Sousou no Frieren 2nd Season Episode 2 Discussion

The episode was great, but I still don't know if introducing the "Magic Nullifying Crystal" was a good idea. The demon in this episode is a warrior, so if she had that Crystal, then the heroes would be fucked and would have died like 10 times in this episode.

And the Hero of the South is goated, that dude accepted his fate like a champ and didn't complain about it. He won't go down without taking at least 3 of those top demons out.

Bait in the sense that I'm aiming for reactions? Yes, that's why I use the internet.

Bait in the sense that I'm fabricating or exaggerating my own positions for a cheap laugh? No. I sincerely cannot understand the hype for this show.

Really enjoyed this [essentially anime-original]* chapter which foreshadows a later sub-story.

But the CG animation is grating on me. The art and animation feel like I'm watching someone play through a game. I'm reminded of Hi-Score Girl at times but it had the excuse of being about gaming so it was sort of thematically appropriate.

*Yeah, this is bollocks. I basically forgot a chapter from the manga.

4 actualy. He took out most dangerous one among demons Shlacht the Omniscient - just imagine what pain in the butt it would be if Demons still had Demon Right Hand Man which is able to predict (and adapt) your every move long before you even come to this thought by yourself

@Fishb0i
Have you considered just not watching something you clearly do no enjoy?
It really does not matter how popular any given series, book, movie, game and so on is if its not to your personal taste.
Sometimes its better to just accept that and move on. Obsessing over something that is liked by many people but not by yourself
is the most pointless thing ever. Literally a waste of time.

@therealnagora

As an anime only I had no idea this was anime only. Did not feel like a filler at all. Perfectly executed.

This episode annoyed me because I don't know what it wanted to say. There are clear parallels of demons and humans: demon eats humans despite not needing to(humans don't need to eat meat); demons have a cultural tie to this sword(same as noble family); it's just the nature of demons(like humans aren't lying to and killing one another constantly)....but the episode doesn't say anything. It raises these parallels for seemingly no reason. It felt like an empty parable.

Also, Fern being taken aback when Frieren attacks the stranger was a real House MD moment. Fern should be the first person to understand Frieren's actions and enter battle mode. Unless they have/do establish Fern has some clergy bias due to her adoptive father I don't see it.

@Vindicater
Its not a filler. I dont know what that user is on about. Its literally a 1:1 adaption of chapter 63 and 64 of the manga.
Nearly panel for panel.

Ninety seconds.

Ninety seconds from the first shot of Frieren's wand to the disintegration of the Sword Demon. Ninety seconds, out of a 24-minute show, that could be classified as entertaining.

I've sat...slogged through thirty episodes of this mind-numbingly monotonous dredge patiently waiting for the big crescendo moment when it would finally turn into the big demon-hunting bloodbath that I was promised. And I'm beginning to worry that the day may never come - or, I suppose, it already came to pass 29 years ago. There is no hope to cling onto, no potential for the show's redemption, all I get are those ninety seconds of blissful stimulation. Yet, I must continue to let my skull pour out of my eyes and ears and watch - nay, love these weekly twenty-four minutes of agony, as this was democratically elected as the greatest anime ever by the aging userbase of this old website. Whatever these people see in this show is something I could never understand; do they truly adore hearing quick summaries of battles they'll never get to see? Are you cuckolds? Do you like getting cockblocked by the passage of time? I was going to ask whether you were above or beneath me, but I believe I've obtained the answer.

Thank God this show airs just two days before Hell's Paradise.

@Fishb0i If you want to watch a big demon-hunting bloodbath there's plenty of choice. Do you want some sort of medal for watching 30 episodes of something you don't like? What sort of idiot does that?

Plus: no one was promised a big demon hunting bloodbath. The idea that you were expecting it makes me wonder if you watched any of the previous series given that it starts with the party returning home from the big demon bloodbath which is firmly in the past.



Mod Edit: Removed baiting.

Key event...Huge amount of broad plot would build around this fight...but yeah, for some random Joe it is not important. Whatever
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Dude. Demons can hide mana for steals purpose. Priest CAN use mana. They are basicly different branch of mages. So even if she show her mana - so what?

IN LESS THAN 10 MINUTES, they presented us a story like this…
I could be surprised just by this episode, but I’m more impressed by how Frieren keeps making this type of chapters so easily.
The story of the South Hero is amazing—the way they presented it, with flashbacks and the gradual reveal of the importance of this character so far.

In this episode, we keep seeing how Himmel changed Frieren’s life, how Stark and Fern are growing up, how dilemmas appear in seconds, etc etc etc
I know its soon to say this, but i just wish this story could last 10 years.

By the looks of it, it will likely last another 30, we keep getting Berserk-tier hiatuses in the manga. Why is it always the mangas I usually enjoy the most, how upsetting lmao