On 25 February 2024, the official X account of the currently ongoing anime “Shangri-La Frontier” (Japanese Name: Shangri-La Frontier: Kusoge Hunter, Kamige ni Idoman to su, Synonyms: ShanFro) which is based on the Web Novel by Katarina released the upcoming story visual of this anime and also revealed the additional castings for future episodes.
Shangri-La Frontier New Castings and Visual
The official X account shared the next story visual drawn by Mangaka Fuji which features Lycagon the Nightslayer:
This new visual depicts the face of one of The Seven Colossi of ShanFro game Lycagon the Nightslayer. The text in the visual translates as: ‘Traveling Wolf, Have Ambition“
This anime has been ongoing since October 2023. Animation Studio C2C is animating this anime. Bookmark our website for more updates.
In episode 20 of this series, many new characters, their designs, and castings are revealed:
Sousei Tsugikuri by Ami Koshimizu
Ritsu Tenchi by Kaori Nazuka
Bokuto Yaeda Sakai by Kenji Nojima
As previously reported, Shangri-La Frontier is listed with 25 episodes.
Shangri-La Frontier” (Japanese Name: Shangri-La Frontier: Kusoge Hunter, Kamige ni Idoman to su, Synonyms: ShanFro) is a Japanese web novel series written by Katrina. Katarina released this novel on the Shosetsu-ka ni Naro (Let’s Be Novelists) website in May 2017. Katarina also wrote an additional novel series in Weekly Shounen Magazine.
This manga later got the manga adaptation illustrated by Fuji Ryousuke titled Shangri-La Frontier ~Kusoge Hunter, Kamige ni Idoman to su~ (Shangri-La Frontier ~ Crappy Game Hunter Challenges God-Tier Game) in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in July 2020.
Kodansha Comics publishes the manga version of this Novel and describes the story as:
“Second year high school student Rakurō 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 Rakurō discover all the secrets that Shangri-La Frontier hides…?“
Source: Official Website
