Frieren: Past Journey’s Finish Anime Casts Atsuko Tanaka, Hiroki Yasumoto

The employees for the tv anime of Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe‘s Frieren: Past Journey’s Finish (Sōsō no Frieren) manga introduced two extra solid members on Saturday.

Atsuko Tanaka as Flamme, Frieren’s mentor and a terrific mage identified in historical past as a hero

Hiroki Yasumoto as Qual, a demon referred to as the “Elder Sage of Corruption” who makes use of the Zoltraak magic to kill folks

The anime will premiere with a two-hour particular on September 29 at 9:00 p.m. JST (8:00 a.m. EDT). It is going to be the primary ever tv anime sequence to premiere in NTV‘s “Kinyō Roadshow,” a Friday night programming block often reserved for function movies. The anime will then air later episodes in October in NTV‘s new anime timeslot.

Viz Media has licensed the manga, and it describes the story:

The journey is over however life goes on for an elf mage simply starting to study what dwelling is all about. Elf mage Frieren and her brave fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and introduced peace to the land. However Frieren will lengthy outlive the remainder of her former get together. How will she come to know what life means to the folks round her? A long time after their victory, the funeral of 1 her pals confronts Frieren together with her personal close to immortality. Frieren units out to meet the final needs of her comrades and finds herself starting a brand new journey…

Atsumi Tanezaki performs the protagonist and titular character Frieren.

The opposite solid members embody:

Keiichirō Saitō (Bocchi the Rock!) is directing the anime at Madhouse. Tomohiro Suzuki (ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept., One-Punch Man, Boogiepop and Others) is accountable for sequence scripts. Reiko Nagasawa (takt op. Future) is designing the characters. Evan Name (Violet Evergarden, Josee, The Tiger and the Fish, Muv-Luv Various) is composing the music.

YOASOBI performs the opening theme tune “Yūsha” (Hero), and milet performs the ending theme tune “Anytime Anyplace.”

Yamada and Abe launched the manga in Shogakukan‘s Weekly Shonen Sunday journal in April 2020. The eleventh quantity shipped on September 15. Viz Media printed the eighth quantity on June 20, and it’ll publish its ninth quantity on October 17. The manga went on hiatus from January 18 and resumed serialization on March 22.

The manga has gained a number of awards, together with the New Creator Prize for the twenty fifth Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2021 and the 14th Manga Taisho Award in 2021. As well as, the manga was nominated for Finest Shōnen Manga for Kodansha‘s forty fifth annual Manga Awards in 2021 and the forty sixth awards in Could 2022. The American Library Affiliation’s Graphic Novels & Comics Spherical Desk (GNCRT) included the manga in its high 10 record of 2022 Finest Graphic Novels for Adults Studying Record.

Supply: Comic Natalie