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Does Frieren actually do anything better than these two shows plot or character-wise to deserve all the acclaim it's getting? Because I'm not really seeing it at all.
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>>285348028
It genuinely does not.
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>>285348028
can you frierenfags stop shitting up the catalog, thanks
>i-i'm not a frierenfag
sure, bye
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>>285348089
Yeah what a shame we lost this haven for intellectual discussion that's currently the most recent archived thread >>285343352
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>>285348028
Not really, Frieren is just another fotm that will be forgotten in a couple years.
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Why not ask this retarded question in a frieren thread instead of making a new thread and shitting up the board with it? Is anon-kun any better than the people in his head that he hates? Because I'm not really seeing it at all.
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>>285348028
Frieren is better than both just by virtue of not being time travel garbage or shounenshit
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>>285348028
Being enjoyable for one, I didn't care for either of those anime at all.
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>>285348028
Ubel is sexy so the show is good and worth watching
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SG is the best because of Mayuri. That is all.
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>Frieren VS Steins Gate VS FMA
ABANDON THREAD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdl99liD-L0
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>>285348028
Never watched it but steins gate is garbage so it's probably better
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>>285348028
Can we just be happy with a good fantasy slice of life adventure with a few introspective elements? Why does it need to be more?
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>>285348028
The difference is the attitude with which you're approaching it. You approached those shows with fresh eyes and an open mind. With Frieren you're somewhere between feeling overhyped or consciously/subconsciously upset that people like this show so much.
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>>285348028
Frieren is the only good anime out of the three
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>funny.jpg
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>>285348028
I'm not going to say that Frieren is the best anime of all time but the show has some actual emotion in it which is more than I can say for FMAB and SG. The story also has actual themes rather than just being some fightfest or a cheap time travel thriller.
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>>285348765
frieren characters have no emotion. the show is unbearable to watch because of that.
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>>285348028
No. Out of those 3 shows, Frieren is the worst. Frieren's decent but it wouldn't have even stood out if it was made by madhouse in the 2000s, it would be overshadowed by all the similar, superior shows
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>>285348028
This is why you should never listen to MAL scores. The top 10 is full of trash like these three you're posting.
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>>285348089
>>>/v/
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>>285348028
It's fun.
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>>285348303
Frieren will never have a girl this sexy though
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>>285348028
>mal thread
Next time post 2 better anime to compare, retard. Frieren mogs
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>>285349411
Very true. I love both Kurisu and Mayuri!
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>>285348028
Yeah, at least the first part of it is genuinely good and fresh. It's not shallow fma or "do shit for fun then fix it" sg
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>>285348028
You ARE talking about 03 FMA, right?
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>>285350049
He's talking about Brotherhood and you know it
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>>285350337
That makes it 50x worse I'm afraid
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>>285348028
All of those anime are overrated.
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>>285348173
It's not going to be forgotten, why are you people so clueless?
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>>285348401
>Character with no personality except being a moeblob and dying for the sake of the plot
She sucks. as do most of the characters in S;G.
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>>285348028
Frieren is genuinely good, even if it gets rated a little highly. Maybe you should try engaging with the work for once.
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>>285348028
Frieren is fine. It's got problems, but it's still pretty good.
FMA:B is fine. It's not perfect and I never pretend it is, but it's one of those few stories I keep coming back to over and over.
FMA 03 is kinda weird.
SG is... Well I gave it an honest chance.
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>>285348028
FMA > Frieren > Stroon gate
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>>285351531
Contrarian shitter opinion.
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>>285351602
stroon gate was overhyped and boring as fuck, cope
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>>285348028
I like the journey in Frieren, and the nostalgic feeling it tries to evoke. Doesn't have to be anything more than that.
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Yes
I mean the production values in Frieren completely blow S;G out of the water, for as stylish and well directed as it was. This is probably also one of the few times it might be appropriate to talk about pacing, because Frieren leverages its episodic nature way harder with more tightly woven narratives that have their own setups and climaxes. Ultimately S;G has quite a bit more to say about the otaku archetypes, their real world inspirations, and the community of the 2000s than what the Frieren anime covers even up to the exam arc. Even within that arc though you can see overarching themes about "the world of magic," different eras, and personal philosophies toward magic that all have cathartic moments, often invoking the hero's party backstory as well.

Amusingly enough, Frieren is a more character and drama driven story than S;G which is praised for its focus on characterization but actually is pointing the way to social commentary (a rather saccharine, fangless and introspective commentary, but all the same).

You really have to be stupid to think any of these are overrated though
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>>285348224
>Frieren
>not shounenshit
Good one
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>>285348028
FMAB is the best anime of those and it's only average. I don't get the hype with them.
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>>285348028
We'll know when it ends, senpai shat the bed with it's ending, nonsensical on many levels, as always the japanese have a very poor grasp of the source material they use and very poor grasp of philosophy and morality.
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>>285348028
I'm not a big fan of Steins;Gate and thought the time travel concept had been done better before a number of times. I do think that Frieren and FMAB are good for what they are, which is fundamentally still shounen or shounen-like stories for the most part.
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>>285350037
Calling something else shallow is rich when Frieren is the definition of shallow with a veneer of profundity to make the audience think it was deep.
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>>285353843
Even as flawed as it is Re:Zero has way better characters than S;G and had better emotional moments for me
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>>285348028
Frieren is just a good show, I don't know what else to tell you anon.
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>>285348028
The only good thing about Frieren and Steins Gate are the girls, everything else about them is slop. And FMAB doesn't even have that going for it.
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>>285348060
FPBP
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>>285354722
>FMAB doesn't even have that going for it
Ahem
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>>285348028
>reddit;gate
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>>285348060
/thread
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>>285355797
Cute, I remember her now.
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>>285354722
>The only good thing about Frieren and Steins Gate are the girls, everything else about them is slop
This is true.
>And FMAB doesn't even have that going for it
False and it's also the best anime of the three.
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>>285348028
>Overrated millennial anime vs overrated zoomer anime
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Frieren is good, actually. You're just an insanely jaded person
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>>285349411
Kurisu is such a dogshit character. Weebs really spent over 10 years simping for this nothing tsundere?
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Brown "people" love Frieren.
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>>285348028
Stop forcing this meme it's not going to catch on like you think it is. Both shows are garbage.
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>>285356984
Both are really good and I hate the narrative you retards try to spin otherwise.
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Eva mogs.
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>>285348224
>or shounenshit
Frierentards are so hilariously deluded.
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>>285348868
>Frieren characters have no emotion
You need to go back to kindergarten to learn how to read?
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>>285348765
FMAB has more emotion and more developed themes than Frieren. Frieren spent all of its emotions on the first few episodes.
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>>285358064
Frieren has more emotion than both of the pieces of crap in the OP, it's just not the kind of emotion most anime watchers are used to.
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>>285357393
Eva is genuinely the only decent anime posted in this thread so far
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>>285356706
If you think she's bad you should see the rest of the cast besides Okabe.
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>>285348028
haven't watched frieren but from what I've been hearing about it it looks like SoL but boring, not relatable, and forgettable. Am I in the ballpark?
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>>285359028
It's fine
Extremely understated about its characterization, and the character arcs are really slow
People interpret the opening episode as emotionally manipulative
Really it's just the author showing you what you need to know and making a promise for what the story is going to be about, if you think you're supposed to cry you missed the point
And if it's not relatable to you... you may be very young, and not very introspective
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>>285359028
It's SoL until it randomly turns to shounen in one part. The rest is up to your interpretation.
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>>285348028
Nope
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I watched it. It starts as a by the numbers isekai, coasts on glacial pacing slice of life for awhile, then devolves completely into Naruto chunin exams. Genuinely mind boggling stuff that people suck it off so much
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>>285348028
Not even a little, hell it's not even better than steins gate 0
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>>285348028
Never got the hype for Frieren, I didn't hate it but I didn't enjoy it anymore than any other seasonal slop, certainly not more than steins gate or either FMA
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>>285359615
Steins Gate 0 was abysmally bad.
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>>285359799
It was but at least it has one moment of kino, Frieren doesn't even have that
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>>285348028
No because it didn't have the impact on /a/ either of those two had. You'll never see something for Frieren like pic related or relaxing ed memes or the threads as hype for the last chapters of fma.
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>>285358255
Hilarious you're trying to pull a "you don't get it because it's different" on such a big normalfag/casual magnet. Frieren doesn't do anything special. It doesn't have any meaningful development past the the first few episodes. It's just rehashing the same things over and over again.
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>>285360333
Yes because Frierentards söyboys are Brown normalfaggots whiteknights of thier Mary Sue whore Frieren Rey Skywalker. They are as annoying as shitskins /dbs/ retards
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>>285349411
Moeka is sexier
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>>285348028
>Shitflinging war between three mediocre anime
Typical /a/.
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shits gay is complete garbage, literally bazinga the animation + time travel
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>>285348028
Yes, Frieren isn't reddit bullshit that ends with literal power of friendship, happily ever after slop
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>>285361585
>nooo you don't understand killing this bad guy makes you le evil and revenge is le bad
Contrast this stupid forced drama with Frieren's willingness to kill demons (who represent jews) and it's obvious which show is more based
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>>285348028
>plain characters shock value time travel slop
>power of friendship toddler jokes battle shounen
>kino wannabe battle shounen
Its better, you need 2 better anime to compare that was easy.
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>>285348028
I liked Frieren a lot more than those two shows you posted, I can at least say that.
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>>285348028
Frieren does SoL well, which the other two don't try to do.
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>>285348028
Steins;Gate is shit.
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>>285361585
Frieren hasn't ended yet though
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>>285361611
You don't understand either of these shows
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>>285362381
That's the big elephant in the room and why I think it's practically guaranteed that Frieren will drop off or otherwise become bad at some point. Though for now it's still a way way better story than FMAB and S;G.
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>>285362409
of course not, that's a /vpol/ tourist who doesn't even watch anime
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>>285348028
The years when Brotherhood and Steins;Gate were the 2 highest rated anime were the most retarded years in the anime community.
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>>285348028
Frieren is sovl
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>>285348028
No, it's slightly better than all the of native isekai and isekai fantasy shows in the past 10 odd years so people don't know how to react. Steins Gate and FMA have soul and originality
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>>285348028
Both of those are dogshit so yes fieren is definitely better
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>>285361585
>This retard is still obsessing over FMAB
Let it go already, funnyschizo.
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>>285351096
Truth nuke. Mayuri is a bad character, and Steins;Gate's bar isn't even that high.
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>>285348028
Frieren does everything better than those mid shows. Even dialogue.
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>>285359028
Just watch it and come up with your own opinion
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>>285348028
Unironically I only like FMA out of the three of them
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>>285366959
Same
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>Next year people who were born after FMAB started airing can post here
explains a lot of this thread
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>>285348028
I'm tired of pretending that Steins;gate is good
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>>285368922
The only thing that s;g; does truly well is the John Titor conspiracy tie in, that one made the show look promising early on. The rest ended up being kind of underwhelming.
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None of these shows have any overlap with each other,
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Let’s be honest. If you can’t appreciate honest, polite, lighthearted, comfy fantasy kino, you’re probably brown..
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>>285369321
They're all the highly rated MALslop
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If you posted either of those in your 3x3 five years ago /a/ would have ripped you apart
Now they are sacred cows?
If 4chan still exists in the future and some new anime is no1 on MAL the /a/nons of that time will treat Frieren with the same phony deference
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>>285369380
>honest, polite, lighthearted, comfy fantasy kino
That's why I love the first five-ish episodes, but then it just turns to ordinary shonenshit.
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Frieren is a breath of fresh air since a lot of new fantasy/isekai manga emerged and are way too repetitive.

But I woulnd't even compare it to FMA or S;G.
FMA is gold of the shonen genre ; and S;G is just the best visual novel adaptation ever.
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>>285372436
>Time travel slop and shounenslop
Disgusting that people treat these as the gold standard for anything.
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>>285348028
thought that was a fem light yagami on the left
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>>285373073
>He hasn't seen SG
What a newfag.
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>>285348028
>Three of the top rated anime of all time
>None of them are good
What causes this?
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>>285372436
>FMA is gold of the shonen genre
Gintama is way better than fma (if we consider it a battle shounen). To be fair, a gold battle shounen doesnt mean anything since the genre is dogshit.
>and S;G is just the best visual novel adaptation ever.
And what does that have to do with its quality? Clannad is better adaptation-wise
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>>285348028
>Does it do anything better than these 2 completely different series?
No. But it isn't nearly as good of a show no
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>>285373241
They are harmless, can appeal to most casuals, consistent, have action/suspense, not very old and plain simple shows; if we take those factors into account, I think it's a solid top three.
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>>285373404
I can accept the casual and safe explanation for brotherhood. frieren and s;g try to be more than casual but fail at it because their writing isn't good enough for that.
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>>285348028
Try watching it.
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>>285348028
Steins;Gate's plot is retarded reddit-tier drivel. The type of people who hype it up purely because of Kurisu are the same type of people who sat through boring-ass NCIS for the goth chick.
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>>285373285
>Clannad is better adaptation-wise
lol no. SG is the best vn anime bar none, nobody even remembers or cares about Clannad anymore.
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>>285348028
Fma isn't great either
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>>285374016
Shut up zoomer, you didnt played any of those to know what adaptation is better. And yes, clannad is better and key is more relevant in the medium and the world, seethe
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>>285348028
Frieren is the best fantasy SoL out there
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>>285374351
Nobody remembers Aria anymore...
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>>285348028
Only tasteless MALfags worship these slops. They are okay but none of them are close to the best of anything.
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>>285375415
At least FMA does not go on forever like certain other anime in the genre
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Ubel best girl
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>>285348028
Unironically you'll understand when you're older. Freiren is a show about the passage of time and the things you lose along the way. You won't really get it until you've been around long enough to feel things start to slip away.
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>>285374351
Aria and Mushishi are vastly better. And there are other manga not adapted yet
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>>285376704
Frieren is for 12 years old kids
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>>285376784
Natsume is also better but the west only care about amerimutt-wannabe anime or battle shounen
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>>285348028
SG is shit
Frieren is shit
FMA is good shit
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>>285348028
FMA has solid storytelling and character writing, top tier for a shonen battle show. But by nature of being a shonen battle show, that character writing is largely focused on setting up characters and bringing them into conflict with each other for bombastic fight setpieces.

Frieren's character writing, meanwhile, is more introspective. Everything loops back to being about Freiren herself and the life that brought her to where she is now. Even the demons and their episodes are largely about Freiren as well if you understand the parallels being built regarding the differences in how the inhuman, long lived demons can't really understand humanity and how elves mirror that in a less destructive but no less insurmountable set of differences from how humans experience the world.

SG is a fun but ultimately shallow story that /a/ latched onto because its about the specific kind of highly online otaku culture that /a/ sees itself as. I like the characters and all, but there isn't really all that much to the story beyond "these guys accidentally make time machine adjacent devices, putting them in the way of a conspiracy to control time travel" which isn't a bad premise but its an 8/10 show on its best day.
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>>285376941
Based
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i don't understand all the praise for steins gate, it's bottom of the barrel otaku shit.
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>>285348028
Idk but at least it's not boring like slop gate.
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>>285376941
I can spot LLM writing from a mile away.
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>>285376572
I want to take off her boots and socks
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>>285376941
I don't care if the show is "deep". I care if it's compelling. Normalfags don't even understand what you said and are just there for the action and zeitgeist even though there's more to the anime.
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>>285361585
Frieren litterally killed the evil ghosts with the power of Friendship encouraging her.
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Was really surprised how much worse brotherhood was from the og which wasnt that good to begin with.
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>>285348028
Imagine putting all your effort into your writing but it's still worse than anime meant for kids and reddit.
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>>285348028
>Sharts;Gate
I dropped this shit after the first few episodes. No I will not read the VN.
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Is flashy, but emotional always gonna be the meta
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>>285379075
Frieren > Steins;Gate
But FMAB is better than both. And it's not even the best version of FMA.
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>>285379293
I was just shitposting, but you are based as hell.
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>>285348028
Who cares? I like it. I don't need any other reason to justify my enjoyment than that.
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>>285348028
At least people care about Frieren. Overhyping from Reddit is the only thing keeping those two aggressively average anime alive.
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>>285379816
This
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>>285348028
freren is the only one of those that I actually enjoyed so checkmate I guess
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>>285380499
I wonder how many of the people that hold up SG and FMA as superior anime are oldfags who decided that this was the top of anime back when they both aired in 2009/2010 and are just seething that 15 years later the culture has moved beyond them.
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>>285348028
Sure. Better moment to moment pacing, stronger core theme (regret is a more powerful emotional centerpiece than desperation), characters less dependent on being stereotypes. The demons in Frieren are also just more interesting than the homonculi, who are practically saturday morning cartoon villains (we're bad because... well we just ARE okay???).

not to say steins;gate isn't great, and fmab is a solid 8/10, but Frieren is definitely a cut above both.
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>>285381033
Even if you personally find the core themes of FMA more compelling, you can't beny that Frieren is just a better made piece of media in a way that can't soley be explained by a decade of improved animation techniques or budget. Frieren is arguably the best directed and one of the best scored animes ever made, and the fact that it relies more on subtext that outright spelling out character motivations with ridiculous internal monologues makes for more mature story telling that appeals to me personally and will appeal to the kinds of people that pay attention to the shows they watch.
Frieren will always score low amongst phonewatchers, autists who can't into subtext, backround players, and zoomers who don't actually "watch" the shows they consume and are just kind of there while they happen and then these same people will post obsessively about a show they aren't mentally equipped to understand.
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>>285381033
>>285381357
Trvke
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>>285381357
You are correct. The direction is indeed the secret sauce behind Frieren's greatness. It's the way the scenes fit together, how quickly or not quickly they move, which shots linger and which shots are quick, where the most work is done. All things the director gets to determine.

I think direction is more often than not the difference between something that people like, and something people find truly special. It's also something that unfortunately cannot be taught. Nobody can tell you how to take a comic book and translate it into motion in a way that most resonates with the audience. But the Frieren director knows how. Whether by experience, instinct, or both.
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>>285381357
I think the episodes that really emphasize this difference for me are Stark's introduction with the dragon and then the sword/birthday episode. Compare the fight with the dragon to any of the iconic action sequences in FMA/B. The storytelling weaving together the sword village and his birthday with his backstory and the bit of Frieren's journey with the party makes for an episode that has intense emotional catharsis for a comically large hamburger meal. Looking at specific episodes in Steins;Gate for similar pacing and direction, there are some standouts perhaps like the first episode of the Moeka arc or the conclusion of Suzuha's arc when she's finally sent off after discovering Daru is her father just to send the failure letter that drives Okabe to undo the days they spent with her built up over the course of several episodes.
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Frieren is good but S;G is just unmatched.
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>>285382676
For me the part that shows the strength of the direction is Frierens flashback based storytelling style, which has to be done exactly right or it falls flat.
The whole;
Step 1, Frieren does or says an odd thing without context - no explination is given
Step 2, Time passes and things happen
Step 3, Flashback happens - Sometimes within the same episode, sometimes several episodes later (The longest being literaly 28 episodes The contextless event in the first episode and the context supplying Flashback in the very end of he final episode) This flashback establishes the context for the the thing in Step 1 usually providing the emotional catharsis and payoff.
For people who don't pay attention they might completely miss the initial "odd" event in step 1 or have completely forgotten about it by the time step 3 comes around because they view each scene or episode in a self contained vacum and so the emotional payoff simply doesn't happen for them because they missed it.
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>>285382972
That's really prominent in the Stark episodes too. At the cave of the sword we get a brief flash of his backstory that is a stand in for why he feels so unworthy as to even try to pull it himself as well as a person who he views as more worthy. When he explains his backstory to Fern we see a flashback to him running, but it omits his brother telling him to run immediately prior until the next version of the flashback is played after Frieren tells him the meaning of hamburgers. I'd say the other major example is the way that the spell to create a field of flowers is constantly recontextualized with flashbacks to the point that it happens twice at the end of the mage exam with Frieren explaining it was the luck behind the party and then Serie's admission of remembering her students' spells itself being nested in a flashback during Lernen's scene.

Steins;Gate does have a few cases of insert flashbacks, the most similar example being the episode that begins with a flashback to when Moeka first received a message from FB. It's not that this particular flashback gets recycled with tweaks in the same way, but it's part of building the context as Okabe pushes into her apartment. Probably the most obvious motif in S;G is Mayuri's stardust handshake pose that appears during the foreshadowing phase and later we get the flashback to the moment at her grandmother's grave.
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>>285381733
I am once again asking for the director of 86 be let out of his cage and allowed to direct another anime.
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>>285348028
All shit
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>>285348060
Fpbp
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>>285348028
stein gatr is shit
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>>285384699
True, I only watched it because Kurisu is hot and that's the only reason I wasn't disappointed
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>>285348028
It's better written than both of those
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>>285384965
Dude Okabe pissed me off so much I could barely stand watching the show for more than a few episodes
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>>285385621
Read the VN
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>that last thread just bumped off the catalog where the guy complaining about frieren casually says he didn't watch it
Disgusting.
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>>285385696
I'm not reading a longer version of that dogshit, sorry.
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>>285385876
So many cases.
I dunno what it is that compells anons to contribute their opinion of a series they never watched or game they never played and just jumped on a contrarian disinfo bandwagon of what some schitzo shitposters imagined the thing to be.
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>>285385696
How does reading the VN fix all of the existing problems with the story? It doesn't make the time travel not an asspull and it doesn't make the pacing not suck.
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>>285387241
It doesn't but pretending that you're not allowed to criticize the adaptation without having read the source material is an excuse to shut down the argument. They know in advance that almost no one is going to pay money to play a 40 hour game just to win an argument on the internet, and even if they DID do that just out of spite they wouldn't have time to do that here and now so you are just presenting your stance as uncontestable and declaring victory by forfeit because I said you have to forfeit and you better listen or I'll be super mad >:(.
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>>285387241
>asspull
Only dumb people use buzzwords like this
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>>285387337
S;G fags in particular I find lean on that super hard.
I can watch and judge the anime as it is. And in my opinion it's not bad but there is a lot of better anime out there.
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>>285387433
Attractor Fields are basically asspulls
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>>285383436
86 is pretty bad though. The first cour is alright but everything afterwards is just slop.
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>>285387887
No quite the opposite, they are thoroughly established in the story through the Titor mythos and are connected to the thematic treatment of seemingly inevitable outcomes as fate in the tragic/romantic sense. You're just a retard with no real critiques so you need buzzwords that have no actual meaning or weight to signal your contrarian whining.
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>>285348028
Okay you people can stop pretending these are the three best anime of all time now. Mushishi alone mogs all of these shows.
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>>285388414
Based anime taste
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>>285348028
Unironically when you're older you'll understand frieren better
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>>285385876
Where?
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I would like a tall skinny elf gf

PLS PLS PLS PLS
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>>285348028
>Does Frieren actually do anything better than [dogshit]
Yes, quite a lot of things better actually.
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>>285390427
I wouldn't call them dogshit but fmab and s;g are 6/10 at the most
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>>285383381
This is just big fish in a small pond. You're judging Frieren and SG on the basis of the human condition and direction in the context of genre fiction while pretty much completely ignoring the main reasons for why one engages in genre fiction.

Everything you say, literary fiction or some TV drama will do far better than Frieren ever could hope to reach. The only difference is that Frieren hides in the genre of Fantasy, but it's fantasy elements themselves are laughable if you coms from the wider canon, for one thing we moved past medieval inspired settings a long time ago.
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>>285390578
>we
You're seriously, unironically, judging a show by how trendy and hip it feels (to you)? "Let's jump off a bridge if everyone is doing it"-tier argument. Opinion discarded.
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>>285390578
>The only difference is that Frieren hides in the genre of Fantasy, but it's fantasy elements themselves are laughable if you coms from the wider canon, for one thing we moved past medieval inspired settings a long time ago.
See now this is pretentious
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The venn diagram of bait threads and threads made by the ignorant has become a circle
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>>285390578
Anon, Frieren isn't "hiding" in genre fiction. Its story literally wouldn't be possible outside of the trappings of a fantastical setting. The story's best elements all hinge on the alien perspective of a character who perceives the world and their relationships with others in a unique way specifically because they are not a human and the extremely long lifespan that results from that. The story and characters don't work without this fantastical caveat.
I have to assume that you are trying to contact a false position for the purpose of acting superior, because I simply don't think that you could hold this flimsy an opinion genuinely.
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You can call Frieren shallow but the story still has real themes, S;G and FMAB are far more shallow in comparison. If Frieren is a puddle then the other two have no water at all.
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>>285391064
S;G is one of the most thematically profound stories in the medium. You've never watched or read it.
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>>285390200
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>>285348028
why is there a pile of shit sitting next to the gold?
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>>285348028
Frieren? Built for Goblin.
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>>285391460
Which one is the pile of shit? Both of them look like piles of shit to me.
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>>285348060
fpbp
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>>285391527
Frieren would have taken a whole tribe of goblins at once and wouldn't even show a hint of emotional discomfort.
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>>285374351
Haibane Renmei, Kamichu, Kiki's Delivery Service, Natsume Yuujinchou, and Hakumei to Mikochi are also all better. Frierenfags keep proving themselves to be underage/zoomers who don't watch anime.
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>>285391103
>S;G is one of the most thematically profound stories in the medium
lmao
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>>285391103
S;G is literally no different from "I respawned as a succubus' panties and now I keep sneezing into her pussy!" in terms of merit.

It's literally bottom of the barrel shit. People will put up with anything as long as it has le dark tweest it seems.
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>>285392401
The thing with Frieren is it has such high production values, it might tide a viewer over in comparison to other TV shows which might have other things going for it but can't reach the same wow factor. Haibane Renmei for example has great atmosphere and mood, subtle understated direction and a more poignant throughline, but a modern watcher could possibly not escape the 'dated' feeling purely off production value.
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>>285348028
FMA is only relevant cause of LE BAD DAD MADE HIS DAUGHERINO A HECKIN PUPPERINO!!! Show sucked
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>>285348028
Well it's settled then.
If you're not seeing it then it can't exist you fucking retard.
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>>285372956
Funnily enough Frieren has BOTH of those things, kek.
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>>285393659
>Frieren has time travel now
Unfortunate.
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>>285393659
A watered down baby version of those things, yeah. Like a amateur taking bits and pieces from things they like without knowing why its good. Next thing you'll know its a murder mystery
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>>285394317
>Aura, you're the culprit!
kino
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>>285392978
Frieren does not have better visuals and direction than Kiki's Delivery Service. That's just a nice way of saying they get distracted by pretty flashing lights like jingling keys.
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>>285395075
Frieren has zoomer sakuga. If your anime doesn't have yutapon cubes it means it's dated.



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