19/12/20
Advice: don't read this when listening to emotional music, unless you want your eyes to involuntarily start leaking.

Frieren is a manga that starts at the happily ever after, when the adventure has ended. We follow Frieren, an elf with a considerably longer lifespan than humans, as she dwells around the world learning magic and such. The memories of her time on adventure with her non-elf comrades continue to play a big role in her life, while these people themselves slowly all start to pass away.

So far I have mainly seen vampire manga such as Happiness and The Poe Clan tackle this aspect of mortality, so I found this manga to be rather refreshing and as per usual discomforting because, well... death.

Seeing the popularity that this has garnered amongst Japanese readers, I'm excited to see how it will be received here in the west soon -- definitely very excited for more people to find out about it :)


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