Kanehito Yamada’s Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End / Sousou no Frieren manga is receiving an anime adaptation, unveiling a new visual with more details to come for the anime at a later date. The manga’s artist, Tsukasa Abe also released a visual celebrating the anime’s announcement.
The story follows the titular elven mage Frieren, who was part of the adventurer’s party that defeated the Demon King during a quest that lasted 10 years. The story chronicles her adventures long after these events, after she meets her companions again, and decides to go on a journey with an orphan, while pursuing her passion for learning magic.
Sousou no Frieren’s anime currently has no release date.
Update: The show has been confirmed to be a TV anime series coming in 2023!
▍About Sousou no Frieren
Frieren is an Elven Mage who was once part of the party that defeated the demon king. After defeating the demon king, she and her party, including the human hero Himmel, dwarven warrior Eisen, and the human priest Heiter observed a meteor shower that occurs once every 50 years, and promised to meet them again to see the next meteor shower.
Fast forward 50 years and Himmel has passed away due to old age, and regretting not being able to say goodbye properly to Himmel, sets out on a journey to pay respects to him, at his resting place far north in the continent. During this journey, she offers to teach a young child adopted by Heiter, and the pair set out on a journey to bid her farewells, and learn about magic, while Frieren reminisces on her past.
Frieren has sold over 7.2 million copies of as September 2022, with the manga even receiving 2nd in the 2021 “Kono Manga ga Sukoi!” award 2021, being behind Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Chainsaw Man. The manga also won the New Creator Prize for the 25th annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2021, and was nominated for Best Shonen Manga at Kodansha’s annual manga awards in 2021 and 2022.
