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)
Frieren sees in demons less than animals. After killing draht she say "ippikki" that's hunter term in Japanese for "one down" you wouldnt call you racist when you shoot a deer cause of population control :D. AND she is a gambler (mimic thing) The 1%!! xD
@@CrownofMischief lmao stark is me i always try to be atleast 3 level ahead if i want to challenge something and i would still be afraid of losing expecting a counter attack or blunder
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.
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)
@@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
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 🤔
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
What I've realized over the last few episodes is that Carlie and Ange don't overestimate the main characters but they definitely underestimate everyone else. The villains spit a lot of facts from time to time but the two of them mostly just write it off lol
@@friedhotwings Powerlevel-wise yes. But they don't really take what anyone besides the main cast says seriously, which isn't a big problem but sometimes not right I guess.
@@Noctislolig and Frieren herself warned others (and the audience) about it. People tend to glamorize and romanticize their idols (main characters). When Ange said "It's funny how the (demons) are so uninformed"... knowing what's brewing the manga right now... eek haha Our protagonist party have no idea what's coming, brewing in the background, and how they are about to be the "uninformed". Frieren is powerful, and a product of her long life span + training. But she's not invincible, and she admits it herself. Frieren may look at demons as her sworn enemy, but she never underestimates them. And she and the mortals have also gained intelligence/spells from the demons such as Zoltraak and Flying.
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
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
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.
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 😌
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.
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 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.
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
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.
@@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.
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!!!
The second episode were Frieren draws a circle fern stand in there shows how many mana she should train to release. After learning the flower spell she only could conjure white blossoms. .. now she can a lot variety of blossoms. Just awesome and i love when the Tagel Harpa (the instrument sounds like a harsh violine) is kicking
That cover of the 1st intro is on fire!!! BTW I hadn't noticed the earrings!!! good call!... Fern is an absolute talent but Heiter taught her, priests use magic for healing spells etc and mana, and traveling with Frieren he learned of her supression and demon destroying methods, so he taught Fern from the start
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
frieren was very confident that fern could handle demons because she had taught her to fight herself. It is hard to think of many masters in this universe who would have better prepared a talented young mage and develop her potential than frieren.
5:30 Fern pretty much learned it on her own before meeting Frieren. Frieren caught on to the fact that Fern’s mana is hardly noticeable but knows that she has a strong amount of it. I wonder if they’ll flashback to why or how Fern knows how to do that, or if she’s just special.
@@r.a.fgattaiguy845 later on in the season, Serie says about mana suppression that either you have the gift to do so, or you have to train at least a couple centuries to be able to do it well enough to deceive demons. This means that Fern has this gift
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 ♥
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.
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 ♥
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!
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.
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.
5:25 Carlie: How could Fern do that (from such young age)? Good question. To make it easier to understand, it's almost the same thing with how children these days are more capable of using smartphone/pc/technology devices and internet while it might take awhile for the older generations to even be able to send out a simple email. Fern is naturally better at magic, not only cuz she was born with more mana, but also cuz she was born in the era where magic has become a very accessible thing in her era, just like how technology and internet is today for the younger generations 😁
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)
Have you noticed that all demons she kills she kills with their own spells. Qual got killed by Zoltraak the spell he invented, Draht got decapitated when he tried to decapitate Frieren, Einsam (The ghost in the woods) Got killed because the illusion he creates told Frieren to shoot him,, Aura the Guillotine got killed by decapitation and mind controll. Frieren not only is powerfull, but she kills the demons in the most embarrassing way she can. By using their own spells / styles vs them and still being stronger.
One of the best moments of the series so far 🔥
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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?
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 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)
Frieren sees in demons less than animals. After killing draht she say "ippikki" that's hunter term in Japanese for "one down" you wouldnt call you racist when you shoot a deer cause of population control :D. AND she is a gambler (mimic thing) The 1%!! xD
@@CrownofMischief lmao stark is me
i always try to be atleast 3 level ahead if i want to challenge something and i would still be afraid of losing
expecting a counter attack or blunder
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
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
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.
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!
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
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
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 🤔
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.
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.
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
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.
THE THUG LIFE SHADES 😂😂😂👏👏👏👏 S tier editing
"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
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
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.
What I've realized over the last few episodes is that Carlie and Ange don't overestimate the main characters but they definitely underestimate everyone else.
The villains spit a lot of facts from time to time but the two of them mostly just write it off lol
Sounds like they are just “estimating” everyone correctly and appropriately.
@@friedhotwings Powerlevel-wise yes. But they don't really take what anyone besides the main cast says seriously, which isn't a big problem but sometimes not right I guess.
@@Noctislolig I get what you mean
yup i get you
@@Noctislolig and Frieren herself warned others (and the audience) about it. People tend to glamorize and romanticize their idols (main characters).
When Ange said "It's funny how the (demons) are so uninformed"... knowing what's brewing the manga right now... eek haha Our protagonist party have no idea what's coming, brewing in the background, and how they are about to be the "uninformed".
Frieren is powerful, and a product of her long life span + training. But she's not invincible, and she admits it herself. Frieren may look at demons as her sworn enemy, but she never underestimates them. And she and the mortals have also gained intelligence/spells from the demons such as Zoltraak and Flying.
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
The birth of one of my favourite current memes.
Frieren: Aura.....Do my taxes....
Aura: Noooo!
Aura, lick a Switch cartridge.
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I see you Carlie, I see you. That pun will not escape me.
Frieren is a LEGEND. I was just WAITING to see your expressions when she hits Aura with that finishing command.
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
What a great scene, love the addition of the sunglasses on Frieren, lol.
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.
"are you alright?can you here me?" 😂😂
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 😌
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.
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 😊
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.
Freelen's earrings are keepsakes from Flamme.
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
The details are amazing. I also noticed how Aura’s hair is cut off when is force to end herself.
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.
5:26 "How could Fern do this?"
A good question indeed...
SPOILER
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.
Australian Aura be like "arr naur my mannaur"
LOVED the glasses!
*"Flamme's favourite spell is to create a field of Flower and that was taught by her parents when she was a child"* Mmmm
That was the most badass anime moment this year for me. This whole episode, the build up was just perfect! 10/10
Now THAT was a power move if I ever saw one! 🤩 Your reactions were appropriate!👍😂😂
*Aura cuts her head off*
End theme: Are you alright?
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!!!
The second episode were Frieren draws a circle fern stand in there shows how many mana she should train to release. After learning the flower spell she only could conjure white blossoms. .. now she can a lot variety of blossoms. Just awesome and i love when the Tagel Harpa (the instrument sounds like a harsh violine) is kicking
Dat soundtrack on the last flashback to Flamme before "the line" at the end......
That cover of the 1st intro is on fire!!! BTW I hadn't noticed the earrings!!! good call!... Fern is an absolute talent but Heiter taught her, priests use magic for healing spells etc and mana, and traveling with Frieren he learned of her supression and demon destroying methods, so he taught Fern from the start
I've been a manga reader since the first chapter was released and I never noticed that lol 1:42
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.
That's why the Ending song "Milet-Anytime Anywhere" is very related to Frieren's life.
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.
😲👀... O P ...done right !! 👍🏻
Its a masterpiece !!
The reactions, keep em' comming 😭😁😍
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.
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.
10 points to the editor for the sunglasses hahah
Damn I didn't realized about the earrings before. You guys are sharp as ever!
kinda, they did think Fern was an elf
So glad you guys picked up this series ❤❤❤
husband and wife lose their head in the same week(aura's voice actress and eren‘s voice actor is a couple)
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.
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
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 😁
The teacher is really our 2nd mom like how Flamme to Frieren and Frieren to Fern. ❤
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.
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.
Ange, that earring detail isn't something I've noticed! That's such a neat detail!
You guys are the best, love it
"It was so cut throat"...lol
Heiter taught Fern to control her mana because he knew how important it was to Frieren.
Frieren also uses the flower spell on Himmel's grave a few episodes ago
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
frieren didn't even have to lift a finger to defeat aura. she's so cool
I say one of the coldest kill in all of anime by an mc. Haha Frieren the 🐐. 👑🥶💙
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.
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.
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.
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 was waiting for your reaction to this episode!
frieren was very confident that fern could handle demons because she had taught her to fight herself. It is hard to think of many masters in this universe who would have better prepared a talented young mage and develop her potential than frieren.
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.
aura got guillotined no pun intended:))),frieren has like twice her mana.
Frieren is so gooooooood! I can attest this show gets better and better everytime!
The show is awesome thanks for reacting ❤❤❤❤
Frieren is elegant even finishing off demons. Clean and effortless. Pure flexing.
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Fern pretty much learned it on her own before meeting Frieren. Frieren caught on to the fact that Fern’s mana is hardly noticeable but knows that she has a strong amount of it.
I wonder if they’ll flashback to why or how Fern knows how to do that, or if she’s just special.
Fern didn´t learn anything, it´s called talent
@@r.a.fgattaiguy845 later on in the season, Serie says about mana suppression that either you have the gift to do so, or you have to train at least a couple centuries to be able to do it well enough to deceive demons.
This means that Fern has this gift
@@pierluigidipietro8097 aka talent
Frieren : "Hey Aura wanna see something cool?"
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 ♥
"fun little trivia". aura's VA is the wife of eren' VA and funny that both their characters got killed by decapitation
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.
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 ♥
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!
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.
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.
I didn't even notice she had her earrings, damn
5:25 Carlie: How could Fern do that (from such young age)?
Good question. To make it easier to understand, it's almost the same thing with how children these days are more capable of using smartphone/pc/technology devices and internet while it might take awhile for the older generations to even be able to send out a simple email. Fern is naturally better at magic, not only cuz she was born with more mana, but also cuz she was born in the era where magic has become a very accessible thing in her era, just like how technology and internet is today for the younger generations 😁
If you didn't notice it, please note that as Aura's head falls, we see Frieren walking away. She doesn't even look back.
Yeah, and that is just so cold! Frieren is a German word which means cold or freezing
I was waiting for this episode, just for that scene
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.
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
Have you noticed that all demons she kills she kills with their own spells. Qual got killed by Zoltraak the spell he invented, Draht got decapitated when he tried to decapitate Frieren, Einsam (The ghost in the woods) Got killed because the illusion he creates told Frieren to shoot him,, Aura the Guillotine got killed by decapitation and mind controll. Frieren not only is powerfull, but she kills the demons in the most embarrassing way she can. By using their own spells / styles vs them and still being stronger.
the einsam was just a monster not a demon