Counterpoint: FIREBALL!Originally Posted by Ryllharu
Counterpoint: FIREBALL!
In my previous post, about the same issue, I said the mountains would have likely been too difficult to cross, but they could have found other places to visit on their side of the mountain range.
Episode 12
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This episode was full of feels. They had the Eizen/Hamburger thing, but then one upped it by showing his brother cook one for him as well.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Yeah, it's the slow but touching moments like this where the series truly shines.
It even had that potion of every man's romance.
And those angles with Frieren reading in her night gown, for fan service of course...
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
Episode 13
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I didn't actually expect them to recruit a priest, but if things are going to get more deadly then Stark will need help.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Stark is still too green if he couldn't tough out a simple snake bite. But at least they acquired a jaded priest because of it.
Stark must be all Str and no Con.
Frieren's seduction technique is A+.
I don't understand how the elves are going extinct when their seduction techniques are so high level.
So, there's a village surrouned by snakes that will make your brain melt if you get bitten. And it's incurable unless being treated by the best regular mage within minutes. Why again are we living here?
BECAUSE NOBODY IN THIS WORLD HAS SEX. But seriously, it feels like every girl must be "pure", Fern calling all men with a slight interest in women "perverts", Frieren being completely frigid apparently. It's quite frustrating. Typical virgin mangaka writing where ONLY AT THE END OF THE STORY someone is allowed to be in a relationship, sigh.
"She's the only non-loli girl in the show, your honor!" will be my defense in court
The setting of that universe does not encourage recreative sex.
So I'm not surprised we only get average jokes and very mild fanservice, very scarcely.
Fern has grown in a church environment. Anything male is suspicious.
Frieren is too young relative to her race too know what arousal is.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
Probably because it's doesn't have dragon over the next hill or a demon that shows you your loved ones so it can eat you.
Not even then! Poor Himmel...
Episode 14
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Stark is deep in the "Just apologise always" territory of his relationship now.
I always like hearing the variation in Himmel's voice. The small deviations he makes from his soothing baseline seem to convey so much without ever being in-your-face.
You get a similar thing with Fern and how she says "Mr Stark?" with different tones meaning different things.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
A cute soothing episode all around.
Fern is never the type to admit that she's fond of someone except for Heiter. But after three hours of shopping, and that's the only item she reacted to, you know she knew exactly what it meant from the start, just like Himmel.
Frieren being immature herself but always trying to play off as the older sister type to those around her is delightful lack of awareness.
When Sein says "older woman" he must just mean "big boobed woman".
Yeah, he means Onee-san at the very least, cougars, or MILFs. Not that this series ever has any of those in the hero era or the present era. He wants Flamme at her prime.
Not basically immortal petite elf.
It's actually quite strange not more of Flamme's mature character rubbed off on Frieren. Perhaps some did, but it disappeared during the long centuries Frieren was busy trying her best not to be busy at all, living like a hermit. After all, there are different sorts of maturity: physique, social behavior, and others. Frieren looks like a teenager, her social skills can sometimes be questionable (especially when reading people), but apart from that, her age and experience do show.
So everyone in this anime dies a virgin, eh? Himmel clearly loved Frieren, but never made a proper approach. And now Stark says "Fern, I totally didn't mean to give you a lovers' wristband!!11", when he could have instead said "Well, that isn't so bad then" or something like that.
Sex = baaaad! Never forget, anime fans!1
It's not suprising at all that Japan is in a deep population crisis when they cannot even let their fictional characters get to it ...
"She's the only non-loli girl in the show, your honor!" will be my defense in court
Himmel knelt on one knee and put an eternal love symbol ring on her finger. That was as straightforward and daring an approach as it gets. Freiren is just asexual, as she already explicitly mentioned most elves (as rare as they are) are. They are so bad at romance and sex that they are going extinct for it. Himmel had no chance, and he knew it, so no matter how hard he pushed, it was going nowhere.
Peace.
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