Frieren's English Editions

Viz in North America, a second English title in Southeast Asia, and chapters day-and-date since 2023.

Viz Media announced the license in February 2021 and published volume 1 on November 9, 2021, at a $11.99 cover price in the standard 5-by-7-inch trim. The edition is a straight, careful one: Abe's cover paintings retained, credits reading story by Kanehito Yamada, art by Tsukasa Abe, translation credited to Misa "Japanese Ammo."

Since May 9, 2023, new chapters have also appeared in the Viz Manga app simultaneously with Japan. Southeast Asia has its own English edition from Shogakukan Asia under a different title entirely: Frieren: Remnants of the Departed.

THE VIZ RUN

Volume by volume

Volume 1

Viz Media · November 9, 2021 · ISBN 978-1-9747-2576-2 · 192 pages. Japanese edition: August 18, 2020.

Volume 2

Viz Media · January 11, 2022 · ISBN 978-1-9747-2723-0 · 200 pages. Japanese edition: October 16, 2020.

Volume 3

Viz Media · March 8, 2022 · ISBN 978-1-9747-2724-7 · 200 pages. Japanese edition: December 18, 2020.

Volume 4

Viz Media · May 17, 2022 · ISBN 978-1-9747-2725-4 · 192 pages. Japanese edition: March 17, 2021.

Volume 5

Viz Media · July 19, 2022 · ISBN 978-1-9747-3007-0 · 192 pages. Japanese edition: July 16, 2021.

Volume 6

Viz Media · October 18, 2022 · ISBN 978-1-9747-3400-9 · 192 pages. Japanese edition: November 18, 2021.

Volume 7

Viz Media · January 17, 2023 · ISBN 978-1-9747-3620-1 · 192 pages. Japanese edition: March 17, 2022.

Volume 8

Viz Media · June 20, 2023 · ISBN 978-1-9747-3860-1 · 192 pages. Japanese edition: June 17, 2022.

Volume 9

Viz Media · October 17, 2023 · ISBN 978-1-9747-4060-4 · 192 pages. Japanese edition: September 15, 2022.

Volume 10

Viz Media · February 20, 2024 · ISBN 978-1-9747-4361-2 · 200 pages. Japanese edition: March 16, 2023.

Volume 11

Viz Media · September 10, 2024 · ISBN 978-1-9747-4898-3 · 192 pages. Japanese edition: September 15, 2023.

Volume 12

Viz Media · February 11, 2025 · ISBN 978-1-9747-5181-5 · 192 pages. Japanese edition: December 18, 2023.

Volume 13

Viz Media · May 13, 2025 · ISBN 978-1-9747-5291-1 · 192 pages. Japanese edition: April 17, 2024.

Volume 14

Viz Media · February 10, 2026 · ISBN 978-1-9747-6158-6 · 192 pages. Japanese edition: March 18, 2025.

Volume 15

Viz Media · December 8, 2026 · ISBN 978-1-9747-6914-8 · 192 pages. Japanese edition: December 18, 2025.

THE OTHER ENGLISH FRIEREN

Two more doors

Remnants of the Departed

Shogakukan Asia's English edition for Southeast Asia, same manga, different masthead, including the anthology volume, published there in September 2024.

The simulpub chapters

The Viz Manga service carries chapters the day Japan gets them, which quietly changed the English shelf from a book series into a live serial.

The novel, in English

Yen Press, not Viz, holds the prose: Prelude arrived in English on March 24, 2026.

THE CURRENT FRONT

Where the two shelves stand

Volume 15: the current front of both shelves

One painting, two publication years

Frieren volume 15 Japanese cover, Shogakukan, 2025 — **Shogakukan · December 18, 2025**The full travelling company under the Japanese logo.

Frieren volume 15 English cover, Viz Media — **Viz Media · December 8, 2026**The same art on the announced English edition, closing the one-year gap the English shelf runs behind.

Viz's edition keeps Abe's paintings untouched and rebuilds only the lettering, which makes Frieren one of the cleanest Japanese-English cover comparisons in modern manga: the art never changes hands.

Frieren's English Editions

THE VIZ RUN

THE OTHER ENGLISH FRIEREN

THE CURRENT FRONT

Volume 15: the current front of both shelves

THE FIRST WORD