葬送のフリーレン ・Frieren 🧝‍♀️ Volume 10

[mitrac]

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Welcome to 葬送のフリーレン ・ Frieren ・ Volume 10 Discussion Thread

We read volume one as part of the Beginner Book Club. This is a spin off club to continue reading the series together.

All the discussion will take place on this thread and I’ll post a participation poll each week as we start the next section.

Schedule

Week	Start Date	Chapter	Starting Page
Week 1	April 18th	Chapter 88	5
Week 2	April 25th	Chapter 89	23
Week 3	May 2nd	Chapter 90	41
Week 4	May 9th	Chapter 91	59
Week 5	May 16th	Chapter 92	78
Week 6	May 23rd	Chapter 93	97
Week 7	May 30th	Chapter 94	115
Week 8	June 6th	Chapter 95	135
Week 9	June 13th	Chapter 96	153
Week 10	June 20th	Chapter 97	171

We will have 1 week break before starting the next volume (Volume 11 Starts 3 July 2026).

Resources and vocabulary

• Frieren vocab on Manga Kotoba by volume: link here. Also see this comment for how to adjust the url to view the pages for a week’s worth of reading
  • More details if you don’t know about it: Manga Kotoba is an incredible resource created by local legend ChristopherFritz. The site has frequency-based vocabulary lists for all volumes of Frieren and thousands of other manga. Accounts are free and making one enables tracking words and many other features. You can ask questions about it here.
• Frieren vocab roots: there are many names that derive from German words. Here is a page that looks into those roots

Discussion Guidelines

If you have any questions, please ask!
Please mention the chapter and page number.
Please use spoiler tags for major events.
If you read ahead, please hold questions until during or after the appropriate week.

Membership

Will you be reading with us?

• Yes
• Yes, but I might start late
• Yes, I’ve read this previously but I’m here for the discussion
• Yes, I’m joining after this club completed
• I’m watching
• Maybe
• No

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[mitrac]

Week 1 - Frieren Volume 10 - Chapter 88

Participation Poll

• I’m reading along
• I’m still reading but I haven’t reached this section yet
• I’ve read this previously but I’m here for the discussion
• I’m reading this after the book club has finished
• I’m watching

[Doumori]

Ch. 88

Well, if 魔族 could feel 悪意 and 罪悪感 and didn’t do anything evil, they COULD coexist with humans

[mitrac]

Week 2 - Frieren Volume 10 - Chapter 89

Participation Poll

• I’m reading along
• I’m still reading but I haven’t reached this section yet
• I’ve read this previously but I’m here for the discussion
• I’m reading this after the book club has finished
• I’m watching

[Doumori]

According to vocab roots file:

シュラハト Schlacht（戦い）
グラオザーム grausam（残酷な）。英語のgruesome（ぞっとする）に対応
And マハト (I already forgot): Macht（力）。英語のmight（力）と同語源。

[mitrac]

Week 3 - Frieren Volume 10 - Chapter 90

Participation Poll

• I’m reading along
• I’m still reading but I haven’t reached this section yet
• I’ve read this previously but I’m here for the discussion
• I’m reading this after the book club has finished
• I’m watching

[brianmik]

I’ll have to try to remember that to “incur someone’s wrath” is to “buy their grudge” …

Jisho.org: Japanese Dictionary

[mitrac]

Week 4 - Frieren Volume 10 - Chapter 91

Participation Poll

• I’m reading along
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• I’ve read this previously but I’m here for the discussion
• I’m reading this after the book club has finished
• I’m watching

[shuly]

some is distracted by all the wildlife in the desert…

[mitrac]

Week 5 - Frieren Volume 10 - Chapter 92

Participation Poll

• I’m reading along
• I’m still reading but I haven’t reached this section yet
• I’ve read this previously but I’m here for the discussion
• I’m reading this after the book club has finished
• I’m watching

[fyrember]

Chapter 93: We are finally back to the present. So if I read this right, I think we will somehow get マハト to feel human feelings so that he can envision himself de-golding ヴァイゼ and then he will feel remorse for his misdeed and get done in by the bracelet or something like that

[mitrac]

Week 6 - Frieren Volume 10 - Chapter 93

Participation Poll

• I’m reading along
• I’m still reading but I haven’t reached this section yet
• I’ve read this previously but I’m here for the discussion
• I’m reading this after the book club has finished
• I’m watching

[mitrac]

Week 7 - Frieren Volume 10 - Chapter 94

Participation Poll

• I’m reading along
• I’m still reading but I haven’t reached this section yet
• I’ve read this previously but I’m here for the discussion
• I’m reading this after the book club has finished
• I’m watching

[Micki]

Fyrember chapter 93 reply

Have been catching up on this manga the last few days. Long complicated backstory - it lent it self nicely to reading the chapters close together trying to keep all the details in mind, but then I forgot too much of the end of volume 9 already!

Two important things I think are going on to reply to your question. Firstly, while Mahato is able to reverse the gold magic on himself (as seen in this chapter) and I think also on his cloak, he is unable to reverse the curse on the town. This is explained as being because magic involves visualisation, and Mahato does not understand humans well enough to visualise their restoration. So I agree, perhaps if Mahato can be made to understand humans better, he could perhaps be able to reverse the curse.

Secondly, we thought the bracelet was broken, which was why Mahato was able to curse the town in the first place. But when Lernen and his companion got close to him, they found the bracelet was working correctly. The commands given when the bracelet were put on (pages 123-124 in volume 9 - I’m going to copy the images below for reference) were that Mahato would serve the city, commit no malicious act towards its people and their descendants, and if he felt the slightest malice towards the people would end his own life. So I don’t know about remorse - but if he is able to experience malice that could certainly have significant implications.

EDIT - one more note, just realised the demon who appears at the end of the chapter is the one from the start of this volume who taught Mahato about human emotions, and how humans and demons look similar but have separate evolutionary pathways.

[Micki]

Chapter 94

This chapter was enjoyable, getting back to our main characters and their quirky interactions (angry braids was my favourite moment). And a race between Frieren and Solitar who both have analyses to make that will take 2 months. In the end Solitar beat Frieren by two days - excited to see what happens next, feels like the end of this arc is drawing near!

[mitrac]

Week 8 - Frieren Volume 10 - Chapter 95

Participation Poll

• I’m reading along
• I’m still reading but I haven’t reached this section yet
• I’ve read this previously but I’m here for the discussion
• I’m reading this after the book club has finished
• I’m watching

[shuly]

was someone in the sahara petting the animals

yeah magically I am a chapter ahead now… woo hoo!!!

[Micki]

Chapters 95 and 96

I love that all the backstory we’ve worked through is now culminating in some epic battling! Stark and Fern look in some serious trouble but great watching them work together, and Solitar is obviously impressed too.

It feels like cometh the hour, cometh the man for Denken, perhaps his whole life working up to this moment. I thought he’d vanquished Mahato but he seems ready to break out of that gold pretty quickly, and Denken seems to have anticipated that. I’m not sure what his plan is, as I understand the magic he just used uses up a huge amount of mana, so if it’s not a decisive blow he’s potentially in trouble. I like how it tied back to the end of the first class mage exam, and Denken being offered to acquire one piece of magic from Serie.

[mitrac]

Week 9 - Frieren Volume 10 - Chapter 96

Participation Poll

• I’m reading along
• I’m still reading but I haven’t reached this section yet
• I’ve read this previously but I’m here for the discussion
• I’m reading this after the book club has finished
• I’m watching

[Doumori]

I finished the volume according to schedule… I think we lost one week on the way
Anyway this volume is detinitely my least favourite
I don’t really like to drop manga, but boy, how I want too! Let’s see what my mood be by the volume 11th.