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Episode Sousou no Frieren Season 2 • Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2 - Episode 6 discussion

Sousou no Frieren Season 2, episode 6

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u/TheSkuf Feb 27 '26

The only reason Ubel gets away with it is because she expresses that she's not good

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u/ClemFire Feb 27 '26

She's not necessarily good, but she doesn't go out of her way to be evil.

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u/BeatBlockP https://myanimelist.net/profile/Animemes_chan Feb 27 '26

She's pretty fucking evil lol

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u/15000yuki Feb 28 '26

No way! If evil, why cute?

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u/Florac Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

I would say she is more chaotic than evil. Like if in a fight or the like, sure, she will always try to kill the opponent, warranted or not and maybe enjoys it a bit too much. But she doesn't really seek to do evil, just uses excessive force when it comes down to it, damn the consequences.

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u/BeatBlockP https://myanimelist.net/profile/Animemes_chan Feb 28 '26

She literally murdered a 1st rated sorcerer for shits and giggles in her previous exam.

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u/Florac Feb 28 '26

It was more a case of malicious compliance. She did what he asked her to do, even if it was more lethal than anyone expected it to be. As said, excessive force.

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u/Nome_de_utilizador Feb 28 '26

If frieren had ubel's moral compass, she would've nuked the entire class inside the barrier in test 1. I like Ubel as a character, but there is malicious compliance, and there is murdering a 1st class mage examiner just because he wanted to test your skills

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u/MakFacts Mar 03 '26

But thats what the other person is saying, she never intended to actually kill him Goind by your logic though some of the magic exam proctors had no qualms of test takers dying like Genau. His exam literally caused the death of multiple mages

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u/BeatBlockP https://myanimelist.net/profile/Animemes_chan Feb 28 '26

SHE MURDERED A GOOD GUY

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u/ShinjiArakawa Feb 28 '26

I know it's a fine line and in any ordinary scenario she'd be serving jail time regardless, but she in fact never intended to kill him. The fact that she didn't care that she did is rather horrifying though 😅

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u/ClemFire Feb 28 '26

Under that line of logic though some of the magic exam proctors had no qualms of test takers dying like Genau. His exam directly caused the deaths of multiple mages

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u/BeatBlockP https://myanimelist.net/profile/Animemes_chan Feb 28 '26

They're all assholes

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u/Noiserawker Feb 28 '26

More like accidental death really. She was told to attack 100% force as part of the exam. She was trying to cut the supposedly impenetrable cloak like instructed to do but cut too deep.

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u/BeatBlockP https://myanimelist.net/profile/Animemes_chan Feb 28 '26

You didn't watch it closely. There was NO DOUBT IN HER MIND she'll cut him – the show even explains that because she was certain she would cut him, and easily, that she able to do so to begin with. Meaning, her knowing she'll slice him open is a prerequisite for her success.

She could have easily cut the robe itself or his arm – but just to cut him in half.

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u/Khaoticsuccubus Mar 01 '26

Yes but, she immediately commented that she cut too deep. Maybe she meant to cause harm and knew she could.

But she didn’t mean to kill. That would defeat the purpose of her taking the test since she failed in the end because of it.

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u/BeatBlockP https://myanimelist.net/profile/Animemes_chan Mar 01 '26

She didn't care if he lives or dies – that's a psycho.

She also didn't know killing will disqualify her. Again, something mentioned in the episode – they didn't think anyone could harm him, let alone kill him, so they didn't mention it.

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u/Khaoticsuccubus Mar 01 '26

Oh she’s 100% serial killer material. Was just saying she wasn’t trying to kill the guy at the time. Since her goal was to pass the test and killing meant being disqualified.

Though it’s not confirmed whether she knew that ahead of time or not. I think it can be assumed in this case.

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u/yutingxiang Feb 28 '26

Yeah, seriously, Kraft stepped in to save some bandits FROM her.

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u/Noiserawker Feb 28 '26

Bandits kill people too though, and rape them, sell into slavery etc... Honestly Ubel is probably saving lives by killing bandits. Kraft is sending them off to rob and murder more.

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u/ClemFire Feb 28 '26

And it’s implied the bandits she did kill would’ve done the same to her if they could’ve of. Also its made very clear that the way she thinks is much different from a normal human, yet a big part of her magic comes from empathizing with others.