The 10th and final episode of Sousou no Frieren 2nd Season (Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2) ended with an announcement on Friday that the third season, titled Ougonkyou-hen (Golden Land Arc), is in production. The official website also revealed a teaser visual (pictured). The anime series is scheduled to premiere on Nippon Television in October 2027.

Produced by Madhouse, the 28-episode first season premiered with a two-hour special featuring the first four episodes on Nippon TV's Kinyou Roadshow programming block in September 2023. Subsequent episodes were broadcast on the station and its affiliates' Friday Anime Night block until the series concluded in March 2024, adapting the first 60 chapters of the manga. The second season premiered on January 16, covering chapters 61 to 80. Crunchyroll streamed the anime with subtitles and a dub in multiple languages.

The anime series adapts Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe's fantasy adventure manga, which began in Shounen Sunday in April 2020. Shogakukan published the 15th volume in December 2025. Sousou no Frieren has a cumulative 32 million copies of its volumes in circulation.

Shogakukan also released a prequel light novel penned by Mei Hachimoku (Natsu e no Tunnel, Sayonara no Deguchi) in April 2024, featuring illustrations by Abe. Supervised by Yamada, the light novel features five chapters, each featuring a different character as the protagonist, including Frieren, Fern, Stark, Lawine & Kanne, and Aura.

VIZ Media licensed the manga in English in February 2021 and released the 14th volume on February 10. The manga has also been licensed in multiple foreign languages, including Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, and Chinese.

Sousou no Frieren won the Anime of the Year (Grand Prize) in the Television Category at the Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2025. The series previously ranked second in 2021 and sixth in 2022 in the Male Readers division of Kono Manga ga Sugoi!, won the New Work Prize at the 25th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, and the 69th Shogakukan Manga Award. The manga was also nominated for the Shounen category at the 45th and 46th Kodansha Manga Awards, eventually winning the award at the 48th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2024.

Official site: https://frieren-anime.jp/
Official X: @Anime_Frieren

Source: animate Times

Sousou no Frieren: Ougonkyou-hen on MAL