Shangri-La Frontier Season 2, which begins airing in Japan on October 13 JST, has received a key visual depicting an attack from Lycagon the Nightslayer.
The characters who are featured in the visual include the fox mask-equipped Akane Akitsu, a player who has been marked by Siegwurm the Sky Ruler, and the samurai-like Ceecrus, who is Emul’s older brother. An announcement reveals that the two are voiced by Yuka Terasaki and Natsuki Hanae, respectively.
Shangri-La Frontier is based on the Kodansha-published Shangri-La Frontier: Kusoge Hunter, Kamige ni Nidoman tosu ~ manga written by Katarina and drawn by Ryousuke Fuji. The first season of the VRMMO-themed action anime ran from October 2023 to March 2024, with Crunchyroll, Muse Asia, and Bilibili streaming the show overseas. Season 2 will also have two consecutive cours.
Crunchyroll describes the premise as:
“When was the last time I played a game that wasn’t crap?” This is a world in the near future where games that use display screens are classified as retro. Anything that can’t keep up with state-of-the-art VR technology is called a “crap game,” and you see a large number of crap games coming out.
Those who devote their lives to clearing these games are called “crap-game hunters,” and Rakuro Hizutome is one of them. The game he’s chosen to tackle next is Shangri-La Frontier, a “god-tier game” that has a total of thirty million players. Online friends… An expansive world… Encounters with rivals… These are changing Rakuro and all the other players’ fates! The best game adventure tale by the strongest “crap game” player begins now!
Shangri-La Frontier was first written as a Shousetsuka ni Narou web novel, which debuted in 2017. The manga began serialization in Weekly Shonen Magazine in 2020 and has 18 tankoubon volumes as of July 2024.
Staff (returning)
• Director: Toshiyuki Kubooka (Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina)
• Series composer and scriptwriter: Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina)
• Character designer and chief animation director: Ayumi Kurashima (Nomad: Megalo Box 2 character designer)
• Assistant director: Hiroki Ikeshita (Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina storyboarder and episode director)
• Action and effects director: Satoshi Sakai (The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed By Light action animation director)
• Color designer: Masato Takagi (Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina)
• Background art director: Inspired’s Yuki Nobe
• Background art director: Inspired’s Saki Nakamura
• Compositing director: Hikaru Yamamoku (ONE PIECE Vol.100/Ep.1000 Celebration Movies “WE ARE ONE.” assistant photography director)
• Music composer: MONACA (Assassins Pride)
• Animation production: C2C
Cast
• Yuma Uchida as Sunraku/Rakuro Hizutome
• Azumi Waki as Psyger-0/Rei Saiga
• Yoko Hikasa as Arthur Pencilgon/Towa Amane
• Makoto Koichi as OiKatzo/Kei Uomi
• Rina Hidaka as Emul
• Akio Ootsuka as Weiss Ash
• Yumiri Hanamori as Psyger-100/Momo Saiga
• Sayaka Senbongi as Animalia
Source: @ShanFro_Comic