Frieren: Beyond Journey's End | |
葬送のフリーレン (Sōsō no Furīren) | |
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Genre | |
Manga | |
Written by | Kanehito Yamada |
Illustrated by | Tsukasa Abe |
Published by | Shogakukan |
English publisher | |
Imprint | Shōnen Sunday Comics |
Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Sunday |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | April 28, 2020 – present |
Volumes | 13 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Keiichirō Saitō |
Written by | Tomohiro Suzuki |
Music by | Evan Call |
Studio | Madhouse |
Licensed by | Crunchyroll |
Original network | NNS (Nippon TV) |
Original run | September 29, 2023 – present |
Episodes | 28 |
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (Japanese: 葬送のフリーレン, Hepburn: Sōsō no Furīren, lit. 'Frieren at the Funeral' or 'Frieren the Slayer')[a] is a Japanese manga series written by Kanehito Yamada and illustrated by Tsukasa Abe . It has been serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday since April 2020; its chapters have been collected in 13 tankōbon volumes as of April 2024. The series is licensed for English release in North America by Viz Media and in Southeast Asia by Shogakukan Asia. Madhouse has produced an anime television adaptation, the first 28-episode season of which was broadcast from September 2023 to March 2024. A second season has been announced.
The manga's narrative takes place in a fantasy world and follows Frieren, an elf mage on a journey to the resting place of souls to reunite with her former comrade Himmel, whose Hero Party slew the Demon King.
By June 2024, the Frieren: Beyond Journey's End manga had over 22 million copies in circulation. The manga won the 14th Manga Taishō and the 25th annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize's New Creator Prize in 2021, and the 69th Shogakukan Manga Award and the 48th Kodansha Manga Award (in the shōnen category) in 2024.
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