Review of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
7/10
October 19, 2024
1 min read
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Cute, calming and wholesome slow-pace low-stake shounen with good worldbuilding, nice fantasy music, predictable dialogues and a way more inferior second half than the first (because of the increased number of unimportant characters getting a lot of rushed focus), that should be a bit more careful of promoting dehumanization and rely on methods other than purely throwbacks to show character (mostly extrinsic) motivations, especially when they are used so many times in a row per episode, therefore becoming a broken record of (un)successful tries to provoke feelings of sympathy and nostalgia in its audience (that the show doesn't trust to have a 15 minute longmemory) for our lucky overpowered genius heroes.