Just announced during the Frieren: Beyond the Journey panel at Anime Expo 2025, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Season 2 will officially stream on Crunchyroll as it airs in Japan in January 2026 . The news was revealed as a surprise during the event, which featured a panel of guests from the Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End production team, including Chiaki Kobayashi, the Japanese voice of Stark, as well as producer Yuichiro Fukushi and series composer Evan Call. The three discussed their own journeys in working on the beloved series, which captured the hearts of fans around the world throughout its first season and went on to earn several wins at this year’s Crunchyroll Anime Awards, including Best Director (Keiichiro Saito), Best Background Art, Best Drama, and Best Supporting Character (Fern). Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2 Release Date: January 2026 Territories: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS and India 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 Tomohiro Suzuki ( One-Punch Man ) on series composition, Reiko Nagasawa ( takt op.Destiny ) on character designs and Evan Call ( Violet Evergarden ) on music. Crunchyroll streams the anime in Japanese with subtitles and dubbed formats, and describes the series as: 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 : Crunchyroll’s Frieren: Beyond the Journey panel at Anime Expo 2025
