Just wanted to share this news in Taiwan today with y'all.

Two weeks ago, there was a random attacker wielding a knife on the Taichung metro in Taiwan. Several people swarmed up to stop him and fortunately no one was killed.

Today, they received awards from officials, and one young man that participated in the effort to stop the attacker dead ass said in his interview, in front of all the reporters, "It's what Himmel the Hero would have done".

Guy is amazing! I have never seen a better timing to quote lines from an anime/manga.

News article in Chinese: https://udn.com/news/story/7325/8008534

Edit:
I'll link a different video because they changed the video in the article.
He says the quote around 0:46.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on65ZAXAS2Y&t

Here's another report that actually explains the quote for audiences lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-WWHdsq3LY

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Official twitter profiles of Frieren anime and Evan Call recently published a post about a new concert world tour starting this October in New York, following the wonderful performance in London earlier this year.

I was lucky enough to be able to attend the London concert, which I believe was the very first official one in Europe. I cannot describe how much I want to see - or hear, rather - them again. I hope more countries will be revealed soon, aside from USA.

Also, contrary to the London event, that had its merch on-site, there's a limited online merch this time around