Shangri-La Frontier (2023)

Action · Adventure · Animation

Rakuro Hizutome only cares about one thing: beating crappy VR games. He devotes his entire life to these buggy games and could clear them all in his sleep. One day, he decides to challenge himself and play a popular god-tier game called Shangri-La Frontier. But he quickly learns just how difficult it is. Will his expert skills be enough to uncover its hidden secrets?

IMDb rating: 7.6 (6,969 votes)
Seasons: 2
Streaming (US): Netflix · Hulu · Crunchyroll
Language: JA
Type: TV series

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Seasons

Season 1 (2023)

7.34 avg 25 episodes 7.4 → 6.8 26 min avg

Bad finale

Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	What Do You Play Games For?	7.4	489
2	A Peculiar One	7.6	443
3	Black Wolf Nightslayer	7.8	452
4	A Trash Game Realignment of Elevated Tastes	7.3	405
5	Lo, Thou Art Assailed on All Sides	7.5	393
6	The Writing Tool Knight-Queen	7.5	380
7	Remnant of the Divinity: The Aberrant Loser	7.2	367
8	The 300-Limit Pandemonium	7.4	364
9	A Dazzling Sea of Trees	7.1	351
10	Let's Go Tomb Raiding!!	7.2	355
11	The Glimmer of Truth	7.5	382
12	Regrets Always Lie in the Past	7.2	345
13	Only Resentments About the End of Life Remain	7.2	341
14	Squish	6.9	337
15	Putting Feelings Into a Moment, Part 1	7.6	375
16	Putting Feelings Into a Moment, Part 2	7.9	381
17	Putting Feelings Into a Moment, Part 3	8.0	460
18	Putting Feelings Into a Moment, Part 4	8.1	746
19	The World Progresses, the Heroes Are Revealed	7.6	355
20	Current Situations and Next Steps	7.2	320
21	Errands, Cultivation, and Game Progress	6.9	309
22	The Walking Air Purifier	6.9	306
23	Bird with Rabbits vs. Skeletal Choir	6.9	309
24	Rare Items, Worth More Than Life Itself	6.8	305
25	Those Who Illuminate The World's Darkness	6.8	324

Season 2 (2024)

7.16 avg 25 episodes 7.0 → 7.1

Mid-peak

Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Half-Naked Birdman and the Gang in Golem Paradise	7.0	310
2	The Uncompromising Gatekeeper	7.1	288
3	Accelerating Meetings, Surging Desire, and the Start of Various Threads	6.9	279
4	When Humanity Dreams of the Impossible and Takes to the Skies	7.1	280
5	The Impetus of Hunger; The Persistence of Thirst	7.4	292
6	After the Fierce Battle, Despair	6.7	277
7	The Wings in a Draw	6.5	287
8	The Lion Catches a Rabbit With It's Full Strength; the Crab Catches a Phoenix With a Pizza Cutter	6.6	277
9	Run, Fueled by Impatience	6.8	267
10	Track It Like a Bloodhound	7.2	275
11	Embracing Your Ambitions in the Light: Part 1	7.7	310
12	Embracing Your Ambitions in the Light: Part 2	8.1	367
13	Embracing Your Ambitions in the Light: Part 3	8.0	316
14	Embracing Your Ambitions in the Light: Part 4	8.2	374
15	Embracing Your Ambitions in the Light: Part 5	7.2	278
16	What Do You Play Games for? Their Answers	6.5	264
17	A Straight Flush with a Joker	6.8	254
18	The Scarlet Whale	6.9	224
19	Revive, Broken City, Your Peace at an End	7.2	250
20	Filleting the Dragonfish	7.0	231
21	Venturing Wolves, Then From the Seas to the Skyscrapers	7.0	240
22	The Light Blazes Brightly, but for Just an Instant	7.2	220
23	Malice at 100 Meters Per Second	7.0	213
24	Great King of the Deep, I Humbly Seek to Crush You	7.7	202
25	The Anonymous (Asinine) A-Team and a Crisis	7.1	206