Crunchyroll revealed a brand new teaser trailer for Frieren: Past Journey’s Finish season two and debuted the anticipated sequence Gachiakuta on Friday at Anime Expo.
Frieren Producer Yuichiro Fukushi was available to substantiate that the present is at the moment in the course of manufacturing on season two, and that Tomoya Kitagawa will even direct the season, which is slated to debut in January 2026. Fukushi was joined on the Friday occasion by voice actor Chiaki Kobayashi (Stark) and composer Evan Name, with Kobayashi performing a stay studying of a scene from season one’s fifth episode, whereas Name took followers behind his strategy to composing the present’s music alongside a stay efficiency.
Reflecting on season one in the course of the panel, Fukushi mentioned the “big problem” of manufacturing season one’s first 28 episodes, which he famous is “extra quantity than most seasons have in anime,” he informed the packed crowd. “There was the amount side, however there was additionally the place to divert our assets, if you’ll. As a result of each episode, each story, was simply so pointed, so heartwarming, that I needed to divert as a lot as I may.”
Discussing his personal work with the present’s music on season one, Name famous that “once I was composing for this present, I needed the music to not simply be within the background,” he mentioned. “I needed to create it as some type of further character with the remainder of the solid — possibly just like the voice of the world, the sensation of the world.”
“It resonated with my musical roots, which began in bluegrass. Whereas it is a bit totally different, the folks roots of my youth had a reasonably good probability to shine,” he added.
Name, who shared that it was the manga’s “sentimental” feeling that inspired him to affix the mission in addition to its “premise — the journey after the journey,” later performed for the group, highlighting how be aware selections gave the chosen composition extra emotional resonance or imbued into the tune nods to particular characters. Frieren follows an elven mage as she journeys to the resting place of her former comrade to reunite with him after their hero occasion slayed the Demon King.
The panel was the second main Crunchyroll title to take over the con on Friday, following the U.S. premiere of Gachiakuta. The panel for that sequence — described as a trashpunk battlefield the place a member of the floating metropolis’s slums is thrown right into a dumping floor after he’s falsely accused of homicide a should crew with a bunch of “Cleaners” to battle the discarded waste’s monstrous trash creatures — featured Kei Urana (manga story and illustration), Hideyoshi Andou (graffiti design), and Naoki Amano (studio Bones producer).
On the panel, the trio mentioned how the title introduced a graffiti artist and manga creator collectively, the difference course of, memorable moments from making the present, and what makes the anticipated shonen battle motion sequence so distinctive. “There are some scenes that had been particularly written for the anime sequence, in addition to a few of the expressions which are solely potential in animation, so I need you guys to look ahead to that,” Amano teased the group.
The Anime Expo screening of the primary two episodes additionally aired concurrently in 15 totally different cities in numerous nations, from France, Brazil, and Germany to Italy, Mexico, and India. A video highlighting a global advertising and marketing marketing campaign that produced murals celebrating the sequence’ signature look was additionally previewed.
Forward of the day’s remaining Crunchyroll panel and following the airing of The Apothecary Diaries’ season two finale in Japan, it was introduced through social media that the favored sequence would even be getting a sequel. The sequence follows a younger lady bought into service within the imperial palace who makes use of her data of drugs and poisons to navigate palace intrigue.