Review of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

I loved this anime so here are my thoughts, 1) Story - The thing I love about Journey's end is the main focus is on developing the characters each episode and building up their stories through setting and backstory rather than trying to capture its audience through the sole use of action. The effect this creates is one where the average episode is a relaxing-easy watch, with often sentimental and melancholic undertones that eventually builds up to a few scenes where we do get some combat or high-tension scenes that doesn't feel forced on the viewer but natural to the show 2) Combat - The combat scenesthemselves area incredibly fresh-take relying not on simply 'power levels' but displaying the characters strategy and thoughts as they go face-to-face with one another in duels of intelligence and wit.

3) Characters - Many of the characters have a relatable personalities which help you connect with them. Frieren is modest, introverted and lazy despite being an insanely powerful mage. Fern shows similar traits although is far more hard working, jealous and sometimes a little moody. In essence, it doesn't feel like they are trying to be the 'protagonist' of the show, they feel very human (well Frieren's an elf but you get what I mean) and this makes them very likeable.

One character personality trait which does seem to be apparent with many of the characters is the rather muted/calm reactions they have to shows of power or being in near-death scenarios. I can see this being a negative to some, although I personally really liked this because it's the total opposite to how characters behave in most other anime and in all honesty it just added to the humour for me.

Overall this may be my favourite anime to date. It felt like a breath of fresh air to the fantasy/adventure genre and was just insanely relaxing to watch.