Not sure about being the best anime of all time currently but it is surely one of the best series of all time. I've seen over 500+ anime and 1000+ other shows according to MAL and IMDB. Yet frieren made it into my top 10 favorite quite easily after reading the manga recently. It have some of the best characters I've seen in a long time with compelling storyline. I'm not gonna spoil since season 2 is already announced and it is something that needs to be experienced without prior knowledge. Frieren season 1 set a very high bar but it's only gets better onwards
Those numbers are insane lol I do admit my title and thumbnail are egregious, and like I said, the #1 MAL spot is somewhat reflective of how good a show is. Frieren also does sit somewhere in my top 10, although I haven't watched nearly as much as you have (yet haha). I'm staying anime only on this, so I'll hold you accountable for S2!
@@NOGRAD Well since madhouse is making season 2 I have no doubt it's going to be amazing. Fantasy is my favorite genre so I might be a bit biased here. But you better believe me when I say this series is GOATEED! All the yapping aside about how much I love frieren. I have to say it was a very well researched video and you good sir got a new subscriber!
I mean same 700+ animes and I put it as a 10/10 (when my avg score is around 5.10) but I think it''s on my lower top10. I do belive is the best anime ever made it has the sentimental value bc after 700+ animes it's the first time I'm so crazy to get a vinyl of the OST and I don't even collect vinyls xD. It's insane to me that some people give it hate because it end up "main stream". For example I watch FMAB and even I didn't connect that much with it (cuz I watch the first one and I feel like that ruin my experience with brotherhood) I still think it's a friking good anime and an easy entry for anyone who wants to start watching anime.
This guy could actually be huge if he posted more than once every era meteor shower. But I know how much effort goes into making a video like this, especially solo
LOOOOL It has been my new year's resolution to do monthly uploads for the last THREE YEARS. Between college (yes I am in school despite my name) and a full time job + me being addicted to video games, it's pretty hard to find both time and motivation to make uploads, but comments like this and people wanting more always keep me going. Thank you!
There is wonderful video essay called "When you tell an entire story in 9 minutes". It explains how Frieren is written and why it has no fillers. The writing follows something called "bracketed ideas". The show is structured in a way that it builds its setups very meticulously and preemptively which allows for the pay-off to be very satisfying and not artificially shoehorned afterwards. Not only this but the pay-offs does not end up there. They continues being explored and having impact in other episodes which add nuances to the themes, character and the world. And this is why there are no fillers in this show. Because everything - from Fern and Stark catching fish, to Frieren saying random quote like "I am used to loosing things" have meaning in the whole picture. Another thing is that the show is grounded and realistic. A lot of people fall into the trap of the anime tropes while watching it - expecting power levelling, flexing and screaming who is who, which lead to someone getting stronger etc. But here the struggles are internal. For example very few people noticed how throughout the series Fern was shown several times to pass very nervously between ridges on wooden logs. This represents her lack of confidence in herself. The relationships are very human like, instead of being hyperbolic and on the nose. Every action has consequences in the world the show is developed. For example Frieren saying "I know" to Fern in ep.17 when holding her hand for 2nd time. We were shown preemptively how Frieren still see Fern as a kid, it showed why Fern felt embarrassed, it gave us their perspectives and also added Stark's one and the origin of holding the hand. So when Frieren said this quote it was build comprehensively. There was no need of 5 mins of verbal explanation or internal dialog who feels what. We saw how the setup and payoffs were build in front of us. This is something which is hard to find in other animes. And I watched over 500 of them.
you know the phrase jack of all trades master of none? frieren is master of all trades literally every aspect from the story, characters, themes, music, art and animation, everything is an 11/10
As a boy who watched and read manga since I was 5 / 10, Frieren gave me a feeling of cozyness, healing, wonder and astounded. I mainly watch and read because of the action and the powers, but when I laid my eyes on Frieren for the first time, I flippin cried because of how well the story was written so far. It's such a digest, an adventure and I have learned so much lessons and perspectives that I can't even see on my own personal experiences. This is by far what I call the best anime of all time. And no one can change my mind nor take that away from me.
I absolutely love how in depth you go with the background of the anime and manga. It’s clear how passionate you are about it and it makes this the best video on Frieren I’ve seen.
47 years old here , reading manga and watching anime since I was a kid. And I fully agree that Frieren can be considered the best anime so far, It's been almost perfect, it shows lots of love was put into it.
Great video! I cannot imagine how Studio Madhouse managed to produce such high-quality visuals every single week for 6 months. That's a tight time constraint. It's an incredibly impressive feat... And I've been thinking that the scenes where Frieren gets stuck in a mimic felt out of place in the story. They seem kind of jarring in such a serious narrative. But now that I know that this started as a gag manga, those mimic scenes suddenly begin to make sense... Looks like the author wanted a trace of that original silliness to survive after the big change he made.
good video 👍when you said the staff had worked on movies, things made a lot more sense to me. frieren is so cinematic compared to most others. those first person perspective shots were some of my fav moments as well. also, best magic battles ever animated.
Commenting for the almighty algorithm, this was a great dissection of the love, care and professionals involved in crafting this gem of a manga into a masterpiece of animation.
I was burned out by the seemingly endless isekai set in fantasy worlds but Frieren is a bright shining diamond that made me enjoy anime again. The art style, music and story are just what I have been yearning to experience from anime. Yes, most of them are staples in anime but they are wonderfully mixed together in Frieren. One of the little things that I love about Frieren are the eyes, or rather, the looks and gazes the characters gave to one another or things. Again, gazes are pretty common in anime but in Frieren every gaze adds additional emotional weight to character interactions or a scene.
I've been watching anime since the 1970s, and I have to say, I do not disagree with the premise that Sousou no Frieren is a strong contender for "Best Anime of All Time" (in 2024). However, a few facts need to be recognized. First of all, beginning about 10 years ago, there was a massive advancement in the median quality of anime, thanks to the widespread adoption of modern computer animation techniques. Second, the current works which have garnered so much critical acclaim are standing on the shoulders of giants, and the quality of animation is not the only aspect of the manga, light novel, and anime multimedia industry that has improved. Equally responsible for the increase in artistic quality is the quality and subject matter of the writing. We are currently living in a new Golden Age in the industry. The number of titles in the past few years that have blown the doors of the conventions of the industry is astounding. Frieren is just the latest and greatest of them.
Evan Call composed so many beautiful songs for the anime, in my Spotify wrapped, I was top 0.001% of listeners for “A Sunrise Worth Seeing” lol The way they used the song in ep 10 + 27 is just so good.
Fellow Evan Call enjoyer lol The most fun I had in my research was researching Evan Call. You could even call this video a large excuse for me to talk about him haha
Absolutely, I am amazed at the number of different tones and themes ranging from the mundane to tragic to epic to dark. I do not think a lot of the moments in the show would hit the same without the incredible score. I think Evan Call has crafted one of the most beautiful and cohesive scores in anime
Evan Call and Kevin Penkin (made in abyss/spice and wolf 2024) were my 2 most listened to artists last year. Ever since the first episode of Violet Evergarden, Evan Call has been one of my favorites.
Frieren is my favorite anime. I hope that changes someday, and we get something even better, but I’ll be really surprised when or if that ever happens.
when i correct remember the producer of the anime was crying after reading the first volume of the manga. That say a lot. When the right bunch of the people, that loves her work and passion for Animes and Manga, created together the most peak anime on this planet. Eisens Voicelines are the best! This Show is a show were every side-character needs rly a spin off xD. Great Video. You do a great job!
Wonderful, beautiful, and accurate analysis of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. As soon as the English Manga became available, many manga readers began to excitedly praise the work, so I hopped on board with VOL 1 to see what was going on, and bang, blew me across the room. I then ordered every ENG vol available at the time, and I am waiting now for February 11 2025 for ENG VOL 12. I could gush volumes but that would only be plagiarizing your vid soooo! I have never had characters in a story so rapidly entwine themselves into my heart and soul as this story did and does. Hell, I cried at the death of Himmel and I didn't even know who he was. That is just Master level writing. I didn't think that the anime would be successful, because it does have a very SOL pace and feel and that usually doesn't sell the the anime fandom so I was surprised by all the world wide popularity (which is still growing by the way)! You probably have heard that the Manga has gone onto permanent? hiatus due to serious health issues with the author, Kanehito Yamada.. It already went into a temporary hiatus awhile back due to health issues of the author. This does sound serious but there are no details available that I have found.
@@folcwinep.pywackett8517 Indefinite* hiatus, health issues are common in mangakas but it could be anything not related to the author's health. We can only wait for it to come back soon...
This is one of the most concise and amazingly well done videos I've seen recently! I watched a lot of videos analysing Frieren, but this one shows the amount of time and effort you put into researching everything ❤
2023-2024 gave us so many good anime but frieren is definitely the best anime amongst them. Bleach TYBW, re:zero, dandadan all of them were close second
Best anime of all time could certainly be argued, but I will say without hesitation that Frieren is my favorite anime of all time. Easily. Great video!
I really enjoyed this video. And I'm impressed by the analysis of how the core creative team came together. Many source materials are in Japanese, I guess. Do you speak and read Japanese? Or machine translation helped you out?
For the Japanese articles I used google translate, or there were some existing blogs that translated the sources to English. I probably should have put them in my sources, but I'll be sure to do so next time :)
Well researched and put together video. The first line in the video description had me smiling. Minor nitpick: >for both Fern and Frieren to kill the dragon That's not true though. Stark talked to Frieren if she could kill the dragon, and she promised that she would if Stark were to fall. Nobody mentioned Fern.
Oof, definitely an error on my end. There's a sentence in that section of the video that was so poorly written I didn't realize until it was too late to make edits to it. Thank you for the feedback!!
any "best thing of all time" is indeed the best thing of all time if and only if it is still the best thing of all time decades afterwards. we'll see about frieren.
I've been alive for 22 years since my parents introduced me to their childhood 70s anime and I've watched probably over 3k titles of anime... My favorite of all time is Natsume Yuujinchou and the closest to ever come to topping that is Frieren The two series has very similar story telling... Both use flashback the same(like I can't emphasize it enough how similar these two shows use flashbacks), both has two stories from two different times(one is Frieren and the hero from the past the other is Natsume's Troublemaker Grandma), both use time and how it affects long lived creatures and mortals, (Freiren are Elves and Natsume is with Yokai), both are very fantastical in a different kind of way.
Btw I've already read the Manga way before the anime but they really did justice in it's adaptation. The main difference I can see with Frieren and Natsume besides the Obvious ones is that The flashbacks in Frieren focus more on the people with her during that time. While the flashbacks in Natsume focus more on Natsume's Grandma and what she did with the yokai, his Grandma who the yokai keeps mistaking as him due to Yokai not being able to interpret gender not to mention his Grandma looks like a gender bent version of him.
I say it’s tie with FMA Bro. For me Frieren is miles ahead with the overall presentation but FMA Bro is the more exciting anime and it did stand the test of time. I was hooked from ep.1 and didn’t let go until finale. I even watched it back to back the first time I’ve watched it. I was just amazed. However, Frieren is just genius. It’s fresh. It has minimal anime cliché that I’m tired of seeing in an anime. The animation, soundtrack and everything else. Wow! It’s just a beautiful anime. I say it’s the better anime. But I must admit it’s tedious to watch it sometimes. Plus I was not as hooked as I was in FMA Bro. I am a huge FMA Bro fan but I am more impressed with Frieren. If Frieren keeps up with its amazingness all season then I will give it my no. 1
Frieren, for me, it's like Arcane. I can't wait for season 2 to drop off, just to have an excuse to rewatch the first season. Otherwise, great video, more oriented around music stuff.
for me "Best Anime of All Time" is a bit of stretch... but its great anime no doubt about that! a perfect break from mainstream action or lively anime bcause of its slow pace, chill vibe beautiful scenes and amazing action scenes.
As many great works get overlooked i cant say if its the best. EG Moribito Guardian of the Spirit exists, and not many seem to know about this masterpiece. Maybe because it doesnt have the epic batlles and the FMC is 30 instead of a teen. Also based on a novel instead of a manga.
In my opinion i think that to truly understand and enjoy the anime Frieren, you need to be mature, if you're looking for those only fighting shounen anime/manga then this isnt for you
Frieren is indeed very good but it's a huge sretch to call it the best of all time. It does things better than most, for sure, but it's also mostly nothing remarkable.
Its some serious bullshit that people want to label a single season of an incomplete show as the greatest of all time. I guess they haven’t learned their lesson after Promised Neverland or GOT.
Well, not really. Even without Season 2, this is still one of the greatest anime ever made. This first season alone has changed several people's lives.
I have no patience for anime. Most of it is trash. Most of the ones anime fans call out are simply a better grade of trash. But Frieren: Beyond Journey's End transcends the garbage from which it arose. This show is a masterpiece of storytelling, it ranks with Lord of the Rings.
Naah i think that's your emotions taking, ...Frieren is just about as good as FMAB or any other Great Shonen manga. I think since the chaotic Era in which it released backed by the giant studio like MadHouse; made This as a great refreshment from all the crazy shit. ..and I'll rate frieren as a solid 8/10 Anyday when Compared to serie like DanDaDan, JJK, etc serie which are good but they clearly only deserve 7.5/10 at Best. New anime fans love to overrate anime in general, and that's the reason why well written novel stories are being Compared to comic books. It's sad how much the taste has fallen, you know what Their are any Shonen who accomplish what Frieren does but yes that's not their focus entirely. Frieren isn't revolutionary, it's just ANOTHER greatly adapted anime of current era, and lots of anime get great adaption nowadays
Frieren is great. Best anime of all time though? Nah. You're just engagement farming. Guess you win because it got me talking. Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, and Black Lagoon even unfinished beat Frieren easily. So does FMA, with the caveat that you watch up to greed in the original, and from greed on in brotherhood. The original does a much better job at explaining the early series, and then ran out of source material after greed. Brotherhood's early series assumes that you watched the original and glazes over significant plot points and misses entire character introductions. Hughes' death is the best example of it. In the original Hughes has a lot more character development, so when the phone booth scene happens you actually feel something about it. Brotherhood skips almost all of the character development, and then all of a sudden afterwards you're expected to feel something for a character that was only barely seen in comparison. Counting movies, because they're still anime, The entire Miyazaki catalogue, Akira. I would put Frieren on the calibur of Mushoku and Demon Slayer. It's great, maybe even one of the best, but there's plenty out there better than it just off the top of my head.
Frieren is absolutely masterful in terms of visuals, sound, and script. It has also touched many people's hearts and it became No. 1 on MAL for several months. Universal praise from viewers and critics alike. Thus, based on these accomplishments, one could argue that it's the greatest anime of all time. But perhaps it is pointless to give this title to a single anime, so let's just say that it is among the greatest. Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo and Fullmetal Alchemist are also among the greatest, but Black Lagoon is not. It consists of edgy gun violence, overly deranged gangsters, way too much sensationalism, rule of cool, and a few psychological themes to spice things up. A little better than schlock.
Frieren is not even n1 of the season, jesus christ anime watchers nowadays... Same shit happened with Kimetsu (lol) when first aired and Jujutsu. You guys need to touch some grass or watch more anime, you can't be this sensitive to the "new thing" every fkn time.
Not sure about being the best anime of all time currently but it is surely one of the best series of all time. I've seen over 500+ anime and 1000+ other shows according to MAL and IMDB. Yet frieren made it into my top 10 favorite quite easily after reading the manga recently. It have some of the best characters I've seen in a long time with compelling storyline. I'm not gonna spoil since season 2 is already announced and it is something that needs to be experienced without prior knowledge. Frieren season 1 set a very high bar but it's only gets better onwards
Those numbers are insane lol
I do admit my title and thumbnail are egregious, and like I said, the #1 MAL spot is somewhat reflective of how good a show is. Frieren also does sit somewhere in my top 10, although I haven't watched nearly as much as you have (yet haha). I'm staying anime only on this, so I'll hold you accountable for S2!
@@NOGRAD Well since madhouse is making season 2 I have no doubt it's going to be amazing. Fantasy is my favorite genre so I might be a bit biased here. But you better believe me when I say this series is GOATEED!
All the yapping aside about how much I love frieren. I have to say it was a very well researched video and you good sir got a new subscriber!
@@mdtaj7563What is your top 10 anime please ? I'm curious
Dude the next arc is gonna be crazy
I mean same 700+ animes and I put it as a 10/10 (when my avg score is around 5.10) but I think it''s on my lower top10. I do belive is the best anime ever made it has the sentimental value bc after 700+ animes it's the first time I'm so crazy to get a vinyl of the OST and I don't even collect vinyls xD. It's insane to me that some people give it hate because it end up "main stream". For example I watch FMAB and even I didn't connect that much with it (cuz I watch the first one and I feel like that ruin my experience with brotherhood) I still think it's a friking good anime and an easy entry for anyone who wants to start watching anime.
This guy could actually be huge if he posted more than once every era meteor shower. But I know how much effort goes into making a video like this, especially solo
LOOOOL
It has been my new year's resolution to do monthly uploads for the last THREE YEARS. Between college (yes I am in school despite my name) and a full time job + me being addicted to video games, it's pretty hard to find both time and motivation to make uploads, but comments like this and people wanting more always keep me going. Thank you!
There is wonderful video essay called "When you tell an entire story in 9 minutes". It explains how Frieren is written and why it has no fillers. The writing follows something called "bracketed ideas". The show is structured in a way that it builds its setups very meticulously and preemptively which allows for the pay-off to be very satisfying and not artificially shoehorned afterwards. Not only this but the pay-offs does not end up there. They continues being explored and having impact in other episodes which add nuances to the themes, character and the world. And this is why there are no fillers in this show. Because everything - from Fern and Stark catching fish, to Frieren saying random quote like "I am used to loosing things" have meaning in the whole picture.
Another thing is that the show is grounded and realistic. A lot of people fall into the trap of the anime tropes while watching it - expecting power levelling, flexing and screaming who is who, which lead to someone getting stronger etc. But here the struggles are internal. For example very few people noticed how throughout the series Fern was shown several times to pass very nervously between ridges on wooden logs. This represents her lack of confidence in herself.
The relationships are very human like, instead of being hyperbolic and on the nose. Every action has consequences in the world the show is developed. For example Frieren saying "I know" to Fern in ep.17 when holding her hand for 2nd time. We were shown preemptively how Frieren still see Fern as a kid, it showed why Fern felt embarrassed, it gave us their perspectives and also added Stark's one and the origin of holding the hand. So when Frieren said this quote it was build comprehensively. There was no need of 5 mins of verbal explanation or internal dialog who feels what. We saw how the setup and payoffs were build in front of us. This is something which is hard to find in other animes. And I watched over 500 of them.
This was very informative to a newbie writer like me
Pey talks anime is really good fr
A man even saved someone in real life because he upheld what Himmel would do in that situation. THAT IS FCKING INCREDIBLE.
Shoutout to my man Pey
you know the phrase jack of all trades master of none? frieren is master of all trades literally every aspect from the story, characters, themes, music, art and animation, everything is an 11/10
As a boy who watched and read manga since I was 5 / 10, Frieren gave me a feeling of cozyness, healing, wonder and astounded. I mainly watch and read because of the action and the powers, but when I laid my eyes on Frieren for the first time, I flippin cried because of how well the story was written so far. It's such a digest, an adventure and I have learned so much lessons and perspectives that I can't even see on my own personal experiences. This is by far what I call the best anime of all time. And no one can change my mind nor take that away from me.
I absolutely love how in depth you go with the background of the anime and manga. It’s clear how passionate you are about it and it makes this the best video on Frieren I’ve seen.
47 years old here , reading manga and watching anime since I was a kid. And I fully agree that Frieren can be considered the best anime so far, It's been almost perfect, it shows lots of love was put into it.
It only has a few episodes that I wouldn’t consider perfect 10 here. Seen a lot of anime and frieren is incredible
I can't imagine the amount of effort it took to put together this video, you're super underrated man!
Underrated channel! Incredible video quality and thorough analysis! Keep up the great work!
Xmas gift for Frieren lovers. Thanks
Great video! I cannot imagine how Studio Madhouse managed to produce such high-quality visuals every single week for 6 months. That's a tight time constraint. It's an incredibly impressive feat...
And I've been thinking that the scenes where Frieren gets stuck in a mimic felt out of place in the story. They seem kind of jarring in such a serious narrative. But now that I know that this started as a gag manga, those mimic scenes suddenly begin to make sense... Looks like the author wanted a trace of that original silliness to survive after the big change he made.
good video 👍when you said the staff had worked on movies, things made a lot more sense to me. frieren is so cinematic compared to most others. those first person perspective shots were some of my fav moments as well. also, best magic battles ever animated.
Commenting for the almighty algorithm, this was a great dissection of the love, care and professionals involved in crafting this gem of a manga into a masterpiece of animation.
I was burned out by the seemingly endless isekai set in fantasy worlds but Frieren is a bright shining diamond that made me enjoy anime again. The art style, music and story are just what I have been yearning to experience from anime. Yes, most of them are staples in anime but they are wonderfully mixed together in Frieren.
One of the little things that I love about Frieren are the eyes, or rather, the looks and gazes the characters gave to one another or things. Again, gazes are pretty common in anime but in Frieren every gaze adds additional emotional weight to character interactions or a scene.
Thanks, for posting the sources. A rare gift.
I've been watching anime since the 1970s, and I have to say, I do not disagree with the premise that Sousou no Frieren is a strong contender for "Best Anime of All Time" (in 2024). However, a few facts need to be recognized. First of all, beginning about 10 years ago, there was a massive advancement in the median quality of anime, thanks to the widespread adoption of modern computer animation techniques. Second, the current works which have garnered so much critical acclaim are standing on the shoulders of giants, and the quality of animation is not the only aspect of the manga, light novel, and anime multimedia industry that has improved. Equally responsible for the increase in artistic quality is the quality and subject matter of the writing. We are currently living in a new Golden Age in the industry. The number of titles in the past few years that have blown the doors of the conventions of the industry is astounding. Frieren is just the latest and greatest of them.
Evan Call composed so many beautiful songs for the anime, in my Spotify wrapped, I was top 0.001% of listeners for “A Sunrise Worth Seeing” lol
The way they used the song in ep 10 + 27 is just so good.
Fellow Evan Call enjoyer lol
The most fun I had in my research was researching Evan Call. You could even call this video a large excuse for me to talk about him haha
Absolutely, I am amazed at the number of different tones and themes ranging from the mundane to tragic to epic to dark. I do not think a lot of the moments in the show would hit the same without the incredible score. I think Evan Call has crafted one of the most beautiful and cohesive scores in anime
Evan Call and Kevin Penkin (made in abyss/spice and wolf 2024) were my 2 most listened to artists last year. Ever since the first episode of Violet Evergarden, Evan Call has been one of my favorites.
Frieren is my favorite anime. I hope that changes someday, and we get something even better, but I’ll be really surprised when or if that ever happens.
its so good ive watched it 3 times. the amount of emotion this show brought out of me was very unexpected. i love this show.
Yes, I agree. Wonderful video indeed sir.
This is the best video of all time
when i correct remember the producer of the anime was crying after reading the first volume of the manga. That say a lot. When the right bunch of the people, that loves her work and passion for Animes and Manga, created together the most peak anime on this planet. Eisens Voicelines are the best! This Show is a show were every side-character needs rly a spin off xD. Great Video. You do a great job!
Wonderful, beautiful, and accurate analysis of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. As soon as the English Manga became available, many manga readers began to excitedly praise the work, so I hopped on board with VOL 1 to see what was going on, and bang, blew me across the room. I then ordered every ENG vol available at the time, and I am waiting now for February 11 2025 for ENG VOL 12. I could gush volumes but that would only be plagiarizing your vid soooo!
I have never had characters in a story so rapidly entwine themselves into my heart and soul as this story did and does. Hell, I cried at the death of Himmel and I didn't even know who he was. That is just Master level writing. I didn't think that the anime would be successful, because it does have a very SOL pace and feel and that usually doesn't sell the the anime fandom so I was surprised by all the world wide popularity (which is still growing by the way)! You probably have heard that the Manga has gone onto permanent? hiatus due to serious health issues with the author, Kanehito Yamada.. It already went into a temporary hiatus awhile back due to health issues of the author. This does sound serious but there are no details available that I have found.
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Indefinite* hiatus, health issues are common in mangakas but it could be anything not related to the author's health. We can only wait for it to come back soon...
I haven't watched much anime but somehow, someway after 1 episode it turned to my favourite.
This is one of the most concise and amazingly well done videos I've seen recently! I watched a lot of videos analysing Frieren, but this one shows the amount of time and effort you put into researching everything ❤
Good video here. You got my sub. Keep at it, my friend.
2023-2024 gave us so many good anime but frieren is definitely the best anime amongst them. Bleach TYBW, re:zero, dandadan all of them were close second
dargon this is so good
title does frieren a disservice and you know it.
FAMOUS!!! YIPEEEE
My goat
Best anime of all time could certainly be argued, but I will say without hesitation that Frieren is my favorite anime of all time. Easily. Great video!
He should say "a 'mere' year has passed since premiere"
Hard to truly say it's the best of all time when it's only been out for a year.
I fear we have peak on our hands here
I really enjoyed this video. And I'm impressed by the analysis of how the core creative team came together. Many source materials are in Japanese, I guess. Do you speak and read Japanese? Or machine translation helped you out?
For the Japanese articles I used google translate, or there were some existing blogs that translated the sources to English. I probably should have put them in my sources, but I'll be sure to do so next time :)
Well researched and put together video. The first line in the video description had me smiling.
Minor nitpick:
>for both Fern and Frieren to kill the dragon
That's not true though. Stark talked to Frieren if she could kill the dragon, and she promised that she would if Stark were to fall. Nobody mentioned Fern.
Oof, definitely an error on my end. There's a sentence in that section of the video that was so poorly written I didn't realize until it was too late to make edits to it. Thank you for the feedback!!
my yearly video is here yippy!
any "best thing of all time" is indeed the best thing of all time if and only if it is still the best thing of all time decades afterwards. we'll see about frieren.
This channel is underrated though
I Agree.
love this :-3
I've been alive for 22 years since my parents introduced me to their childhood 70s anime and I've watched probably over 3k titles of anime...
My favorite of all time is Natsume Yuujinchou and the closest to ever come to topping that is Frieren
The two series has very similar story telling... Both use flashback the same(like I can't emphasize it enough how similar these two shows use flashbacks), both has two stories from two different times(one is Frieren and the hero from the past the other is Natsume's Troublemaker Grandma), both use time and how it affects long lived creatures and mortals, (Freiren are Elves and Natsume is with Yokai), both are very fantastical in a different kind of way.
Btw I've already read the Manga way before the anime but they really did justice in it's adaptation.
The main difference I can see with Frieren and Natsume besides the Obvious ones is that The flashbacks in Frieren focus more on the people with her during that time. While the flashbacks in Natsume focus more on Natsume's Grandma and what she did with the yokai, his Grandma who the yokai keeps mistaking as him due to Yokai not being able to interpret gender not to mention his Grandma looks like a gender bent version of him.
Oh was it remade into vagabond? Didn’t know that
400 animes titles. Frieren is in my top 3 of all time.
Frieren is so good as a story that the manga is on indefinite hiatus 😔
Everytime it goes on hiatus, it is because the author is working closely with the anime production team
That is the very concept of Himmel the Hero wow 4:35 Absulote Cinema
I didn't know the director for Bocchi the Rock was also behind Frieren. guess I'll have to remember Keiichiro Sato's name from now on...
Should’ve posted this before dandadan released
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I say it’s tie with FMA Bro.
For me Frieren is miles ahead with the overall presentation but FMA Bro is the more exciting anime and it did stand the test of time. I was hooked from ep.1 and didn’t let go until finale. I even watched it back to back the first time I’ve watched it. I was just amazed.
However, Frieren is just genius. It’s fresh. It has minimal anime cliché that I’m tired of seeing in an anime. The animation, soundtrack and everything else. Wow! It’s just a beautiful anime. I say it’s the better anime. But I must admit it’s tedious to watch it sometimes. Plus I was not as hooked as I was in FMA Bro.
I am a huge FMA Bro fan but I am more impressed with Frieren.
If Frieren keeps up with its amazingness all season then I will give it my no. 1
Frieren, for me, it's like Arcane. I can't wait for season 2 to drop off, just to have an excuse to rewatch the first season.
Otherwise, great video, more oriented around music stuff.
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for me "Best Anime of All Time" is a bit of stretch... but its great anime no doubt about that! a perfect break from mainstream action or lively anime bcause of its slow pace, chill vibe beautiful scenes and amazing action scenes.
As many great works get overlooked i cant say if its the best.
EG Moribito Guardian of the Spirit exists, and not many seem to know about this masterpiece. Maybe because it doesnt have the epic batlles and the FMC is 30 instead of a teen. Also based on a novel instead of a manga.
Man, if any new anime fan start up with Frieren, then they will be so disappointed.
The standard of this show is too high.
It is one of its kind.
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I think there is no "best anime", there are only "one of the best" and I think Frieren is one of them
That ended too soon.
In my opinion i think that to truly understand and enjoy the anime Frieren, you need to be mature, if you're looking for those only fighting shounen anime/manga then this isnt for you
Stopped after 2 ep
first
It's mid
first :3
Frieren is indeed very good but it's a huge sretch to call it the best of all time. It does things better than most, for sure, but it's also mostly nothing remarkable.
Its some serious bullshit that people want to label a single season of an incomplete show as the greatest of all time. I guess they haven’t learned their lesson after Promised Neverland or GOT.
Well, not really. Even without Season 2, this is still one of the greatest anime ever made. This first season alone has changed several people's lives.
I have no patience for anime. Most of it is trash. Most of the ones anime fans call out are simply a better grade of trash. But Frieren: Beyond Journey's End transcends the garbage from which it arose. This show is a masterpiece of storytelling, it ranks with Lord of the Rings.
Naah i think that's your emotions taking,
...Frieren is just about as good as FMAB or any other Great Shonen manga.
I think since the chaotic Era in which it released backed by the giant studio like MadHouse; made This as a great refreshment from all the crazy shit.
..and I'll rate frieren as a solid 8/10 Anyday when Compared to serie like DanDaDan, JJK, etc serie which are good but they clearly only deserve 7.5/10 at Best.
New anime fans love to overrate anime in general, and that's the reason why well written novel stories are being Compared to comic books.
It's sad how much the taste has fallen, you know what Their are any Shonen who accomplish what Frieren does but yes that's not their focus entirely.
Frieren isn't revolutionary, it's just ANOTHER greatly adapted anime of current era, and lots of anime get great adaption nowadays
Frieren is great. Best anime of all time though?
Nah. You're just engagement farming. Guess you win because it got me talking.
Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, and Black Lagoon even unfinished beat Frieren easily. So does FMA, with the caveat that you watch up to greed in the original, and from greed on in brotherhood. The original does a much better job at explaining the early series, and then ran out of source material after greed. Brotherhood's early series assumes that you watched the original and glazes over significant plot points and misses entire character introductions. Hughes' death is the best example of it. In the original Hughes has a lot more character development, so when the phone booth scene happens you actually feel something about it. Brotherhood skips almost all of the character development, and then all of a sudden afterwards you're expected to feel something for a character that was only barely seen in comparison.
Counting movies, because they're still anime, The entire Miyazaki catalogue, Akira.
I would put Frieren on the calibur of Mushoku and Demon Slayer. It's great, maybe even one of the best, but there's plenty out there better than it just off the top of my head.
Frieren is absolutely masterful in terms of visuals, sound, and script. It has also touched many people's hearts and it became No. 1 on MAL for several months. Universal praise from viewers and critics alike. Thus, based on these accomplishments, one could argue that it's the greatest anime of all time. But perhaps it is pointless to give this title to a single anime, so let's just say that it is among the greatest.
Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo and Fullmetal Alchemist are also among the greatest, but Black Lagoon is not. It consists of edgy gun violence, overly deranged gangsters, way too much sensationalism, rule of cool, and a few psychological themes to spice things up. A little better than schlock.
True, Friern is not even close to Cowboy Bebop and FMA. It's an OK anime, but not great.
You draw a line in the sand when you use Subs as an English speaker, Such disrespect for a proper adaption is incredibly ugly. Blocked.
subjective opinions are not objective facts try again
Frieren is not even n1 of the season, jesus christ anime watchers nowadays... Same shit happened with Kimetsu (lol) when first aired and Jujutsu. You guys need to touch some grass or watch more anime, you can't be this sensitive to the "new thing" every fkn time.
It’s nowhere near the best like AoT. So slow and boring I used it to sleep when I had insomnia following angina.
ur opinion holds no weight the moment u declared aot as one of the bests 🤷🏻♂️
@ what’s wrong with aot? The first half was a masterpiece imo. My second favorite following Death Note
I agree that AOT is a masterpiece, but it’s not argument to say you found it boring. That’s just a you problem and Frieren is still peak
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