{"id":971,"date":"2023-07-02T19:56:43","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T19:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/?p=971"},"modified":"2023-07-15T16:24:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T16:24:35","slug":"frieren-beyond-journeys-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/02\/frieren-beyond-journeys-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Frieren: Beyond Journey&#8217;s End"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p> <br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p> <em><strong>Frieren: Beyond Journey&#8217;s End<\/strong><\/em>  (\u846c\u9001\u306e\u30d5\u30ea\u30fc\u30ec\u30f3, S\u014ds\u014d no Fur\u012bren, &#8220;Frieren, the Final Farewell to the Dead&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Frieren: Beyond Journey&#039;s End | OFFICIAL TRAILER\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Iwr1aLEDpe4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption><strong>Click on Red Arrow to play<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frieren\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/6\/60\/Frieren_Beyond_Journey%27s_End.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><figcaption><strong>Click on image to bring up Wikipedia page<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nThe video above is the anouncement in Japanese with English subtitles that &#8220;Frieren: Beyond Journey&#8217;s End&#8221; will release an anime version on\nSeptember 29, 2023 in a two hour presentation.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\n\nFans of the Manga are beyond excited, and references to this opening are appearing all over the net. And for good reason. In 2021, the Manga won\nthe 14th Manga Taish\u014d Grand Prize, and the 25th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize New Creator Prize.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nPywackett has read all Seven English released Volumes, Vol 1 &#8211; 7, and Vol 8 English dropped on June 20, 2023 for which we are awaiting delivery.\n<\/P>\n\n<p>\nFrieren is an unqualified master work of extreme creativity and profound beauty. The work contains adventure, slight touch of Romance, profound observations on life and death, and great amounts of silly comedy. And this work will gobsmack you if you are not careful! Just underestimate its story telling prowess and beware the consequences for your feels and your soul.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\n\nFrieren is an immortal Female Elf of great power and learning who joined an adventurer&#8217;s group which destroyed the Demon King, but this story is not about that adventure, but rather, the aftermath for Frieren watching all her comrades pass on. In some senses Frieren is a meditation on death. One literal English\ntranslation of the title is &#8220;Frieren, the Final Farewell to the Dead&#8221;. It asks questions like &#8220;What is the meaning of life for an immortal being?&#8221;, &#8220;What do I do next?&#8221; and &#8220;What comes after?&#8221;\n\nThe Demons are some of the geatest creations in Anime and Manga. They are purely rational beings with enormous intellect, but no feelings. But this is a weakness because they can be fooled and destroyed by an irrational line of thought.\n\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Frieren: Beyond Journey&#8217;s End&#8221; is basically a Slice of Life series. It can be slow moving with nothing happening, and even the fights with demons and enchanted dungeons are more puzzles like &#8220;Hunter x Hunter&#8221; than they are combat like &#8220;Hell&#8217;s Paradise&#8221;. But that factoid is problematic. Many Anime fans do not enjoy SoL, exactly because it has no action. So how will they respond to the Anime. We will see in September.\n<\/P>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}