#frienren

[r-annran]

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[letsgo242]

Ubel vs Ubel Fake _ Frienren

[dat-a]

holy whit tis frienren form soeiulsu no kfe3j

[druidquest]

anyome else horny as fuck when frienren gets stuck in yhe mimuc

[justadumbasskid]

They're demons. They don't need a reason. And the anime isn't even about fights. There's no reason for a flashy, giant fight scene when Frieren can accomplish the same goal, 1000% more efficiently by just confronting Aura. Aura even mentions that the last time the two met, Frieren was blasting flashy spells left and right, and was surprised as to why Frienren met her so quietly this time.

Frieren is 100% capable of completely erasing Aura in the blink of an eye, like Flamme did to those three demons in a flashback - but that's beside the point.

Now I'll admit, I can't predict what direction FBJE will take going forward, but if you're looking for flashy fightscenes and Frieren's involvement in them? Then you're barking up the wrong tree. Frieren's goal is not to fight, she will fight and kill if she has to, but her main goal is to reach Heaven and speak with the souls of her dearly departed. Every demon or otherwise monster that gets in her way doesn't need to be some grand, flashy, world-threatening hyper-evil villain with both a compelling motive and personality...they're just an obstacle, and will be treated as such.

Despite what I've posted about the series, I do enjoy Frieren. I'm not going to talk about why today, though, because I want to talk about how Aura the Guillotine is precision-engineered to be a boring antagonist.

Problem #1 is that Frieren's demons are basically just Evil. They want to kill non-demon people, and everything they do is directed towards that end. That's boring, and Aura doesn't really add anything to it. It's possible to make an interesting villain with a bland motivation, but the other parts of the villain need to pick up a lot of the slack.

Aura's personality isn't going to do that. She's not completely emotionless—she has a distinct air of hubris—but she's no Joker or Maleficent or Sukuna. A villain with an empty motive and a boring personality can still be memorable, but the plot events they're directly involved in need to be memorable.

For Aura, that's basically just a fight scene. Aura's fighting style divides the fight into two parts. First, she sends a bunch of headless guys in armor to attack Frieren, who dispels the magic that keeps them moving despite the decapitation. This is kind of boring; it's a bunch of mooks, who we know aren't going to beat out heroin, because they're mooks and Frieren is a millennium-old archmage who has blown up demon sages in the past.

Then there's the Scales of Obedience, which are let Aura control people. This is what D&D players like to call a save-or-die spell, and in narrative fiction, SoD spells generally won't work on main characters unless they're reversible. (With an exception for villains, mentors, etc who have a special SoD designed to counter that specific character.) So we know the Scales won't work. But that's not always a bad thing; the way that our hero avoids or negates the SoD spell can still be interesting.

The problem is that we know how Frieren can survive the SoD spell, because Aura told us how it would be negated. She mentions willpower can temporarily overcome the control, but there are a couple reasons we know that won't happen, and one of them is that the Scales are framed as a contest. Whoever wins that contest controls the other. That makes it pretty clear how the conflict is going to play out; the Scales will be activated, Frieren will win, and then it will be over.

This isn't automatically bad. Resolving conflicts through means other than straight fights can be interesting. Even at its most basic—something like You Must Possess X Character Trait To Survive—it can be a way of establishing or reaffirming character growth or something.

But the Scales of Obedience is an even more basic contest than that. Whoever has more mana wins.

You know how a lot of mediocre battle shonen battle series (or bad arcs in good shonen) are criticized for having fights that boil down to nothing more than "Whoever has the highest power level wins"? This is that, without even a scrap of pretense.

Pure power-level fight scenes can be fun, if there's interesting choreography...but there isn't any. Bland fight choreography can be redeemed with an interesting villain...but Aura isn't. A bland fight against a bland villain can at least feature an interesting conflict between the ideals of the hero and villain...but Aura wants to kill people and Frieren thinks murderous demons should be killed.

Aura isn't quite the most boring villain possible. I like her character design, and being flanked by a legion of headless armor is a neat visual. But neither of those is exceptional, they're just not bad, and they're certainly not enough to salvage everything else.