Starting on the 28th of October, Japan’s MBS and TBS networks the anime of Katarina’s Shangri-La Frontier web novel will stream. Crunchyroll has the license and will stream it to many Western audiences simultaneously.
As we’re approaching the air date (where has the year gone?), we’ve a second trailer featuring our VR gamer and his bird-headed character.
Kodansha Comics has the English rights to the manga and it’s available in different formats at Amazon. They say;
Second year high school student Rakuro Hizutome is interested in one thing only: finding “shitty games” and beating the crap out of them. His gaming skills are second to none, and no game is too bad for him to enjoy. So when he’s introduced to the new VR game Shangri-La Frontier, he does what he does best — min-maxes and skips the prologue to jump straight into the action. But can even an expert gamer like Rakuro discover all the secrets that Shangri-La Frontier hides…?
Mix-maxers, huh?
Toshiyuki Kubooka, who previously directed Harukana Receive and Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina, is leading the anime at C2C. Hiroki Ikeshita is serving as assistant director. Kazuyuki Fudeyasu, who has written for Black Clover, Dropkick on My Devil!, Hetalia The Beautiful World, In the Land of Leadale, and Record of Ragnarok, is supervising and writing the series scripts.
Anime about games and gamers are common, and Shangri-La Frontier is taking the less frequent step, although it’s certainly not unheard of, and developing a computer game before launch.
Netmarble is making and distributing the game. There’s a promo video for that too.
The manga has been going since 2020, and the 14th volume just shipped in Japan.
Via Anime News Network.
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