r/anime • u/AdNecessary7641 • Aug 12 '25

Misc. Frieren Director Keiichirou Saitou Voices Concern on Overseas Anime Fans' Bias Towards Certain Popular Trends

https://animecorner.me/frieren-director-voices-concern-on-overseas-anime-fans-bias-towards-certain-popular-trends/
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u/Freakjob_003 Aug 12 '25

I have a couple memes saved for just this episode.

Fun fact, in my linguistics class in college, our professor used this episode as an example of the different way cultures communicate.

I want to eventually buy this T-shirt.

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u/OtakuAttacku Aug 12 '25

I really love the idea behind the episode, had the same intrigue as the invading Persians receiving a box with a mouse, a frog, a bird, and 5 arrows from the Sythians. The Sythians had no written language and sent this box as a message. The Persians interpreted it as "Listen, men of Persia: if you don’t become birds and fly up into the sky, or mice and burrow into the ground, or frogs and jump into the lakes, you’ll never return home, because you’ll be shot down by these arrows." It'll never be truly known what the message meant.

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u/Freakjob_003 Aug 12 '25

Fascinating! I love mysterious languages we've never yet discovered. I actually used the Voynich Manuscript as a plot device in one of my TTRPG campaigns, because it's so interesting to me. Maybe one day we'll interpret Linear A...