2024 is a great year for anime, and if you want to dive into one of the best episodes of the year, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Part 1 is available for pre-order on Blu-ray now. This release contains the first part of the first season of the critically acclaimed fantasy animation. It’s set to be released on December 17, and is currently selling for $47.24 on Crunchyroll (originally $70).
$47.24 (originally $70)
The Blu-ray version includes the first 16 episodes of the first season of “Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End”, as well as special features such as clean end credits, promotional videos, and more. It also includes a set of art cards featuring several characters from the main cast.
The anime is adapted from the original manga series and tells the story of Freelon, a powerful elf who has lived for over 1,000 years. When the show begins, she has just completed a 10-year mission to defeat the Demon King alongside heroes Himmel, Ison, and Heit. Due to her long lifespan, ten years is nothing more than a brief moment for Freelon, and as the decades pass, Freelon slowly begins to understand human mortality and the connections she makes along the way. The result is an incredibly emotional series that touches your senses, and with the help of renowned animation studio Madhouse bringing everything to life, Frieren looks amazing.
If you’d like to check out the original manga created by Tsukasa Abe and Kanehito Yamada, you can order several paperback copies of Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End right now. Like other comics from publisher Viz Media, these are regular pocket paperbacks and read from right to left.
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More Fantasy Manga and Anime Deals
Frieren is one of several new fantasy-themed anime and manga series that have become popular over the past few years. If you enjoyed Freelan’s wholesome tale of friendship and fantastical adventure, you might also enjoy Tasty in the Dungeon, which follows a group of dungeon-crawling adventurers on a mission to rescue a missing human from the depths of a sinister labyrinth. Companions – though in order to survive they must learn to cook and eat the many strange monsters that live in the depths of the dungeon. The manga version was recently adapted into a Netflix anime, with the first season now available, but if you want to read the full story first, you can pre-order the full 14-volume deluxe box set on Amazon when it releases on December 10th.
There are many other great fantasy comics out there, the original manga version of Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and the manga adaptation of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, which you can check out at the links below. There’s also the upcoming Berserker volume 42, the first new material for the long-running dark fantasy manga since the untimely death of series creator Kentaro Miura in 2021.
