Happy news for manga fans . The Japanese Manga Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End has won a prestigious award from the 2024 Kodansha Awards. Congratulations!
Every year, various manga titles in Japan compete for one of the main prizes from Kodansha. This year, it was truly a victory for Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End , which won the Kodansha Comics Awards.
As a result, the Frieren manga won the title as the best shonen (male reader) manga, guys. Of course, this news is a plus for the Shogakukan publisher.
This is not the first time the Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End manga. In 2021, the series also won the Tezuka Osaka cultural award for new manga artists and the 69th Shogakukan manga award.
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End wasn’t the only series to win big this year. The 2024 Kodansha Comic Awards also awarded I See Your Face, Turned Away as the top prize for a shojo (female reader) series.
The 2024 Kodansha Comics Awards selected several solid series, and Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End has caught the attention of the fandom at large. However, the series got a big boost this past year thanks to the anime.
What is the storyline of the manga Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End?
The Elven wizard Frieren and his brave fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. But Frieren would outlive the rest of his former party. How can he understand what life means to the people around him?
Decades after their triumph, the funeral of one of his friends confronts Frieren with his near immortality. Frieren sets out to fulfill his comrades’ last wishes and finds himself embarking on a new adventure…”
