January 2026 — that’s when the second season of Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End will begin airing.
No trailer for the anime sequel is available yet, but you can enjoy the sight of Frieren, Fern, and Stark dipping their legs under the setting sun in a new teaser visual.
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Season 2 was announced in September 2024, one year after the two-cour first season premiered on September 29, 2023 JST. The anime adapts the Shogakukan-published fantasy manga written by Kanehito Yamada and drawn by Tsukasa Abe, which began serialization in Weekly Shonen Sunday in 2020 and will release its 14th tankoubon volume on March 18, 2025 JST. 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…
Staff (Season 1)
• Director: Keiichiro Saito (Bocchi the Rock!)
• Series composition: Tomohiro Suzuki (One-Punch Man)
• Character designer: Reiko Nagasawa (takt op.Destiny)
• Magical creature designer: Daiki Harashina (takt op.Destiny D2 designer)
• Action director: Toru 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)
• Animation production: Madhouse
Cast
• Atsumi Tanezaki as Frieren
• Kana Ichinose as Fern
• Chiaki Kobayashi as Stark
• Nobuhiko Okamoto as Himmel
• Hiroki Tochi as Heiter
• Yoji Ueda as Eisen
Source: @Anime_Frieren
