Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End was voted the 2024 Best Anime of the Year Runner-Up, only ranking below The Dangers in My Heart Season 2. With votes from 51,698 people, Frieren missed out on the top by 0.18%, with the next follower, Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines, being over 2% below.
You can see the full results of the 2024 Anime of the Year Awards, while the top 10 anime can be seen below.
2024 Anime Awards: Top 10 Anime of the Year – Frieren Runner-Up
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End also won the following categories:
Best Adventure
Best Fantasy
Best World Building
Best Adaptation
Best Voice Cast
Last year, the anime was voted as the Best Anime of Fall 2023, also taking the Best Boy (Stark), Best Girl (Fern), Best Adaptation, Best Drama, and Best Opening (“Yuusha” by YOASOBI) awards. In our 2023 Anime of the Year Awards, Frieren won Best New Anime, Best Adaptation, Best Fantasy, Best Adventure, and it was 2nd in Best Drama and 3rd in Best Animation.
Then in the Winter 2024 anime rankings, the 2nd cour of the anime also performed well. It took 5 awards and was runner-up in many categories behind Bokuyaba, which had sweeped the weekly rankings that season.
Studio MADHOUSE was in charge of the animation, and the anime ran for 28 episodes from September 29, 2024. It was directed by Keiichiro Saito, with series composition by Tomohiro Suzuki. Reiko Nagasawa was the character designer, with the chief animation direction led by Yuri Fujinaka, Reiko Nagasawa, and Maru Takase. Evan Call composed the music. The main voice cast for the anime included:
- Atsumi Tanezaki as Frieren
- Kana Ichinose as Fern
- Chiaki Kobayashi as Stark
- Nobuhiko Okamoto as Himmel
- Yoji Ueda as Eisen
- Atsuko Tanaka as Flamme
- Hiroki Tochi as Heiter
- Ayana Taketatsu as Aura
Season 2 is currently in production, also by Madhouse, and is set to premiere in January 2026.
You can also check out the full Anime Corner 2024 Awards.
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