A teaser trailer for the upcoming Shangri-La Frontier Season 3 has been released.
It was also announced that the anime’s episodes will have their broadcast debut on Sundays at 5PM JST. There’s no precise start date for the series yet, though it’s known that it will begin in January 2027.
Shangri-La Frontier is an adaptation of 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 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.
The anime’s second season began airing in October 2024 and ended in March 2025.
Production credits
• Chief director: Toshiyuki Kubooka (previously director)
• Director: Hiro Oki (new)
• Series composer and scriptwriter: Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina)
• Character designer and chief animation director: Ayumi Kurashima (reprising)
• Sub-character designer: Riku Takizawa (reprising)
• Assistant director: Naoki Kotani (new)
• Action and effects director: Satoshi Sakai (reprising)
• Animation production: C2C
Cast
• 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
Source: Shangri-La Frontier anime YouTube channel
