I am going to keep this vague enough to not spoil you if you decide to watch everything. It has been a while since I have watched the animes so I may get a few details wrong.
It has made grown men cry apparently. It seems to be a lot of peoples top pick for best anime of the season
Promised Neverland but only the first season.
Which version are you playing? I found a copy on the Switch for a nice price and I'm thinking about trading for it. Is this the one with the weird girl that has a German sounding name that speaks random English?
It was J.C. Staff, what'd you expect? It was putting me to sleep.
You say that but I don't think any arc has ever been as much filler as the Mage Exam arc. Granted I am only watching the anime and have not picked up the manga yet so my opinion is limited in that regard, but from an anime only experience thus far, the Mage Arc feels entirely like a waste of time.
If it helps, like I mentioned a few pages back, it turns out to be important setup for new characters and plot leads that kicks off the overarching story seeds in the manga (but then it goes back to the pattern of travel episodes with only occasional major arc sections).
Can you point to an episode where everything clicks. I've tried watching a few episodes, and its basically just characters walking slowly and/or staring silently at each other.
It's the steam version and yes.
I have a love hate relationship with J.C. Staff. When they go all out like with raildex, it's good shit. When they don't, it's a lot of pretty still frames with not much animation going on. But yeah, check it out when you can. It's on sale now btw.
Redditors and fake bot accounts used by marketing departments are not "men" in any sense of the word.
I'd say it really makes you reflect on the past. Wishing that you appreciated those fleeting moments and thinking back to those instances where you didn't do or say what you wanted to. It's definitely well done and quite the mid-life crisis anime lol (but it's not for everyone)
I agree, and add that I feel like in some way it made the world building worse by turning magic from something that can be studied and improved into glorified Jojo stands. None of the new characters got enough spotlight to make a reappearance meaningful since they are all walking tropes. And the whole setup is lazy - "you need to be a god tier mage (which there are only 5 of) to advance beyond this line", maybe if it was the final stretch of the journey but I guess there are still villages they'll meet there that somehow exist despite the blockade.
I tried to watch Neo Ranga and it was super annoying how they kept getting 1 good shot in at the opponent and then wouldn't shut the fuck up about how they just won every battle from now until the end of time. It became a lot more enjoyable when I realized the pilots were lolcows in giant mecha suits coping about losing WW2. Definitely an anime deserving of a comedic fandub where they just talk mad shit at each other the whole time like its a MW2 lobby.
Maybe because it was the first fantasy anime in forever to actually take LOTR tropes seriously, like the issues that come with mortals and immortals loving each other... It isn't overly edgy and it focused more on world building than you expected, with places/people often having relevant Germanic names (staying faithful to the European myths that Tolkien adapted). They even use the Prußen "ß". There isn't a nigger elf (with caucazoid features) shoved in to be the "dark palette swap" for the actual elf. There's nobles who actually have to lead their people well instead of being modern day vectors for Martin-tier political critique/denigration. Demons - i.e. evil creatures are actually Evil instead of (once again) being used as a vector for Martin-tier faggots to say, "Everyone is actually shit deep down huuuuur".
I agree that, future prep aside, the mage arc wasn't as good when compared to the first 18/19 episodes. Unless my memory is as dogshit as Voll's, the last actual demon slaying that "Frieren the slayer" (cliché nickname) does is in episode 10... Episode 10, which has the only meme that anyone seems to remember from the show i.e. "Aura kill yourself", because "Haha Frieren say funny gamer words!". Modern audiences really don't deserve good content that respects them because most are mongoloid retards who don't appreciate the world building anyway.
