Issue 16 of this year’s Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine announced on March 13, 2024 that Manga Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End will pause for a month.
Although the reason for the hiatus was not revealed, it was revealed that the manga will only return in issue 21 of the magazine in April.
Due to the hiatus, the release of Chapter 128 of Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End will be delayed.
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End is a Japanese manga series written by Kanehito Yamada and illustrated by Tsukasa Abe. It has been serialized in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday manga magazine since April 2020, with the chapters collected into 12 tankobon volumes as of December 2023.
By December 2023, the manga had over 17 million copies in circulation. Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End won the 14th Manga Taisho Award and the New Creator Award of the 25th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Awards 2021 and the 69th Shogakukan Manga Award 2024.
The series is licensed for English release in the Northern United States by Viz Media.
It was also recently announced that the manga will be adapted from the prequel novel, titled Shosetsu Soso no Frieren ~Zenso~ (Novel: Soso no Frieren ~Prelude~ ), scheduled for release on April 17, 2024.
The anime television series adaptation produced by Madhouse premiered in September 2023.
Source: ANN