I don't deny that subtext but the text was still a battle between two wizards throwing lasers and the one who threw lasers the best won. The second mages started casting kamehameha you should have realized what you signed up for; a battle anime. You just had blinders on. It's fine; it happens.
You have 2 episodes before it directly about how fleeting life is and how fast time passes and ages go by and on the third episode you have a guy that went from being a god to a grunt due to being literally left behind by time while everyone else moved on on a show who's main premise is an immortal rekindling the memories of her near century bygone adventures.
That's like calling a fully dressed steak a salad because it has a spring of green on it. Technically right, but actually wrong.
Especially since one of the main points of the anime/manga is the journey to Heaven and Frieren's general obsession with magic. We see plenty of spells throughout the series; it's just that Frieren loves magic in general, so spells made to fight are going to be pretty simple compared to the autistic spells she has for things like making tea or growing flowers.
I haven't seen Air Master, but I'm really enjoying Tojima Wants To Be A Kamen Rider. The main cast are all fucking dorks in an endearing way (I'll admit I find Ichiyo is less endearing, but he still makes me laugh). Hell, you understand why Hachiro wants to be a villain after we get his backstory. Gonna watch the newest episode when I get off work in the morning if I'm not too tired.
On a side note, I think scaling and video game-esque stats in anime actually ruin fights, as it just turns it into "whoever has the bigger number wins". It's fiction, so I don't need a nerd missive to explain why fireball A beats purple nurple lightningbolt spell. Just tell me a story.
I hate bland powerscaled stuff cause it always turns fights into a matter of numbers or make the stakes too vague to really care about. You end up with DBZ-style (the bad part of DBZ mind you) fights where they just punch each other inconsequentially until one of them randomly pulls a special technique and win.
The worst thing is if it will be stale, if it will be a trashfire it would be at least entertaining. It is pretty insane how much shit you need to know about the franchise to understand what happened until now.
It's on Steam, pretty sure it doesn't need an uncensor patch. It's really good, there aren't really any dating sim elements, works by having a main story branch for the plot that you can diverge for the side heroines mini routes.
After so many anime do the Jojo esque "explain for 10 minutes how my superpower counters yours", I miss the simplicity of power levels.
Yeaaaah can't argue against that, it can get pretty annoying if the writer pulls that kinda shit. You gotta do a Valve and just show people how it works, trusting that they'll figure it out instead of requiring them to read out the great text wall of China to figure out how the encounter works.
It's definitely a balancing act. A power level/indicator of someone's strength isn't inherently bad, nor is an explanation of an important power. However, when multi episodes revolve around those things for a single fight, it starts to get dull. I remember watching Bleach as a teen and realizing that whoever comes up with a new power wins, and it made the show a lot less enjoyable.
I keep forgetting Part 9 is even happening. I never see anyone talk about it, it seems to just have no impact anywhere and I find that incredibly strange.
Netflix's adaptation of part 6 really killed a lot of peoples hype. Sucks because part 9 is up there with part 7/4 imo.
Jojolion kind of killed all jojo hype with the wackass plot twist
All I ever understood was that rocks were people, bubble blowing babies were beating every able bodied person in the bar senseless, and CALAMITY (whatever that means)
Maybe don't show her just the dub. I was recently reminded of that whole scene in season 2 where they just ripped out an emotional confrontation between Joey and Tristan because it had then getting physically violent.