{"id":145030,"date":"2026-01-16T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=145030"},"modified":"2026-01-18T02:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:02:10","slug":"frieren-beyond-journeys-end-season-2s-opening-and-ending-animations-arrive-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2026\/01\/16\/frieren-beyond-journeys-end-season-2s-opening-and-ending-animations-arrive-on-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Frieren: Beyond Journey&#8217;s End Season 2&#8217;s Opening and Ending Animations Arrive on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The opening and ending animations for <em>Frieren: Beyond Journey&#8217;s End<\/em> Season 2 have been released on YouTube for viewers to reexperience their respective journeys.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The opening was storyboarded and unit directed by Season 2&#8217;s director <strong>Tomoya Kitagawa<\/strong>, and combines pleasing character drawings with heightened post-processing that creates an idealized, dreamlike feel. Meanwhile, the ending animation from <strong>Mimei Aoume<\/strong> is a Frieren-focused journey that features Aoume&#8217;s color pencil-style visuals, which can also be seen in works like Ave Mujica&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0YNMV7xljD4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Imprisoned XII<\/a>&#8221; music video.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u300e\u846c\u9001\u306e\u30d5\u30ea\u30fc\u30ec\u30f3\u300f\u7b2c2\u671f\u30ce\u30f3\u30af\u30ec\u30b8\u30c3\u30c8\u30aa\u30fc\u30d7\u30cb\u30f3\u30b0\u6620\u50cf\uff0fOP\u30c6\u30fc\u30de\uff1a\u300clulu.\u300dMrs. GREEN APPLE\uff0f\u30d5\u30ea\u30fc\u30ec\u30f3OP\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C0BG3B7aksU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Mrs. GREEN APPLE<\/strong>&#8216;s \u201clulu&#8221; is the opening song, while <strong>milet<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;The Story of Us&#8221; is the ending theme.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u300e\u846c\u9001\u306e\u30d5\u30ea\u30fc\u30ec\u30f3\u300f\u7b2c2\u671f\u30ce\u30f3\u30af\u30ec\u30b8\u30c3\u30c8\u30a8\u30f3\u30c7\u30a3\u30f3\u30b0\u6620\u50cf\uff0fED\u30c6\u30fc\u30de\uff1a\u300cThe Story of Us\u300dmilet\uff0f\u30d5\u30ea\u30fc\u30ec\u30f3ED\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FY4Bx2qtkRM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Frieren: Beyond Journey\u2019s End<\/em> Season 2 premiered on &nbsp;January 16 and is streaming overseas on platforms like Crunchyroll and the Muse Asia YouTube channel. The anime&nbsp;is based on the Shogakukan-published fantasy manga written by <b>Kanehito Yamada&nbsp;<\/b>and drawn by&nbsp;<strong>Tsukasa Abe<\/strong>, which sees the long-lived elf Frieren, once a member of the party that defeated the Demon King, journeying with a new generation of companions.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The<em>&nbsp;<\/em>manga began serialization in Weekly Shonen Sunday in 2020 and has 15 volumes as of December 2025. It was the winner of the 48th Kodansha Awards\u2019 Shonen category and one of the winners at the 69th Shogakukan Manga Award, and also performed well at a number of other rankings and awards. It went on hiatus in October 2025, with plans for an adjusted serialization pace out of consideration for the creators\u2019 well-being.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The anime&#8217;s two-cour first season premiered on September 29, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;font-size: 12pt\">Staff<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"flash__03436 backgroundFlash__5126c groupStart__5126c\" data-flash=\"false\">\n<div class=\"message__5126c cozyMessage__5126c groupStart__5126c wrapper_c19a55 cozy_c19a55 zalgo_c19a55\" role=\"article\" data-list-item-id=\"chat-messages___chat-messages-1359756817684496506-1390946117025402901\" aria-labelledby=\"message-username-1390946117025402901 uid_1 message-content-1390946117025402901 uid_2 message-timestamp-1390946117025402901\">\n<div class=\"contents_c19a55\">\n<div id=\"message-content-1390946117025402901\" class=\"markup__75297 messageContent_c19a55\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Director:&nbsp;<strong>Tomoya Kitagawa<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Frieren<\/em>&nbsp;Season 1 storyboard artist and episode director for Episodes 2, 8, and 25, among other roles)<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Assistant director:&nbsp;<strong>Daiki Harashina&nbsp;<\/strong>(<em>Frieren<\/em>&nbsp;Season 1\u2019s monster designer, Episode 3 storyboard artist and director, Episode 24 storyboard artist, and more)<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Director cooperation:&nbsp;<strong>Keiichiro Saito<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Frieren<\/em>&nbsp;Season 1 and&nbsp;<em>Bocchi the Rock!<\/em>&nbsp;director)<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Series composer:&nbsp;<strong>Tomohiro Suzuki<\/strong>&nbsp;(reprising)<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Character designer:&nbsp;<strong>Takasemaru<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Violet Evergarden<\/em>)<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Character designer:&nbsp;<strong>Keisuke Kojima<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>100 Meters<\/em>)<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Character designer:&nbsp;<strong>Yuri Fujinaka<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Frieren<\/em>&nbsp;Season 1 Episode 22 co-chief animation director)<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Concept artist:<strong>&nbsp;Seiko Yoshioka<\/strong>&nbsp;(reprising)<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Background art director:&nbsp;<strong>Sawako Takagi<\/strong>&nbsp;(reprising)&nbsp;<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Color designer:&nbsp;<strong>Harue Ohno<\/strong>&nbsp;(reprising)&nbsp;<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Compositing director:&nbsp;<strong>Akane Fushihara<\/strong>&nbsp;(reprising)&nbsp;<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Music composer:&nbsp;<strong>Evan Call<\/strong>&nbsp;(reprising)<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Animation production:&nbsp;<strong>Madhouse&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Cast<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022&nbsp;<b>Atsumi Tanezaki&nbsp;<\/b>as Frieren<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022<b>&nbsp;Kana Ichinose<\/b>&nbsp;as Fern<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022&nbsp;<b>Chiaki Kobayashi<\/b>&nbsp;as Stark<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022<b>&nbsp;Nobuhiko Okamoto&nbsp;<\/b>as Himmel<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022<b>&nbsp;Hiroki Tochi<\/b>&nbsp;as Heiter<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022&nbsp;<b>Yoji Ueda&nbsp;<\/b>as Eisen<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> TOHO animation channel<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opening and ending animations for Frieren: Beyond Journey&#8217;s End Season 2 have been released on YouTube for viewers to reexperience their respective journeys. The opening was storyboarded and unit directed by Season 2&#8217;s director Tomoya Kitagawa, and combines pleasing character drawings with heightened post-processing that creates an idealized, dreamlike feel. 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