A new key visual and two new cast members have been revealed for the ongoing second season of Shangri-La Frontier. The newest visual highlights some current and new characters in-real life and their roles in the anime’s new story arc “GGC (Global Game Competition).”
The two new cast members joining the series’ new arc include Yumi Uchiyama as Megumi Natsume (left), a professional gamer, and Minami Takahashi as Sylvia Goldberg (right), the lone female member of the strongest fighting game group in the U.S.
They join the anime’s main voice cast, which stars:
- • 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
- • Akio Otsuka as Weiss Ash
- • Yumiri Hanamori as Psyger-100/Momo Saiga
- • Sayaka Senbongi as Animalia
- • Yuka Terasaki as Akane Akitsu
- • Natsuki Hanae as Ceecrus
Toshiyuki Kubooka (Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina) is directing the anime’s second season, with Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina) as series screenwriter and scriptwriter, and Ayumi Kurashima (Nomad: Megalo Box 2 character designer) as character designer and chief animation director. C2C is handling the animation production for the series.
Other staff include the late Hiroki Ikeshita (Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina storyboarder and episode director) as assistant director, Satoshi Sakai (The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed By Light action animation director) as action and effects director, Masato Takagi (Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina) as color designer, Hikaru Yamamoku (ONE PIECE Vol.100/Ep.1000 Celebration Movies “WE ARE ONE.” assistant photography director) as compositing director, Inspireds’ Yuki Nobe and Saki Nakamura as background art directors, and MONACA (Assassins Pride) as music composer.
Season two first premiered in Japan on October 13, 2024 and will run for two consecutive cours consisting of 25 total episodes. The anime’s first season ran from October 2023 to March 2024 for 25 episodes. Crunchyroll, Muse Asia, and bilibili streamed the first season internationally, outside of Japan.
The VRMMO action anime is based on the adventure fantasy manga series, written by Katarina and illustrated by Ryosuke Fuji. It was first published in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine under the KC Deluxe label on July 15, 2020. Twenty-one tankobon volumes have been released as of February 2025.
The manga originally started as a Shosetsuka ni Naro web novel in May 2017. Kodansha USA releases the series in English for North America.
Crunchyroll is streaming Shangri-La Frontier outside of Japan, describing the main synopsis of the first season as:
“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!
Source: Shangri-La Frontier Official Anime Twitter, Official Anime Website
