A teaser visual and January 2027 broadcast premiere for Shangri-La Frontier Season 3 have been revealed.
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The reveals for the third season of the VRMMO-themed anime were accompanied by the announcement of a Shangri-La Frontier game, subtitled Nanatsu no Saikyoshu. It’s set for a 2026 release for iOS, Android, and PC, and is developed by Netmarble Nexus Inc.
Here’s a trailer for the game:
Shangri-La Frontier adapts the Kodansha-published Shangri-La Frontier: Kusoge Hunter, Kamige ni Nidoman tosu ~ manga written by Katarina and drawn by Ryosuke Fuji. Crunchyroll describes the first season, which ran from October 2023 to March 2024, as such:
“When was the last time I played a game that wasn’t crap?” This is a world in the near future where games that use display screens are classified as retro. Anything that can’t keep up with state-of-the-art VR technology is called a “crap game,” and you see a large number of crap games coming out.
Those who devote their lives to clearing these games are called “crap-game hunters,” and Rakuro Hizutome is one of them. The game he’s chosen to tackle next is Shangri-La Frontier, a “god-tier game” that has a total of thirty million players. Online friends… An expansive world… Encounters with rivals… These are changing Rakuro and all the other players’ fates! The best game adventure tale by the strongest “crap game” player begins now!
The anime’s second season began airing in October 2024 and ended in March 2025.
The Shangri-La Frontier manga began serialization in Weekly Shonen Magazine in 2020 and has 25 tankobon volumes as of January 2026. The story started as a Shosetsuka ni Naro web novel in 2017.
Staff credits (Season 2, reprising from Season 1)
• Director: Toshiyuki Kubooka (Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina)
• Series composer and scriptwriter: Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina)
• Character designer and chief animation director: Ayumi Kurashima (Nomad: Megalo Box 2 character designer)
• Assistant director: the late Hiroki Ikeshita (Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina storyboarder and episode director)
• Action and effects director: Satoshi Sakai (The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed By Light action animation director)
• Color designer: Masato Takagi (Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina)
• Background art director: Inspired’s Yuki Nobe
• Background art director: Inspired’s Saki Nakamura
• Compositing director: Hikaru Yamamoku (ONE PIECE Vol.100/Ep.1000 Celebration Movies “WE ARE ONE.” assistant photography director)
• Music composer: MONACA (Assassins Pride)
• Animation production: C2C
Cast (Season 2)
• Yuma Uchida as Sunraku/Rakuro Hizutome
• Azumi Waki as Psyger-0/Rei Saiga
• Yoko Hikasa as Arthur Pencilgon/Towa Amane
• Makoto Koichi as OiKatzo/Kei Uomi
• Rina Hidaka as Emul
Source: @ShanFro_Comic
