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The Frieren Manga Gallery

Fifteen volumes, one painterly hand, and a party that keeps changing.

This is the paper shelf: every Japanese tankobon cover of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, volume by volume from August 2020 to December 2025. Tsukasa Abe drew all fifteen. The first cover seats the whole original hero party, Himmel, Heiter, Eisen and Frieren herself; after that the covers follow whoever the journey has gathered, which is the series told in fifteen pictures.

Every cover below was checked against the printed volume number on the art itself. Dates and ISBNs come from the publisher's records as gathered in the series' volume lists.

THE FIRST VOLUME

Frieren, 2020 and 2021

Volume 1, in two languages

Same painting · two letterings · twenty-six months of reputation between them
Frieren volume 1 Japanese cover, Shogakukan, 2020
Shogakukan · 2020The hero party at rest under the Japanese logo, S Comics banner at the foot.
Frieren volume 1 English cover, Viz Media, 2021
Viz Media · 2021The same Tsukasa Abe painting, re-lettered: story by Kanehito Yamada, art by Tsukasa Abe.

Viz keeps Abe's cover art on every volume and rebuilds the dressing around it: the green English logo, the credits in English at the foot. What changes is the frame, never the picture, which makes the Japanese and English shelves unusually easy to read side by side.

VOLUMES 1 TO 8

The journey gathers its people
Frieren volume 1 Japanese tankobon cover, Shogakukan
Volume 1
Shogakukan · August 18, 2020. On the cover: Heiter, Frieren, Himmel and Eisen, the whole first party at rest.
Frieren volume 2 Japanese tankobon cover, Shogakukan
Volume 2
Shogakukan · October 16, 2020. On the cover: Frieren with her apprentice Fern.
Frieren volume 3 Japanese tankobon cover, Shogakukan
Volume 3
Shogakukan · December 18, 2020. On the cover: The Aura the Guillotine battle cast.
Frieren volume 4 Japanese tankobon cover, Shogakukan
Volume 4
Shogakukan · March 17, 2021. On the cover: Frieren, Fern, Stark and the priest Sein.
Frieren volume 5 Japanese tankobon cover, Shogakukan
Volume 5
Shogakukan · July 16, 2021. On the cover: The first-class exam candidates.
Frieren volume 6 Japanese tankobon cover, Shogakukan
Volume 6
Shogakukan · November 18, 2021. On the cover: The dungeon exam: Land, Übel, Frieren, Fern, Sense, Methode.
Frieren volume 7 Japanese tankobon cover, Shogakukan
Volume 7
Shogakukan · March 17, 2022. On the cover: Frieren, Fern and Stark back on the road.
Frieren volume 8 Japanese tankobon cover, Shogakukan
Volume 8
Shogakukan · June 17, 2022. On the cover: The Northern Plateau party and the demon Revolte.

VOLUMES 9 TO 15

The Golden Land and the capital
Frieren volume 9 Japanese tankobon cover, Shogakukan
Volume 9
Shogakukan · September 15, 2022. On the cover: Denken, Macht, and the road to the Golden Land.
Frieren volume 10 Japanese tankobon cover, Shogakukan
Volume 10
Shogakukan · March 16, 2023. On the cover: Macht of El Dorado and Solitär.
Frieren volume 11 Japanese tankobon cover, Shogakukan
Volume 11
Shogakukan · September 15, 2023. On the cover: The Weise battle: Denken against his old master.
Frieren volume 12 Japanese tankobon cover, Shogakukan
Volume 12
Shogakukan · December 18, 2023. On the cover: The hero party again, in the past Frieren revisits.
Frieren volume 13 Japanese tankobon cover, Shogakukan
Volume 13
Shogakukan · April 17, 2024. On the cover: Frieren close up, wreathed in leaves.
Frieren volume 14 Japanese tankobon cover, Shogakukan
Volume 14
Shogakukan · March 18, 2025. On the cover: The Imperial capital: the party and the Shadow Warriors.
Frieren volume 15 Japanese tankobon cover, Shogakukan
Volume 15
Shogakukan · December 18, 2025. On the cover: The full travelling company, Sein returned.
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