| Before the journey with Himmel she didn't really care about anything.But the adventures she had with him had a great impact on her personality and how she goes about doing things. The anime shows side by side both the events to emphasize this idea. Yes it may look repetitive but it's actually not. This is because she is an elf she's not gonna die anytime soon so whenever she does something or meets someone new, the way she approaches is different and to show this why they show the past which is the reason. Don't know if you understood what I mean but that's at least what I think. |
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| I personally think that the himmel's flashbacks have lost any emotional value because they use them in every episode, so at least for me I find them funny. |
| I find it very interesting when people complain about an anime following it’s own exact title / description. Just the other day, someone made a forum post complaining that the “Goblin Slayer” anime series was “boring”, because “all it showed was them slaying goblins”. And now someone is complaining that Sousou no Frieren “repeats” in showing Frieren waking up to realize that all the memories of her 10 year journey with her fellow adventurers to defeat the demon lord is precious to her, as she is on new journey with new adventurers and making new memories. Basically not paying attention to the exact points of either show. It amazes me how this happens. It’s like a person going into a restaurant named “The Burger House”, with ads stating “We serve Burgers”, and menus that show the “Burgers” they prepare, but then the person complains that this restaurant only serves burgers and saying “Why can’t you serve spaghetti?”. It baffles me. 😅🤦🏻♂️ |
ejleonFeb 28, 2024 9:22 AM
Note: I don’t lazily watch 3-5 episodes, biasedly compare to other anime, or unfairly judge by surface level similarities. With every anime I start, I watch the entire series, both Japanese Sub & English Dub, then judge each anime based on what they present, to give an honest and fair rating. |
| I don't agree with this criticism, the journey feels highly diverse because they are doing different things most of the time. |
ZarutakuFeb 28, 2024 9:25 AM
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duncancbsmith said: recurring narrative themes ≠ repetitive. if television had no recurring narrative themes, every show would just be pop team epic Well said 👏 100% agree Even life can repeat itself, that doesn’t make life boring. |
| Note: I don’t lazily watch 3-5 episodes, biasedly compare to other anime, or unfairly judge by surface level similarities. With every anime I start, I watch the entire series, both Japanese Sub & English Dub, then judge each anime based on what they present, to give an honest and fair rating. |
| I can't even tell if this thread is serious or not. |
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E-Satie said: I can't even tell if this thread is serious or not. It's "repitative". |
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| Funny enough, many people who are now defending repetitiveness happening in most of this anime's episode, would surely shit on dunno, battle shounens with "villain of the week" stuff. What is "just a recurring theme" in one shounen show, is "awful, uninspiring and lame" in another one, it seems. I agree with OP. Many episodes of Sousou no Frieren were enjoyable to watch, due to art and music, but were also dull as heck. It's not about the intensity and amount of action sequences, but rather repetitive formula present in, like I said before, most of its episodes. However, it shouldn't be that much surprising. It's just a shounen series. That kind of narration isn't anything new among shows belonging to this demographics. In Frieren's case, I admit it's done in a mediocre way, but welp. At least music and art are good. |
| People disagree with me = delusional. Lets also ignore that there are people clearly agreeing with you too, what kind of result did you expect so the fanbase wouldn’t seem delusional to you? Everyone just saying yes you’re right? You really have seen some top notch fanbases if you have standards this high |
| Instead of replying to the comments OP really edited their comment and said that the fanbase is delusional after getting owned by them lol. I really like how whenever a MAL user started to lose an arguement they call others delusional to deal with the situation. |
| Sorry but you seem to be complaining about world building of a fantasy epic 😁 but I understand to be honest many people have a low attention span this isn't an attack or insult it's just kind of the truth of these days. |
| Welp, that's the point of the show, they connect the present (frieren with fern) to the past (frieren with himmel) through silly little things like visiting a market, eating a dish in a restaurant. And the show is actually progressing in the story as well |
Reply to epyon4light
Sorry but you seem to be complaining about world building of a fantasy epic 😁
but I understand to be honest many people have a low attention span this isn't an attack or insult it's just kind of the truth of these days.
but I understand to be honest many people have a low attention span this isn't an attack or insult it's just kind of the truth of these days.
| @epyon4light Where is the worldbuilding in Frieren, I don't see it. |
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Khushal_v said: I don't know why no one talks about it but I think the biggest problem with frieren is the repitative nature of show which is as follows - Frieren and group has some task Frieren remember how she also did the same task with himmel 100 years ago I don't dislike episodic show much but if there is episodic show which uses same formula every single episode it gets boring ( however frieren is saved due to great music and animation), i think an episodic show should at least have 3 -4 different formulas and can repeat them However the current arc is actually great and is not the feeling the same, i hope ready of show us line thts too edit: seems like frieren fans are delusional and can't take any criticism at all Me personally i don't find it repetitive at all, a little formulatic with the SOL eps, yes, which i get can feel repetitive to some, but for me Frieren is doing a great job being able to have it's formula while not making it feel exactly the same every ep, having eps that break away from the formular scattered inbetween helps too I'd say with how Frieren's formula is layed out, it's closer to something like Demon Slayer than say City Hunter, the latter of which i did find extreamly repetitive |
DigiCatFeb 29, 2024 9:09 AM
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| I agree with you, Frieren is as overrated as FMAB. The show itself is not bad, but definitely not a masterpiece. Repetitive formula, kinda boring characters and nothing more than the same |
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The_Keyman-1 said:
Instead of replying to the comments OP really edited their comment and said that the fanbase is delusional after getting owned by them lol.
I really like how whenever a MAL user started to lose an arguement they call others delusional to deal with the situation.
Instead of replying to the comments OP really edited their comment and said that the fanbase is delusional after getting owned by them lol.
I really like how whenever a MAL user started to lose an arguement they call others delusional to deal with the situation.
i don't have time to reply to every single one just try to count how many are there
and I am calling some fans delusional because they think every show is just as repetitive, frieren clearly uses the flashback way more than needed and lost the impact of flashbacks because of how many times they used it but these delusional fans just can't accept and funnily enough most of these critisize villian of the week format
they think frieren is a perfect show with no problem when it is far from that
| @Khushal_v Aside from how you literally just proved that you believe if someone doesn't agree with you is delusional and you opinion is fact unlike their, where are you getting the “criticise villian of the week formula”? Literally only one guy in the whole thread mentioned it and he made it up himself. I dont think that frieren is a perfect show, it has problems, you just cant accept that there is a chance of your opinion not being factual and people seeing things differently than you like not thinking flashbacks are not used properly. You could have just said that yeah, i dont like the way flashbacks are used, they feel repetitive, but you didnt do that, you literally take it as a fact and everyone who disagrees is wrong and delusional. So who is the delusional here |
| There is a circle, and there is a spiral. The show certainly goes somewhere and it doesn't stay at one place. It goes as it goes. It doesn't need to be faster or more eventful. It is harmonic as it is. |
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I can't even tell if this thread is serious or not.
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