Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End anime is officially getting a season 2 with studio Madhouse returning to animate the sequel. The announcement was made at the show’s anniversary event held on Saturday where the cast of the hero’s party and the new party were present. A teaser visual and trailer were also released.
The anime’s first season started in September 2023 and returned with its second cour in January 2024. The anime ended on March 22 with a “The Journy’’s End Continued””
Tsukasa Abe, the manga’s illustrator also made a commemorative visual for the season 2
Studio Madhouse (A Place Further Than The Universe) animated the first season with the direction of Keiichiro Saito (Bocchi the Rock!). Tomohiro Suzuki (One Punch Man) wrote the script, Evan Call (Violet Evergarden) composed the music, and Reiko Nagasawa (takt op. Destiny) designed the characters. The cast from the season 1 includes:
Atsumi Tanezaki as Frieren
Kana Ichinose as Fern
Chiaki Kobayashi as Stark
Yuichi Nakamura as Sein
Nobuhiko Okamoto as Himmel
Hiroki Tochi as Heiter
Yoji Ueda as Eisen
Ayana Taketatsu as Aura
Junichi Suwabe as Lugner
Manaka Iwami as Linie
Takehito Koyasu as Kraft
Mariya Ise as Serie
Azumi Waki as Kanne
Sayumi Suzushiro as Lawine
Kisho Taniyama as Wirbel
Ikumi Hasegawa as Übel
Jiro Saitou as Denken
Shouhei Komatsu as Land
Eiji Hanawa as Richter
Shizuka Ishigami as Laufen
Kanae Itou as Ehre
Haruka Terui as Sense
Tarasuke Shingaki as Genau
Reina Ueda as Methode
The anime is based on the manga written by Kanehito Yamada and illustrated by Tsukasa Abe. It has been serialized in Shogakukan’s shonen manga magazine Weekly Shonen Sunday since April 2020. A prequel novel titled Shosetsu Soso no Frieren ~Zenso~ written by Mei Hachimoku will be released on April 17. The novel will feature 5 original stories, revolving around Frieren, Fern, Stark, Kanne, Lawine, and Aura. The manga’s 13th volume will be released at the same time as the prequel novel.
Crunchyroll streams the anime and they describe the story as follows:
After the party of heroes defeated the Demon King, they restored peace to the land and returned to lives of solitude. Generations pass, and the elven mage Frieren comes face to face with humanity’s mortality. She takes on a new apprentice and promises to fulfill old friends’ dying wishes. Can an elven mind make peace with the nature of life and death? Frieren embarks on her quest to find out.
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