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This is a pretty new series, with only five chapters translated so far, but it's so wonderful that it should get more exposure. https://mangadex.org/title/48045/sousou-no-frieren The demon king has been defeated, and the hero's party must part ways. The elf mage, Frieran, goes on a journey to learn more magic spells for her ever-expanding collection. She returns to meet back up with the party and view the semicentennial meteor shower, and finds that things have changed since she's been gone. It's a somewhat melancholy, but fun adventure, definitely one of the series I look forward to new chapters of the most now.
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I like that it's a recurring thing that she gets tricked and eaten by mimics every single time
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May 27, 2020 23:20
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Paracelsus posted:For another example of well-done heavy-hitting end-of-the-heroes'-journey stories, you might also try Yuusha Goikkou no Kaerimichi, a one-shot that's also one of the highest-rated manga on mangadex. I happened to be listening to this as I read it and it wound up working really well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwaEPT4VLZk
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May 30, 2020 07:52
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frieran is such a dork Catpetter1981 posted:A time progress montage that doesn't have Frieren being eaten by a mimic?? Is that even legal? it specifically didn't because the chest they found was just full of seaweed. 
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Jun 3, 2020 02:59
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I have a feeling they're going to meet Eisen's spirit when they get to Ende
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Jun 24, 2020 11:58
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Sindai posted:It's small. I think it'll end a long ways into the future with her dying in bed and her spirit going to be with everyone else she's met along the way in the land of the dead, fully appreciative of the time she's had with others.
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Jul 22, 2020 13:12
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Sindai posted:I feel like if the demons are actually a whole species with no empathy who can't understand concepts like family they shouldn't be organized what appears to be more or less along human lines. Yeah with that shot of the queen with a typically human-ish guard it almost feels like demons are monsters who are playing house, puppets performing an elaborate reenactment of human society without having an actual, fundamental understanding of how human society works or the foundations of said society beyond survival. this author hasn't earned my confidence that they can pull off a concept like that successfully, I feel like they're TRYING something nuanced but the way they're going about it isn't doing it for me Brought To You By posted:Interesting thought. They are organized but they don't actually seem to care about each other the same way people do. Qual is the only demon so far in these two instances that showed actual comradarie and I could easily argue given the way the translation is worded he wasn't actually upset at all about the death of the demon king. This chapter, Wire didn't really care about Frieran's taunts even when it included his superior Aura. There's a certain frankness to how demons handle stuff that goes along with how the child from the last chapter was mostly dispassionate and logical in her thought process. It's likely that they form organizations purely because it's necessary for survival and you know, waging wars against another organized group.
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Aug 26, 2020 04:29
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yeah if they'd managed to keep the sociopathic, inhuman nature of them consistent that'd be one thing, but to me they've been acting quite a bit more just like rear end in a top hat serial killer people than alien monsters incompatible with humanity the last few chapters. It's a shame.
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Oct 7, 2020 18:01
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The demons almost seem like they're amorphous blog creatures, you can see when they get holes blasted through them there's just kind of a neat, featureless hole there. so the idea that they're some shapeshifting creature that are assuming the forms of man would make sense, and thus clothes would be part of their shapeshifting
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Oct 7, 2020 19:39
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A very "I AM A GENIUS! OH NO" chapter
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Oct 14, 2020 05:06
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cant cook creole bream posted:Why are you all calling her Frieran? Is it just because the thread OP did it wrong? Literally every person and place has a super on the nose name in German.
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Oct 23, 2020 05:15
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Unfortunately she will not be attending it, because she will have frozen to death, as that is what her name means you buffoon.
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Oct 23, 2020 05:20
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Also the casual mention of the passing of half a year to multiple years at a time in a single chapter, which has happened repeatedly recently, meaning we will likely be saying our farewells to the current human party members maybe sooner than we expect.
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Oct 28, 2020 08:31
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I wish they hadn't pointed out the mimic thing and just let it be a quiet background montage gag throughout the series
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Dec 23, 2020 08:47
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Warden posted:but even he has no idea about her true age and power..
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Mar 31, 2021 14:13
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yeah this was just the team buffing up and eating their super foods before going into the boss room, they even say "ready for the raid?"
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Jun 2, 2021 11:49
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:this arc introduced so many characters, most of whom will likely never appear again because this journey takes time. especially not the standout, rad grandpa denken. It's not impossible for him to tag along since didn't he just drop the note that his wife died tragically young in the north? And their journey is to visit the land of the dead? He might follow to see her spirit or something. I'd allow it. He's hilarious in a way the rest of them aren't.
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Jul 23, 2021 01:07
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that's a shame, a crisp apple is wonderful
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Sep 1, 2021 13:03
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bendy straws confirmed to exist in the frierenverse
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Sep 29, 2021 06:33
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Syritta posted:isn't that what "The Chivalric Order in charge of protecting the autonomy here" was What's protecting the town now
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Oct 6, 2021 15:39
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Hooray, soft bread for everyone!
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Oct 20, 2021 02:07
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Rubellavator posted:It's a good thing we have Stark because everyone being so stoic is getting maybe a little old.
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Nov 3, 2021 07:18
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ninjoatse.cx posted:The manga's better without everyone telegraphing what they're feeling. The subtlety makes it better, not worse.  or a slight variation thereof. more variety would be nice.
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Nov 5, 2021 05:42
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https://mangadex.org/chapter/adac28ba-e5d5-442b-8832-7f28fd3cc303
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Dec 1, 2021 02:10
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure getting impaled through the gut and out through the spine probably would unambiguously and instinctually elicit more than a surprised eyebrow raise Like I would expect at minimum a river city ransom BARF or something
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Jerkface posted:There is a very dreamlike quality to the way everyone acts. I'd LOVE to see this get an anime adaptation just to see how they'd handle it tbh. I like it and I think Frieren is a great manga, but its not a 100% strong banger. Art is iffy at times and its very fair to question everyone being so stoic all the time, whether it does eventually get subverted. Some times I think of that, but then I read a 2 page set of panels showing the passage of time as the crew chills with panels of funny frieran faces or stark being scolded and I decide who cares, I love this manga! if it's a stylistic choice, I'm not really a fan of it.
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Dec 10, 2021 02:55
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it could also just be a typical trope of a jrpg world
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Jan 5, 2022 15:15
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She's the equivalent of a browser tab hoarder because she doesn't need to worry about actual physical space being taken up
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Jan 7, 2022 03:35
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nah she just tosses all the grimoires she collects into hammerspace
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Jan 7, 2022 07:57
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She's gonna invent a mass produced magicpedia tablet full of all the grimoires she's accumulated so that everyone can use magic easily
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Jan 8, 2022 15:18
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Lurking Haro posted:*turns your red apple green* 
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Feb 23, 2022 07:07
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Brought To You By posted:Yeah, it's taken a while but this is the demon that actually sells me on the premise of their kind.
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Mar 23, 2022 02:56
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Brought To You By posted:Honestly at this point I'm not sure how long their mom has been sick it's just a constant of the universe. I hope she's well but I blank out those messages whenever I see them. So I can understand them saying that every time, because it's not like it just goes away
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E. Revenant posted:I'm sad to see Solitar getting violent and threatening torture so suddenly. I was kind of hoping she could join the party for awhile. The current party dynamics could use a shake up and a demon party member sure as hell would do that.
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Jun 22, 2022 03:21
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Should just shoot him in the face while he's reversing the magic
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Jul 5, 2022 23:51
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god drat Macht is such a good character "I cannot permit you to continue attempting to understand coexistence, because it will bring the fall of civilization by the time you finally do" is such a good way to put the situation
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M_Gargantua posted:This thread had a massive derail about how portraying the demons as irredeemable was a bad thing because assigning sentiet humanoid beings the racial trait of absolute evil is a bad thing for an author to do. Edit: not that last bit specifically, but that marking an entire race as irredeemable monsters wearing the faces of people to fool us can easily be done extremely, offensively poorly. It's good that frieren did not drop the ball on it Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Sep 22, 2022 |
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Sep 22, 2022 03:59
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nah he's gonna shank'im
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Oct 6, 2022 15:37
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Macht spending so much time attempting to live amongst humans, having some success in getting along with them, but ultimately being simply too alien to humanity and anathema to society that this entire storyline ends with nothing getting accomplished even now would be a bold move. At this point I say go for it, give us the bad end for this arc, and let's see if they pull it off well. Or go for the potential for redemption somehow eventually I guess, I'd be fine with either
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I wonder if they're like, returned damaged souls from that land of the dead the group is journeying to, and their inherent monsterness is because they're only part of a soul There's been no indication of demon origins or how they breed, has there? I've forgotten some of the series since it began.
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