Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Anime Gets 2nd Season

The official X (previously Twitter) account for Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe‘s Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End (Sōsō no Frieren) manga introduced on Saturday that manufacturing on a second television anime season has been green-lit. Madhouse is coming back from the primary season to animate the second.


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The Frieren: Past Journey’s Finish anime premiered with a two-hour particular on September 29, 2023. It’s the first ever tv anime sequence to premiere in NTV‘s “Kinyō Roadshow,” a Friday night programming block normally reserved for characteristic movies. The anime then began airing later episodes on October 6 at 11:00 p.m. JST in NTV‘s new anime timeslot, “FRIDAY ANIME NIGHT.” The primary season ran for 2 consecutive cours till March. Crunchyroll streamed the primary season because it aired, and it is usually streaming an English dub.

Viz Media has licensed the manga, and it describes the story:

The journey is over however life goes on for an elf mage simply starting to be taught what dwelling is all about. Elf mage Frieren and her brave fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and introduced peace to the land. However Frieren will lengthy outlive the remainder of her former social gathering. How will she come to know what life means to the folks round her? A long time after their victory, the funeral of 1 her buddies confronts Frieren along with her personal close to immortality. Frieren units out to satisfy the final needs of her comrades and finds herself starting a brand new journey…

Keiichirō Saitō (Bocchi the Rock!) directed the primary season at Madhouse. Tomohiro Suzuki (ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept., One-Punch Man, Boogiepop and Others) was in command of sequence scripts. Reiko Nagasawa (takt op. Destiny) is designing the characters. Evan Call (Violet Evergarden, Josee, The Tiger and the Fish, Muv-Luv Alternative) composed the music.

Yamada and Abe launched the continued manga in Shogakukan‘s Weekly Shonen Sunday journal in April 2020. The manga has gained a number of awards, including the New Creator Prize for the twenty fifth Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2021 and the 14th Manga Taisho Award in 2021. As well as, the manga was nominated for Finest Shōnen Manga for Kodansha‘s forty fifth annual Manga Awards in 2021 and the forty sixth awards in Could 2022. The American Library Affiliation’s Graphic Novels & Comics Spherical Desk (GNCRT) included the manga in its high 10 listing of 2022 Finest Graphic Novels for Adults Studying Checklist.

Sources: Frieren: Past Journey’s Finish anime’s X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie