A main trailer for Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Season 2 has been released, previewing the Mrs. GREEN APPLE opening song “lulu.” alongside new footage. It was also announced that Kazuhiko Inoue is voicing the Hero of the South.
Separately, a new premiere countdown Illustration, starring Himmel, was released. The anime is set to begin airing on January 16.
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 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. Its two-cour first season premiered on September 29, 2023.
The Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 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’ 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.
The manga went on hiatus in October 2025, with plans for an adjusted serialization pace out of consideration for the creators’ well-being.
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Season 2 will be streamed overseas by platforms like Crunchyroll, Bilibili, iQIYI, and the Muse Asia YouTube Channel.
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
