That was my bad, I didn’t even realise it. (And I almost pinged rikka!)

I’ll migrate the comment to the other thread, thanks for pointing it out!

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Sunraku, you sucker! No crystal scorpion stinger for you~ now where’s my free carrot?

I was satisfied with the overall series, but as @ludrol said it was an awkward place to stop it.

Shinobu you baka.

…kind of on-topic, but can I just mention that the way that Seika reads poems in ep3 and ep12 (around 12:00 for both) is rather beautiful?

I hope that this series gets a second season by the way.

The way of the RPG player:

• Disregard that you aren’t supposed to fight that monster yet.
• Abuse and exploit any mechanic that you have at hands, in creative ways.
• Farm. Farm. Farm. Until you get 107 drop items.
• Complain because it isn’t 108.
• Brag about it to feel less bad.

Sunraku with the crystal scorpions is so relatable.

I’m also hoping for a sequel. The following arcs are cool, and the animation got a great momentum, it would be a shame if they let it drop.

I think that Frieren would notice it, if it mattered enough. However I think that she barely interacted with Land, as ally or foe.

Sunraku, don’t press this huge, juicy button that dispenses XP and materials. Don’t do it!

Oh Emul, you sweet summer child…

I loved this episode.

I read a lot of stuff. Mostly fantasy; sometimes I don’t remember small details, or even large ones. And I probably read ch57 at least a year ago. I should have forgotten.

And yet so many scenes shown in this episode were so memorable that I could remember it, in the minimal details.

Fern’s tantrum because of the staff. Lernen being able to detect instability in Frieren’s mana, but not Serie’s. Serie bitterly saying that she shouldn’t take human apprentices. The flashback with Himmel. Serie initially thinking that Fern was petrified because of Serie’s mana… only to discover that Fern could see it. It was such a moment of awesomeness, the young mage who’s into magic just to repay a corrupt priest taking care of her, that mage could do what nobody else could.

The true rock-paper-scissor is between Frieren, other competent mages, and mimics. I was kind of hoping that they exploited this during the fight, but I’m glad that she managed to get stuck in at least one mimic through the arc.

Übel is a psychopath and I fucking love it! She was already picturing herself cutting Sense’s hair years before.

The boorus are shipping her hard with Land, by the way. (Warning: large pic, but it’s SFW.)

Fucking amazing episode.

What a wonderful episode.

It’s almost creepy how happy Frieren is, at the prospect of her disciple being able to kill her. It makes sense though - not just because of the past, but because she basically raised Fern, which parent wouldn’t be happy when a child surpasses them?

Übel might be unlucky, but she’s great reading the others. She knew that glasses Land would help her out. Frieren getting all excited with dungeon exploring, Denken’s tactical retreat…

Fern might not demonstrate emotions often, but when she does it, everybody pays attention. I love how she got jealous of Frieren being hugged, like a kid saying “don’t steal my mum!”.

She grew up into an amazing mage though. To the point that she’s confident that she can overpower her master.

And finally, Wethermon and Setsuna are put to rest. Props for the studio behind the anime - it’s really hard to make a fight spanning across multiple episodes to be this exciting, and yet they did it.

…goddammit they had to announce it for the whole world, didn’t they? Might as well tell Asura Kai “PENCILGON BETRAYED YOU TO FIGHT THE UNIQUE MONSTER!”

Curiously Rei was only worried about Pencilgon. Does she know Oikatzo’s player is male?

It’s kind of obvious by the way that he speaks, calling Sunraku “omae” and stuff like this, he talks like a man even if he got a girl as avatar. Psyger-0 kind of avoids outing her RL gender by speaking only the bare minimum (also because she’s rather shy), but it seems that Pencilgon knows that she’s a woman because she called her Psyger-chan.

Give her a bed! And no Fern replica to wake her up!

As soon as they mentioned “raiding a dungeon”, the first thing that came to my mind was Frieren stuck in a mimic. And of course that happened.

…is there any replica of a mimic nearby? That could solve the problem for Denken and his group.

People often joke that Fern is the party’s mum, but let’s be frank - all three are different mixes of maturity and childishness. (This was Fern’s turn to be immature.)

And it’s interesting that Frieren is immature in a different way than the other two. Stark and Fern don’t have life experience, and it’s kind of hard to control your impulses when you’re a teen, you’ll get angry and lazy and all of that. Frieren however knows when to be childish, and there’s always some vague hint of bittersweet in this, almost as if saying “I know that I can be selfish here. Ultimately it doesn’t matter”.

This episode was also great to highlight the relationships formed by the first test. Let’s hope that glasses-kun is wise enough to avoid this problem:

(Übel is literally “problem” in German.)

The thought of continuing without mana doesn’t even cross the minds of the youngsters around him.

It feels like part of his experience as a mage, doesn’t it? Like he said “I know when use magic. I’ve used it for decades. And I know what to do when magic fails.”, but with actions instead of words.

So many great moments. The fight between Denken and Frieren, Frieren analysing the barrier, Kanne’s giant water ball, Richter being dragged by the water near Laufen and Denken, the “three generations of mage” flashback…

But the crown goes to the losers this time: Denken fighting not with his mana, but his fists. And never giving up.

Stark’s attitude is so childish, so paradoxical (the barman is right - he got it rough because he got it too easy), but so real.

Using a revive-with-full-health item on a glass cannon like Sunraku is a waste. Just revive him with 1 HP… it doesn’t really matter how many layers of wet tissue paper he gets against Wethermon.

The undead thing is interesting. To be honest I already knew it from the manga, but it makes sense, he’s a spirit bound to a tomb being guarded.