Sousou no Frieren
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

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Well this is an early review but from what i can see, it is truly worth to read.

A common thing every hero vs demon lord manga has is the presence of an elf in the party.

This manga can be dubbed as "After happily ever after" by showing us the life of the elf years and years after defeating the demon lord.

This will truly be a change of pace for all the isekai type anime/manga fans.

People should be ready to be hit in the feels with every chapter so i suggest everyone to keep some tissues with them while reading this one.

I really don't know how to talk about this series to be completely honest. It might have one of the strongest first 30-ish chapters in any manga I've read, but it starts to lose what makes it so special the longer it goes on.

If you've ever played DnD (or watched any sort of fantasy media) I'm sure you've run into a 500-year-old elf character, but have you ever stopped and asked yourself "damn how would living that long actually affect you?" I had one of my friends once ask this in the middle of playing DnD once. He said "If I can achieve so ... much in 20 years, and can change the world in 80 what are elves doing for 500 years? Does every elf just have a learning disability or something?" And honestly, that question has stuck with me for a while. If you lived for 1000 years, ten times longer than a human lifespan, what would still keep you on the level of regular people?

It's this question that has been stuck in my mind for about two years now that has primed me so hard to enjoy this series because I've never actually seen the question tackled in media before. And it turns out, a story that tackles that question is super interesting. What would you do if the greatest accomplishment a human could achieve was done and gone in less than one-one-hundredth of your lifespan? What would you do if the people you achieved it with were all born and all died in less than a 10th of your lifespan? Could even form truly human connections anymore? Would you be numb to it? Or would you carry the memory of those relationships for another 500 years? What would a decade even mean to you? Much less a year, or a day.

Interesting questions right? And they're all tackled in the story... for the first 30 chapters.

I hope you can see where some disappointment would come from when they just stop talking about those things because they have to do a cliche anime test arc. I don't know about you, but I don't particularly care about seeing the Naruto chunin exams in a character drama about the emotional impacts of immortality.

At the time of writing this, I'm not completely caught up, but I am roughly another twenty chapters past the end of that arc and the story really hasn't seemed to regain its footing since this bizarre break of pace. And honestly, it's extremely disappointing. I still have faith that by the end of this series we might still see a good payoff and discussion of the things established in the first quarter of the story, but when the middle is this bland and unfocused, I'm not sure if that ending will land nearly as hard as it will deserve to.

TL;DR, this story tackles some interesting and unique themes and ideas but loses steam when it decides to shift focus to being more action-oriented and doesn't regain its footing afterward to create a fairly bland story that deserves more clarity and focus.

7/10 because the early chapters are incredible and I could easily see the story reaching those heights again

This is my first review btw so enjoy

ALSO THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS

I want to keep it brief...... This manga feels like it keeps on repeating the same thing that happened with the characters over and over...... It looks touching and beautiful with pretty visual or art from the outside but it's just a facade an excuse for all those sluggish and lazy writing...... I can assure you that in these manga hardly anything happens it's just those type of series where literally nothing happens but still will be highly praised for pretty visuals and somewhat decent characters like we have literally seen this kind of ... stuff so many times it's literally tiresome now

Yes guys you can already sense it the cry bait energy...... The main character really lacks any depth or complexity it's literally yet another manga that's going to make you cry but lack any substance

u can literally predict how many casual fans have cried so far, I honestly didn't feel a thing yes it was sad but still did not feel a thing about any of the events as it was not backed up by good writing which can somewhat excuse all those long dragged out boring "Nothing Happened" stuff

This manga hardly has any plot or like that good of a cast to excuse the whole "Story ain't going no where type" of plot and literally the character interaction which was pretty good untill some time also gets pretty old and boring and overall this manga really has nothing going for it even the fights felt cheesy only the art style was pretty good about it and which ages pretty well but overall it's just a recycled To your Eternity but not as much impactful, emotional or even slightly as well written compared to the latter


SPOILERS AHEAD

So basically the story starts with introduction to this group of guys who are considered as "Heroes" which consists of a guy named Himmel basically your "noble hero", Next is our main heroine Elf Frieren who is basically the most op character in this manga (from what I have read so far) but tries to act all weak and all with her aura restraining mastery or some shit but she is really overpowered guys (as if we haven't seen the same thing in To your Eternity), another one is a useless dwarf named Eisen who was of literally no importance except for always getting mentioned every single time by his so called disciple which is going to be introduced later in this manga, and last but not least somewhat of a drunkard priest named Heiter who is also called Corrupt priest by our super op heroine and you know why they are called the justice league of the anime world cause they saved the f'ing metropolis of our yet another magical world from demon king or something and now they are back after 10 years of journey and are going to split apart so they are going to enjoy whatever view they can see from some Village which our super op immortal heroine has recommended..... Yes guys you can already sense it the cry bait energy and of course after their parting they reunited yet again where our super op witch still looks like that old smug faced loli which she was before and obviously everyone can see the reunion of the justice league after 50 years where Himmel turned into an old fart, meanwhile Heiter still looks the same literally u can predict that they are going to die by old age (except for the dwarf Eisen) u can literally predict how many casual fans have cried so far, I would say it was not as emotional like how people say I honestly didn't feel a thing yes it was sad but still did not feel a thing and our Heiter entrusted yet another cute face for journey and the dwarf guy did the same as I mentioned before....... In total this manga isn't anything really worth your time some might like it as they love to consume "nothing happens" type of SOL......It does have it pros like a pretty neat cast of characters, Frieren's interaction with his surrounding characters and her relationship with Fenn is pretty good like one is your average immortal girl who is devoid of normal processing and pretty stupid especially when u take a good look at her dialogues she is pretty much dumb like that one time where she clashed with that demon girl named Aura where she was literally holding back against the army of dead she was not blowing them up just cause Himmel got angry at him "Lmao" Dude is dead already what a dumb girl and I know She wants to give proper burial or some thing but her reasoning is pretty awful and another is just an ordinary girl who has her fair share of sufferings and her cause for travelling with Frieren was pretty well though our too I will give it that also the student and master relationship was pretty good here and overall the relationship of Frieren with the main cast are pretty good especially with the new ones, the old ones (party members were not that good they were just tearjerkers honestly) were not that good characters they just feel like they are their for references, plot progression and adding some depth to them by talking about their journey piece by piece they are just their to be mentioned about their legacies every now and then like u can hardly find any chapter where that Himmel is not being mentioned and the story is just moving at a speed of turtle like literally it's going from one place to another in search of heaven and a grimoire of her master I don't remember......

Overall this Manga is a 3/10 so far I have read...... Nothing really unique, special or good about it...... Just pretty art style or u can say visuals if u have watched the anime