Sousou no Frieren (Frieren: Beyond Journey's End)

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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Mar 19, 2025

_Bubassotto_

Recommended

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Sousou no Frieren surprised me a lot when I read it for the first time!

I bought volume 1 because I thought the cover was very pretty and when I read it I came across a story completely different from what I had imagined. I was imagining an Isekai or a typical RPG adventure but when I read it I saw that it wasn't about that, a somewhat different premise. The idea of the story taking place after a great adventure from the perspective of a race that has a long-ago life was very curious because this is something I had never stopped to think about ... in depth and here it is well worked. The way the author transforms this idea into art is very fun, the very beautiful art with its various color variations (on the covers and special colored chapters) catches the attention of anyone who sees it. I've read a little of this work because I'm collecting the physical version of this work of art. So far I've read up to volume 3. I don't know when I'll finish reading this work, but I've already seen how the story will unfold in the anime (if the anime was faithful to the manga) and I say that it seems to continue very well. I like how the author never forgets Himmel (because he's my favorite character) and his deeds. Overall, I strongly recommend this work because it strays far from those clichés that we're already sick of seeing around here. I'll end with a score of 8.

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Sousou no Frieren me surpreendeu muito quando li a primeira vez!

Compre o volume 1 pois achei a capa do volume muito bonita e quando fui ler me deparei com uma historia completamente diferente do que eu imaginaria, estava imaginando um Isekai ou uma aventura típica de RPG mas quando li vi que não se tratava disso, uma premissa um tanto quanto diferente. A ideia da historia se passar após uma grande aventura na perspectiva de uma raça que tem uma vida longínqua foi muito curioso pois isso é algo que nunca tinha parado para pensar com profundidade e aqui é bem trabalhada, o jeito que o autor transforma essa ideia em arte é muito divertida, a arte muito bonita com suas diversas variações de cores (nas capas e capítulos especiais coloridos) chama a atenção de qualquer um que a veja. Li pouco dessa obra pois estou colecionando a versão física dessa obra de arte, até o momento li até o volume 3, não sei quando vou finalizar a minha leitura dessa obra mas já vi como a historia vai se desenrolar pelo anime (isso se o anime tiver sido fiel ao mangá) e digo que ela parece continuar muito bem, gosto de como o autor nunca esquece do Himmel (até porque ele é meu personagem favorito) e seus feitos. No geral recomendo fortemente essa obra pois ela foge bastante daqueles clichês que ja estamos enjoados de ver por ai, finalizo com uma nota 8.

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Apr 5, 2025

Holokaii

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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

Funny

Preliminary (140/? eps)

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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