Sousou no Frieren, Ending Illustration EP 02
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The ED starts with Frieren sleeps near Flammel's grave and the ED ends with Frieren sleeping on Fern's lap.
She lost a family member and the cycle begins again for Frieren with her finding a new one.
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Every week I watch the new Frieren episode, and every week I go a little insane over all the moments Frieren and Fern have in the OP and ED. (This is just the second opening and ending, I'm not even going to touch the first ones.)
Fern doing Frieren's hair
Master - student parallels
The tassels on their staves touching? cmon
The outro is even better. Frieren starts off alone.
She's lying by a gravestone, at night.
Then we have the section with the sculpted figures. Frieren reaches for a blue flower- it hasn't bloomed yet, but any blue flower is going to bring to mind the Blue-Moon Weed, Himmel's favorite flower.
There's been a butterfly following Frieren around for a while. It lands on the flower.
Himmel has an association with butterflies, since there's one on the ring he gave Frieren, but Fern arguably has a stronger association with them. Fern's butterfly pin makes an appearance earlier in the outro, and the pin transforms into the butterfly that follows Frieren.
We also have this shot of Fern and many blue butterflies in the intro.
The butterfly and the blue flower transform into a girl with long hair and a long dress. The sculpted figures are almost completely white, so we don't see Fern's distinctive purple hair, but the figure resembles her regardless.
The line of the song that plays when the butterfly and the flower transform into Fern is: その涙だって大丈夫 きっと夜が明けるよ
"It's okay to cry, the dawn will surely come." This is a line referencing past grief but also showing hope for the future, and it's so poignant that it occurs while a symbol representing Himmel (past) and a symbol potentially representing both Himmel and Fern transforms into Fern (present/future).
Finally, we get a beautiful shot that starts on a blue flower, now fully opened-
and pans up to Frieren lying down, like she was earlier, but this time on Fern's lap.
It's daytime now, instead of night, and if the image has retained its quality, you might see Frieren has the most unbelievably tender expression on her face.
What this tells me, is that Frieren absolutely loved Himmel, in her own asexual-aromantic elf way, and that she also loves Fern, in much the same way.
I've been noticing Himmel and Fern parallels all over the place and I barely get into any of them here. If I included every moment in the actual show where it's obvious how much Fern and Frieren care about each other I would be here all day.
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It’s unfair of Frieren to immediately follow up that sudden, awesome ending to episode ten with the emotional ED. I can only take so much!
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