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Mar 31, 2024 9:26 PM

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Fuck yeah man now we're getting somewhere. I knew things will get exciting now that they're in the northern lands. Also, gotta give props to Himmel. My man is long dead and only shows during flashbacks but he always says some profound shit.
Apr 3, 2024 3:24 PM
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Calm and Cool story
Apr 11, 2024 11:17 PM
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I totally didn't fall for the demon's peace envoy's platitudes of peace, and I thought the village chief in the flashback was stupid for his "we'd be no better than them" speech while choosing to welcome the demon girl in when one of their own was eaten, and the grieving parents was right there upset. That said, I actually believe the demon girl was being truthful of wanting to only live in peace, and only had good intentions when killing the chief and offering his daughter to the parents as a replacement. If her intentions were actually bad, it makes no sense why she would even do her messed up plan rather than doing nothing since she was already accepted in. I think what went wrong was the chief and his daughter treated her as a human, thinking welcoming her in and playing with her and such would be enough to teach her morality and what's necessary to live with the humans; whereas what they should have done was tried to understand how she was not human, then appropriately tell her the laws, rules, and expectations for her to be able to live together with the humans. I think that would have succeeded. As for the using of the word "mommy" which is made to look so nefarious when the demon girl says it and explains it, she just thinks the word "mommy" means "mercy". Just substitute "mercy" in for anytime she said "mommy", and her pleas still makes sense but without the misunderstanding and sense of deception.

As for Frieren's strong negative views on the demons, I'm not going to say she's wrong because she isn't totally. However I think with enough passage of time, the demons could evolve to make her current views obsolete...if the correct demons were allowed to multiple (like the demon girl who seemed to have genuine good intentions), and the problem demons like the "peace envoy" were eliminated. This could be a similar situation as the killing magic spell becoming obsolete in a mere 80 years with the rapid advancement in magical research. The demons just need rapid evolution like the domestication of the Silver Foxes through selective breeding.

Anyways, the only other thing I want to comment on is Fern. I'm really starting to dislike her, she being unfairly mean to Stark, and she's being the "negative Nancy" to Frieren now with how she's making a big deal with Frieren waking up early, and expecting the worse of Frieren going to make Stark pay for calling her an old hag, but it turning out like Frieren let that slide. I know it looks like they're setting up a ship between Stark and Fern, but I really hope that doesn't happen. Not only is it trope-y, but Fern's horrible for Stark because of her bad attitude, and what seems like she's being unable to adapt to new developments.

This maybe a big curveball, but I actually think the ship of Stark and Frieren maybe better. It's not as impossible as it looks, Stark seems to be a combination of Eisen and Himmel. Frieren understands Eisen, which is why she understood Stark being afraid of the dragon, and didn't hold that against him. However in contrast Fern seem to hold Stark's perceived cowardice against him. Look at how Frieren praised Stark after he defeated the dragon, it was quite a lot from her, and she was very emotionally expressive when she did so, going so far to pat him on the side with her arm. Stark said Eisen never praised him even once, it was something he felt like he deserved or desired, and here's Frieren doing it. Also Frieren says she collects magic because she was praised once for it "by a fool", was that fool Himmel? Regardless, Frieren understands Stark a lot. There's also a sense that Himmel wanted a ship with Frieren but Frieren wasn't capable of recognizing it or reciprocating it back then. It could even explain why during Himmel's funeral the public was so harsh in judging Frieren for not showing emotions, that maybe Himmel tried to court Frieren and it's common knowledge to the public, but not to us the audience yet. This whole trip of speak to Himmel's soul could be a journey for Frieren to learn to understand what she couldn't with her original party, and while it's took late for her original party, it's not too late for her current party. Therefore I think Stark x Frieren could be possible. It would be a lot more interesting than the boring expected Stark x Fern ship anyways.
Apr 14, 2024 1:24 AM
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the modern animes always have to be meme potential and i dont like it. Faces, Fanservice, make drama but not worth to be and than the managa artist 100% knew when he makes the face of her he will get dick ride and everyone will give alone for that 10* meanwhile other animes dont need such that and get droppped why? Humans need something like subway surfers to watch a video with more than 10sec to watch it until end, im happy to was alive when animes dont needed Subway surfers stuff :)
Apr 15, 2024 9:25 AM
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Best episode so far
Apr 17, 2024 9:14 AM
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The introduction to these new vilians are really cool. I like that they pretend to be good and stuff, once a demon always a demon shit like that. Very cool stuff. Seeing Frieren angry ASAP was also coooool.
Apr 19, 2024 12:29 PM
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Damn, this is definitely Frieren Al-Gaib!!
Apr 20, 2024 9:03 AM

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She just declare herself much stronger than them XD
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May 4, 2024 4:08 PM
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F*ck yeah that last line is cold.


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May 7, 2024 11:10 AM

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I feel like Fern is only acting polite on the surface, but Stark sometimes brings out her true and harsh self lol
Guess we'll eventually see another elf in this season, which would be a special occasion even for Frieren. Seems like humans do need elves around to see the true nature of demons, lies and perception.
May 8, 2024 5:25 PM
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In Eisen's long thousands of years life, he values the decade year of adventure with the Heroes' party. That's so amazing tbh. Looks like they got formally allowed to go through the gate, and Frieren doesn't like that thing. Same!
May 8, 2024 6:32 PM
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An anime that deserves the highest rating
May 11, 2024 5:49 PM

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Clearing out the landslide for the the travling merchant and the future ones to come was kind of Frieren and them. The little town with the statues of the Heroes was an interesting place and it was nice to see the people of the town still celebrating the heroes. Frieren asking that man if they would still celebrate the victory of the Heroes in 100 years was an interesting topic and it made me wonder how long they would celebrate the victory. I personally hope its forever as i love Himmel and i wanna see more of him in flashbacks.

The town with the deomns was quite fascinating and it had me quite confused when the guard stopped Frieren from attacking. Frieren being locked has me worried and that demon pulling up at the end has me even more worried.

The scene with the King talking about how his son died to the demons and how he was gonna enact revenge had me hyped, i personally really like the king and its tragic he was fooled by the demons.

The flashback with the demon child and the town of people was quite cool and seeing Himmel slice off her hand in one quick motion was quite cool and Frieren finishing her off.


May 12, 2024 8:15 PM
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Amazing just amazing
May 20, 2024 7:07 AM

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Never trust a Johan Liebert lookalike demon.
Jun 7, 2024 5:45 PM
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tilted asf. Why did they make the demons confirm it to be the true nature of demons? It could have been framed as frieren being racist. Make the viewer question it man.
Jun 23, 2024 2:18 AM

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This latest town is posing quite a challenge for the party! Demons will be demons!
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Jul 8, 2024 8:30 PM

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Frieren cold af 🥶
Jul 21, 2024 5:58 AM
Nekogirl~

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Oh this gonna be interesting. Will they save the town or will they leave them be? I think they would deserve to be toren apart since they trying to destroy everything Himmel did to protect them. Why do ppl never ever learn anything from history sigh


Aug 1, 2024 3:46 PM

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We got to see more of the party's dynamics in the beginning of the episode, which was wholesome.
However, the highlight of this episode is the story from when Himmel spared that Devil's life, because "it was only a child, that is calling for its mother" and "she can talk, so she can negotiate with us", and that ended up with the death of the vilage's chief, because the devil wanted to gift his child to the mother of the child that the demon previously ate. We never saw Himmel in that state, and honestly that made that scene so intense, especially with the revelation that demons don't even have paternal figures, so the demon only called "mother", because it knows that for some reason it will make humans spare the demons... That's so dark... And now, with what's happening in the city, the exact same thing happened, the demon saw what was meaningful for humans, and made up a story of how he also had a room like that for his father, which is a lie, since demons don't even know the meaning of father... The way they are just monster, without a single drop of emotion, that can just talk and manipulate humans makes demons so much scarier... And now one of the demons is going to try to kill Frieren, because she's the only one that saw right through them, and knows that they just want to kill humans, and use word to perceive them... At the end, if Frieren doesn't put a stop to this, the whole city is going to be destroyed by the demons...
Can't wait to see the next episode! This anime has been amazing so far!
Aug 2, 2024 7:49 PM
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Lord Toggaf, whats a father?
Aug 5, 2024 2:20 AM
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Great way to set up and introduce a villain! Animation was especially good this episode, and I am happy to see a shorter-term set of goals and motivation.
Aug 17, 2024 3:47 PM
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Resident sleeper...
Sep 4, 2024 3:33 AM
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The first 6 episodes were a delight. A journey that seems meaningful, characters we are invested in.

Episode 7 starts out as a new highlight for the show. We are treated to a moral conundrum - when you lack information, do you choose security or trust?

In the next minute, the moral conundrum is resolved by the simplest method possible - remove the conundrum entirely. The evil race of evildoers truly is evil and irredeemable.

I have no problem with an evil race being evil. But why set up a mystery and moral conundrum if you are going to get rid of it entirely 2 minutes later? Such a wasted concept. Such waste of potential.

Maybe the show doesn't want you to think about stuff. Maybe it is just a pretty show with pretty colors that wants to be pretty. And that is okay. But I found it disappointing. The show teases the viewer but not only does it withhold the reward - it stomps on it, spits on it, and throws it out of the window.
Sep 5, 2024 5:48 PM

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Oh Lord please help me. Hear my prayer...
I just want this to be over. I don't want to watch another episode- please let it be over
It's not over.
Ok so the wanderers wander to a town. I don't recall the name of the town, but it's another generic D&D fantasy prop that looks like every other one done since the 1980s- so that. They encounter a guard at the gate, of course it has a gate, and a guard, who tells them they can't enter. But then he lets them enter. There's probably something I missed there, but no way am I rewinding and watching this boring shit over so fuck it- the scene didn't make sense but on to the next scene-
They walk around and talk in monotone. Yes they did that last episode. And the one before that- but this time something sort of happens- as they're walking, Frieren sees some tall men coming around the corner and jumps into a fighting pose. She tries to take a shot at them, and seeing with shots fired- the police respond immediately and go to tackle her.

And I swear, God is my witness- as they tackled Frieren to the ground HER FACE STAYED EXPRESSIONLESS
I could not stop laughing. It was especially funny because I don't think it was meant as comedy- and that just made me keep laughing!!!! I still am now- I confess I did rewind it a bit just to see a double take!
So the guy with horns walks up to her and speaks in a very kind but intimidating way, so he's a demon, and she isn't impressed by him (nothing impresses her bro, so don't sweat it) and so it's telling us this demon has taken over the town. Ah- she knew something was up!
Then in the next scene she's sitting in a cell, and says the following line:
Are you ready for this?
Frieren: "I'm bored."

I fell off the couch. DID YOU HEAR THAT??? The chick who doesn't know what a smile is, or a laugh, or a frown, who walks around drawling in monotone for SIX EPISODES STRAIGHT
in a show where almost NOTHING has happened that entire time
SAYS SHE'S BORED!!!!!!!!

Are you kidding me!!
I can't take anymore!
There is no amount of fentanyl in the world to make this show interesting. And now it's MOCKING ME!
Screw you Frieren! You and your boring ass show!
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Oct 3, 2024 11:49 AM
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Lol, Frieren essentially pulling out a gun in the middle of a city to blast demons. Lügner seems super interesting; cold and calculated and an interesting antagonist. Draht is sooooo cooked given the next episode is called Frieren the Slayer.
Oct 9, 2024 2:42 PM
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PERFECTION!
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Oct 11, 2024 6:03 AM

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Frieren gets locked up this episode.

I really liked the flashback with the little demon girl who that guy trusted he could save, but she just lied cause that was in a demon's nature.
Nov 18, 2024 4:16 PM
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The theme of demons and how they use speech to deceive humans is interesting. The ending left me in suspense.
Nov 23, 2024 12:02 PM

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Quite the episode. Carnage is surely about to ensue. Though the factions ar enot quite clear yet. Humanity might be foolish enough to side witht the demons against Frieren about what is going to happen with this hot blodded youth.

I must say the show really nails the feeling of revisiting places post-game in a videogame.
Dec 24, 2024 1:08 PM

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now i feel it's interesting, the story began. Ending looks tough for Frieren.
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Dec 29, 2024 8:36 PM

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Holy fuck the battle scenes in this show are done so smoothly. The animation is on a different level.

Jan 4, 11:50 PM
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Great way to set up and introduce a villain! Animation was especially good this episode, and I am happy to see a shorter-term set of goals and motivation.
@evilcatboy i mean ig..
Jan 5, 1:52 PM

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Frieren knows how tricky demons can be but I understand how Granat wants to find peace so the killings will stop, though the demonds never intented for peace in the first place. Frieren saying how she's stronger than Aura to her executioner was so badass ;D
Jan 11, 5:03 AM

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Frieren is based.

Demons are just beasts pretending to have humanity.
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Something about the existence and meaning of demons in this world is interesting.
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Mar 8, 2:31 PM
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good anime to watch
Mar 12, 1:43 AM

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I was going to watch this last night and maybe watch episode 8 which I'm going to watch with dinner tonight however it was 2am and school was starting back up so what a shame. Anyway this episode was cool the main thing i remember is the demons, Demons are fucking scary man oh my goodness like creatures that look like humans and are masters of manipulation? I mean that's horrible and we saw it in Acton, Frieren detected the demon and tried to kill it but maybe intentionally? didn't get to shoot in and got put into the dungeon. We also got this cool flashback which i personally like this kind of stuff, This really reminds me of Vinland Saga I hope we get another Vinland Saga. That demon girl was scary Mimicking the things that humans say to make them feel for them and emphasize which i think is genius man smart tactics honestly. Anyway the demons manipulated the king into peace talks like holy fuck man. Everything is going how Frieren said it would and i reckon that town is gone for. Anyway Episode 8 is going to be consumed by me soon enough so yay!
Mar 12, 11:17 AM
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Stark is such a mood lol. But tbf my guy you're asking someone called "Distant" to be more familiar with you. You should have just let her call you -Sama. I actually was about to point out the distinct lack of elves in this world. They seem neigh extinct. You'd think at least that would be a "wake up call" to start taking life a bit more seriously but I guess not. Natural Selection huh... Okay but how do they have such accurate statues but he fails to realize he's standing next to Frieren, and when he finally puts it together she doesn't even acknowledge it and neither does Stark or Fern. Like that feels kind of weird. Like sure Frieren wouldn't cuz she's annoying like that but I feel like Stark would totally mention it especially since there's also a statue of his master there.
At least kind of spoke up when she was imprisoned lol.
The demon story was kind of tragic though and although their nature is interesting they still don't seem inherently evil, they are just not quite capable of higher reasoning. And such are "wild beasts with speech" though I don't fully agree on the logic behind that it does give this kind of SCP/Wild-beast/Cryptid vibe.
The reason I don't really fully agree on the logic is that they are more like psychopaths basically Yoshikage Kira... they can be reasoned with, you just can't expect empathy or emotion, it's purely rational based. She only killed the village chief because she notice bloodlust, and sought to amend that. And then realized "oh I messed up" fully misunderstanding the reason for the bloodlust because of lack of emotion and empathy. She really just saw it as material. So although they can never be human... and are more like monsters or animals than humans they have enough intelligence that you couldn't quite simply say that they are impossible to reason with though it's certainly not a smart move.
And although they are solitary they are clearly also not solitary at the same time.
Many animals and wild beasts do have emotions so in that regard they are certainly less reasonable/human than a dog or cat, or an elephant. I personally prefer either a neutral but intelligent/sentient or inherently evil version of demons. But this is not bad either, it gets close to evil and essentially "biblical" demons but they don't have the intelligence(intelligence has more facets than mere reasoning ability), emotion and free will to actually match up. Making it more like something like "Xenomorph" from the movie Alien.
Mar 30, 2:59 PM
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a demon showing what a demon really is, a monster of deception. no sympathy at all for these guys at all
Mar 31, 8:04 AM

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The slow buildup to the rift and connection which the humans of this world and demons share was brilliantly portrayed.Those vile lizards weaponising words to manipulate humans felt eerie .Sounds like typical crony politicians
Apr 23, 7:12 PM

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I find it hilarious that this episode has like 7 instances proving that demons are in fact, lying scums who's only goal is to kill humans. Yet they are still many people going "Ackchyually, we cannot trust Frieren's words for sure because she has ancient xenophobic ideals and the demons can communicate then that's the proof demons shouldn't be stigmatized like other monsters"
Imagine being so brainwashed by globalist propaganda you're getting manipulated by FICTIONAL CHARACTERS who state that they ARE MANIPULATOR THEMSELVES. This isn't even vague morality, it's pure black and white manicheism, demons are evil by nature and both cannot and will not change.

So once again, demons, or as I like to called them, deggers, should all be purged and eliminated like the filthy evil subspecie they are and those who comes to their defense should also be hanged and burned at the stake for daring to defend a race of lowly deceitful creatures, in any case, those demons will eventually kill them by themselves.
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O PAU VAI COMER!!!
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Love the multi-generational care that Himmel has for Frieren that memories now can lasts several life times for
May 23, 5:40 AM

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The one thing that keeps this show's episodes consistently t a 4 and below to me is the lack of action that takes place that's either symbolic or entertaining. Other than that, everything else this show carries with itself is pretty flawless I'm not gonna lie. I'm stoked to see the next episode :D
May 25, 4:09 PM
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Okay, now there’s some excitement. Frieren: “For your information, I’m strong. Stronger than Aura the Guillotine.” Big words from an old lady. But even now, I just want the story to speed up… the anime is too slow, too calm.

That’s a good thing for many people, sure—but even though I enjoy slice-of-life anime that’s often slow-paced, I hate it in action anime… I even dropped Dragon Ball because of the slow pacing. I seriously can’t stand it.

Jun 19, 5:39 PM
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TALK YO SHIT FRIEREN #DONTTRUSTDEMONS
Jun 21, 8:54 PM
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Even knowing going in that demon are Pure Evil(tm) didn't make this any less tiresome to get through
Jul 4, 11:44 PM
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Honestly, it's a good anime. As of July 5th, 2025, I'm 1/4th of the way through the anime.
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incredible episode, to be honest, but I'm also a little disappointed in making the demons objectively evil. Demons Roots remains the best Japanese depiction of demonkind ever.



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