Yeah, this first Friday with no Frieren is hittin’ hard

There were some rumors about a prequel to Frieren. It might be in movie form

“Don’t worry, we just have to wait for another mere 10 years.” -Frieren.

@@joelcardenas7015 “You have at most 3” -Fern

I decided to read the manga because I need more Frieren in my life

I'm so sorry for your loss and sorry for feeling some form of comfort from reading that you struggle daily with the pain and grief. Maybe the feeling of comfort comes from knowing that there are others out there going through the same thing but I have never really been any good at pinpointing why I feel certain ways. In any case, thank you for sharing your story. I lost my mom just a few weeks ago. A week before that, watching Frieren and videos that talked about it made me realize that I should spend more time and create more memories with my mom so I started planning things to do with her for this current week, when I got to go home for vacation. Unfortunately, she passed suddenly, before I could share with her what I had planned.

I also lost my mom a year ago. I’m sorry for your loss. Frieren also reminded me about my mom. The ending theme song makes me cry every time.

@@wushuallan Oooof. All of the above stories are haunting, though yours is very hard indeed. Reminds me a bit of when my Grandfather died. We did talk, but I planned on talking to him so much more. And back then he was so old, but in so good condition that I thought he was almost immortal (he was 95 when he died. And I personally knew people who actively lived beyond 100 easily). That is when mortality of others hit me. When it comes to my mum, we will soon have 15 years since she passed. Sadly (?) it wasn't sudden. On the plus side it gave me time to talk to her more, but on negative side - well, dying slowly from cancer is painful. And as her primary caretaker it was a lot of work and a lot of pain to see what was happening to her.

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I mean Frieren on bed, when talking about Starks 18th birthday was closest thing in Frieren to "fan service" ;) . And it actually had meaning. Of course some will also count all those Mimics. IDK if I'd call it a "foot fetish" (like some people do) for having an emphasis on feet of one elf that are shown maybe 3 times. Elf that famously walks barefooted and wears stuff that was popular thousands of years ago. It is mostly there to show how bored she is. She has important conversation and at the same time she is giving herself a foot bath and inspecting said feet. Almost to say: "Regardless of how important this conversation is, I had thousands like this and will have thousands more, how are my feet doing, nothing wrong with them? That's good."

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So she was Frieren at the funeral and you are Frieren before Himmel. Or Sein ^^

Say you friends next time that they have fucking Garbage taste and they should watch with their small brain only action anime.

That is literally the show having nothing to teach you, it just so happens to pander to your crusty old expectations and confirm your more recently acquired biases. You got bored of the novelty of the previous shows you ONLY watched for novelty when you were younger, and now this is where you find same kind of novelty and are not already bored with. YOU are the one who will grow out of it. You grow bored of it. You have just staved off boredom this far, not approached shows for a new perspective that would enlighten you even IF it is boring. I do find it boring, though being boring is not my holdup with these shows. My issue is blind faith fandoms like that of Jobless Incarnation that simply throw out these 10/10 ratings, performatively, to say THEY like it but not having anything to say about a show that has nothing to say for itself. It's filler for your MAL profile to say somehing about yourself. These characters are just finding a new depth in gossip fodder, pretending you're talking about events or concepts when really its' just more of the lowest capacity of mind. talking about people. Not even real people but characters who exist to replace real people you find boring. I've been liking Undead Unluck, because it's magnificently derived and condensed. Not in its own story structure but it seems to able to tell almost EVERYTHING any action shounen takes a 100 episodes to tell, and tell them all at once. And USUALLY shows like these are deathly boring, heady and obtuse, while Undead Unluck turns that into a crazy pace of unconventional plot shifts. It's like anti-MacGuffin The Show.

I'm 18 so maybe you'd call me young/younger I would call Frieren a 10 out of 10 jjk real doesn't do it for me so I think it's a them problem tell them it's slow but that's the point and it can teach them lesson to apply in life or to help understand others.

@@sboinkthelegday3892 Perhaps, in time, you will get it too.

​@@sboinkthelegday3892 Nah bro You just don't have a fully developed brain yet.

I remember when people said the same thing 5, 10, 15 and 20 years ago. That being said there is a reason why I don't think Season 2 will come earlier than Winter 2026 season (which means late fall of 2025) and probably later. They have enough material to make Season 2 as long as Season 1. But there isn't much material after that yet. I think they will wait (remember that getting slot on Japanese TV takes time. Producing Anime takes time etc. - they didn't announce Season2 yet, which means those things aren't being worked on yet) until they have enough material to at least follow Season 2 by OVA or have 1 cour long Season 3. Which given that it is unlikely they will produce said OVA or Season 3 immediately, they will actually have enough material for full Season 3 when this gets released. And Manga is being released at SLOW pace. 1-2 chapters a month is often norm lately.

Well there was a huge influx of "isekai" animes, so Frieren with its slow pacing, beautiful art and amazing soundtrack was a welcome fresh breath of air for anime. Let alone the heartwarming story which i really enjoyed. Though as some people stated you need a certain kind of experience (being older) to really appreciate.

Please don't tell people how they should "take" their Anime. There is nothing wrong with your approach and there is nothing wrong with more serious approach. Only if it starts to become an actual obsession it might be called wrong.

Just consume product

I think that there have been a lot of great anime that have come out recently, like Bocchi the Rock, Apothecary diaries, and Dali and Migi. People who say Anime is too boring and formulaic recently just aren't watching the right shows. Also, I'm pretty sure that the thumbnail is an AI image.

@@Yakle03 Honestly I think it's both. Yes, selection of Anime is great. But there is so much of, how do kids call it? "Mid" Anime ;) . Which means you either have to watch 60+ shows yourself, or trust people who make selections for you. 3rd option is for word of the mouth to say what is good, but then you miss at least beginning of the Season and have to catch up. Thankfully I've read Frieren Manga, so I knew instantly that I will watch it. But if it wasn't for word of the mouth and people recommending it, I would miss "Bocchi the Rock" completely. I also saw "Apothecary diaries" by mistake - and now I'm proud owner of Light Novels.

I love Naruto, but I acknowledge it's problems. Also very much different fandoms, these big animes like Naruto, One Piece, Dragon Balls and JJK have very toxic fandoms and like to fight, just see the hate Boruto gets.

As one person explained - different fandoms. That being said I've been reading Frieren for over 2 years now I think. Yes, there are flaws, but 1. They are minor ones or 2. They are matter of taste. Nothing to hate Frieren for sure. Additionally adaptation team did a lot of work to correct seamlessly a lot if not all of said mistakes. Which makes anime close to flawless or flawless. You also have to consider length. It is much easier to find one tiny mistake in Anime with hundreds or thousands of episodes, then it is with one that has 28 and hasn't delved very deeply into lore yet (since it isn't the point and it isn't that important, because for now we didn't have any object, which had to be understood to the core in order to make stuff happen in story).

That’s because it’s too new

I said this in another comment but FMA:B is one of my favorite shows of all time! I was more so showing that clip to demonstrate that it’s an older show and people used to the flashiness of new shows really don’t give it a chance. I have seen it multiple times and I love it, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s a bit dated at this point haha.

@@SaikoSloth Agreed. I understood it as such, because I have similar experiences - people not wanting to watch a great show, because it wasn't produced in the last 5 years and doesn't look as great.

To the second point - perhaps message in those Shounens are simply a bit repetitive. Someone who watched Naruto, Bleach and couple other classics, might find something new in "modern Shounens", but a lot of it will still be a repeat of things that were in those older shows, just repackaged. That being said, main reason there is less filler now is because Anime's used to be produced at the same time Manga was. There is a gintama meme video somewhere about this. EDIT: to the first point - I think though that JJK manages to escape that particular trap. Of course some things there will be similar to things in older Anime, but "originality" doesn't mean you have to be "100% Everything new, everything different etc.".

Understandable not everyone is into Frieren not everyone would like Frieren even popular anime like DB series even though it is widely popular there is some people who dislike it.

It has ton of trope it just does them in an intressting way and makes them work togeather in an again interesting way.

Frieren has tropes, and tropes aren’t bad, they’re just tropes. You probably mean anime cliches. Humans being able to topple more powerful races is a trope. Tsunderes are an anime cliche.

Tropes aren't bad. They're merely patterns in storytelling that we've noticed occur because people have been telling stories for as long as there have been people and certain ways of telling stories just work (or at least seem like they'll work). What's bad is when storytellers fail to use tropes well.

It does feel like severe cherry picking. That's the only moment in the entirety of FMAB that I feel could be classified as "Fanservice" and the vast majority of the show isn't like that at all. Also, calling FMAB so old and outdated that someone would laugh at even the idea of watching it feels very disingenuous. 1. It's not even that old, 2. I've seen a lot of people criticize FMAB, but never because it's too old for them to watch.

FMA is one of my favorite shows of all time. The point I was trying to make is that NEW viewers don’t tend to see it that way for the visual and sound quality… not the fan service.

You misunderstood the point. I have known hundreds of people who refused to watch great older show, because it didn't look like it was made in the last 5 years.

@@jannegrey593 "it's older than 5 years old not gonna watch it" sucks to suck frick being them hope when there old people think of them the same way talking to them sound like your talking to a kid its not even dated them saying that clearly hsve even watched a single episode properly if even.

@@jannegrey593 the point is hard to see when your cherry picking.

I sort of agree. I will just counter with: "Don't tell people how to write their titles, people can choose what titles they want" ;) Also probably on more serious note there are some studies that suggest that such titles make more people to click the video. Not that it is malicious here.

@@jannegrey593 yes it is not malicious. What I'm saying is, if the postor's intention is to sell the idea that Frieren is an awesome anime, she shouldn't pick a title with forceful words. Like you said, there are studies that suggest using such words make people avoid the video.

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@@user-oo6ut3cu1m What do you mean "cool" You realise that it's a bad anime too?

​@@user-oo6ut3cu1m What do you mean "cool" You realise that it's a bad anime too?

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@@user-oo6ut3cu1m U got 6+ likes what secret code are u saying?