Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

(2023)

★ 8.8 IMDb · 957 votes

Genres: Animation, Боевик и Приключения, Drama, НФ и Фэнтези

Year: 2023

Runtime: 25 мин

Country: Japan

Cast: Ацуми Танэдзаки, Кана Итиносэ, Тиаки Кобаяси, Нобухико Окамото, Хироки Тоти, Ёдзи Уэда

Plot

After the party of heroes defeated the Demon King, they restored peace to the land and returned to lives of solitude. Generations pass, and the elven mage Frieren comes face to face with humanity’s mortality. She takes on a new apprentice and promises to fulfill old friends’ dying wishes. Can an elven mind make peace with the nature of life and death? Frieren embarks on her quest to find out.

The demon king has been defeated, and the victorious hero party returns home before disbanding. The four - mage Frieren, hero Himmel, priest Heiter, and warrior Eisen - reminisce about their decade-long journey as the moment to bid each other farewell arrives. But the passing of time is different for elves, thus Frieren witnesses her companions slowly pass away one by one. Before his death, Heiter manages to foist a young human apprentice called Fern onto Frieren. Driven by the elf's passion for collecting a myriad of magic spells, the pair embarks on a seemingly aimless journey, revisiting the places that the heroes of yore had visited. Along their travels, Frieren slowly confronts her regrets of missed opportunities to form deeper bonds with her now-deceased comrades.