I’m reaching outside the season preview for this one. But there was probably some fatigue built in there given the sheer size of the fall schedule, and in hindsight (I said this before it premiered) Shangri-la Frontier probably should have been in there. The manga is well-regarded enough and the previews looked good enough.
As with Ragna Crimson, I’m certainly not the target audience for Shangri-La Frontier. Gaming anime always have a challenge with me because I’m not a gamer, and a lot of the insider stuff I’m simply not going to get. If the writing is good enough that can be surmounted, and while it’s too early to say if that’s the case here, I can say I liked the first episode way better than Ragna Crimson. The visuals were seriously good here (those combat scenes were very well done), and there’s a certainly breezy irreverence to the tone that isn’t unappealing.
The premise is that a kid named Hizutome Rakurou is a “freak” addicted to trash games – “so bad it’s good” stuff with tons of bugs and shitty graphics. His local game store owner talks him into trying the titular “God-tier” game, a MMORPG with a state of the art game engine and millions of players. All this is set sometime in the near future when VR rules the roost (but games are still sold on physical media, apparently). Rokurou is kind of a punk, but I suspect he’s basically harmless – just a kid with weird tastes and a lot of attitude. His mom in an entomologist and if he has a dad, (as usual) there’s no sign of him.
I won’t say there was anything brilliant in the premiere but it was fun. “Shangri-La Frontier” looks like an interesting place to spend time, as I said the visuals are really good, and I didn’t feel seriously annoyed even once. It’s a long way to get from there to seriously considering blogging SLF, but I’m more than interested enough to stick around for a bit and let it makes its case.
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