Charles Holmes

And sometimes, a lot of times, what anime will do is that in adapting, they will almost...

super, super pitch and condense what makes something special.

And it wasn't until I watched the first couple episodes where I was like, oh no, the slowness and the patience and the peacefulness and the rest of Fearing is the point.

It's about this elf who's a part of this party who is supposed to kill the demon king.

And the problem with it is that Fearing, the elf who is one of the most powerful mages on earth,

I would say she doesn't necessarily feel emotion in the same way that humans have.

And all of her original party ends up dying from old age.

They're heroes and everything like that.

But we basically have two stories where we're telling the past of the first hero party, and then she gets a new party.

And we're almost learning...

in real time how this elf in the super powerful major in this world is realizing maybe she didn't know that she was in love with someone in the series maybe she didn't cherish the moments as much as she should and with this new party of people um i think she's getting to relive a lot of those moments be a maternal figure um i know that might sound boring but in practice when you watch it

I don't like comparing every anime to Miyazaki.

I think it is very, very like... Yeah, it's pretty reductive.

Yeah, low-hanging fruit.

But I think the thing that when you watch a Miyazaki movie where you're like, oh, no, I'm calm and I'm collected.

It's soothing.

Is that a fair... I know I do... But is that a fair way to kind of describe the emotion of watching this show?

I mean, but also the genius of it is that even though this is a flashback heavy show, what they show is the flashbacks.

It is rarely the show trying to show you how they defeated the Demon King.

It's almost the best parts of Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings, which was the small character moments, staying at the inn.