Meanwhile Fern is the kind of gamer that technically knows there are other moves but resorts to blocking and spamming a single attack because they have really good reaction time. And Stark is the gamer who overlevels for an area but is still too afraid to make any progression without a group
Himmel is a gamer too 100% mission success Meanwhile Eisen Typical Speedrun Gamer. Ooh don't forget that frieren is gacha addicted like others too😂 @@CrownofMischief
@@netizenplus6231 And Heiter the priest is the gamer who found the cheat codes, lol 😂 He has 5 times the suppressed amount of mana Frieren lets off, which equals to someone who trained for 500 years (which is nearly impossible to achieve in a human lifetime without some sort of exploits like Flamme did), and he also knew remarkable spells that greatly assisted the group (he could help them sustain for 2 full weeks without needing food or water)
One cool detail about the episode is that the timelapse of Frieren training her mana suppression is representing the entire 1000 years between Flamme's death and meeting Himmel. From ~16:47 of the anime to about ~17:27 (50 seconds), it shows us 1,000 years passing for Frieren. Then we get a scene showing how much she was able to suppress her mana, then meeting Himmel, followed by a quick 0.5 second montage of the Heroes' Journey. The montage was 1/100th the length of the timelapse, so it gives an idea of just how short her time with Himmel felt to her. And yet that short time still changed her this much. (You can also get 50 seconds if you start at 16:55 when the village begins to grow and end at 17:35 when the Himmel scene begins)
Obviously the "kill yourself" moment is savage, but this episode (and the whole show really) is also just masterful storytelling. The way they switch between past and present to build our understanding of mana and demons, and the culmination of that in Frieren letting her mana loose.
@@piusdoe8984 I said "masterful", not "masterpiece". But regardless, masterpiece typically just means a piece of work that demonstrates mastery of the craft. I think it'd be harder to argue that Frieren DOESN'T do that. It's wonderfully written, from dialogue, to theming, to general structure. It also has some subtlety in characterisation that frankly most anime don't. It's also very nicely animated and has a beautiful soundtrack, to top it all off.
@@RoaringTide It's the reason for why Frieren is still #1 in MAL as of now. Frieren does little to no inconsistencies in these said fields. They don't have brain blasting moments(imo, they do have tho 😂) but every element of the anime is done so well.
@@jaideepshekhar4621Freiren didn't kill Draught with his wires though, she used her own spell. Whereas she killed Qual with his Zoltraak and Aura with her Auserlese
Fun fact: the voice actors for Aura and Eren Jaeger are married in real life and their characters got their head sliced off on the same day when both episodes dropped 😂 makes it even better!
it's not Flamme's earings, but similar design she probably got after reminding her of Flamme. Because she didn't have any earings yet when she met Himmel, Eisen and Heiter.
@@fluffytigersshe could also have kept it as a keepsake from Flamme, and not wearing it for a long time to not give anything away to people trying to pry into her story during her time in solitude
@@fluffytigers Adding to the reply above, she could have worn the earrings only when she finally built up her resolve to go on a journey to defeat the Demon King
@@marcbr2585 Flamme’s earings have a little gold diamond shape at the bottom of her earings, and Frieren does not. Could be she either got similiar ones from Flamme as she passed or she bought them later. She didn’t wear earings until she joined their party 🤔
Ep 10 is the example of great storytelling and uses of flashback. Frieren always uses the flashback in a smart way but ep 10 is the best uses of flashback in anime I have ever seen.
5:30 if you go back to the episode when Frieren was training young Fern, there was a scene where Frieren was drawing a circle around Fern, likely showing her to release mana only within the circle
Wasnt it explanation of how you will waste a lot of mana if you use defense magic as a sphere like that. I feel like they were going through different ways of using defensive magic.
it was actually Heiter who trained her to supress it. since he knows enough to teach her a little, that's why she was having a hard time finding her in the forest to train her.
9:55 It's not that demons are uninformed, it's just as Flamme explained, to them, supressing their mana for life is inconceivable cause it's akin to losing your standing in the world. As far as we know, Flamme, Frieren and now Fern are the only mages to have done this, and for the most part they don't demonstrate their full capabilities unless they're sure to kill their opponent. Frieren spent literally 900 years basically doing nothing but hone her skills and mana in solitude until she was found by the heroes' party, that's why not just demons but people in general don't know how old or strong she is or that she was Flamme's student, it's impossible to know.
"frieren, do not leave your name in history until you defeat the demon king" Flamme Seriously though the demon mana thing was so well explained. It's like living on the streets as a beggar, actually starving yourself and getting cold and sick just so you can flex all your wealth that you didn't spend, once in a blue moon.
@@equipmagameplays Don't know what you're on about, the show has been quite explicit in saying that Flamme, Frieren and now Fern are the only ones that we know of who're suppressing their mana 100% of the time. Demons CAN do that, they just won't and don't expect anyone to be doing that cause it's not in their nature.
05:26 "How could Fern do this? When she is so young..." My theory is that Heiter can sense Frieren mana when they first met, so probably Heiter know that Frieren suppressing her mana, then told Fern about it to train her, giving Fern the ability to control her mana and increasing her manapool, turning Fern into Zoltrak Machine Gun.
I don’t think it makes Frieren tired to suppress her mana anymore. She has been doing it for so long, it’s probably like how Goku and Gohan were able to stay in SS form even when asleep. They acclimated their bodies to it. Which is what makes Ferm so impressive, she was doing it as a child, which is also what Frieren noticed first about her. ❤️
@@user-en2hk3bt3v *[SPOILERS BELOW]* ... and she seems to have spent most of the last thousand years (or more, she was already there first time Frieren met her) _sitting in her damn chair,_ doing nothing much. And, as you said, still looks tired.
the world of frieren is built to be so simple yet so intricate that it all falls in place itself keeping the back n forth b/w the 2 journeys interesting n coherent
Fern is a prodigy and having Frieren as a mentor is great. Also Flamme is such a good char. I love her. Teaching Frieren how to defeat demons is awesome... Which she passed on to Fern.
Great reaction and analysis. My #1 anime in a long time, epitome of show, don't tell. Well written and extremely well paced; I have never seen flashbacks timed so perfectly
I love how this episode has such a huge payoff, while still having restraint in what she ends up showing. Like, "Frieren goes to kill Aura", is a good set-up, but at the end all she did was show her mana. She didn't really cast any crazy spells yet. So it's got a huge pay-off without even showing off what Frieren is really capable of. They're keeping us curious about what it looks like when she goes all out.
I love the writing on this show, the sensibility and how the world is show and presented. Its already one of my favorites and watching how its going, its gonna be number 1 for sure.
my favorite thing about this episode: Aura casts 'Auserlese' halfway through which sealed her fate BUT we, the audience, don't know that yet. after the flashback we are reminded that Aura had already cast the spell.. it's subtle but it adds that little extra 'oomph' to the reveal of Frieren's mana 😌
By the way, you now have context for why Qual back in Episode 3 was still so sure he could win after finding out about the shield spell, and why he pointed out that casting it consumes a lot of mana. He was certain he could easily overwhelm their defenses based on how much mana they showed.
VA for Aura, her real life husband is Yuki, Erin character. and if I remember correctly this episode aired same week or pretty much very close as when Eren head get cut off so both couple voice famous character whose head got chopped off
Frieren stil loves magic, by saying "somewhat" is her way of saying she still loves it. That's why she smiled when Fern said "somewhat" as well and said "just like me then". Also Heiter taught Fern to supress it when she was small, Which is why Frieren couldn't notice her when she first met Fern, and had difficulties finding her when she was going to train her. Frieren get's tired from suppressing her Mana, but she's just also not a morning person as well hahaha😂The deal with it glasses got me omfg!! loved your reactions to this ep!!
5:50 nah frieren just sleeps a lot lol. Nothing to do with the mana suppression. She’s been doing it for a thousand years now, it’s her natural state of being. It wouldn’t make her anymore tired as she’s used to it. Plus remember, Fern does it too, and for much less time than frieren has. But even so, fern can get up like a normal person and doesn’t oversleep a ton.
Flamme told Frieren not to make a name for herself so that she would be able to use her deception against the demon king. If she made a name for herself, then the demon king would already be wary of her power and she wouldn’t be able to fool them into underestimating her. It had nothing to do with earning anything.
@@DarwinAwardWinner it's not a spoiler, they just reminded again in the next episode, because Frieren talked about it with Fern about her being practically invisible in ep 1, then Frieren was wondering how much she had been studying implying probably Heiter had been telling her to study up, and taught her to that to only to be surprised she was getting very good at it.
Catching on to the earings was impressive. Most people didn't even notice. She didn't wear them till her journey with Himmel. There's a lot of small details like this sprinkled in that further flesh out the characters and it's great.
When I saw that scene for the first time I end up under the table with goosebumps XDD. The build up, music, animation, everything... JUST PERFECTION!!!
This episode was incredible. It basically spent 90% of the episode explaining why Aura lost the fight before it began and it still manages to floor you when she loses.
I love how the previous episodes make you think that maybe this is the first time we will see Frieren properly fight since she's supposedly up against a foe that could match her but no, Frieren is on a whole different scale of power than all of them.
Also, that split second of a montage of their 10-yr adventure to fight the demon king shows how short it was compared to her montage of solitude after Flamme died. And it made me understand why she said she wanted to retrace the journey before her memory of that adventure fades.
Himmel complimenting her master's favourite spell. 50 years being a short time for humans but a long enough time to fall out of life with msgic. It's perfect.
I love the contrast between how Frieren has learned to carefully treat the human bodies of Aura's executioners vs. how brutally she dealt with Aura the Demon herself. The pettiness of forcing the Guillotine to off herself using her own favorite method of killing reveals how Frieren's hatred for demons has stilled remained despite 1000 years. She's often portrayed as relatively emotionless, but that aspect still hasn't left her. Even when they first encountered Lugner in town, she immediately drew her staff and prepared to kill him. It also highlights how important the "mere 10 year journey" with Himmel was; it restored her love for magic and the simple joy of finding new spells.
First of all, I don't understand English, so I'm sorry if my English is a little weird. I love both of your reactions. Looks like the Aura battle is over. Frieren is so cool ^^. I've heard that people who know the original work quite like this battle. But the good thing about this anime is that it's not all about fighting like Kimetsu no Yaiba or Jujutsu Kaisen. You'll see a lot of Himmel's cool things and famous quotes in the flashbacks ahead. The characters in this anime are originally in German, and the English subtitles also use German, so I thought I'd write a pronunciation that is closer to English. The "A" in Aura is pronounced as "∧", and the "ura" after it is pronounced as is. Frieren is freelen. Himmel is Hinmel. Eisen is Aizen. Heiter is Haiter. Fern is Ferun. Stark is Shutaruku. I guess this is about it. I think these are the closest pronunciations.
She definitely earned her name, "Aura the Guillotine" I agree. We knew the outcome way early, but the reveal was epic. Evan Call's music in the background added to it.
I want you guys to think about Heiter estimated mana from his dialogue with the party. If Frieren has mana worth 1000 years and she surpress it to 100 years that means Heiter has roughly 500 years worth of mana, i guess all of them are goated
i assume fern is fast with her magic because she was in a rush to learn it since a very early age. her being able to hide her mana might also be connected to her childhood, maybe she had to hide when her parents got killed, but also the fact that frieren was teaching her from the start.
13:00 Yes! I loved that it wasn't so much about her having to fight Aura but the fact she already had won when Aura stepped forward to challenge Frieren. Then the build up for Frieren's mana reveal was the peak and just with no emotion what so ever being ordered to kill herself like that. Aura got done dirty but in a way that was perfectly told as part of the story. The fact Demons treat mana like status and take everything at face value thinking that clearly humans and elves can't be better then them. What really makes it is the fact Friren knew the outcome of all this from the start, she had no worries that Fern and Stark would lose and she almost predicted Aura to challenge her, as she said she would of been in trouble if she had to fight the entire army alone but Demons aren't like that.
1:42 can't believe I never noticed the earring detail before despite my multiple rewatches and read 😭 Frieren has such phenomenal world building, from the consistency in how mana/magic works, to how the demon kind's characteristics are well thought out.
LOL! Great job with the shades as Frieren walks away. We all knew it was going to end with the scales the second it was introduced as the way Aura controls people. Loved the time we see of Flamme and Frieren. Good pick up on the earrings. The way that Flamme and Frieren were trained was kind of like a crappy thing for mages and really only serves to kill demons. The magic that wants to be created and let loose into the world is restrained. I think that's why Frieren only somewhat likes magic now, but I think traveling with Himmel and the others she's taken up to collecting and seeing what magic is out there and has thus restored her love in magic.
This is the most Dragon Ball episode, kinda. Not just the ki/mana control, but the fact that the Big Bad is condensed into a tiny little creature (Vegeta, Frieza, true Buu, etc) that can unleash the horrors of hell on the world. If only Aura had some super beefcake muscleman standing next to her at all times to highlight the contrast lol (Before I forget again, I obviously wrote this comment with a DBZ lens because of the t-shirt and framed poster in the background)
One thing I liked about the episode was that after Fern's and Stark's fight, we were expecting something flashier or like a brutal fight. Instead, we got an entire episode explaining how Frieren is so OP, she doesn't even need to put much of an effort to get rid of one of the Demon King's Generals! They didn't give us what we thought we wanted, they gave us what we didn't know we needed!
A demon who lived for 500 years and spend the majority of that time training to become powerful Our beloved grandma Frieren : kys I love re-watching these while waiting for the new episode to come out ♥
My guess is that the deamon king had a intuitive flash that a elf will become a tthreat to him & his forces . So he decided to strike while he had the advantage of numbers & power.
Not really Spoiler . . . . . . . It actually wasn't Frieren but Heiter that taught Fern. She was already suppressing her mana when she meets Frieren. In a later episode, Heiter asks Frieren about magic in case he has someone to teach. He also knew that it was a good habit to suppress ones mana since Frieren used it to decieve demons and mages alike.
5:27 So I'm 6 months late, but you can actually see Frieren teaching Fern to supress her mana during her training in episode 1 or 2, can't remember. You see Fern standing in a small circle drawn on the ground, Frieren probably told Fern to suppress her mana enough to keep it in that circle, so this is one of the first things she was taught by Frieren, and she's most likely been using it constantly since then
Fun Fact: Almost all of the Names in this Anime are German Words: Frieren = Freeze Himmel = Sky Heiter = Cheerful Eisen = Iron Fern = Distant, Far Stark = Strong Flamme = Flame Lügner = Liar ... its funny for me as a german ♥
Heiter probably told Fern to focus on hiding her mana, because he learned about it from Freiren. He couldn't teach her specifics about MagiCraft as he wasn't a Mage as he said when he asked her to take Fern as an apprentice. Also, Flamme told her to live a quite life below the radar so she wouldn't get targeted by the demons until she grew strong enough to kill the demon king. Aura even said it, Freiren is a mysterious Mage of unknown age who just showed up one day around a hundred years ago. If they knew how old Freiren was, they would have an idea just how powerful she should be as the older you get the stronger your mana gets. This is why the demon king ordered the destruction of the elves. The elves are the only race that could live long enough to become a threat.
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One of the best moments of the series so far 🔥
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Watching people see that scene for the first time will never get old lmao
its something like the new bleach scenes. every person has different reaction to episodes like unohana reveal etc and its worth it
true i was so surprised to see Aura beaten in this easy way....😄
Frieren deadass hit her with the “kys” a true keyboard warrior 🔥
How to win a fight with only one sword attack.
When you only watch reactions to this episode to find these comments XD
@@DarwinAwardWinner rather than "one's word attack"
she sleeps a lot, she loves grinding for spells, she loves food, she tells people to k themselves, she is a true gamer. she is one of us
How did you comment 11 days ago?
Frieren is a gamer.
-"kys"
-kinda racist (to demons)
-loot goblin
-wakes up late
Meanwhile Fern is the kind of gamer that technically knows there are other moves but resorts to blocking and spamming a single attack because they have really good reaction time. And Stark is the gamer who overlevels for an area but is still too afraid to make any progression without a group
Himmel is a gamer too
100% mission success
Meanwhile Eisen
Typical Speedrun Gamer.
Ooh don't forget that frieren is gacha addicted like others too😂
@@CrownofMischief
@@netizenplus6231 And Heiter the priest is the gamer who found the cheat codes, lol 😂 He has 5 times the suppressed amount of mana Frieren lets off, which equals to someone who trained for 500 years (which is nearly impossible to achieve in a human lifetime without some sort of exploits like Flamme did), and he also knew remarkable spells that greatly assisted the group (he could help them sustain for 2 full weeks without needing food or water)
One cool detail about the episode is that the timelapse of Frieren training her mana suppression is representing the entire 1000 years between Flamme's death and meeting Himmel. From ~16:47 of the anime to about ~17:27 (50 seconds), it shows us 1,000 years passing for Frieren. Then we get a scene showing how much she was able to suppress her mana, then meeting Himmel, followed by a quick 0.5 second montage of the Heroes' Journey. The montage was 1/100th the length of the timelapse, so it gives an idea of just how short her time with Himmel felt to her. And yet that short time still changed her this much.
(You can also get 50 seconds if you start at 16:55 when the village begins to grow and end at 17:35 when the Himmel scene begins)
well said
That's awesome
That's amazing, thank you for the comment.
This is awesome
Wow, I was here wondering why they added those 0.5 second montage. This is such a cool detail wow!
Aura : literally unalives herself
ED : ARE YOU ALRIGHT?
😂
makes me laugh everytime i see that :D
"Can you hear me?" Milet, she's not alive anymore, she is not alright, she can't hear you 😂
glad to know there was more people who noticed this XD i laugh everytime when i see reactions to ep 10 xD
Obviously the "kill yourself" moment is savage, but this episode (and the whole show really) is also just masterful storytelling. The way they switch between past and present to build our understanding of mana and demons, and the culmination of that in Frieren letting her mana loose.
Oh my God. Masterpiece is thrown around by fans so easily
@piusdoe8984 All you haters need to touch some grass. Still #1 on MAL after 25 episodes. It's going the distance and there's no room for naysayers.
@@piusdoe8984 I said "masterful", not "masterpiece". But regardless, masterpiece typically just means a piece of work that demonstrates mastery of the craft. I think it'd be harder to argue that Frieren DOESN'T do that. It's wonderfully written, from dialogue, to theming, to general structure. It also has some subtlety in characterisation that frankly most anime don't. It's also very nicely animated and has a beautiful soundtrack, to top it all off.
The score at the end is glorious. The orchestral swell is what sells the final scene for me.
@@RoaringTide It's the reason for why Frieren is still #1 in MAL as of now. Frieren does little to no inconsistencies in these said fields. They don't have brain blasting moments(imo, they do have tho 😂) but every element of the anime is done so well.
Frieren supresses her mana
Demons: "In demon culture this is considered a dick move"
Demon cries out for their mother/father.
Humans: "In human culture, this is considered a dick move."
Frieren: “i’M gOiNg To Do WhAt’S cAlLeD a PRO GAMER MOVE”
Frieren legit smurfing
I find it interesting that Frieren killed the 2 main demons (Aura and Qual) we've seen so far with their own spells.
You forgot Draht.
@@jaideepshekhar4621Freiren didn't kill Draught with his wires though, she used her own spell.
Whereas she killed Qual with his Zoltraak and Aura with her Auserlese
Frieren also said "just a feeling" to Flamme when they first met, hence the parallel w/ Himmel
Must be why she was convinced and joined the party
Fun fact: the voice actors for Aura and Eren Jaeger are married in real life and their characters got their head sliced off on the same day when both episodes dropped 😂 makes it even better!
I didn’t need to know that, but it makes my day so much better. Thank you kind stranger.
and both were kindoff under someone elses control
1:43 Omg how did Ange notice that?! I'm mindblown, what a great detail
it's not Flamme's earings, but similar design she probably got after reminding her of Flamme. Because she didn't have any earings yet when she met Himmel, Eisen and Heiter.
@@fluffytigersshe could also have kept it as a keepsake from Flamme, and not wearing it for a long time to not give anything away to people trying to pry into her story during her time in solitude
@@fluffytigers Adding to the reply above, she could have worn the earrings only when she finally built up her resolve to go on a journey to defeat the Demon King
@@fluffytigers
It's definitely Flamme's earrings.
@@marcbr2585 Flamme’s earings have a little gold diamond shape at the bottom of her earings, and Frieren does not. Could be she either got similiar ones from Flamme as she passed or she bought them later. She didn’t wear earings until she joined their party 🤔
THE THUG LIFE SHADES 😂😂😂👏👏👏👏 S tier editing
Ep 10 is the example of great storytelling and uses of flashback. Frieren always uses the flashback in a smart way but ep 10 is the best uses of flashback in anime I have ever seen.
It's the best use of flashback ever in any medium. I can't think of anything anywhere that does it better. If you know one, enlighten me.
Episode 25 flashback is fire too
5:30 if you go back to the episode when Frieren was training young Fern, there was a scene where Frieren was drawing a circle around Fern, likely showing her to release mana only within the circle
Wasnt it explanation of how you will waste a lot of mana if you use defense magic as a sphere like that. I feel like they were going through different ways of using defensive magic.
It was on a montage on Episode 2, not the episode on barrier magic. Frieren was using a stick to draw a circle around smol fern.
it was actually Heiter who trained her to supress it. since he knows enough to teach her a little, that's why she was having a hard time finding her in the forest to train her.
9:55 It's not that demons are uninformed, it's just as Flamme explained, to them, supressing their mana for life is inconceivable cause it's akin to losing your standing in the world. As far as we know, Flamme, Frieren and now Fern are the only mages to have done this, and for the most part they don't demonstrate their full capabilities unless they're sure to kill their opponent. Frieren spent literally 900 years basically doing nothing but hone her skills and mana in solitude until she was found by the heroes' party, that's why not just demons but people in general don't know how old or strong she is or that she was Flamme's student, it's impossible to know.
"frieren, do not leave your name in history until you defeat the demon king"
Flamme
Seriously though the demon mana thing was so well explained.
It's like living on the streets as a beggar, actually starving yourself and getting cold and sick just so you can flex all your wealth that you didn't spend, once in a blue moon.
Mana suppressing is not limited to these 3. Every mage is capable of that. Even demons.
@@equipmagameplays Don't know what you're on about, the show has been quite explicit in saying that Flamme, Frieren and now Fern are the only ones that we know of who're suppressing their mana 100% of the time. Demons CAN do that, they just won't and don't expect anyone to be doing that cause it's not in their nature.
@@mrpeanutbutter6817 you never said 100% of the time. Before you mislead others, I just wanted to mention that
@@equipmagameplays They said "supressing their mana for life is inconceivable". Never about suppression in general. He wasn't misleading anyone.
05:26
"How could Fern do this? When she is so young..."
My theory is that Heiter can sense Frieren mana when they first met, so probably Heiter know that Frieren suppressing her mana, then told Fern about it to train her, giving Fern the ability to control her mana and increasing her manapool, turning Fern into Zoltrak Machine Gun.
I don’t think it makes Frieren tired to suppress her mana anymore. She has been doing it for so long, it’s probably like how Goku and Gohan were able to stay in SS form even when asleep. They acclimated their bodies to it.
Which is what makes Ferm so impressive, she was doing it as a child, which is also what Frieren noticed first about her. ❤️
She _does_ sleep a lot, though...
Frieren is just a sleepy head.
Spoiler
theres another elf who also concealing mana but she looks like she havent been sleeping at all lol
@@mbpoblet just frieren things lol
@@user-en2hk3bt3v *[SPOILERS BELOW]*
... and she seems to have spent most of the last thousand years (or more, she was already there first time Frieren met her) _sitting in her damn chair,_ doing nothing much.
And, as you said, still looks tired.
the world of frieren is built to be so simple yet so intricate that it all falls in place itself keeping the back n forth b/w the 2 journeys interesting n coherent
"How could Fern do this when she was so young?" because she's literally built different.
dispite eating the same food as frieren as well and she still has a different build for sure
Not really, there is a real reason
@@are3287 I'm aware, its called a joke, I was hyping up our girl for being so skilled, but thanks for the "Well actually"
ackhtually☝️🤓 @@are3287
Frieren is a LEGEND. I was just WAITING to see your expressions when she hits Aura with that finishing command.
Fern is a prodigy and having Frieren as a mentor is great.
Also Flamme is such a good char. I love her. Teaching Frieren how to defeat demons is awesome... Which she passed on to Fern.
The birth of one of my favourite current memes.
Frieren: Aura.....Do my taxes....
Aura: Noooo!
Aura, lick a Switch cartridge.
13:33
I see you Carlie, I see you. That pun will not escape me.
Great reaction and analysis.
My #1 anime in a long time, epitome of show, don't tell. Well written and extremely well paced; I have never seen flashbacks timed so perfectly
I feel like with any other show the amount of flashbacks shown in Frieren would be a detriment but Frieren does it extremely well
Freelen's earrings are keepsakes from Flamme.
I love how this episode has such a huge payoff, while still having restraint in what she ends up showing. Like, "Frieren goes to kill Aura", is a good set-up, but at the end all she did was show her mana. She didn't really cast any crazy spells yet. So it's got a huge pay-off without even showing off what Frieren is really capable of. They're keeping us curious about what it looks like when she goes all out.
I love the writing on this show, the sensibility and how the world is show and presented. Its already one of my favorites and watching how its going, its gonna be number 1 for sure.
my favorite thing about this episode: Aura casts 'Auserlese' halfway through which sealed her fate BUT we, the audience, don't know that yet. after the flashback we are reminded that Aura had already cast the spell.. it's subtle but it adds that little extra 'oomph' to the reveal of Frieren's mana 😌
The details are amazing. I also noticed how Aura’s hair is cut off when is force to end herself.
By the way, you now have context for why Qual back in Episode 3 was still so sure he could win after finding out about the shield spell, and why he pointed out that casting it consumes a lot of mana. He was certain he could easily overwhelm their defenses based on how much mana they showed.
I didn't even consider that. Thats such a neat detail!!! Good observation man 😊
What a great scene, love the addition of the sunglasses on Frieren, lol.
VA for Aura, her real life husband is Yuki, Erin character. and if I remember correctly this episode aired same week or pretty much very close as when Eren head get cut off
so both couple voice famous character whose head got chopped off
*"Flamme's favourite spell is to create a field of Flower and that was taught by her parents when she was a child"* Mmmm
"are you alright?can you here me?" 😂😂
Dat soundtrack on the last flashback to Flamme before "the line" at the end......
*Aura cuts her head off*
End theme: Are you alright?
That was the most badass anime moment this year for me. This whole episode, the build up was just perfect! 10/10
Frieren stil loves magic, by saying "somewhat" is her way of saying she still loves it. That's why she smiled when Fern said "somewhat" as well and said "just like me then". Also Heiter taught Fern to supress it when she was small, Which is why Frieren couldn't notice her when she first met Fern, and had difficulties finding her when she was going to train her. Frieren get's tired from suppressing her Mana, but she's just also not a morning person as well hahaha😂The deal with it glasses got me omfg!! loved your reactions to this ep!!
5:50 nah frieren just sleeps a lot lol. Nothing to do with the mana suppression. She’s been doing it for a thousand years now, it’s her natural state of being. It wouldn’t make her anymore tired as she’s used to it. Plus remember, Fern does it too, and for much less time than frieren has. But even so, fern can get up like a normal person and doesn’t oversleep a ton.
Flamme told Frieren not to make a name for herself so that she would be able to use her deception against the demon king. If she made a name for herself, then the demon king would already be wary of her power and she wouldn’t be able to fool them into underestimating her. It had nothing to do with earning anything.
Australian Aura be like "arr naur my mannaur"
LOVED the glasses!
5:26 "How could Fern do this?"
A good question indeed...
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Heiter taught Fern about it. Heiter learnt Frieren does suppress her mana. It will be covered in the next episodes
@@gangsarisworo3759Maybe don't post unmarked spoilers for future episodes?
@@DarwinAwardWinner it's not a spoiler, they just reminded again in the next episode, because Frieren talked about it with Fern about her being practically invisible in ep 1, then Frieren was wondering how much she had been studying implying probably Heiter had been telling her to study up, and taught her to that to only to be surprised she was getting very good at it.
@@fluffytigers This is only hinted at in previous episodes. It hasn't been explained yet.
Catching on to the earings was impressive. Most people didn't even notice. She didn't wear them till her journey with Himmel. There's a lot of small details like this sprinkled in that further flesh out the characters and it's great.
When I saw that scene for the first time I end up under the table with goosebumps XDD. The build up, music, animation, everything... JUST PERFECTION!!!
This episode was incredible. It basically spent 90% of the episode explaining why Aura lost the fight before it began and it still manages to floor you when she loses.
Now THAT was a power move if I ever saw one! 🤩 Your reactions were appropriate!👍😂😂
That's why the Ending song "Milet-Anytime Anywhere" is very related to Frieren's life.
husband and wife lose their head in the same week(aura's voice actress and eren‘s voice actor is a couple)
The teacher is really our 2nd mom like how Flamme to Frieren and Frieren to Fern. ❤
frieren didn't even have to lift a finger to defeat aura. she's so cool
10 points to the editor for the sunglasses hahah
I love how the previous episodes make you think that maybe this is the first time we will see Frieren properly fight since she's supposedly up against a foe that could match her but no, Frieren is on a whole different scale of power than all of them.
So glad you guys picked up this series ❤❤❤
I say one of the coldest kill in all of anime by an mc. Haha Frieren the 🐐. 👑🥶💙
Frieren is elegant even finishing off demons. Clean and effortless. Pure flexing.
Frieren also uses the flower spell on Himmel's grave a few episodes ago
Frieren is so gooooooood! I can attest this show gets better and better everytime!
I've watched this scene for at least 30 times now and it never gets old. Sometimes you have to show people who's boss 😁
Also, that split second of a montage of their 10-yr adventure to fight the demon king shows how short it was compared to her montage of solitude after Flamme died. And it made me understand why she said she wanted to retrace the journey before her memory of that adventure fades.
Himmel complimenting her master's favourite spell. 50 years being a short time for humans but a long enough time to fall out of life with msgic. It's perfect.
Ange, that earring detail isn't something I've noticed! That's such a neat detail!
I love the contrast between how Frieren has learned to carefully treat the human bodies of Aura's executioners vs. how brutally she dealt with Aura the Demon herself. The pettiness of forcing the Guillotine to off herself using her own favorite method of killing reveals how Frieren's hatred for demons has stilled remained despite 1000 years. She's often portrayed as relatively emotionless, but that aspect still hasn't left her. Even when they first encountered Lugner in town, she immediately drew her staff and prepared to kill him. It also highlights how important the "mere 10 year journey" with Himmel was; it restored her love for magic and the simple joy of finding new spells.
First of all, I don't understand English, so I'm sorry if my English is a little weird.
I love both of your reactions.
Looks like the Aura battle is over.
Frieren is so cool ^^.
I've heard that people who know the original work quite like this battle.
But the good thing about this anime is that it's not all about fighting like Kimetsu no Yaiba or Jujutsu Kaisen.
You'll see a lot of Himmel's cool things and famous quotes in the flashbacks ahead.
The characters in this anime are originally in German, and the English subtitles also use German, so I thought I'd write a pronunciation that is closer to English.
The "A" in Aura is pronounced as "∧", and the "ura" after it is pronounced as is.
Frieren is freelen.
Himmel is Hinmel.
Eisen is Aizen.
Heiter is Haiter.
Fern is Ferun.
Stark is Shutaruku.
I guess this is about it. I think these are the closest pronunciations.
She definitely earned her name, "Aura the Guillotine" I agree. We knew the outcome way early, but the reveal was epic. Evan Call's music in the background added to it.
Heiter taught Fern to control her mana because he knew how important it was to Frieren.
"fun little trivia". aura's VA is the wife of eren' VA and funny that both their characters got killed by decapitation
Damn I didn't realized about the earrings before. You guys are sharp as ever!
kinda, they did think Fern was an elf
I want you guys to think about Heiter estimated mana from his dialogue with the party. If Frieren has mana worth 1000 years and she surpress it to 100 years that means Heiter has roughly 500 years worth of mana, i guess all of them are goated
i assume fern is fast with her magic because she was in a rush to learn it since a very early age. her being able to hide her mana might also be connected to her childhood, maybe she had to hide when her parents got killed, but also the fact that frieren was teaching her from the start.
aura got guillotined no pun intended:))),frieren has like twice her mana.
This was a masterfully written episode. We know Frieren is OP, but we don't even need a fight to show much she out classed Aura
13:00 Yes! I loved that it wasn't so much about her having to fight Aura but the fact she already had won when Aura stepped forward to challenge Frieren. Then the build up for Frieren's mana reveal was the peak and just with no emotion what so ever being ordered to kill herself like that. Aura got done dirty but in a way that was perfectly told as part of the story. The fact Demons treat mana like status and take everything at face value thinking that clearly humans and elves can't be better then them. What really makes it is the fact Friren knew the outcome of all this from the start, she had no worries that Fern and Stark would lose and she almost predicted Aura to challenge her, as she said she would of been in trouble if she had to fight the entire army alone but Demons aren't like that.
😲👀... O P ...done right !! 👍🏻
Its a masterpiece !!
The reactions, keep em' comming 😭😁😍
1:42 can't believe I never noticed the earring detail before despite my multiple rewatches and read 😭
Frieren has such phenomenal world building, from the consistency in how mana/magic works, to how the demon kind's characteristics are well thought out.
suppressing mana is a natural state for Frieren. She doesn't get tired from it. she was just tired from it when starting out on that approach.
LOL! Great job with the shades as Frieren walks away. We all knew it was going to end with the scales the second it was introduced as the way Aura controls people. Loved the time we see of Flamme and Frieren. Good pick up on the earrings. The way that Flamme and Frieren were trained was kind of like a crappy thing for mages and really only serves to kill demons. The magic that wants to be created and let loose into the world is restrained. I think that's why Frieren only somewhat likes magic now, but I think traveling with Himmel and the others she's taken up to collecting and seeing what magic is out there and has thus restored her love in magic.
I didn't even notice she had her earrings, damn
This is the most Dragon Ball episode, kinda. Not just the ki/mana control, but the fact that the Big Bad is condensed into a tiny little creature (Vegeta, Frieza, true Buu, etc) that can unleash the horrors of hell on the world. If only Aura had some super beefcake muscleman standing next to her at all times to highlight the contrast lol
(Before I forget again, I obviously wrote this comment with a DBZ lens because of the t-shirt and framed poster in the background)
all i could think about was ki control and how the z-fighters used hiding their ki to their advantage in the saiyan and namek arcs
"It was so cut throat"...lol
evan call designed an epic ost that reminds lotr and it fits perfectly with this anime
One thing I liked about the episode was that after Fern's and Stark's fight, we were expecting something flashier or like a brutal fight.
Instead, we got an entire episode explaining how Frieren is so OP, she doesn't even need to put much of an effort to get rid of one of the Demon King's Generals!
They didn't give us what we thought we wanted, they gave us what we didn't know we needed!
A demon who lived for 500 years and spend the majority of that time training to become powerful
Our beloved grandma Frieren : kys
I love re-watching these while waiting for the new episode to come out ♥
My guess is that the deamon king had a intuitive flash that a elf will become a tthreat to him & his forces .
So he decided to strike while he had the advantage of numbers & power.
I was waiting for your reaction to this episode!
The kill yourself moment is savage, but it needs the whole context of the past few episodes to be as impactful as it was. Epic setup.
Frieren taught Fern on supressing the mana. It's in the early episodes of the series
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It actually wasn't Frieren but Heiter that taught Fern. She was already suppressing her mana when she meets Frieren. In a later episode, Heiter asks Frieren about magic in case he has someone to teach. He also knew that it was a good habit to suppress ones mana since Frieren used it to decieve demons and mages alike.
5:27 So I'm 6 months late, but you can actually see Frieren teaching Fern to supress her mana during her training in episode 1 or 2, can't remember. You see Fern standing in a small circle drawn on the ground, Frieren probably told Fern to suppress her mana enough to keep it in that circle, so this is one of the first things she was taught by Frieren, and she's most likely been using it constantly since then
Evil Frieren be like: Aura, live a happy life. You matter. Your life has meaning.
Frieren : "Hey Aura wanna see something cool?"
the gamer word "kys" is strong
Frieren is the best written female character of all time
Frieren es un Anime top 3 de la historia sin duda
Fun Fact: Almost all of the Names in this Anime are German Words:
Frieren = Freeze
Himmel = Sky
Heiter = Cheerful
Eisen = Iron
Fern = Distant, Far
Stark = Strong
Flamme = Flame
Lügner = Liar
... its funny for me as a german ♥
The show is awesome thanks for reacting ❤❤❤❤
Heiter probably told Fern to focus on hiding her mana, because he learned about it from Freiren. He couldn't teach her specifics about MagiCraft as he wasn't a Mage as he said when he asked her to take Fern as an apprentice. Also, Flamme told her to live a quite life below the radar so she wouldn't get targeted by the demons until she grew strong enough to kill the demon king. Aura even said it, Freiren is a mysterious Mage of unknown age who just showed up one day around a hundred years ago. If they knew how old Freiren was, they would have an idea just how powerful she should be as the older you get the stronger your mana gets. This is why the demon king ordered the destruction of the elves. The elves are the only race that could live long enough to become a threat.
Aura: It's over 9000!!!
I was waiting for this episode, just for that scene
Next is Apothecary diaries !!!!