When you realize that Himmel fell in love with Frieren during the first night they met, a elf that shines a light in his darkest moment, by Flamme's favorite magic, which resulted hero triumphs demon king and human era, it's all connected.

you can imagine how much mana Serie has, when Serie conceals her mana has the same size as Frieren when she releases all the mana she has

"You pass" she said to a human mage as she was moving in a garden made with a spell that creates flowers, while her concealing mana was flunctuating

First half of episode 27, Serie: I should never take on human disciples. Second half of episode 27, Serie: Fern, become my disciple.

After seeing this episode go back to the second episode and see the look on Himmel’s face when Frieren casts the spell that produces the field of flowers 😭 absolutely top tier anime.

Just realized Himmel loved flowers so much bc of that spell, He learned the language of flowers, wants to show Frieren the the blue moon flower in his hometown, the flower crowns ugh i love this show so much and credit to the writer, she made such a beautiful story and to the animators who brought it to life

"The anime added a contrast in that: when Fern was upset with Frieren earlier on, when Richter asked her whether she was Frieren's student she was silent and Stark had to answer for her. After Frieren fixed her staff she realized that Frieren really cared for her and that led to her saying loud and proud to Serie that she's Frieren's student."

A good rule of thumb for Series character, don't trust what she says, she is a tsundere to the utmost degree. Mana concealment is useless, but she does it herself, and has done for a LONG time. Her being disappointed in her human students, while true to a degree, it's just because they're shortlived and can't reach her level, but she truly does care for them all. She's arrogant and prideful, but she if anyone, has the right to be. Probably the oldest living person, and the most powerful.

I believe that since Serie's mana is fluctuating, it means she is suppressing her actual mana. If this is true, her suppressed mana is equal to Frierens total mana.

Thats the thing about seerie, her consealed mana is equal to frierens actual mana... Thats just how powerful she is. And thats to be expected, she has been alive for way longer than frieren.

When you realize that Himmel's love of flowers probably comes from that moment Frieren casted the field of flowers spell :O

the way they show Serie's dishonesty is so endearing

Think of Serie as a disappointed mother, who sees all the potential and possibilities in her daughter, that she could become a doctor or scientist, but then the kid wants to be a UKpostsr (just kidding 😉). Serie thinks Frieren, as a highly talented elf, could have become alomst as powerful as her in that time, but instead she spent her time in the woods, searching for "useless" spells. That bothers her. Really an absolutely imteresting character 🙂

"It looked like she was not concealing it at all" I had that exact thought. Then it hit me......that huge mana we saw WAS her concealing her mana......

Serie is suppressing her mana just the suppressed version looks like Frieren's not suppressed one...

the most important spell in history, is the spell to create field of flowers.

I was just as shocked as you when Richter apologized about the staff, but for good reason. In any other show that line would be a one-off quip that doesn't mean anything, but not in this show. That simple apology meant everything and developed character in a subtle manner. It's stuff like that that sets Frieren apart.

Fern's entrance with her typical pouting face was so on-brand but still so adorable. I like that she went to Stark to confide her feelings. Serie "doesn't believe in humans" when really she just wants to complain. I mean, she took on Flamme and complained about her after to Frieren lol.

My favourite part about this episode is the fact that Flamme's plan to defeat the demon king by suppressing mana failed. The Demon King saw through Frieren's mana at first glance. No, instead it was a spell for peace, a simple spell to create a field of flowers that brought together the ingredients needed to defeat the Demon King.

Didn’t think it was possible to love this episode more than the last one, but the storytelling and the pacing was so delectable 🧑‍🍳👌💋

i can kind of understand why Serie seems so cold hearted. She takes on these students who become exceptional like Flamme and the old mage we see in this episode, but by the time they become truly exceptional they vanish from the world. It would be very painful if you allowed yourself to become fully attached to people who exist in only a moment of your life, but Frieren in her journey shows us how yes it is painful, but also rewarding to start to open yourself to others. And try as she may even Serie is not able to fully close herself off, if she did not care at all about these people she wouldn't be disappointed in them, or remember Flamme's favorite spell or imagine her as a child.

After the moment Fern had around her staff, how Richter called her "Frieren's kid", and how proud she is of being Frieren's student, that ending song really hurts. Frieren resting her head on Fern's grave thinking how it reminds her of laying on her lap. It's heartbreaking...

9:08 Ok, you're missing the essential point, here. Lernen saw the fluctuations in Frieren's mana, but not in Serie. Yet he said: "equal to yours". But he didn't realize that even Serie was hiding her mana, EVEN when it was already to such enormous level as Frieren was at her fullest (= about equal as Series when she's hiding her mana). In short.... the enormous amount of mana you saw from Serie is only a fraction of her *actual* mana, because she, too, is hiding her mana, but to a level even Lernen isn't able to see through it. So, say both Elves, Frieren and Serie, hide their true mana and only show 1/10th of their actual mana, and Serie is showing about the same mana as Frieren at her actual, fullest mana.... that means Serie, in reality, has about ten times more mana than Frieren at full power! Coupled with the fact she's a few thousands years older, and has far, far more spells learned, and she is, without any doubt, one of the strongest mages that roam this world. FAR stronger than even Frieren.

Frieren's and Fern's relationship is more than teacher and student. Its family.

Serie has been doing this "truly pointless thing" for so long that her supressed mana is same as Frierens full mana. Flamme was taught by Serie to do this and Flamme passed it down to Frieren. And Heiter and Frieren together to Fern.

1. Flamme's Flower Star of Bethlehem When Celia mentioned the flower Flamel was fond of as boring magic, it was the same flower Flamme admired in her memories. Language of flowers: Talent, purity, innocence 2. Himmel's Flower Marguerite Language of flowers: Yellow marguerite represents "beauty," pink signifies "true love," and the most recurring white in the film represents "hidden love." 3. The Flower Serie Wants to Convince Fern to Become Her Disciple Lupinus Language of flowers: Imagination, greed, maternal love

We’re zooming through these reactions 😭

When Serie said that Frieren is relatively unskilled for her age, it's because Frieren has spent so much of her time training the suppression/concealment of her mana and to calm the fluctuations etc, to kill demons, because these are skills that are nominally not very useful as a mage when you could be training to increase your mana, your mana output or how fast you invoke your spells. Of course, the "relative" part is because even if Frieren spent most of her training suppressing her mana, the fact that she lives so much longer than humans means that even spending a little time training everything else she still has probably hundreds of years more training than any human in each of those other skills. Of course, we know that these seemingly "useless" skills are useful exactly because her enemies almost always underestimate Frieren, particularly demons who can barely even grasp the concept that someone would do this. Serie is just considering how much more of a raw powerful mage Frieren would be if she spent all that time training to cast faster, more powerful spells. And in the end, we don't even know what Serie is thinking when she's calling this practice a waste of time, or the flower field spell useless, because she uses both those things.

serie is a extreme case of tsundere 😂

I like that Frieren respects Fern from the bottom of his heart.

Serie is just a big tsundere. Her actions doesnt match on things she says. Also Serie doesnt do mana concealing all her life probably started on or after Flammes era or when she started to manage Magic Association 50 yrs ago to test mages but she do it so well that only few could see its instability. Fern being one of them for a very young age her mana observation is higher than an old 1st class mage, she could reach the full potential for a human mage.

And now we know why Himmel understood "flower language" with the reverse lotus ring episode.

The waterworks hit hard this episode 😢 thank you for reacting. Heiter is my favorite character, his moments may not hit as hard as Himmel's but they mean so much to me.

素敵なリアクションでした。ありがとう。 話はそれますが日本でもたくさんの考察が話されていますが、今回はエンディングについて。 エンディング曲の冒頭に登場する墓は「フェルン」の墓です。EDの最後にフェルンに膝枕されるFrierenはフェルンとの思い出を表しています。 膝枕のシーンはエンデに到着し、死者との対話の描写かもしれません。 OP、EP共に深い意味を持った作りになっています。葬送のフリーレンは本当に素晴らしい作品です。

Serie's concelaed mana is roughly the same size as Frieren's real mana. The fluctuations in her mana are so small and her mana is so huge that her students don't even consider that she might be suppressing it. Serie doesn't have anything against humans. All her students are human. She's just pissed off that Frieren lacks ambition and chooses to, from her p.o.v., waste her talent instead of training to become as powerful as possible because she's got the time to do so, while her human students with talent and ambition lack the time to reach the level of power she wants them to reach. She's terrible at expressing what she means, but if you pay attention to what she says, her dialogue is carefully written so that it can be taken two ways but her tone of voice and demeanor is meant to trick the audience into thinking she means something bitchy by default. Like when she told Lernen he was a disappointment, but she meant that it was too bad he was so powerful and had the potential to become even more powerful but he was old and wouldn't be able to realize that potential and training humans was frustrating to her because of that, but the way that interaction is written it seems like she was saying Lernen was a loser and training him was a waste of her time.

Now episode 2 when Frieren was looking for the flowers for Himmel holds a lot more weight retroactively. Himmel wanted to share the flowers of his hometown with Frieren since she shared flowers with him first.

Serie isn’t really wrong frieren before himmel hasn’t done anything for hunderds of years she was literally wasting her potential in the eyes of serie so when she said frieren was unskilled makes a lot a sense

wait, i've never been so early before, been waiting for your reaction and finally it is here !! I can relate to what you are feeling throughout this epsiode.

When Stark faces dragon: 🤺🫤🩸🪓💥 When Stark faces Fern:😖🙏🧎🥹😭

9:16 thats the point xD series Supressed mana is as big as frierens when she releases it.. thats also one of the reasons she calls her unskilled

wow you almost done! Congrats on almost finishing your Frieren journey :)

The return of heartwarming Fwiewen episodes :'> There's a lot of tie ups and reveals in this episode, and it's probably just me and it's subtle, but I really liked that Himmel's cloak was inspired from Frieren's cloak in that childhood memory. Also great analogy already pointed out before but Himmel was lost gathering herbs and years later he recruited Frieren while she was gathering herbs (ep10 i think)

Such wonderful feels. Frieren fixing Fern's staff and the Himmel back story was so good. This instance is probably when Frieren commented an idiot complimented her on making the field of flowers as something beautiful to him. Magic when Himmel was younger was proabably mainly used by demons so it was probably feared by humans.

Such a beautiful ep

Fern is the youngest third-class mage and now the youngest first-class mage.

I think it's noteworthy that while Frieren does believe in Fern, she also believes in Serie :) There are fascinating layers to her which i'm sure you already know after watching the finale. I hope we get more of her in the future

I recently got into reaction channels and I must say you're one of my favorites, I love going back and looking at your reactions! A shame you didn't react to Rengoku's death I would've liked to cried along side with you 💀🥲😔

Love your vids sis I be crying here with you 🤣🤣

Learning this Himmel and Frieren backstory makes that moment when Frieren casts the flower spell of blue-moon weed around Himmels statue in the second episode hit a little harder.

9:08 yeah she pretty much is concealing her mana and even if its concealed its so much

a flashback within a flashback! flashback-ception!

there needs to be a case study about how big of a tsundere serie is...

I need also to point out. But Frieren not seeing herself being a 1st class mage is because she doesn't want that live/job. She's a pacifist not a warrior, we were told a few times in past episodes. And that's why Serie and Frieren don't get along, Flamme explained it herself, Frieren is a mage of peace, Serie of conflict/war. Frieren is powerful thanks to her long life and hard training BUT Serie is far older and trained in a aggressive progression for power and knowledge meaning she develop her mana for that reason; Frieren just for surviving and kill demons, she doesn't have ambition beyond that

'It looked like she wasn't concealing it all' that's the point. Serie is so adept at concealing her mana that even Lernen who detected Frieren's tiny fluctuations has never detected Serie's - suggesting that Serie has far more mana than Frieren. So the mana she allows people to see is only a fraction of her true mana.

not sure if anyone had ever said this to you, but you'd look great in a Fern cosplay, I think it suits you really well!

other mages feared serie's mana fern feared the fact that serie's suppressing her mana

The Flower spell is the most powerfull spell because it summons the party of heros

As always your videos are great, for romance comedy anime, I highly recommend (masion ikkoku), it is old anime but in terms of story and comedy is one of the best.

A "Useless Spell" that saved the world.

Imagine a master setting up an exclusive scholarship that's reserved for hard studying elite students to go to good universities, only to have this old student that somehow already graduated from a top university to apply. The master asked, "I know you, you're not the study type, and you already went to college. Not sure why you're here. But I'll give you one last chance: are you going to study hard now" The student said "who cares about study. Not my favorite thing to do. YOLO". The master said, "Truly useless. You fail." The student said, "shrug. Who gives a monkey's ass about your lame scholarship in the first place." The master said "I still cannot believe some lazy student like you somehow got into Harvard." The student said "heh I had friends help. Friends? You know what that means?" You think she will get that scholarship? You think she should get that scholarship? No.

Yes - Frieren is relatively unskilled for her age. Remember in the dungeon when Fern exposed her fatal flaw - she loses the ability to detect mana momentarily when she casts - and she herself was embarrassed by a flaw that most beginners manage to work out relatively early in their careers... she apparently has more flaws than just this. And, as Serie said, because of the way Flamme trained Frieren - to spend all that time learning to suppress her mana - she has extreme control over her mana, perhaps too much in the grand scheme of things because she could have been working on other areas instead. However, just as Flamme trained her, as a result she's a demon-killing machine.

there was a theory that Serie is strong enough to kill the Demon king alone but she doesnt have the intention to do so as she is a warmonger as shown in the flashbacks with Frieren, where she cant imagine a peaceful era as compared to Frieren. SPOILER: to scale how strong Serie is, She can take out the strongest member of the 7 Sages of destruction in an instant but chose not to. Even the Member of the 7 sages of destruction didn't detected her mana.

After that Himmel scene, is it any surprise at all that Himmel learned the language of flowers?

when serie conceals mana that much mana still shows up thats craaaazy

Oh you gonna cry so hard in the last episode

Serie: "I have a student called Lernen but he ain't learnin' fast enough!"

oh she was concealing it all right her mana when concealed is equal to the full mana that frieren has. and Serie is a tsundere through and through.. she doesnt reveal her true feelings at all. this will be seen much more in the next episode. Then you will understand that behind the hard shell she actually cares.

i cried hard in the last episode thats why it would be embarrassing if we meet again... 😂😭😭

AAAAAAAAAHHH its almost over 😭

(This is not toward Alana, ok, cool.) Why people have a hard time to understand Serie cancel her mana? The ALL discussion is about it, it's on the face, word for word explained and it end with Serie just confirming the all flucation/hiding mana mean Serie is FAR more powerful than we saw. Most people just take offence of Lernen being old and Serie saying she regrets training him(wich she actually don't regret) or focus on Frieren being put at a lower lvl of Serie, bc Serie explain Frieren is a basic mage (Frieren is a pacific mage, we were told many times) to/compare to her (Serie). Idk lack of focus? or being distracted by their need to say their feelings toward Serie so they miss the last important bit? idk

Serie is concealing her mana, that was the concealed state.

if Frieren wasn't taking the second test Frieren's clone wouldn't be there either so without Frieren, the second test will be easier

You must watch ' Hokkaido girls are super adorable ' 😊

i was on a looking for a shade charcter while i was watching the show, there are no A-hole in this they all grew on me

Ep. 27 Alana Cried

I'm surprised so many people did not understand that Serie was concealing her mana. It's absolutely horrifying to think how incredibly huge it must be for her concealed mana to be equal to Frieren's actual mana.

the massive mana you see fro serie is suppressed and yet so huge so you can imagine what it'll be unsuppressed

Serie couldn't see the fluctuations Fern's mana.

Flower magic saved the world.

Serie is always right, that means Frieren doesn't deserve to be a first-grade mage. Why? Because she's not willing to put in the work, she's not really willing to fight for the world. Sure, if demons come her way she will dispatch them but look what's happening on the Northern Plateau and she simply doesn't care... she's going on a very selfish quest and that's it. Otherwise she would still be collecting folk magic or something like that. Serie's mages actually work to protect humanity, they're like the first line of defense... So it's not only about power but also about intentions.

I really can’t decide if 26 is better than 27. Or equal in their own ways.

Frieren full mana is Serie compress mana, yeah is crazy

basically series concealed mana is relative to frierens non concealed mana. spoilers below from what we know serie is the strongest mage alive right now and its by a lot

The split moment of sadness on Sarie face hurts me, the loneliness of the strongest. Again, she lost a chance to have a strong opponent

9:09 she is limiting her mana. she just has so much and done it for so long that others dont notice it and her limited mana is as much as frierens full mana

I've read the manga after I watched the whole anime, and boy, there's a lot to be excited if there's 0.01% of possibility for a season 2 😭But Madhouse is just mad for skipping every season 2 possibilities 😭😭 _kinda spoiler below_ ...... . . . . . . Man... I wanna see that wedding so bad 😭😭😭😭

Frieren Full Mana is more or less equal to Serie's suppressed Mana

In case you didn t notice, serie s surpressed mana is frieren full mana, and for a reason i believe that lernen saw those fluctuations but kept silent about it, maybe he didn t want to be aknowledged by serie

Grandma Serie holding back.🤣

Wow I’ve never been so early b4 😂

Serie has lived TOO LONG and she experiences difficulty showing her emotions. People would call that a tsundere. I belive Serie is kind at heart, she just values magic on a very high degree and doesn't want just a random nobody to use it, hence why she is incredibly strict as to who becomes a first class mage because in her mind, this is when you are a "proper" mage.

9:16 think again. what you said had the answer within. xD what do abnormal mana fluctuations mean? think xD

The reveal in this episode that serie’s suppressed mana is equal to frieren’s unsuppressed mana is insane. Serie must be absurdly busted in battle. She’d make frieren look like an apprentice.

Serie is very tsundere

oh serie, you tsundere you! LUL

About why Serie decided to start suppressing her own mana, I'd theorize it's for two reasons. One to prove to herself she can do it as well as or better than Flamme and Frieren, and second to test other mages and see if any of them are capable enough to see through it. Despite having now agreed to Flamme's request to guide humanity's magic, she still only wants to teach humans with a lot of talent, and seeing through her mana suppression would be a huge display of talent.

I feel like alana is missing out on the fact that serie is a big tsundere edit: or I'm missing out on her knowing about it

Yes frieren is actually pretty weak for a long lived elf. And lernen(the old first class mage) have a high chance of beating frieren because he's purely a war/battle focus mage.

Serie is a clichee tsundere. With the right spot in the heart. She get rly often misunderstanding, actually the only disappointment is the short life of Humans. Fern is the youngest first class mage ever, even lernen was a bit older, i guess. Or probably both become it at the same age.