The production team behind the television anime adaptation of Katarina’s Shangri-La Frontier web novel series unveiled a new visual and additional cast members on Sunday for the second season’s upcoming arc, “GGC (Global Game Competition).”
The newly announced cast includes:
- Yumi Uchiyama as Megumi Natsume, a professional fighting gamer and a member of Kei Uomi’s (Oikatzo) team, Nitro Squad.
- Minami Takahashi as Sylvia Goldberg, the only female member of StarRain, one of the most powerful fighting game teams in the U.S.
The second season of the anime premiered on October 13 and will air for two consecutive cours (a quarter of a year). Crunchyroll is streaming the anime as it airs in Japan, including an English dub.
Awich performs the new opening theme song, “Frontiers,” while CVLTE performs the new ending theme song, “realitYhurts.”
The first season of the anime debuted in October 2023 across 28 MBS/TBS networks and aired for two consecutive cours. Crunchyroll streamed the series alongside its Japanese broadcast.
Shangri-La Frontier
The anime’s production staff includes:
- Director: Toshiyuki Kubooka (Harukana Receive, Wandering Witch – The Journey of Elaina)
- Assistant Director: Hiroki Ikeshita
- Series Composition & Script: Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (Black Clover, Dropkick on My Devil!, Hetalia The Beautiful World, In the Land of Leadale, Record of Ragnarok)
- Character Designer & Chief Animation Director: Ayumi Kurashima (DEVILMAN crybaby, Megalobox 2: Nomad)
- Music: monaca
Kodansha USA Publishing releases Ryōsuke Fuji’s manga adaptation of Katarina’s Shangri-La Frontier web novel and describes the story as follows:
“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…?”
Katarina first debuted the novel series on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Let’s Become Novelists) website in May 2017 and later wrote an additional novel series for Weekly Shōnen Magazine.
Ryōsuke Fuji launched the Shangri-La Frontier manga in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in July 2020. Additionally, Netmarble Nexus is developing a game based on the series, with Netmarble handling publishing duties.
