Sousou no Frieren Episode 10 Discussion

This series is perfection. The slow pacing is perfect for the sad, lonely life that Frieren lives. Her handling of the demons was simply amazing. The anime isn't flashy and manic like so many others, it sings of the sadness and lonelyness of outliving your dearest friends and the bitter sweet joy of making new friends that you will outlive. I pity Frieren and I'm sure that's exactly what the anime producers want.

@Duleigh
I don't think Frieren considered her life to be sad. Or lonely, for that matter. She is too detached for that and has reduced affect. The time lapse of her doing her thing for decades and centuries clearly showed this.

@dunkelfalke I guess the point that I was trying to make is that the detachment she had for the world and for humans was disappearing and that she's slowly learning to realize that fact. Sad? Maybe wistful is a better word. At least that's how it appears to me. As I grow older and I learn of my friends passing I can identify with Frieren. My friends and I also set out on a great quest, we faced odds the average civilian knows nothing about, and many are dying from what we did and what we were exposed to. I never considered my life sad, but when I look at photographs of the the units I served with and realize how many of my brothers have gone before me, I suddenly realize that I'm not immortal. That's a hard lesson we learn too late. Frieren's journey puts what I feel on screen as the memories of her great journey come back to remind her that she too used to be young.

@Duleigh
You can't really because you don't know how it feels to not care about other people much, because humans are social animals. Some abnornal humans, like me for example, aren't, though. And Frieren is not human at all.

@dunkelfalke I agree, but the point of the Anime (to me) is that she's learning. Why else would she visit her old friends and embark on a long dangerous voyage to talk with Himmel? The fact that she repaired Fern's staff instead of replacing it is evidence (to me) that she's learning

I suppose the answers to these questions will be answered next year in Season 2

@Duleigh
She definitely is and it is perfectly possibe for detached people like her to learn how to feel, but these emotions will never be as strong as those of an average human. Imagine that you have a dial of your emotional level and it is stuck at two or so. This is how she is always so level-headed and analytical by the way.