News: Shangri-La Frontier Anime Unveils Second Promo Video, Game Trailer, and Character Visuals

The official website for the television anime of Katarina‘s Shangri-La Frontier web novel unveiled the second promotional video and character visuals on Friday:

The anime will premiere in October on 28 MBS/TBS networks, and it will air on Sundays at 5:00 p.m. JST. Crunchyroll will stream the anime as it airs.

Netmarble Nexus is also developing a game, and Netmarble is publishing it. The website began streaming the first promotional video for the game:

The cast, led by two members who are returning from a 2021 promotional video, includes:

Akio Ohtsuka will play Viceash.

Kodansha USA Publishing publishes Ryōsuke Fuji‘s manga adaptation of Katarina‘s Shangri-La Frontier web novel, and it describes the story:

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…?

Toshiyuki Kubooka (Harukana Receive, Wandering Witch – The Journey of Elaina) is directing the anime at C2C with assistant director Hiroki Ikeshita, and Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (Black Clover, Dropkick on My Devil!, Hetalia The Beautiful World, In the Land of Leadale, Record of Ragnarok) is supervising and writing the series scripts. Ayumi Kurashima (DEVILMAN crybaby, Megalobox 2: Nomad) is serving as character designer and chief animation director.

The other staff members are:

Katarina debuted the novel series on the Shōsetsu-ka ni Narō (“Let’s Be Novelists”) website in May 2017. Kata also wrote an additional novel series in Source link