Sousou no Frieren 2nd Season Episode 6 Discussion

@fantaghost

i mean, its just supposed to be funny. It did not work for me but it also does not bother me.
I was more bothered by the nosedive in animation quality in this episode, the ton of far angle wideshots with no details in the faces at all.
Like there are 3 shots where Genau/Methode literally have no face, that just looked cheap as hell.
In Season 1 characters in such wide shots had fully detailed faces so this was very noticeable.

Decent episode, albeit a sad one. The baker's son was so terrified he trembled in fear of the demons. Rest in peace to the blond baker's son, Genau's childhood friend. I hope Frieren's party and Serie's party treat the demons PRECISELY as they treated the hometown of Genau and the baker's son.

That aside, I do have one question. How precisely did the letter go not just from the pigeon to Frieren, but from the pigeon to the rabbit and then to Frieren? I ain't ignorant or illiterate, I know how pigeon messaging works, but a rabbit? How did it pass from pigeon to rabbit to Frieren? What the eff?

Forget the staff, Frieren should just throw that bread at demons

@3minutesbefore


Oh you are right! I confused him with Richter and I don't even know why. Maybe they look similar and I was lost. :D

Insanely boring
There's nothing important happening, no stakes or urgency.

Methode mommy is bacccc,

Fern got jealous again. lmaooo

and here,





the one with better mana concealment is Fern right?

it's difficult to tell who's who because Frieren appeared out of the direction the of the silhouette where the better mana concealment was from.


i was like dual sword style? huh Zoro does better... then quad sword style mentioned.
FAAAAAAA

and Frieren mentioned that the captain was far stronger than stark. if she's actually scaling starks strength and not like stark himself that demon is lot of trouble.

feel bad for Genou tho

What a great setup episode for the next big demon fight. On that note it was terrible to hear that for some reason demons also kill when they're not hungry.

Regarding Genau, it was interesting to hear Frieren mention that his spells have bloodlust to them and I think its because his village was decimated but I hope that doesn't lead to him making irrational decisions when they confront the demon boss.

On a lighter note, haha jealous/overprotective Fern. I swear that every time someone compliments Frieren she pouts and it doesn't matter if it's a guy or girl:

Oh for God sake...
The episode has an intriguing intro, there's a demon battle, attacking a village. Pretty brutal fighting, some of the monsters looked ridiculous but I can forgive that.

What I can't forgive is everything that followed the intro.
So there's a priest guy I suppose a first class mage named Genau with a deadpan voice who kills the last demon and finds his best friend's body. His blank face and deadpan demeanor is a clear character trait- but in an anime with so many characters who already have mostly blank expressions and deadpan speech- it makes the following 20 minutes a chore to get through. They stand around and talk
And talk
And talk

At one point they're munching on stale bread. Talking. There's a lot of expository dialogue about every little detail of what makes this demon attack different etc... an entire episode wasted on muttering about what comes next... and what was the big reveal, what did AN ENTIRE 23 MINUTE EPISODE spend all of its budget to give to us- it's some famous demon with four fucking blades. Oh no! (He's not here now, but maybe next episode we'll see him)
ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!!
How can you people deal with the pacing in this show? It's painful. Any other anime that dared to be this flat and boring would just be tossed in the bin. But everything I watched today is "absolute peak"
Peak boring is what it was. Fucking hell. I was impressed for the first couple minutes- things are about to get real. Then Frieren does what Frieren always does- suck all the life out of itself, followed by the pretentious closer with computer animation made to look like colored pencils which it is not.
2/5

Man, never seen Fern look so miserable while stuffing herself with "bread". Hardtack days truly are hard times.


Really wanna see how Methode would react to a disguised "small and cute" demon.

This was a fine, slightly mixed-bag episode. I liked the more serious tone this one had with being the start to this short arc and figuring out the mystery of the demon that took down everyone at the village, and how to fight it. Was nice seeing Methode again after a little while too. While it was mostly decent, it did feel glacially slow. Like not much really happening there to note of. It is just the start of the arc, and this is a 5-6 chapter arc with 5 episodes to work with so I can understand this episode eeling a bit slower since the action scenes can account for more time taken in the upcoming episodes. But it did show a bit of struggle with this week in my opinion. Little more could be shown to the process of the letter being delivered beyond just the end. Still a decent enough episode for the most part.