Charles Holmes

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.

Think about the way Arya and the Hound and them traveling, or Brienne and Jaime traveling.

Like those moments where you're like, oh, the sitcom elements of these two characters in this situation is almost why I'm here.

And I think what Fear does so well is that whether they're talking about the original party that defeated the Demon King or this new party, it's not a show that is very plot driven in terms of these characters need to fight this villain and everything is leading to that.

It's more so how does this journey change us fundamentally?

It's like the best side quest of an RPG.