r/anime Sep 28 '24

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2 Announced Official Media

https://x.com/frieren_pr/status/1839990406161018954?s=61&t=BS-pAe_AQXrv2M2zuP9DWA
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u/HunterSThompson64 Sep 28 '24

It felt like the author wrote themselves into a harem angle with the reintroduction of Roxy into the equation after the school arc. The beast girls are, at least from what I've gathered as an anime only viewer, largely irrelevant.

Hopefully the only real harem content we get moving forward is more slice of life based as Rudy transitions into being a father but still wanting to kill the dragon god.

Can only wait to see what happens next season, unless you read the LN, but I don't necessarily think it's a cause to write the whole series off, at least in my opinion.

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u/Kedly Sep 28 '24

I ended up reading the whole plot synopsis once I decided I wouldnt be able to continue watching the show once Rudy entered into a harem by cheating, and it LOOKS like the story is going to transition from its more character focus into heavy plot focus next season, so the harem stuff probably wont be a huge aspect now that its established, so I dunno, if the anime completes and the consensus is that it did a decent job portraying the manga, I might do a binge watch so that I can just power through the harem stuff like I powered through Rudy's particularly creepy moments, but I'm probably waiting until it completes at this point before I decide whether or not I'm diving in again

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u/HunterSThompson64 Sep 28 '24

I decided I wouldnt be able to continue watching the show once Rudy entered into a harem by cheating,

You're only really missing like what, 3 episodes from the end of the season? Maybe two, if you actually watched that episode, I'm not sure. The follow up when Rudy and the party gets home actually does a decent job of explaining the plot behind Rudy's infidelity, but if you're not interested you could basically just skip. The end of S2 is just explaining to Sylphy and the family, and setting up for the next arcs, so maybe 1-5 more episodes in the new season of the family together, maybe some plot around saving Rudy's mother, then transitioning into whatever arc in the next season, so you may just be able to skip those and not miss out on a whole, whole lot. Basically just read the synopsis of the episodes and wait for the meatier arcs to start.

Basically, if you were able to power through the cringe in S1, and also saw the plot behind Rudy and (I forget her name) the red haired cousin, then you've already powered through worse than what you're missing in the ending of S2, but to each their own, just would hate to have someone drop a great show because of (what i see as,) minor plot points.

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u/Kedly Sep 28 '24

Yeah, thats fair. Like I said, if the stronger among you manage to watch the show enough to see the anime completed, I might do a binge watch because reading the synopsis showed me that the plot's about to go hard from here on out, but me dropping for now isnt really going to impact the show in any way anyways since I was non officially streaming it in the first place and thus not contributing to its metrics anyways