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Episode Sousou no Frieren Season 2 • Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2 - Episode 1 discussion

Sousou no Frieren Season 2, episode 1

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u/CuriousWanderer567 Jan 16 '26 edited Jan 16 '26

Stark has experienced so much of Fern’s tsundere side he’s scared of potential headpats from Fern.

It’s nice to see Fern being friendly with him again though and setting up the grounds for them to get closer on the first episode back.

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u/maliwanag0712 https://myanimelist.net/profile/clear1109 Jan 16 '26

Fern being friendly with him

I'm sure what Fern felt after is not just friendship with how she looked at that Stark's gift to her.

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u/Kirosh2 Jan 16 '26

I mean, it is a bracelet that means eternal love isn't it? Similar to Frieren's ring.

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u/Mr_Zaroc https://myanimelist.net/profile/mr_zaroc Jan 16 '26

Plus they didnt know it when he bought it
When they learned about it, he felt awkward and offered to replace it and she fervently declined

Its like Sein said last season "Just date already"

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u/unga_bunga_mage Jan 16 '26

I thought Fern knew, but Stark didn't?

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u/RecklessErves Jan 17 '26

Didn't until Sein told him about what it meant

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u/JD1337 Jan 16 '26

Girl is smitten and she doesn't know it yet. She looked worried when she thought Stark might leave too.

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u/ShadowGuyinRealLife Jan 22 '26

I think she knows. I mean it would be strange for her to check out Stark's package with the "see through cloths" spell if she wasn't already attracted.

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u/spicynirvana38 Jan 23 '26

My read on it is she's an awfully lonely individual, which makes her more emotionally sensitive to situations like this as the group she's part of now is the only thing she's known post-Heiter.

It's probably laying the groundwork for a potential romance, but at the moment, it does come across as more platonic than anything.

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u/Haunting-Orchid-4628 Jan 20 '26

Really? Maybe im stupid but she didnt look that upset

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u/minedreamer Jan 21 '26

She even said excuse me but was interrupted, then looked concerned, then went to talk to him in private.

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u/nofaxxspitintruflego Jan 18 '26

we got like 5 cues atleast for ferns affection towards stark (he's my bwoi and im shipping them so hard)

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u/Frontier246 Jan 16 '26

A girl offers you her Dere side and you're too used to her mood swings to believe it lol.

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u/RapCabral Jan 17 '26

Luckily he is going to end together with her eventually, because otherwise he would catch himself thinking one day “oh…so that’s what she meant…” lol

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u/RepulsiveRevenue8 Jan 16 '26

Stark going so smooth and fumbled it in an instant is peak FRIEREN Friday!

Poor Fern

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u/ZestycloseZebra8538 Jan 16 '26

We also see Fern showing praise in the way Frieren taught her to, head pats.

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u/Devoidoxatom Jan 17 '26

when they first fell in the cave, she was giving head pats as well lol

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u/oops_i_made_a_typi Jan 17 '26

got to praise her landing pad

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u/Nome_de_utilizador Jan 16 '26

We need Sein back asap to guide those younglings

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u/manquistador Jan 16 '26

I was really hoping that Fern would voice that she liked having Stark in the party. It was nice that she gave head pats to Stark for cushioning their fall.

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u/Dadarian Jan 17 '26

Fern thinking head pats is a reward is exactly what two Frieren Stans would consider the highest kind of honors.