Series guide
- Adventure anime and manga
- Fantasy anime and manga
- Stars
- Atsumi Tanezaki · Kana Ichinose · Chiaki Kobayashi
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Where to watch Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End streams on Crunchyroll in the US, included with a subscription. Both seasons are there – 38 episodes at roughly 24 minutes each, about sixteen hours – in Japanese with subtitles or in the English dub. A third season has been announced for October 2027.
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Seasons 2
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End episodes 38
Season 1 · 28 episodes · 28 aired · Sep 29, 2023 to Mar 22, 2024
- E1Sep 29
- E2Sep 29
- E3Sep 29
- E4Sep 29
- E5Oct 6
- E6Oct 13
- E7Oct 20
- E8Oct 27
- E9Nov 3
- E10Nov 10
- E11Nov 17
- E12Nov 24
- E13Dec 1
- E14Dec 8
- E15Dec 15
- E16Dec 22
- E17Jan 5
- E18Jan 12
- E19Jan 19
- E20Jan 26
- E21Feb 2
- E22Feb 9
- E23Feb 16
- E24Feb 23
- E25Mar 1
- E26Mar 8
- E27Mar 15
- E28Mar 22
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S1.E1 ·
The Journey's End
The party that killed the Demon King rides back into the capital after ten years on the road, and it turns out that the same ten years has meant something completely different to each of the four of them.
Directed by Ayaka Tsuji
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S1.E2 ·
It Didn't Have to Be Magic…
Half a century on, Frieren comes back to find Heiter gray and frail and a girl named Fern already deep in training, and the priest has a request he has been saving for this visit.
Directed by Tomoya Kitagawa
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S1.E3 ·
Killing Magic
Frieren realizes she knows almost nothing about her own apprentice, and decides to retrace the old party's route — starting with a village where she left something sealed that will not stay sealed much longer.
Directed by Daiki Harashina
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S1.E4 ·
The Land Where Souls Rest
A beach-cleaning job pays in a grimoire of extremely doubtful provenance, and a New Year sunrise that Frieren slept through the last time she was here comes around again.
Directed by Kento Matsui
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S1.E5 ·
Phantoms of the Dead
A village whose people vanish after seeing their own dead is worth a detour, and further north there is a dragon sitting on a book Frieren wants and a young warrior who might help her get it.
Directed by Kōta Mori
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S1.E6 ·
The Hero of the Village
Stark has until morning to decide whether to face the dragon, and the fearlessness the village credits him with is not the quality he actually has.
Directed by Tōru Iwazawa
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S1.E7 ·
Like a Fairy Tale
Traveling north, Frieren explains why there are so few elves left in the world, and the party passes through a town that still holds a festival in her honor.
Directed by Keisuke Kojima
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S1.E8 ·
Frieren the Slayer
Frieren's reputation among demons arrives in Graf Granat's city ahead of her, where a delegation is asking for peace on terms almost nobody believes.
Directed by Tomoya Kitagawa
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S1.E9 ·
Aura the Guillotine
Granat warns of a relic that weighs one mage's mana against another's and hands the winner control of the loser, and one of the Seven Sages of Destruction takes the field holding it.
Directed by Kōki Fujimoto
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S1.E10 ·
A Powerful Mage
The fight in Granat runs into its last exchanges, and a thousand years earlier a human mage named Flamme walks into a burned elf village and finds one survivor.
Directed by Nobuhide Kariya & Kazumasa Isogawa
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S1.E11 ·
Winter in the Northern Lands
The road to the mage city of Äußerst runs through a blizzard, and the certification waiting at the end of it is the only legal way onto the Northern Plateau.
Directed by Kento Matsui & Kunio Fujii
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S1.E12 ·
A Real Hero
A stop at the Village of the Sword, where the Hero's Sword still stands in its stone, hands Stark a story he was told as a child and a fact in front of him that does not match it.
Directed by Yoshiki Kawasaki
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S1.E13 ·
Aversion to One's Own Kind
Frieren pulls a priest named Sein out of a swamp, and his brother asks her for a favor that Sein would never ask for himself.
Directed by Takahiro Natori
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S1.E14 ·
Privilege of the Young
Stark forgets to get Fern a birthday present and the fallout is wildly out of proportion, which is more or less the point of it.
Directed by Shinya Iino
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S1.E15 ·
Smells Like Trouble
A village has been cursed to sleep, a priest is the only one resistant to it, and Sein has to wake the one person who can end the thing.
Directed by Morio Asaka, Kazumasa Isogawa & Izumi Seguchi
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S1.E16 ·
Long-Lived Friends
Frieren stops to see an old dwarf who has spent an entire human lifetime guarding a village in his late wife's memory, and she can see exactly what she is looking at.
Directed by Kōta Mori
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S1.E17 ·
Take Care
A month-long snowstorm pins the party in one village while Sein takes his time over a decision he has been avoiding for years.
Directed by Taku Kimura & Haruka Yutoku
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S1.E18 ·
First-Class Mage Exam
Frieren tells Fern that mana capacity is not everything, and the first-class exam's opening test hands every candidate a bird that has no intention of being caught.
Directed by Ken Andō
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S1.E19 ·
Well-Laid Plans
The parties holding a Stille become targets for the parties that are not, and Frieren proposes a plan that starts with freezing a lake.
Directed by Fumie Muroi
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S1.E20 ·
Necessary Killing
Fern's team and Wirbel's team are still fighting over the same bird, and the examiner's standard for who deserves to pass turns out to be much narrower than the candidates assumed.
Directed by Yoshiki Kawasaki
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S1.E21 ·
The World of Magic
A thousand years ago Flamme introduces Frieren to her own master, and Serie makes her an offer that she declines.
Directed by Kōta Mori
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S1.E22 ·
Future Enemies
Between tests the candidates eat, drink and quietly measure each other, and Frieren takes Fern to a restaurant she last visited eighty years ago.
Directed by Takahiro Natori
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S1.E23 ·
Conquering the Labyrinth
The second test sends eighteen mages to the bottom of a royal tomb, supervised by an examiner who says openly that she detests fighting.
Directed by Kazumasa Isogawa
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S1.E24 ·
Perfect Replicas
Something in the dungeon reads the raiders' memories and builds copies of them, and the copies are not approximations.
Directed by Hayato Kakinokida
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S1.E25 ·
A Fatal Vulnerability
With mind control ruled out and the replicas sharing no weakness between them, the surviving parties work out which one has to be brought down first.
Directed by Tomoya Kitagawa
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S1.E26 ·
The Height of Magic
The strongest replica is still standing, and the mages pair off against the match-ups they think they can actually survive.
Directed by Hirotaka Mori
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S1.E27 ·
An Era of Humans
The exam is behind them, and Fern is quietly furious with her teacher about a broken staff that was a gift from a dead man.
Directed by Ka Hee Im
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S1.E28 ·
It Would Be Embarrassing When We Met Again
Serie interviews the last candidates one at a time and one question each, and the party turns north again with whatever it came here for.
Directed by Keiichirō Saitō
Two cours, 28 episodes. The first four aired together on September 29, 2023 as a two-hour premiere in Nippon TV’s Friday movie slot, which is why four rows share a date. Weekly episodes began the following week.
Season 2 · 10 episodes · 10 aired · Jan 16, 2026 to Mar 27, 2026
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S2.E1 ·
Shall We Go, Then?
Short of money on the road to Ende, the party drops through hollow ground into a cave full of magic-nullifying crystal, and the two mages are suddenly the ones being protected.
Directed by Tomoya Kitagawa
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S2.E2 ·
The Hero of the South
A statue-cleaning job in the town of Fabel introduces Stark to a hero who is not Himmel, and to the strongest human who ever lived.
Directed by Nobuhiro Mutō
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S2.E3 ·
Somewhere She'd Like
A hot-spring village whose springs dried up years ago sends the party into the Etwas Mountains after one that has not, over Frieren's clear objections.
Directed by Youhei Tsuchiya
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S2.E4 ·
Other People's Homes
Fern picks an outfit, does her hair and goes on a date that spends most of its running time talking about somebody who is not at the table.
Directed by Kentaro Hori
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S2.E5 ·
Logistics in the Northern Plateau
In the Bier region a dwarf named Fass hires Frieren to fetch a liquor once served to emperors, out of a mine with an inscription nobody present can read.
Directed by Hiroyuki Kobashi
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S2.E6 ·
A Demon-Slaying Request
A village on the Northern Plateau is overrun and one message gets out before it falls, and the mages sent to answer it arrive to find what is left.
Directed by Nobuhiro Mutō
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S2.E7 ·
The Divine Revolte
Genau has a hard opinion about the way his last partner died, and Methode has been assigned to work with him regardless.
Directed by Aimi Yamauchi
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S2.E8 ·
A Magnificent End
Skill alone is not getting anybody past Revolte, so Stark starts trading hits he cannot afford for openings that might be worth them.
Directed by Kouki Fujimoto
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S2.E9 ·
Himmel's Memoirs
A dragon-damaged town in the Drachen region asks the party to clear out a nest, and Frieren names a grimoire as her fee.
Directed by Youhei Tsuchiya
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S2.E10 ·
A Beautiful Sight
A canyon three thousand meters deep blocks the route north, and upstream there is a bridge that one dwarf spent centuries building by hand.
Directed by Kentaro Hori
Ten episodes, January 16 to March 27, 2026. A third season has been announced for October 2027.
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The quest ends in episode one, and that is the whole design
Frieren spends its first ten minutes throwing away the plot every other fantasy series is built on. The Demon King is dead before the opening credits, the heroes ride home, and the show that follows is about an elf working out – slowly, and eighty years too late – what the ten years she spent with those people were worth. Nothing is at stake in the usual sense for long stretches. That is not a flaw people learn to tolerate; it is the reason the series works, and it is why recommending it on the strength of its fight scenes sets a reader up to be disappointed by the first six episodes.
The practical thing to know is the shape of season 1. It is 28 episodes, which is unusual, and four of them carry the same date because Nippon TV gave the premiere a two-hour block in its Friday movie slot rather than a normal half-hour – the broadcast record has the detail. Those four episodes are effectively a film, and they set the terms for everything after. The back half is different again: from episode 18 the series becomes a first-class mage exam, with a large cast, clear rules and something close to a tournament structure. Readers who bounced off the quiet opening and came back for the exam arc are not wrong to have done that, but they are watching a different show, and the exam only lands because the first seventeen episodes taught you what Fern’s competence costs her. If you want the roster that arc introduces, our ranking of the strongest Frieren characters is the companion piece.
Where it stands: season 2’s ten episodes ran from January to March 2026 and a third season is announced for October 2027, so this is one of the rare ongoing series where “caught up” is a real state you can reach in a weekend and then sit in for well over a year. Keiichiro Saito directed both seasons at Madhouse with Evan Call scoring, and the consistency shows – a fifteen-month gap between seasons produced no visible change in how the thing looks or sounds. Crunchyroll carries both seasons in sub and dub from episode 1. If you are building an anime queue around it, our Demon Slayer guide is the opposite proposition on the same service: everything Frieren withholds, delivered every week.
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End cast 21
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Atsumi TanezakiFrieren
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Kana IchinoseFern
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Chiaki KobayashiStark
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Nobuhiko OkamotoHimmel -
Hiroki TōchiHeiter
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Yōji UedaEisen
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Yuichi NakamuraSein -
Atsuko TanakaFlamme
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Mariya IseSerie
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Ayana TaketatsuAura
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Junichi SuwabeLügner
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Takehito KoyasuKraft
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Ikumi HasegawaÜbel
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Kishō TaniyamaWirbel
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Reina UedaMethode
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Shizuka IshigamiLaufen
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Mallorie RodakFrieren (English dub)
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Jill HarrisFern (English dub) -
Clifford ChapinHimmel (English dub) -
Jason DouglasHeiter (English dub) -
Anastasia MuñozSerie (English dub)
- Director
- Keiichiro Saito
- Series composition
- Tomohiro Suzuki
- Music
- Evan Call
- Studios
- Madhouse
Photos via Wikimedia Commons. Nobuhiko Okamoto: adiSubs, CC BY-SA 4.0; Yuichi Nakamura: Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0; Jill Harris: dmgice, CC BY 4.0; Clifford Chapin: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0; Jason Douglas: John Manard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I watch Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End?
Both seasons stream on Crunchyroll in the US with a subscription, in Japanese with subtitles or in the English dub.
How many episodes of Frieren are there?
38: 28 in season 1 and 10 in season 2. At roughly 24 minutes each that is about sixteen hours.
Why does season 1 have four episodes with the same date?
Because the premiere was a two-hour block of the first four episodes, broadcast in Nippon TV’s Friday movie slot on September 29, 2023. Weekly episodes started the following week.
Is there a Frieren season 3?
Yes. A third season has been announced for October 2027, so the ten episodes of season 2 are the end of the story for now.
Do I need to read the manga first?
No. The anime starts at the beginning and assumes nothing. The premise – the quest is already over – is stated in the first few minutes.
