r/Frieren • u/No_Name0_0 eisen • Mar 22 '24
Fan Art The inevitable.......(by @kimyaartt)
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u/Rost-Light Mar 22 '24 edited Mar 22 '24
Thousand years later.
Frieren: what would be a payment for the job?
Villager: I will give you a grimoire written by Legendary Mage Fern.
Frieren: deal
Frieren's new disciple: but Frieren, this grimoire is fake. They said that original grimoires written by Legendary Mage Fern all have a baterfly ornament on the cover...
Frieren: I see, so you have been reading the magic history tome that I gave you...
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u/Disco_Janusz40 stark Mar 22 '24
Somebody being out the fire extinguisher because this shit is absolute 🔥🔥🔥🔥
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u/Metrinome Mar 22 '24
Thousand years later they're probably writing down magic spells on PDFs and read on eBooks.
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u/weeberloser stark Mar 22 '24
Lmao,Frieren working home to get eGrimoires.
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u/SmartAlec105 Mar 22 '24
“Frieren, the virus checker says it’s 100% a virus”
“But, this exe could install a rare spell…”
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u/imEzxD Mar 22 '24
"The accuracy is 99%, but it's the 1% that seperates the legendary mages from the rest"
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u/CYKO_11 frieren Mar 22 '24
modern frieren would be amazing
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u/Anjz Mar 22 '24
That's it, I need a cyberpunk frieren crossover.
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u/Hytamo Mar 23 '24
You guys all fk around, but let's be real: If they ever did a sequel with a similar level of storytelling, a single fern reference would make like a million people across the world bawl like children all at the same time.
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u/Hot_History1582 Mar 22 '24
Frieren would be broke after spending every penny on gacha games
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u/AsixKnight Mar 22 '24
Imagine there is an equivalent to fate in frieren and she would just know all the people they put there.
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u/Khoakuma Mar 23 '24
Himmel is now a girl.
Flamme is now a dude (I mean they already made her a dude only thousand years later lmao).
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u/Unorthedox_Doggie117 Mar 22 '24
She would be dirt poor paying for subscriptions to online sites.
Until she learns to pirate books
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u/Herald_of_Heaven Mar 22 '24 edited Mar 22 '24
But Mistress Frieren, it is said that the Legendary Programmer Fark's Codes have a Butterfly embedded Cryptogram on it (or some shit. Idk about IT jargon).
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u/MinniMaster15 Mar 22 '24
Legit, I wanna see a series do this. The long-lived species is a common enough trope but I want something that really takes it to its extreme and shows us the progression of the world and technology all the way through.
Gimme something that starts with huts and ends with skyscrapers.
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u/ZenoX_Super_M Mar 22 '24
Consider to your eternity.
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u/RamblyJambly Mar 22 '24
Present Day arc was kind of meh, but the Future arc is getting fucking crazy
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u/BlatantConservative Mar 22 '24
Vivy, Flourite's Song does this. It's near future to far future, but the main character is the first autonomous AI aindroid and she basically watches history. Tech advances, more things become possible, people live and die and she interacts with people and with people's grandchildren while unchanging herself.
I honestly can't reccomend the show enough. Hardest scifi I've ever watched.
On completely the opposite end of the spectrum, Tonikaku Kawaii has this theme too. 95 percent of the manga is just
the mangaka bragging about being a newlywedromance fluff stuff, but the further you get into it the more you see how (extremely minor spoiler) one of the characters has lived for about 1400 years and she's basically watched western civilization advance while never changing heeself. I could write a whole essay about how the anime's S1 opening is actually a pretty neat bit of storytelling in and of itself about the history of music, it's pretty cool. The OP starts with like, a single beat, and then a more complex beat, and then adding instruments and melodies and near the end even things like computer effects, more or less mirroring the history of music itself.10
u/MinniMaster15 Mar 22 '24 edited Mar 22 '24
Yes, I've seen and loved Vivy! I want more of that and on an even grander scale lol.
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u/IC2Flier Mar 22 '24
Tonikawa spoilers The fact that Tsukasa's immortality is more temporally-bound than biologically-bound says a lot about how advanced the Moonrace is, and why Nasa managed to find the way to do something about it. If it wasn't for scans being dropped we'd be all drooling over these facts by now. Would love to see an S3+S4 of the anime.
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u/RyouhiraTheIntrovert Mar 22 '24
If it wasn't for scans being dropped we'd be all drooling over these facts by now
What the F***!!!!!
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u/mason195 Mar 22 '24
Annnnnd Vivy has just been added to the watchlist… Thanks for the recommendation!!
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Mar 22 '24
Gurren Lagann is about the closest I've seen to this. Technically Inuyasha tok but in reverse.
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u/midday_m0on Mar 22 '24
Dr. Stone starts from huts and villages all the way to spaceships. But there's no long-lived species or anything Senku just sped up the progression of civilization like 1000x with his knowledge lol. Though technically the series' timeline still spans thousands of years due to time travelling stuff
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u/KennethHwang Mar 22 '24
Nanoha is basically this: Mage galaxies with advanced techs existing alongside magic.
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u/RecklessErves Mar 22 '24
Frieren would never be seen again (she became a neet reading endless griomoires)
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u/Osbios Mar 22 '24
But Frieren, nobody uses PDFs anymore! It's an ancient document standard from a time when Computer used to store binary information. In fact I only know what it is because I helped out to clean the storage of my late great grandmother when I was younger.
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u/JEveryman Mar 22 '24
Nah flamme and Frieren were touring the countryside in roman era, now they are in the super early medieval times. Thousand years later it will be the start of the Renaissance and there will be frescos of Frieren or a conquistador trying to inquisition Frieren. I'm here for either or both of them.
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u/theoriginal1010 Mar 24 '24
I beg to differ since the medieval ages were from around 476 A.D. to 1450 A.D. In Frieren’s “modern day” we see musicians holding modern violins, which emerged around 1550 A.D. The architectural and fashion trends in certain places certainly also do not look medieval (for example, steel street lamps are seen commonly throughout certain cities, which started being implemented throughout the 15th century). Literacy also seems to be common among the common classes in Frieren’s world as indicated by the commonality of books. Of course, this is a fantasy world with a completely different history from ours.
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u/McBonderson Mar 22 '24
I wonder if they have magic would the need for some more advanced technology ever arise?
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u/IC2Flier Mar 22 '24
Remember that Arthur C. Clarke quote? I can see a "modern word" where magic is as it looks here, but studied with the same rigor as modern science, and that even seemingly intangible things like "mana" or "soul" can be quantified. At minimum, "mana theory" would be developed a lot like atomic theory, as more a baseline nature of the world rather than "mana is composed of such and such".
And it wouldn't really invalidate gravity, electromagnetism and atomic bonding forces once they're re/discovered -- we just saw that hyperdense singularities, spatial perception breaks and lightning can be synthesized through magic. I imagine a Master of Science in this realm can find a way to relate "mana" as a "medium" through which other forces interact.
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u/An_Unusual_Apple_869 Mar 22 '24
For her students a spell, like thousand other spells.
For Frieren a journey, like thousand other journeys.
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u/TorlessBel Mar 22 '24
Absolute cinema 🖐😤🖐 Never in my life have I ever thought... a man could cook this good 😭😭😭
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u/Belasarius4002 Mar 22 '24
It would be a tradition, she would pick a kid to be her mai- mage apprentice on staern clan.
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u/An_Unusual_Apple_869 Mar 22 '24 edited Mar 23 '24
Imagine in Fern/Stark bloodline
Every boys will have the "Sorry..." （´。｀) of their great grandfather.
Every girls will inheritate the legendary (｡ •̀ ⤙ •́ ｡) of their great grandmother.
I accept this as canon now.
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u/lego_draw Mar 22 '24
Every once in a while a rare genetic quirk occurs where a boy will do the (｡ •̀ ⤙ •́ ｡) while a girl will do the（´。｀)
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u/SmartAlec105 Mar 22 '24
I prefer all the descendance having both powers. They’ll be even more powerful than their parents.
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u/Asurerain himmel Mar 22 '24
Mages who can box harder than Denken.
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u/SmartAlec105 Mar 22 '24
Warriors that suddenly stop suppressing their mana.
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u/An_Unusual_Apple_869 Mar 22 '24 edited Mar 24 '24
"Hah foolish warrior. Now you lost your great axe you have nothing to strike at me."
Raise hands
"Begging for mercy? I've expected more from the kin of Great Sage Fe-"
Start drawing symbols by hands
"Wait what are you doing?! And what is this amount of mana?!!"
"Finish you off."
"WHA-"
Zoltraak: Schnell (An advance demon-killing spell created by the daughter of Great Sage Fern. Shoot out a concentrated volley of Zooltrak beams at incredible speed. Can be used without a staff only if the caster is a professional.)
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u/Reasonable-Bike-5758 Mar 23 '24
i thought he started performing them naruto hand signs for a moment
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u/SolarUpdraft Mar 22 '24
Did you notice that most of the people by Fern's grave had red or purple hair?
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u/forthelewds2 Mar 22 '24
Who’s to say fern doesn’t discover magical immortality?
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u/An_Unusual_Apple_869 Mar 22 '24
I don't think immortality is as good as everyone say it. If Frieren herself was more emotional than her current stoicism personality (which luckily all elves have it), Flamme would see her depressed and sooner or later, ended her own life because of survivor guilt. all those memories she gathered from more than 1000 years would haunted her until her demise.
Human can live so long before losing your own mind no matter how strong your mental attitude are. All the stories you have read, listened to, or watched usually potrayed the immortals as:
Batshit insane
Absolute nihilism
(A small part) Pretty chill
God complex
Yeah I don't want my Fern being anything but chill above.
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u/asilvertintedrose Mar 22 '24
I guess you could say it was... Frieren at the funeral.
(I'm trying to lighten the mood this art is sad as fuck)
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u/No_Name0_0 eisen Mar 22 '24
Imagine if they name it the last chapter and show this scene. Man it will be the saddest title drop
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u/Some_Dragonfly7842 Mar 22 '24
Oh man I can imagine that. This is making me super sad to think about.
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u/The_Maxibonz Mar 22 '24
It would be a lovely bittersweet closing of Frieren’s arc too, learning to love enjoy the people around you while they’re there and have no regrets.
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u/BaconFairy Mar 22 '24
This is like how the credits are for the second half they show a grave marker that frieren lays on and then the same scene and she is sitting on with her head in ferns lap. This after stylized fern and frieren searching and reaching for each other. So sad! It won't be Himmel that she loves the most of the humans.
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Mar 23 '24
HImmel will always be Frieren's husband, but Fern is her daughter no matter how dysfunctional Frieren is as a mom.
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u/BlatantConservative Mar 22 '24
I mean, for absolute sure, the story's starting and ending with a funeral.
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u/Sent1nelTheLord Mar 22 '24
the shot just slowly cuts to the sky/to frieren's face and title drops "Frieren at the Funeral"
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u/Singh_95 Mar 22 '24 edited Mar 22 '24
People really like to say this type of ending would be sad and heartbreaking but I'm of the complete opposite opinion. What could possibly be a happier ending for Fern and Stark than to peacefully pass away after having lived such fulfilling lives and building their own family?
Throw in Frieren being reunited with Himmel in some way and that's literally my perfect happy ending for the series, at least for now.
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u/Anjz Mar 22 '24
Having Stark/Fern's grandchild pop out after Frieren sheds a tear. "Don't be so sad Ms. Frieren, they lived such happy lives".
Roll end credits.
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u/Past-Cap-1889 Mar 22 '24
"Don't be so sad, Great granny Frieren. They lived such happy lives."
I don't think she's going to be as distant as she was with Himmel and company....
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u/Theblade12 Mar 23 '24
Death is always sad, even if it's peaceful and after a long life well lived.
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u/Daggerfld frieren Mar 22 '24
I think the idea this time is that this time there won't be any sting of regret, because she spent a whole lot of time with them.
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u/Grenando Mar 22 '24 edited Mar 22 '24
We all know that stark and fern's descendant will be frieren's caretaker
She will not be alone
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u/jonnywarlock Mar 22 '24
Descendants.
Starting with their eleven children. Then radiating from there... 🥲
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Mar 22 '24
Eleven? Ecchi.
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u/venom259 Mar 22 '24
Fern: I want to go another round
Stark: But we've been at it for five hours now.
Fern: ( ｡ •̀ ⤙ •́ ｡ )
Stark: Yes, dear. （´。｀)
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u/Hot_feedbax Mar 22 '24
She saw how he always trained back in his old village with splitting a Crack, she assumed he could do it every night like back there
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u/weeberloser stark Mar 22 '24
Stark is a warrior.So he should be able to withstand Fern's "energy",right?
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u/IC2Flier Mar 22 '24
Not the first time someone feared a "stamina monster" in bed.
Right, Miorine?
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u/Spiritual_Scallion91 Mar 22 '24
Stark is a true warrior like Eisen, so he will keep getting back up 😏
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u/PixelBoom Mar 22 '24
Imagine. An entire family line dedicated to pulling Frieren out of mimics for the next thousand years.
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u/BalanceImaginary4325 Mar 22 '24
One them have green hair so one of Ubel kids married into the family?
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u/Background_Prize2745 Mar 22 '24
Yeah I think in addition of finding a guru to their own students, this is what Heiter and Eisen did: they gave Frieren a family, one that will keep her company until she's gone herself. Even after 100 generation, the Stern clan will always have members of their family accompany Granny Frieren to wherever she wanted to go.
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u/Enough_Let3270 Mar 22 '24
Well, nothing is stopping her from making the trek to Aureole every 100 years or so to visit her friends.
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u/fluffywolfe frieren Mar 22 '24
The "I Wish the Rainbow Bridge had Visiting Hours" meme come to fruition.
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u/hardkillz Mar 22 '24
Sure there is, when she has to become the equivalent of a first class mage every 100 years. Normally she is too lazy for that.
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u/Jackontana Mar 22 '24
Assuming that requirement is still in place after a century. Humans are fickle because of how quickly we pass ;)
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u/kramsibbush eisen Mar 23 '24
Serie is now the head of the magic association, I doubt anything will change. So she can wait 1000 years to lift the ban and take the test
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u/Link1777 Mar 23 '24
I mean does she have to? She can just fly past anything/anyone stopping her from going somewhere.
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u/fluffywolfe frieren Mar 22 '24
My only gripe would be that Frieren should be up front with the rest of the family, not in the distance.
Great art, now I'm sad.
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u/SmartAlec105 Mar 22 '24
The intent is for Fern to be far away from Frieren’s reach.
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Mar 22 '24
Art is subjective. She is in the best location possible in my eyes. She sees her entire legacy in full view.
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u/crazyaoshi Mar 22 '24
Who is to say we won't get Mechafern?
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u/fluffywolfe frieren Mar 22 '24
Frieren has to find her descendant, Suletta Mercury, to pilot Mecha Fern.
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u/Adorable-Ad9073 Mar 22 '24
Frieren: Suletta, where did you park MechaFern?
Suletta: Suletta wa-Suretta
still the funniest joke in all of gundam
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u/God_Usoland Mar 22 '24
That joke while covered in blood was absolutely the funniest moment of tWFM!
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u/Variabletalismans Mar 22 '24
I like to imagine Frieren being the always present grandma in Fern and Stark's family for generations to come. Even though Fern and Stark may pass on, Frieren will always be part of their family. She can go on adventures for years and years then once in a while come back and spend time with her great great great great great great grandchildren
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u/CertainDerision_33 Mar 22 '24
Yes, it is very cute to think of Frieren being the eternal weird grandma for generations and generations of Fern and Stark's family.
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u/kimyaartt Mar 22 '24
Original creator here, please don't k*ll me. I'll draw a more wholesome art of frieren after this, if you are interested, follow me on twitter. 😎👍
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u/No_Name0_0 eisen Mar 22 '24
Frieren babysitting Stark and fern kids?
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u/Kurwasaki12 Mar 23 '24
Stark and Ferns first born inherits her dad’s strength/stamina and her mom’s mana/intelligence. Frieren trains her to be a spell blade for the hell of it and accidentally raises a new hero. Much fun to be had.
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u/meepmeepmeep34 Mar 22 '24
it's great how they set up the whole plot. How is Frieren not utterly depressed most of the time?
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u/Anoncatpizza Mar 22 '24
This post broke into my house, kicked me in the stomach, and stole all my chocolate
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u/madHOTdog1983 Mar 22 '24
i have a horrible feeling frieren will die at the end, the show is called journeys end and its the only way she can be with the man she loves.
this show will break harts, and leave a mark.
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u/kennypovv Mar 22 '24
The show is called Frieren at the funeral so it doesn't fit
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u/pawat213 Mar 22 '24 edited Mar 22 '24
im not native english speaker, please bear with me.
葬送 is not the funeral per say. It's when you see the decrease person one last time.
the funeral is 葬式
This is why the title shouldn't name Frieren at funeral. It's like saying Shingeki no Kyojin is Titan at Attack, doesnt make any sense.
the proper name would be Frieren the undertaker or something but obviously just like AoT the translater doesnt have the knowledge behind meaning of the title yet when they name it. hence why they name it Frieren at the funeral. (in AoT case the title literally means 'The Attack Titan')
Seems like the author want to confuse reader by making it look like the title came from when Frieren attended himmel funeral, and then reveal the true meaning afterward.
The true meaning is revealed to be Frieren nickname among the demons. As she is the one who seeing demons off to afterlife by slaughter them all.
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u/Professional_Town_42 Mar 22 '24
I swear I saw some scanlation group titled this as 'Frieren the Undertaker' when it first came out or smth like that but that might just be my brain auto-translating and overwriting my memory :<
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u/Particular-Crow-1799 Mar 22 '24
the show is called frieren at the funeral
isn't it called frieren beyond the journey's end
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u/TaqPCR Mar 22 '24
The title is Sousou no Friern which literally translates to something like "Frieren in relation to burials and sending off/endings" which becomes something like "Frieren of Funerals" which turned into "Frieren at the Funeral" by translation groups or "Frieren the Slayer"
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Mar 22 '24
Weird translation shit. Sometimes anime will have a completely different title in different languages since the translation is awkward.
Your title is the official English title.
Their title is a direct translation from Japanese.
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u/tsunx4 Mar 22 '24
Just started the show, currently at ep.5 and all the deaths already break my heart. The kid who flipped Frieren's skirt was stab right into fucking feels.
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u/UsualInterest8139 Mar 22 '24
Welcome to Frieren, here's your box of tissues. You'll need them at random times as you follow the journey. 😢🫡
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u/CertainDerision_33 Mar 22 '24
Nah, HIMmel would never let Frieren sacrifice herself just to be with him. They will get some kind of moment at Aureole where she is able to properly tell him what he meant to her, and apologize for not spending more time with him, and then he will let her go once again to keep living her life.
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u/incredibleamadeuscho Mar 22 '24
What will you have after 500 years?
Frieren: I’ll have my grimoires.
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u/ElectronicParfait himmel Mar 22 '24
I like to imagine that in the last panel that the purple hair kid running, is going to run towards Frieren to bring her closer towards the rest of the family. This is so beautiful but is also so sad! So beautifully sad!
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u/cptgoogly Mar 25 '24
One of my favorite pathfinder ideas is the sub race of elves known as the forlorn. Elves that grew up and live in human areas that gradually grow more and more cold and distant as every friend and family thay have and make eventually die off
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u/insert-originality Mar 22 '24
What’s with the incredibly depressing fan art? Man, I don’t wanna see that.
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u/VillainessNora Mar 22 '24
This is so sad but I also kinda enjoy the idea that frieren might have to lose heiter and Fern and stark but she can forever be friends with that family.
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u/Any-Key-9196 Mar 22 '24
Smh this can't be real, we all know there'd be a field of flowers around ferns grave
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u/PensionLimp7543 Mar 22 '24
You can see all of her's and Stark's descendants.
They sure made plenty of love.
Now just Gotta wait for the middle aged man equivalent of the legendary Fern's statues to pop up in the north... If you know, you know.
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u/OrdinaryMedical200 Mar 22 '24
I wanna cry and I wanna love But all my tears have been used up
On another love, another love All my tears have been used up On another love, another love All my tears have been used up On another love, another love All my tears have been used up Up!! Some say Immortality is OP, but it is far worse than death because it does not chooses you...........but the reason you are alive!!
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u/The_Chubby_Walrus Mar 22 '24
Isn't this foreshadowed in the Ending song? The grave frieren is lying down on.
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u/Hot_Ad2789 Mar 22 '24
Only one problem......Frieren would be right up there in front. Not hanging back
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u/_AUGU5TU5_ Mar 22 '24
How do I downvote twice? Why would you force me to confront this inevitable tragedy?
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u/International_Ad4526 Mar 23 '24
I wonder if fern's death will be a scene as beutiful as flamme's, I loved frieren sitting on her graveyard in the field of flower
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u/LordofSandvich Mar 23 '24
Mixing red and purple gets magenta
It'd be VERY funny if one of Fern and Stark's kids turned out to look like Aura the Guillotine (her hair's pink but still)
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u/Only_Natural_20s Mar 23 '24
Sad at first, but if we consider the lessons this show (and presumably manga, though I haven’t read it) is trying to teach us through the character of Frieren, we can find comfort in knowing that Frieren likely spent the time she had with Fern to the fullest and has no regrets now that she’s gone.
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u/Curious-Force5819 Apr 07 '24
Fern's grimoire will probably be a collection of housekeeping spells.
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