Fangz posted:

Frieren was clear about it but it's not consistent with how it's depicted. ChatGPT bots don't ask each other what the word father means.

SpartanIvy posted:

I just think it's a little unrealistic that 80 years after a major war that the defeated enemy forces are not only back but trying to act like they are peaceful now and influence politicians. Surely the people of the world would recognize these evil forces for what they are and not try to reason with or entertain them. Totally ridiculous.

Mordja posted:

Nitrousoxide posted:

I mean, there's over-emoting, and there's non-emoting.

I don't think asking for Fern to show some pain rather than having a calm conversation while impaled is too much to ask.

And neither Fern nor Stark are inhuman. They act exactly the same as the demons.

Lt. Lizard posted:

Wouldn't be surprised if she simply levitated there to make sure she won't get injured further by having the entire weight of her body resting on what is basically a blade made out of blood stuck in her shoulder.

Irony Be My Shield posted:

Can she still cast magic without her staff? Is it just an enhancer?

The junk collector posted:

Should probably keep up the spoiler tags since the episode is only a day old but I do love at the end that they animated Linnie starting to run away but Stark's swing comes in way to fast for her to do anything but get cut in half

cant cook creole bream posted:

The problem with a hard impact is how due to inertia and position of impact, different parts of your body decelerate at different paces and how that causes breaks, rupturing and squishing. If that magic just picks you up by the shoulders, you'd be right. That basically just means the point of impact is a few meters higher in the air. But if it halts every cell or even molecule simultaneously that might acutally chancel out the momentum and prevent those nasty sloshing effects.
Can someone with a better understanding of medicine and physics verify? Obviously, that's not something you could test in real life, but I do wonder what would happen.

GateOfD posted:

the magic in Frieren seems like a black box, which is fine. Since unlike other series which does try to explain the mechanic, this one doesn't so we just have to take things at face value.

Like with all the grimoires that Frieren has read, you think with just learning how all these mandune spells work over the centuries, she could make up her own spells, but I guess she can't.

Guess you can call her one of those people that just uses, but can't figure out how to engineer it, but they said she was at the front of purposing the demon killer spell, so she can do research stuff on it. Or I guess she's just fickle, and can't be bothered to do it herself unless its something really important like the demon killer spell.

sharkmafia posted:

Yeah it wouldn't be very clear to a person that hasn't read the manga what's going on there, particularly if you can't understand japanese

Biggest takeaway for me is I think I heard at least one new evan call song in there that sounds pretty sick. also the new OP which is still a bit of a mismatch with the rest of the show but that's fine

sharkmafia posted:

Tbh i'm not convinced that a spell that fires a literal magic laser beam takes less mana than a spell that throws rocks (admittedly a lot of them, and very fast).

But yeah fern has far more mana than she seems to and we know that using defense magic in particular takes a lot of mana. So how casually she's just throwing out tons of zoltraaks and defense spells given how much mana she appears to have is probably making her opponent uneasy

Shinjobi posted:

Well, young Gojo

Ranzear posted:

More like knew it was gonna happen the moment there was a water caster and it was blocking the rain.

dublish posted:

If she's just going to open the chest regardless, why bother with the detect spell at all?

Hidingo Kojimba posted:

I think the implication here is that not everyone who can use magic is a mage. An artisan who knows like two spells to help with their work won't bother to take the mage exams. Mages are the ones who exclusively dedicate themselves to mastering magic as their business.

Das Boo posted:

A friend told me a story about being 3 or 4 years old and getting up in the morning to make herself eggs. Her mom came down halfway through and told her she can't do that. She remembers distinctly thinking, "Well, I was doing it, so you're wrong."

My friend woulda been a good mage.

Sydin posted:

Right, and in that regard Ubel's probably the closest to the actual Association philosophy in that she seems primarily interested in using the test as a means to obtain new and stronger magic, which again makes it funny that Sense thinks she's an alien and the Association has already booted her from an exam.

galagazombie posted:

Something someone in this thread set off my tinfoil hat tendencies and made me think something about Ubel. Someone said something to the effect that Ubel doesn’t think like a human. And I’m thinking maybe that’s exactly what it is. Especially with how the flashback hid the upper half of her sisters head. And the whole scene where she meets Kraft and he figures out her weird plot to go on a murder spree but only in self defense. Or the contradiction of her having difficulty empathizing but having empathy powers. It’s almost as if she’s some kind of human-demon hybrid created as part of some plot who ran away. So she has the demon kill drive but the human ability to choose not to indulge in it or at least try and find ways to not feel guilt over it like the aforementioned “Kill bandits in self defense” scene. Maybe there will be a reveal where we see her sister had horns. That or I’m reading way too much into the girl being edgy.