oh I see why Frieren spent so much time not doing combat
like the series is really cool, I enjoy it a lot but it feels like one of the many J-based fantasy settings where 'swinging an axe' is 'actually, the magic system' and it doesn't know how to do conflict where people with swords are doing shit when the wizards are out doing orbital battle platform wave beam cannons
like the aura fight feels like 'what if we did goku shit, but made it boring' with an enormous flashback in the middle of the fight, a thing people complain about breaking up the pace
