Intellect that makes it possible to reason with it then it counts as a rational animal?

@@TheRealJohnux Rational has a very specific meaning in this usage: _The power to obtain within oneself the image of the essence of a thing without any body of that thing (aka. produce and retain imitation forms or "definitions", innately) and to manipulate with at least some degree of deliberate freedom these images in order to generate knowledge about those things which does not come directly from observation of the things themselves._ It is also notable that man (the only animal known to possess reason in our setting) can exchange knowledge through the use of these "definitions" without needing the thing known about to be present or active. If one were to encounter a creature that possessed this power but was in all other respects identical to a cat then that would be a perfect example (pun intended) of a rational animal, just as much a man is. I want to avoid using intellect as a criterion here as (at least in it's modern usage) it has more to do with quantity of processing power than the type of processing being done, which is what reason refers to. I also want to avoid comments about "reason with it" both because even assuming the best faith possible "reasoning with it" is an interaction between at least two creatures not a description of one of them. And more often than not comments about weather people can be reasoned with are just a way to demean those who the speaker either disagrees with or was unable to manipulate.

@@szlingozec8395 not reading all of that right now, im just going to assume it's more complicated And no it does not count.

@@szlingozec8395 okay, after reading, I think I get most of it, so if the cat has the intellect and the mental ability to process than it could?

@@TheRealJohnux yes it would. Although it would still count if it only had reason without the intelligence.

Not really a lot to talk about with them yet. We really only get the one arc from episodes 6-10, and almost nothing is told from their perspective. I already know there is more in the manga, but I'm talking anime only, so more nuanced discussions of the Demon's alien-ness will have to wait for another time.

@@superdude10000 I'm running a close-to-folklore fey campaign in d&d, so this topic is very on my mind, trying to get in the head of a force of nature cosplaying as human. Frieren and the demons are intersecting viewpoints for me.

What happened when she met flamme and the isolation before she met himmel have a significant impact on how she developed compared to a typical elf.

That's Rocksmith: 2014 edition. It is unfortunately no longer available for purchase, as Ubisoft replaced it with Rocksmith+, a subscription version of the "same" game. If you want to play this game, there are other methods of procuring it that you absolutely shouldn't do because that would be legally questionable, and you definitely shouldn't do that. So to not mince words, you SHOULDN'T look up alternative methods to play the very fun and more feature rich predecessor to Rocksmith+.