>>44021I mean look, I'm not a fan of the show and most modern animes are just crap to me, even if I like the character designs, but with Frieren, she's not just made to look sexy, she's not just made to look kawaii either, she actually makes you use your two bracrabls to try and find a reason why she looks the way that she does and blandness in terms of not being visually poppy is not always a bad thing and in many ways is a good thing if the character is still well designed regardless. Which is to say, it's a good thing (if there's actual subtlety) because the design isn't crude and obnoxious. Eventually the eyes get tired of all the bright colors being overused etc. She's a beautiful character and she's the only reason I have the slightest interest in that anime, is the characters visual designs and animation overall. A lot of modern animes are well drawn even if boring as hell
Although let me be clear, it's not just modern, most anime is boring asl, it's just there have been some insane leaps in quality that mostly happened in the 90s, I don't actually discriminate in time. Koe no Katachi was pretty good and really fucking well drawn.
TL;DR most/all modern anime is crap and the only REAL value of it is the visual art and Frieren is one such example of really great visual character design.
And for me she's the most cool for the fact that she's understated. Doesn't even look beautiful at first glance, but the more you look the more you appreciate. That's rare and almost never seen in anime. Like a succubus who you first thought was meh, but the more you look at her, the more you see something beautiful there. It's a real life phenomena, that's almost never replicated in fiction. Frieren captures it very very well.