Sousou no Frieren
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
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Synonyms: Frieren at the Funeral, Frieren the Slayer
Japanese: 葬送のフリーレン
English: Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
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Type: Manga
Volumes: Unknown
Chapters: Unknown
Status: Publishing
Published: Apr 28, 2020 to ?
Genres: Adventure Adventure, Award Winning Award Winning, Drama Drama, Fantasy Fantasy
Demographic: Shounen Shounen
Serialization: Shounen Sunday
Authors: Yamada, Kanehito (Story), Abe, Tsukasa (Art)

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Score: 8.831 (scored by 4554345,543 users)
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Ranked: #322
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #90
Members: 141,238
Favorites: 8,665

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The Demon King has been defeated, and the victorious hero party returns home before disbanding. The four—mage Frieren, hero Himmel, priest Heiter, and warrior Eisen—reminisce about their decade-long journey as the moment to bid each other farewell arrives. But the passing of time is different for elves, thus Frieren witnesses her companions slowly pass away one by one.

Before his death, Heiter manages to foist a young human apprentice called Fern onto Frieren. Driven by the elf's passion for collecting a myriad of magic spells, the pair embarks on a seemingly aimless journey, revisiting the places that the heroes of yore had visited. Along their travels, Frieren slowly confronts her regrets of missed opportunities to form deeper bonds with her now-deceased comrades.

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Sousou no Frieren ranked second and sixth in the 2021 and 2022 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! for the Male Readers division, respectively. In 2021, the series won the New Work Prize at the 25th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize awards. The manga was nominated twice for the 45th and 46th Kodansha Manga Awards in the Shounen category before winning the 48th Kodansha Manga Award in the same category in 2024. The series won the 69th Shougakukan Manga Award.

The series has been published in English as Frieren: Beyond Journey's End by VIZ Media under the Shonen Sunday imprint since November 9, 2021. The series has also been simulpub digitally through VIZ Manga. It has also been released in Polish by Studio JG since May 12, 2023.
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Frieren
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44 Recommended
5 Mixed Feelings
4 Not Recommended
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Jun 13, 2024
Biisoo
Recommended
Preliminary (130/? eps)
Picked this up after really enjoying the anime, The main difference between the anime and manga is the pacing and simplistic style. Let me elaborate:

The manga feels more like a slow burn and slice of life adventure, even more so than the anime. The art is simple and easy to grasp without going overboard. It does have it's moments but for the most part it's plain and simple.
The real highlight of this manga is the story and characters, Frieren herself is such a well written and extremely likeable character that you can't help but enjoy her whenever she's onscreen. The motivation of Frieren to ...
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Feb 20, 2025
Holokaii
Mixed Feelings
Preliminary (140/? eps)
As a side note I will be putting quotes around "Frieren" when talking about the story, and not the character.

"Sousou no Freren" is a fantasy adventure Shonen manga by Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe whose work started publishing in Weekly Shonen in August 2020. The manga was already very popular before the anime came out, winning a few rewards during the time before the anime adaptation dropped in 2023. It's an understatement to say that the anime is pretty popular, amassing widespread mainstream recognition and arguably becoming the single most talked about anime since its release. At the time of writing this, the manga is ...
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Jan 10, 2025
Oculiquetzal
Not Recommended
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Part II - It Got Worse (and Why)

"[...] there’s an increasing sense that culture has lost the ability to grasp and articulate the present. Or it could be that, in one very important sense, there is no present to grasp and articulate anymore." - Mark Fisher (Ghosts of My Life)

The anime adaptation of Frieren - Beyond Journey's End is a sensation. Not quality-wise, as I believe it to be a disappointing mess which I've already outlined in my review of the anime itself, but popularity-wise, in terms of "hype", it you will. It is currently (as of 2025, January 10th) the #1 anime on MAL ...
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