Discussion Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2

Episodes: 10 | Source: Manga | Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen
Synopsis
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Following the First-Class Mage Exam, the trio—elven mage Frieren, warrior Stark, and first-class mage Fern—gains access to the dangerous Northern Plateau. As the party presses onward toward Aureole, formidable adversaries force Stark to confront his insecurities, solidifying his resolve and his role as the party's frontliner. Meanwhile, Fern continues to cherish the gifts she has been blessed with throughout her life, each a reminder of those she holds dear.

Frieren—still honoring her vow to understand humanity—revisits memories of her journey with the Hero's party and her fleeting encounter with a legendary figure. As she reflects on the passage of time, the elven mage quietly questions whether she has truly changed, yet in the small, almost subtle choices that she makes, there are signs that she might have become more human than she realizes.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

 

Episode 1 was good, pretty chill. Frieren found a magic nullifying crystal, which was worth enough gold to buy a mansion. God damn. Unfortunately, Fern insisted on discarding it, due to it stopping their use of magic within a 3m radius, so it's a bit dangerous for them to travel with it. On the way, they ended up falling into an underground cave which was filled with the anti-magic crystal, so they had to rely on Stark. When Frieren was sleeping, they were attacked by a venomous apex dragon, a terrible match up for Stark, and Frieren could apparently sleep so easily due to her trust in Stark. The tactic employed was running to get away lmao.

When they set up camp, Stark was the first one back from gathering. Frieren and Fern were bathing and Fern wasn't happy when Stark came across them, although they were fully clothed. Although she said she wasn't mad, she was a bit moody, and even Frieren noticed.

They happened across an Inn on their journey, and ran into Wirbel, Scharf and Ehre. They're heading North due to it being so dire with the demons there. Wirbel continued trying to recruit Stark, and Freiren had no issues. In the end, Stark continued his refusal and explained to Fern that he wasn't forced to join them and was happy on the journey with them. Fern made up with Stark in the end, before they set off the next morning.

 

Episode 2 was good. The group ended up in a southern village where a request was taken to clean the statue of a great hero. Stark expected it to be Himmel, so was surprised when it wasn't. The hero was The Hero of the South, and humanity's strongest. Frieren assured the title was deserved. Apparently, he fought all seven of the Sages of Destruction and defeated three of them before he was defeated by Schlacht the Omniscient who could see a thousand years into the future, although they killed each other in battle. Crazy, especially when the heroes party only managed to defeat two of them.

The Hero of the South met Frieren before she joined Himmel, but failed to recruit her. That's when he confided that he had some level of foresight, and told her about Himmel successfully recruiting her as well as his own death. He left a message with Frieren for him, that he would clear a path for Himmel, and even if his contributions were forgotten, it was worth it. He wasn't forgotten at all. What a beast!

Frieren was acting strange trying to get out of the next town quickly. But, unfortunately they were cornered by an invite to dinner by the lord, Earl Dach. Frieren is familiar with the family, and in the past they made stupid requests with basically "comply or end up in jail" threats. Luckily, the current ruler seemed alright, but he requested for them to retrieve their family heirloom sword which was stolen by a demon. This happened once before and Himmel was the one to slay the demon and retrieve the sword. Although last time, the sword was sold to the demon, it isn't clear if that happened again.

The group came across a destroyed village, where a "travelling priest" was praying respects to the dead. When she asked them to pray, Fern and Stark did close their eyes to comply while Frieren attacked. Turns out that was the Sword Demon in disguise. Together they took her out and took the sword back to the village. They left with the reward; a spell to turn a green apple into a red one.

 

Episode 3 was good. The next town they visited, they were very much looking forward to the hotspring, only for it to no longer be there, as when the more successful adventurers stopped coming through business dried up. However, one of the locals did say about a supposed secret hotspring that was around, although the tale was from 30 years ago. Frieren was familiar and warned against visiting it, but Stark insisted. When they got there, turns out that it was more like for feet. Stark knew all along from Eisen telling him, but wanted to experience it for himself.

After reaching another town, they got to enjoy a proper hotspring, although Freiren spends too much time there. With Stark and Fern alone, Stark made a comment about going on a date if Fern wanted his attention so badly, and she agreed before running off. Stark asked Freiren for advise, and she's clueless but did give some good suggestions for things that Fern would appreciate, although it was all advise given to her from Heiter. Funny that Frieren and Stark basically had a date, and Freiren was clueless. When Fern asked for her advice about the date later that night, she confirmed to having a date, but gave a clueless explanation.

 

Episode 4 was good, but that "date" was most painful. Very awkward, and Fern and Stark basically just talked about Frieren the whole time. I thought he would've at least complimented her for dressing different, but he only asked why she was in a different attire. Stark did end up confessing that he got the idea for what to do from Frieren and Fern still thanked him for his effort, even though it seemed minimal on his part. Fern kind of enjoyed it, enough.

When they got to the North, they went through 3 days and nights of struggle against some tough monsters before getting to an Inn with a free room. The Inn Keeper asked for them to slay a tough monster in the area as payment, and they agreed. Even the knights were helpless against it. I thought it was a demon at first, but apparently it was just a monster. It was very much strong, but the group was able to defeat it.

 

Episode 5 was good. First half was them running into another Dwarf named Fass that Frieren met back when she was with the hero part, and his life's work has been searching for a legendary booze, the supposed best and he requested Frieren to help him break the magic barrier protecting it. Frieren originally declined for [reasons] as well as the 3 months it would take. Stark and Fern were sympathetic at the 200 years in search of it but also wanted the money offered so they got Frieren to agree.

Turns out, the booze was probably the worst, but Milliarde, another elf Frieren knew had engraved the stone with a story about it. In the end, Fass just laughed it off, and followed what Heiter said he would do in that case, which was to also share it with people, with the first to suffer being Frieren, Stark and Fern. He spread it to the village so they could suffer together.

Venturing further into the North, the bread has become hard as rock. It used to be prosperous under the logistics network of a trading company the Norm Company that had their own soldiers, etc. When they arrived, the current leader Norm asked Frieren to pay up her debt from 80 years ago form his great grand father. The ask for was 500 gold coins, and Frieren paid 200, so he threw her into the mines to work for a few hundred years. In the end, he felt forced due to the ravaging the demons had done, crippling their company. Frieren was able to easily locate silver in the mines, clearing the debt and helping them.

 

Episode 6 was good. A village was attacked and annihilated by demons, with the last person being able to get off a request to slay the demon(s) before finally things came to an end. The request had two sets of first class mages arrive: Genau and Methode as well as Fern, Frieren and Stark arriving later. Genau easily took care of the demons there as well as having found a childhood friend. Unfortunately, it was too late and he along with the villagers were all dead. It's even worse considering it was Genau's home village.

After some investigating, the only conclusion Methode and Stark could come to is that the demon behind the attack was one wielding four swords, which had already disappeared from the area, not the weak ones. I guess this might be one of those Sages of Destruction.

 

Episode 7 was good, the battle is now being set in motion. Methode was assigned to be Genau's original partner died, it seems that he died saving a boy from the same four sword wielding demon that attacked Genau's village, although it seemed like it was meant to be slain. The four sword demon Revolte is a demon general and seems to be a cut above the rest, but also below the Sages of Destruction. Jung the younger looking pink haired demon that was with Revolte seems to be interested in what makes humans tick. Revolte seems to know one that spent their whole life on that, which is interesting. Revolte predicted that eventually their group would split, which is when they would attack. Was also a bit surprised to see that Revolte has a serpentine lower half, instead of a humanoid for.

Genau decided to stay behind while the others left to fight the demon, an interesting choice for someone who supposedly has no feelings over the village and attack. Stark decided to also stay as they assume an attack will come at that time.

Fern, Frieren and Methode set out and on the walk Methode bribed Frieren with a grimoire to give her head pats and a hug. Fern wasn't happy. The demons made their move, with Methode fighting Solide. Frieren has decided this is Fern's fight, and has left Fern to fight the other demon Hemmung.

Revolt arrived to confront Stark and Genau. Genau's advise was for Stark to deflect the attacks due to the technique used, while Genau has taken to aerial with his ability to manifest wings with magic.

 

Episode 8 was great. Despite his massive size, and serpentine lower half, Revolte is incredibly fast, and strong with stupid stamina. The swords being made of magic and his ability to alter their weight makes him brutal. Stark took a hit intentionally to make an opening for Genau to attack. Revolte attacked a surviving child which Genau protected, only for it to be that demon Jung, who stabbed him. Jung was killed, but not great for Genau to be wounded.

Fern struggled with her fight due to the fog magic cast by Hemmung. Methode however was doing fine against Solide. Interestingly, Methode is from a family that dedicates their lives to fighting and killing demons, and while usually with the way her clan studies and uses magic, they would be disadvantages against Solide, Methode just finds it fun, so has a broad range of magic, and was able to analyse and nullify Hemmung's magic. This turned the tides for Fern allowing her to go out of range and instantly kill Hemmung, before she also killed Solide.

Stark and Genau were in dire straights, but eventually they were able to overwhelm Revolte with their assault and break his swords one by one, after he flew into a rage and started losing focus over maintaining his swords. It wasn't a good moment for them to let their guard down and be attacked by his arms, but that allowed them to land a finishing blow. With their grave wounds, Genau attempted to heal Stark, only to pass out. Thankfully, the others arrived and healed Stark and Genau.

Both groups stuck around for a while to allow Stark to recover. Methode also offered to become the priest of their party for a while, but Frieren declined. Partially due to Fern. The Norm Order also arrived to put the dead to rest.

 

Episode 9 was good. The first village they went through has been attacked and was largely in ruins by dragons. Frieren urged them to flee, but they didn't want to. Stark and Fern bugged her to help them, and agreed to a grimoire. The group was able to take on the group of dragons and help the village. Fern confronted Frieren about the up front payment thing, which was something she adopted from Himmel. Himmel would take whatever as a "reward" for helping people, because he saw it as a way for all of the people they help to feel like they no longer were indebted to them.

The next village, similar to the journey with Himmel had some bad weather so they had to stick around for a while. When it finally was clear to move on, Frieren had spent most of their money on Grimoires. The boat guy agreed to the take them for another favour which was dispelling the barrier on an abandoned island's village to retrieve Himmel's memoires. Frieren naturally agreed and dispelled the barrier without issue and was wistful recounting memories from Himmel's memoires. The boat guy suggested she keep it and he would take payment from the other books there.

Frieren chose the moment they were attacked by a Kraken to test the tongue twister spell.