Sousou no Frieren

[Ryllharu]

Praising Fern's choice as "legendary" is just one of those typical weeb nerd gimmick memes that everyone does on Twitter and Youtube and wherever and thinks it's "cute" or something. Nah, it's dumb. She wasted a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity on being too lazy to wash her clothings. That's what remains. :/

Wash your clothes the old way (starch-based slime, naphtha soap, hot water from the stovetop three separate times, borax, bluing, etc.) for two weeks and let me know how you feel.

I know you don't pay attention to the details of a series, but it is also consistent with Frieren and Fern gushing over the pots and pans cleaning spell at the beginning of this long-ass arc. A spell they were both very happy to acquire and one they both considered to be one of the most valued they'd found over the years.

It's not a meme, it's one of the smartest gags the author has done in the series as a whole.

[MFauli]

Wash your clothes the old way (starch-based slime, naphtha soap, hot water from the stovetop three separate times, borax, bluing, etc.) for two weeks and let me know how you feel.

I know you don't pay attention to the details of a series, but it is also consistent with Frieren and Fern gushing over the pots and pans cleaning spell at the beginning of this long-ass arc. A spell they were both very happy to acquire and one they both considered to be one of the most valued they'd found over the years.

It's not a meme, it's one of the smartest gags the author has done in the series as a whole.

I don't understand what's "smart" about it. Nor why an anime that tells a serious story needs to culminate in a gag. But that's probably why I don't like this anime as much as everyone else, considering the hype.

[Ryllharu]

I don't understand what's "smart" about it. Nor why an anime that tells a serious story needs to culminate in a gag. But that's probably why I don't like this anime as much as everyone else, considering the hype.

Sousou no Frieren does not have a serious story. Its most similar series is Yofukashi no Uta, and even that has more serious elements than this series.

Getting stuck in Mimics should have tipped you off. Along with sleepy Frieren being mom'd by Fern.

Asking for such a spell, instead of something more grand sounding, would have been worth it just to see Serie's reaction. Though that being said, following the theme of my earlier post, such a laundry spell should have been easily obtainable from elsewhere and thus a wasted opportunity. Considering what Ryll said as well, there's not a snowball's chance in hell the world would have lost magic that convenient and extremely helpful for nearly all the people of all races, winter, spring, summer, or autumn, in every climate and environment. How do you lose something that pretty much all families would personally use or intimately rely on? It's not even something that would become obsolete due to a better invention because it itself is the better invention.

Real-world humanity literally forgot how to make good concrete and couldn't figure it out again until a few years ago. It's very probable for this world to have forgotten Mythic Era spells. We know Serie was alive then, and maybe Kraft. That's two people in a very big continent. There's also not THAT many mages.

[MFauli]

Sousou no Frieren does not have a serious story. Its most similar series is Yofukashi no Uta, and even that has more serious elements than this series.

Getting stuck in Mimics should have tipped you off. Along with sleepy Frieren being mom'd by Fern.

So BERSERK is not a serious story, either, because Puck and Isidoro?

[Kraco]

Real-world humanity literally forgot how to make good concrete and couldn't figure it out again until a few years ago. It's very probable for this world to have forgotten Mythic Era spells. We know Serie was alive then, and maybe Kraft. That's two people in a very big continent. There's also not THAT many mages.

What kind of memes have you been reading? The world never forgot how to make concrete. Go out and have a look around. Our world is depressingly full of it. Is it not good? If it wasn't good enough, the world wouldn't be full of it. Your analogue would only work if there had been no concrete in use between whenever you reckon the humanity forgot it and a few years ago.

Nature itself works on the basis of "good enough", the world humans built is largely the same. A spell like that wouldn't have been forgotten, even if it had become a little bit worse if it was that way more accessible. Fern needing to ask for it from Serie was for the sake of comedy. Now, of course if it's later revealed that Serie actually, with her few underlings, were going around in the distant past, before Frieren's time, and murdered all humans who knew magic, like some Spanish inquisition, then maybe it might work lore wise. With her infinite time and magic sensing ability spanning a hundred kilometers or more, she could have done it. She could have erased magic completely enough for her own purposes, to monopolise it and make herself a sort of goddess of magic. I could see it in her narcissist personality.