#Beyond Journey’s End Chibi Anime Debuts on TOHO Animation YouTube Channel

A short anime based on the currently airing Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End TV anime adaptation, titled Frieren’s Mini Anime “Magic of ??” (Sousou no Frieren: ～●● no Mahou～), has released its first episode on the TOHO animation YouTube channel. 

The minute-long first episode, “The magic of saying what you’re thinking,” sees the hero Himmel praising his own features after having the titular magic cast on him by Frieren. The short is produced by TOHO animation STUDIO and features chibified character designs by illustrator Mebachi (Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club design works and ending animation, If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die design works).

The main Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End anime premiered on September 29 with its first four episodes and is being streamed by Crunchyroll, Muse Asia, and Bilibili. The two-cour show is based on the Shogakukan-published manga written by Kanehito Yamada and drawn by Tsukasa Abe, which was the grand prize winner of Manga Taisho 2021. Viz Media describes the manga’s premise as:

Decades after their victory, the funeral of one her friends confronts Frieren with her own near immortality. Frieren sets out to fulfill the last wishes of her comrades and finds herself beginning a new adventure…

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End is produced by MADHOUSE with Keiichirou Saitou (Bocchi the Rock!) as director, Tomohiro Suzuki (One-Punch Man) as series composer, Reiko Nagasawa (takt op.Destiny) as character designer, and Evan Call (Violet Evergarden) as music composer. The cast includes:

• Atsumi Tanezaki as Frieren
• Nobuhiko Okamoto as Himmel
• Hiroki Touchi as Heiter
• Youji Ueda as Eisen
• Kana Ichinose as Fern
• Chiaki Kobayashi as Stark