4:39 This part of the episode freaking breaks me. My great grandmother had dementia and was starting to forget everyone. My dad would visit her and would look at the photos by her bed and ask her about them. She looked at one of her husband, who been dead for about a decade, and said “I can’t remember his name, I just remember he was a special friend and always made me happy.” He would then go, “I think that’s your husband since that’s your wedding photo.” She would sometimes remember him when he said that. He would then go, “See that picture of your son, that’s my dad. That means I’m your grandson.” She would then smile at that, then my dad would show pictures of me and my siblings. “These are my kids, that means they’re your great grandchildren.” She would smile again and say, “I always wanted to be a great grandmother.”
Old Man Voll being senile and Frieren not knowing what to say hurts so much. It's so real/relatable to anyone who's had an older relative whose mind starts to go...
Old Man Voll hits me the hardest out of all the short stories in the season for that exact reason. It really feels like a story that younger viewers are less likely to relate to, but means so much for us who are older. The same goes with Heiter and Frieren's conversation about faking being an adult. We were all kids once in our lives.
God this show is magical. You get to know Old Man Voll for all of several minutes and you end up deeply caring for him and the memory of his wife. Absolute masterclass of writing characters.
I think the reason Himmel never actually told Frieren how he felt was this meeting with Voll. Seeing how the death of his wife effected the rest of his life probably made Himmel worried that if he and Frieren had an actual romantic relationship, it might effect the rest of her long life in the way it did Voll and did not want her spending the rest of her life missing him. The way this show hits the "People won't know how you feel unless you tell them" line so many times, I think it shows that Himmel never actually saying it was a choice on his part.
I like how this show goes against the usual Cliché of elf not respecting dwarf, with frieren having a lot of respect for them and even admiration specifically for warriors throughout the story, which us amusing considering she is a mage the total opposite of warriors. Also usually elf are always portrayed as vegetarians in different midia but frieren isn't at all lol she is almost a carnivore 😂😊
I believe it's because writers tend to be creatively bankrupt regarding the whole dwarf & elf stereotypes that mostly stem from Tolkien or D&D. It's very refreshing to see even the slightest bit of variance in their depiction like here.
Japanese fantasy has different tropes than Western fantasy. They have their own tropes like Adventure Guilds, a Demon King, a Hero Party, etc... Dwarves and Elves not getting along is actually kinda rare in Japanese fantasy, at least of those that I'm aware of.
@@Omar_Al_Seddikmost of those are western tropes though. The hero party comes from the fellowship and all the bands of plucky heroes in stories that followed. The demons king is just the dark lord tropez again very common in western fantasy. Japanese fantasy does seem to have been more influenced by games that were influenced by books rather than directly hence the adventures guild which is more a gaming trope.
Going against tropes is a great avenue for world building and character building. At least I think so. It makes us notice our preconceived notions about the world(s) we pay attention to, whether it’s fictional or our world. Edit: and even though elf/dwarf feuds may not be a thing in Japanese writing, it’s still meaningful that we view things like that through our lenses of analysis. It still breaks the trope, even if that isn’t its intention. 😁 I love this show
The tragedy of Kraft hurts so much in this episode - this reveal floored me and made me feel so much worse for Kraft. Not even Frieren knew who Kraft was and his accomplishments - it made me want to learn so much more about him and how we had a chance to but Frieren turned him down in the winter cabin. Maybe in a century or so we will finally find out. Thank you for sharing your reaction.
the sad thing is I've read manga and the story is really ahead of anime with 5 or six arcs and we still don't know any more information about him. at this point it's really gonna be century before we get to him.
@@alanscott6005 That's one of my favorite parts of this series - the amount of hints and details in the show and manga that allude to unexplained aspects about this fantasy world. There's enough potential plot threads to provide years of stories. The fact that the manga is ongoing (and currently on hiatus) is so tantalizing - I wanna know where all these threads lead!
12:23 a little fun fact here. Frieren says she could have used magic if it were a bronze statue, since back in episode 2 or so she learned a spell for cleaning bronze statues with Fern. What that also means is that Kraft is so old that he was from a time period prior to the knowledge of making bronze statues, however long that may have been. But that along with Kraft calling Frieren young several episodes ago really helps show how insanely long he’s been around.
Yeah, that little detail is great. My first thought also something like that. Kraft is a hero when human civilization just started, bronze might be so precious and rare, or even not found yet. Thats why i believe hes the second oldest elf in the series, since Serie claim to be around when human still doing ooga booga.
In episode 3, when Frieren mentions wanting to retrace her journey with Himmel, Fern asks "is it important to you?", to which Frierien replies "I don't know, that's what I'm trying to find out." Here she very clearly states how important her memories of Himmel are to her.
I'd also like think this is a point where he decides to have statues made of him (and the party), to give Frieren something to remember her friends by.
@@zergoon_Except that doesn't tie in with the story. They were making statues of him in the central lands as they travelled and this is at least a year's walk north of there (barring diversions to fight monsters).
I like how small ditails in this show can reveal soo much stuff, for example the fact kraft is now a priest makes so much more sense now that we know he had a friend who was a priest too, we can also theories something sad happened to that priest which is why it had such an impact on kraft he changed from warrior to priest and believing in the goddess I also think kraft now believes in the goddess not only because he wants to reunite with his friend who probably died but also he understood humanity will eventually forget you but the goddess will not since she is everlasting, which shows that kraft has a superior understanding of life than most people have, maumybe because of how old he is
@@headhunter1958 yeah he's a monk, very different from a priest in most fantasy settings. Although he is very religous, maybe his priest companion is a reason for that🤔
@@teguhlg Not always. In this case, it seems to be more in the D&D style and the main difference is that monks are religious and fight with martial arts, while priests are religious and can use divine magic. Monks might or might not in this world function as some sort of priest in their religious organization, but since his statue showed him as a warrior with a sword, I guess the implication is that he became religious and shifted his focus to unarmed, less deadly, combat. But we didn't see anything to suggest he can also cast divine-granted spells like Heiter or Sein, who are actual priests. The warrior/priest combo who uses holy magic is usually the Paladin, not the Monk.
I think this might be the first time I've heard reactors talk about how Frieren correcting Voll could have affected Voll going forward. It's also interesting that, like in ep 2, the ones who care to take care of and maintain the statues (monuments to the past) are the older people who are on their way out. They can probably feel it for themselves. (
Yeah, in the episode when they met, Stark said he looked powerful and he must be a famous monk and asked him about it, but Kraft just looked kind of serious for a moment, avoided the question and changed the subject to how they needed to go out and get the frozen supplies from his wagon. Later he told Frieren he believed in the goddess because he needed someone to remember him and his deeds, so I guess whether he's famous or not is a bit of a sensitive subject to him because he's seen that fame fades over time. Even "legendary hero" level fame.
4:47 The instant where Himmel realizes he loves Frieren too much to pursue her and leave her with ages of sadness and possibly trap her for the rest of her life like Voll's love for his dead human wife did. The saddest moment in this anime for me.
6:54 WOW you guys understand Frieren's intention why she didn't tell old man vol that the demon king was defeated🤯 Same with the sour grapes. You guys are the best reactors for this anime💯
I'm a Japanese who loves anime and speaks a little English. I've been watching reaction videos from people overseas to study English, and I've been watching you guys for the past month or two. I can really relate to your reaction videos, and I feel like I'm watching them with you. I'm so jealous that you two can share the things you love with your sisters. I have an older sister, but she doesn't watch anime. I'd love to request a reaction video from you two to The Apothecary Diaries. I'm really looking forward to seeing how you two feel and react.ありがとう！
The story building of this show is so subtle but absolutely crazy. They tell us how long it has been since Kraft has been a hero, without saying it outright. Frieren says, "If these statues were made of bronze, it would have been easier.". Meaning, Kraft and Goatee Priest were hero's BEFORE the Bronze Age. If we were to compare it to our time, Kraft would have been equivalent to Gilgamesh or another Mesopotamian legend in the present day of Frieren. That's almost 5 thousand years in the past.
I like how Frieren's farewell to Voll went from "Goodbye, Take Care" to "See you later" after he tells her he dreamt of her wife, as if to suggest she knows he'll keep on going because of it.
I love how this episode shows how much Fern and Stark's relationship has already changed. The short scene of Fern taking Stark's hand on the log wasn't even in the manga. 😏
Voll knew the Demon King was defeated. He's just suffering from senility, meaning he forgot in that moment. Frieren changes her mind about pointing that out because losing one's memory is frightening, and being reminded that it's happening makes it worse.
Remember, dwarfs (aside from Eisen) don't even believe in the afterlife, they believe that oblivion await us after death. So Voll isn't doing it for someone who'd be watching him from heaven. He is doing it just for the memory.
"When do you think people die? When they are shot in the heart by the bullet of a pistol? No. When they are ravaged by an incurable disease? No. When they drink a soup made from a poisonous mushroom? No! Its when they are forgotten!" -Some Doctor Quack in that one anime. 😅
The reveal that Voll wasn’t just faking losing his mental edge like the episode had previously made you think cracked my heart open. Every episode of this story is so good, but this one specifically still stands out to me.
I think Himmel meeting Voll was probably the moment he decided not to try to actively pursue her as a romantic partner. He saw an old man bound to a promise he made to someone long dead, and wouldn't have wanted Frieren to be bound to his memory and stuck in that way. He wanted her to take those memories and be free instead
Some people speculate that the person who was with Kraft when he was a warrior was the Sage Ewig. Ewig (German for "eternity") was a figure from a mythical era, unknown even to Frieren, and Heiter once asked Frieren to decipher a grimoire that had been found in his tomb.
I think most of us want to be remembered. Even if we wouldn't be able to know in the end, why does the comfort of knowing give us peace? Bonds are a powerful thing, and many of us have a hard time letting go.
You have a good memory, Voll was mentioned before but it was actually Voll Basin where they were looking for Flammes note with Eisen. Idk if its related to Old Man Voll though probably just the same name 😂
IMO this is one of the main duties of elves like Frieren, to carry people into the future, by remembering them. For me it's a callback to when Heiter saved Fern.
Frieren has made me ugly cry several times throughout. As someone who has had several family members suffer with senility, this was one of those episodes.
He did know the demon king had been defeated. But he's going senile so he sometimes forget. He's like a 90 year old grampa. But he obviously heard about the defeat of the demon king. Literally a war that lasted for a thousand years.
Some name translations for this episode: Kraft = Power (okay, thats an old one) The Blacksmith Nagel = Nail Voll = Full (maybe related to his age) Awesome reaction as always. May the tissues be with you
I'm glad that a scene was added that shows Stark and Fern's increased intimacy after the last episode, even if it doesn't have any dialogue and is drawn like a part of the background. It wasn't in the manga.
Old Man Voll has lived far past his time, and it's not catching up to him - it's caught up. When they suddenly start remembering old things crisply and clearly, it's nearing the end. Frieren realized this. It was clear to see on her face. That's why she said she'd remember him, because she knew the next time she came by he wasn't likely to be there. By the way, translate "Voll" from German to English and you get "Full." As in, full life (Old Man Voll), or full of history (Voll Basin).
This episode is ranked #2 in the list of episodes that f*ck me up every time, no matter how many times I watch them (#1 is episode 12, with Stark's memories of his brother, because DAMN), and I'm probably up around 40-ish rewatches now. I've had memory problems my whole life, and they get worse as I get older. Right now it's still more "occasional inconvenience" than "serious problem," but I've saw what cognitive decline did to my grandfather when I was a kid and I live in terror of what I may begin to forget as time continues to progress. As two different characters in this anime say, "The passage of time is cruel." I guess I just say all that to say it's only human to cry during this episode. Not everybody has the same reasons, of course, but the author of the manga and the director of the anime really understand the human heart and mind and they know how to touch parts of them we didn't even know needed healing.
On a more practical note, "voll" means "full" in German. There have probably been at least five different commenters popping in now and then to drop the "fun fact" that all the personal and place names in the series are German and they're often really on-the-nose. "Voll Basin" is full of meaning (or history or trees or something, IDK), and "Old Man Voll" has led a full life. As far as I know, it's the only time the same German word is used more than once, but there's no evidence they're related in any way. I just think it's funny that people think they're revealing some big secret when they say "all the names are German!" as if like half of anime doesn't use Germanic naming conventions for its European-coded caucasian equivalents. 😅
By the way, did you notice what may have been implied at the end where Voll remembered his wife?.. Much like my late grandma who neared her end, his memories finally became clear, a time of terminal lucidity where they may remember what they have forgotten. Frieren might've known that, hence her short and concise "Sore Ja" which would translate as "Bye", much like a see you later.. which would imply that they'd see him later at Ende.
@ I can see that as a possibility, but I actually interpreted that scene a little differently. One of Voll-ji's problems is that nobody in the village will just hang out and talk to him. The isolation he endures just sitting there at the edge of the village, day in and day out, with everyone who lives there thinking of him as "just a senile old man," would definitely exacerbate the kind of cognitive decline he displays. Our brains keep working longer and better when we are able to actually use them. When he remembers his wife after talking to Frieren, I understood that to be specifically because he was able to actually talk about her with someone the day before. The way Old Man Voll's village treats him is a shame for several reasons, but perhaps first among them is that they are literally making him decline faster.
There is a moment in which the director decides to show the eyes of Himmel while Voll sharing his story. This is the moment when Himmel draw a parallels between Voll and Frieren, and may be decides not to go all in with his confession. If he goes all in with his romantic love for Frieren and then he dies, she will turn into Voll. There is even a bar in ED's Milet Lyrics - Even without any promises/vow/oath.
German names: Voll = full (may also mean totally, e. g. "Er ist voll stark." = "He's totally strong."; Nagel = nail. Also I feel stupid I only now realized Himmel had blue hair. Like the sky.
You can see the moment in Himmel's eyes when he compares Voll and his wife to his own love for Frieren. I think this is the moment Himmel decides to not display his love anymore in a romantic sense. He assumes it would be too painful for Frieren to carry forward.
This was the episode that really hit hard. Four year one and like Old Man Voll I sometimes struggle to remember what my late face's smile looked like. She lives only in my dreams. This show _gets it._
Being able to reminisce with Frieren day after day enabled Voll to finally have a dream about his dead wife. That hit me hard when I watched it the first time, too. This show is so good at the unexpected feels.
The statue of Kraft and the guy who looks like Sein that they saw as children was implied to be close to his village, and it wasn't the same they saw in this episode. Heiter was with them in the flashback and they were children, so it happened during Heiter's visit to his village. One of them even said the village chief said the statue depicted ancient heroes nobody remembers anymore. So there's probably a few statues of Kraft and his friend strewn across the continent, though nobody remembers who they are because whatever they did happened so long ago.
It's a cool theory but Sage and Priest are different classes, and everyone recognizes Kraft's companion as a priest since he's holding a Holy Scripture (a priest's weapon, akin to Kraft's sword.) There's another theory but it's heavy manga spoilers.
@ Cool!! (What do we know from the manga that the Goddess's magic does, who is the most gifted priest at the Goddess's magic perhaps ever, and which character have we already met that the statue-priest looks ironically like..)
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The immortality of elves in Frieren's world is optimized to such a degree that my theory crafted opinion (not spoiler nor official) is that the ancestors of elves strove to achieve immortality as a very deliberate project. One wherein details important to making a long life worth living were taken into account. Details such as sharp memory and supple minds able to learn new things throughout their long lives were baked into the genetic/magical heritage just as much as the regeneration of cartilage in knees and teeth would have been. I think we see this highlighted in contrast to the much less perfect memory of Old Man Vol. A long lived dwarf with high skills who is set in his ways with fuzzier memory than we've seen with elves.
ok i should probably clarify. there's an "anime" character archetype of a *mature* (late 20s to early 40s) older lady that has a mature apeal to her. Sein isn't actually looking for grandmas and while frieren i old she is not very mature (nor looks very mature) which is the reason she doesnt fit his criteria
We have indeed heard the word Voll before in the show, in reference to the Voll basin which Frieren, Fern and Eisen explore to find Flamme's genuine notes. Good memory! The german word Voll refers to being full or saturated. One might take this as a reference to the Voll basin having once been full of water or life at the time it was named, and maybe one could interpret meaning into the promise of a meaningful adventure trapped in Flamme's notes, just awaiting Frieren's arrival. I'd say that in old man Voll's case, the name is probably meaningful in regards to the full life he has led defending a cherished promise.
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I think Himmel realized during his conversation with Voll that Frieren will be the ‘Voll’ of his party one day. She’ll be old, decrepit, and carrying the accumulated stress and emotional anguish of a thousand human lifetimes, so he made it his duty to make her as happy as possible while he was alive. Perhaps that’s why elves are so emotionally closed off. It’s an evolutionary response. A method of self-preservation. If they felt as much as humans do then they’d suffer emotional collapse along their insanely long lifespans.
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We've heard the name Voll before but in context to Voll Basin which is where Flamme's house was. Whether Old Man Voll has any connection to it, who knows. Old Man Voll is finally going senile in that he doesn't remember that the Demon King was defeated.
Spoiler Alert 🚨🚨🚨 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sein's friend became one of the obstacle in the series right now. He became one of the Shadow Warrior which is working on assassination mission against Serie.
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Is it just me that thought that Voll old man memory is getting worse with that comment, that's why Frieren said she'll bring his memories too to the future, after his nearing death. 400 years old dwarf, that'd be like 120 years old human or more.
That's what it is. Slips like this can happen mid-conversation, where they go from perfectly lucid to missing time and memory. Sometimes it hurts too much to remind the person again and again that they are slipping, so you just ignore it.
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4:39 This part of the episode freaking breaks me. My great grandmother had dementia and was starting to forget everyone. My dad would visit her and would look at the photos by her bed and ask her about them. She looked at one of her husband, who been dead for about a decade, and said “I can’t remember his name, I just remember he was a special friend and always made me happy.”
He would then go, “I think that’s your husband since that’s your wedding photo.” She would sometimes remember him when he said that. He would then go, “See that picture of your son, that’s my dad. That means I’m your grandson.” She would then smile at that, then my dad would show pictures of me and my siblings. “These are my kids, that means they’re your great grandchildren.” She would smile again and say, “I always wanted to be a great grandmother.”
Bro u didn't need to make me cry more today.
That is really sweet of him, all things considered this warms my heart
@@sherryx9930 real, trying so hard not to make a noise. Anything related to dementia hits me straight through the heart
その愛は記憶に刻まれていますよ
Old Man Voll being senile and Frieren not knowing what to say hurts so much. It's so real/relatable to anyone who's had an older relative whose mind starts to go...
Old Man Voll hits me the hardest out of all the short stories in the season for that exact reason. It really feels like a story that younger viewers are less likely to relate to, but means so much for us who are older. The same goes with Heiter and Frieren's conversation about faking being an adult. We were all kids once in our lives.
Your comment broke me a little, unfortunately it's a hard and sad truth.
God this show is magical. You get to know Old Man Voll for all of several minutes and you end up deeply caring for him and the memory of his wife.
Absolute masterclass of writing characters.
I think the reason Himmel never actually told Frieren how he felt was this meeting with Voll. Seeing how the death of his wife effected the rest of his life probably made Himmel worried that if he and Frieren had an actual romantic relationship, it might effect the rest of her long life in the way it did Voll and did not want her spending the rest of her life missing him. The way this show hits the "People won't know how you feel unless you tell them" line so many times, I think it shows that Himmel never actually saying it was a choice on his part.
I like how this show goes against the usual Cliché of elf not respecting dwarf, with frieren having a lot of respect for them and even admiration specifically for warriors throughout the story, which us amusing considering she is a mage the total opposite of warriors.
Also usually elf are always portrayed as vegetarians in different midia but frieren isn't at all lol she is almost a carnivore 😂😊
I believe it's because writers tend to be creatively bankrupt regarding the whole dwarf & elf stereotypes that mostly stem from Tolkien or D&D. It's very refreshing to see even the slightest bit of variance in their depiction like here.
Japanese fantasy has different tropes than Western fantasy. They have their own tropes like Adventure Guilds, a Demon King, a Hero Party, etc... Dwarves and Elves not getting along is actually kinda rare in Japanese fantasy, at least of those that I'm aware of.
@@Omar_Al_Seddikmost of those are western tropes though. The hero party comes from the fellowship and all the bands of plucky heroes in stories that followed. The demons king is just the dark lord tropez again very common in western fantasy.
Japanese fantasy does seem to have been more influenced by games that were influenced by books rather than directly hence the adventures guild which is more a gaming trope.
Going against tropes is a great avenue for world building and character building. At least I think so. It makes us notice our preconceived notions about the world(s) we pay attention to, whether it’s fictional or our world.
Edit: and even though elf/dwarf feuds may not be a thing in Japanese writing, it’s still meaningful that we view things like that through our lenses of analysis. It still breaks the trope, even if that isn’t its intention. 😁
I love this show
Maybe she is a Bosmer
The tragedy of Kraft hurts so much in this episode - this reveal floored me and made me feel so much worse for Kraft. Not even Frieren knew who Kraft was and his accomplishments - it made me want to learn so much more about him and how we had a chance to but Frieren turned him down in the winter cabin. Maybe in a century or so we will finally find out. Thank you for sharing your reaction.
the sad thing is I've read manga and the story is really ahead of anime with 5 or six arcs and we still don't know any more information about him. at this point it's really gonna be century before we get to him.
@@alanscott6005 That's one of my favorite parts of this series - the amount of hints and details in the show and manga that allude to unexplained aspects about this fantasy world. There's enough potential plot threads to provide years of stories. The fact that the manga is ongoing (and currently on hiatus) is so tantalizing - I wanna know where all these threads lead!
Hits harder when you realize there were probably countless heroes forgotten throughout actual history.
@@EtopiaCA the south hero was the ultimate gigachad goddamn t.t
12:23 a little fun fact here. Frieren says she could have used magic if it were a bronze statue, since back in episode 2 or so she learned a spell for cleaning bronze statues with Fern. What that also means is that Kraft is so old that he was from a time period prior to the knowledge of making bronze statues, however long that may have been. But that along with Kraft calling Frieren young several episodes ago really helps show how insanely long he’s been around.
Yeah, that little detail is great.
My first thought also something like that.
Kraft is a hero when human civilization just started, bronze might be so precious and rare, or even not found yet.
Thats why i believe hes the second oldest elf in the series, since Serie claim to be around when human still doing ooga booga.
In episode 3, when Frieren mentions wanting to retrace her journey with Himmel, Fern asks "is it important to you?", to which Frierien replies "I don't know, that's what I'm trying to find out."
Here she very clearly states how important her memories of Himmel are to her.
4:53 yeah, that conversation must be one of the major reason Himmel held back his own feelings for Frieren 😢
I'd also like think this is a point where he decides to have statues made of him (and the party), to give Frieren something to remember her friends by.
@@zergoon_Except that doesn't tie in with the story. They were making statues of him in the central lands as they travelled and this is at least a year's walk north of there (barring diversions to fight monsters).
I like how small ditails in this show can reveal soo much stuff, for example the fact kraft is now a priest makes so much more sense now that we know he had a friend who was a priest too, we can also theories something sad happened to that priest which is why it had such an impact on kraft he changed from warrior to priest and believing in the goddess
I also think kraft now believes in the goddess not only because he wants to reunite with his friend who probably died but also he understood humanity will eventually forget you but the goddess will not since she is everlasting, which shows that kraft has a superior understanding of life than most people have, maumybe because of how old he is
Isn‘t Kraft a monk? That makes quite a difference in a D&D inspired world like Frieren‘s
@@headhunter1958 yeah he's a monk, very different from a priest in most fantasy settings. Although he is very religous, maybe his priest companion is a reason for that🤔
Kraft is at least three thousands years old
@@headhunter1958Isnt Monk just a combination of priest and warrior in most fantasy setting?
@@teguhlg Not always. In this case, it seems to be more in the D&D style and the main difference is that monks are religious and fight with martial arts, while priests are religious and can use divine magic. Monks might or might not in this world function as some sort of priest in their religious organization, but since his statue showed him as a warrior with a sword, I guess the implication is that he became religious and shifted his focus to unarmed, less deadly, combat. But we didn't see anything to suggest he can also cast divine-granted spells like Heiter or Sein, who are actual priests. The warrior/priest combo who uses holy magic is usually the Paladin, not the Monk.
I think this might be the first time I've heard reactors talk about how Frieren correcting Voll could have affected Voll going forward.
It's also interesting that, like in ep 2, the ones who care to take care of and maintain the statues (monuments to the past) are the older people who are on their way out. They can probably feel it for themselves. (
Kraft even said no one remembers his heroic deeds any longer. Even someone as great as he who saved the world will be forgotten in time.
Yeah, in the episode when they met, Stark said he looked powerful and he must be a famous monk and asked him about it, but Kraft just looked kind of serious for a moment, avoided the question and changed the subject to how they needed to go out and get the frozen supplies from his wagon. Later he told Frieren he believed in the goddess because he needed someone to remember him and his deeds, so I guess whether he's famous or not is a bit of a sensitive subject to him because he's seen that fame fades over time. Even "legendary hero" level fame.
I think Kraft is at least 3000 years old, because he told Frieren that she is still young, and Frieren is a thousand year old elf
4:47 The instant where Himmel realizes he loves Frieren too much to pursue her and leave her with ages of sadness and possibly trap her for the rest of her life like Voll's love for his dead human wife did. The saddest moment in this anime for me.
i always thought it was a parallel there but never thought of it like that - but i like your take and it's so sad
6:54 WOW you guys understand Frieren's intention why she didn't tell old man vol that the demon king was defeated🤯 Same with the sour grapes. You guys are the best reactors for this anime💯
You are legit the... 10th? Channel ive watched looking at this anime. Love how you both clock onto things. Even if you dont say it in the moment.
I'm a Japanese who loves anime and speaks a little English. I've been watching reaction videos from people overseas to study English, and I've been watching you guys for the past month or two. I can really relate to your reaction videos, and I feel like I'm watching them with you. I'm so jealous that you two can share the things you love with your sisters. I have an older sister, but she doesn't watch anime. I'd love to request a reaction video from you two to The Apothecary Diaries. I'm really looking forward to seeing how you two feel and react.ありがとう！
The story building of this show is so subtle but absolutely crazy. They tell us how long it has been since Kraft has been a hero, without saying it outright. Frieren says, "If these statues were made of bronze, it would have been easier.". Meaning, Kraft and Goatee Priest were hero's BEFORE the Bronze Age. If we were to compare it to our time, Kraft would have been equivalent to Gilgamesh or another Mesopotamian legend in the present day of Frieren. That's almost 5 thousand years in the past.
I like how Frieren's farewell to Voll went from "Goodbye, Take Care" to "See you later" after he tells her he dreamt of her wife, as if to suggest she knows he'll keep on going because of it.
I love how this episode shows how much Fern and Stark's relationship has already changed. The short scene of Fern taking Stark's hand on the log wasn't even in the manga. 😏
Voll knew the Demon King was defeated. He's just suffering from senility, meaning he forgot in that moment. Frieren changes her mind about pointing that out because losing one's memory is frightening, and being reminded that it's happening makes it worse.
Remember, dwarfs (aside from Eisen) don't even believe in the afterlife, they believe that oblivion await us after death.
So Voll isn't doing it for someone who'd be watching him from heaven. He is doing it just for the memory.
He's doing it because it matters to him. It's strangely selfish and yet entirely heartfelt as an outsider.
yeah right they don't believe in the after life
"When do you think people die? When they are shot in the heart by the bullet of a pistol? No. When they are ravaged by an incurable disease? No. When they drink a soup made from a poisonous mushroom? No! Its when they are forgotten!"
-Some Doctor Quack in that one anime. 😅
The reveal that Voll wasn’t just faking losing his mental edge like the episode had previously made you think cracked my heart open. Every episode of this story is so good, but this one specifically still stands out to me.
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I think Himmel meeting Voll was probably the moment he decided not to try to actively pursue her as a romantic partner. He saw an old man bound to a promise he made to someone long dead, and wouldn't have wanted Frieren to be bound to his memory and stuck in that way. He wanted her to take those memories and be free instead
Some people speculate that the person who was with Kraft when he was a warrior was the Sage Ewig. Ewig (German for "eternity") was a figure from a mythical era, unknown even to Frieren, and Heiter once asked Frieren to decipher a grimoire that had been found in his tomb.
Everytime Milet comes in with that ending song, I yell "No!!, we're not alright, Milet! 😭😭"
I think most of us want to be remembered. Even if we wouldn't be able to know in the end, why does the comfort of knowing give us peace? Bonds are a powerful thing, and many of us have a hard time letting go.
You have a good memory, Voll was mentioned before but it was actually Voll Basin where they were looking for Flammes note with Eisen. Idk if its related to Old Man Voll though probably just the same name 😂
You guys are so sweet. Love your reaction
IMO this is one of the main duties of elves like Frieren, to carry people into the future, by remembering them. For me it's a callback to when Heiter saved Fern.
Frieren has made me ugly cry several times throughout. As someone who has had several family members suffer with senility, this was one of those episodes.
He did know the demon king had been defeated. But he's going senile so he sometimes forget. He's like a 90 year old grampa. But he obviously heard about the defeat of the demon king. Literally a war that lasted for a thousand years.
Some name translations for this episode:
Kraft = Power (okay, thats an old one)
The Blacksmith Nagel = Nail
Voll = Full (maybe related to his age)
Awesome reaction as always. May the tissues be with you
An episode about memory. And man... the Voll chapter is really touching!
I'm glad that a scene was added that shows Stark and Fern's increased intimacy after the last episode, even if it doesn't have any dialogue and is drawn like a part of the background. It wasn't in the manga.
Old Man Voll has lived far past his time, and it's not catching up to him - it's caught up. When they suddenly start remembering old things crisply and clearly, it's nearing the end. Frieren realized this. It was clear to see on her face. That's why she said she'd remember him, because she knew the next time she came by he wasn't likely to be there. By the way, translate "Voll" from German to English and you get "Full." As in, full life (Old Man Voll), or full of history (Voll Basin).
This episode is ranked #2 in the list of episodes that f*ck me up every time, no matter how many times I watch them (#1 is episode 12, with Stark's memories of his brother, because DAMN), and I'm probably up around 40-ish rewatches now. I've had memory problems my whole life, and they get worse as I get older. Right now it's still more "occasional inconvenience" than "serious problem," but I've saw what cognitive decline did to my grandfather when I was a kid and I live in terror of what I may begin to forget as time continues to progress. As two different characters in this anime say, "The passage of time is cruel."
I guess I just say all that to say it's only human to cry during this episode. Not everybody has the same reasons, of course, but the author of the manga and the director of the anime really understand the human heart and mind and they know how to touch parts of them we didn't even know needed healing.
On a more practical note, "voll" means "full" in German. There have probably been at least five different commenters popping in now and then to drop the "fun fact" that all the personal and place names in the series are German and they're often really on-the-nose. "Voll Basin" is full of meaning (or history or trees or something, IDK), and "Old Man Voll" has led a full life. As far as I know, it's the only time the same German word is used more than once, but there's no evidence they're related in any way.
I just think it's funny that people think they're revealing some big secret when they say "all the names are German!" as if like half of anime doesn't use Germanic naming conventions for its European-coded caucasian equivalents. 😅
By the way, did you notice what may have been implied at the end where Voll remembered his wife?.. Much like my late grandma who neared her end, his memories finally became clear, a time of terminal lucidity where they may remember what they have forgotten. Frieren might've known that, hence her short and concise "Sore Ja" which would translate as "Bye", much like a see you later.. which would imply that they'd see him later at Ende.
@ I can see that as a possibility, but I actually interpreted that scene a little differently. One of Voll-ji's problems is that nobody in the village will just hang out and talk to him. The isolation he endures just sitting there at the edge of the village, day in and day out, with everyone who lives there thinking of him as "just a senile old man," would definitely exacerbate the kind of cognitive decline he displays. Our brains keep working longer and better when we are able to actually use them.
When he remembers his wife after talking to Frieren, I understood that to be specifically because he was able to actually talk about her with someone the day before. The way Old Man Voll's village treats him is a shame for several reasons, but perhaps first among them is that they are literally making him decline faster.
Man, I can't wait for you guys to get to Season 2.
There is a moment in which the director decides to show the eyes of Himmel while Voll sharing his story. This is the moment when Himmel draw a parallels between Voll and Frieren, and may be decides not to go all in with his confession. If he goes all in with his romantic love for Frieren and then he dies, she will turn into Voll. There is even a bar in ED's Milet Lyrics - Even without any promises/vow/oath.
Old Man Voll. True cinema.
I love your reactions!
German names: Voll = full (may also mean totally, e. g. "Er ist voll stark." = "He's totally strong."; Nagel = nail.
Also I feel stupid I only now realized Himmel had blue hair. Like the sky.
React to “The Apothecary Diaries” after you are done with Frieren. Its one of the best animes of the year!!
You can see the moment in Himmel's eyes when he compares Voll and his wife to his own love for Frieren. I think this is the moment Himmel decides to not display his love anymore in a romantic sense. He assumes it would be too painful for Frieren to carry forward.
This was the episode that really hit hard. Four year one and like Old Man Voll I sometimes struggle to remember what my late face's smile looked like. She lives only in my dreams.
This show _gets it._
Imagine forgetting the love of your life. Too tragic to even think about.
Being able to reminisce with Frieren day after day enabled Voll to finally have a dream about his dead wife. That hit me hard when I watched it the first time, too. This show is so good at the unexpected feels.
The statue of Kraft and the guy who looks like Sein that they saw as children was implied to be close to his village, and it wasn't the same they saw in this episode. Heiter was with them in the flashback and they were children, so it happened during Heiter's visit to his village. One of them even said the village chief said the statue depicted ancient heroes nobody remembers anymore. So there's probably a few statues of Kraft and his friend strewn across the continent, though nobody remembers who they are because whatever they did happened so long ago.
the voll episode is my favorite always make me cry .
This is off topic cause this isn’t even an anime but the show Severance would be a top tier show to react to it’s a 10/10
Girls after Frieren should watch Full Metal Alchemists brotherhood, you will not regret the best in history, only 64 episodes
I know you ladies are already ahead but I wanna know how many tissues you ended up going through - haha!
Some speculate that Kraft companion was Elwig the Sage, the author of the book that Either asked Frieren to decode
There's also a theory that the Hero sword belongs to Kraft (his statue shows him wielding a sword),which is why Himmel couldn't draw it.
It's possible since Ewig is a hero from the mythical era.
It's a cool theory but Sage and Priest are different classes, and everyone recognizes Kraft's companion as a priest since he's holding a Holy Scripture (a priest's weapon, akin to Kraft's sword.)
There's another theory but it's heavy manga spoilers.
@ninnikuprobability I'm up to date with the manga
@ Cool!! (What do we know from the manga that the Goddess's magic does, who is the most gifted priest at the Goddess's magic perhaps ever, and which character have we already met that the statue-priest looks ironically like..)
I've found myself looking forward to these uploads every couple of days. The country is... fucked. But these videos add levity to the daily horror. thank you.
The immortality of elves in Frieren's world is optimized to such a degree that my theory crafted opinion (not spoiler nor official) is that the ancestors of elves strove to achieve immortality as a very deliberate project. One wherein details important to making a long life worth living were taken into account. Details such as sharp memory and supple minds able to learn new things throughout their long lives were baked into the genetic/magical heritage just as much as the regeneration of cartilage in knees and teeth would have been. I think we see this highlighted in contrast to the much less perfect memory of Old Man Vol. A long lived dwarf with high skills who is set in his ways with fuzzier memory than we've seen with elves.
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the statue of the man that looks like Sein it could be Ewig The Sage and probably related to Sein, its just a theory but maybe...
Ohh it's Gan Fall😂
If Voll remembered his wife... sadly, that's the end for him. A moment of clearness before oblivion...
Please watch "spy x family "... this is the cutest anime I've ever seen . Also, Frieren's voice actor is there too
ok i should probably clarify. there's an "anime" character archetype of a *mature* (late 20s to early 40s) older lady that has a mature apeal to her. Sein isn't actually looking for grandmas and while frieren i old she is not very mature (nor looks very mature) which is the reason she doesnt fit his criteria
"The crying in this show always feels good." Nailed it!
Yep, they're different sets of statues.
In this episode now you guys know why himmel didn't confess directly to frieren
2024 “I’m not okay” 2025 “still not okay😭”
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I feel like if Frieren told Voll about the demon kings death, he would die, kind of how Himmel passed away after the last promised came to.
We have indeed heard the word Voll before in the show, in reference to the Voll basin which Frieren, Fern and Eisen explore to find Flamme's genuine notes. Good memory!
The german word Voll refers to being full or saturated. One might take this as a reference to the Voll basin having once been full of water or life at the time it was named, and maybe one could interpret meaning into the promise of a meaningful adventure trapped in Flamme's notes, just awaiting Frieren's arrival. I'd say that in old man Voll's case, the name is probably meaningful in regards to the full life he has led defending a cherished promise.
.... I'm not gonna lie and I'm a little embarrassed to say this but @ 7:37 I thought the same thing as Stark. XD
I don't know why, but this old man always made me tear up
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Time is truly an Extradimensional Reality. 🧘
- Time reveals all wounds, with a promise to heal them, if you give them time to. 🪞
- while time is fleeting, our memories of the past tend to remain static- moving our hearts more and more as it passes. 🔄
We remember the past to inform the future, but set it aside to face it. 😌
✋ Live in the present 🤚
Because it is the only thing that is always here and now!
XOXO 💋 Sisters 👯♀️
im realy Intristed, How much who Watch Frieren, and dont know, all the Character names and City names, are german Words :3
I think Himmel realized during his conversation with Voll that Frieren will be the ‘Voll’ of his party one day. She’ll be old, decrepit, and carrying the accumulated stress and emotional anguish of a thousand human lifetimes, so he made it his duty to make her as happy as possible while he was alive.
Perhaps that’s why elves are so emotionally closed off. It’s an evolutionary response. A method of self-preservation. If they felt as much as humans do then they’d suffer emotional collapse along their insanely long lifespans.
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Lyrics of second part focus on the relationship between himmle and frieren and made me feel so emotional😭
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Voll means full in german. I like to think they chose this name to imply that an elder person is full of memories
Since you all are so far away on patreon I'll start saying this now. Delicious in Dungeon is a good follow up anime to this. It is what I did and was quite satisfying. Similar but different enough to not compare.
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this ep is hitting me so close to home every time since my mom started to show signs of Alzheimer 😭
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They shud really watch the official eng op by yaosobi. Judging by their reactions so far they would def really like it. Heck they shud also watch the lyrics for the ed by millet too.
We've heard the name Voll before but in context to Voll Basin which is where Flamme's house was. Whether Old Man Voll has any connection to it, who knows. Old Man Voll is finally going senile in that he doesn't remember that the Demon King was defeated.
Have you guys watched apothecary diaries?
自動生成翻訳に日本語追加してくれると助かる
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Sein's friend became one of the obstacle in the series right now. He became one of the Shadow Warrior which is working on assassination mission against Serie.
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Is it just me that thought that Voll old man memory is getting worse with that comment, that's why Frieren said she'll bring his memories too to the future, after his nearing death. 400 years old dwarf, that'd be like 120 years old human or more.
That's what it is. Slips like this can happen mid-conversation, where they go from perfectly lucid to missing time and memory. Sometimes it hurts too much to remind the person again and again that they are slipping, so you just ignore it.
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