Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Will Have 2-Hour Premiere, 2nd Trailer Released

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The Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End anime has received its second trailer, which features more scenes of the titular character and her companions from the hero party accompanied by ethereal, emotional music.

Additionally, it was revealed that the anime will premiere on September 29 with a two-hour special on the Friday Roadshow block.

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End is based on the Shogakukan-published manga written by Kanehito Yamada and drawn by Tsukasa Abe, which was the grand prize winner of Manga Taisho 2021. The manga series began serialization in Weekly Shonen Sunday in 2020 and has 10 tankoubon volumes published under the Shonen Sunday Comics label as of March 2023. 

Viz Media describes the manga as:

Decades after their victory, the funeral of one her friends confronts Frieren with her own near immortality. Frieren sets out to fulfill the last wishes of her comrades and finds herself beginning a new adventure…

Keiichirou Saitou (Bocchi the Rock!) is directing the anime at MADHOUSE with Tomohiro Suzuki (One-Punch Man) as series composer, Reiko Nagasawa (takt op.Destiny) as character designer, and Evan Call (Violet Evergarden) as music composer. 

Meanwhile, the cast includes:

• Atsumi Tanezaki as Frieren
• Nobuhiko Okamoto as the hero Himmel
• Hiroki Touchi as the priest Heiter
• Youji Ueda as the warrior Eisen


Source: @Anime_Frieren

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