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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Anime's 2nd Season Debuts on January 16

The staff of the second season of the television anime of Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe's Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (Sōsō no Frieren) manga revealed a visual and the show's January 16 debut on Friday. The anime will again air on NTV's "Friday Anime Night" programming block on Fridays at 11:00 p.m. JST.

Crunchyroll will stream the second season worldwide outside of Asia (but including India and the Indian subcontinent).

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.

The first season premiered with a two-hour special in September 2023. 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 also streamed 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…

Yamada and Abe launched the ongoing manga in Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine in April 2020. The series returned from a hiatus on July 23.

The manga has exceeded 30 million copies in circulation worldwide.

Sources: Frieren: Beyond Journey's End anime's website, Comic Natalie