Frieren: Beyond Journey's End manga enters indefinite hiatus after Chapter 140

Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe's Frieren: Beyond Journey's End manga will enter an indefinite hiatus, starting the next issue of Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine. This news was confirmed by the magazine on Wednesday, December 25, 2024, with the release of the manga's Chapter 140.

Author Kanehito Yamada and illustrator Tsukasa Abe launched Frieren: Beyond Journey's End manga on Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine in April 2020. Since then, the melancholic fantasy series has released 13 tankobon volumes.

An anime adaptation under the Madhouse studio's production premiered on September 2023 and ran for two cours. Recently, the series has been green-lit for a sequel under the same studio.

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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End manga goes on a break after Chapter 140

On Wednesday, December 25, 2024, Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday released Chapter 140 of Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe's melancholic fantasy manga series, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End manga, on the magazine's combined 4/5 issue for 2025.

At the end of the chapter, it was mentioned that Frieren: Beyond Journey's End manga would go on an indefinite break. Previously, the manga went on a 2-week hiatus in late November, only to return in Weekly Shonen Sunday's 2/3 issue for 2025, on December 11, 2024.

Prior to that, the series went on a longer hiatus on May 15, 2024. The series eventually returned on August 7, 2024. Additionally, the manga went on a break in January 2023 and returned to the magazine in March 2023.

Frieren, as seen in the anime (Image via Madhouse)

Although the series is in a weekly magazine, it has followed a bi-weekly format for a while. As such, it remains to be seen when the fantasy manga returns from the latest break.

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End manga is available on VIZ Media in selected regions in English. The company will release the latest chapter (140) a week later on January 1, 2025. Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe's manga series has published 13 volumes thus far, while VIZ Media has released 11 volumes in English. The 12th volume is slated to be released on February 11, 2025.

Moreover, the manga has over 20 million copies in circulation, almost double before its anime adaptation. Notably, Madhouse produced the fantasy anime, which premiered on September 29, 2024, with a special two-hour length episode on Nippon TV's Friday Anime Night programming slot.

On September 28, 2024, the official staff announced a sequel under Madhouse's production, with a teaser PV and visual. The news was revealed at the anime's first-anniversary event at TOHO Cinemas. However, no information on the sequel's release date has been given.

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