Review of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

Frieren is an anime that is good at what it wants to be good at It is the best-looking anime of its season, Frieren is a solid character with a strong dynamic with Fern+; you watch it and you care about her because its core conceit of playing with time and the attachments that transcend it is a good hook. Also Sein is a goat, should've kept him around. It just lacks a story worthy of all that. This show absolutely should have just been an OVA, it has about ~6 episodes of plot in actuality. But its not 1991 so they stretch that out andadd a ton of padding instead. They could have made it a slice of life thing where there is no plot intentionally and I think that could have really worked with its tone and lush worldbuilding? But they chose shounen battle academy arcs (the worst part, filled with irrelevant characters) and demon army battles (those are okay but wear out their welcome, the demons are boring) instead.

Unless this is your specific genre, or you love beautiful animation for the sake of it, or one of the characters just really triggers your lust meter, I don't recommend it - the effort will not pay off. But if this is your niche then it will scratch it fine.