AKB48 チーム8 下尾みう - 755 - Wed 01 Jun 2022
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Shousetsu Sousou no Frieren: Zensou
Author: Mei Hachimoku (Author of Natsu e no Tunnel, Sayonara no Deguchi)
Illustrator: Abe Tsukada
Original Story: Kanehito Yamada
Label: Shounen Sunday Comics
Release Date: 17 April 2024
My Score: 4/5
This volume is a collection of prequel short stories set in the Frieren universe. Each chapter focuses on a different character as we learn more about what their life was like before the start of the series.
We start the volume off with Fern, shortly after she starts living with Heiter. We then have a chapter with Stark, taking place shortly after his fight with Eisen as he arrives to the village that he will come to protect for three years. The third chapter focuses on Lawine and Kanne during their time at the magic school. As part of a test, they each have to defeat a monster. This is one of the more interesting stories in the volume as we haven't spent all that much time with these two in the main series and their past hasn't been touched on as much as Stark's and Fern's. I like the relationship between these two so it was nice to see more of them. The next chapter is an Aura chapter. This one starts with her first encounter with Himmel and Frieren and the other heroes, and the fallout from her army's defeat at their hands. This is another highlight as we barely spent any time with Aura in the main series so it's nice to see her being explored here. It's fun to be in the head of a demon too and to see their POV. This the longest story in the volume, and it's also the only one where I think the experience is improved if you've read up to at least volume 9 of the manga (which is where I am at), because Macht, a demon introduced in volume 9, makes an appearance. It's still definitely possible to read and have fun without having read the manga, but it does slightly improve the experience. The final chapter, of course, focuses on Frieren herself, reminiscing about her time with Flamme, and then about her time with Himmel and the others. It's a good story to end the volume on, even if it isn't a stand out. It's also got a few references to popular gags in the manga (like Frieren's blowing a kiss special attack), which was a lot of fun.
I really enjoyed this volume. It was easy to read and Mei Hachimoku captured the feeling and atmosphere of the Frieren series perfectly. Even when it was covering ground already tread by the manga, like Fern's relationship with Heiter, it was never boring. While I wouldn't call it a must read volume as it doesn't provide any particularly new insights for the characters or important information for the story, it was a delight to read and I would easily recommend it to Frieren fans. You probably could get away with reading this without having any previous experience with the franchise, but it would be a lot more boring and I can't see any reason to read this if you don't already love the characters and the world they inhabit.
I do want to mention that there aren't really any illustrations in the volume. Different sections of the cover are used as the title pages for the chapters and that's really it. There aren't any colour illustrations or monochrome illustrations depicting the events in the chapters. I somewhat expected this to be the case, but it's still disappointing. I get that Abe Tsukada was probably too busy drawing for the manga to do more than the cover for this volume, but I can't help but wish that were just a couple of illustrations throughout.
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tbh i know it seems obvious but im learning that u can rly tell if someone’s meant to be in ur life based on how they make u feel,,, yeah i “love” u but why do i feel sick with worry everytime we talk. yeah i don’t think that’s right
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Dear LMK fandom, I have a question; so were they going to the actual past in the scrolls, or were they just experiencing the way it was recorded? Like do their actions in the scroll affect the real world in any way?
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