“Nemophila flower as inspiration for Frieren:Beyond Journey’s End”
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“The video above is a podcast for the connection of the fictional flower,
Blue Moon Weed, Himmel’s favorite, to the real flower Nemophila
and by extension the story trope of a Field of Flowers
“Nemophila Flower”
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“Hitachi Seaside Park”
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“The wikipedia page for Hitachi Seaside Park shows in high
season the true Field of Flowers from Himmel’s hometown.
Spoiler Alert – many spoilers follow
The podcast above is very informative, and leads to some critical hits with regard to the trope of The Field of Flowers. The discussion speaks to Himmel’s favorite flower, the Blue Moon Weed, which grows in his hometown, and the possible inspiration for the fictional story by a real world flower, The Nemophila!
Although there has not been any definitive statements from the author or her publishing company about this, it does seem reasonable to assume that the real Nemophila did inpire the fictional Blue Moon Weed. One interesting fact is that the Nemophila tends to create a field of flowers. If you go to the wikipedia page, there are some excellent photos of this field generation at Hitachi Seaside Park where in season, the Nemophia creates huge fields of flowers.
There is no other story trope more important in Season 1 of the Frieren anime than The Field of Flowers. At the beginning, we see Frieren generating a field of flowers for her Hero’s party, and then generating a Field of Blue Moon Weed flowers around Himmel’s statue. We find out at the end of the season that even Serie who calls the spell useless, uses it for her flower garden. And then we get to the final reveal, that the lost little boy Himmel remembers the Elf Frieren finding him and creating a Field of Flowers just for him. When he grows up and forms his Hero’s party to destroy the Demon King, he goes looking for Frieren in her forest. When Frieren asks him why he thinks she is such a strong mage, he answers it’s just a feeling, but we know that he remembers what Frieren did for him as a child.
Serendipity is a word not well used in common English today. It corresponds roughly with Carl Jung – Synchronicity. That is a seemingly random and coincidental series of events which end in producing a result that appears not to have any casual connection. Yet looked back in anger, we can see that the path of various events, lead to a surprising conclusion. That is what the Field of Flowers means. In a most curious path, The Field of Flowers leads to the death of the Demon King in “Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End”
This is the denouement, the climax, the peak of the First Season where the author, Kanehito Yamada, lays out her inner structure to resolve all the issues brought up in the first season, and they are plentiful. The most insignificant spell declared to be worthless by Serie, is the sole reason that we are in a Happy-ever-after-ending for Season 1.
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