Winter 2024 Anime Thread

I feel no connection with Sunraku saying these new random abilities

Clone fight was double hilarious because they are both casting the wildest reality-warping shit that can think of it and none of it amounts to anything, which is probably why she doesn't bother teaching Fern any of it it in the first place.

Just cast 'gun' really fast and over and over, it works better Uriel's Supernova or whatever other god-tier magic.

Chysamere said:

I don't hate the running gag. I just think it's not funny.

A sentiment most likely shared by the people around her.

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no pleasing some people I guess...

Xarpolis said:

My wife likes Frieren so much that she wanted me to make her new ringtones for her phone.

These are two that I came up with quickly. She's happy.



EDIT: Sorry, for some reason these weren't flagged as shareable. So they are now.

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Try to make one with the Mimic audio.

Step-Mimic what are you doing?!?

zzeris said:

Yep. The entire season has shown glimpses of her incredible power many times. She's basically a balanced Sung Jin Woo.

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Weak vs greed.

Guurn said:

Frieren - I've got questions.

Spoiler: Not to spill anything

Did she fail her simply because Frieren didn't think about things the same way that she did? The story of meeting Himmel seemed to prove the value of nonsense spells. I guess what I'm asking is did her intuition fail her because her way of thinking about magic and the world wasn't adapting?

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Also I'm not sure I get the 'it's fluctuating'.

From what I gathered it's actually impossible to stop your mana from fluctuating, even someone who has trained for hundreds of years like frieren can't do it, but most people can't read or see mana as well as they think, so frieren and serie, can easily fool all but the most powerful and adept.

Fern being able to see it proved to Serie she was first class.

Series comment about only the Demon King and the very first, first class mage ever recognizing that about Frieren was the foreshadowing. This show is very well written.

EDIT: As for why she doesn't recognize Frieren as first class, she states that rather bluntly. She sees Frieren as an individual squandering her talent and potential, never living up to what she could be capable of. Frivolous.

I took the Fern seeing the fluctuations and Serie getting excited as Serie being so incredibly strong no one can even see that she's compressing her aura too, on sheer power/skill gap.

Probably looking for the mage that can give her a fun fight/end her.

I haven't read the manga, but this seems to be leading towards Starke feeling kind of pointless beyond slice of life contributions in the future. Folks collapsing black holes n sheeit.

Kuro said:

I took the Fern seeing the fluctuations and Serie getting excited as Serie being so incredibly strong no one can even see that she's compressing her aura too

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This is exactly my take as well. Which is why that scene with Serie asking the other first class mages what they thought was necessary dialogue.

The one mage recognizes and conveys to the audience that fully suppressing mana is impossible, but he's also flawed because he didn't recognize the fluctuations in Frierens mana. Serie is acting like she's trying to overwhelm the candidates with her immense mana but she's actually suppressing it and testing the candidates to see if they can detect it.

The comments within those scenes, if you're paying attention, let you know that Fern is a truly exceptional mage. And Frieren constantly tells the audience of Series infallible "intuition" but it's not intuition, it's tactical and deliberate, and also part of why Serie won't recognize Frieren as a first class mage.

Guurn said:

I got why she picked Fern. I'm wondering if Frieren has actually surpassed Serie in the sense that she took Flammes opinion and is living it but Serie still thinks like she did. I think this scene was different in manga.

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I haven't read the manga but it's implied that frieren surpassed serie long ago simply because she's willing to accept other people's strength and willing to work with that strength to make herself even more powerful. Serie is an island, isolated in arrogance. Frieren is an army. It's a pretty cliche narrative but certain writers and stories can narrate it in interesting and compelling ways, even if we've all heard it 1000 times over