The story goes through the same loop: new town, train, meet a few strangers, kill the weak badie, have a memory, Frieren like magic and repeat for 28 x 20 minutes. Like one or 2 times I get but it's unrelenting. It's like I'm in an ARPG that has every new area copy pasted from an old area.
The whole story is based around the subtle character progression of Frieren. The ever so subtle smiles after a warming moment. The first time was fine but it felt like they kept pushing for moments of situations where Frieren smiles ever so gently. Additionally, her chipperness and aloofness seem somewhat contradictory a lot of the time. Is she indifferent? Is she spending 1000 years going from aloof to warm? She seems to be aloof a lot of the time and then chipper and then aloof again. No one can love her. If the story remains the same, it's as though I'm watching a 5 year old's emotional state (5 year olds are more interesting than Frieren actually) and I'm meant to believe that just because they're an elf, they remain retarded for 1000s of years. It's the show of: "Everybody Loves Frieren" for no reason. Yeah she saved the world but she could EASILY have spent the past 200 years chasing after a single butterfly with not a worry and then spent the next 200 years chasing the same butterfly. Frieren is a tool of circumstance. Every choice was made for her in the story. She's just annoying.
The show is easy to watch - it's light but gets a little heavier toward the end and not heavier in the emotional sense - heavier in the bearability sense. It's watchable and enjoyable in the beginning. It's not even melancholy in the end - it's just nothing.
