A little disappointing, however, now im convinced they are 100% planning movies now. The last two arcs are good movie potential too. Demon Slayer has done this twice. so I can see Frieren doing it successfully especially with all the buzz and popularity it has world wide.
>>284619256It would take two to adapt the Golden Land arc. Two movies with two years between.
>>284619256>especially with all the buzz and popularity it has world wideNo one gives a rat's ass about Frieren outside of Reddit. It lost to Solo Leveling for Christ's sake. Lmao enjoy your 20mil USD box office
>>284619256this show is only worth it for Fern the PLAP QUEEN and her FAT ASS
The golden land would be a six hour long movie. I don't know why people forget how damn long the arc is.Goddess Monument is the only one they could feasibly do that way.
>>284619256>S2 is only 10 episodesIt's mainly because they will catch up to the manga before too long so they are trying to space it outIt's popular enough for movies but I think they will just go for a regular 12 ep season 3 and only cover Golden LandsGoddess Monument, much more likely to be adapted as a movie since it's about 2h in length and would sell very well in Japan
>>284619327But isn´t this season going to cover Macht´s arc? >>284619404Solo Slopping is not even the best Korean slop. The adaptation is pretty bad too... i can´t for the life of me understand the hype for it.
>>284619256they don't have enough content for movies
>>284619327I think the movie is gonna be that small going to the past arc.
>>284619888With 10 episodes S2 will end just before Macht arc
>>284619847>>284620063You can split a long arc into multiple movies, like Demon Slayer did with the three Infinity Castle movies.
>>284619404Its selling like crazy and extremely popular in Japan. Also, no one buys slop leveling merch
>>284620194what is the point then? I don't remember anything interesting happening before that. unless they tease cour 2
>>284620194Then it´s probably going to be a split cour.
>>284620268>>284620314Frieren's timeslot is already filled for the rest of 2026 so no chance of a split cour.
>>284620268>what is the point then?What's the point of making anime? It's to drive manga and merch sales ofcThey will probably do a big Golden Lands tease at the end to get more people to buy the following volumes
>>284620378Anime don't exist to just sell manga anymore. It isn't 1990. They're independent products that stand to make a lot of money in their own rights.
They gonna milk it for atleast 10+ years
>>284619327>two years betweenWith the pace the manga is going, we’re going to need more space in between movies ;_;
>>284620394Are you suggesting that manga adaptations are not made to try and sell more manga? Because I can assure you that you are wrongYou think Shogakukan wants to space this out because they are thinking about how much money Toho can make from licencing the anime? They want to keep it relevant for as long as possible and maximise manga sales, they reprinted every volume three times already this year
>>284619789That's why we need a two hour film of Fern getting PLAPPED
will it kill the hype?
>>284619856They can just add filler to pad the runtime
>>284620707They already are, we see in the trailer that they created a fight scene for the hero party against a dragon that isn't in the manga
>>284619256No SEXlitar?
>>284620223>selling like crazy and extremely popular in JapanSolo leveling or Frieren? I heard that solo leveling sold lots of merches, BDs and books in Japan and became social phenomenon in Japan. Animate and Solo leveling popup stores in Japan were filled with rows to buy solo leveling merches, BDs and books.
>>284620790>I heard that solo leveling sold lots of merches, BDs and books in Japan and became social phenomenon in JapanLiterally the opposite, lmaoIt's not popular in Japan at all, nor most of Asia actually
>gook is here
>>284620874Why was solo leveling snuffed from 100 net buzzwords in Japan this year when Gcucks, Medalist, apothecary, Kamen rider(not anime tho), Precure were listed? Why does Sung jin woo have less fanart than Shiiko Sugai and Deux Murasame who dies soon in Clan UFC?
>>284620790>I heard that solo leveling sold lots of merches, BDs and books in Japan and became social phenomenon in JapanThis isn't just untrue, it's the reverse of what happened
>>284620874On the other hand Frieren is one of the highest selling current manga series, merch always sells well and loads of colabs pretty much a the time. Will be featured at USJ in the summer, doing live concerts in Seoul and London.Very popular in China tooIt's really not comparable
>>284620983>>284621013That's why Solo leveling wasn't listed on 100 buzzwords of Japan when Gcucks, Medalist, apo, uma, kamen rider did? Seems that Solo leveling cannot have nice second and tertitary warrior like other Japanese hero series.
>>284619256Not much the anime can do after the manga sidelined Frieren as hard as OPM's manga sidelined Saitama, the latest arc has been dragging for way too long, if the anime wants to milk this franchise they could just do anime original movie stories and that would be fine by me since Frieren would actually show up and do shit unlike in the manga
>>284621099Based
>>284620485I'm saying that the anime is a moneymaking product in its own right, not a 'please read the manga' sign. The anime is spaced out because anime studios are chronically strapped for resources and can only work on so many media properties at a time, so staggered production is the solution.
>>284621099>Not much the anime can do after the manga sidelined Frieren as hard as OPM's manga sidelined SaitamaThis has only been the case for the last few chapters, like this is an extreme recency bais assessment of the arc considering how much she was doing before the ball startedAnyway it's obvious she will come in and be the one to stop the Himmel fan who only ever experiences magic as a tool of death and destruction. They just giving the side characters something to do before then
>>284621013Damn, that's impressive for a series with 3 good chapters. Zoomers are really a lost cause.
>>284619256>weeb central
>>284620983Was claiming that A-1's first loss isn't due to solo leveling's mediocre sale wrong?
>>284621224>The anime is spaced out because anime studios are chronically strapped for resourcesNo it's because they will soon run out of manga material to adapt unless they slow the pace down. Adapting literally every single complete arc in two years would be an insane thing to do, idk why some here was expecting them to do it
>>284621290That was how anime adaptations worked for decades.
>>284620790Posting this image on /a/ is crazy work. Do you know where you are or are you just trolling?
>ITT: Redditren and Slop Leveling fans argue over whose franchise is more obsoleteThe absolute state of KWABren. Couldn't be rezechads
>>284621621Each new volume of Frieren now outsells CSM by X5Also was the most read manga digitally for consecutive years.I know this board is mostly shitposting ESLs but you'd think on a Japanese anime and manga board that some of you would be aware of what is actually popular in Japan
>>284619256If true, they'll basically kill the series. Chapters 61-80 have their moments, but they're nowhere near as good as season 1 material highlights. They needed Macht to carry it.
>>284620559agreed! too bad i'd have busted at least 6 times in the first 10 minutes. i don't know if i can do 2 hours.
>>284621871Stop being dramatic, it's pretty similar to the first half of s1Traveling adventure and demon slaying mini arc, lots of good individual chapters in thereJust won't go full shonenslop like S1 did with the mage exams
>>284620485The manga sells for like 3 bucks.Spending millions for a season to get a boost only works once.>dude let's waste another 5 million on s2 so we can get 20k in manga profit!!lol
>>284622123>Spending millions for a season to get a boost only works once.This is simply not true, new seasons will always boost manga sales to some degree. It's why they always time new volume releases for the start of a new season.And I'm sure you can do the maths but for the publisher selling even +1million volumes turns a good profit since they are so cheap to produceThey sell loads of other associated works too you knows always timed with the anime in mind
>>284622029Episodic adventures are not created equal. It's nowhere near the same quality. There's nothing as memorable as the flower episode, or the ring one. When they did a chapter popularity poll, the only one from this stretch that got into top 20 (oit of 112 at the time) was the Hero of the South. Revolte arc will sure as hell not repeat Aura's phenomenon. Owari da.
>>284622331>chapter popularity poll,Irrelevant, the most popular episodes of s1 didn't have a chapter feature in that poll either.
>>284622426Like?
you now remember:https://youtu.be/W-D22nGcF9I
>>284622458No chapters which were adopted for eps 9,10 or 26 featured.Which are consistently rated as the highest of the season.It was obvious that poll that heavily influenced by shippers anyway
I haven't and won't be reading the manga.I feel lukewarm about continuing with the anime, but heard praises of the Macht arc. And now it turns out they only adapt nothingburger in between with this season? Should I just skip it?
>>284622577>And now it turns out they only adapt nothingburger in between with this season?There's plenty of adventure and a small demon arc in this season. Not every season needs to be some huge massive story plot or big jingling keys anime battle.
>>284619256
>>284619256Is this confirmed or yet another trustful """"""""leak""""""""?
>>284619256It's over, Frieren is now officially another marketable shonen, and is not a joke, they are obviously going for the Demon Slayer/Chainsawman formula, and is disgusting.
>>284622532>10Chapter 22, placed 8.
>>284619856This discussion was already settled and S2 would have been perfect with 24+ episodes to cover everything up to Golden Land, but now going the movie way will only kill discussion, implying there was a possibility to kill it further.
>>284619256Not surprised, when they are doing this with a single manga panel of an inconsequential flashback it's either they have unlimited resources (they don't) or they are doing more with lessIt will be better this way in the long run anyway, imagine how hard a high quality 12ep Golden Lands season will be Like the Frieren equivalent of SnK s3p2
>>284621013Ultimately Frieren is this decades "Attack on Titan", a popular series which is largely amplified by popularity in the West, it's clear the writing is fairly mediocre and just like SnK it will almost certainly finish on a whimper
>season 2 will be the most boring part of the seriesLook. I can understand wanting to stop before the best arc in order to market it later. But this is not how you do it.
>>284621863Hahahahahahaha could you be any further from the truth? Frieren is selling well in the Western world in Japan it's already forgotten, it reached #1 during the anime airing period and that's it
>>28462346Anon, Frieren only released a single volume this year and still did 1.4m (in Japan only)The size of the Frieren readership is one of the highest out of any manga still publishing. Per volume, One Piece outsells it, SpyxFamily and Kingdom about the same but aside from those there is little else that comes close
>>284623704Meant for>>284623464
>>284623031They were doing stuff like thatin S1 too. Think about the dance scene. Or most of the clone fights. These chapters are usually not meaty enough to make half an episode out of them, you need to expand.
>>284623464It literally released just one new volume in the Nov '24-Nov '25 timeframe.
>>284623760>They were doing stuff like thatin S1 tooNot to the same degree, they expanded action scenes in s1 but now they are creating new ones. We never see them fight the dragon in the manga, only this panel of them running away
>>284623704>>284623815Going to be even worse in 2026 with the indefinite hiatus, can't wait to see it
>>284619256Wait. I thought this season was supposed to be the legendary Macht arc everyone was hyping. What the fuck even happens that this season covers? Whatever it is, it's something nobody ever talks about.
>>284623855The last volume will count toward '26 actually.
>>284620874KEK it's so getting axed. Sorry gooks maybe you'd better stick to kpop
>>284623997Correct but the absense of more chapters will mean there will be no second volume and the absense of current readers will almost certainly dillute the interest people so less sails
>>284623984SoL
>>284623984Macht arc is overrated. It's very "cool" visually but the author wastes arguably the most interesting demon in universe by using the same trick he already used to defeat lesser demons a dozen chapters earlier. When it finally airs I'm sure it'll be very pretty but from a writing/character perspective the entire arc left me disappointed
>>284623984Indeed, the only thing of note is Chad of the South. Genau (the asshole proctor of tge first exam), gets an arc, but no one likes him, so... I guess there are two dorf chapters, dorfs are always cool. But you don't get any major events, you don't learn anything important about main trio nor do you get any substantial chara development. Just a bunch of lowkey adventures. Which isn't bad in itself, but if it's the entire season, it's not gonna look favorably vs. S1.
>>284624017It's going to get axed because whoever is sponsoring that shit is burning away like crazy in online marketing. To this day still there is a legion of bots in h!anime refreshing comments and views to keep S1 of SL propped up in the most watched list.
Who is the weird Jedi looking lightsaber demon in the trailer that was about to pork Fern before Stark saved her? Is that a cool fight? Looked cool.
>>284624017>KEK it's so getting axedSolo leveling ended years ago anon. Everyone hated the ending, even the koreans. It really was a good series until the author butchered it because they had no idea what they were doing.
>>284619404>lost to solo levelingthe gookshill is also schizophrenic
>>284624257In his defense in the normie sphere Solo Leveling was rated higher on things like Crunchyroll
>>284624202>Is that a cool fight?They will make it cool in the anime, looks like Koki Fujimoto animated it, who directed ep9 of S1 and a bunch of cuts for the mage exams too, like this
>>284624202Random ass demon who stole some legendary demon sword. This fight lasts a page or something in the manga. The anime expands it.
>>284624265wait THAT'S his criteria?
>>284624299Yes because those awards are basically the Oscars/Video Game Awards but for anime, I don't suggest giving them any weight but for normies it's a big metric
>>284624285To Humans its just a nice looking sword, but for a Demon, its like Honey to a honey badger. They were attracted to it, and its like thec2 oe 3rd time a Demon took it.
>10 episodes per SEASON>the rest of the season is sold to you in a movie>the manga in hiatusNice anime industry you have there.
>>284624281Oh he did this too, so I'm expecting him to do a good job with the demon girl sword fightJJK fans were malding on twitter when they saw the Frieren PV because that was basically the announcement he was working on Frieren s2 instead of JJK s3
>>284624441I blame Demon Slayer
>>284624281>>284624285Cool, thanks bros. I was hyped to see Stark throwing down. Also that big kamehameha swing he did earlier in the trailer.
>>284624447>SwordfightsDamn reminded me of Toji no Miko
>>284624564Demon Slayer has been actually good for the anime/manga industry, can't say the same about Frieren, not that I dislike Frieren but it's just not a good introduction to anime/manga in general, same issue Shingeki had
Does this mean shorter wait for Season 3? S3 in 2027 instead of 2028?
>>284624637I'm a big fan of Frieren but I'm surprised how popular it is with its slow pace. Do normie viewers really like it?
>>284624689Comfy fantasy has been very popular in general, recently.
>>284624689Inoffensive slice of life with good character designs is very appealing to normies and then when it transitions into a more regular battle anime it maintains hold on the JJK/Shingeki fans
>>284623984Decades of people going "S2 will be better than S1" and we'll just get the murdering of a franchise, epic.
>>284624637>not a good introductionwut
People kind of ignore how slowly paced KNY can be, honestly. Remember the painfully boring arc after the spider forest where they lay in bed all day and learn how to breathe by blowing into vases? Or the entire Hashira training arc? All you need is Tiktok hype moments, normies tend to skip anything they don't like without holding it against the entirety of the show.
>>284624767Frieren and Shingeki have the problem where they don't quite represent the fundamentals of anime/manga, when you take the 5 fundamental pillars of anime/manga>Iconic Characters>World Building (including power systems)>Story>Comedy>FanserviceAn anime like Demon Slayer manages to touch on all 5 pillars quite well which makes it a good introduction to anime/manga in general, whereas shows like Frieren and Shingeki miss out the 5th pillar entirely, this is why they become so overwhelmingly popular in the reddit sphere and get so much more marketing by Western companies. This doesn't mean they're bad, they're both still great but the kind of fan that gets into anime/manga through Frieren/Shingeki is almost always the kind of fan that thinks censorship is good actually and all manga/anime would be better off if anime girls were never sexualized
>>284624667No.
>>284624830>Hashira training arcAn 8 episode season of mostly filler, I think they only adapted 9 manga chapters for an entire seasonFrieren in comparison is getting 20 chapters and yeah people will just concentrate on the flashy fights and meme moments. It will be fine
>>284624940Frieren has a good amount of fanservice though
>>284624989The entire season hinges on that one foot scene then.
>>284625025The animators doing a Fern/Stark sex scene doesn't count unfortunately
>>284620559https://hanime1.me/watch?v=103525This is the best I can do
Stark and Eisen have inspired me to take the axepill over swords. What am I in for?
>>284619256>AI image>episodes listed as unknown on (you know the website)[citation needed]
>>284624113Golden Land arc is the peak of the series. It's not overrated because that fact is undisputed.
>>284625049ubel shot from below skirt. frieren's thighs when landing, when sucked by a mimic, legs in bed. fern sitting down is erotic in itself. methode. laufen eating sweets.
>>284625229>Golden Land arc is the peak of the series.I never said otheriwse, reread my comment with that in mind, internalise it and you'll have a good lens from which to view Frieren compared to other manga
>>284625256I don't recall Ubels panties, if I'm wrong then that's one thing, none of the rest is fanservice at all unless you've spent the last 20 years living in an Amish community. The closest scene was when Frieren was laying in Ferns lap and her gigantic tits were blocking out the sun
>>284625083Heroic...
>>284625256>laufen eating sweets.t-too lewd
Man I didn't realise just how short on competent staff the Japanese animation industry is. I don't see any other reason for Frieren not getting another 24 episode season in 2026.
>>284625317don't forget wirbel checking stark out
>>284625371I don't know why it even have to be so quick, it's just been 2 years, give it 4 or 5 for fucks sake, this is not One Piece.
>>284625371>He thinks his flavour of the month show deserves more
>>284619256It's probably due to the manga being in constant hiatusThey either slow things down or they will have to wait years before they can even start making a s3
I have never seen a discussion of this show's plot.
>>284625802Because there's nothing to discuss, the plot is empty
>>284625802It's a character driven story not a plot driven one
>>284625802write us what you think the plot is
>>284625874I have no idea. It could be "elf attempts a change of character", but nothing of that sort happens
>>284625802Nobody talks about the over arching plot of HxH either, because it ultimately is just the thing that sets Gon on his journey and gives him an endpoint.Same with Frieren really, it's all about the adventures on the way and the people she meets
>10 episodes of georgeous animation>10 episodes of perfectly fitting soul touching music>10 episodes of insanely good voice actors that pour part of their soul into voicing charactersOh no, the horror
>>284625802We talk a lot about elven feet, is that not enough?
>>284625954>10 episodes of no Soli-tan...
>>284625915>elf attempts a change of characterShe wants to learn more about humans and do that while retracing her old adventure. When she gets to the end she wants to speak with Himmel again because she had some regrets about him that she didn't realise until he died. That's it really
>>284619256Damn they better add a dance to the OP at least
I've only heard things about the Golden Land arc, which won't be covered this season.Does anything interesting happen in these 10 episodes we can look forward to, or will it just be setup for the next arc/fluff?
>>284619256How the fuck
>>284626055>Does anything interesting happen in these 10 episodeIt's mostly travelling, so small episodic stories with some comedy and sol moments.and then a demon mini arc towards the endit's basically Stark's season though. He will get the best animated action scene for sure
>>284626055Two demon battle mini-arcs, hot springs episode, Fern/Stark date episode, some Hero of the South stuff, and some classic slice of life episodes.
>>284626055Chad of the South is introduced as the greatest hero ever... but it's really just set-up for the future (and past).You get Stark and Fern date, but it's really a dare-like thing, it's not like they start going out after it (but Fern gets notably less bitchy with him from that point on).There will be a three episodes-long demon hunting arc with Genau and Methode returning, but it's really just okay.New erufu waifu appears in a flashback.Beyond that just one-off adventures.
>>284619256What the fuck? Why?
>>284626201>>284626168>>284626145where the FUCK is rel
>>284626244The same team is busy working on the Ghost movie
>>284624940What about this then?
>>284626248she won't appear until season 5
>>284626248She will get a one scene in a flashback in Season 3 and will become a regular in Season 5.
>>284626275he also forgot about lawine's bloomers. the anon's full of shit.
>>284625802Is a show about literal nothing, the most bottom of the barrel isekais have better plots.
I dont really understand how Best anime of 2024 failed to book team for more than 10 episodes
>>284626299>>284626311I want more of serie's cloak hanger!
The season will be fun, the comedy is mostly good and lots of meme material. So many opportunities for some Frieren and Fern fan service too.Personally looking forward to the Frieren economics lesson though
>>284626145>>284626168>>284626201>SoL episodes and more StarkThat sounds nice, I was not the biggest fan of the tournament arc at the end of the previous season, but I can already see that it won't be as popular as the first season and will be considered filler once the third season/movie comes out.
>>284620790Kpop demon hunters is american, retard.
>>284626036But nothing changes as the story goes. She arrives to the end of it exactly the same as she was in the start.
>>284626353This will be the season finale funnily enough.
>>284626485Not really. She's already putting effort to get to know Stark and Fern and guide them, something she didn't bother doing during her original grand adventure. She's also growing more religious.
>>284625371they are not short is just that japan is producing way to much anime
If it is real...
>>284626485She doesn't need to change, we are just learning more about the world and the people in it through her as she does. All these arcs and episodic stories are about aspects of humanity and human nature in some way
Why would he refuse headpats? Is he gay?
>>284626275>>284626323>Bare feet is fanserviceYou know you're in a desert when you even think of this as fanservice
>>284626710plebian. the context makes the fanservice by contrast from how nakedoor not chars are in most scenes. the intensity isn't a factor, or is something tertiary.
>>284619256>we wont get to thisSAD
>>284626800No it doesn't, fanservice is something added in addition with the intent to be titilating, while some footfags might see any case of barefeet as something titilating it is infact a normal non-sexualized non-titilating thing that happens in the real world. An elf sitting on a chair with bare feet is not an example of that context. When you adjust the camera to give an upskirt shot of a girls panties you are doing it with the intent to give some fanservice to the viewer, the same when a character has a very revealing sexualised outfit.
>it is infact a normal non-sexualized non-titilating thing
>>284626817It should be witnessed on the big screen
>>284626006What's her deal?
>>284626145>>284626168>>284626201I don't like it. This same deal killed Ranking of Kings S2, which nobody even remembers came out.
>>284627087Why is she sniffing his finger? Did he put it in his butt?
>>284627222She wants to try sex with humans.
>>284627256Ranking of Kings S2 was just a series of filler episodes interjected into the main story with (1) that could actually be considered an epilogue from what I remember, that's not really a S2
>>284625954>insanely good voice actors that pour part of their soul into voicing charactershonestly, most of the cast talks in relative monotone. frieren's CV is much more expressive in kusuriya. hasegawa is nailing ubel, and most other chars are great too, but they aren't too delightful to listen to with how characters were written.
>>284627310That's what people seem to be saying about this S2 for Frieren, though...
>>284627398No S2 for Frieren will just be slow boring arc focused on an unpopular character with a mediocre fight towards the end with a "trick" that will be repeated in the the Macht arc to defeat the most interesting villain in the series with low effort.
They must of had a huge budget cut out of nowhere and had to cut it down to 10 episodes, huh?
>>284627398No, they are saying it's similar to the first half of s1 with travelling, sol and fantasy adventure then some demon slayingWhat it's missing compared to S1 is a pure shonenslop arc like the mage exams, so it might even be an improvement
>>284627398They're saying it'll be like the first half of the series and not the second half that was a shounen exam arc
>>284627435I think they just realized the opportunity to copy KNY's milking strategy. El Dorado movie(s).
>>284627500Probably, didn't work for Shingeki though and literally killed the series at what should have been its highest moment
>>284627500So released in 2028 and we won't get to see it until late 2029 at best
>>284626339Maybe they were given a heads up that the manga is going to stall hard for the foreseeable future
>>284619256Cant' wait for cours to be reduced to 6 episodes.
>>284627521Shingeki murdered the part 1, part 2 format. I don't think anyone is interested in repeating that mistake.
>>284627725That's literally what Frieren is doing. "Part 1 / Part 2" format is literally just single cours and 10 episodes is a single cour.
>>284627745Kind of worse than that. A single cour should be more like 12 or 13. 10 episode cour is the equivalent of a 4-inch penis.
nobody tell >>284627718 about half length series
>everything popular is a movie nowwhy is Japan doing this
>>284627817I blame Demon Slayer
