With a week to go before Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Season 2’s premiere, the anime’s official X/Twitter account has began a countdown illustration series, starting with a drawing of the titular character.
The Frieren illustration is drawn by Takasemaru, one of the character designers who came onboard for Season 2. Their previous character design credits include Violet Evergarden.
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Season 2 will begin airing on January 16. Platforms like Crunchyroll, Bilibili, iQIYI, and Muse Asia YouTube Channel will stream the show overseas. The anime is based on the Shogakukan-published fantasy manga written by Kanehito Yamada and drawn by Tsukasa Abe, 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.
The two-cour first season premiered on September 29, 2023. The manga began serialization in Weekly Shonen Sunday in 2020 and has 15 volumes as of December 2025.
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End‘s manga was the winner of the 48th Kodansha Awards’ Shonen category and one of the winners at the 69th Shogakukan Manga Award. It 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’ well-being.
Staff
• Director: Tomoya Kitagawa (Frieren Season 1 storyboard artist and episode director for Episodes 2, 8, and 25, among other roles)
• Assistant director: Daiki Harashina (Frieren Season 1’s monster designer, Episode 3 storyboard artist and director, Episode 24 storyboard artist, and more)
• Director cooperation: Keiichiro Saito (Frieren Season 1 and Bocchi the Rock! director)
• Series composer: Tomohiro Suzuki (reprising)
• Character designer: Takasemaru (Violet Evergarden)
• Character designer: Keisuke Kojima (100 Meters)
• Character designer: Yuri Fujinaka (Frieren Season 1 Episode 22 co-chief animation director)
• Concept artist: Seiko Yoshioka (reprising)
• Background art director: Sawako Takagi (reprising)
• Color designer: Harue Ohno (reprising)
• Compositing director: Akane Fushihara (reprising)
• Music composer: Evan Call (reprising)
• Animation production: Madhouse
Cast
• Atsumi Tanezaki as Frieren
• Kana Ichinose as Fern
• Chiaki Kobayashi as Stark
• Nobuhiko Okamoto as Himmel
• Hiroki Tochi as Heiter
• Yoji Ueda as Eisen
Source: @Anime_Frieren
