Frieren Beyond Journey's End Ep26 REACTION (Early Uncut Access)
Added 2024-11-25 00:56:09 +0000 UTCEpisode 26 | Height of Magic
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Really enjoy your perspective on Ubel
MrMurseRs
2025-08-03 18:30:08 +0000 UTCUbel is "vibes" mage
Stefan Stojanovic
2025-04-07 20:08:16 +0000 UTCYes you are wrong :D Ubels attacks arent physical. Its magic. But the point is, that she doesnt overthink it. In fact she doesnt think at all. Its easy for her to think about cutting hair or cutting a cloak. So she can do it. Other people would think about that magical barrier inside or the mana in those objects. But ubel doesnt. She just knows that scissors can cut hair and a cloak. In the world of this Anime, magic is only working when you can imagine what you are doing. So with this... "empty" head and straight forward thinkin, you can do such things :D
Niklas Wojtenkoo
2025-03-28 02:41:50 +0000 UTCI’m probably wrong about this, but I think Ubel could cut the cloak because her attack is different in a fundamental level than other magics. His cloak stops all MAGIC attacks, but what happens if you swing a regular sword at it? I think Ubel’s strength isn’t just in how she thinks but I think she uses her magic to create a physical action, not a magic one. Same with Senses hair. Her hair is imbued with magic to stop magic. But Ubels end result is a purely physical thing. On top of her ability to imagine some insane shit.
Joshua Finkelstein
2025-03-18 00:08:10 +0000 UTCI can fix her tho
Kcosta
2025-01-12 00:39:21 +0000 UTCAt minute 19 asking about breaking through the cloak’s defenses, mages like frieren and serie could imagine it, other first class mages probably could as well but the average mage wouldn’t even imagine breaking it which is why they can’t. That also leads to the scene where sense interviews Übel and she says that she imagined cutting fabric and later when she says “hair is to be cut” and then her magic works, flashing back to the interview where Übel asks if she can cut sense’s hair and the present sense admitting she had already lost the fight against Übel back then
Kcosta
2025-01-12 00:38:40 +0000 UTCUbel likes to cut things, that's an important part of her ability. When she sees something, she judges it to be cuttable, or uncuttable. Yes she does think unconventionally, and she isn't constrained by preconceptions, and yes she has a great imagination. But without her, probably, sociopathic tendencies she wouldn't be anywhere near as powerful as she actually is. It's not that she "can" cut it, she "wants" to cut it.
Alex Hencher
2024-12-15 00:38:00 +0000 UTCThinking outside of the box, usually in a directly logical way has been sprinkled through the show. Denken suggesting they cut the tree vs break Frierens binding spell. Frieren pointing out that no matter how strong a door is, you can always just knock the wall down. After you hear it said, it makes so much sense it seems obvious. But I bet a lot of people wouldn't arrive at those ideas, and if they did, it wouldn't be that quickly. Being able to ignore preconceptions, and use observation to fuel imagination and problem solving ability has to be one of the most powerful skills to have in a world like this one.
Alex Hencher
2024-12-15 00:16:22 +0000 UTCYes it was a tiny thing, but you were saying that this will be addressed in next episode. So very tiny thing, but I saw much worse spoilers on this channel. So I picked this, because I didn't want to confirm "serious spoilers". If I commented on serious spoiler, not on "technicality" like yours, I could have done more damage to Flexie. I should have been more apparent about it though that I wasn't picking on you or anything, just worried that people in this Patreon are spoiling a lot and there doesn't seem to be a person "pre-reading" those comments. So sadly this left your comment, which is just a technical spoiler that doesn't do real damage. I do apologize if you felt like I attacked you and this is due to me saying it in the wrong way and not explaining stuff.
Jan Negrey
2024-12-12 02:43:31 +0000 UTCYeah, because Frieren isn't a mage of that generation. She had to use Fancy spells against herself.
MCPEPP
2024-12-12 02:25:54 +0000 UTCwhen Übel was explaining how she can use other peoples spells by empathizing with them, Land was telling us that she was using magic "by feel" and not by understanding the underlying logic and concepts.
Lorem
2024-12-01 19:37:28 +0000 UTCYou can't spoil something that's already happened in the show?
Josh Maher
2024-12-01 11:09:33 +0000 UTCOK. I mostly agree with you on Ubel. However I disagree on 2 points. 1. I wouldn't describe what others felt as a "fear". Maybe some did, but I doubt all of them did. Logically speaking there shouldn't be a scenario where 2+2=5. Or where square roots of negative numbers exists. Yet going pass this logic is what allowed people to discover pi-adic and complex numbers. It's not that others didn't go there out of fear (though some might have been afraid to be laughed at), but because it was illogical. To me Ubel does the same thing, which leads me to point 2. 2. It looks to me like Ubel is simply ignoring what is "obvious" to others. She is looking at the most basic form and everything else is just fluff that can be discarded. Both Cloth and Hair are objects that can be cut, therefore she could cut them. Doesn't matter if it's a rag or "Magical immovable cloak + infinity" - it's a cloth and it can be cut. What she does is sort of like lateral thinking. Also damn, the Frieren fight was so beautifully animated.
Jan Negrey
2024-12-01 08:31:03 +0000 UTCplease don't spoil
Jan Negrey
2024-12-01 07:49:54 +0000 UTCBasically, ubel is a psychopath, lol. Her character is one of my favs.
JakeElite
2024-11-30 17:33:50 +0000 UTCthe first op is such a banger in and out of context i don’t blame you
Zachary Mullins
2024-11-29 17:21:54 +0000 UTC1. Completely agree 2. Hmmm, interesting theory, though I feel like human magic is basically the same as elven magic, since Flamme was taught by Serie, and she was the founder of humanity's magic. But I do see how this could be considered "pure" elven magic if it was more ancient than humanity and never made it into their system of magic. Interesting.
Milosz Skowronski
2024-11-26 23:48:06 +0000 UTCI really hope you don't advocate for everyone to be like Ubel. We really don't need more sociopathic killers in our midst XD But seriously, Frieren conveys so many important life lessons on to of being just an amazing show. That fight with Frieren's replica was so insane I was like: "What am I even looking at? :O" Denken has some powerful, flashy spells, but next to Frieren's arsenal of SMD's (Spells of Mass Destruction) his look like child's play. I bet he'd gladly murder a hundred more political opponents just to get his hands on one of these spells XD
Milosz Skowronski
2024-11-26 23:36:44 +0000 UTCCan't wait for the start of next episode when Fern complains about her staff and Flexie is like "Wait what?!"
Josh Maher
2024-11-26 23:05:31 +0000 UTCPositive visualization is a valid psychological technique, no doubt about that. Having faith in yourself despite knowing you may fail is also necessary to move forward, a precursor to any hero's journey. Faith may be necessary when faced with inevitable uncertainty. It's just not deterministic, that was my point. Lack of the proper mindset is only one reason an effort may fail, not the reason.
Michal Krátky
2024-11-26 20:03:09 +0000 UTCMe too!!
Laura Bea
2024-11-26 17:20:41 +0000 UTCIt’s this, but it’s also the way that the flashbacks are tied into whatever Frieren is currently experiencing. It’s about how memory shapes the present, and also how the present both triggers and shapes our understanding of our memories. It’s masterful
Laura Bea
2024-11-26 17:17:44 +0000 UTCManifestation isn't simply believing you can do something. It's believing that EVENTUALLY you can do something through hard work. The idea that a positive mindset on top of hard work can help you achieve even more. You're implying manifestation is instantaneous which nobody believe it to be. It's simply a confident self motivating mindset combined with hard work. There are many top athletes who talk about manifestation alongside their training. Envisioning better, faster, stronger versions of themselves they work to become. It's not magic and no one claims it to be.
Cap
2024-11-26 16:29:38 +0000 UTCIn that case please explain to me what true manifestation is, if not achieving something by the means of believing it the achievement, I must have misunderstood you
Michal Krátky
2024-11-26 12:52:55 +0000 UTCBelieving you can achieve anything by simply believing it, and actual manifestation are different things, but I appreciate your comment and I agree with a lot of it :)
Jessica McCann
2024-11-26 10:40:08 +0000 UTCKind of foreshadowed with the Richter fight with Lawine/Kanne and "can you imagine how that water is distributed in the human body" line. Pretty sure if Ubel could think or learn about it, she'd boil someone alive with magic.
nordquist7516
2024-11-25 22:21:41 +0000 UTCI can't agree with you about the manifestation stuff. Like many things, it contains a portion of truth, which makes it work in some cases, but it generates too many false positives to be reliable advice. Believing you can achieve anything just by believing is merely a justification for naivety. The true part lies in what you said about fear: if you let yourself be paralyzed by it, you are guaranteed not to achieve anything. If you try, you may succeed or fail. Success or failure depends on how well your goal aligns with your abilities and capacities. People often misjudge this, both about themselves and others, so the only way to find out is to try. This is what is referred to as a "transformative experience" (as described in the book of the same name).
Michal Krátky
2024-11-25 21:15:32 +0000 UTCHad a blast reliving this show through your eyes! Will definitely be sticking around for apothecary diaries, great follow up to this series.
Striker 52C
2024-11-25 20:48:27 +0000 UTCEarlier in the season Frieren told Fern ordinary offensive magic is enough to kill todays mages. Cut to this fight and it's these crazy looking world ending spells being tossed around lol
Geo
2024-11-25 18:06:25 +0000 UTCI subscribed just for Frieren, also, though I'll probably stay subscribed as long as I can afford it.
James Bell
2024-11-25 14:36:04 +0000 UTCI think there's a difference between liking a character and liking a real person. Ubel is an amazing character but a sociopathic killer in real life is someone I would definitely avoid. I have the same feelings about Bakugo - great character but if we were in school together he wouldn't be in my friend group. I hope that when people say they "like" Ubel they mean as a character and not as a human being.
James Bell
2024-11-25 14:35:19 +0000 UTCPEAK fiction Ubel is HER
YellowboyRickLee
2024-11-25 14:32:27 +0000 UTCI love that we get to see some of the absolutely bonkers spells that Frieren can use and Fern never asks about what the hell that last move was. Also has she taught any of these to Fern, if so that's crazy
Chris
2024-11-25 13:43:46 +0000 UTCI'm going to use teeth box instead of mimic from now on 😂
Chris
2024-11-25 13:38:16 +0000 UTCThe thing is in show like Naruto we saw a certain scenes in the current time and then we saw them like 15 times again as flashbacks later in the show. In Freieren the flashbacks are new, we never saw them, so we are always excited to see them coz its new content
Yashu
2024-11-25 11:24:08 +0000 UTCAs someone very much neurodivergent, I don't agree. Don't have the energy to complete the wall of text I began but just want to say you'd need to consider both cognitive and affective empathy as well as theory of mind rather than just the colloquial use of the word empathy which is highly misleading when talking about this stuff. Psycopaths use cognitive empathy to manipulate people, that's their whole thing, and while Übel is a fictional character that isn't beholden to any of real lifes definitions I'd definitely put her more towards the group that uses empathy as a weapon rather than those that struggle with understanding people but feel for others just fine.
Mikael Hultman
2024-11-25 11:06:18 +0000 UTCWhen Frieren was caught by the teeth box at the end you actually see two other boxes already opened, suggesting she had already got caught two other times before that one
killezio3 killezio3
2024-11-25 07:15:27 +0000 UTCI think its interesting that she can imagine cutting clothes but also cutting open people. She is insane but thats why we love her 😂
Frawg
2024-11-25 07:02:20 +0000 UTCUbel living her best life, without fear. For a fun coda, after watching the credits of the final episode, google "Ubel playing the long game." Thank you for another delightful reaction.
Carl Rigney
2024-11-25 06:58:58 +0000 UTC🥹💗
Jessica McCann
2024-11-25 06:58:10 +0000 UTCOh I remembered lol I caught that - very cool and I loved learning why. I was waiting for the payoff lol figured we’d see it through the exam and through learning about these characters. 💕
Jessica McCann
2024-11-25 06:57:39 +0000 UTCThe talk in the beginning makes me so excited. There are so many absolutely amazing and incredible anime out there that are far removed from the typical shounen stuff. Can’t wait for Flexie to react to more of those
Asbjørn Kennedy
2024-11-25 06:44:03 +0000 UTCDo yourself a favor. Go back to the episode where they are introducing all the test takers in the main hall. Watch the reaction of Sense to seeing Ubel again. She winces. Now you know why she has that reaction, not because of her killing the second test Procter, but the conversation afterwards. Even though both are equally as disturbing, Sense knows Ubel could kill her without a thought.
RJ aka LEMental
2024-11-25 05:46:43 +0000 UTCMages die in these trials all the time. Even earlier on the first class mages say that people die, they don't really deserve to be first class anyway. It seems pretty clear that when promising mages die, their superiors are more just disappointed they didn't go further rather than outright sad at the death.
Nickolas Meyer
2024-11-25 05:21:41 +0000 UTCSo excited for you to watch Apothecary Diaries, and for you to see the ending of this show! So both happening at the same time, fantastic!
Seal Oppa
2024-11-25 05:07:59 +0000 UTCUbel can't be a psychopath/sociopath because she explicitly empathizes with others to use their magic. I think it makes more sense that she is neurodivergent.
Robert
2024-11-25 04:12:18 +0000 UTCIt makes sense as a theory because we also se from Frieren’s clone the same behavior that she has, no matter how many opponents she was facing, ordinary offensive magic was still enough to fight mages of this age.
Esteban
2024-11-25 03:44:53 +0000 UTCIt's always scary when a show makes you love a character that is some manner of psychopath like Übel, especially here when they are literally named Übel of all things. All one can do is hope she'll never end up with opposing interests to any other favs so we can just keep enjoying her badassness ^^
Mikael Hultman
2024-11-25 02:54:40 +0000 UTCI could see this chapter infinite times, peak animation. Hope you enjoyed Flexie!
Glandalf El Amarillo
2024-11-25 02:44:27 +0000 UTC2 things I want to say: 1. I believe there's a theory floating around that because Sense is a pacifist it's why her clone's attacks weren't outright fatal and allowed them to use their golems. Just as Ubel's clone snatched Land's golem to trap them because it's what Ubel would do. So all of Sense's attacks i feel were made to incapacitate them the mages rather than killing because she's stated before that she dislikes seeing mages with potential killed. 2. Just a theory but throughout the show they've always talked about the difference between humanity's magic, demon magic, and the goddess's magic. So I've been thinking what if that thing that Frieren's clone did was considered Elven Magic? Especially since it was shown she could use magic before she was taught by Flammel and the elves could pose enough of a threat to the demon king that he had them wiped out. So my current logical conclusion is Elven magic.
SemiSeriousNerd
2024-11-25 02:42:57 +0000 UTCI refreshed this page at least 10 times today in sheer anticipation of this reaction, this episode is 10 out of 10 and i really liked your view on the whole Übel sequence keep up the amazing work.
Cody Baker
2024-11-25 02:38:09 +0000 UTCEveryone else is trying to defeat the layers of magical protection. Uwel is just cutting cloth… well, and a human body but you know what I mean. They appear to have done a lot of research into magical philosophy and incorporated it into their fantasy magical systems throughout the series. They’ve done a good job of it, too. Uwel is clearly a monster. At best she’s a sociopath. She cuts the guy in half and says, “Oh well. I guess I’m disqualified then.” It doesn’t bother her in the slightest that she just murdered an innocent person. She then proceeds to intimidate and threaten Sense, seemingly for fun. I really don’t understand why people say they like her. I just assume there’s something wrong with them. The boss battle is astounding every time I see it. Some of the best animation I’ve seen.
Caradoc Elmet
2024-11-25 02:33:38 +0000 UTCI've always felt that while she really was looking about for the other test takers one of the reasons Frieren only wanted her and Fern taking on her clone was because she wants as few people as possible to know exactly how strong she is.
Cronshaw
2024-11-25 02:30:55 +0000 UTCUbel is a mage of intuition and feelings rather than intellect. If she were a DnD character she would be a sorcerer, or one who channels their magic through natural, free, and whimsical forces. They're extremely powerful at low levels but get limited at higher levels cuz their spell acquisition is low since they can't just pick up a book and learn 13 new spells off riff. She has this almost autisitc ability to adapt her spell on the fly based on her intuition and completely shut out distracting common conventions of magic which is great for Reelseidan. She is literally on the spectrum, and does whatever she wants. She's always given off this air of just doing whatever she wants. I think she would straight up challenge Frieren just to get spells or shits and giggles despite Frieren's touted legacy.
CornCobBob
2024-11-25 02:00:01 +0000 UTCApothecary Diaries is wonderful. You are gonna love it.
AzyxA
2024-11-25 01:58:10 +0000 UTCSubscribed just so I wouldn't have to wait for this. Man. The animation in this episode always leaves me speechless. I still remember when/where I was when I first pressed play on this one and my jaw just dropped. Madhouse really came out of the gate swinging with this one!
C. A. Rockefeller
2024-11-25 01:55:42 +0000 UTCGives me chills every time I see the replica Frieren stare down Fern.
Dylan French
2024-11-25 01:37:28 +0000 UTCAh now its time to join the Refresh gang, We can visualize that double upload boys until it becomes reality
jacob
2024-11-25 01:36:19 +0000 UTCFrieren is such a boss
victoria t
2024-11-25 01:35:10 +0000 UTCthis is soo good lets goo !!!
toasty
2024-11-25 01:18:13 +0000 UTCWhen you tell someone NOT to visualize a Pink Elephant, Ubel ACTUALLY doesn't.
hurryupmode
2024-11-25 01:16:03 +0000 UTCYESS. The height of reactions incoming! Let’s goooooo
Russell Gambardella
2024-11-25 01:09:21 +0000 UTCLetssss goooo!
Bob
2024-11-25 01:05:40 +0000 UTC
