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Feb 19, 4:14 PM

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Frieren the Slayer goes hard asf. I've watched enough anime to start to think that demons are cute, cuddly, misunderstood waifus. So, it seems harsh when frieren is like...no they're monsters...and then it turns out she's actually right!!! I guess you don't survive for 400 years by being a softie. Awesome episode again as always!

Also, somebody's gotta say it. Fern...



Feb 23, 2:44 PM

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I'm speechless this is getting on another level.
Feb 25, 3:10 PM
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Omg the parallel between Fern and Frieren gave me goosebumps why did they make them look so cold while flying stationary in the air? That shit was too cold🔥🔥🔥🔥😮‍💨
Feb 26, 2:40 PM
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That Frieren smile under the hood lol. The first time we see her being kinda evil/joy mode x)

2 bad youtube already showed what happens after, but still, great series so far. Gotta give stark some kudos for jumping walls with a 5kg axe on his back. I do like how this show depicts fear tho. It's not exaggerated (well outside some joke stuff) or made fun of. Its a natural reaction.

Im so in love with fens emotionless/dead facial expression tho, its scary but also kinda hypnotizing lol. Best design ive seen in a while (next to maomao) I also like how they avoided the ''lets talk so the enemy can escape'' trope. She instantly called it out and went offense again. I mean how many shows do that nowadays.

Foreshadowing for ep 23+ as well lol (ty youtube~~)
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MAN FRIEREN IS TOO FREAKIN BADASS DUDE
Mar 6, 6:56 AM
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Honestly, everyone should be Thankful that Frieren is on humanity's side. Given her apathetic and cold demeanour and her lack of understanding regarding the nuances of human emotion, Frieren might as well be a mass murderer from humanity's eyes had she sided herself with the demons. She's only called a hero by the humans because she did the exact same thing but only to demonkinds.

So there's the double meaning of [Souso no Frieren]. One of them being Frieren the Slayer.
That's such a badass nickname, and I have a particular soft spot for a deceptively kind character that has a dark somewhat edgy past. The one who slaughtered the most demons out of anybody in history. I wonder how many her kill count is... Thousands? millions?

Who knows, she herself doesn't even see demons as another species, only as wild beasts. So much so that she killed that Drechth demon guy without even a moment of hesitation to hear his pleas. No mercy, no compassion, no regard for sympathy. A true discriminator against demons. A racist elf XD Epic.

Mar 7, 1:25 PM
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8 episodes into this show, I'm liking this show.

Although I feel that this show isn't as great as current ranking indicates. Its has its qualms, pacing being the most serious one.

I just don't understand why they opted for this unique standard on variable pacing in each episode.

Each episode of 20 odd minutes, 10-15 minutes are so slow like nothing really is happening while the remaining 5-10 minutes, everything happened.
Mar 8, 3:18 PM
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Mad house cooking
Mar 12, 10:21 PM
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Feb 2024
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Amazing that title drop scene
Mar 16, 11:03 PM

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ain't easy being a genius
Mar 17, 5:32 PM
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EPIC EPISODE HOLY SHIT
Mar 19, 5:59 PM
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Jan 2019
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The episode was perfect
Mar 21, 4:28 PM
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mantiene el nivel de todos los capítulos
Mar 22, 4:14 PM
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Mar 2024
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Amazing I Love this anime
Mar 23, 3:23 AM
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Sep 2023
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Love the storyline which moves along nicely and steady
Mar 24, 2:28 PM

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the two are surprisingly good.
big fight next ep`?

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Mar 24, 4:01 PM
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Đáng đầu tư thời gian
Mar 24, 7:49 PM
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Frieren The Slayer 🥶
Mar 26, 7:49 AM
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This little arc is so good! I love the demons, they make for really fun, formidable foes. Their style and magic are pretty damn cool!

The whole nightime breaking and entering scene was great, I was on the edge of my seat! Fern looked so badass!
Mar 27, 3:23 PM

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Correct me if I'm wrong but it looks like there's an inconsistency in this episode. Demon king died 80 years ago and humanity spent many years afterwards to analyze, modify, and incorporate Zoltraak into their magic system. Lugner was then struck by this modified zoltraak by Frieren (as per his flashback). Despite it being a near-death experience, Lugner had completely forgot about her because according to him, it happened a "long time" ago, making it sound like it happened >80 years ago before the demon king's fall.

Also curious how he managed to escape from Frieren the first time around with her staff pointed at his face. Maybe Aura assisted him?
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Really love how Frieren acts like she's just gonna dip but goes straight to the source of the problem lol
Mar 30, 3:23 PM
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Loved this EPisode. It had everything. @FloralFlames totally agree.

I would say Frieren could have helped a little bit or at least supervise the strategy. However the TV series explains this by sensing the "queen of the demons" 10 km on the other side.

Also, Frieren is still a genius? Or just it has a good experience/ability for combat? How is it possible that Demons, being more than Elfs, are still weaker than them? Interesting.
Also, want to know how she wasnt discovered by the demon.

@Kays90 For me the pace was too slow the 1st episodes, but i guess it was necessary to explain the basic. I feel this episode was very good directed, except for the fact that
1) The leader of the city should have taken more and more guards
2) No one but the leader of the city, realized the murdered was not Frieren. Even shen!

@ShadowkillZ Totally, But it seems the TV series distinguish between bad and good, so its easy to operate in this division. Other thing was, if Demons could empathize with humans. I want to know how humans defended themselves against Demons. Of course they have magic, but we havent seen human power at all, apart from the protagonists.

@tinydevil421 Nice point!
tinydevil421 said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but it looks like there's an inconsistency in this episode. Demon king died 80 years ago and humanity spent many years afterwards to analyze, modify, and incorporate Zoltraak into their magic system. Lugner was then struck by this modified zoltraak by Frieren (as per his flashback). Despite it being a near-death experience, Lugner had completely forgot about her because according to him, it happened a "long time" ago, making it sound like it happened >80 years ago before the demon king's fall.

Also curious how he managed to escape from Frieren the first time around with her staff pointed at his face. Maybe Aura assisted him


I think maybe Zoltraak was different in that ocassion, he survived somehow (in that time). I dont have a clear answer. He should have remembered. Maybe they wanted just to put it like this "directing stuff episode". Maybe this highlights the overconfidence of the demon?
Mar 31, 11:06 AM
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Jalan cerita yang luar biasa, saya sangat menyukainya, cerita yang ringan
Mar 31, 9:57 PM

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Fuck yeah I love this episode. Anyway, that demon said in the end "sousou no Frieren" and the subtitles says "Frieren the Slayer". Huh. So that's what the means. Fucking badass. These demons attempts to deceive won't work on her cause she's cold-hearted lol.
Apr 4, 1:25 PM
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excellent harmony of action and conventional storytelling
one of the best fight scenes ever
Apr 10, 7:53 PM
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Apr 2021
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Neeeh bro, this episode is fire
Apr 12, 2:15 AM
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This episode was just awesome, no doubt about it.

But character-wise: Stark > Fern.

We can see this most with their infiltration of the mansion. Stark has to swim through the moat while Fern water walks, Stark is freezing wet but still carries on, he Parkours up the wall and even turns to give Fern a hand up, but Fern just flies over the wall while Stark is left there. Yes all that is an amusing scene, but it really says something about Stark and Fern. Stark has to do everything the hard way, and even suffers for it, but he still offers a helping hand. Meanwhile Fern has immense power which she uses to effortlessly achieve what Stark does with much effort, but Fern doesn't use her powers to help Stark. Fern is just selfish and kind of full of herself, or at least she not a good team player and immature. Whereas it's really inspiring to see the effort Stark is putting in, and is admirable working through his fear to accomplish noble things. It's not only quite the contrast of Stark's background of him being a coward who fled his village being attacked by monsters to where he is now, but it's also quite the contrast to compare him to Fern; who's background was she worked hard to become a powerful mage, only to grow kind of selfish and full of herself with the power she's obtained. Fern has achieved "paying back her master" by becoming a mage before her master pasted away, but Stark is still in the process of "paying his master back" before Eisen passes on. Fern is sure of herself, maybe too confident in herself; whereas Stark is scared and not that confident in himself, seems to be always under-estimating himself based on what others think of him, yet despite his fears he carries on to prevail. Stark notices the demon guy sees Stark as zero threat, and Stark is terrified of the demon guy just because of his under-estimation of Stark. The same thing happened with the dragon, it looks like Stark needs to learn to not hold other people's opinion of him to such high regard because it isn't always accurate. I think the same thing could be said with Eisen, Stark thinks Eisen thinks Stark is no good because Eisen never praised him, whereas Eisen told Frieren that he believes Stark to be even stronger than him. Stark also thinks Eisen punched him because Eisen was mad at him, but it turned out Eisen was reflectively scared of Stark's strength.

Anyways I'm rambling, I think Stark is way better of a character so far than Fern. I admit that Fern has her moments, but she seems to be how Frieren used to be with her old party, a little cold and aloof. There's emphasis on how Frieren has changed since, so I think Fern is to highlight how Frieren used to be versus how she is now. Which means Fern is probably going to run into similar problems Frieren used to.

I'm actually really blown away, and liking how the anime is treating Stark. He's coming off as the typical bumbling joke character who's loud and obnoxious, but in this case Stark isn't actually obnoxious and bad. They're actually still getting the same comedy out of that trope character, but Stark is doing things right and is looking mighty admirable for such. Where as Fern is the typical tsundere character that conflicts with the joke character, but she actually does stuff wrong and comes off looking bad because of it (or at least to me). It's kind of funny because Fern's the stick in the mud nag who is forcing Stark and Frieren to do the typical hero's "go out the way to save the town, and protect the people" and other do-gooder stuff. Whereas Frieren and Stark seems to be aligned pretty well at not doing all that. I really like that while Fern maybe cold towards Stark, and tries to humiliate him, the anime itself is not trying to humiliate Stark like other anime's do to that joke character. It's quite the subversion, and it's working really well with Stark's character development.
Apr 17, 12:21 AM

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Magical wire. Easy W. Peace comes with good eats. Yerhankiemo, but croch style. Are you cmming? She takes her hood off. She has no Interest in explaining the truth. Crooked instruments of death. His master did not teach him how to run on water. Again locks in a world of magic mean next to nothing. They devote themselves to magic. Barrier borealis. He gives him a torture break. He takes his time freeing the tortured man. He gets in his way. He conquers his fear enough for a witty remark. He decides to reveal his own sneak attack before it happens. She will. Finally with drama and action it isn’t the worst.
Apr 19, 1:04 PM
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Damn, Frieren completely shines an aura of Bloodborne-boss vibe!!
Apr 21, 3:09 AM

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Frieren the slayer. It was a nice title :)
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Apr 27, 9:35 AM
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The action from sol anime always surprising
May 4, 4:33 PM
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Freiren: DEMON SLAYER

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May 5, 11:43 AM
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YOOOOOOO!!!! LOOKING FORWARD TO NEXT EP!!!
May 7, 11:35 AM

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Guess Lügner is no pushover, I love how they still talk about Solltrak. Did time stand still in the demon realm and they never discovered what Frieren did with the demon magic? I guess they weren't able to enter through that barrier in all those years. Frieren looks might strong hover above the demon army like that, next episode will be fire.
May 8, 5:27 PM
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YESYESYESYESYSE SLAUGHTER THHHE DEMONS FRIEREREEEN!!!!
May 8, 6:32 PM
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An anime that deserves the highest rating
May 11, 6:38 AM
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Dec 2023
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The music, back story, and character reveal is so interesting. Fireden the Slayer really lives up to her name.
May 11, 6:10 PM

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What an amazing episode this was, definitely one of the best so far. That fight at the start of the episode with Frieren and that demon with magic string in Frierens cell was amazing and seeing that demeons abilities in action was nice, they were quite cool. That demon must of thought very highly of themself if they just barged into Frierens cell thinking they were gonna do something, Frieren was great as usual.

Seeing the leader of those three demon in action with his blood powers was interesting especially when he took out all those guards so easily aswell as injuring the king.

Seeing frieren sneek around in the town after escaping was cute.

Stark and Ferns plan was nice along with them going and helping out the king and fighting those demons. The fight with them was also amazing and i really like seeing stark in battle along with fern they both have nice move sets. That demon regenerating after all that has me worried though. Frieren is about to be in a huge battle after that cliffhanger at the end and im hyped.


May 13, 12:39 PM
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Nice and violent episode
May 14, 9:13 AM
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ahhhh slayyyy. Sousou no Frieren's OG meaning. cool
May 14, 10:14 AM
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Great episode! Love the battle sequences and as well as the backstory with Frieren.
Jun 19, 9:50 PM
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Que episódio INCRÍVEL <3 , a sinergia da fern e do stark aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Jun 23, 4:00 AM

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Great episode, these demons are not to be trusted!
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Aug 2, 3:48 AM

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FRIEREN IS SO COOL. The way she so easily killed that demon, it really didn't know with who it was messing with.

Also, Stark surprassing his fear, and then Fern's appearance and almost killing the demon, that scene was so cool! Frieren must have a lot of faith in Stark and Fern to let them deal with the demons alone.
Frieren herself is going against a whole army of demons, like, wow, she really is that good! Can't wait to watch the battle next episode, and I'm worried for Stark and Fern, because the demon is going against them, and one of them is particularly interested in Fern, due to her resemblance with Frieren.
Aug 14, 10:12 AM
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so goooood bro episode good very good sooooo good
Sep 6, 4:17 PM

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Well this was much better than everything before it. Finally, some strategizing, opponents sizing each other up, an actual CONFLICT, and actual violence.
The first few minutes were only dragged down by the Lead character's utter lack of charisma, and they just used fast stills to get around animating, but it was pleasing to at last finally see some action and some STAKES.
I sort of like the tall demon dude. Not that he's a cool character or anything, he's as derivative and bland as every other soft spoken arrogant enemy seen in most fights since probably Ancient Rome... but at least he provides an objective, and stands as a worthy antagonist. Until now, this show lacked one completely.

Stark and Fern play off against each other a lot better than I thought they would, although she is too much like Frieren in having zero personality.

I can't wait to read all the ridiculous gushing in the comments this episode probably got, if fans thought the past 7 episodes were brilliant, it's equally unlikely they've ever seen a fight before.
Good Job Frieren, for once you didn't bore me.
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This episode was so epic.
When Lügner is talking about Fern's spell especially, my favorite part.
The production is marvelous
@Embient I know right? So simple, but yet leaves us so hyped. The way she just stands there in the air so epic. Amazing production.
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Insane title drop. Can't wait to see what will happen between Frieren and Aura.
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frieren so tough the combat cooking
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Frieren the Slayer

This was good tho. Frieren meets up with Fern and Stark for some plans and then goes off to fight a old foe while Stark and Fern carry forward.
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