Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

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A fairly new anime with a very solid dub. I’m watching it on Crunchy Roll. Special $2 a month for 2 months deal right now..

First episode real caught me despite or because of Pixar level emotional intro.

Basically, a story about the Elf in the party that defeats the great evil. She experiences her friends growing old and passing away, while time barely touches her.

So far this is incredible. I hope they can keep up, but perfect for long term D&D players or Middle Earth fans.

Holy Crap, it is rated #1 on myanimelist. That is amazing.

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I haven’t even glanced at the anime yet, but the manga (Sousou no Frieren) is one of my favorite of the current/recent ones in concept and execution, even though I only read around the first 10 chapters or so before getting my squirrel-like attention distracted by something else (it is up to 119 chapters in English fan translations so far, so more than 2,000 pages). This is pushing me towards picking it up again, the manga and trying the anime.

I started the manga after eagerly consuming the manga Dungeon Meshi. Also based in a D-n-D world, this one follows a broke low-level party that saves money on their dungeon crawling by “living off the land”, instead of buying food supplies eating the creatures that they kill. It combines an adventure manga and a cooking manga and is filled with recipes for things like roast basilisk and grilled kelpie. That one is up to 96 chapters in English (published sporadicly in the original Japanese) and has an anime adaptation that is available on Netflix (which I haven’t watched). If you like Frieren you probably would like Meshi.

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That one looked kind of interesting, I’ll add it to my Netflix queue.

In fact it is already. Coming January 4th.

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I hadn’t noticed that it wasn’t already out. Looks like I have an especially good excuse for not watching that one yet.

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After watching the first episode of Dungeon Meshi tonight I finally got around to watchjng the first episode of Frieren. Both are well done on the story and voice acting (original Japanese with subs, I don’t do dubs if I can avoid them). The animation on Dungeon is good but that on Frieren is bargain basement. Both adhere closely to the manga. Episode 1 of Frieren covers around the first 1 1/2 chapters of the manga.

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Coming to Netflix.

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I’ve been enjoying Frieren very much, although I’m less enthused by the lengthy tournament-style wizard’s exam in the later episodes (which lacks some of the unique meditative feel of the previous episodes).

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Agreed, the test was not as good as the travel.

I’ll add a Netflix tag to the thread as Netflix is now streaming it.

I started rewatching Frieren a few night ago. Loving it just as much the second time.

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I found they broke it up enough with flashbacks and interludes that it didn’t get annoying for me.

It is now my favourite anime series of all time.

Not sure how I can stand waiting until Season 2, quite frankly.

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I’m seeing early 2026.

That is too long of a wait.

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I’m also enjoying it. It’s slower paced but I don’t mind that once in awhile. I like the way the anime portrays the demons. Seems like it’s been a long time since I watched an anime which had a truly evil antagonist.

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I viewed this great series last year on Crunchyroll. There’s an anime viewer/musician who has created over 30 thoughtful vids on Frieren. I’ve seen 2 of them. Recommended. Spoilers!

Deep dive Frieren Beyond Journey’s End with me episode by episode. This series not only explores Frieren as a show but ideas that apply well beyond it