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I think it's fundamentally not what the show is about and not every show has to tackle every moral problem. Sometimes you just need interesting antagonists in a story and it would be boring of they were just drones.

Don't overthink it.

This is a nice contrast to Frieren where demons don’t have souls

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Do they not? Aura's scales of obedience are said to work by "placing her own and the target’s soul onto the scales to weigh their mana".
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Finally someone brings the proper vibes to this coversation. I recently learned there is even a term for this kind of show. "Iyashikei".

The demons came to a town disgused as a peace envoy, a pretend diplomatic mission to disable a magic barrier. This absolutly goes beyond just immitating speech.

I'm interested in forgetting about it, this is close to triggering my PTSD. I spent way to much time on TVDB/TMDB trying to match obsure anime downloads with some reasonable airing order. And the specials .... oh god deliver me from specials and OVAs.

And yes, as already mentioned "Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" gave a big headache ... I probably spend around 2 hours trying to figure out which episide is which and putting them on one of the officals orders.

I haven’t read the Frieren manga, but the show referred to its world’s demons as not actually speaking, but having learned to make human-like noises to elicit desired responses.

I have read ahead quite a bit, but it's actually not relevant, because the show itself (which is pretty much identical to the manga) already debunks that.

Aura and her executioners are clearly very intellegent and even have an inner monologue. (One of the lines I actually dislike is when one demon asks the other "what is a mother?" And he just replies with "who knows?". From what we've seen from the demons so far, they should totally be capable of having figured out human reproduction.)

I thought the last episode was really good, so I'm itching to watch if the upwards trend continues. But I usually like to bunch up mutli-parters and watch them in one go .... mh.

I think this episode was actually the onr best so far.

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I figured out the Münchausen by proxy of the mum, that was quite obvious, but the juice swap was actually quite clever. And it's real, too!.

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Look what you made me do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7gm_r8hXoU

Frieren is a perfect example of how adaptations should be made. It takes a concept and expands on it in a way that makes sense only in anime form.

I've read the manga after watching the show and it was quite amazing that how every scene was there. Nothing was left out .... instead the fight scenes, rare as they are were dragged from a couple of pages to 10 minutes of action with an amazing soundtrack (as OP said). It's better in the anime, I'd say. But what do I know :D

You're absolutly right. And it did win like, all the awards. Even the polls here. It's a masterpiece of a show.

I especially love it because it was the first proper anime I watched (apart from watching like dragonball/naruto/sailormoon on TV, but i pretty much just chaught episodes of these when they were on an never completed a show).

The downside was that it set the standards really high. I've watched a lot of decent and even really good animes since then, but nothing quite comes close to Frieren overall. I can't wait for S2, also I already spoiled it by reading ahead in the manga (also first and only time I've ever read a manga).