37:28 There are 2 mage organizations. The first is the Imperial Mages, it's the official government ran organization, the one technically founded by Flamme when she convinced the emperor to allow teaching magic to humans. Denken climbed the ladder there and he is the leader of the imperial mages, giving him the power to "order nations around". So Denken was possibly a mage from a young age. The other is the Continental Magic Association, founded by Serie around 50 years ago. Which quickly took over the leading position among mages thanks to Serie's gift, first class mages asking for any spell they desire which usually turns them into monstrous super beings.
The Golden Land Arc next!!! You can buy until volume 6 for the manga if you scare to get spoil because the anime is until first few chapters in volume 7.
Great watching it with you guys! Just wanna say this show has some hardcore loyal dudes; Denken never re-married after losing his wife 50 years ago and Himmel never even married anyone as he was only ever in love with Frieren. Incredible show of faith from the both of em
I haven’t been able to quit rewatching this with reactors. Seriously such an amazing show. I saw S2 was just announced. Can’t wait! Thanks for uploading guys!
Fern was probably surprised by the fluctuations due to the amount of mana she was already seeing. Lugner says "Frieren has insane mana. Equal to yours" to Serie. But the amount of mana he was seeing from Serie was her supressed mana. And he couldn't see her fluctuations. So Series supressed mana is equals to Frierens full mana released.
Serie was (seemingly) always disappointed by her students she took on never reaching her level, but never regretted teaching them. Also the perfect endpoint for this season. If it never got renewed for whatever reason it works very well. As far as Serie's skill in suppressing mana goes there's a theory that it was Serie who taught Flamme to always suppress it in the first place. It seems really only very useful for use during a fight to deceive demons for very long lived mages that have centuries to practice and hone it like Elves or if you start very young and have immense talent like Flamme and Fern. Ultimately for 99.9% of mages it's better to focus on learning deadlier spells and increasing your mana than it would be to try and hone your control to the level only a demon king could recognize your suppression. Ultimately its just supposed to have demons drop their guard so you can get a cheap shot in with a spell or something they didn't think you had the mana to cast. Like if a dude rolled up on you thinking you only had a pair of brass knuckles and he has a sword. but then you pull out a hidden 12 gauge instead.
It always makes me so sad when Fern says she'd never even considered throwing away her broken staff. She just looks so upset in that scene. I'm glad Frieren took Fern's feelings to heart even if she didn't understand them herself. It's such a little thing but I really appreciate that Serie apologized to Sense when she realized there really was just an unusually good group this year. I love that we got to know a little more about Wirbel. He just seems like a decent guy trying so hard to protect the people around him. I hope we get little bits and pieces like that for some of the other mages. Methode seems really interesting to me, she seems like she's really good at a lot of things. I absolutely cried at the end of the season on first watch, maybe even second watch, regardless of what Himmel said 😂 Can't wait for season 2!
Enjoyed the reactions guys, I’ll be back when season 2 is ready! Also, I just want to point out that the piano music playing in ep27 while Himmel recounts Frieren casting the flower spell for him is the same music playing when Flamme tells her about it in ep 10
Also, also, “bumper crop” refers to there being a lot of good mages in this batch. If you’ll recall, Seriewas complaining that too many people passed the second test, but apologized to Sense after she got her own look at then
Such an amazing show. I had a blast watching you enjoy this masterpiece! If you're looking for another deadpan best girl to attach yourself to definitely watch The Apothecary Diaries. The mc is fantastic. I'm convinced she would be besties with Fern and Frieren lol
The only disappointment for Serie is just the lifespan of a human. She is just a godlike cliché tsundere. Himmel watching only Frieren instead of the flower field. Land passing the exam through zoom and Stark with the nobel-ptsd. "Death is not the only goodbye in this life" hits every time
Serie is a mass of hypocrisy and contradictions. I honestly believe that she actually respects Frieren, but loves conflict so much that she just enjoys making her a philosophical rival, being the only person who will live long enough to make the rivalry worth it. Also, I can't help but think that, in 50 years, people will be talking about Stark and how he helped everyone wherever he went in little ways, like they do now about Himmel.
40:13 As Lernen says Serie's (secretly suppressed) mana is equal to Frieren's true mana. Flamme taught Frieren (in EP10) to release 1/10th of her true mana. If Serie does the same she is 10 times stronger than Frieren.
42:38 I think Kraft is older purely because he looks visibly far older like a grown man in his late 30s-early 40s while Serie still looks like a young adult. He also has the maturity of a middle aged person compared to Serie’s somewhat childish attitude in some parts
I think elves' bodies, size, and appearance are affected by their personalities, goals, and training over time, especially for long-lived ones like Kraft and Serie. Kraft is so tall and muscular because he a martial fighter who has devoted the millennia of his life to physical training. Serie is a mage who couldn't care less about the physical strength of her body, so she's small and frail-looking. Frieren is small-ish because she is also a mage, but her more gentle nature gives her a more childish and innocent appearance.
@@Blackferret66 bro martial arts does nothing to make you tall. I specially also mentioned the mentality and attitude between the two to further show the mental age gap
@@Oakland510 I'm not talking about "martial arts making you tall". I'm talking about the magical nature of elves altering and developing their bodies over the centuries according to how they train themselves, mentally and physically, or lack thereof.
i think Serie was right to fail Frieren personally. When you think about it, this organization is made for human, so usually Serie evaluated attendants by human standards, however Frieren is not a human, she's a mage with over a thousand years of magic training, and, as Serie said, she is still lacking in many areas, because she only did one thing for most of those one thousand years, and we basically know canonically that Serie is never wrong when it comes to magic. When you add to this fact that the certificate is useless for Frieren, and that she has no interest in working for continental magic association, i think it's just right that she fails. I also love the other interviews, especially Land's, that guy really went to meet to most powerful mage in the world and first thing he tries to troll her, and when he gets called out, he doubles down on the troll, my man got balls, Serie kinda liked it tho :D I also think Serie is serious when talking about mana suppression, to her that's probably a skill that comes very late in the importance scale, she probably learned that because she has nothing left to learn, but she would surely not recommend spending your first thousand years of practice doing that. I hope in the future we will be able to see Serie's full mana capacity, since she confirmed she's also suppressing it, honestly if she releases the suppression the mana might be so big you won't even realize it unless you watch from the sky or something. Oh, by the way, Fern totally picked that spell because she was jelous that Frieren hugged Methode and said she smelled nice, no one can convince me otherwise 🤣
Yeah. The fact is that Frieren doesn't care about certifications. She's said so herself. While I haven't read the manga, I think it's also possible that Serie believes the Frieren might not need it to go north. Like the Castellan who let them go through the closed off gate, I'd imagine that a number of important people, especially in the north where most of the battles with demons took place, would recognize Frieren's name and just let her through on reputation.
Thank you for watching this amazing show with us!!
it was a mere 28 episode
good news is second season is under production
now i just need a frieren-like time skip until season 2 releases :D
Truly one of the best anime of all time and it barely came out
remember when Frieren cried when Himmel was getting buried, its because she knew shed never see him again. =(
I was just telling Steve the other day, if they showed that scene later in the season, I don’t know that I could’ve handled it haha 😂😭 - John
37:28 There are 2 mage organizations. The first is the Imperial Mages, it's the official government ran organization, the one technically founded by Flamme when she convinced the emperor to allow teaching magic to humans. Denken climbed the ladder there and he is the leader of the imperial mages, giving him the power to "order nations around". So Denken was possibly a mage from a young age.
The other is the Continental Magic Association, founded by Serie around 50 years ago. Which quickly took over the leading position among mages thanks to Serie's gift, first class mages asking for any spell they desire which usually turns them into monstrous super beings.
The Golden Land Arc next!!! You can buy until volume 6 for the manga if you scare to get spoil because the anime is until first few chapters in volume 7.
Thanks for helping me recycle my eye-water. Every trip through this show does it easily.
Great watching it with you guys! Just wanna say this show has some hardcore loyal dudes; Denken never re-married after losing his wife 50 years ago and Himmel never even married anyone as he was only ever in love with Frieren. Incredible show of faith from the both of em
I haven’t been able to quit rewatching this with reactors. Seriously such an amazing show. I saw S2 was just announced. Can’t wait! Thanks for uploading guys!
Fern was probably surprised by the fluctuations due to the amount of mana she was already seeing.
Lugner says "Frieren has insane mana. Equal to yours" to Serie. But the amount of mana he was seeing from Serie was her supressed mana. And he couldn't see her fluctuations.
So Series supressed mana is equals to Frierens full mana released.
Season two was officially annouced, watch the teaser❤
Serie was (seemingly) always disappointed by her students she took on never reaching her level, but never regretted teaching them. Also the perfect endpoint for this season. If it never got renewed for whatever reason it works very well. As far as Serie's skill in suppressing mana goes there's a theory that it was Serie who taught Flamme to always suppress it in the first place. It seems really only very useful for use during a fight to deceive demons for very long lived mages that have centuries to practice and hone it like Elves or if you start very young and have immense talent like Flamme and Fern. Ultimately for 99.9% of mages it's better to focus on learning deadlier spells and increasing your mana than it would be to try and hone your control to the level only a demon king could recognize your suppression. Ultimately its just supposed to have demons drop their guard so you can get a cheap shot in with a spell or something they didn't think you had the mana to cast. Like if a dude rolled up on you thinking you only had a pair of brass knuckles and he has a sword. but then you pull out a hidden 12 gauge instead.
It always makes me so sad when Fern says she'd never even considered throwing away her broken staff. She just looks so upset in that scene. I'm glad Frieren took Fern's feelings to heart even if she didn't understand them herself. It's such a little thing but I really appreciate that Serie apologized to Sense when she realized there really was just an unusually good group this year. I love that we got to know a little more about Wirbel. He just seems like a decent guy trying so hard to protect the people around him. I hope we get little bits and pieces like that for some of the other mages. Methode seems really interesting to me, she seems like she's really good at a lot of things. I absolutely cried at the end of the season on first watch, maybe even second watch, regardless of what Himmel said 😂 Can't wait for season 2!
thanks for the reactions!
Himmel is freaking LEGENDARY.
He is absolutely incredible haha
Enjoyed the reactions guys, I’ll be back when season 2 is ready!
Also, I just want to point out that the piano music playing in ep27 while Himmel recounts Frieren casting the flower spell for him is the same music playing when Flamme tells her about it in ep 10
The song is called “A Sunrise Worth Seeing”, obviously from ep 4
Also, also, “bumper crop” refers to there being a lot of good mages in this batch. If you’ll recall, Seriewas complaining that too many people passed the second test, but apologized to Sense after she got her own look at then
Such an amazing show. I had a blast watching you enjoy this masterpiece! If you're looking for another deadpan best girl to attach yourself to definitely watch The Apothecary Diaries. The mc is fantastic. I'm convinced she would be besties with Fern and Frieren lol
this show is soooo beautiful that it pulls our heartstring 🤍
Himmel was Him
btw, full aura frieren = 10% serie
The only disappointment for Serie is just the lifespan of a human. She is just a godlike cliché tsundere. Himmel watching only Frieren instead of the flower field. Land passing the exam through zoom and Stark with the nobel-ptsd. "Death is not the only goodbye in this life" hits every time
Himmel is him
HIMMEL 😭🥹
Serie is a mass of hypocrisy and contradictions. I honestly believe that she actually respects Frieren, but loves conflict so much that she just enjoys making her a philosophical rival, being the only person who will live long enough to make the rivalry worth it.
Also, I can't help but think that, in 50 years, people will be talking about Stark and how he helped everyone wherever he went in little ways, like they do now about Himmel.
40:13 As Lernen says Serie's (secretly suppressed) mana is equal to Frieren's true mana. Flamme taught Frieren (in EP10) to release 1/10th of her true mana. If Serie does the same she is 10 times stronger than Frieren.
Re:Zero season 3 is coming out now, I would really like to recommend you to watch this anime.
19:46 Actually ☝️. . . . 🤐
Great watchalong. Until we met again.
Did you miss the end credits with the extra scenes or you just cut it out? If the former then don't forget to check later.
31:45 😉
@@JerzeyBoyz Ehhh, i forgot that part is after the end credit and not before it, my bad :P
42:38 I think Kraft is older purely because he looks visibly far older like a grown man in his late 30s-early 40s while Serie still looks like a young adult. He also has the maturity of a middle aged person compared to Serie’s somewhat childish attitude in some parts
I think elves' bodies, size, and appearance are affected by their personalities, goals, and training over time, especially for long-lived ones like Kraft and Serie. Kraft is so tall and muscular because he a martial fighter who has devoted the millennia of his life to physical training. Serie is a mage who couldn't care less about the physical strength of her body, so she's small and frail-looking. Frieren is small-ish because she is also a mage, but her more gentle nature gives her a more childish and innocent appearance.
@@Blackferret66 bro martial arts does nothing to make you tall. I specially also mentioned the mentality and attitude between the two to further show the mental age gap
@@Oakland510 I'm not talking about "martial arts making you tall". I'm talking about the magical nature of elves altering and developing their bodies over the centuries according to how they train themselves, mentally and physically, or lack thereof.
@@Blackferret66 that doesn’t disprove anything of what I’ve mentioned
@@Oakland510 I didn't say it did. Jesus, you're dense...
i think Serie was right to fail Frieren personally.
When you think about it, this organization is made for human, so usually Serie evaluated attendants by human standards, however Frieren is not a human, she's a mage with over a thousand years of magic training, and, as Serie said, she is still lacking in many areas, because she only did one thing for most of those one thousand years, and we basically know canonically that Serie is never wrong when it comes to magic. When you add to this fact that the certificate is useless for Frieren, and that she has no interest in working for continental magic association, i think it's just right that she fails.
I also love the other interviews, especially Land's, that guy really went to meet to most powerful mage in the world and first thing he tries to troll her, and when he gets called out, he doubles down on the troll, my man got balls, Serie kinda liked it tho :D
I also think Serie is serious when talking about mana suppression, to her that's probably a skill that comes very late in the importance scale, she probably learned that because she has nothing left to learn, but she would surely not recommend spending your first thousand years of practice doing that.
I hope in the future we will be able to see Serie's full mana capacity, since she confirmed she's also suppressing it, honestly if she releases the suppression the mana might be so big you won't even realize it unless you watch from the sky or something.
Oh, by the way, Fern totally picked that spell because she was jelous that Frieren hugged Methode and said she smelled nice, no one can convince me otherwise 🤣
Yeah. The fact is that Frieren doesn't care about certifications. She's said so herself. While I haven't read the manga, I think it's also possible that Serie believes the Frieren might not need it to go north. Like the Castellan who let them go through the closed off gate, I'd imagine that a number of important people, especially in the north where most of the battles with demons took place, would recognize Frieren's name and just let her through on reputation.