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Yen Press Releases Frieren: Beyond Journey's End ~Prelude~, About a Place in the Kinki Region Audiobooks in English
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The prose version of Sesuji's About a Place in the Kinki Region will debut in English in December 2025, and the prose version of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End ~Prelude~ will debut in English in March 2026.
Yen Press also announced it will release an omnibus edition of Rem's manga-style graphic novel adaptation of Gail Carriger's novel Soulless in March 2026.
Hachimoku released Frieren: Beyond Journey's End ~Prelude~ in Japan in April 2024.
Yen Press describes the story:
After the legendary elf mage Frieren is forced to confront the cruel passage of time, she sets out on a journey to fulfill the last wishes of her friends and get to know the world a little better. Under the supervision of Kanehito Yamada, writer of the original manga, comes five original short stories! Join Frieren, Fern, Stark, Lawine, Kanne, and Aura in brand new adventures!
Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe's Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (Sōsō no Frieren) manga launched in Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine in April 2020.
The Frieren: Beyond Journey's End anime premiered with a two-hour special in September 2023. A second season will debut in January 2026.
Yen Press describes the story:
My friend is missing. When he disappeared, he'd been working on a magazine about the paranormal—his first real job as an editor. With almost no budget, he'd resorted to digging through back issues and unused research material, looking for inspiration. As he did, a terrifying truth began to emerge about a certain place in the Kinki region. I have collected the relevant articles, interviews, and other materials in this book. And once you have understood everything, I would like to ask for your cooperation. I hope you will get in touch.
The company announced the license for the light novel in July.
Tsukasa Usui launched the manga adaptation in Kadokawa's Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh magazine in November 2023. Kadokawa published the manga's second volume on July 26.
The franchise inspired a live-action film that opened in Japan on August 8.
Yen Press describes the graphic novel:
A new complete omnibus edition! The life of a spinster in Victorian London isn't an easy one on the best of days, but such a life becomes infinitely more complicated when said spinster is “soulless”—a preternatural bridging the gap between the natural and supernatural worlds. Miss Alexia Tarabotti has this unique distinction, and when she is assailed at a formal gathering by a rove vampire, an encounter that results in the death of the half-starved creature, her circumstances become exponentially more complicated indeed! Now caught up in an intrigue with life-and-death stakes, Alexia must rely on all her talents to outmatch the forces conspiring against her, but it may be the man who has caught her eye—Lord Conall Maccon—and their budding flirtation that truly drives her to her wit's end!
Rem is a North American artist who illustrated Tokyopop's Vampire Kisses graphic novel series and won an international manga contest run by Kodansha's Morning manga magazine in 2007. As a result of this competition, Rem's Kage no Matsuri work was published in the Morning two magazine.
Source: Press release
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