Sousou no Frieren

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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.