Publisher Kodansha opened an official website for a television anime adaptation of Katarina and Ryousuke Fuji's Shangri-La Frontier: Kusoge Hunter, Kamige ni Idoman to su (Shangri-La Frontier) manga on Thursday. The website revealed the main cast, staff, teaser visual (pictured), and project promotional video. The anime is scheduled to premiere in 2023.

Cast
Sunraku (Rakurou Hizutome): Yuuma Uchida (Jujutsu Kaisen (TV))
Psyger 0 (Rei Saiga): Azumi Waki (Isekai Maou to Shoukan Shoujo no Dorei Majutsu)
Arthur Pencilgon (Towa Amane): Youko Hikasa (RWBY: Hyousetsu Teikoku)
Oicazzo (Kei Uomi): Makoto Koichi (100-man no Inochi no Ue ni Ore wa Tatteiru)
Emul: Rina Hidaka (Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari)
Viceash: Akio Ootsuka (Beastars)

Staff
Director: Toshiyuki Kubooka (Majo no Tabitabi)
Series Composition, Script: Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken)
Assistant Director: Hiroki Ikeshita (Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu)
Character Design, Chief Animation Director: Ayumi Kurashima (Devilman: Crybaby)
Action & Special Effects Director: Satoshi Sakai (Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season)
Color Design: Masato Takagi (Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu)
Art: Inspired (Kemono Jihen)
2D Works: Azusa Tamura (Koi wa Ameagari no You ni)\
Director of Photography: Hikaru Yamamoku (Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo. photography)
Editing: Gou Sadamatsu (Golden Kamuy)
Sound Director: Akiko Fujita (Dorohedoro)
Music: MONACA (Assassins Pride)
Studio: C2C

Katarina began writing the series as a web novel in the Shousetsuka ni Narou website in May 2017. Fuji began adapting the story into a manga in Weekly Shounen Magazine in July 2020. Kodansha shipped the eighth volume on April 15, while the ninth volume is scheduled to release on July 15.

Kodansha USA licensed the manga digitally in English in November 2020, and released the sixth volume on May 3.

Shangri-La Frontier was nominated at the 46th Kodansha Manga Awards in the Shounen category.

Synopsis
Second year high school student Rakurou 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 Rakurou discover all the secrets that Shangri-La Frontier hides...? (Source: Kodansha USA)

Project PV


Official site: https://anime.shangrilafrontier.com/
Official Twitter: @ShanFro_Comic

Source: animate Times

Shangri-La Frontier: Kusoge Hunter, Kamige ni Idoman to su on MAL