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Shangri-La Frontier Anime Reveals More Cast, New Visual for Latest Arc

The official website for the television anime of Katarina's Shangri-La Frontier web novel revealed new cast members and a new visual for the anime's new arc, "Tabisuru Ōkami yo, Taishi wo Idake" (Traveling Wolf, Embrace your Ambition), on Sunday. The visual is illustrated by the manga adaptation's artist Ryōsuke Fuji. The new arc started in the anime's 20th episode on Sunday.

The new cast members are:

Ami Koshimizu as Tsukuyo Tsukuri, founder of Utopia Inc. and World Creative Administrator of the Shangri-La Frontier game

Kaori Nazuka as Ritsu Amachi, executive producer of the Shangri-La Frontier game

Kenji Nojima as Sakai Tsukuyogi, Utopia's advertising manager

The anime's staff also announced that the 21st episode will air 30 minutes later from 5:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. JST on March 3.

The additional cast for the anime's recently-concluded "Shigan Yori Ai wo Komete Hanataba wo" (A Bouquet of Flowers with Love from this World) arc are:

• Asami Seto as Setsuna Amatsuki (Tōki Hi no Setsuna)
• Shō Hayami as Wezaemon the Tombguard

The anime's previously announced cast are:

• Yūma Uchida as Sunraku/Rakurō Hizutome
• Azumi Waki as Psyger-0/Rei Saiga
• Yōko Hikasa as Arthur Pencilgon/Towa Amane
• Makoto Koichi as Oikatzo/Kei Uomi
• Rina Hidaka as Emul
• Yumiri Hanamori as Psyger-100
• Sayaka Senbongi as Animalia
• Seiichirō Yamashita as Orcelott
• Akio Ohtsuka as Viceash

The anime premiered on October 1 on 28 MBS/TBS networks. The anime will air for two consecutive cours. Crunchyroll streams the anime as it airs.

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. monaca is composing the music. FZMZ feat. icy performs the anime's second cours (quarter of a year) opening theme song titled "Danger Danger." ReoNa performs the new ending theme song "Gajūmaru ～Heaven in the Rain～."

Katarina debuted the novel series on the Shōsetsu-ka ni Narō ("Let's Be Novelists") website in May 2017. Katarina also wrote an additional novel series in Weekly Shōnen Magazine. The series follows the heroine Psyger-0, who is the top player of "Shangri-La Frontier."

Fuji launched the Shangri-La Frontier ~Kusoge Hunter, Kamige ni Idoman to su~ (Shangri-La Frontier ~ Crappy Game Hunter Challenges God-Tier Game) manga in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in July 2020. The manga's 16th compiled book volume shipped in Japan on December 15.

Netmarble Nexus is also developing a game, and Netmarble is publishing it.

Sources: Shangri-La Frontier anime's website, Comic Natalie