The upcoming Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Season 2 unveiled a key visual and a January 16, 2026, premiere date on Friday. The visual features the main characters Frieren, Fern, and Stark.
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Studio MADHOUSE animated the first season that ran for 28 episodes from September 29, 2024. It was directed by Keiichiro Saito, with series composition done 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
Crunchyroll streams the anime, describing 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.
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.
In our 2024 Anime of the Year Awards, Frieren was the runner-up Best Anime, narrowly losing out against The Dangers in My Heart Season 2. However, it bagged the Best Adaptation, Best Adventure, Best Fantasy, Best Voice Cast and Best World Building.
Source: Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Official Website
©Kanehito Yamada, Tsukasa Abe/Shogakukan/”Frieren” Project
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