Forum - View topicEP. REVIEW: Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2
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jdnation
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Not much to say about this episode, but it was a nice and even funny as much as touching feel-good side mission, but with a few significant scenes foreshadowing the next major arc.
Stark Vs Dragon balls kinda highlights how he's the guy doing the most dangerous work. But that's what a frontliner is for. Next episode will be one of the last few side stories if I recall correctly, before the manga gets around to 3 major back to back arcs.
A neat idea, but, speculation: spoiler[I believe the 2nd ED from season 1 strongly suggested that Frieren would outlive Fern and spends time reminiscing about her at Fern's grave. Granted this is only an original ED and likely has no insight on where the story is going, but I do think it is more likely that everyone makes the trip to Ended, reliving the Party of Heroes journey, and Friends gets to be reunited with Himmel, Fern with Heiter, and also... Stark with Eizen, who died while they are on that journey, and therefore Stark doesn't have to recount anything to him because he along with Himmel and Heiter had been watching them all.this time from Heaven. So all 3 of them, and maybe even Sein with someone else he lost, meet their loved ones at Ended, and return back home. And Frieren outlives them all as usual, but spends a lot of time together with them so their deaths don't come as a sudden passing as with Hummel, and Frieren also learns to raise the next generation of their families and new mages similar to her own master Flame, and different to Serie's methods.] |
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tintor2
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I was surprised by the dragon fight and how it connected it to the final scene. Stark sees Himmel as one of the coolest heroes ever enough to demand the diary talk as cool as him but Frieren's feelings when reading the diary were calmer and a bit ambiguous. That fight scene Madhouse animated was insane with how much blood they put in so little time so much that I felt I was watching Denji in the first Chainsaw Man fights. Whether Stark can become Himmel's successor doesn't matter to me as long as they keep him writing him as many fights as possible with that style.
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MFrontier
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Fist Mage Denken has returned!!!
Honestly I have to wonder how bad it is for the villages of the Northern Plateau when they don't have an OP band of adventures conveniently walking through when they're in distress. Like, I know the Chivalric Order is supposed to be policing the region, but I doubt they could have done much here. Stark and Fern holding hands! Wow, Stark really went to town on those dragons. Like even when he was falling he still went all out against them. Didn't even matter when they tried to chew him up. Frieren giving exposition doesn't mean Fern is going to stop drying her. Honestly I think the biggest takeaway from Himmel's memoir is...he was always looking at Frieren. And Frieren, for her part, was engrossed in the book because it felt like she was finally seeing and hearing Himmel again. She kept turning the empty pages because she just wanted to keep Himmel with her. |
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dm
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All that cold weather and snow. You’d think the tips of Frieren’s ears would turn pink.
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Covnam
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Too short, but at least we know more is coming next year. Anyway, that was an enjoyable final episode.
Although, 200 years to make a small bridge? I get that he's mostly doing it on his own and needs funding (I guess to support himself and buy wood and/or pay for workers?), but that still seems a bit much 
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jdnation
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Yeah... they should've made the bridge longer, or emphasized it required some very sturdy materials from far outside the region to really sell the idea that it took 200 years, even by himself and next to no money. This was a light season, which is why I was surprised they didn't adapt the Golden City arc as it's natural finale. But maybe it was down to scheduling, and in the grand scheme of things, it's fine if they can keep putting out the quality, even for little stories such as these. The fight against the winter wolf thing was stupendously well done! Really hits you in the feels when Fern says she is imitating Frieren in the same way all the others imitated Himmel the Hero. With the next season announced, they are hitting the ball running with the Golden Land arc, and from there undoubtedly also adapting the spoiler[time travel] arc, assuming it'll be a full season's worth of episodes, so that's two major back to back arcs. If I can dream, the current manga arc could also be wrapped up, and they could adapt that too for a nice longer season which would spoiler[get the whole group with Sein back together, and pretty much cover all the stories involving the first class mages and even Serie]. But I guess that depends on how that arc ends and how much longer it's repercussions could be, and maybe where the story goes from there could be a whole big thing that is best left to it's own 4th season... Anyway, the wait will be long...  but the payoff will be worth it. 
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TJ_Kat
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Until now we had only really seen Fern use ZoltraAK-47, so seeing her pull an orbital-strike zoltraak out of her back pocket was pretty exciting. I had to watch that sequence a couple times.
Also, after this season, I understand why Eisen was afraid of Stark; his power levels are crazy, only his confidence was holding him back. There might be something to the theory that he was supposed to be the hero of legend that pulled the sword and defeated the demon lord. But maybe the legend didn't take Frieren into account and the boost she gave to Himmel's party. |
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jdnation
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Fern's very first task from childhood under Heiter as a prerequisite to accompany Frieren was long distance magic shooting. And we obviously can see she has kept that up as the advantage puts you far outside magic detection range, and her speed also makes it difficult to reflexively react to. It's mastery of a very basic skill that is super effective while demons and other mages chase after fancy abilities.
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