When A Comfort Anime Finds YOU | Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End - Ep. 18

Most fantasy stories end with the Demon King/God/Emperor defeated, the party celebrates, Princess Leia gives them big chains, everyone claps, and it’s over.

Well…Frieren starts after that.

We’re diving into Season 1 of Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End: a long journey that uses quiet moments, deadpan humor, and devastating memory-flashes to explore grief, friendship, and what it means to realize too late how much the small moments truly mattered, and why we should appreciate them in the now.

We talk about why Frieren’s emotional arc works so well, how Fern is the only adult in the room, and how this show turns “side quests” into the whole show.

If you want smart character writing, a fantasy world that feels lived-in, super funny humor, and a story that can make you tear up over a simple habit someone used to do… you’re in the right place.

Timestamps🕰

00:00 - Intro

02:10 - What is this show, tho?

04:08 - Part 1: The Pacing

08:30 - Time gaps for Frieren vs. time gaps for humans are vastly different.

11:50 - FRIMMEL. Or, uh- Himren? …Frimmel’s better.

13:40 - It feels like a peaceful, fantasy storybook, especially the end credits (stop-motion Frieren makes our hearts violently contract)

15:50 - Part 2: Mindset of an immortal

17:40 - Be a man and run through that flower field!

18:29 - A gang of stuff can happen in montages (Gandalf is Exhibit A…)

23:02 - There’s war all the time everywhere in Attack On Titan

23:50 - Appreciating humans is important, actually

28:27 - Why Frieren falls for the mimic chests over and over and over again

31:45 - Frieren’s relationships

34:04 - Koby, Koby, Koby, Koby, Koby

34:20 - Eisen

35:20 - The New Party versus The Old Party

37:55 - This world is super old. Also- Might there be a bigger Big Bad??

39:19 - Kraft

43:10 - Part 3: Moving Along A Journey

43:23 - This story works like a slice-of-life :-)

45:17 - Sein

47:36 - Preview

Go check out the channel pey talks anime, he's got some great videos about Frieren as well as other anime, along with some stellar writing tips!

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