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Margot and Will losing their children: Tome-Wan, Mizumono

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"retribution" mentioned once and that word immediately triggers him to reminisce about Glück. isnt this exactly how Frieren has her Himmel flashback?

rereading the golden land arc and. i'm gonna tear my hair out, 50 years and macht still remembers it word for word.

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Glück owning his interrogation

Spoilers for Frieren manga chapter 130

As soon as Glück realises someone wanted something from him, he immediately seeks to find out who. He starts by bombarding Kanone with questions, but he doesnt expect her to answer them. On the contrary, he gives her no chance to reply by voicing his deduction out loud and answering the questions himself.

Note that thinking out loud isnt his habit. In Macht's memory and when he talked to Frieren, whenever he needed to analyze or think about what to say next, he would stay silent.

Glück is careful with what he says and makes sure they serve a purpose. He intentionally let Kanone hear what he thinks. In this case, it's to show Kanone how capable he is, that he isnt easily swayed. He wants to stress her tf out and then acts like he cant actually do anything.

With this, Kanone would think mere talking doesnt get him to say what she wants, but since he shows signs of giving in, she could use other methods. He tries to direct Kanone's action with his words. And it worked. Kanone makes her first blunder when she switches approach and offers him a cigarette. How does she know he likes smoking if this is the first time they meet? It should be told to her by someone. Glück probably tells it's Fräse on the first puff, but he doesn't ask about Fräse immediately.

He continues with a seemingly harmless comment, but this, my friend, is a trap to get Kanone to spill out her relationship with Fräse first.

Her guard is lowered when he acts like giving in, so now she honestly replies. This is the second blunder, and that's enough info for him. He goes on to ask who's the captain next and Kanone's silence confirms his guess.

After exposing Fräse's involvement in his interrogation, stating he's familiar with her scheme (and also that he should have let Macht kill her lol), Glück doesnt stop. He even tries to get Kanone to switch sides by posing as someone she could benefit from, similar to how he persuaded Macht back then.

This is from a chapter whose purpose is to give the audience a brief look at the Empire's political state, to power scale Fräse and to explain why Denken would be missing from a big event between the Empire and the CMA. Glück's appearance is to deliver these info, but his lines are so well-crafted and you can get so much of his personality out of them that you don't feel like he's just a mouthpiece for the author to yap.

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gift for @/wolfashlee1: macht and glück dancing (with both stealing the show)

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A visit to someone's grave as usual

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also in camp 3 here and imo the author intends the story to be read that way.

Frieren's view on demons has 2 components, while "incapable of understanding humans thus never cease to pose a threat to human survival" is proven an indisputable truth, "mere beasts, only use languages to trick humans" is very questionable from how the demons are presented.

i think these moments show that Frieren seems to be always aware of the contradiction with her "mere beasts" evaluation and killing them could bother her afterwards, so she needs the other half of her opinion on demons to be proven correct to reaffirm herself.

to Macht whose many actions challenged her view, she's capable of changing her attitude to a certain degree. she's willing to explain to him why humans wouldn't accept his killing even if he has the good intention of achieving coexistence, which she didn't bother to do before inspecting his memories. also, slaying Macht is stated to be for saving the human lives his dream would cost and the author managed to avoid having Frieren telling Macht it's entirely impossible in the long run, since just in the previous chapter Himmel's words abt keep going forward against all impossibility helped her to visualize a way. not dismissing an antagonist's action for the same reason the heroes' belief is lauded is enough props for me to trust the demons will be handled well.

What’s fascinating to me about Frieren Demons isn’t the in-universe issues with them (just to be clear, it IS interesting, and I love a lot of their designs).

But rather how extreme sides of the fandom can be when discussing them. From what I see, it tends to fall into 3 camps:

1.) The demons are unsympathetic antagonists that nearly wiped out the human race, and that is refreshing for anime fantasy media after years of complex, morally grey, adaptions within the genre and plays homage to the Dragon Quest inspired aesthetic for Frieren

2.) The demons are unsympathetic antagonists that are no longer in power, and that is bad because historically there have been times where monster species have been used as proxy for marginalized people (ex: old Warhammer factions), and it clashes with the general good natured vibe of Frieren’s story otherwise

3.) The demons are sympathetic antagonists who due to no fault of their own seem to have no way to process empathy, sympathy, or considering life sacred, and any attempts on their part (or humanity’s) to understand ends with death as their culture and instinct is to adhere to power over negotiations. Thus they are NOT evil but merely a biologically opposed species that nearly wiped out humanity trying to bridge that gap, and do not adhere to any RL group, marginalized or not.

And all 3 factions hate each other with a fiery passion

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Choose your last words, this is the last time

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In all timelines, in all possibilities, only you can show me this.

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like this scene was insane because we know that viktor could've turned him into a mindless drone and saved himself the trouble. his fingers literally linger over his head as he jumps over him. but he didn't want jayce to be just a follower, he wanted him to be his partner again. so he spared him from conversion

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no no i'm actually not done with timebomb/jayvik parallels. bear with me for a minute

the contrast between the everybody lives timeline ekko and heimerdinger ended up in and jayce's post-apocalyptic wasteland timeline is pretty funny indeed, but i love that juxtaposition because these practically opposite realities serve the same purpose for ekko and jayce. they solidify their goals and, by extension, their willingness to save the person they love.

ekko gets to see the world where his community is thriving; where his childhood friend/crush is loved and happy and enjoys her life in ways the version he knew couldn't. but he learns that this powder is not a complete stranger. this powder is just as talented as jinx, just as brilliant and quirky and so familiar despite all the differences. it has to mean that in his timeline, the girl he knew is still here. she was always there. nothing that has happened to her during these years managed to kill her. ekko would never left his people behind, but he also won't leave jinx: he's the only one who gets through to her and convinces her to do the right thing, even though she might think there's no way for her to be a good person whose life is worth something. ekko doesn't simply believes it's not true. he knows it for a fact.

jayce gets to see the world where viktor won; there's nothing besides corruption, abominations and death, and that's the fate that awaits jayce's timeline if he doesn't succeed. viktor caused all of this, but he's also the one that leads him to the top of piltover. he's the one who gives him a key to salvation, and it is as simple as it is intricate: it's jayce himself. this viktor is a lonely god trapped in a perfect hell he created and it took him ages to realize his mistake — and he believes jayce is the only person who can stop him before it's too late. in all outcomes, it's him. it is as much as a statement of a cosmic powerful being as a belief of a dear friend. jayce is not even certain there's something left of viktor in his timeline, but he has to be. he won't fail. it's a promise he keeps.

it is about saving the world, but also about saving someone very dear to you. someone who is so lost in their own faults and mistakes they forgot they're not beyond salvation, but they don't know you won't save the world without saving them

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command

- macht can’t explain himself why he acted the way he did here; he thinks about it more than once afterward

- glück was majorly injured but knew macht would return quickly enough so he wasn’t worried

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guys is it gay to look at your partner in crime’s statue in deep contemplation for hours

FRIEREN MANGA SPOILERS AHEAD:

- macht canonically waited for days before deciding to leave weise hoping to see if he felt anything after turning everything to gold

- you can’t convince me that macht didn’t linger near glück’s statue for longer than shown

- glück was turned to gold with a smile on his face -> until the end glück is truly the one to surprise macht the most

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after the banquet

- the banquet was a social affair as well as a mandatory one; neither one of them wanted to attend in all honestly

- demons are individualistic beings by nature and very rarely form bonds

- glück is one of the only humans macht finds interesting

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toxic old man yaoi goes hard

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Tsukuyomi Birthday Art ヾ(•ω•`)o Their birthday was weeks ago, but as an artist with a job, having time to draw something personal is a luxury.

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obligatory meme

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