Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

About

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (Japanese: 葬送のフリーレン) is a Japanese manga series written by Kanehito Yamada and illustrated by Tsukasa Abe. The manga has been serialized by Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday since April 2020, and an anime adaptation produced by Madhouse premiered in September 2023.

Plot

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End follows the story^[1] of elven mage Frieren, a former member of the party of adventurers who defeated the Demon King and restored harmony to the world after a ten-year quest. She then started a solo journey in pursuit of magical knowledge. Due to her elven nature granting an extremely long lifespan, the story takes place across a long time, with periodic flashbacks accompanied by the physical and mental development of characters Frieren meets along her path.

History

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End^[2] was first published on April 28th, 2020, by Shogakukan's shonen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump. As of October 4th, 2023, eleven volumes have been released. (Vl.1 cover shown below)

2023 Anime Adaptation

On September 9th, 2022, an anime adaptation of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End was announced on Anime News Network^[3] website. The voice acting cast, staff, studio and release date were revealed on March 7th, 2023, with Keiichirō Saitō directing the anime at Madhouse studio, Tomohiro Suzuki in charge of series scripts, Reiko Nagasawa designing the characters and Evan Call composing the music. A teaser was also uploaded on YouTube^[4] on the same day, garnering more than 1.1 million plays in seven months.

The series premiered with a two-hour special on September 29th, 2023, on Nippon TV's Kin'yō Road Show.

Reception

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End had over 10 million copies^[5] in circulation by October 2023. The manga also won the 14th Manga Taishō and the New Creator Prize of the 25th annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

Fandom

On April 29th, 2020, the Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Wiki^[6] was created, garnering over 299 pages over the next three years. The r/Frieren/^[7] subreddit was launched on April 21st, 2020, enabling discussions about the manga and anime series.

Since the fantasy manga premiered in April 2020, many fan art inspired by the series has been shared online. For example, on June 11th, 2023, DeviantArt^[8] user @ckmlai posted a drawing (shown below, left) based on the main character of the series, Frieren, which amassed more than 454 views and four favorites in five months. On May 23rd, 2021, DeviantArt^[9] user @robosquat posted a Frieren fan art (shown below, right) that received roughly 1,900 views and 41 favorites in six months.

Related Memes

You Can Just Give This Kind of Thing to Men and They Will Be Thrilled

You Can Just Give This Kind of Thing to Men and They Will Be Thrilled is an exploitable two-panel image macro depicting Frieren from the anime series Frieren: Beyond Journey's End holding a potion that dissolves a person's clothes, subtitled, "You see, you can just give this kind of thing to men and they will be thrilled." The scene comes from episode 12, which premiered in November 2023. It became the subject of memes where the item in Frieren's hand is replaced with something else to alter the context.

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