After watching 2 episodes, I knew I'm gonna love Frieren: Beyong Journey's End.
Imagine you were part of a group that saved the world, a long live elf mage continued living while her human partners, the famed hero and a priest, died and dying. When you shared lives, injuries and hardness of battles, a bond of family were formed tighter than the bond of blood.
The priest saved a small child who he had groomed to be a mage. This child would be the elf mage companion as he was dying because he was worried she would be alone.
The story seemed simplistic at first, but the depth of meanings and emotional weight were heavy and beautiful. In episode 2, the 2 mages stayed nearby the statue of the fallen hero for half a year trying to find a rare, almost extinct blue flower to plant around her fallen comrade's statue. He made a promise long ago that he would show her the blue flower when he went home, which unfortunately in death.
Out of predetermined coincidence, the young mage released seed rats in the wild, which in turn lead them to where the blue flowers grew.
A simple story of hard headed determination and relentless to find what had been a small gesture but became an event of life lesson to never forget one's promise, even in death. A small smile but filled with warm hearted poetry.
This is one rare artistic anime worth watching and became a lesson of story development and animation technique because the somber and tranquil nature of the anime was actually hightened the emotional weight of the story.
Update: Now that I have watched episode 6, here's my updated review: I loved it. Freiren Beyond Journey's End is a rarity anime. It's humorous, light hearted, thoughtful, philosophical and at the same time sad. Being the youngest and the longest to live in a legendary adventurer group, Freiren would be the only survivor left. Her journey joined by her pupil and her friend's apprentice. The actors and animators successfully convey verbally and visually how awkward the journey was.
Update no 2: milet sang Anytime, Anywhere as the ending of every episode got exceptionally sad and beautiful to end the first season.
Imagine you were part of a group that saved the world, a long live elf mage continued living while her human partners, the famed hero and a priest, died and dying. When you shared lives, injuries and hardness of battles, a bond of family were formed tighter than the bond of blood.
The priest saved a small child who he had groomed to be a mage. This child would be the elf mage companion as he was dying because he was worried she would be alone.
The story seemed simplistic at first, but the depth of meanings and emotional weight were heavy and beautiful. In episode 2, the 2 mages stayed nearby the statue of the fallen hero for half a year trying to find a rare, almost extinct blue flower to plant around her fallen comrade's statue. He made a promise long ago that he would show her the blue flower when he went home, which unfortunately in death.
Out of predetermined coincidence, the young mage released seed rats in the wild, which in turn lead them to where the blue flowers grew.
A simple story of hard headed determination and relentless to find what had been a small gesture but became an event of life lesson to never forget one's promise, even in death. A small smile but filled with warm hearted poetry.
This is one rare artistic anime worth watching and became a lesson of story development and animation technique because the somber and tranquil nature of the anime was actually hightened the emotional weight of the story.
Update: Now that I have watched episode 6, here's my updated review: I loved it. Freiren Beyond Journey's End is a rarity anime. It's humorous, light hearted, thoughtful, philosophical and at the same time sad. Being the youngest and the longest to live in a legendary adventurer group, Freiren would be the only survivor left. Her journey joined by her pupil and her friend's apprentice. The actors and animators successfully convey verbally and visually how awkward the journey was.
Update no 2: milet sang Anytime, Anywhere as the ending of every episode got exceptionally sad and beautiful to end the first season.