Frieren: The Anthology and Spinoff Stories
Five guest authors, five different journeys, and one honest note about what does not exist.
In May 2023, five guest authors published five Frieren one-shots on Shogakukan's Sunday Webry site, one a day from May 22 to 26. They were collected that December as Frieren: The Anthology – Journeys off the Beaten Path (December 18, 2023; 144 pages; ISBN 978-4-09-853099-1), the series' only spinoff manga volume.
Collectors sometimes ask after a Frieren yonkoma. Stated plainly: no standalone four-panel Frieren series or book exists. The gag-format companion the franchise actually has is animated, the mini-anime shorts described below.
THE FIVE JOURNEYS
Sunday Webry, May 22 to 26, 2023Frieren in the Kitchen
By Kassan (May 22): the party's mage meets cooking, the most domestic of the five detours.
The Adventures of the Hero Himmel
By Ren Miura (May 23): the hero's own road, told from inside the first party.
Frieren Wants to Learn About Humans
By Jona (May 24): the series' central problem played as a short study.
Himmel's Travel Log
By Kazumi Yamaguchi (May 25): the journey as its hero recorded it.
Frieren Makes a Detour
By Sōichi Igarashi (May 26): the title is the method; Frieren's whole life is detours.
THE MINI-ANIME
The gag companion that does existMarumaru no Mahō
"The Spell That Does OOO": short episodes released on Toho Animation's YouTube channel and the anime's social accounts, eleven from October 2023 to March 2024.
Two more runs
Six further shorts followed from April to September 2025, and five more from January to March 2026 alongside season two.
Why it matters to collectors
The shorts are official, dated and enumerated, twenty-two in all across three runs, which makes them the verifiable small-format Frieren, in place of the yonkoma that was never published.