'Sousou no Frieren 2nd Season' Unveils Main Staff, Teaser Promo

'Sousou no Frieren 2nd Season' Unveils Main Staff, Teaser Promo
Staff: • Director: Tomoya Kitagawa (Sora yori mo Tooi Basho episode director) NEW • Assistant Director: Daiki Harashina (Zetsubou Funsai Shoujo ∞ Amida director) NEW • Supervision: Keiichiro Saito (Sousou no Frieren director) NEW • Series Composition, Script: Tomohiro Suzuki (One Punch Man) • Character Design: Akiko Takase (Yuurei Sensen) NEW, Keisuke Kojima (Tensei Kenja no Isekai Life) NEW, Yuri Fujinaka (Overtake! animation director) NEW • Concept Art: Seiko Yoshioka (ACCA: 13-ku Kansatsu-ka art director) • Music: Evan Call (Violet Evergarden) • Note: The staff denoted with the legend NEW are new in their respective roles.

Source: Moca News

The Sousou no Frieren (Frieren: Beyond Journey's End) panel at Anime Expo 2025 unveiled the main staff and a teaser promotional video for the second season on Friday. The second season adapting Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe's fantasy adventure manga is scheduled to premiere in January 2026. The first season premiered with a two-hour special featuring the first four episodes on Nippon TV's Kinyou Roadshow programming block on September 29 last year. Subsequent episodes were broadcast on the station and its affiliates' Friday Anime Night programming block. The anime series ended with 28 episodes on March 22, adapting the first 60 chapters. Crunchyroll streamed the anime with subtitles and later dubbed it in multiple languages, including English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu. Muse Asia streamed it in Southeast Asia. Amazon Prime, Netflix, and Disney+ also streamed the anime. Yamada and Abe began serializing the manga in Shounen Sunday in April 2020. Shogakukan published the 14th volume on March 18. Sousou no Frieren has a cumulative 24 million copies of its volumes in circulation. VIZ Media licensed the manga in English in February 2021 and released the 13th volume on May 13. The manga has also been licensed in multiple foreign languages, including Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, and Chinese.

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