Shangri-La Frontier
2023 · TV Series · TV-14 · 23 min
★ 8.1(253)unSUB Rating
A hardcore gamer who specializes in beating broken, low-quality VR titles decides to test his skills in a top-tier virtual reality MMO. What starts as a fun challenge quickly turns into a demanding adventure filled with tough battles, clever mechanics, and hints of deeper mysteries hidden inside the game world.
Based on Shangri-La Frontier
Also known as ShangriLa Frontier
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Streaming on Netflix and Crunchyroll.
~21 hours to watch · 61 episodes.
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Details
- Original title
- シャングリラ・フロンティア
- Years
- 2023–2026
- Release date
- 2023-10-01
- Network
- TBS, MBS, CBC, Tulip Television, BSN, tys, NBC, HBC, RKK, i-Television, SBS, IBC, BSS, MRO, OBS, TUF, RSK, TUY, tbc, RKB, SBC, KUTV, RBC, UTY, RCC, MRT, ATV, MBC
- Language
- Japanese
- Rated
- TV-14
- Runtime
- 23 min
- Max quality
- HD
- TMDB rating (input)
- 8.2/10 (253 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a light, game-focused adventure with frequent battles, playful humor, and a big virtual world to explore; Not for you if you need high danger, heavy drama, or deep character growth like My Hero Academia.
Pros: fun gaming vibe; exciting monster fights; colorful worldbuilding | Cons: low real-world stakes; story feels thin; lots of mechanics talk
Themes
- virtual reality
- gamer
- based on manga
- fantasy world
- shounen
- anime
- mmorpg
- virtual world
- based on web novel
- adventure
- ambivalent
- teen fantasy
- +1 more
Cast & crew
Yuma Uchida
as Sunraku / Rakuro Hizutome (voice)
Azumi Waki
as Psyger-0 / Rei Saiga (voice)
Yoko Hikasa
as Arthur Pencilgon / Towa Amane (voice)
Makoto Koichi
as OiKatzo / Kei Uomi (voice)
Rina Hidaka
as Emul (voice)
Akio Otsuka
as Weissasche (voice)
Seiichiro Yamashita
as Orcelott (voice)
Yumiri Hanamori
as Momo Saiga (voice)
Sayaka Senbongi
as Animalia (voice)
Umeka Shoji
as Mana Iwamaki (voice)
Directed by Yoshihiko Iwata, Daisuke Chiba, Yoshitaka Nagaoka +21 more
Episodes1 season · 61 episodes
Specials10 episodes
- S0E1Episode 1 - What is ShanFro?2m
- S0E2Episode 2 - What Kind of Game is ShanFro?3m
- S0E3Episode 3 - Introducing the Main Characters2m
- S0E4Episode 4 - Shangri-La Frontier Anime Starts Soon!3m
- S0E5Episode 5 - Secrets of the VR Headset2m
- S0E6Episode 6 - Quiz: We Ask Sunraku-san. What Do All These Game Terms Mean?2m
- S0E7Episode 7 - ShanFro's Main Character3m
- S0E8Episode 8 - ShanFro's Main Character Part 22m
- S0E9Episode 9 - Trash Games Are My Life2m
- S0E10Get Yourselves Caught Up with This Light-Speed Recap!24m
Season 151 episodes
- S1E1What Do You Play Games For?25mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime VideoNetflix
- S1E2A Peculiar One25mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime VideoNetflix
- S1E3Black Wolf Nightslayer25mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime VideoNetflix
- S1E4A Trash Game Realignment of Elevated Tastes23mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime VideoNetflix
- S1E5Lo, Thou Art Assailed on All Sides26mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime VideoNetflix
- S1E6The Writing Tool Knight-Queen25mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime VideoNetflix
- S1E7Remnant of the Divinity: The Aberrant Loser23mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime VideoNetflix
- S1E8The 300-Limit Pandemonium23mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime VideoNetflix
- S1E9A Dazzling Sea of Trees23mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime VideoNetflix
- S1E10Let's Go Tomb Raiding!!23mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime VideoNetflix
- S1E11The Glimmer of Truth25mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime VideoNetflix
- S1E12Regrets Always Lie in the Past23mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime VideoNetflix
- S1E13Only Resentments About the End of Life Remain23mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime VideoNetflix
- S1E14Squish23mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime VideoNetflix
- S1E15Putting Feelings Into a Moment (1)24mCrunchyrollNetflix
- S1E16Putting Feelings Into a Moment (2)26mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime VideoNetflix
- S1E17Putting Feelings Into a Moment (3)26mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime VideoNetflix
- S1E18Putting Feelings Into a Moment (4)25mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime VideoNetflix
- S1E19The World Progresses, the Heroes Are Revealed26mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime VideoNetflix
- S1E20Current Situations and Next Steps25mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime VideoNetflix
- S1E21Errands, Cultivation, and Game Progress23mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime VideoNetflix
- S1E22The Walking Air Purifier25mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime VideoNetflix
- S1E23Bird and Rabbits VS Chorus of Skeletons23mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime VideoNetflix
- S1E24Rare Items, Worth More than Life Itself26mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime VideoNetflix
- S1E25Those Who Illuminate the World's Darkness25mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime VideoNetflix
- S1E26Half-Naked Birdman and the Gang in Golem Paradise23m
- S1E27The Uncompromising Gatekeeper23m
- S1E28Accelerating Meetings, Surging Desire, and the Start of Various Threads23m
- S1E29When Humanity Dreams of the Impossible and Takes to the Skies23m
- S1E30The Impetus of Hunger; the Persistence of Thirst23m
- S1E31After the Fierce Battle, Despair23m
- S1E32The Wings in a Draw23m
- S1E33The Lion Catches a Rabbit with Its Full Strength; the Crab Catches a Phoenix with a Pizza Cutter23m
- S1E34Run, Fueled by Impatience23m
- S1E35Track It Like a Bloodhound23m
- S1E36Embrace the Lamplight of Ambition (1)23m
- S1E37Embrace the Lamplight of Ambition (2)23m
- S1E38Embrace the Lamplight of Ambition (3)23m
- S1E39Embrace the Lamplight of Ambition (4)23m
- S1E40Embrace the Lamplight of Ambition (5)23m
- S1E41What Do You Play Games For? Their Answers23m
- S1E42A Straight Flush Mixed with Jokers23m
- S1E43The Crimson Whale Meets the Monster Fish23m
- S1E44Revive, Broken City, Your Peace at an End23m
- S1E45Time to Fillet a Dragon Fish23m
- S1E46Venturing Wolves Then from the Seas to the Skyscrapers23m
- S1E47The Light Blazes Brightly, But for Just an Instant23m
- S1E48Malice at 100 Meters Per Second26m
- S1E49Great King of the Deep, I Humbly Seek to Crush You23m
- S1E50The Anonymous (Asinine) A-Team and a Crisis23m
- S1E51Episode 51