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| A very tense episode as we see character rivalries unfold and built into this episode. These exams definitely feels more than just about proving their skills. I'm kinda impressed on how Ubel handled herself being so calm even after being trapped. Rather than all out fighting, we got a lot of talking this episode, which I think is interesting to see how characters react to their rivals. Worth keeping an eye on everyone involved in this test, especially Frieren's party. |
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| Ma girl Fern is really proving herself, especially since Frieren has taught her a lot. Ubel faces off against Wirbel, using her cleaving magic in the duel. Despite both of them figuring out the weaknesses in each other's magic, Ubel manages to land a slash on Wirbel's face. However, Wirbel turns the tide by using Sorganeel, the binding spell, to immobilize Ubel. He opens up about his magic, which gives him time to gather the resolve to kill. Although he has never hesitated to make a necessary kill, Wirbel raises his staff to Ubel's head. The situation takes an unexpected twist as Fern steps in, sneaking up behind Wirbel and holding him at staff point. With the three of them in a standoff, Fern suggests the idea of making a deal to break the impasse. You have to appreciate Wirbel's approach. He acknowledges his struggle with the idea of harming women and children, so he adopts a strategy that helps him build up the courage to face such situations. I'm relieved to see in this episode that not everyone is as eager to resort to violence as the last one implied. I was worried they might all be willing to fight to the death over an exam that only happens every few years. Wirbel's team brings a bit of humor into the mix. Both Ehre and Scharf end up getting defeated and practically beg Wirbel to carry them since he's the last one standing. They express regret over all the effort they put into battling Fern's team. Though, while Fern was in the heat of the fight, Frieren was holding back, patiently waiting to bait the other mages into revealing their magic. Typical Frieren. |
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| They cut the one fight I really waiting T_T Frieren v Denken nooo welp this episode shows how powerful binding magic in frieren world, perhaps the limitation is some sort of nerf so it will not be too OP? (must have full view of the subject) |
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| Lot's of action this time and Fern was showing what she is made of now it's Frieren's turn tho and i wonder what she will show us. It's funny how only one person seemed to realise who she was but from the looks of it he is underestimating her a lot. But we have to wait till the next episode to see if that's actually true. |
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memori01Jan 26, 2024 7:53 AM
Fern is still holding back, the devastation she would wrought if goes all out is something to look forward to. |
| Really enjoyed this episode especially now we are going to see Frieren and Denken face off |
| 20th episode it would seem fern won her fight rather easily its only frieren left now comes the long awaited fight hyped for 3 episodes |
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| Funny how we got a more calm OP for the second cour, but there is far more action now. 3:18 Sorganeil doesn't seem to be a real word? Wirbel hesitating to kill makes him a bit more human, I like it. 8:28 daaaamn, the eye twitch. Ehre must be important to him. And yes, as I thought, Fern didn't actually kill her, phew. Lmao Wirbel's party is amazing. I like him so much more now. I feel like I've seen the girl from the flashback somewhere... Or maybe it's Ehre? That'd be cliche, but I like it lol. Also damn, he is much older than I thought. This is kinda nice to see. THEY PASSED HELL YEAH 16:24 Sense is scythe or sickle. She looks like the girl from the flashback too, huh 16:30 Genau is exactly 17:52 Idk what Jilwer means, it doesn't appear to be German 20:32 Serie is "series". I've heard this name! And she was in the first OP! I expected her to have purple hair. 22:15 Idk what Bargland is either. Also from some Googling I realized that all the spells in Japanese use 義訓 (gikun) - reading of a kanji by meaning. So "Bargland" is written as 大地を操る魔法 - "ground controlling magic". I feel like we're about to get some beautiful animation next episode. Excited for it. |
EmbientJan 26, 2024 8:21 AM
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Reply to 2Weeb4U2be
Is it just me or this episode doesn't feel as intricately made as the rest of the series? Character just spouted out dialogue for no reasons or any natural transitions like Wirbel suddenly, in the middle of the fight, just talked about his backstory to his enemy out loud. Or characters do illogical stuff like Wirbel just blindly trusted Fern for absolutely no reasons whatsoever, when he is a supposed battle-harden mage. The dialogue writing is horribly mediorce as it is filled with characters stating the obvious, talking about their backstories, or just spewing exposition when it could be shown instead.
I absolutely love this series but this episode to me felt like a massive fluke and most of the recent episodes felt like I am watching an average fantasy anime. Hopefully, the show can recover and deliver us a satisfying finale.
I absolutely love this series but this episode to me felt like a massive fluke and most of the recent episodes felt like I am watching an average fantasy anime. Hopefully, the show can recover and deliver us a satisfying finale.
| As Wirbel mentioned ubel was buying time and he said he will help her doing that and ubel also asked him a question that has he ever killed a women and children and the answer was in his backstory. |
| Expected Wirbel to just be a male Ubel when it came to murdering people with magic and Denken to have this cold "it happens" response to deaths based on their reputations. The fact that they both actually had surprisingly humane stances on killing made me want them to advance to the second exam just so we get to see more of them. Also, the absolute half pipe from Fern's Zoltraak rampage tho  |
| Another great episode. We got to know a bit about Wirbel and next episode looks hype. And another Elf is going to appear soon ig. |
-Sleek-Jan 26, 2024 9:01 AM
| The lack of emotion behind these characters is really starting to weird me out. I’m still decently enjoying this show but the lack of emotion is really weird. Probably why stark is my favourite character, he shows the most emotion and is pretty badass sometimes |
| Talk about rotten luck for Frieren's party there. While it's one thing for their Stille to get stolen by Laufen, which is part of the exam, Denken is hellbent on making sure she fails by keeping her occupied so that she can't catch another Stille. At least Wirbel knew when to back off and was only in it to pass the exam. But Denken on the other hand, simply passing is not good enough for his rotten way of thinking. |
| Good, but too much talking again.. I rather wanted to see the fight with Frieren this episode not next one.. |
| (づ￣ ³￣)づ ちゅっ ちゅっ キス (´｡✪ω✪｡｀) I hate it when anime/manga that I enjoyed ends, especially when there could be much longer plot and when I love main heroine :P I wish I had magic glasses that let me see real world in anime colors ;) |
| I'm amazed how many of them didn't actually want to kill others. I have my doubts about Ubel being a psycho. Yeah, she killed bandits but she may be cruel to cruel people only. Very intriguing character. For now I'm more pissed at Richter who wants(wanted?) to kill Frieren's companions even though he has the power to win without that. Can't wait to see Frieren's duel. Considering how she had lost 6 times to human mages, we can't rule out she may lose. |
| Good episode as usual, the background music for this anime is always top tier |
| Did I hear Mariya Ise after the credits? |
| "Chimp in state of nature never jerks off, but in captivity he does, wat does this mean? In state of nature he’s too busy, to put plainly. He is concerned with mastering space: solving problem of life in and under trees, mastering what tools he can, mastering social relations in the jockeying for power and status. Deprived of this drive to development and self-increase he devolves to pointless masturbation, in captivity, where he senses he is in owned space and therefore the futility of all his efforts and all his actions." |
| Genau or Richter Which one has the most punchable boring face? |
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| I need to see Frieren kick some ass here. The old guy is actually ok, but Richter deserves a broken limb of some kind at least. What a tool |
| "Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov |
| I should had learned my lesson after Aura battle, but nooooooooo. I was "Heck yeah! Frieren will fight.", and was a lot of other characters backstory, and talk. For a moment I thought Frieren would go "Murder is okay", when the dude said about learning any spell they desire. |
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| AHHH. They teased us the whole episode. |
“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories... And those that carry us forward, are dreams.” ― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine  |
| Fern and Wirbel's group against each other to capture the former group's Stille, Fern's magic, learnt from Frieren, it's a cruel thesis of power. Back to Ubel and Wirbel, the challenge for the Stille as the former tests the latter's binding skill, both have seen their fair shares of Hell. For Wirbel, being part of the Northern Magic Corps, he has seen women and children being a part of war, so Ubel is no different to him, even if he hesitated. Fern, having taken down Ehre, Wirbel's 8th group has failed the test, though it's unnecessary to kill him after the fact. As for Land, despite having a beating down, he manages to also take down Scharf as part of his observation skills. Despite Wirbel having lost the battle, Wirbel's ambitions to destroy demons have not changed since having a crush back in his young days. despite having saved Ehre's village the same way. And a coincidence to have fought Fern's group while watching and capturing a free Stille in the process, what for to fight so much? Meanwhile, Frieren's group facing Denken's group, as proctors Sense and Genau witness their faceoff. Of course, dwarves like Denken know Frieren as part of the Hero's Party, but the true deal is leaving at least one of them unconscious as to lose their position in the test. This to Denken, being a first-class mage, Frieren shares the same sentiments, though the special privilege from the living grimoire Serie that grants one immense spell of what the user desires, this, to mages, are just blasphemy. Richter taking both Lawine and Kanne while Denken takes on Frieren, apart from the young hot-blooded, those of old age, that will be the battle of the century. |
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| Decent episode but again, wouldn't say this is close to this series' best. The action was good and certain scenes were nice here (especially with how the action itself and some of the strategies involved were laid out), but this episode definitely reeked of some of the regular battle shounen vibes from the flow between the different perspectives of battles to the slower pacing and dialogue choices. At least some of the stalling was justified as Wirbel did claim to buy time, and the action itself still looks really good and displays a good mix of strategic elements and pure overpowering strength like how Fern walked through Ehre. Ubel seems like an interesting character too to explore more in detail from a more detailed look here. Cliffhanger between Frieren taking on the old man Denken is decent (and even learning before that part about the stakes of being a First Class Mage and the special reward given by Serie of any spell exclusively to them provided by the living grimoire) but in general, the nature of the last few episodes being more battle-shounen esque while being good in some ways, doesn't feel as generally intriguing or fresh as what the series established itself to be in the earlier episodes. It is solid and for the most part, decently executed but definitely didn't showcase enough of what made me fall in love with this series' writing in the first place + it did drag at times too in the middle of the episode and didn't have that 5 minute episode feel that a lot of other episodes gave. There are definitely action-packed episodes in different anime that are great and feel so immersive that time flies by, this wasn't quite one of them for me but by no means a poor one. |
| So Fern actually caught a Stille by luck. Makes sense I guess. Wirbel isn't the psychotic mercenary I thought he was. He seems to have some compassion too. Even for a psycho like Ubel. Also, I wonder who his childhood crush was...? It's great how Fern's team was able to ward off the attackers and keep their Stille. Fern's bluff was great tho. Not sure how I'd feel if she actually killed that girl lol. It's great that Wirbel's team found a Stille at the last second. Would like to see them again. Denken also seems to be the type who doesn't want to kill when it's unnecessary. Didn't think he'd be like that. Wonder why he wants the first-class title. So, we finally got more context of what kind of privileges the first-class mage title gives you. Frieren loves collecting spells but the spell I can see her asking for is the one that'd somehow make her reunite with Himmel... Too bad this episode didn't have the fight between Frieren and Denken. Guess I'll have to wait another week for that... |
| another great episode ost story how to not enjoy frieren |
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| Wasn't the best episode due to how much slower things were here this time around, but I felt that the anime handled the large amounts of dialogue a lot better than I thought it would, plus said dialogue at least made a lot of sense and didn't feel redundant for the most part. Not terrible, but not particularly fantastic. Still notably better off than how most battle shounen in the same or similar positions. |
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Reply to Smilomaniac
I don't get why this arc is dragging on. The whole premise continues to feel awkwardly forced and a departure from the tone of everything previously.
I don't get the 'teenager geniuses' rather than veterans and scholars. Why we're suddenly doing 'my hero academia' with quirky spells, I have no idea. I have zero investment in any of the hastily presented characters or the suddenly revealed reward of the exam.
This drags the score of the show pretty hard.
I don't get the 'teenager geniuses' rather than veterans and scholars. Why we're suddenly doing 'my hero academia' with quirky spells, I have no idea. I have zero investment in any of the hastily presented characters or the suddenly revealed reward of the exam.
This drags the score of the show pretty hard.
Smilomaniac said: The whole premise continues to feel awkwardly forced and a departure from the tone of everything previously. Because it was told in Episode 11 that in order to cross next border they need a first class mage in their party that’s why they are taking the exam. And after that what you said is your problem. |
| Well I'm glad that I was wrong that no one has died (at least so far and not from the characters that were shown). Fern is a good liar like Übel said and that ended up sparing at least one life. I am looking forward to the fight between Frieren and Denken, and on a side note hope the 2 girls in Frieren's team are ok. |
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