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 (7,982 votes)
Episode average: 7.3 -0.3 vs IMDb
Seasons: 2
Streaming (US): Hulu · Netflix · Crunchyroll
Language: JA
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 2 seasons indexed

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Seasons

Season 1 (2023)

7.40 avg 25 episodes 7.5 → 7.0 25 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	What Do You Play Games For?	7.5	599
2	A Peculiar One	7.6	539
3	Black Wolf Nightslayer	7.8	552
4	A Trash Game Realignment of Elevated Tastes	7.3	496
5	Lo, Thou Art Assailed on All Sides	7.5	477
6	The Writing Tool Knight-Queen	7.6	463
7	Remnant of the Divinity: The Aberrant Loser	7.3	449
8	The 300-Limit Pandemonium	7.5	443
9	A Dazzling Sea of Trees	7.1	430
10	Let's Go Tomb Raiding!!	7.2	431
11	The Glimmer of Truth	7.6	465
12	Regrets Always Lie in the Past	7.2	421
13	Only Resentments About the End of Life Remain	7.2	411
14	Squish	7.0	409
15	Putting Feelings Into a Moment, Part 1	7.6	449
16	Putting Feelings Into a Moment, Part 2	7.9	464
17	Putting Feelings Into a Moment, Part 3	8.1	551
18	Putting Feelings Into a Moment, Part 4	8.2	847
19	The World Progresses, the Heroes Are Revealed	7.6	430
20	Current Situations and Next Steps	7.2	393
21	Errands, Cultivation, and Game Progress	7.0	445
22	The Walking Air Purifier	7.0	416
23	Bird with Rabbits vs. Skeletal Choir	7.0	397
24	Rare Items, Worth More Than Life Itself	7.0	420
25	Those Who Illuminate The World's Darkness	7.0	472

Season 2 (2024)

7.22 avg 25 episodes 7.0 → 7.3 23 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Half-Naked Birdman and the Gang in Golem Paradise	7.0	379
2	The Uncompromising Gatekeeper	7.2	353
3	Accelerating Meetings, Surging Desire, and the Start of Various Threads	7.0	360
4	When Humanity Dreams of the Impossible and Takes to the Skies	7.1	344
5	The Impetus of Hunger; The Persistence of Thirst	7.6	358
6	After the Fierce Battle, Despair	6.8	342
7	The Wings in a Draw	6.6	351
8	The Lion Catches a Rabbit With It's Full Strength; the Crab Catches a Phoenix With a Pizza Cutter	6.7	342
9	Run, Fueled by Impatience	6.8	328
10	Track It Like a Bloodhound	7.2	340
11	Embracing Your Ambitions in the Light: Part 1	7.8	381
12	Embracing Your Ambitions in the Light: Part 2	8.2	438
13	Embracing Your Ambitions in the Light: Part 3	8.1	391
14	Embracing Your Ambitions in the Light: Part 4	8.3	455
15	Embracing Your Ambitions in the Light: Part 5	7.3	344
16	What Do You Play Games for? Their Answers	6.6	329
17	A Straight Flush with a Joker	6.8	316
18	The Scarlet Whale	7.0	322
19	Revive, Broken City, Your Peace at an End	7.2	311
20	Filleting the Dragonfish	7.0	292
21	Venturing Wolves, Then From the Seas to the Skyscrapers	7.0	310
22	The Light Blazes Brightly, but for Just an Instant	7.3	281
23	Malice at 100 Meters Per Second	7.0	273
24	Great King of the Deep, I Humbly Seek to Crush You	7.7	271
25	The Anonymous (Asinine) A-Team and a Crisis	7.3	278

Shangri-La Frontier (2023)

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