Fantasy stories continue to dominate the modern manga market, although today's review is one of the latest and most atypical of this year's offerings.
FREIREN: BEYOND JOURNEY'S END (Soso no Furiren), written by Kanehito Yamada with art by Tsukasa Abe. First published in 2020 and first published in North America in 2021.
PLOT:
Once upon a time, Frieren the elven mage joined a group of adventurers in order to defeat the Demon King. They succeeded, and afterwards they spent the next decade helping others. Eventually the group split up, promising to meet up again.
Decades later, at the funeral of the leader of the group, Frieren decides to seek out her surviving compatriots and figure how their lives and actions have impacted others.
