The official website for the third television anime season of Shangri-La Frontier — based on Katarina’s web novel series — has announced a premiere date of January 10, alongside a new key visual and confirmation of a two consecutive cour (roughly half-year) broadcast run. The series will air on MBS, TBS, and 26 affiliated channels at 5:00 p.m. JST. The new key visual carries the tagline “Konton ga Hazeru” — meaning “Chaos erupts.”
Story
Second-year high school student Rakurō Hizutome lives for one thing: hunting down “shitty games” and conquering them. His gaming skills are unmatched, and no title is too terrible for him to tackle. When he’s introduced to the cutting-edge VR game Shangri-La Frontier, he does what he does best — min-maxes his build and skips straight past the prologue into the action. But even for a gamer of his caliber, the secrets buried within Shangri-La Frontier may prove to be another matter entirely.
Staff & Cast
Season 3 is produced at C2C with Toshiyuki Kubooka (Harukana Receive, Wandering Witch – The Journey of Elaina) serving as chief director. Hiro Ōki, who served as an episode director on the franchise, steps up as series director, while Naoki Kotani (Black Clover, Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal II) joins as assistant director.
Kazuyuki Fudeyasu returns to oversee and write the scripts, Ayumi Kurashima (DEVILMAN crybaby, Megalobox 2: Nomad) is back as character designer and chief animation director, and MONACA once again handles the music. The full voice cast from Season 2 reprises their roles.
Additional Staff
- Sub-Character Designer: Riku Takizawa
- Monster Design: Yoshihiro Nagamori, Hiroshi Arisawa, Naoya Sonoda
- Prop Design: Yūki Yokoyama
- Action Effects Director: Satoshi Sakai
- Action Animation Director: Takeshi Nishino, Kazunori Osawa, Rino Isago, Mitsuke Watanabe
- Color Key Artist: Masato Takagi, Sakiko Teguramori
- Art Setting: Yuki Shigekawa
- Art Director: Chiho Wada
- 3D CG: Heartbeat
- CG Producer: Kiyoshi Nishida
- CG Director: Hiroyuki Kimura
- Compositing Director of Photography: Hikaru Yamaoku, Misako Ōtsu
- 2D Works: Azusa Tamura
- Special Effects: Kei Ishibashi
- Editor: Gō Sadamatsu
- Sound Director: Akiko Fujita
Crunchyroll will stream the new season internationally.
Series Background
The first anime season debuted in October 2023 across 28 MBS/TBS network channels and ran for two consecutive cours, with Crunchyroll streaming it simulcast. Season 2 followed in October 2024, also running two cours; Crunchyroll streamed it with both simulcast and an English dub.
Katarina originally launched the Shangri-La Frontier web novel on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Let’s Be Novelists) website in May 2017, and later penned an additional novel series in Weekly Shōnen Magazine. Ryōsuke Fuji’s manga adaptation launched in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in July 2020, with Kodansha USA Publishing handling the English release.
On the gaming front, Shangri-La Frontier ~Nanatsu no Saikyō-shu~ (Shangri-La Frontier ~The Seven Colossi~), the franchise’s first video game developed by Netmarble Nexus, is also slated to launch this year.
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