During a panel hosted by Crunchyroll at Anime Expo 2025, a new teaser trailer was revealed for the upcoming second season of Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End. The company will stream the second season worldwide, excluding Asia (but including India and the Indian subcontinent), as it airs in Japan in January 2026.
It was also announced at the panel that Tomoya Kitagawa (Frieren Season 1 Episode 2, 8, and 25 director) will direct the second season, with season one director Keiichiro Saito (Bocchi the Rock!) now serving as the supervising director.
Additional staff for the second season include Daiki Harashina as assistant director, Tomohiro Suzuki (returning) as series screenwriter, Takasemaru (Violet Evergarden), Keisuke Kojima (100 Meters) and Yuri Fujinaka (SPY x FAMILY CODE: White key animation) as character designers, Seiko Yoshioka (returning) as concept artist, and Evan Call (returning) as music composer. Madhouse is handling the animation production for the series, as it did for the first season.
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Season 2 was announced in September 2024, one year after the first two-cour season premiered on September 29, 2023 and ended on March 22, 2024. The first season ran for 28 episodes.
Meanwhile, some of the anime’s voice cast includes:
- • Atsumi Tanezaki as Frieren
- • Kana Ichinose as Fern
- • Chiaki Kobayashi as Stark
- • Nobuhiko Okamoto as Himmel
- • Hiroki Tochi as Heiter
- • Yoji Ueda as Eisen
The anime is based on the original fantasy manga series, written by Kanehito Yamada and illustrated by Tsukasa Abe. It was first launched in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday on April 28, 2020 and has released 14 tankobon volumes as of March 2025. VIZ Media licensed the manga for release in English.
The manga won the grand prize at Manga Taisho 2021 and was one of the winners of the 69th Shogakukan Manga Award.
Crunchyroll is streaming the first season of Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End and describes the main synopsis as:
The mage Frieren defeated the Demon King alongside the hero Himmel’s party after a 10-year quest. Peace was restored to the kingdom. Because she is an elf, she is able to live over a thousand years. She promises Himmel and the others that she will be back to see them and then sets out on a journey by herself. Fifty years later, Frieren goes to visit Himmel and the others. She remained unchanged, but Himmel and the others have aged and only a little of their lives remain. Later, she witnesses Himmel’s death. Frieren is pained by her desire to have spent more time getting to know people. With that regret in her heart, she then goes on a journey to do just that. On her journey, she meets many people and many events await her.
Sources: Frieren Official Twitter, Crunchyroll News, press release
