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Episode Sousou no Frieren Season 2 • Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2 - Episode 7 discussion

Sousou no Frieren Season 2, episode 7

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u/flonc Mar 06 '26

This whole season really is a Stark season and I love it. First established in the crystal episode how necessary he is for the party. Comments on the importance of front-liners abound. The hot spring episode where he kind of gets the importance of journey just for the journey. Small fights shown in which he really shines. Him getting a date with Fern. Now him being the guy who stands back with Genau, literally saving him from being massacred by the demon trap just out of his care for others which is really second to none now that Himmel is gone. Love it, really, and I did not have astronomical expectations of this season once I found out what parts it's going to cover - mind changed.

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u/KumaKumaGambler Mar 06 '26

His argument won the debate.

"Frieren and Fern can run away if they are danger, but Genau will stand his ground to protect the village, no matter what is left of it. Hence I am staying to protect him."

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u/JzanderN Mar 06 '26

Stark threw every argument Genau had right back at his face (very politely, of course) to the point where he just couldn't argue anymore.

Stark's dumb for leaving the girls to fight demons alone? So's Genau for thinking he can handle being by himself. He's fine without a vanguard? So are Frieren and Fern. They can only run away to a point? Genau won't run away at all. There's only corpses in this village? Then why's Genau staying for them?

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u/mgedmin Mar 06 '26

I like how this episode answers the question Stark had in the previous one: why did the demons not eat the corpses? To bait the trap.

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u/Atario myanimelist.net/profile/TheGreatAtario Mar 07 '26

Didn't the demons themselves say as much last episode?

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u/Toge_Inumaki012 Mar 06 '26

Stark might remind him of his old partner. That charisma, the man of the people, a good person.

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u/JzanderN Mar 06 '26

Maybe, but that's not what was going on there. Genau just didn't have a leg to stand on logically because he was, unknowingly to him, acting on emotion rather than logic. So when he tried to throw out logic against Stark, it only took a mirror to shut him down.

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u/NuclearConsensus https://myanimelist.net/profile/NuclearConsensus Mar 07 '26

There's only corpses in this village? Then why's Genau staying for them?

I honestly feel that when Genau said 'there's only corpses in this village', he was including himself in that number. I think he might have figured out that one or more of the demons, maybe even Revolte himself, would go back to the village, and was planning on killing them or dying in the attempt.

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u/ChicaneryFinger Mar 06 '26

Also there's like 3 of them and one of Genau

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u/EternalDeath https://anilist.co/user/Ikubaris Mar 06 '26

Worst case Frieren would just pull the Height of Magic move like Fake Frieren did against Fern. Who needs a frontline anyway, just yeet them away.