Nicole S. Castro

Jul 7, 2022

Japanese web novel series 'Shangri-La Frontier' announces TV anime for 2023 release

The TV anime will be produced by C2C. Yuma Uchida will be the voice of protagonist Sunraku/Rakuro Hizutome.

By: Nicole S. Castro on July 7, 2022 at 19:10 PHT

The first wave of promotional materials have been released for an upcoming TV anime adaptation of Katarina's web novel series Shangri-La Frontier, slated to air in 2023. The anime will be produced by C2C.

A game adaptation will be developed and published by Netmarble Nexus. Additional details to follow in future announcements.

Below is the teaser visual for the announcement.

The story of Shangri-La Frontier takes place in a near future wherein full-dive virtual reality (VR) games have become the norm. As a result, there also exist many so-called "trash games" which are glitchy and have not kept up with VR technology.

Trash game hunter Rakuro Hizutome (CV: Yuma Uchida) is burnt out from playing trash games. This motivates him to try the full-dive VR game "Shangri-La Frontier" as the player character Sunraku, where all the skills he has attained as an expert trash game hunter will come in handy as he progresses in the game.

Cast

  • Sunraku/Rakuro Hizutome (CV: Yuma Uchida)

  • Saiga 0/Rei Saiga (CV: Azumi Waki)

  • Arthur Pencilgon/Towa Amane (CV: Yoko Hikasa)

  • Oicazzo/Kei Uomi (CV: Makoto Koichi)

  • Emul (CV: Rina Hidaka)

  • Viceash (CV: Akio Otsuka)

Staff

  • Original work: Katarina and Ryosuke Fuji's "Shangri-La Frontier" (serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine)

  • Director: Toshiyuki Kubooka

  • Series composition, Script: Kazuyuki Fudeyasu

  • Assistant director: Hiroki Ikeshita

  • Character design, Chief animation supervisor: Ayumi Kurashima

  • Action/Effects director: Satoshi Sakai

  • Color design: Masato Takagi

  • Art: Inspired

  • 2D work: Azusa Tamura

  • Cinematographer: Hikaru Yamamori

  • Editor: Go Sadamatsu

  • Sound director: Akiko Fujita

  • Music: MONACA

  • Animation production: C2C

Source: Shangri-La Frontier official Twitter, official website, Comic Natalie

NICOLE S. CASTRO

Author

Nicole is based in the Philippines and works as a freelance Japanese Translator/Interpreter and copywriter (English). She is a JLPT N2 passer who watches anime to "study" for N1. She has a long career history on LinkedIn (with primary focus on media and translation), but her anime watchlist is much, much longer.

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