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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2 Anime's Trailer Reveals New Staff, Crunchyroll Stream

Crunchyroll's Anime Expo 2025 panel for the television anime season of Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe's Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (Sōsō no Frieren) manga revealed a new trailer for the anime's second season on Friday, and also revealed that Crunchyroll will stream the second season worldwide outside of Asia (but including India and the Indian subcontinent). The trailer reveals the new staff members for the second season.

Tomoya Kitagawa — who directed episodes 2, 8, and 25 of the first season — takes over as the director for the second season, with first season director Keiichirō Saitō now credited for director support. Daiki Harashina, who directed the third episode of the first season, is now the assistant director. Tomohiro Suzuki returns for series composition. Takasemaru (Akiko Takase, Violet Evergarden, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End episode 22, 28 chief animation director), Keisuke Kojima (100 Meters, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End episode 7 director), and Yuri Fujinaka (Frieren: Beyond Journey's End episode 22 chief animation director) are now the character designers for the anime (replacing Reiko Nagasawa). Seiko Yoshioka returns for concept art. Evan Call returns to compose the soundtrack. Madhouse returns to animate the second season.

Crunchyroll also confirmed the show's Japanese and English dub casts:

• Atsumi Tanezaki | Mallorie Rodak as Frieren
• Kana Ichinose | Jill Harris as Fern
• Chiaki Kobayashi | Jordan Dash Cruz as Stark
• Nobuhiko Okamoto | Clifford Chapin as Himmel
• Hiroki Tōchi | Jason Douglas as Heiter
• Yōji Ueda | Chris Guerrero as Eisen
• Atsuko Tanaka | Lydia Mackay as Flamme
• Yūichi Nakamura | Christopher Wehkamp as Sein
• Ikumi Hasegawa | Morgan Berry as Übel
• Jirō Saitō | Ben Phillips as Denken
• Mariya Ise | Anastasia Munoz as Serie

The Frieren: Beyond Journey's End anime premiered with a two-hour special on September 29, 2023. It is the first ever television anime series to premiere in NTV's "Kinyō Roadshow," a Friday evening programming block usually reserved for feature films. The anime then started airing later episodes on October 6 at 11:00 p.m. JST in NTV's new anime timeslot, "FRIDAY ANIME NIGHT." The first season ran for two consecutive cours (quarters of a year) until March 2024. Crunchyroll streamed the first season as it aired, and it is also streaming an English dub.

Viz Media has licensed the manga, and it describes the story:

The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about. Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. But Frieren will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to understand what life means to the people around her? Decades after their victory, the funeral of one her friends confronts Frieren with her own near immortality. Frieren sets out to fulfill the last wishes of her comrades and finds herself beginning a new adventure…

Keiichirō Saitō (Bocchi the Rock!) directed the first season at Madhouse. Tomohiro Suzuki (ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept., One-Punch Man, Boogiepop and Others) was in charge of series scripts. Reiko Nagasawa (takt op. Destiny) designed the characters. Evan Call (Violet Evergarden, Josee, The Tiger and the Fish, Muv-Luv Alternative) composed the music.

Yamada and Abe launched the ongoing manga in Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine in April 2020. The manga has won several awards, including the New Creator Prize for the 25th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2021 and the 14th Manga Taisho Award in 2021. In addition, the manga was nominated for Best Shōnen Manga for Kodansha's 45th annual Manga Awards in 2021 and the 46th awards in May 2022. The American Library Association's Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table (GNCRT) included the manga in its top 10 list of 2022 Best Graphic Novels for Adults Reading List.

Sources: Crunchyroll (Nicholas Friedman), press release

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