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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Delicious in Dungeon has a hell of an OP too. It's still stuck in my head.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I finished all of Dorohedoro. That was... A thing. You could honestly tell the author ran out of steam towards the end. It wasn't bad by any means, but it did get somewhat lost/didn't hold together.

    Weird as hell ride though, in a very fun way. And reading what's out of their new manga, Dai Dark, it's even weirder. You can def tell Q has a type when it comes to ladies and guys both.

    Also because I'm crazy/my tablet is nice to read on, I'm reading all of Black Clover from the beginning. It's honestly got it's moments, but boy I could do without the fanservice. It's not sexy, it's just creepy!

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Madican wrote: »
    Frieren question
    Does constantly suppressing your mana end up being a super work out for your mana gland or something?

    Kinda spoilers for question in spoiler
    No. In fact someone who practices it would be weaker in terms of strength than someone who focused on developing their offensive magic for the same amount of time.

    I think the best way to explain it
    In addition to doing her regular practice which is all about efficiency in her attack and defense which does increase
    her mana Fern also has to suppress her mana at all times so she is getting stronger but most people wouldn't be able to tell and her attacks use so little mana that people/demons assume she's not working with a lot.

    I was wondering because
    IIRC Frieren wasn't terribly impressed with her mana when they started, just her control over it. So I was trying to think of a reason that Fern had become such a monster in terms of mana in such a short time.
    I also don't generally like this is how strong your magic is because of how you were born and nothing you can do about it type stuff.

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  • neverreallyneverreally Registered User regular
    edited April 13
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    I finished all of Dorohedoro. That was... A thing. You could honestly tell the author ran out of steam towards the end. It wasn't bad by any means, but it did get somewhat lost/didn't hold together.

    Weird as hell ride though, in a very fun way. And reading what's out of their new manga, Dai Dark, it's even weirder. You can def tell Q has a type when it comes to ladies and guys both.

    Also because I'm crazy/my tablet is nice to read on, I'm reading all of Black Clover from the beginning. It's honestly got it's moments, but boy I could do without the fanservice. It's not sexy, it's just creepy!

    I really wish i liked Dai Dark. Dorohedoro has the most amazing world building. It just feels alive. Dai Dark does not. The world just feels kinda empty. Plus the characters are all basically Superman in power level which is lame.

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  • KupiKupi Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Cururu wrote: »
    Latest Frieren
    I think Fern now qualifies as a JoJo.

    Much magic ora ora ora.
    My brain has registered her as an honorary Touhou character.

    On the subject of Fern's power level:
    My read on it is that she's got a highly developed aura for her age because of her early start but is otherwise unremarkable. Suppressing her mana gives her the element of surprise, and her technique is unorthodox (to modern mages), being "just" a cloud of basic attack magic. The thing is that any hit with Zoltraak is potentially fatal, so she emphasizes scoring a hit over overwhelming defenses. It's like using your gunpowder to launch bullets instead of setting it off in one giant bomb. You get far more overall lethality out of the same amount of energy.

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Fern's also been doing almost nothing but training like, most of her life. Girl ain't got a social life or hobbies, she just does magic.

    She's a prodigy not in the blessed with good genes sense, but in the "loves to practice" way. And it's all been under the guidance of an elite teacher.

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  • BadablackBadablack Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Sometimes I wonder how different anime would be if instead of Dungeons and Dragons being the original thing they copied it was something like Shadowrun or Vampire the Masquerade.

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  • ZeroRegistryZeroRegistry Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I think Fern is very talented, and has possibly the best teacher currently living, but she is by no means unbeatable.
    Ehre underestimates her in their duel, and by the time she realizes her mistake she is put into a position that she cannot recover from. Had she the experience that someone like Denken has, she probably would've won... though I think Denken is also overestimating his ability or underestimating Frieren, and he has less of an excuse for doing so.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Badablack wrote: »
    Sometimes I wonder how different anime would be if instead of Dungeons and Dragons being the original thing they copied it was something like Shadowrun or Vampire the Masquerade.

    well shadowrun or VtM would have had to have been invented about 20 years earlier and caught on in the american cultural zeitgeist in the same way and been exported to japan in the early 80s

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    A thing to remember about magic fights that Frieren herself mentioned is that in a life or death battle a moment is enough to decide it.

    Current episode spoilers
    She herself said despite her immense magical power she's been defeated by 11 people, and most of them were human. And trickery to drop guards is her entire modus operandi to kill demons who may be even stronger than her.

    Fern didn't win because she's superior to Ehre in magic, Fern won because Ehre underestimated her and by the time she realized that she was already done for.

    Modern mages are pretty similar to demons. They've all got this notion of "dignity" of a mage and both Frieren and Fern take full advantage of that attitude to win. Ehre even mentioned that Wirbel is the same in his methods.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Tales of Wedding Rings is airing this season, which caused me to remember that I used to read the manga version years ago when Crunchyroll still had manga. The series is now on Manga Up (which has an annoying point system that basically lets you read 4 chapters a day for free and they'll split longer chapters so you have to buy each segment which sucks) so I've recently caught up on it.

    Anyways, this series does something pretty interesting later on (way after what this season of the anime will cover) that I haven't really seen in these fantasy isekai stories. Granted, this series is still an ecchi harem isekai and this spoiler is not going to change that if you don't want to engage with that kind of stuff.
    So the thing is, they defeated the big bad a while ago (like over two years ago, our time), and the series just didn't end. It's still ongoing to this day. After defeating the big bad, the party moved back to Japan with the main character and it's become a slice of life harem romcom.

    The afterword in each volume does keep saying "The next volume will probably be the last," but so far that hasn't been the case. It's currently on track for between 1/4 and 1/3 of the entire series to just be it's epilogue, assuming it actually does wrap up in the next volume or two.

    Which is kind of funny for a series that was very loosely based on the Lord of the Rings (with the Japanese title even being a direct reference).

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 13
    Kana wrote: »
    Fern's also been doing almost nothing but training like, most of her life. Girl ain't got a social life or hobbies, she just does magic.

    She's a prodigy not in the blessed with good genes sense, but in the "loves to practice" way. And it's all been under the guidance of an elite teacher.

    she has a social life now, since Stark is around! sort of...

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  • NeveronNeveron SwedenRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Badablack wrote: »
    Sometimes I wonder how different anime would be if instead of Dungeons and Dragons being the original thing they copied it was something like Shadowrun or Vampire the Masquerade.

    well shadowrun or VtM would have had to have been invented about 20 years earlier and caught on in the american cultural zeitgeist in the same way and been exported to japan in the early 80s

    also the other big American TTRPG influence in Japan is, like
    Call of Cthulhu
    so

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Jragghen wrote: »
    How to Fight finally finished. Mostly satisfying ending after the relative wet fart of season 2. A couple characters definitely got the shaft though.

    Yeah, it does seem like everything really is over, and I appreciate it giving us closure on a bunch of things, but it also could have done this, like, a hundred chapters ago and it would have been better for it.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
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    I finished all of Dorohedoro. That was... A thing. You could honestly tell the author ran out of steam towards the end. It wasn't bad by any means, but it did get somewhat lost/didn't hold together.

    Weird as hell ride though, in a very fun way. And reading what's out of their new manga, Dai Dark, it's even weirder. You can def tell Q has a type when it comes to ladies and guys both.

    Also because I'm crazy/my tablet is nice to read on, I'm reading all of Black Clover from the beginning. It's honestly got it's moments, but boy I could do without the fanservice. It's not sexy, it's just creepy!

    I really wish i liked Dai Dark. Dorohedoro has the most amazing world building. It just feels alive. Dai Dark does not. The world just feels kinda empty. Plus the characters are all basically Superman in power level which is lame.

    I'm enjoying Dai Dark for what it is and it's strange, empty yet complex world. It's got a very good texture all of its own

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Akane-Banashi remains the best thing none of you are reading. Fix that! It's so damn good!

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Akane-Banashi remains the best thing none of you are reading. Fix that! It's so damn good!

    I realized the other day that I’m a year behind now

    The upside: ha ha! By putting off reading it for a year, now I have a year’s worth of chapters without having to deal with week to week cliffhangers!

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Y'know, I was a little hesitant when I saw that SSS Suicide Hunter was doing a romance story arc, mostly because I'm not into romance at all (on account of being incapable of feeling it), but I'm glad I let it cook because goddamn this has continued to be my favorite manhwa.

    Greatest Estate Developer is second-place and is also starting to do some very interesting things.
    Lloyd Frontera: "This guy is freakin' ugly!" x2

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    Akane-Banashi remains the best thing none of you are reading. Fix that! It's so damn good!

    I realized the other day that I’m a year behind now

    The upside: ha ha! By putting off reading it for a year, now I have a year’s worth of chapters without having to deal with week to week cliffhangers!

    Quick! Fix this!

    But seriously, i'd be genuinely interested in your take when you catch up.Where'd you leave off? I'm guessing somewhere in the mid-30s, or 40s? so around the point of the Zenza training?

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I finished S1 of Spy X Family. Why is S2 only 12 episodes when S1 had 25?

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Because it's still in the middle of airing possibly? If not, it's probably a split cour like season 1 was and the next 12 episodes will be airing in summer or fall or something.

    E: ok yeah it finished airing in december, apparently not a split cour either, there is a movie though. (Released in japanese theaters in december)

    I guess they were catching up too close to the manga and didn't have enough material for 24 more episodes.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    Akane-Banashi remains the best thing none of you are reading. Fix that! It's so damn good!

    I realized the other day that I’m a year behind now

    The upside: ha ha! By putting off reading it for a year, now I have a year’s worth of chapters without having to deal with week to week cliffhangers!

    Quick! Fix this!

    But seriously, i'd be genuinely interested in your take when you catch up.Where'd you leave off? I'm guessing somewhere in the mid-30s, or 40s? so around the point of the Zenza training?

    Chapter 42 was the last one I read says my saved spot in the SJ App, so right before
    Rokuro goes on stage for the opening performance

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Akane-Banashi remains the best thing none of you are reading. Fix that! It's so damn good!

    I started reading it after someone here (you?) described it as a revenge story in disguise.


    Fake-Edit: the most remarkable thing that happened in the latest Apothecary Diaries happened in the preview for the next episode
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    Something about this back feels wrong. I don't know if it's just the trapezoids going too low or if there's something more.

    That said, I'm very much looking forward to next episode. :3

    The second most remarkable thing was
    finally suggesting a mechanism for all those "activated when enough sunlight is focused on it" switches we see in video games and cartoons: melting a solid inside in a way that frees up another mechanism. Pretty neat!

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    it does seem like a very approximate rendering of back musculature

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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    That doesn't look like a demon's face at all, something's definitely wrong there.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Elaro wrote: »
    Akane-Banashi remains the best thing none of you are reading. Fix that! It's so damn good!

    I started reading it after someone here (you?) described it as a revenge story in disguise.

    That was me!

    Part of the reason I love it so much is because it's an incredibly human story, and by having the stakes not be world ending stuff - instead, just a young woman out to prove that her dad's art held value - it's able to really bring the characters to the fore.

    It's also just exceptionally well written. There's a bunch of subtle, clever things done with who we've seen perform, and how their performances are presented

    Very minor spoiler on that for example
    even nearly a hundred chapters in, we've not seen a performance from Shiguma or Issho. This, I don't think, is a coincidence.

    To say nothing of how it takes a lot of standard Shonen tropes (training arcs, rivals, petty politics, tournaments) and uses them to great effect.

    The art is also genuinely magnificent, like I'm putting it up with both Hiromu Arakawa and Ryōko Kui (FMA, Dungeon Meshi respectively) in quality - and they're two of the absolute best in the industry.

    All the more so when you consider that Rakugo is a mostly audio based performance art, with minimalistic acting - translating that info a visual medium, especially a silent visual medium is one hell of a challenge.

    Also just on a personal level, I love learning about the intricacies of other cultures, and this is a fascinating window into art form I'd have trouble learning about otherwise. Delightfully, there's a Redditor on /manga who posts with more details about the Rakugo world each week in the weekly threads. It's very cool.

    I really hope if/when this gets an anime adaptation - which like it keeps getting colour pages, it's gotten an insane amount for such a young manga - they get a studio and voices across who can do it credit

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Not sure if the spoiler warning that that latest Witch Watch has on its front page applies to anyone here as this is a 13+ forum, but I don't know the readership ages of Shonen Jump so I guess they wanted to play it safe:
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    Meanwhile, Martial Master Asumi continues to tread exactly zero new ground -- it's a manga about fighting and that's what it's about, but it's just a really _polished_ version of that sort of thing; the choreography is always clear, the action sequences have impact, the character progression is all pretty standard, but it's doing such a good job of what it's doing that it's very enjoyable even so.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Kagurabachi just finished its first arc and it was magnificent. I hope it sticks around.

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    "Story About Buying My Classmate Once a Week" is technically a web novel, but I guess it's getting a manga adaptation this year so close enough for this thread. Anyway I've been reading through it for the last week and much to my own surprise I actually like it quite a bit. You'd think it's a very horny story from that title and, well, it is, but it's not in the way you'd think - more on that below. It feels like someone read Adachi and Shimamura (a series I also have a soft spot for) and they were like, yeah ok these two characters are both fucked up and that helps make them compelling, but if you're gonna make your characters fucked up then make your story actually ABOUT that instead of just kinda dancing around the edges of addressing how badly your characters need therapy (which is a pretty fair critique tbf).

    The quick plot pitch is that high school girl Miyagi ends up paying her classmate 5k yen once a week to come hang out with her. Miyagi's a mega-latchkey kid with no mom and an absentee salaryman dad and an anxiety disorder, and Sendai's the disappointingly-just-pretty-good younger sister to an over-achieving sibling, so her parents mostly ignore her which she returns with a quiet hatred of her family. Around their friends at school they're both seen as nice normal girls, but the transactional nature of their relationship ends up perversely liberating for them both. Abandoned, anxious Miyagi is drawn to the feeling of having control over a relationship, Sendai doesn't need the money but finds it validating to have someone provide such a tangible proof of her value to them. Their relationship takes a pretty quick swerve into the psychosexual, and there's definitely some fetishes there getting explored. Not actually having sex but definitely some very heavy sub/dom vibes and such.

    What I appreciate about the writing is that like, a lot of crappy writers would go, "Sweet, they're doing weird shit to each other, that's endgame, that's the fantasy." The writing here is smart enough to know that what the girls actually want is to like hold hands, go on a date, and come out to their friends, but all that requires things like emotional intimacy (terrifying), self esteem (lacking), and risk taking (again, terrifying). Both of them are deeply conflicted - they want to get closer but they're scared of change, they want to know how the other girl thinks of her but they're afraid to say how they feel, they want people to know that they're an item but they don't want their peers to judge them.

    So it's all kind of a reversal of that normal romance story arc where an attraction gradually builds until finally they get together and smooch or sex each other. This story starts with physical intimacy, big moments are instead like, the first time Sendai volunteers to cook Miyagi dinner, the first time they go do something out in public together, the first time they hug. It's oddly wholesome! It's also nice that for once a Japanese author doesn't let things ever get kinda rapey - they're always very conscious of consent. Also,
    while the story starts with them in high school, they eventually graduate and move in as roommates (the paying money is long-past by then), and they don't have sex until they're like... 20 I think? So it's more about two fucked up people trying to make a relationship work long term than any sort of will they / won't they.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Not sure if the spoiler warning that that latest Witch Watch has on its front page applies to anyone here as this is a 13+ forum, but I don't know the readership ages of Shonen Jump so I guess they wanted to play it safe:
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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Kana wrote: »
    "Story About Buying My Classmate Once a Week" is technically a web novel, but I guess it's getting a manga adaptation this year so close enough for this thread. Anyway I've been reading through it for the last week and much to my own surprise I actually like it quite a bit. You'd think it's a very horny story from that title and, well, it is, but it's not in the way you'd think - more on that below. It feels like someone read Adachi and Shimamura (a series I also have a soft spot for) and they were like, yeah ok these two characters are both fucked up and that helps make them compelling, but if you're gonna make your characters fucked up then make your story actually ABOUT that instead of just kinda dancing around the edges of addressing how badly your characters need therapy (which is a pretty fair critique tbf).

    The quick plot pitch is that high school girl Miyagi ends up paying her classmate 5k yen once a week to come hang out with her. Miyagi's a mega-latchkey kid with no mom and an absentee salaryman dad and an anxiety disorder, and Sendai's the disappointingly-just-pretty-good younger sister to an over-achieving sibling, so her parents mostly ignore her which she returns with a quiet hatred of her family. Around their friends at school they're both seen as nice normal girls, but the transactional nature of their relationship ends up perversely liberating for them both. Abandoned, anxious Miyagi is drawn to the feeling of having control over a relationship, Sendai doesn't need the money but finds it validating to have someone provide such a tangible proof of her value to them. Their relationship takes a pretty quick swerve into the psychosexual, and there's definitely some fetishes there getting explored. Not actually having sex but definitely some very heavy sub/dom vibes and such.

    What I appreciate about the writing is that like, a lot of crappy writers would go, "Sweet, they're doing weird shit to each other, that's endgame, that's the fantasy." The writing here is smart enough to know that what the girls actually want is to like hold hands, go on a date, and come out to their friends, but all that requires things like emotional intimacy (terrifying), self esteem (lacking), and risk taking (again, terrifying). Both of them are deeply conflicted - they want to get closer but they're scared of change, they want to know how the other girl thinks of her but they're afraid to say how they feel, they want people to know that they're an item but they don't want their peers to judge them.

    So it's all kind of a reversal of that normal romance story arc where an attraction gradually builds until finally they get together and smooch or sex each other. This story starts with physical intimacy, big moments are instead like, the first time Sendai volunteers to cook Miyagi dinner, the first time they go do something out in public together, the first time they hug. It's oddly wholesome! It's also nice that for once a Japanese author doesn't let things ever get kinda rapey - they're always very conscious of consent. Also,
    while the story starts with them in high school, they eventually graduate and move in as roommates (the paying money is long-past by then), and they don't have sex until they're like... 20 I think? So it's more about two fucked up people trying to make a relationship work long term than any sort of will they / won't they.

    I'd say the gold standard for "these two are thoroughly twisted yet compliment each other" is Flowers of Evil, and relationships never factored in at all(not between the two leads, anyway).

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Damn, Zom 100 is just a positive, hopeful zombie show, huh?

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  • EriktheVikingGamerEriktheVikingGamer Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Kupi wrote: »
    Cururu wrote: »
    Latest Frieren
    I think Fern now qualifies as a JoJo.

    Much magic ora ora ora.
    My brain has registered her as an honorary Touhou character.

    On the subject of Fern's power level:
    My read on it is that she's got a highly developed aura for her age because of her early start but is otherwise unremarkable. Suppressing her mana gives her the element of surprise, and her technique is unorthodox (to modern mages), being "just" a cloud of basic attack magic. The thing is that any hit with Zoltraak is potentially fatal, so she emphasizes scoring a hit over overwhelming defenses. It's like using your gunpowder to launch bullets instead of setting it off in one giant bomb. You get far more overall lethality out of the same amount of energy.

    To piggyback off of this a bit...
    One thing that Frieren comments early on about Fern's talent is that Fern's casting speed is fast. Which, when combined with Zoltraak's lethality and Frieren's teachings makes Fern potentially very scary

    IMO, this also lends itself to a slightly different interpretation of what Frieren said about Zoltraak being enough for mages of the era. Frieren wasn't necessarily making a general statement about the era they live in as much as she was making an assessment of what Fren might need in respect to fighting other mages. In other words, no need to get fancy when you can snipe them when their guard is down before it matters or exploit an opening in their defense the moment it appears.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Frieren question
    Does constantly suppressing your mana end up being a super work out for your mana gland or something?
    In that it's constantly forcing the mage to work their mana control. Think weighted clothes, but for magic.

    Anzekay on
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