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'Sousou no Frieren' Unveils Main Cast, Staff, First Promo, Fall 2023 Premiere

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Mar 7, 2023 7:20 PM
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The official website of the television anime adaptation of Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe's Sousou no Frieren (Frieren: Beyond Journey's End) manga unveiled on Wednesday the main cast, staff, the first promo, and a teaser visual (pictured). The anime is set to broadcast in Fall 2023.

Atsumi Tanezaki (Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song, Mahoutsukai no Yome) is starring as Frieren.

Staff
Director: Keiichirou Saitou (Bocchi the Rock!)
Series Composition: Tomohiro Suzuki (One Punch Man)
Character Design: Reiko Nagasawa (Takt Op. Destiny)
Music: Evan Call (Violet Evergarden)
Studio: Madhouse

Yamada and Abe began serializing the fantasy adventure manga in Shounen Sunday magazine in April 2020. Shogakukan shipped the ninth volume in September 2022, with the tenth volume scheduled for a March 16 release. The series has a cumulative of over 7.2 million copies of its volumes.

VIZ Media licensed the manga in English in February 2021 and published the seventh volume on January 17. The eighth volume is slated for a June 20 release.

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DatRandomDudeMar 7, 2023 7:28 PM
Mar 7, 2023 7:49 PM
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Wow! Team looks exciting.

I've heard great things about this Manga so I hope they do it justice.

Also glad to see Madhouse getting a great manga like this, if everything turns out well then this will hopefully help them go back to their glory days.
Mar 7, 2023 7:55 PM
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Seems very interesting. Looking forward to giving this a shot! 
Mar 7, 2023 7:58 PM
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Oh wow Madhouse is working on this? Good to know it’s in good hands. I hope this’ll put Madhouse back in the spotlight since they’ve been working on more obscure stuff within the last few years.
Mar 7, 2023 8:17 PM
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HOLY W!
FINALLY BEEN WAITING FOR THIS SINCE LAST YEAR.
AND THEN IT'S MADHOUSE? WITH BOCCHI'S DIRECTOR,
COULD NOT ASK FOR MORE!!!!
Mar 7, 2023 8:56 PM
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Great news and this teaser for however short it was looked fantastic. Just the kind of stuff this series needed.

One of the best series this year to come out in fall. Can't wait.
Mar 7, 2023 9:09 PM
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A nice and short teaser. Pretty much my most anticipated show for this year and after seeing this, I'm just all the more hyped for it. 

A nice VA choice for Frieren as well. 
Mar 7, 2023 9:58 PM
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Someone please spoil me a little, is this like super melancholic sad about human lifespan and how short it is kind of a story ?
Mar 7, 2023 10:17 PM
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It's finally announced, and is indeed Fukushi and Saito working together. I'm glad he's returned to Madhouse, Sonny Boy #8 just hits different, extremely similar in tone and atmosphere as well. Let's see how this anime stacks up against Sonny Boy's 12/12 extremely talented SB artists.
Mar 7, 2023 10:23 PM
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Swagernator said:
Someone please spoil me a little, is this like super melancholic sad about human lifespan and how short it is kind of a story ?
It's about elf journey with her long life. Not sad, just beautiful.
Mar 7, 2023 10:40 PM

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Etherius_ZS said:
It's finally announced, and is indeed Fukushi and Saito working together. I'm glad he's returned to Madhouse, Sonny Boy #8 just hits different, extremely similar in tone and atmosphere as well. Let's see how this anime stacks up against Sonny Boy's 12/12 extremely talented SB artists.
There is no compitition Sonny Boy is a below avarage anime.
Mar 7, 2023 10:50 PM

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ZXEAN said:
Etherius_ZS said:
It's finally announced, and is indeed Fukushi and Saito working together. I'm glad he's returned to Madhouse, Sonny Boy #8 just hits different, extremely similar in tone and atmosphere as well. Let's see how this anime stacks up against Sonny Boy's 12/12 extremely talented SB artists.
There is no compitition Sonny Boy is a below avarage anime.
>  There is no compitition Sonny Boy is a below avarage anime.

Meanwhile Sonny Boy

Mar 7, 2023 11:00 PM

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Etherius_ZS said:
ZXEAN said:
There is no compitition Sonny Boy is a below avarage anime.
>  There is no compitition Sonny Boy is a below avarage anime.

Meanwhile Sonny Boy

W staff L anime just like Bubble.
Mar 7, 2023 11:09 PM

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ZXEAN said:
Etherius_ZS said:
>  There is no compitition Sonny Boy is a below avarage anime.

Meanwhile Sonny Boy

W staff L anime just like Bubble.
??
Bubble had everything what you'd expect from the staff, and regarding the script, didn't there were 3 writers? Gen Urobuchi bailing out isn't even a new thing, happened back in 2015 with Aldnoah Zero.

W staff = W anime, boards should be good enough to carry anyway, Keisuke Kojima especially among them is great in that aspect.

Anyway, I don't even know where the discussion is going.
Mar 7, 2023 11:55 PM

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Great cast for Frieren. Hopefully Madhouse makes big with this.
Mar 8, 2023 12:14 AM

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Swagernator said:
Someone please spoil me a little, is this like super melancholic sad about human lifespan and how short it is kind of a story ?

Yes and no, it definitely does explore the meaning of life and legacy you leave behind, but the main subject of the story is Frieren (the main character) learning to value every passing moment. She already went on an adventure with her companions, but now that she outlived them all she learns that the memories she had of them in the short few years they were together, have changed her and impacted her more than anything.

So it’s about treasuring every moment you have and Frieren’s discovering how important a human connection is.
Mar 8, 2023 12:15 AM

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ZXEAN said:
Etherius_ZS said:
It's finally announced, and is indeed Fukushi and Saito working together. I'm glad he's returned to Madhouse, Sonny Boy #8 just hits different, extremely similar in tone and atmosphere as well. Let's see how this anime stacks up against Sonny Boy's 12/12 extremely talented SB artists.
There is no compitition Sonny Boy is a below avarage anime.

Don’t cry mate, just because you didn’t understand Sonny Boy doesn’t mean it’s a bad anime
Mar 8, 2023 12:35 AM

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Tendo_GM said:
ZXEAN said:
There is no compitition Sonny Boy is a below avarage anime.

Don’t cry mate, just because you didn’t understand Sonny Boy doesn’t mean it’s a bad anime
Don't cry mate, just because Sonny Boy is you favourite anime doesn't means it's a good anime.
Mar 8, 2023 1:15 AM

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ZXEAN said:
Tendo_GM said:

Don’t cry mate, just because you didn’t understand Sonny Boy doesn’t mean it’s a bad anime
Don't cry mate, just because Sonny Boy is you favourite anime doesn't means it's a good anime.
Yes it does, only the best of the best anime end up in my favorites and that automatically means Sonny Boy is a masterpiece. But I get it, it’s not like someone who only likes edgy shonen stuff could understand
Mar 8, 2023 2:09 AM

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Keiichirou Saitou+Madhouse+Fukushi team.

Frieren won.
Mar 8, 2023 2:11 AM

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Finally the adaptation of great work will be aired soon! And the staff is amazing! My favorite MADHOUSE studio! I am waiting with anticipation! Hope for 24-26 episodes, not less!
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god damn, that's a fresh, stacked staff list + madhouse is back?!?!? pv looks clean (give me ngnl s2 now plz.)
Mar 8, 2023 6:20 AM
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This is DEFENITELY going to be a banger and a late contender for AOTY given the fact of who the staff is.

Plus my podcast-mate is in LOVE with this manga and can't shut up about it so I have massively high expectations for this given what I've heard about it + its score here on MAL
Mar 8, 2023 9:20 AM
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Keiichirou Saitou gonna direct the AOTY two times in a row??? Fucking power move
Mar 8, 2023 12:10 PM

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the sakuga community is so excited for this because of the awesome core staff

remember the staff list is more important than the studio name
Mar 8, 2023 12:38 PM

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deg said:
the sakuga community is so excited for this because of the awesome core staff

remember the staff list is more important than the studio name

You are right in this, I agree.
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Memore said:
deg said:
the sakuga community is so excited for this because of the awesome core staff

remember the staff list is more important than the studio name

You are right in this, I agree.


also the Animation Producer of this show did One Punch Man they say so prepare to see more talented staff for this other than the core staff since Animation Producer is mostly responsible for gathering the staff of any anime
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deg said:
Memore said:

You are right in this, I agree.


also the Animation Producer of this show did One Punch Man they say so prepare to see more talented staff for this other than the core staff since Animation Producer is mostly responsible for gathering the staff of any anime

Thanks for this info. I appreciate it.

Also it is such a pleasure to enjoy the adaptation of amazing source work despite all generic series that get adaptations nowadays. I hope that more seinen and josei works get attention from producers soon and will be adapted into anime series too.
Mar 8, 2023 4:52 PM
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I heard good things about this series I can't wait to check it out
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Mar 9, 2023 12:24 PM

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This has a talented staff, guess I'll read the manga in preparation. 
Bum Bum Dum Dum

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Natsuki Hanae will be Himmel for sure.
Mar 12, 2023 1:40 AM
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That looks quite promising staff alright!
Have not seen Bocchi yet, but for a few clips I seen and lots of people talking about it, it had to have an exceptional director, stuff I seen was very interesting put together, character design is promising since that was the main reason I watched Takt Op for, had insanely good one, and this Madhouse huh?

I think we have an winner here, I want it to be one too, hopefully it is great stuff.
Mar 12, 2023 1:44 AM

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WOAH, FINALLY, OMG!?
Mar 16, 2023 7:08 AM

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the staff list is indeed interesting on this one and i liked the overall series even though the releasing and all that is quite concerning. 
Apr 11, 2023 7:00 AM
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Atsumi Tanezaki as the main cast?
Okay, I'm watching this.

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