Half-Naked Elf (CV: Takehito Koyasu) Arm Pillow! In 'Frieren: Beyond Journey's End,' Stark Wakes Up and Turns Pale: "Who's This Old Man?" - A Scene That Was Too Much of a Service Cut

A precious service cut in the anime "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End"... or is it? In episode 11, when Stark (CV: Chiaki Kobayashi) woke up after losing consciousness in the snowy mountains, next to him was an unfamiliar half-naked "old man elf."

Frieren (CV: Atsumi Tanezaki) and the others were stranded in the snowy mountains. Because Stark had fallen asleep from the extreme cold, they visited a shelter cabin. Inside the cabin, Kraft (CV: Takehito Koyasu), an elf monk, was doing squats shirtless.

The next day, Stark woke up. He did a double-take at the half-naked Kraft who was giving him an arm pillow, and was astonished, exclaiming, "Who's this old man!?" His confusion only deepened when Kraft protested, "And here I went to the trouble of warming you up with my body heat," but before long, he found his gaze captured by Kraft's muscular physique, thinking, "Old man, you've got a nice body..."

The unexpected sleeping-together scene sparked reactions online, with comments such as "Waking up to find you'd been sleeping with a half-naked man - you can only be shocked lol" and "I laughed at Stark waking up on Kraft's arm pillow." Combined with the beautiful voice of voice actor Takehito Koyasu who plays Kraft, it became quite a surreal scene.