Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (Manga)

Sousou no Frieren (葬送のフリーレン, Frieren at the funeral) is a manga written by Yamada Kanehito and illustrated by Abe Tsukasa. The first chapter was released on 13 May 2020 in Weekly Shonen Sunday.

Synopsis
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.

Plot
The story follows Frieren eighty years after the defeat of the demon king at the hands of a group of travelers, including her, Himmel, Heiter, and Eisen, who all went on to live separate lives. As elves live longer than humans, Frieren must come to grips with her other friends' mortality as she sees her old comrades all pass away, one by one. To learn a better understanding of those around her, Frieren decides to embark on a new journey with her new apprentice, Fern, who was passed off to Frieren before Heiter's death.

Characters

 * Frieren (フリーレン, Furīren)
 * Fern (フェルン, Ferun)
 * Himmel (ヒンメル, Hinmeru)
 * Heiter (ハイター, Haitā)
 * Eisen (アイゼン, Aizen)
 * Stark (シュタルク, Shutaruku)
 * Sein (ザイン, Zain)