A fairly new anime with a very solid dub. I’m watching it on Crunchy Roll. Special $2 a month for 2 months deal right now..
First episode real caught me despite or because of Pixar level emotional intro.
Basically, a story about the Elf in the party that defeats the great evil. She experiences her friends growing old and passing away, while time barely touches her.
So far this is incredible. I hope they can keep up, but perfect for long term D&D players or Middle Earth fans.
Holy Crap, it is rated #1 on myanimelist. That is amazing.
I haven’t even glanced at the anime yet, but the manga (Sousou no Frieren) is one of my favorite of the current/recent ones in concept and execution, even though I only read around the first 10 chapters or so before getting my squirrel-like attention distracted by something else (it is up to 119 chapters in English fan translations so far, so more than 2,000 pages). This is pushing me towards picking it up again, the manga and trying the anime.
I started the manga after eagerly consuming the manga Dungeon Meshi. Also based in a D-n-D world, this one follows a broke low-level party that saves money on their dungeon crawling by “living off the land”, instead of buying food supplies eating the creatures that they kill. It combines an adventure manga and a cooking manga and is filled with recipes for things like roast basilisk and grilled kelpie. That one is up to 96 chapters in English (published sporadicly in the original Japanese) and has an anime adaptation that is available on Netflix (which I haven’t watched). If you like Frieren you probably would like Meshi.
After watching the first episode of Dungeon Meshi tonight I finally got around to watchjng the first episode of Frieren. Both are well done on the story and voice acting (original Japanese with subs, I don’t do dubs if I can avoid them). The animation on Dungeon is good but that on Frieren is bargain basement. Both adhere closely to the manga. Episode 1 of Frieren covers around the first 1 1/2 chapters of the manga.
I’ve been enjoying Frieren very much, although I’m less enthused by the lengthy tournament-style wizard’s exam in the later episodes (which lacks some of the unique meditative feel of the previous episodes).
I’m also enjoying it. It’s slower paced but I don’t mind that once in awhile. I like the way the anime portrays the demons. Seems like it’s been a long time since I watched an anime which had a truly evil antagonist.
I viewed this great series last year on Crunchyroll. There’s an anime viewer/musician who has created over 30 thoughtful vids on Frieren. I’ve seen 2 of them. Recommended. Spoilers!
Deep dive Frieren Beyond Journey’s End with me episode by episode. This series not only explores Frieren as a show but ideas that apply well beyond it
I still haven’t watched beyond the first episode of the anime yet, but I’ve spent the last while catching up on the manga, which goes up to chapter 147 (season 1 of the anime covered through chapter 60). Overall I think it is very well written, but I have minor quibbles about the pacing. There are lots of confrontations or periods of travel that are summed up as a montage of 4 panels on a single page, then there are other short periods that are stretched out into 10 or 20 chapters, where I would have liked seeing more of the short ones and less of the long ones.
The manga went on hiatus once for several months last year, came back again, and has been put on an undefined hiatus again, for health reasons for the creators. Which, translated, means they were being overworked to the breaking point having to produce 20-22 pages of new content every week.