I loved this episode.

I read a lot of stuff. Mostly fantasy; sometimes I don’t remember small details, or even large ones. And I probably read ch57 at least a year ago. I should have forgotten.

And yet so many scenes shown in this episode were so memorable that I could remember it, in the minimal details.

Fern’s tantrum because of the staff. Lernen being able to detect instability in Frieren’s mana, but not Serie’s. Serie bitterly saying that she shouldn’t take human apprentices. The flashback with Himmel. Serie initially thinking that Fern was petrified because of Serie’s mana… only to discover that Fern could see it. It was such a moment of awesomeness, the young mage who’s into magic just to repay a corrupt priest taking care of her, that mage could do what nobody else could.