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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, S.1, Ep.20 - Necessary Killing (Patreon)

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2026-07-29 15:00:20
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Fern knows what's up. I was a little worried that she took out that other mage, but I am so happy that she didn't.

I thought at first that the mages in the first part were going to really kill each other, but I felt relief that no one was killed.

I am interested to see what happens with Frieren's group now that their Stille has been stolen and are now cornered by the other group with the older mage.

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Bret Lowe

It seems like many of the mages that have applied to be First-Class mages, or at least the mages that were focused on in the episode, appear to be combat oriented. As the saying goes, if your only tool is a hammer every problem is a nail. Aside from Frieren and Fern, all of the other mages could only think of combat as the way to reach their goal. Fern was the only one in her group that seemed to think of a way to capture a Stille without a fight (and Frieren took over before Kanne and Lavigne could devise anything on their own, if they were able to stop fighting long enough).

Spadeas

There is no need to kill, that what Denken said, just imobilising someone so they couldn't be up for the end of the test should be enough. But what you see here is the evolution of mankind and the difference between generations. Just like Frieren said that "basic offensive magic" is enough, because she is an old mage, the younger in contrary use specialised magic, because it is the current norm. Denken and Frieren who have known the world when the demon king was alive, know well how important life is, but the younger that don't know this, have lost this concept, only Wirbel know it because he his a mercenary and have fought in war. It's a subtle way of showing it rather than telling it, it's show that mage of the current time might be greedier because of the "privilege" and are impatient, killing is quicker and easier than immobiling, you don't have to control yourself to not "hurt" someone if you go for the kill. But fighting between party is essential in contrary, Frieren said it herself, it is very difficult to approach the bird if you can't conceal your mana enough or have a binding spell like Wirbel, not everyone could do what they have done, so stealing a stille from someone is the only choice they had after. That it for the explanation. Now I just want to glaze Fern a little bit, because i love that she is called "a monster" in this episode. I always liked this trope in media, when an unasuming character is called a monster by someone that we know is trong, that just show that the character in question is just that strong. The other exemple i have is from Hunter X Hunter but I don't know if you know this anime so i won't say much, but basically, it's the same feeling you had when Frieren release her mana when fighting Aura. Edit : Now that i think about it, you might see this trope in assassination classroom, i won't say much of course, don't want to spoil you, but i will talk about when it will happen.

Glen Kelley

Cliffhanger strikes again.

frantaf

I was thinking about what to say and not say about dehumanization and sending children to war, but at the decided to delete comment. Episode 21 is epic and have severall of my favorite moments.

Chris Bergsten

The test doesn't have any built-in requirement to fight or kill other people. There are enough Stille for everyone (presumably). But as you've seen, they can be quite hard to catch unless you have the right spells, and even a very talented mage might not have anything in their arsenal that's good for sneaking up on and capturing a very tough, very fast, mana-sensitive bird. Or they could just have bad luck and never find one. The requirement, after all, is not that you catch a Stille; it's that you get one SOMEHOW and show up with it at the deadline with your party intact. That means that stealing someone else's Stille or taking it by force is a perfectly valid tactic - and in a world where violence (by monsters, demons, etc) is common, and might often makes right, first class mages should be expected to be able to defend themselves as well. If Yale was the only school in the world you could get a degree from, and they also granted everyone who gets in a wish, and the only way to get in is to win a contest that doesn't have to be fair, it would probably be a bit more competitive. Also, it's Genau proctoring this test, which means he also gets to choose the test. As you learn more about him, you may understand why he picked this one... The one thing I never understand in this episode are the Stille that carelessly hang around Genau and Sense. We know that Frieren and Fern's mana concealing abilities are extraordinary, and Frieren in particular has been practicing for centuries; there's no way that Genau and Sense can conceal theirs as skillfully, and no reason for them to. Yet the show makes a point of showing that the Stille approach them with no fear at all. The only thing I can guess is that this test has been used so often that the Stille are used to them - but if it's only held every three years, and not guaranteed to be held at all (since it seems the tests and proctors aren't always the same from year to year), that doesn't feel likely.

Ray H

My Goddess, Serie, has finally appeared! 🥰

Bret Lowe

I have 3 hypotheses: 1. The tea in the teapot is something like catnip to the Stille (or the teapot is radiating some kind of anti-magic aura 2. Since there is no dome over the proctors, the Stille feel more free to escape if necessary 3. The Stille are illusions I have no other evidence for any of these ;)

Andrew Hellebrand

All the mages taking part have different skill sets and individual spell knowledge, plus each test is designed by one of the proctors (who themselves are one of the handful of existing first class mages) so they're different every three years when the exams are held. You can't really prepare in advance or revise beyond working on your overall abilities and it's more common to specialise as you become more proficient, Frieren (and to a lesser extent Fern) seeking out random spells is unusual and probably makes them more versatile than most other high level mages. If you have a test that your main skills are ill suited to solving directly, then you have to find alternative methods of meeting the criteria or you're not going to pass. It's not necessary here but violence is still often consider a normal way to solve things and whilst this is a fantasy environment with magic, you also need to remember this is still a brutal world where there's been prolonged wars with demons, who given the current scarcity appear to have committed genocide on the demon king's orders to try and wipe out the race of elves entirely. To give you a comparison of scale for how hard it is to become a first class mage, there are 450 main roster spots in the NBA at present for any given season (30 teams with 15 full roster spots, plus upto 3 two-way contracts per team but with many additional participation restrictions). It's extremely hard to become an NBA player, much less to then have a sustained career. By contrast whilst there's no theoretical upper limit to the number of mages that can pass the first class exam, in reality before this set of exams there's less than fifty alive and active in their entire world (I've seen 45 quoted but not 100% sure that's accurate).

Ash

Killing someone is much, much easier than defeating someone without killing them when weapons (or in this case, spells) are involved. If not killing was truly that simple, then wars wouldn't have casualties. In a situation where both sides are using lethal force, a non-lethal victory requires one side to have a huge advantage. Of course magic has a bit more flexibility, but you need to perform strong attacks to reduce your opponent's mana, and if they fail to block one, it could be deadly.