Sousou no Frieren

[MFauli]

Very bad episode :/

I REALLY hate how saccharine things suddenly became. Last episode: EVERYBODY, LET'S MURDER EACH OTHER YOOOOOOO!!!11. This episode: Let's spend fun time together and laugh lots! Am I kawaiii?

:|

This entire episode felt out of place, as if this wasn't a world where deadly monsters, robbers, intrigues and all sorts of horrors exist. Nah, suddenly this was portrayed as if it's peaceful paradise, with unconditional basic income, too, since Frieren just spent all her money for the fun of it. Ugh.

This is what plagues soooo many anime. They cannot properly balance serious and lighthearted scenes. Another thing older anime did so much better. Anime like Berserk, Claymore, Record of Lodoss War, Vision of Escaflowne, etc had funny scenes, too, but always within reason of the world that's depicted. Nowadays, anime just cannot do that anymore. Death and murder one minute, fun and cutesy the next. Meh ...

[Y]

Very bad episode :/

I REALLY hate how saccharine things suddenly became. Last episode: EVERYBODY, LET'S MURDER EACH OTHER YOOOOOOO!!!11. This episode: Let's spend fun time together and laugh lots! Am I kawaiii?

:|

This entire episode felt out of place, as if this wasn't a world where deadly monsters, robbers, intrigues and all sorts of horrors exist. Nah, suddenly this was portrayed as if it's peaceful paradise, with unconditional basic income, too, since Frieren just spent all her money for the fun of it. Ugh.

This is what plagues soooo many anime. They cannot properly balance serious and lighthearted scenes. Another thing older anime did so much better. Anime like Berserk, Claymore, Record of Lodoss War, Vision of Escaflowne, etc had funny scenes, too, but always within reason of the world that's depicted. Nowadays, anime just cannot do that anymore. Death and murder one minute, fun and cutesy the next. Meh ...

No one committed murder in the first stage of the exam. The only team that died was killed by the hostile monster birds.

[Ryllharu]

This entire episode felt out of place, as if this wasn't a world where deadly monsters, robbers, intrigues and all sorts of horrors exist. Nah, suddenly this was portrayed as if it's peaceful paradise, with unconditional basic income, too, since Frieren just spent all her money for the fun of it. Ugh.

This is what plagues soooo many anime. They cannot properly balance serious and lighthearted scenes. Another thing older anime did so much better. Anime like Berserk, Claymore, Record of Lodoss War, Vision of Escaflowne, etc had funny scenes, too, but always within reason of the world that's depicted. Nowadays, anime just cannot do that anymore. Death and murder one minute, fun and cutesy the next. Meh ...

No, this episode is actually a return to form. The exam arc is out of place for the overall vibe of the series.

If you think Berserk had a good balance of serious and lighthearted, you obviously didn't read the later arcs.

Either your notion of balance is off, or you're watching the wrong series. Based on your comment, it's the former.

Frieren always spends all their money, usually on useless shit. She never cares. She would happily work in a small village for 30 years earning subsistence funds before resuming her journey. Fern is the one that watches their budget and is reminding Frieren that their lifespans are finite compared to hers, which is what Frieren wanted to learn after Himmel's death because it hurt her so much. The trio frequently has to do hard labor to make up the money.

[MFauli]

No, this episode is actually a return to form. The exam arc is out of place for the overall vibe of the series.

If you think Berserk had a good balance of serious and lighthearted, you obviously didn't read the later arcs.

Either your notion of balance is off, or you're watching the wrong series. Based on your comment, it's the former.

Berserk had lighthearted scenes within reason of the world depicted is what I wrote. And that's what Sousou no Frieren is lacking. One moment death and horror, the other cutesy and coziness.

@Y: The only reason no murder was committed is because they failed to. They certainly tried to kill each other. And outside of the competition, we know that Übel and Wirbel are infamous mass murderers. The way they acted in this episode didn't fit at all. I mean, the suicidal dude who was just okay with getting killed by Übel was very convenient for the writing, too.

[Ryllharu]

Berserk had lighthearted scenes within reason of the world depicted is what I wrote. And that's what Sousou no Frieren is lacking. One moment death and horror, the other cutesy and coziness.

You need to read past the Conviction Arc, because no, it does not.

[MFauli]

You need to read past the Conviction Arc, because no, it does not.

I read the manga, dude. It does.

[Y]

@Y: The only reason no murder was committed is because they failed to. They certainly tried to kill each other.

The test is clearly serious and life threatening, because people can die. But it equally obviously isn't a test about murders and the teams killing each other, because that didn't happen at all. There were multiple first-class mages on hand to presumably ensure it didn't. The test was not "ok, murder each other."

As for whether you could treat people relatively casually when you were just in a life-and-death scenario with them, there's nothing unbelievable about that at all, even in real life, much less an anime.