THE JOURNEY BEGINS! || Frieren: Beyond Journey's End || Episode 5 Reaction & Review

[@Odysee89]

dont worry, just because the first 4 eps were movie-ish... the whole show is a masterpiece and it stays so all the way

[@folcwinep.pywackett8517]

Spot-on comment. Fully agree. All 28 episodes are masterful and enjoyable story telling.

[@emperornguyen]

The episodes fly by quickly, making your reactions go by quickly. Waaah!!

[@ObiwanNekody]

Thank you for sharing 😊

[@ObiwanNekody]

9:14 don't worry, the entire season passes by just like that 😅

[@Airwave2k2]

Lol you seemed more shocked by the dragon jump scare then in any of your Solo Leveling reactions.

[@Scyon13]

You should probably consider watching frieren in blocks of episodes, a lot of the stories or arcs make more sense in blocks of 2s or 4s

[@Airwave2k2]

Some episodes could be watched together, but many also need their downtime in between to marinate. Best example like ep25 and 26 - while they go together, you rob yourself of the "moment" when you give it not a day of time to let it sink in. Many small details will also wash away when you consume it by binging. I would say what to watch together is 5+6, 9+10 and 20+21 if you want you can also watch 18+19 together before that. But I would part them in these packages and don't make it a 5 episodes binge, because as said this show is not fast food and should not be treated as such. You don't have to wait a week between episodes like we had back when the anime was launched, but a day or so is recommended. In either case the experience changes a bit by packing episodes together or don't do so as it is noticable for different reactors that done it.

[@Scyon13]

@@Airwave2k2 yeah makes sense as well, as manga reader I got used to noticing the small details and the subtext of chapters/episodes so I don't miss anything while watching, but most reactors would miss things like that since there's pretty much no other Shonen like Frieren that has such meaning behind every action taken and how things are interconnected, so I'm just thinking from a story perspective, but I get squeezing too many eps together wouldn't allow most reactors to process all the things that happened and what they mean.

[@Airwave2k2]

@@Scyon13 I also are a manga reader before the show aired, so in my watchalong I could see many things that were nicely depicted, but when comparing my experience to the reactors who were blind reactors, even these with a week downtime didn't picked up all the small things, and when rectors joined in late and had the opportunity to binge some episodes their reactions suffered even more so in letting the show cook - they however picked up the bigger arcs better. The sour grape test of episode 2/3/4 hit or misses. As manga readers we were already familiar with the protagonists, but yeah blind reactors don't have the snippets before them that we assembled in our heads.

[@ObiwanNekody]

IMO the only episodes that are significantly improved when watched together are 1-4 and 8-10