Second Season of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Anime Released 

Production on a second television anime season of Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe's Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (Sōsō no Frieren) manga has been given the go-ahead, according to an announcement made on Saturday by the official X (formerly Twitter) account for the series. To animate the second season, Madhouse is back from the first one.  

                                   

Image via Frieren: Beyond Journey's End anime's website

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  A two-hour special introducing the Frieren: Beyond Journey's End anime debuted on September 29, 2023. This Friday night show on NTV, "Kinyō Roadshow," is the first-ever television anime block, typically hosting feature films, will debut this series. On October 6 at 11:00 p.m. JST, the anime commenced airing further episodes at NTV's newly created anime timeslot, "FRIDAY ANIME NIGHT." The inaugural season stretched from March 2024 to two successive cours, or quarters of a year. The first season was streamed live on Crunchyroll, and the English dub is currently available for viewing.

The manga has been licensed by Viz Media, which explains the plot:

Even when the journey is finished, the elf mage who is only starting to understand what life is all about carries on. After defeating the Demon King, the brave explorers Frieren, an elf wizard, and their companions have restored peace to the region. However, Frieren's former party will not survive for very long. How will she learn what life means to the people who are closest to her? Frieren is confronted with her own almost immortality during a friend's funeral, decades after their win. Frieren embarks on a new journey as she attempts to grant her friends' final desires.

The first season at Madhouse was directed by Keiichirō Saitō (Bocchi the Rock!). Series scripts were overseen by Tomohiro Suzuki (ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept., One-Punch Man, Boogiepop and Others). The characters were developed by Reiko Nagasawa (takt op. Destiny). The soundtrack was composed by Evan Call (Violet Evergarden, Josee, The Tiger and the Fish, Muv-Luv Alternative).

In April 2020, Yamada and Abe released the current manga in the Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine published by Shogakukan. Numerous honors have been bestowed upon the manga, including the 14th Manga Taisho Award and the New Creator Prize for the 25th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2021. Furthermore, the comic was shortlisted for Kodansha's 45th annual comic Awards in 2021 and 46th awards in May 2022, both for Best Shōnen manga. The manga was listed in the top 10 of the 2022 Best Graphic Novels for Adults Reading List by the American Library Association's Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table (GNCRT).