Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2 Anime's Trailer Reveals New Staff, Crunchyroll Stream
Tomoya Kitagawa takes over as director, Daiki Harashina as assistant director
At Anime Expo 2025, Crunchyroll unveiled a new trailer for Frieren: Beyond Journey's End's second season of television anime. Additionally, it was announced that Crunchyroll will broadcast the second season globally except in Asia (including India and its subcontinent). In the trailer, new staff members for the second season were introduced.
For the second season of "Fruits Basket," Tomoya Kitagawa takes over as director, with Keiichirō Saitō providing support. Daiki Harashina directs the third episode of the first season and is now the assistant director for the second season. Tomohiro Suzuki returns for series composition. Akiko Takase is now the chief animation director for Takasemaru (formerly known as Frieren: Beyond Journey's End). Keisuke Kojima directs episode 7 of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, while Yuri Fujinaka is now the chief animation director for Frieren: Beyond Journey's End episode 22. Reiko Nagasawa is replaced by Takasemaru as character designers for the anime. Seiko Yoshioka returns for concept art, while Evan Call composes the soundtrack. Madhouse animates 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 second season will premiere in January 2026.
The TV show "The Frieren: Beyond Journey's End" had its premiere on September 29, 2023 as a special two-hour episode. This is the first time that a television anime series has been shown in NTV's "Kinyō Roadshow," which typically features movies on Friday evenings. Following the special episode, the series began airing regularly on October 6 at 11:00 p.m. JST in NTV's new "FRIDAY ANIME NIGHT" time slot. The first season of "The Frieren" ran for two quarters (half of a year) until March 2024. Crunchyroll streamed the first season as it was being broadcast, and it is also currently streaming an English dubbed version of the show.
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…
The first season of Bocchi the Rock! was directed by Keiichirō Saitō at Madhouse. Tomohiro Suzuki wrote the series scripts for shows like ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept., One-Punch Man, and Boogiepop and Others. Reiko Nagasawa designed the characters for takt op. Destiny. Evan Call composed the music for Violet Evergarden, Josee, The Tiger and the Fish, and Muv-Luv Alternative.
In April 2020, Yamada and Abe introduced their new manga series in Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine published by Shogakukan. This manga has gained recognition with several awards such as the New Creator Prize for the 25th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2021 and the 14th Manga Taisho Award in 2021. Furthermore, it was nominated for Best Shōnen Manga for Kodansha's 45th annual Manga Awards in 2021 and the 46th awards in May 2022. Additionally, the American Library Association's Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table (GNCRT) included this manga in its top 10 list of 2022 Best Graphic Novels for Adults Reading List.
Sources: Crunchyroll ( link ) ( Nicholas Friedman ), press release
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