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This anime is more than just an anime, it's a deep reflection about the ephemeral aspects life. The story starts with a band of heroes reminiscing about their latest and glorious adventure where they defeated a great demon. This is basically the ending for any movie or series, where the heroes triumph over evil. But in "Sousou no Frieren", that's not the important part! This is just a launching pad to Frieren's deeper reflections about the fleeting moments in her existence. She's an elf, who lives for centuries, so a few years adventure is nothing to her own lifespan, but is significant for the mortal humans who knew her.

Thus, Frieren embarks on a new adventure, gathering a new band of heroes, but this time, she's often pausing to learn more about relationships and emotions, something that she didn't care to do before, because it didn't seem to be worth it for her. And as she learns more about humanity during her flashbacks, her eyes expresse a sense of guilt, for having ignored all the priceless little things in life that end up as forgotten memories.

The anime is slow paced, some might complain about this, but I think it's done for a good reason. Frieren often walks slowly while engaging in all sorts of discussions with her companions, however her pace actually reflects the pace of her own existence, she's in no rush to do anything, she has all the time in the world to achieve things. Once you realize this, the pace doesn't matter anymore, because we get absorbed by her character's development. For a while I thought the rest of the series would be like that, but no, there are several surprise scenes where Frieren's immense power is set on display. Frieren is not a gentle idle elven mage. She can be ruthless, but for good reasons.

I'm still watching the first season and I'm enjoying every bit of it, looking forward for season two, it's been announced in September 2024.

Wow this episode blew me away. Just like season one, season two was gripping with mystery and intrigue, every episode kept me hooked wanting more. Granted, it's annoying that every episode is a cliffhanger for the next, but it was worth waiting for. Granted that not much was happening during the season, until the last episode where significant events unfold, and again, culminate with another big cliffhanger for the next season. I wish they put more substance by giving the audience real clues about what's happening, intead of keeping us in the dark about what this person whispered, about what this person was told, etc... Anyways, looking forward to season three, highly recommended show.

I always watch sequels with a grain of salt, because often they're a hit or miss. This is one is a miss. I've watched Gladiator dozens of times, because it was that good. It had characters depth, action, intrigue, great direction and epic music. This sequel has none of that. I don't know what Ridley Scott was thinking.

The story and dialogue are shallow, many lines are even cheesy, too many characters lumped together hoping to give sense to the story but they fail miserably. Many inconsistencies, from the fact that Lucius was pure blond when he was a kid, then grows to become dark haired? And what's the deal with the monkeys in the arena, they look like a messy science fiction CGI, totally unrealistic.

There isn't a single movie or sequel nowadays that is worthy of being rewatched, it's more garbage, more insults to the classics, and for what, for an extra buck banking on the reputation of good solid old movies? Hollywood has lost its way, it's a sad state of things.