The series is also getting a video game adaptation this year.
The popular battle fantasy anime “Shangri-La Frontier” announced its third season back in March 2025. A year later, it has finally been confirmed that Shangri-La Frontier Season 3 will premiere in January 2027. An exact release date is yet to be revealed, although a teaser visual featuring a mysterious character has been released.
Shangri-La Frontier Season 3 details
Other than the January 2027 broadcast, no other details about the series have been revealed as of yet. The second season of the anime ended with the beginning Global Game Competition (GGC) arc, which means season 3 will likely adapt the rest of the arc. It might also touch on the Abyss City Part 2 and the New Continent Arc.
Hiro Oki is set to direct the third season of the anime at studio C2C, with Kazuyuki Fudeyasu handling series composition. Ayumi Kurashima is the character designer and chief animation director. MONACA is composing the music for the upcoming season. The director of the first two seasons, Toshiyuki Kubooka, is set to take the chair of the chief director this time. Other staff members include:
- Assistant Director: Naoki Kotani
- Sub Character Designer: Riku Takizawa
- Monster Designers: Yoshihiro Nagamori, Hiroshi Arisawa, Naoya Sonoda
- Prop Designer: Yuki Yokoyama
- Action Effect Director: Satoshi Sakai
- Action Animation Directors: Takeshi Nishino, Kazunori Ozawa, Rino Isago, Mizuki Watanabe
- Colour Designers: Masato Takagi, Sakiko Tekuramori
- Art Setter: Yuki Shigekawa
- Art Director: Chiho Wada
- 3DCG: HEARTBEAT
- CG Producer: Kiyoshi NIshida
- CG Director: Hiroyuki Kimura
- Directors of Photography: Hikaru Yamamoku, Misakko Ootsu
- 2D Works: Azusa Tamura
- Special Effects: Kei Ishibashi
- Editor: Go Sadamatsu
- Sound Director: Akiko Fujita
It has also been announced that a video game adaptation of the series titled Shangri-La Frontier ~Nanatsu no Saikyō-shu~ (Shangri-La Frontier ~The Seven Colossi~) is coming out in 2026. Netmarble Nexus is developing the franchise’s first game.
The first season of the Shangri-La Frontier anime came out in October 2023, with a second season following in October 2024. The third season was announced as soon as season 2 came to an end. Fans can now look forward to its January 2027 release.
The anime is based on Katarina’s novel series that began publishing in the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in May 2017. A manga adaptation illustrated by Ryosuke Fuji began publishing in Kodansha’s Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2020. It won the 47th Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category in 2023. Kodansha also publishes the manga in English and describes the story as:
Second-year high school student Rakuro Hizutome loves nothing more than finding so-called “trash games” and beating the crap out of them. When he decides to change things up by playing a new, “god-tier” VR game known as Shangri-La Frontier (a.k.a. SLF), he does what he does best: min-maxes, skips the prologue, and jumps straight into action! Rakuro may be a seasoned gamer, but a meeting with an old rival will change the fate of every SLF player forever.
Clad in nothing but shorts and a bird mask, Rakuro (player name: Sunraku) launches into the world of SLF. Things are going well at first as he takes down a goblin, a bunny, and even a python. But then Sunraku comes up against a huge, hard-hitting wolf known as Lycagon the Nightslayer. Will Sunraku’s years of “trash game” experience be enough, or is he about to suffer a rude awakening just a few hours into his SLF adventure?