It’s all coming up roses for Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End fans, as the beloved anime’s official website and X (formerly Twitter) account today unveiled a flowery new visual to pre-emptively celebrate one year passing since a silver-haired elf and her companions first graced our screens on September 29, 2023 — even though it feels like an immortal lifetime ago.
To further commemorate the occasion, a special screening of the first four episodes will be held at TOHO Cinemas Hibiya with six cast members in attendance on Saturday, September 28. Atsumi Tanezaki (Frieren) Kana Ichinose (Fern), Chiaki Kobayashi (Stark), Nobuhiko Okamoto (Himmel), Hiroki Tochi (Heiter) and Yoji Ueda (Eisen) will be present at the event, which will be streamed simultaneously in six other theaters.
New merchandise inspired by the below visual have also been made available on the TOHO Animation Store.
1st Anniversary Visual
Based on the award-winning manga by Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe, Keiichiro Saito (BOCCHI THE ROCK!) directed Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End at studio MADHOUSE, with series composition by Tomohiro Suzuki (One-Punch Man), character designs by Reiko Nagasawa (takt op.Destiny) and music by Evan Call (Violet Evergarden).
Crunchyroll streams the anime in a range of subs and dubs, describing the story like so:
After the party of heroes defeated the Demon King, they restored peace to the land and returned to lives of solitude. Generations pass, and the elven mage Frieren comes face to face with humanity’s mortality. She takes on a new apprentice and promises to fulfill old friends’ dying wishes. Can an elven mind make peace with the nature of life and death? Frieren embarks on her quest to find out.
Source: MoCa News
