2024 has been a huge year for anime, and if you want to jump into one of the best shows of the year, you can pre-order Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Part 1 on Blu-ray. The release includes Part 1 of the critically acclaimed fantasy anime’s first season. It’s set for release on December 17th and is currently available on Crunchyroll for $47.24 (previously $70).
$47.24 (previously $70)
The Blu-ray release includes the first 16 episodes of Season 1 of Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, along with a few special features including a clean credits sequence and a promo video. Also included is a set of art cards featuring several characters from the main cast.
Adapted from the original manga series, the anime follows the titular character Frieren, a powerful elf who has lived for over 1,000 years. At the start of the show, she has just completed a ten-year quest to defeat the Demon King alongside the heroes Himmel, Eisen, and Heiter. Due to her long lifespan, ten years is but a fleeting moment for Frieren, and as the decades pass, Frieren slowly begins to understand human mortality and the connections she forms along the way. The result is an incredibly emotional series that directly touches your emotions, and with renowned animation studio Madhouse bringing everything to life, Frieren looks magical.
If you want to check out the original manga developed by Tsukasa Abe and Kanehito Yamada, you can order multiple paperbacks of Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End right now. Like other manga releases from Viz Media, this book is a standard pocket-friendly paperback that reads from right to left.
Freeze: Beyond Journey’s End comic
More Fantasy Comics & Anime Deals
Frieren is one of several new fantasy-themed anime and manga series that have gained popularity over the past few years. If you enjoy the wholesome friendship and fantasy adventure story of Frieren, you’ll also enjoy Delicious in Dungeon, which follows a party of adventurers exploring a dungeon to rescue their missing companions from the depths of an evil labyrinth. But in order to survive, they’ll have to learn how to cook and eat the many strange monsters that live deep within the dungeon. The manga version was recently adapted into an anime by Netflix, and season 1 is available to stream right now. But if you want to read the entire story first, you can pre-order the entire manga in a deluxe box set from Amazon before its December 10 release.
There are many other great fantasy manga, including the original manga version of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki and the manga adaptation of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, which you can check out at the links below. There is also Berserk Volume 42, the first new material in the long-running dark fantasy manga since series creator Kentaro Miura passed away in 2021.
