The beautiful opening and ending animations for Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Season 2 have been released on YouTube for viewers to reexperience their respective journeys.
The opening was storyboarded and unit directed by Season 2’s director Tomoya Kitagawa, and combines pleasing character drawings with heightened post-processing that creates an idealized, dreamlike feel. Meanwhile, the ending animation from Mimei Aoume is a Frieren-focused journey that features Aoume’s color pencil-style visuals, which can also be seen in works like Ave Mujica’s “Imprisoned XII” music video.
Mrs. GREEN APPLE‘s “lulu” is the opening song, while milet‘s “The Story of Us” is the ending theme.
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Season 2 premiered on January 16 and is streaming overseas on platforms like Crunchyroll and the Muse Asia YouTube channel. The anime is based on the Shogakukan-published fantasy manga written by Kanehito Yamada and drawn by Tsukasa Abe, which sees the long-lived elf Frieren, once a member of the party that defeated the Demon King, journeying with a new generation of companions.
The manga began serialization in Weekly Shonen Sunday in 2020 and has 15 volumes as of December 2025. It was the winner of the 48th Kodansha Awards’ Shonen category and one of the winners at the 69th Shogakukan Manga Award, and also performed well at a number of other rankings and awards. It went on hiatus in October 2025, with plans for an adjusted serialization pace out of consideration for the creators’ well-being.
The anime’s two-cour first season premiered on September 29, 2023.
Staff
• Director: Tomoya Kitagawa (Frieren Season 1 storyboard artist and episode director for Episodes 2, 8, and 25, among other roles)
• Assistant director: Daiki Harashina (Frieren Season 1’s monster designer, Episode 3 storyboard artist and director, Episode 24 storyboard artist, and more)
• Director cooperation: Keiichiro Saito (Frieren Season 1 and Bocchi the Rock! director)
• Series composer: Tomohiro Suzuki (reprising)
• Character designer: Takasemaru (Violet Evergarden)
• Character designer: Keisuke Kojima (100 Meters)
• Character designer: Yuri Fujinaka (Frieren Season 1 Episode 22 co-chief animation director)
• Concept artist: Seiko Yoshioka (reprising)
• Background art director: Sawako Takagi (reprising)
• Color designer: Harue Ohno (reprising)
• Compositing director: Akane Fushihara (reprising)
• Music composer: Evan Call (reprising)
• Animation production: Madhouse
Cast
• Atsumi Tanezaki as Frieren
• Kana Ichinose as Fern
• Chiaki Kobayashi as Stark
• Nobuhiko Okamoto as Himmel
• Hiroki Tochi as Heiter
• Yoji Ueda as Eisen
Source: TOHO animation channel
