Frieren and Fern defeats Qual | Frieren: Beyond Journey's End - Episode 3

This is Madhouse anime adaptation of "Sousou no Frieren (Frieren: Beyond Journey's End)".

Sousou no Frieren / Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

The demon king has been defeated, and the victorious hero party returns home before disbanding. The four-mage Frieren, hero Himmel, priest Heiter, and warrior Eisen - reminisce about their decade-long journey as the moment to bid each other farewell arrives. But the passing of time is different for elves, thus Frieren witnesses her companions slowly pass away one by one.

Before his death, Heiter manages to foist a young human apprentice called Fern onto Frieren. Driven by the elf's passion for collecting a myriad of magic spells, the pair embarks on a seemingly aimless journey, revisiting the places that the heroes of yore had visited. Along their travels, Frieren slowly confronts her regrets of missed opportunities to form deeper bonds with her now-deceased comrades.

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#葬送のフリーレン #sousounofrieren #frieren

[nyu]

I like how, yes he's simply got defeated some minutes after he woke up but the fact that he is smart enough to quickly understood the more modern magic is a good enough reason to defeat him ASAP.

[FirstLast-cgnk]

Imagine being the guy who first invented the very first gun, the Chinese Fire Lance, then suddenly being transported to the modern day and seeing modern weaponry and body armor... and being intelligent enough to see the flaws in the new equipment and work out how to exploit those flaws within minutes of discovering them. That's Qual.

[androidynamit]

Qual so op frieren paused the boss battle for 80 years just to learn all of his moves

[cdelio]

I love how everyone here isn't understimating and respecting Qual despite the little screen time he has
He is a force to be reckoned with

[EzekielDeLaCroix]

To put this into perspective, imagine he was one of the first gunpowder masters that could penetrate any armor at the time and his boss was like "In and out 20 minute adventure" and then he was like 'alright', got knocked out for hours and then woke up to find that within a couple of hours, people came up with modern body armor and then shot him with a 50 cal.

[hfar_in_the_sky]

Y'know, after we learn later that demons mimic human speech patterns as a defense mechanism/hunting tool, it really puts to mind how old fashioned Qual truly is. Unlike other demons he doesn't even pretend to look human, because back in the day his magic was so powerful he didn't need to. In a weird way it almost makes the other demons seem more monstrous, because Qual at least is "honest" in how he appears: an "inhumane" and vicious creature whose only desire is to kill, consume, and destroy. There is literally no difference between him and other demons other than appearance

[cara-seyun]

I love how you can see him realize the weakness at 0:14 after Fern’s smaller shield breaks, and he immediately switches from the scattershot approach to overpowering her shields

[hellothere]

It's insane how their magic is like 10 times more advanced than his but in just minutes, he figures out how to destroy the barrier

[leyrua]

I have to say, I love how he waves his arms around while he casts spells. It gives the impression that the arm movements are utterly disconnected from the spellcasting, he just likes the theatrics of it.

[tonts]

Qual's final words to Freiren when she killed him with Zoltraak, he's just realised what Freiren has done to his spell. Obvious spoiler warning for episode 8. It was revealed after Fern used Zoltraak on a demon, that the spell has been drastically altered to be significantly more lethal to demonkind. Qual obviously realised that when he got hit, and explains how it so easily one-shotted a demon who four legendary heroes were forced to seal, rather than slay.

[Kalimdori]

Qual just woke up 80 years in the future and after 1 minute he already found the weakness of the modern magic.

[muimeko]

This guy was an absolute beast, judging by the speed an intensity of his spell, Qual did the equivalent of inventing a minigun and bazooka while humanity were still running around with chainmail. At 0:17, you can even notice how he managed to penetrate the magic shield designed to nullify his attack, no wonder why they have to seal him away.

[isdere]

i love how they make magic like some kind of science in this world

[Mizar]

Qual over here conducting an orchestra

[qxTorii]

I love how Frieren subverts the Tolkien-style narrative of magic where ancient magicks are more powerful than modern magicks, a trope that has been copied to oblivion. In Tolkien's universe, the amount of magic in the world decreases with time. Frieren's magic system more closely mirrors humanity's advancement in warfare, where our methods of killing each other have only gotten better over time. It's like the Roman Army at the height of their power attempting to go against a modern military, it would be a slaughter.

That must be why Frieren loves magic, as far as she's concerned, magic is constantly moving at a breakneck pace.

[prlgue]

This makes me think of Sukuna getting revived after sorcerers spend generations figuring out how to defend against Strong Cleave

[assarlannerborn]

This scene was unironically more hype then the latest jjk episodes. The ost is 🔥

[Aiolet]

Frieren and Fern are definitely genius mages, but Qual is a prodigy above everyone else but the reality is unfair for him as Frieren has learned to play unfair by sealing him because of his capabilities and then kills him after 80 years where she has the upper hand. But it’s great to realize that Frieren understood all this and we can tell that Qual was able to learn and replicate magic from sight.

[mohammedalahmed]

I wouldn't mind having a dedicated anime about Qual... he seems very intelligent and collected

this character had a screen time of around 3 minutes, and yet I'm already in love lmao

[takanaka]

Eighty years ago, the most powerful magic of this evil demon was studied and countermeasures were taken afterwards, and now, eighty years later, it is powerless.