No.7278
today I finished Wandering Witch. i really liked Eleina – distant and self-absorbed, rather a calculating observer than a hero. just like me but in a form of a petite ashen-haired witch.
No.8092
I was peer pressured into watching Frieren (managed about 5 eps before I gave up), and I don't think it gave me much of interest. It should be stated that I've never cared for the medieval fantasy genre, no sophisticated takedown here, I just have never found it compelling, so all the people who personally told me that Frieren was so good that it somehow transcended genre in that regard were wrong.
If you take MGS3 as an example, I find it an interesting case where a Japanese author tries to imitate something of Anglo-American origin, but in doing so, produces a lot of tonal elements that position it as being very unlike something that would come out of those countries, compounded by the personal idiosyncrasies of its auteur. At risk of essentialising or repeating a Nihonjinron-based discourse/interpretation, Frieren is really the opposite to that idea, its characterisation and worldbuilding are buried so deep into the Tolkien mould that it really doesn't ignite anything on its own.
