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Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Manga Takes Month-Long Break

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Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe’s Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End manga has enjoyed a fantastic anime adaptation, and now it’s time to take a break. According to this year’s 16th issue of Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine, the manga will be taking a month-long break.

The Frieren hiatus will last until mid-April, which is when this year’s 21st issue goes on sale.

VIZ Media is publishing the original Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End manga by Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe in English and gave this description for the plot:

The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about. Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. But Frieren will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to understand what life means to the people around her? 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…

The manga began in 2020 and has nabbed the 2021 14th Manga Taisho Award and the 2021 New Creator Prize for the 25th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

Via Anime News Network