'Sousou no Frieren' Gets Second Season

by Vindstot
Sep 28, 4:56 AM | 93 Comments

The Sousou no Frieren (Frieren: Beyond Journey's End) first anniversary stage greeting event announced a second anime season on Saturday, revealing a teaser visual (pictured) and announcement promo. Madhouse, the animation studio behind the first season, will return to produce the second season.

The first season premiered with a two-hour special featuring the first four episodes on Nippon TV's Kinyou Roadshow programming block on September 29 last year. Subsequent episodes were broadcast on the station and its affiliates' Friday Anime Night programming block. The anime series ended with 28 episodes on March 22, adapting the first 60 chapters.

Crunchyroll streamed the anime with subtitles and later dubbed it in multiple languages, including English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu. Muse Asia streamed it in Southeast Asia. Amazon Prime, Netflix, and Disney+ also streamed the anime.

The anime series adapts Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe's fantasy adventure manga, which began in Shounen Sunday in April 2020. Shogakukan published the 13th volume on April 17. Sousou no Frieren has a cumulative 22 million copies of its volumes in circulation.

Shogakukan also released a prequel light novel penned by Mei Hachimoku (Natsu e no Tunnel, Sayonara no Deguchi) on April 17, featuring illustrations by Abe. Supervised by Yamada, the light novel features five chapters, each featuring a different character as the protagonist, including Frieren, Fern, Stark, Lawine & Kanne, and Aura. The light novel sold a cumulative 100,000 copies.

VIZ Media licensed the manga in English in February 2021 and released the 11th volume on September 10. The 12th volume is planned for a February 11, 2025 release. The manga has also been licensed in multiple foreign languages, including Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, and Chinese.

Sousou no Frieren ranked second in 2021 and sixth in 2022 in the Male Readers division of Kono Manga ga Sugoi!, won the New Work Prize at the 25th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, and the 69th Shogakukan Manga Award earlier this year. The manga was also nominated for the Shounen category at the 45th and 46th Kodansha Manga Awards, eventually winning the award at the 48th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2024.

Announcement

Official site: https://frieren-anime.jp/
Official X (Twitter): @Anime_Frieren
Official manga site: https://websunday.net/work/708/
Official manga X (Twitter): @FRIEREN_PR

Source: Anime Voice

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AlirezYU said:
@Master_Chef Anybody who doesn't like my holy bible is baiting... Dry argument.

I don't take people that rate shows 0/10 or 1/10 seriously, especially when said show has widespread praise. It just tells me they're a contrarian.

Oct 11, 9:11 PM by Master_Chef

@Master_Chef Anybody who doesn't like my holy bible is baiting... Dry argument.

Oct 11, 4:02 PM by AlirezYU

Good news! I enjoyed the first season. It was not the best anime experience I ever had, but nevertheless it was fun.

A lot of people fell in love with Sousou no Frieren, so it's awesome that this anime has its second season announced relatively fast. It'd be utterly disappointing if we had another One Punch Man scenario (so a situation when an extremely popular show doesn't receive an official sequel announcement rather fast, despite the source material having still enough stuff to be covered by an anime adaptation).

Oct 6, 10:18 PM by Adnash

inb4 first season is better than second season.

Oct 4, 11:20 PM by hazecloud

The manga has some really good stuff coming up, so I'm pretty excited.

Oct 2, 3:29 PM by malvarez1

@Master_Chef Still has no point. 0/10

Oct 1, 5:03 PM by SuperAdventure

@Fabris The overlap between trolls and idiots is pretty large.

Sep 30, 1:49 PM by therealnagora

It's such great news, and coincidentally, I was just rewatching it the other day and have just finished it.

Sep 29, 10:41 PM by HoshimiMiyabi

@SkullKn1ght Overlord has multiple seasons and a movie and they're all Madhouse iirc, they're not as opposed to sequels as the anime community seems to think they are. Apparently OPM came down to logistical conflicts (and don't forget that until Frieren which marked their "return", they were actually kind of imploding for a while there), not any idealogical opposition to doing follow ups.

Sep 29, 4:42 PM by FrierenSimpKing

Will keep my finger crossed. :)

Sep 29, 2:44 PM by GhostOwl

Interesting, I'll watch it

Sep 29, 1:37 PM by Akiko_Yosano

Hopefully everyone did DIRTY money with S1, realizing that to keep the trend, DONT BOTHER not bringing back the same core staff and director, wont be the same, this being on Madhouse again seems very positive!

As for those Frieren haters saying it would not get a S2, go to a special place yourself and stay there till eternity (to avoid profanity words).

Sep 29, 7:41 AM by Playcool

@ZXEAN Ah was never aware of this. That's cool tho.

Sep 29, 3:45 AM by Aztrall

@SkullKn1ght Madhouse have worked on lots of sequel like Overload, Chihayafuru and Diamond no Ace.

Sep 29, 2:18 AM by ZXEAN

Great, now when it's finally calmed down around this anime, it returns to take over the internet again. What a joke.

Sep 29, 2:09 AM by YourAverageHater

Great news!! It was known before from the leaks.

Sep 29, 2:00 AM by Memore

i let this one sit on the back burner for quite a few weeks before i picked it up during its original broadcast. after watching... i think it was four weeks' worth of eps in one sitting... i was HOOKED HARD! and kept up with it weekly from then on. :D i'm happy as hell it is getting a S2 and i'll be avidly watching it from beginning to end! :D

Sep 29, 1:18 AM by KiliianSleipnir

Crazy to see Madhouse making a second season. Idk what universe I'm living in.

Sep 29, 1:17 AM by Aztrall

Heck yeah!! We won we got our monthly end gift 😁

Sep 29, 12:12 AM by Ricky16

The journey continues

Sep 28, 8:19 PM by ani2016

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