Frieren Episode 19 Is Killing Off Characters in the Most Intense Magic Exam 💀🔥
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- This truly is a test that will kill you if you're not fit to be a top-ranking mage...they're pulling no punches.
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I mean it makes sense...if you'd die to that you're not fit to be a top rank but bruh 💀 See my full uncut live reaction to the episode over on Patreon www.patreon.com/BrandonReviews
This Exam is very interesting because it's several things at the same time: A survival skills test, a magic combat exam through a Battle Royal, a magic detection test since you would need it to track the bird and the other teams and beasts and also an exam on the broad of magic knowledge since you basically would need some kind of gimmicky magic to catch the bird alive. It was well thought good stuff. Hoping to see Fern and Frieren cracking some skulls next episode. Also Denken honors his name, he is definitely a sharp one, and got interested in his character. His view of Mages in Peacetime needed more as politicians and scientists than combat specialists is compelling.
Stealing the comments because bro said what I had in mind and even though I've read the manage they delivered
I love how this anime gives you a lot of non-violent scenes to make you let your guard down for the more violent scenes.
This episode has a small detail showing the skill level of first class mages looks like and it add more prove to convince audience that first class mages are the elite of elites.
Remember around middle of this episode, there's screen the Stilet stopped at the table of a camp right after showing someone is filling up a cup of tea? People who can show no urge in this exam can only be the one who oversees the exam. The main purpose of this scene is to show a first class mage is capable lowering their mana output to a point where's the bird can't detect for at least 2 days!!!
Well, Aura magic was a necromancy in a way
Interesting plan that Frieren came up with to catch the bird. Fern bout to show this group just how good she is. Stark is probably in town helping out the people with some errands while the exam is going on.
Stark is catching some nice needed rest I hope lmao
Hopefully or keeping up with some training
Oh yes it will be amazing to see what kind of awesome tricks Fern will use next episode to defeat the opposing team
If this was a videogame they'd come back to town and find Stark already went up five levels from doing all the side quests.
@@andrewsuryali8540 true, but he'll still be a coward when it comes to fighting
I would like to point out that the big bird that landed next to frieren while she was waiting was one of the birds that was talked about that laid the trap to kill people. This means she was so good at suppressing her mana she was all but invisible to a monster who eats people.
Next week is about to pop off so hard,we got all the setup for fights:
Ubel vs Blue haired dude
Frieren vs the teleporting girl and her party
Fern vs The Rock
We’re gonna be eating GOOOD!
10/10 episode. The story was smart, the characters were well expanded upon and the end has me absolutely hyped for next week: When you hear Fern go "so desu ka", you know it's gonna go down next time. These fools save for Denken and Übel will realize how much out of their depth they are against Fern and Frieren.
Fern's technique is so strong and Frieren's magical output is god level, they are a power combo
@@AHBrandonReviews You have to remember though: Frieren will not lift a finger more than absolutely necessary. Her saving her teammates would defeat the purpose of the exam, every mage needs to prove that they are worthy themselves.
Even Frieren unleashing her power against Aura was just to make sure the scales didn't tip in Aura's favour by accident.
So I suspect we'll see (godly animated) combat scenes of Fern and Frieren doing the bare minimum to stay ahead. Which is okay, just don't go expecting a full-power beatdown by the two.
That fight was Insane 😂😂 but Denken is the most realest G in the series the man have my respect till date
Yeah.
This episode is strong in showcasing Frieren’s experience and intelligence.
This whole time she has been taking it slow, observing, and getting to know how the bird acts. She came up with the plan that worked so well .
If either of her members of her group pass, it’s be because of how intelligent and great she is.
I love how humble she is throughout the series. I believe she can just capture the bird on her own by maximum effort, but no, she stays humble and cooperate with her teammates because it's an exam. there's no point in exam if they don't deal with adversaries.
@@malikhaidarshe also doesn’t like to showboat or play her hand early. She was trained to restrain herself then strike when necessary by flame . Combat is not her first option , it’s her final option but she has everyone set up for when she needs to use combat from the beginning.
I just checked out the manga and today's episode was a 1-for-1 recreation of the comic.
Which means the anime is the superior product, because we also get awesome music and movement.
Change My Mind.
Wasn't the first minutes an anime original? The last episode ended literally half of a panel page, and continues with Fern's catch of the Stille. Or maybe was moved after other scenes that in manga takes place after, I guess.
About Frieren telling Fern that even basic spells works at anything and everything.
There is truth in that since just like martial arts and even fighting and what not, it is always the simplest things that are the most easiest and most difficult to do.
But once you are very grounded with the basic, the body flows naturally with it.
The fundamentals are the cornerstone of ANY skill. Sports, science , academia, fixing cars …..anything
@@mookiestewart3776 so agree with you on this. I can’t wait for the Fern-Ehre showdown
Looked at another way, "basic attack magic" never became any less deadly if they actually hit you, defensive spells simply got better.
This show just keeps getting better. I'm also loving the magic and the world building elements that surround it.
This world feels plausible, and the strategic thinking that enabled Frieren's party to catch the Stile was genius.
I'm also intrigued by these new characters. I'm looking forward to watching this episode again.
My favorite line was by fern saying that Frieren told her that basic attack and defense is all that is needed to defeat mages of “this era” . Our kudere elf has some shit up her sleeve that she doesn’t think mages of this era are even worthy of.
If this is hype for you, and yes with the cliffhanger and all that was going on it is hype. Wait for what is in going forward. Oh boy.
Also:
2nd party: Frieren; Lawine (means: avalanche); Kanne (means: jug)
4th party: Fern; Übel (means: malignancy/malifacent); Land (equal in english)
8th party: Wirbel (means: twister, swirling); Scharf (means: sharp, keen); Ehre (means: honor, glory)
13th party: Denken (means: thinking); Laufen (means: going or running); Richter (means: judging, rectifier)
GEISEL bird (hostage, tormenting-tool)
This episode of Frieren was really amazing and awesome. In how much though have been put into the world and this exam. Like how the barrier is preventing the water from rivers to flow. Causing the river beds to become paths to walk. And the water to gather in the big central lake. Or shattered in water poodles and pools. Then we also have how the animals behaves. Like the predator monster bird, who lure in prey by mana. Or the little bird which avoids areas of mana as a survival method. This is so great in how they also made that work into the story. Like how some more novices mages did fall prey to the monsters. And how Frieren group did make a plan of capture the bird. By contaminating the water around the testing area with mana. Making the bird more likely to turn to the one place without mana. As Frieren almost completely did conceal her own mana presence.
And let not forget about what we saw more from the magic side of the episode. With different ideologies regarding how mages should be. As the current guild have nostalgia of the demon king period. Where mages were everywhere, and if you’re not strong or capable enough you can just die in this test. Then we also see how many mages have different individual styles when it comes to their magic. As we saw in the mage fight with Fern group versus another one. Where Fern is using some old school fighting style that a boomer would use. According to the girl she was fighting, but Fern just dissed that off. Saying that is all that is needed to fight off the current generation of mages.
So all in all one of the best mage exam that I have ever seen
Imagine throwing pebbles as your main attack and mocking your opponent for firing death lasers of doom through magic gates.
when you put it like that...ya lmao
“Basic magic is enough to defeat people at your level”
There's reason for modern mages think like this, mostly likely will be revealed in next episode.
Here's the spoiler:
Due to ordinary defense magic more focused on dealing with magic, the physical strength of it has been sacrifice in order to keep a good balance of mana cost, amount of time needed to cast and complexity of it. Thus, modern mages came to conclusion that using magic involved physical mass such as rock is the ways to counter ordinary defense magic.
@@leongonnwong4915 Also since it takes less mana to control what's out there in nature rather than conjuring something (blasts of energy) from nothing
6:57 If you think about it, Aura was using Necromancy as she was controlling a whole army of headless dead bodies. Also, back in episode 3, when dealing with Einsam (illusion-casting monster) Frieren mentioned undeads were dead bodies animated by magic, so traditional necromancy exists in this world.
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I thought they were were gonna use the barrier as a component of the trap, but goddamn. This is HxH kinds of strategy and I'm here for it.
I'm kinda proud of myself that the first thing I thought when the brats complained that a drop of magic in a body of water frightens away the Stille, was "Oh, so we can control where the birds are not going to go", and then Frieren chooses this tactic
Damn we did see some corpses. There is a demon lord in this world too. Also some areas are too dangerous unless you’re first rank too. Stille flying faster than the speed of sound is crazy and I love all the strategizing like how magic can be infused into the world. How there are so many kinds of spells. The birds who prey on others reminds me of that one monster from made in abyss. There’s also a variety of magic detection skill between people and animals. I love how freezing the lake caused so much conflict lol. And it’s interesting to see how there’s different styles in spellcasting. I do hope we see Fern use more spells. I do think demons are more likely to use necromancy. If we do see more seasons, I would rather wait so it’s the same staff or director or waiting until there’s a considerable amount of content
1st class died all the time.
Most of them are at the level of upper demons so there are always danger in the fight against Demon.
Even the top of them are weaker than the Great Demons.
A Great Demon would murder a team with ease.
Another great episode of Frieren imho. It makes sense to me for the test to be this tough cause you'd be expected to be able to handle such situations as a first class mage, but I agree they are being ruthless in proctoring this exam. That said, some great action this episode... I'm looking forward to what I think will be the conclusion of the first in the series of tests in the next one.
In many sword and sorcery tales I've read, played and watched, mages are meant to be intelligent. They are the ones that can think on complex strategies to supplement their spell casting.
However, most of the time, mages in manga, anime and games are basically glass cannons. Lots of magical power, but their traditional weakness is that the are simply fragile. And even if they are given fun and unique magics to play with, at the end of the day, they end up being characters that either a) muscle their way with raw power, or b) depend on a gimmick.
In very few cases we get to see mages being the smart people their Wisdom stats imply they are.
Frieren's (official) magic exam is one of those cases, where the truly elite show us that it's not just about the power of your spells or the tricks up your sleeve. This is a true "smart" approach. Bold. Creative. Unique.
And only our favourite elf, who has a solid millennium of experience and know how, can deliver.
She literally went undetected right until the very end, when it was time to start the fun. Which she did in such a grand fashion (that scene with the animals and monsters just passing by her without noticing her... PERFECTION!!).
Then there's her gifted apprentice. Fern was given the handicap of only being allowed to use basic spells for this exam. But Fern is Frieren's disciple. That means this is going to get creative, as there may be more than a few ways to use said basic spells in non-orthodox ways; since we all know Fern is also pretty creative herself. Will we see her dance again within a storm of magic? That would seriously be awesome.
That's why I like smart stories like this. Because it has you thinking, trying to anticipate what comes next. Because, as you said, no safety nets.
And it would be a shame to see Fern dying (let's hope not, please; she is a great character with so much untapped potential).
I know they talked about Wirbel and how he's a fighter and his magic is dispassionate but Denken scares me the most right now. His ease at figuring out Frieren's plan and his psychology really makes me feel like he's the most dangerous person in the "room."
Spoilers:
well he HAD special teacher since he was a kid, teaching him many thing.
You will see Denken be the MVP in the next season!
🧐 dude saying those who die in the exam don’t deserve to be first class mages was cold…..but tru. This show is simply amazing. This arc is turning out real good.
Did anyone else notice how smooth the animation was when the girl in Frieren’s party dropped to the ice and started running after she froze the lake. The way Fern and her adversaries hair looked just blowing in the wind. It’s the little things……..
I have a feeling next week is gonna be one hell of an epic episode, what with the stuff built up today.
2nd party playing 4D chess in here
While watching the anime I've been really seeing the subtext that I glossed over when reading the manga, that the Northern Continent Mage Association is actively stifling the regrowth of magic in the setting. Frieren remarking on how few mages there are in the world now I initially chalked up to the mass mage extermination during the war, but in retrospect it's obviously in large part due to Serie's - the head of the Association - ideology that represents an active contempt for the mediocre and/or unambitious mages of the world that the number of active mages remains so low. An ideology of which this exam is emblematic of.
It really is like the Hunter Exams - in difficulty and lethality - but it really shouldn't be at this largely peaceful time in the setting.
Bro just dumping a huge spoiler and revelation lol...
Not really, 2nd class is the qualification most mages would need.
1st class is of different category, it is for the combat mages who should know what they are getting into. But a as we saw, some idiots thought too highly about their capabilities
When Fern has those dead eyes in a fight I feel bad for her opponent. But she might have figured it out before they cut the scene.
I can relate to this more because in my country if you fail the final exam for high school, you're done academically. the only path left is getting a low level job, but it's also pretty hard because almost nobody hires middle school graduate, even if they do they mostly hire girls. so unless you have a very specific set of skills or have a certain family working somewhere, you're done.
If you liked Necromancy, Aura is up your alley. She used a total Authority/Command Spell, but the fact that this lingers even if the host dies or is decapitated can be considered Necromancy. Especially since it uses souls as a medium to cast.
i'm pretty sure they touched upon necromancy in EP 1-2, with how heiter wants frieren to decode a book that said contained informations about revival and immortality
I do like that the show actually have the characters out think the problem and just think up a new spell or combo move.
Also i'm going to be intrested to see how the bickering girls will handle the battle next episode as they do seem to work well together just just clash a lot on a personal level (Which i do like that trope i can't remember the name) and hope they make it and we get to see a bit more of them in later episodes as they are quite fun.
a lot of shows would allow frieren to grab it without struggle cause of how strong she is but this said nah...she has to work for it cause that's how it should be but rarely is in shows like this
With how often the one girl mentioned rain this episode, I think someone (probably Frieren) will summon rain and she´ll show off her real power.
next the last boss of this magic 2nd round is so hard to beat, the boss is fucking OP
Interesting point. I feel it would work if they saved applicants from death but it was an automatic fail.
I think Bruce Lee said something like don't worry about the man that has thrown 1000 different punches 1 time, worry about that man that has thrown the same punch 1000 times. That is how I believe Fern's abilities have developed, she might have a smaller repertoire of spells, but she seems totally deadly whenever she uses them. Regarding Frieren, I think even if someone is a faster or more talented Mage, she probably has like a solid century or two of battle experience, I could see her beating pretty much anyone is a real fight.
We're already getting to see some mage battles in this exam, it seems like the number of Stile is very small and so only two handful of mages will probably go to the next round. I did like seeing the monsters just casually ignore Frieren since she was not a threat at all but not prey either.
We already have something close to necromancy, though: Aura's army.
I want more corpses off the ground not covered by a suit of armor I was dead bodies in those tress brought back to life or a mage who davles in it who isn't considered bad
Ooo can’t wait until you meet Serie
But if they already used necromancy, Aura had an army of headless knights
Nah the First Class mage exam arc is taking up the entire cour if not all but a few episodes. Remember this is only the first part of a multi-part exam.
The solution is satisfying as it utilised all elements already introduced to us.
Magic Chunin Exams
Magic battles, this is what I'm here for!
Mana in Frieren is more like stamina and not power, having more Mana means that you can use spells whitout getting tired fast, with gives a great advantage in a fight, but doesn't mean you are gonna win because of it, Qual is a good example, he had less mana than Frieren, but was a much better mage than her.
Holy sh-
This magic exam is deadly af 😱
The plan that Frieren team use to catch this bird was so well thought 😎
This arc is already incredible and I carving for more 👀
It's kind of a spoiler but we saw already someone stronger than Frieren multiple times in both openings
SPOILER: there is another elf known as the grimoire who is said to be even stronger ten the demon lord an knows all the spells in existence and taught flamme how to use magic
Some mages about to fuck around with Frieren and find out…….and if someone somehow hurts fern I don’t stark is going to take that very well……this is NOT the party to fuck with
Didn't we already technically see necromancy being used by Aura? 🤔
technically I wanna see a full blown necromancer
@@AHBrandonReviews ah touche
The next week episode will be... Something... Believe me
The necromancer was Aura.
I want more zombified necromancy not just suits of armors i wanna see corpses
In our current day and age, people still die during the training to join the elite units of armed forces around the world. That people would die in such tests in a medieval-style fantasy scenario is expected. It's like a Dothraki wedding. If at least 3 people don't die, it's boring.
For real 😢
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all 3 of them
Spoiler allert:
Unfortunately in the next exam is explore a dongeon with many mimics and trap, still in group but there is no fighting each other because we fight rhe mimic. and if you hurt enough you can escape the dongeon with golden golem, but still, there are many epic battle.
In the last exam, it's just talking with sirie to pass the exam, 100% no fighting acquire. Also it'll explain the relation of sirie and frieren. I hope it'll not dissapoint the viewer
The next adventure after the 1st mage exam is literally amazing, hopefully there's season 2 because i have feeling the 1st mage exam will be the final arc of this season.
I mean we get some sick fights in the dungeon and any of the smaller fight could be slightly extended to become even more epic than the first stage.
Just the final one alone should top Fern vs Lugner.