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Frieren has a masterful story + a director that knew how to make the most out of the pages. More importantly due to Frieren's themes and what it talks about flashbacks are an essential part of the story, so I don't think Frieren is a good reference point.

That said, 100% agree with you. Flashbacks in manga are commonplace because most japanese authors excel at world building and story setting, but not at developing that story; that's why most mangas fall off after 10-20 chapters. For this reason, when introducing a new character and/or developing an already existing one, it's quite the norm for them to use flashbacks, because it's both easier to write (instead of explaining them in the present) and allows for more asspulls.

However, since it's in panel format, they don't really come as strongly as in anime because you can basically speed read through them. When trying to adapt one of these flashbacks that are barely palatable in manga format the director is presented with two options: either adapt it faithfully to the source material or actually try to do an adaptation. Unfortunately most often choose the first one because it's safer and we end up with the Kimetsu movie for example.

To me, obviously the mid-fight flashbacks ruined the pacing, especially the last fight is horrible, with if I recall 4 cuts to flashbacks for a 5 min fight; but what really killed it for me it was even not during fights the movie is plagued with flashbacks which made it unwatchable for me.

Surely they make the flashbacks less intrusive and shorter in the next 2 movies [clueless]

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