Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End has announced an exhibition for April-May 2024, and a special key visual was drawn at studio MADHOUSE for the event. It will take place at Sunshine City in Ikebukuro (Tokyo, Japan) from April 25th to May 12th. The visual features Frieren, and you can check it out below.
Visitors will be able to relive various adventures alongside Frieren and her friends from the anime, as well as to purchase limited edition original goods. There are regular admission tickets and special tickets with bonus merchandise, and pricing varies for advance and same-day tickets, with discounts for children and free admission for pre-schoolers. You can find all the information on the official website for the event.
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End returned with the 2nd cour this winter, and it is set to run until March 22. Studio MADHOUSE is animating, while Crunchyroll is streaming it outside Japan. The main anime staff consists of Keiichiro Saito as the director, Tomohiro Suzuki as the scriptwriter, Reiko Nagasawa as the character designer and Evan Call as the music composer. Atsumi Tanezaki will be voicing the titular protagonist Frieren.
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 was also announced. Viz Media licensed the original manga in English, and they describe the story:
Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. With the great struggle over, they all go their separate ways to live a quiet life. But as an elf, Frieren, nearly immortal, will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to terms with the mortality of her friends? How can she find fulfillment in her own life, and can she learn to understand what life means to the humans around her? Frieren begins a new journey to find the answer.
The anime was voted as the Best Anime of Fall 2023, and it also took 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.
Source: Official Website
© Yamada Kanehito, Abe Tsukasa / Shogakukan / “Sousou no Freiren” Production Committe