Review of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

So, is Frieren objectively the best thing "ever"? No, of course not and in itself the question makes no sense whatsoever, so whenever someone gets upset of the weird notion "it has a higher score than X/Y/Z WHAT?!" it also makes no sense. I will refrain from discussing spoilers or details of the story as I believe it's rather fundamental to unveil it as the story goes on. Frieren raises up eternal and mundane questions from a stand point of an eternal being that doesn't age, won't die and has no specific reason to exist while also digging into topics of human memory (as a race)and memory in general. It explores the idea of wasted opportunities of the past, lost time that won't return and the clock that keeps ticking forward.
Generally speaking it's setup as a typical old school High Fantasy world which at one point was typical, but today it feels fresh again.

Premise fits well this idea, Frieren joins Hero's party in order to defeat the Evil Lord that nobody before them could defeat since forever and everyone expects them to fail like all those before them, but against those odds, after a long journey they manage to overcome the great evil and return back victorious.
In terms of the world it's not a regular occurrence, basically as the story evolves it explains clearly what sort of impossible task that was.
And so the Era of Peace is upon the world where only remnants of the evil army still exist all thanks to several heroes. Everyone is happy, cheering, statues are raised in their honor yadda yadda.
And afterwards you keep watching as things degrade, change, move on and how significant things become insignificant history lessons and later mythical legends while the world could barely remember the names of heroes of old or won't remember who they are anymore, and the more generations move on the less things get done. It's not anything wild, but the somewhat slow pace of the show fitting the eternal statue of MC and the ever changing world around her do look great.

The topic of aging, of different generations is well done, which works even better with MC been relatively inexperienced in social aspect and kinda dense in this regard who reacts to everything in a somewhat disconnected position, as for her decades of life aren't a big deal to begin with.
Story does play out as a Slice of Life which makes sense, for MC there is no "goal" in sight, while some goal eventually appears before her it's generally still a matter of self exploration rather then "go defeat another evil" where ironically it's clear that some events are going to repeat themselves no matter how many times will you get in the mix. With different names, different places.

They did a good job slowly switching eras in the background as technology advances over time and similar locations aren't that similar anymore.

Stories about eternal beings, vampires, elves, dragons, undead or reincarnated creatures are fun as they explore the dreadful unforgiving topic of time which reminds me of how insignificant our time really is in the world in comparison to more grandiose events.
I did expect it to end in 1 season however, but the later half of Season 1 makes sense if I understand where the author wants to go further.

Absolutely a love/hate series, but it tries significantly harder the most modern anime that we typically get. Gets a 10 from me, I did miss classic fantasy.