Not a single character in this garbage anime conveys an emotion at any point so manchildren can actively pretend they are watching mature show by the virtue of it being bland as fuck.

It's trad bro. Trad and Christian

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>>280797938 (OP)
Hmm, and how does OP demonstrate that he is, in fact, NOT a manchild?

>>280797938 (OP)
Aura is dead because she was a bad demon in that world demons are ba just like the tr00ns are the bad guys in our world.

>>280797938 (OP)
It's a non faggy adventure anime.

If you liked RotLW or Slayers youll like this.

Its called being stoic dude, learn some culture

>>280797938 (OP)
Why can't you tards accept that cartoons are inherently childish and if you crave depth then maybe you should consume media actually made for adults?
Just saying.

>>280797938 (OP)
My point about this shit stands. If every character has a completely blank, disinterested face the entire time, of course I'm gonna be the same while watching. Most impenetrable "why do pseuds like this" show I've ever seen.

>assblasted pedotensei fan makes another thread

>>280797938 (OP)
>mfw reading this thread

>>280797938 (OP)
It's so goddamn refreshing. If you think people are as loud and expressive as most anime you need to stop hanging around children

>>280800780
It would be refreshing, except most of the time when the characters interact it's just your usual anime tropes.

>>280800514
There’s no expressions because the creator likely autistic and can’t do natural expressions. The reason why people like this shit….remember that anime from years ago about the kid and the spear-woman? Neither do I, but it was super popular on /a/ when it was fresh. Why? Because it had an excellent animation budget. That’s literally all it is. And when it was over everyone forgot about it because the show was boring trash. This is the same situation.

>>280797938 (OP)
If the show wasn't popular, do you think /a/ would be seething about it?

>>280797938 (OP)
never watched the show. just like lolibaba elf
https://youtu.be/JhsEpHTCOHA

>>280797938 (OP)
She literally conveys emotion in the first episode retard

>>280801507
Of course not.

Elf Naizuri

>>280797938 (OP)
Autists are telling on themselves when they make these sorts of threads

>>280797938 (OP)
>literally bawls her eyes out in the first ep

>>280801950
truthbomb. it's crazy how any form of subtlety is lost on op

>>280797938 (OP)
>conveys an emotion at any point
not my fault your blind and stupid

Literally the very first episode.

>>280801038
Except Frieren lived on through memes.

>>280797938 (OP)
Many such cases!

>>280797938 (OP)
Stark emotes like a normal person though
And Fern too I guess, though mostly like a bitch

>>280800307
>If you liked RotLW or Slayers youll like this
Lmao fuck off nigger

>>280800307
What if I only like the Slayers OVAs and not the TV series?

>>280797938 (OP)
>if they aren't constantly gurning and screaming like in one piece then they're emotionless robots
Your inability to read the characters is entirely your problem.

>>280797938 (OP)
Fern is constantly emoting

>>280797938 (OP)
>mfw I'm watching an anime and the characters eyes are not bludging out of their heads with speed lines and clanging noises to indicate they are mildy amused by something

>>280797938 (OP)
cope. dung meshit flopped. 3K sales haha

>>280801507
>>280800550
It's not /a/ or a MT fan. It's a dung meshit triggertranny. Frieren completely eclipsed that cooking borefest and he is forever mad. /a/ loves this masterpiece.

>>280803895
OP is a troll.

>Israel spam thread #1023 about how show about a cute elf who hates demons is bad

not my problem.
she is cute, it's objective, and she hates demons. which is based.
nothing else matters.
no i don't have to like anything else, this is enough.

Do your duty.

sys.4chan.org/a/imgboard.php?mode=report&no=280797938
>Trolling outside of /b/

>>280797938 (OP)
It's a great entry level show for people new to anime as a whole, so these slow moments feel refreshing when all they've watched are shonenshit. It's also immensely popular on Reddit.

>literally cries in the first episode

>>280797938 (OP)
Is the manga ever going to come off hiatus?

>>280805140
How does the sales affect the quality and the viewer's enjoyment of the show?

>>280805509
New chapter comes out literally 6 hours from now

>>280805732
Fugg, well I'm going to pretend that I willed that into being through my whining.

>>280797938 (OP)
The story and characters aren't well written but the animation makes it worth a watch at least. Watching it with low expectations should make it more enjoyable, give the show another chance.

>>280803955
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>>280802353
Frieren uses a writing technique called Frontloading. It's when the writer puts every exciting event and premise on the first chapters of his story in order to grab the most attention possible from the reader. You can picture this like a fisherman casting as many hooks as he can on the water, hoping to get something to bite.
And it works. Once the reader is hooked it's very hard for the writer to lose, the reader will now excuse and ignore a lot of flaws and problems in the story and characters because he already decided that what he's reading is objectively good. Changing their minds through argumentation is basically a futile effort.
Moreover the longer a story drags the more another effect comes into place: the Sunk Cost fallacy. The reader will fool himself into believing he didn't waste his time on such drivel and that something good surely awaits him at the end, even though he already saw the end during the first chapters of the story.

This is how Frieren gets away with the incessant mimic gags, the silly uguu faces, the characters that don't evolve at all and the shounen cliches that plague it later on such as power levels and tournament arcs.
Frontloading is the polar opposite of what is referred to as a slow burner. And in a saturated market where reader attention is the most precious and scarce resource the competition gets brutal. Therefore Frontloading is a common approach to storytelling in modern anime.
Which is to say if you like Frieren and think that it is among the greatest stories to ever be conceived in anime/manga I will immediately disregard everything you say as cattle-speak.

>>280806073
>tournament arcs
Is there any past the Exam arc?

>>280800369
Stoics can show emotions. They don't have to be fucking rei ayanami.

>>280806109
you don't really expect people to actually sit through the rest just to see if another tourney arc comes up, do you

>>280806109
Calling exam a tournament is retarded to begin with

>>280802523
>>280801038
honestly none of that has anything do with why frieren is popular. frieren is popular because deedlit is popular.

>>280806158
So you made a bs claim, ok

flat unemotive characters are good in the meta
people watch generic shonen and what do you get? People scream
like theres no reason to scream, the person they're talking to is 1m away from them BUT THEY SCREEEAAAAAM

So, not having characters do that makes them go "wow this show is so sophisticated and mature"

If I was writing this assassination arc, I’d have Frieren dropping bodies, plain and simple, Show the reader the dark side of her constantly-repeated standpoint of not worrying about humans who die right away. To her killing a human is hardly any different them letting them die of old age. She’ll generally preserve human life because just as you or I would generally preserve the life of rabbits, but if a rabbit was threatening your life you’d fucking kill it immediately and not be more than just a little annoyed that you were forced to do it. The value of human life is just really low to Frieren. She may value humanity as a whole, but individuals can die just as well as live as far as she is concerned with people outside of her immediate circle. There’s NO reason, NONE, that she would tolerate being attacked like this. Since the Empire is Flamme’s legacy, she will feel compelled to go to the Empire’s leadership and demand an explanation or to take out the trash as it were. Why WOULDN’T she? Compared to the Demon King a human government is nothing more than a joke.

>>280806109
The exam arc isn't even a tournament arc

>>280798610
yes they are evil naruto told me so.

>>280806175
>>280806318
I know right there are people who call the Naruto Genin exam a tournament arc and it always triggers me, because it's just a practial exam.

>>280797938 (OP)
Fern and Stark show emotions all the time

>>280806318
It just has le epic fights between characters competing with each other like every anime tournament arc

>>280807359
The first stage of the exam was designed so that none of the people involved needed to fight to win. They just needed to capture a birb
The fact that there were a couple of violence loving individuals in that round doesn't magically turn it into a tournament arc
The second round was a test explicitly designed to make people work together to reach a destination and the third was an interview

not a tournament in sight

>>280807522
It was REALLY weird how none of these highly talented and accomplished mages recognized Frieren on sight. Her statue is only on every other city block and village courtyard. The mage who faced the Demon King alongside the Hero isn’t a commonly read-about topic amongst students of magic I guess.

>>280807641
I mean to be fair, If I were to run into a 90' celeb such as Pierce Brosnan, I'm not all that confident I would recognize him and if I would then his work wouldn't be fresh in my mind and I wouldn't even know what to talk to him about and if I'm wrong and I walked up to a no name stranger that would be even more akward.

>>280805195
This marketing feels so forced.
>lel based and redpilled series for 4channers

>>280800550
both are lame shows overrated by idiots

>>280801038
Seirei no Moribito had good story, plot, screenplay.
Frieren is generic hodgepoge

>>280802353
>no emotions 99% of a time
>suddenly dude matters to her, randomly
>180 degree turn and overdone theatrical crying
not quite a sign of good storytelling

Can we stop with these threads?
The show is above average (mostly because of high budget) for what's airing these days, that's it.
It's not revolutionary, it's not a masterpiece and it's not deep even though it's pretending to be. The reason why it got so popular is because it hit the algorithm which brought in the normalcattle who are so used to seeing slop on the TV that even something like Frieren is enough for them to call it a masterpiece and bot the shit out of mal rankings.

the amount of dickriding this anime gets is crazy. Holyshit. Grow up
Frieren is a ripoff of To Your Eternity and it's inferior in every way

>>280806073
>tournament arcs
this for me said all about this guy's perspective
don't waste your time people, he's tainted and short-sighted, choosing elegant words just to say he doesn't like something, all that wall of text to just say "no i don't like this anime and so you should too"
it isn't a tournament you fucking ignorant, it's an exam
fuck this faggot

>>280797938 (OP)
Go watch konosuba or something if you want a meme face every 5 seconds to post on X or use as your steam profile pic.

>>280803955
emotionalism is based and aryan

>>280797938 (OP)
She cries in episode 1 dumbass

>>280800514
I agree 100%. Chainsaw Man has the same problem. I think it might be a zoomer thing because that entire generation is allergic to sincerity and thinks having basic human reactions and emotions to anything is a sign of weakness.

Literally smiling here

>>280797938 (OP)
Bot repeating the same thread over and over again

>>280797938 (OP)
It's realistic, bro. See pic related, that's how real people react when they are brutally injured.

>>280815027
To be fair this isn't just a frieren thing. it's an old trope that anime characters never react to pain because it makes them seem cool