Sousou no frieren tells a history about Frieren (Nice isnt ?) after she and the hero party defeated the bad guys of her planet. For the heroes party, the hole 10 years of this adventure was the best times of their times, but for frieren that is an almost immortal elf, those years were like nothing. Buf after the hero death, she regrets that she didn´t give the importance to those years.
First of all, this history just breaks our expectations of how a history must go on. It´s a really nice break (the well deserved prizes tell that) to tell something diff outside of the box.
History (10/10) : It´s very diff, like telling the legolas history after aragorn dies, but really is not a child story, if you dont have some age you gonna lost a ton of things, like the way frieren talks somethimes remember my grandfather, some times my niece, I really love those parts. Every gesture, little smiles, pouts has a meaning. This anime puts frustations, fears, happiness and another feellings in motion, colors and sounds.
Music(8/10): To be frank, opening and outro is nice, but not my taste. The music inside the eps is really nice. It brings the right atmosphere really well, fight is gonna be fast paced ? The music and the sound is fast paced, fight is made with really strong and slow magic blasts ? The music changes and etc.
Characters (10/10): not gonna lie, the design is not fancy ... but since the characters are so well writen, you just love everyone. Some characters you really can´t tell if they are good or evil, sometimes you don´t know who are the villains and the heroes. But every character fell real. Their actions are made not cause the writter wants, but cause the character want. Everything that happens, happens because the character is well written, it´s the character emotion and will, not the writter.
Art (10/10): The art stile remembers mashouko. The animation is pretty good, is really diff to see bad frames , you almost can´t see the CG, and the moviment of the characters is pretty insane, you almost fell the body moving under the clothes. Minor face expressions are just perfect almost of the times. They just feel real.
Overall (10/10): There´s animes with better music, better characters, better art. But i can´t remember something with better history. This one is a masterpiece and sometimes you must stop and contemplate it. If you love superfast paced and plotwists falling like rain, frieren is not for you, but you need to try, maybe this one is the best thing we are gonna see for 10 or 20 years.
