Manga 'Sousou no Frieren' Gets Anime Adaptation

by DatRandomDude
Sep 12, 2022 8:23 PM | 58 Comments

Publisher Shogakukan opened an official website for an anime adaptation of Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe's Sousou no Frieren (Frieren: Beyond Journey's End) manga on Tuesday, revealing an announcement visual (pictured).

Yamada and Abe began serializing the fantasy adventure manga in Shounen Sunday magazine in April 2020. Shogakukan shipped the eighth volume on June 17, with the ninth volume scheduled to release on September 15. 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 fifth volume on July 19. The sixth volume is slated for an October 18 release.

Sousou no Frieren placed second and sixth in the male readers category in the 2021 and 2022 editions of Kono Manga ga Sugoi! rankings and won the 14th Manga Taisho award. The manga was also nominated for the 45th and 46th Kodansha Manga Awards.

Synopsis
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. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Official site: https://frieren-anime.jp/
Official Twitter: @Anime_Frieren

Source: Comic Natalie

Sousou no Frieren on MAL

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nice, can't wait!

Sep 20, 2022 11:43 AM by Rhae

I am looking forward to this.

Sep 15, 2022 10:01 PM by nexist418

It was as expected, excellent manga and I'm looking forward to the anime.

Sep 14, 2022 9:31 AM by Kinyoubi

O_T_T said:

IronGhost115 said:
Finally, now I will be able to hear how German words and names are properly pronounced.

Ha, properly pronounced foreign words, in an anime, good one.

Well, actually, believe it or not, English dubs usually get the pronunciation correct and often use the correct accents as well, best example I can think of is AoT, which also has a lot of European names.

Sep 14, 2022 8:18 AM by IronGhost115

IronGhost115 said:
Finally, now I will be able to hear how German words and names are properly pronounced.

Ha, properly pronounced foreign words, in an anime, good one.

Sep 14, 2022 6:59 AM by O_T_T

By the announcement visual alone, I'm already having doubts about the adaptation.

Sep 14, 2022 6:49 AM by theHamzter

I love this series so I'm excited about this! I also need to preorder the next volume in the series too, so this was a good reminder for that.

The story is rich and bittersweet, the characters are fantastic and the demons! I love how the demons are like in this series.

Sep 14, 2022 2:44 AM by HiddenSilentMe

NextUniverse said:
This shit takes like 7 years to read one chapter. I am just going to assume they will have 40 min episodes.

Anyway, big W.

I think it will be TV series with the first season of 24-26 episodes.

Sep 13, 2022 10:19 PM by Memore

This shit takes like 7 years to read one chapter. I am just going to assume they will have 40 min episodes.

Anyway, big W.

Sep 13, 2022 8:19 PM by NextUniverse

Can't wait to see this on screen, I've been having fun reading the manga. The series is like quiet depression littered with merry melancholy.

Sep 13, 2022 7:10 PM by Eifue

That's great! I really like the manga, so I'm excited to see how the anime will pan out.

Sep 13, 2022 5:07 PM by yuurei_tokyo

I just bought the first 5 volumes of the manga last week let's gooooooo!!!!

Sep 13, 2022 2:07 PM by AthenaKaisar70

This is immediately going into my watchlist, I can't wait for it.

Sep 13, 2022 7:56 AM by souraia

Going straight into my watchlist

Sep 13, 2022 7:02 AM by P_Roxy

lets fucking goooo

Sep 13, 2022 6:42 AM by Pre_Yum

Sounds like this is gonna make me cry, but in a good way. ;w;

Sep 13, 2022 6:21 AM by AriaTheCat

Very nice, this series is pure soul.

Sep 13, 2022 5:54 AM by Ramkec

Not that far into it, but I can already say that it's going to be one of the more promising fantasy titles in this decade. We've been missing something like this.

Sep 13, 2022 5:24 AM by FMmatron

Really love the illustration, looking forward to it

Sep 13, 2022 4:20 AM by CQLLIST

Artwork looks good. Dunno much else and it's better that way. Gonna be waiting for this

Sep 13, 2022 3:48 AM by kalepf22

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