this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2024
15 points (94.1% liked)

Sousou no Frieren

159 readers
1 users here now

A Community for Sousou no Frieren - Frieren: Beyond Journey's End - 葬送のフリーレン series.

You can contribute any content related to this series here as long as it doesn't break community/instance rules.

Community rules:

1. Fan arts

2. SPAM - Following counts as SPAM and will be removed:

3. NSFW - NSFW is allowed but don't post too much of this type of content. Every post like this must be also marked as such. While NSFW is allowed overly sexual content will be removed.

founded 7 months ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
15
Anyone else feel like the exam arc at the end felt drastically different (worse) than the rest of the season? (feddit.dk)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
9 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I just finished watching the first season. I really loved the vibe of the show up until the exam, but then I felt it really shifted in tone.

Suddenly it felt like a shonen anime. A lot of time was spent introducing a vastly larger set of characters who ultimately didn't seem like they mattered all that much.

There was a much greater emphasis on action and combat rather than a focus on characters and their relationship and Frieren's/Fern's connection to it all. Previous episodes frequently skipped combat entirely, only showing its conclusion (which was very refreshing).

There was also hardly any comedy, which was very common for the rest of the show. Instead, it got very serious, especially with people getting killed in the exam.

The pacing also just felt off - many previous episodes jumped entire months or even years, while the exam episodes might not even last a whole day.

I much preferred the start of the show and was a bit disappointed by this direction at the end. Am I alone in this thinking?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was like that in the manga too, to be fair.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I obviously haven't read the manga, but does it feel as "out of place" as in the anime? At least I feel in the anime that the exam arc was quite different and felt out of place compared to the rest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah it was a slower arc, but it wasn’t bad by any stretch. It didn’t feel all that out of place either. I haven watched the anime, but it’s a lot easier to convey magic in a single panel and thus “speed up” the arc.