Frieren being a 10 ep is a blessing in disguise

Dec 20, 2025 8:02 PM

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If I had to guess,

will be both be part of season 3. I would guess they don’t want to get too close to the manga because of the ongoing hiatus.

Dec 20, 2025 10:50 PM

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Neterosan

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Fukushi is a war criminal.

Dec 21, 2025 12:11 AM

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Ahohite-killer

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Say that after you've read the golden land arc

Dec 21, 2025 12:14 AM

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Maybe it'll end up being Season 2 Part 2 for 14 episodes for Golden Land?

Dec 21, 2025 3:52 AM

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I agree. Judging by the trailer this season have animation on par with season 1 if not better.
I'd rather wait for a brilliantly animated golden land arc over a situation like OPM S3
Quality over quantity anyday

Dec 21, 2025 4:20 AM

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Neterosan said:
Fukushi is a war criminal.

I mean he’s playing it smart his line also got shingo natsume movie doesn’t want to overwhelm his production line

Dec 21, 2025 4:22 AM

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> Unless of course you want Madhouse to go to MAPPA route, by not giving a shit about your employees.
- ah yes Acting like fukushi line isn't working on a movie next year

Dec 21, 2025 8:06 AM

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Mdraj6996 said:
I agree. Judging by the trailer this season have animation on par with season 1 if not better.
I'd rather wait for a brilliantly animated golden land arc over a situation like OPM S3
Quality over quantity anyday

? OPM3 had 6 1/2 years to produce 12 episodes. Does that mean Frieren 2 will be 3 times worse than OPM3??

Dec 21, 2025 8:12 AM

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Gavinmercer said:

Mdraj6996 said:
I agree. Judging by the trailer this season have animation on par with season 1 if not better.
I'd rather wait for a brilliantly animated golden land arc over a situation like OPM S3
Quality over quantity anyday

? OPM3 had 6 1/2 years to produce 12 episodes. Does that mean Frieren 2 will be 3 times worse than OPM3??

opm didnt have 6 and a half years they started production literally a few months ago

Dec 21, 2025 8:51 AM

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man, I'm just happy we're getting more Frieren Anime.

Dec 21, 2025 8:53 AM

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La_Bufu said:

Gavinmercer said:

? OPM3 had 6 1/2 years to produce 12 episodes. Does that mean Frieren 2 will be 3 times worse than OPM3??

opm didnt have 6 and a half years they started production literally a few months ago

Fair enough but they had 6 1/2 years between seasons if they'd wanted. Not like they were short of time.

Dec 21, 2025 9:06 AM

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Gavinmercer said:

La_Bufu said:

opm didnt have 6 and a half years they started production literally a few months ago

Fair enough but they had 6 1/2 years between seasons if they'd wanted. Not like they were short of time.

the issue with opm was never with the time tbh it was just the budget

Dec 21, 2025 9:16 AM

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"Unless of course you want Madhouse to go to MAPPA route, by not giving a shit about your employees"

Madhouse isn't choosing this path because Madhouse isn't as powerful as Mappa anymore :D. Having most of their anime made by Dr. Movie doesn't help you gain strength in the industry, and they're not gaining strength anyway :D

Dec 21, 2025 10:37 AM

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might be but likely not, isn't 10 episodes still a rush even if it's perfectly animated/adapted?

Dec 21, 2025 11:12 AM

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Not really, but ok

Dec 22, 2025 8:53 PM

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Reply to feyyazu35

"Unless of course you want Madhouse to go to MAPPA route, by not giving a shit about your employees"

Madhouse isn't choosing this path because Madhouse isn't as powerful as Mappa anymore :D. Having most of their anime made by Dr. Movie doesn't help you gain strength in the industry, and they're not gaining strength anyway :D

@feyyazu35 This .
Also isn't Fukushi production line ( Same as Frieren ) working on a movie "Ghost" which releases in 2027😹 .

Most of The Madhouse anime nowadays are animated by dr Movie , The latest Anime " Liar game" is also by them and the trailer looks as stiff as OPM 3 but I guess that doesn't matter because it has the name "Madhouse" On it instead of jc staff .

The age of prime madhouse is over .

MAPPA projects on average are way better looking than Avg Madhouse projects .

Also , Mappa Is working on Improving their working conditions and sorting out stuff ( like Soft splitting CSM and Jjk production line ) .

Just go and compare the quality of Last few mappa and madhouse projects

Dec 23, 2025 9:57 AM

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hoooooly coooooope

Dec 23, 2025 5:34 PM

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La_Bufu said:

Gavinmercer said:

Fair enough but they had 6 1/2 years between seasons if they'd wanted. Not like they were short of time.

the issue with opm was never with the time tbh it was just the budget

The real issue was that no one wanted to pick up the project and after it had been picked up by jc staff, it was already too late to salvage it.

Dec 23, 2025 11:10 PM

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Jooti said:

La_Bufu said:

the issue with opm was never with the time tbh it was just the budget

The real issue was that no one wanted to pick up the project and after it had been picked up by jc staff, it was already too late to salvage it.

no one wanted it because bandai refused to increase the budget

Dec 24, 2025 9:14 AM

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Reply to La_Bufu

Jooti said:

La_Bufu said:

the issue with opm was never with the time tbh it was just the budget

The real issue was that no one wanted to pick up the project and after it had been picked up by jc staff, it was already too late to salvage it.

no one wanted it because bandai refused to increase the budget

@La_Bufu " source : I made it the fuck up "

Dec 25, 2025 5:10 AM

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Highly doubtful it will be a movie it would probably just be a season by itself.

Will soon find out after this season ends

Dec 27, 2025 5:04 PM

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Gavinmercer said:

La_Bufu said:

opm didnt have 6 and a half years they started production literally a few months ago

Fair enough but they had 6 1/2 years between seasons if they'd wanted. Not like they were short of time.

Not like the studio and animators and production staff weren't working on other projects during those 6 and a half years.

Dec 27, 2025 11:47 PM

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Not really a blessing in disguise, a show taking a longer time to make can be either for better or for worse. There's a lot of variables involved in productions of any kind, in Frieren's case it's likely what a couple others have posted, that they don't wanna get too close to the newest manga chapter while it's on hiatus. The other factor is that S2 was definitely not planned beforehand, but rather after S1 ended. Combined with a new director who has to take on the role, and S1's director who doesn't seem to be interested in making more Frieren and is only working on it in a very limited capacity. This is about what I'd expect.

I would say more on the matter but it's not necessary.

I like to watch some anime, I like to talk about some anime, I dislike wars over some anime, but more than anything I love to live my life, anime is an enjoyable and entertaining addition onto my life but it's not my whole life.

Dec 28, 2025 6:40 AM

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But why only 10 and not 12. It feels so half-hearted.

Dec 28, 2025 10:53 AM

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But why only 10 and not 12. It feels so half-hearted.

@Atmadiva15 Not really, if they plan to adapt to a spot where it would be good to leave it off at for the season they may only need 10 episodes.

It would feel half hearted if they decided to cut out a bunch of stuff to rush to a certain arc within 10-12 episodes. I'd rather they make less episodes and adapt to a good stopping point instead of making more if it means they'd have to rush the pacing to fit another arc in.

I like to watch some anime, I like to talk about some anime, I dislike wars over some anime, but more than anything I love to live my life, anime is an enjoyable and entertaining addition onto my life but it's not my whole life.

Dec 30, 2025 2:49 PM

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Maybe it'll end up being Season 2 Part 2 for 14 episodes for Golden Land?

@ProsjektAero I find this to be very likely, splitting cours up in a season is a really common thing to do, that's how Dr Stone is finishing the show right now.

I like to watch some anime, I like to talk about some anime, I dislike wars over some anime, but more than anything I love to live my life, anime is an enjoyable and entertaining addition onto my life but it's not my whole life.

Jan 4, 12:15 PM

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If you believe the Golden Land Arc can be adapted into a 2 hour movie you seriously are beyond help and should just never make any post or reply on the topic ever again. The Mage Exam Arc (which has had more action overall), was a 23 chapter arc, and needed 11 episodes to be adapted into anime. Golden Land is 28 chapters. By your logic, Mage Exam could be two hours as well, meaning 5 whole episodes worth of content would have to be cut. Get fucking real

Jan 4, 12:57 PM

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i'd much rather wait for forever rather than see a masterpiece being ruined by lamentable animation

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