Sousou no Frieren/Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (Anime and Manga)

Man, if only I could watch Crunchyroll(I think?) in my country, I would totally rewatch this series in English dubbing.

Because holy crap, the Dub Frieren is...an entirely different character and I mean that as a compliment...something that I do want to get from her.

VP Ns are your friend.

Don’t most platforms have VPN blockers at this point?

You mean Perfectly Legal Means

Crunchyroll doesn't appear to: my desktop app got switched to Spanish for a bit after I set my VPN to make me look like I was in Argentina because reasons and then forgot to turn it off.

Indeed: I remain grouchy that they'll use mobile notifications to advertise but not to notify you of new episodes.

Edited by StarSword on Apr 5th 2024 at 11:27:17 AM

Generally speaking Crunchyroll strikes me as a very incompetent service. I mean technically not commercially.

Finally finished the anime.

Wow. Just...wow. There are just so many praises I can give to this anime that I don't even know where to start. Maybe I could write a longer, more detailed review of the anime after a second watch.

For now, I'm just gonna say this: This is the first anime in years that I will probably rewatch multiple times. There was not a single episode that wasn't enjoyable to some degree and by the final episode, it even truly inspired me in many ways, some of which are explained very well in these couple of videos by Gigguk -

For me personally, the moment that stood out and most inspiring was when Wirbel mentions how small acts of kindness that Himmel performed were the ones that ultimately inspired him to become a hero...and no doubt Wirbel inspired Ehre as well.

As an author myself (specifically, a webnovelist), I one day wish to write a story that is so moving and inspiring like this one. Because let me tell you, some of the best moments of this anime gave me that feeling I get when I read really, really good piece of literature.

This is probably one of the extremely few number of anime that I can describe as "perfect" and wholeheartedly recommend this to absolutely anyone. And even though I only give perfect scores to anime that have actually concluded in a satisfactory manner...

...I give this anime Four Stars out of Four. Bravo, Sato Keiichi, bravo.

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.........With this anime done, now can you please start working on Season 2 of Bocchi the Rock!?

Okay, wow.

This might no be as iconic as Zoltraak, but I am absolutely in LOVE with this track.

In fact, along with aforementioned title, Dragon Smasher is one of the songs I put on while writing my webnovel chapters, especially battle scenes.

I'll have to take your word for it, because it just says "video unavailable" in my region.

Is this the one you meant? "Dragon Smasher"?

There's so much that I want to talk about, but it's all severely spoiler heavy for the manga up to and including the current arc. The story remains excellent, and the current arc is fascinating and super tense.