A second season of the Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End TV anime has been announced.
The reveal comes a year after the premiere of the two-cour first season on September 29, 2023 JST.
An announcement video, teaser visual, and a commemorative illustration by the Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End manga’s artist Tsukasa Abe were also released.
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End is based on the Shogakukan-published fantasy manga written by Kanehito Yamada, which began serialization in Weekly Shonen Sunday in 2020 and has 13 tankoubon volumes as of April 2024. It won the grand prize at Manga Taisho 2021 and was one of the winners of the 69th Shogakukan Manga Award.
Viz Media describes the manga as:
Decades after their victory, the funeral of one her friends confronts Frieren with her own near immortality. Frieren sets out to fulfill the last wishes of her comrades and finds herself beginning a new adventure…
Keiichirou Saitou (Bocchi the Rock!) directed the first season at Madhouse with series composition by Tomohiro Suzuki (One-Punch Man) and character designs by Reiko Nagasawa (takt op.Destiny). Some of the other staff credits are:
• Magical creature designer: Daiki Harashina (takt op.Destiny D2 designer)
• Action director: Tooru Iwazawa (takt op.Destiny)
• Art director: Sawako Takagi (Bleach)
• Color designer: Harue Ohno (A Place Further Than the Universe)
• Compositing director: Akane Fushihara (Spy x Family)
• Concept artist: Seiko Yoshioka (Seraph of the End art director)
• Music composer: Evan Call (My Happy Marriage, Violet Evergarden)
• Animation producer: Yuichiro Fukushi (One-Punch Man, Sonny Boy, takt op.Destiny)
• Animation producer: Takashi Nakame (Your Name production desk)
The show’s main cast includes Atsumi Tanezaki as Frieren, Kana Ichinose as Fern, Chiaki Kobayashi as Stark, Nobuhiko Okamoto as Himmel, Hiroki Tochi as Heiter, and Yoji Ueda as Eisen.
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Source: @Anime_Frieren
