Review of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

Frieren has got to be the most overrated anime of all time on MAL. I'd like to make it clear that I do not hate this anime by any means, but I just find it extremely boring to a point its almost unwatchable. Any adventure or fantasy story has any objectives to complete or to follow, for example hunter x hunter we see that gon is adventuring to find his dad, in FMAB we see that ed is trying to cure his brother. Although it's not a necessity, it's pretty clear that it gives a backbone to a thrilling adventure/fantasy story. Frieren starts from wheremost fantasy/isekais end which is the story after defeating the demon lord. But since it starts from an absurd point it lacks clear objectives to accomplish or achieve. Frieren the main character who is an elf is just shown to be adventuring while tutoring a student in magic. In hindsight, this is not the adventures of frieren but of her student who is also a relative of a human who was previously in the hero's party with frieren that defeated the demon lord. Since the demon lord has already been ended, its unclear as to why even fern (the student) wants to learn magic from the greatest mage of all time.

Combining the lack of goals or objectives, this show also fails at recognising itself as what it is. Is it about the action considering the last few episodes which were full of it or the emotional slice of life appeal which is shown in bits and pieces, also which everyone talks about. It fails to stand as both.
The action is little to none atleast in the first half of the show, which already makes it a bad action show if it is one. The last few eps which had the most action were considerably and arguably the worst arc to even exist. Let me explain to you this worst arc that I am talking about:--

(MINOR SPOILERS)
So in this arc as frieren and her two friends fern and starc are adventuring, in desire of a somewhat GOAT title in magic, they are shown to be giving a test. This is beyond any logic or sense since how can a previous literal hero who has defeated the demon lord mind you be allowed to give such an exam and to fight to death with literal kids in an exam who are yet to even hit puberty? Well even forgetting this as we begin the test, we got literal bunch of screen time for side characters who only have existence for the sake of this arc. Literal episodes worth of screen time for the sake of nothingness. The fight scenes were them just fighting non sensically with each other for the so called title.

Now, the latter which is the emotional slice of life appeal of this show, lets get to it.
So, first of all it is really really important for us to note that Frieren is a literal elf. Elves lives for thousands of years and thus they do not form any kinds of emotional bonds with any person, even if they do it doesn't affect them. Now frieren while adventuring is shown to be remembering her time of when she was in the hero's party and how she regrets not enjoying those bits and moments with her party members. Now this to give you any kind of emotional appeal is just plain absurdity. You need to be extremely soft to even feel emotional with these scenes. Why do I say that? It's because we are only shown bits and pieces of the past in the present! The way I see it for it to be well done is actually giving a decent amount of screentime to the hero's party before the adventuring begins! If the audience is shown some good moments beforehand, instead of some nonsensical 30 seconds of despair maybe it would be easier for them to actually feel emotional.

Frieren is actually also one of the most blandest written character of all time. She is arrogant as hell and does not give a fuck, which you would expect from an elf. So how do you think that she is able to feel more than 10 seconds of remorse for her long gone dead party members? It is a mystery just like the ratings of this show. I do think that Frieren being a female protag added some biasedness to the overall judgement of this show by the audience but at the end of the day, Frieren is an elf before being a female. And elves do not give a fuck, neither are they capable of giving it. This story would have been 100x more entertaining if frieren would have just called it a day after defeating the demon lord and decided to settle in the countryside just bing chilling. But oh well then this anime would have been named "Chilling in my 100s after resigning from the hero's party, I decided to open a circus".

This show is being spoken as some masterpiece, when in essence and reality it's just some confused, muffled mumbo jumbo of the author which some recognised as "wise words have never been spoken" and it's now giving the domino effect.