No macht
I slept

Needed even more feet scenes.

>>287516294
This. Should have made Frieren go back to her sandal outfit for the whole season

>>287516262
Boring ass monster of the week filler shit.

>>287516262
Really unremarkable despite me being a huge frierenfag, and lack of interesting characters. Still a solid 7/10.

>>287516262
Filler

>>287516262
Cute elf.

>>287516262
Was good

I liked it, but I think S3 will be better.

>>287516262
titled too much towards shonen battles and not enough towards SoL, I liked S1 better

At least Denken will be in the next one.

>>287516262
Too short.

>>287516325
>her sandal outfit
Never wore such thing.

>>287516262
It was Revoling

>>287516262
It’s a good transitional season for greater arcs.

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>>287516973
I think it was proportionally more SoL than S1. It's just that S1 SoL was more memorable, there's really no equivalent to the ring scene, or the ball, or flower searching or Grandpa Voll. You will hate S3 though.
>>287516262
It was okay, but while making it a single cour might make sense long term considering the manga is in a hiatus hell, so the can't burn through the material exactly, it really hurst the season itself. There were some good stories in there, but no great ones. Though one thing that irked me was the silhouette autism. The manga doesn't give a shit and will just show you character when it naturally makes sense even if they're "hype", but the anime will blacken everyone out to add artificial mystery.

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>>287517336

I lost my place in the fight with Jimmy Four-Swords I wasn't invested in at all and I ended up dropping the whole thing
They stopped doing the fun family guy skits and acted like they earned a namek, and they couldn't even deign to make James sexy for us like Aura and Lugner

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>10 episodes in
>Denken hype for 2nd half of the season
>Actually that was the last episode
FUCK why is this season so short compared to S1?

>>287520711
A popular theory is that it's because of the manga being in a hiatus hell. If they animated the Denken arc right now, they would have 43 chapters left, but 22 of that is an unfinished arc in the middle of a battle. So really they would have 21 chapters, so they could reasonably plan for a one-cour season in 2028... and then who knows what, we don't know if the current arc will even finish by then. Right now they can pace themselves better with Denken arc being late 2027, these 21 chapters fitting nicely for a cour somewhere in 2029, an by then there's a better chance things have moved.

>>287519194
Thanks.

>>287520711
Funding, probably, coupled with manga issues. Probably going to have Hellsing/Full Metal Alchemist disease pretty quick.

>>287521205
Too bad the ost isn’t as good as Hellsing’s.

>>287521054
they can just make OVAs.

I don't know why shounen has to do this "we don't have time / money / material / just want to hold back the good stuff to do the big arc you've heard of, but get hype for next season when we'll do the big arc you've heard of!" thing. Less this but what if I haven't heard of it? All you're doing is wasting my time. If you can't put together a cohesive satisfying story right now, why do anything at all? If you're contractually obligated to put something out this season, then make it clearer that I don't have to take it seriously. Why not something that's just the SoL antics people like? The LycoReco shorts last year were great

>>287516262
i dropped it, and i read all the available chapters before the s1 of the anime was even announced to be made; it just isn't that entertaining.

>>287516973
How is this opinion even valid? Most of the season was SOL.

>>287522247
sword boy arc was enough to make you forget why you ever liked Frieren let alone what happened in the first half of the season

>>287516262
I liked how comfy and SoL it was, and how much it played into reclaiming the white man's ancestral home from the violent demon invaders

>>287518571
Mage exam started around about the last third of S1, with stage 1 and 2 being the out and out battle portions, most of this season was taken up by the revolte battle
I think a better way to frame my argument is that I preffered pre exam to post since if we go strictly by season proportionality is unfair (28 eps vs 10)
>>287522247
revolte dragged, I was rolling my eyes at the asspull level during it, sure prev battles also had some pulls but not quite as much

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peak aura

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>>287516262
>Macht of the Golden Land
More like Macht Von Kino.

>>287516262
Not to hate on it or anything but it felt irrelevant? Like you could skip it and no esencial information would be lost.

letdown. not bad, but a letdown. i felt like stark recovered from his fight against 4 arm snake man too easily and there was never any mention of being left to fight him with chuuni angelwing guy while frieren fern and methode dicked around fighting 2 warmup trash mobs. Personally i'd be fucking pissed that they waltzed back over without so much as a hey sorry for leaving you to it.

Give it to me staright mangafags. Will season 3 make up for how boring this season was? Will the hiatus ever finish?

>>287522998
>frieren fern and methode dicked around fighting 2 warmup trash mobs
That was weird, I though that Frieren went away to let those two to deal with the flash mob and help Stark and whatshisname against snake guy, but no, she just stand there dicking around while those two back in the town were getting killed.

>>287516262
For some reason I thought it was going to go all the way to the golden city arc.
This season was basically a filler season until then honestly.

>>287523020
Do you like Demon Slayer? Next arc is literally just Demon Slayer.

>>287522699
>Mage exam started around about the last third of S1, with stage 1 and 2 being the out and out battle portions, most of this season was taken up by the revolte battle
Revolte was literally 3/10 episodes of which 1 barely had any fighting. And you're forgetting the other fightfag arc that was Aura which was actually longer than Revolte and had more fighting.

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>>287523020
Season 3 is the best arc, Sousou no Denken rules. Though be warned it's literally just one serious arc so there's very little in terms of SoL.

>>287523299
Aura is sex thoughever

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>>287522827
>peak Aura
>post has no Aura

>>287522247
dichotomy retards lose their mind if they see one instance of an aspect they don't like

>>287516262
There was a severe lack of armpits

>>287520711
>>287523421
It's irritating how much this loser gets glazed when we've already seen Frieren beat his ass effortlessly. Before any idiots try and gas him up more by saying how string Frieren is, she's almost died to the most random shit this season like fucking octopus and dogs and that one old golem boomer rekt her too. So stop hyping up this retarded jobber!

>>287524901
Denken just wanted his childhood idol to step on his ass. Little boys like you won't understand.

>>287524901
power levels aren't an actual thing like that, anon. Frieren might have more mana and experience but she's weirder and less stable and more prone to making mistakes, while Denken is more steadfast and serious, not to mention that he's a man and Frieren is a sexy mature lady. Not to be sexist, but fighting a defensive battle to protect a singular, known, living asset is just a thing that women are more apt to win at, as opposed to trying to defeat magic daddy.

>>287524901
>hating on "I cast fist"
I like broken characters, I like older people having regrets and trying to redeem themselves. Lernen is similar and still a bit unused but I expect him to have a glorious moment too.

>>287524901
>retards can only think in They Won/Lost power level shit
Denken is just cool, i don't care if he's weaker or stronger than anyone else.

>>287516262
7/10 same as S1. Still an unremarkable story being carried by the studio.

>>287525304
>>hating on "I cast fist"
btw this is my favorite part of the whole series and why I roll my eyes at everyone hating on le tournament arc

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>>287524759
You mean there was a severe lack of Ubel.

>>287525304
>>287525346
>muh cast fist
That was an overhyped nothingburger too! Imagine hyping up shit that was ENTIRELY OFFSCREENED! They didn't even show the goddamn fight!

>>287525443
it was the sentiment and the statement that carried weight; if you just want to watch gay dudes fighting then go pick up Wind Breaker

>>287525369
Ubel in anime in 2031 at the earliest.

>>287525443
>overhyped
The series itself did not overhyped it. You say yourself, they even off screened it. The spectator overhyped it precisely because it was good.
You got to up your trolling.

>>287525497
>>287526318
>It doesn't need to show le heckin epic cast fist scene!
>It's totally fine to show the scene where he gets his ass kicked!
>Isn't he so heckin based?!
No. He's a pathetic overhyped jobber.

>>287527138
why are you necrobumping this weird argument?

>>287516262
Would've been AOTY (and might still be, this year sucks) if they actually adapted the next big arc instead of cutting it to 1/3rd the length of the first season. Ridiculous. Still, I enjoyed it a lot. Thought it was just as good as the first season, and definitely better for Stark. But not enough happened to move things forward like the first season did.

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>>287516262
Pretty weak until the end where it picks up, I don't even think it should be considered a season 2 but just be added to season 1's 28 episodes

>>287525200
It's what Himmel the Hero would do.

>>287528350
this would be hotter if it was on-model and not a weird bubble body

>>287516262
Snoozefest that reminded me of that time when Himmel the Hero fell asleep. It was so profound and nostalgic.

>>287528350
Now I know why she likes to be EATEN by those Mimics.

>>287516262
disappointment

>>287516262
Splitting off Macht to another season left season 2 a weird stumpy middle child.

>>287516262
Kino

>>287529142
Ultimately better that way, because Macht's arc is important enough to where people would have unofficially split it into separate seasons anyway.

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>>287529201
so is macht actually a "good" one ? he DID try...

>>287529281
no, he was naive and self-interested.
People trying to defend him always fail to mention his big experiment is purely for his own self-interest

>>287516262
Felt pretty lackluster and pointless

>>287516262
Reddit's first native isekai, just like the first season

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>>287529380
sounds familiar
why do they keep comparing her with demons ? either directly when she interacts with flamme or indirectly

>>287529490
it's a fantasy story; native isekai isn't a thing. it's not isekai unless someone is transported from another world.
>A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court
isekai
>The Lord of the Rings
fantasy
see how that works?

>>287530012
>t. the retard who wrote the wikipedia article that hack dictionary sites copied without checking

>>287529893
demons are a device to examine human nature.
In that world, they are PARALLEL to humans, but distinct from them. But humans struggle with the the concept of convergent evolution with humanoids not eventually resolving to the human path. (Try as they might, demons never becoming exactly like humans)

>>287530069
You mean
>t. a bot that ingested the wikipedia article and has no context to refute it because it doesn't actually know what words are

>>287530069
what kind of retard point are you trying to make, retard?

>>287530388
lmao someone turned the content filter off on this bot

>>287530502
not an argument. i accept your concession.

>>287530798
nta, but "native isekai" could only work if a supposed fantasy world was highly video-game'ized.
But none, especially frieren, fit that description.

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Season 2 Frieren is a pastiche of Season 1 Frieren.

>>287516262
Episode 8 and Hero of the south are good.

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>>287530904
yeah but that's not isekai, native or otherwise. isekai is not defined by video game mechanics. i hate to cite wikipedia but words have meanings. let's not do violence to language by inventing meanings because so many anime, especially isekai, has childish video game shit in it.
frieren has practically no video game mechanics outside of that map that looked a whole lot like a HUD map in season 1. aside from that one scene it's been very organic, if not the most imaginative fantasy world, it certainly qualifies as fantasy.

>>287531039
retards don't want to adhere to actual definitions, so you have to use their dumb logic to refute them.

>>287531081
i'm not going to dumb myself down to their level. i will simply repeat the point that the word isekai does not mean what they think it does. i'm right, they are wrong, and that is all there is to it.

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>>287523020
Season 2 didn't have any major arcs and was mostly made of a transitional SoL journey, filled with small themes and messages. The third season will be a a single continuous major arc that will probably go for 12 episodes. If you liked what they briefly showed in the last episode with Denken, then you will like the whole arc.

>>287530904
Yes just video-gamey at times. That fight with Revolte where at one point he was able to have complete map awareness easily parrying both stark and gaynau from back and front..until he doesn't. Almost as if his aggro meter got filled by stark that he just had to focus on stork mmmkkkay?

>>287531497
now you're going full-retard into a completely different issue that has nothing to do with the original subject.

>>287531533
What do you mean? I just opened this thread and I am agreeing with that anon. Video game mechanics is a lazy narrative decision but not every lazy narrative decision is bideo game mechanic. The Revolte fight leaves enough wiggle room for it to just be awful and lazy, not necessarily bideo game-ized.

>>287531497
The Genau arc was really a letdown

>>287531497
Genau was able to wound snekman because he did the gamera spin. No one can stop the gamera spin.

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>I THINK SEASON 2 SUCKS

>>287531969
ebin

>>287516262
I liked the adaptation. It put a good focus on Stark after he was absent for much of the previous arc and the episodic stories played to the series' strengths. The adaptation also did a great job of highlighting the human element during the two episodes fighting the demons. The voice acting and subtle details emphasized the characters' humanity even in tense atmospheres opposite the cocky, sociopathic demons.

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>>287531678
For all its faults, I at the very least appreciate that the arc bothered to make you feel that something was on the line

>>287532293
Oh yeah the magic crystals, whatever happened there?

>>287532293
>something was on the line
Bruh the genau fight turned stark's torso into a flesh doughnut but he was doing the nay nay the very next hour

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>>287516262
That was it?