On Sunday, the production team of the television anime adaptation of Katarina's Shangri-La Frontier online novel revealed two new cast members and a promotional video for the new “Nephilim Hollow Arc” of the second season. The arc will begin with the anime's 31st episode on November 17.
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The newly announced cast members are:
Rie Takahashi as Rust, the #1 ranked player in the robot action game Nephilim Hollow Image via Shangri-La Frontier anime's website
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Kaito Ishikawa as Mordo, a skilled operator who plays Nephilim Hollow alongside Rust 
Image via Shangri-La Frontier anime website
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Image via Shangri-La Frontier anime website
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The second season of the anime premiered on October 13 and will last for two consecutive courses (a quarter of a year). Crunchyroll streams the anime when it airs in Japan and also streams the English dub.
Previously announced new cast members for the second season include:
LiSA will perform the opening theme song “Queen” for the new first course of the season, and-otoha-will perform the ending theme song “Anya no Dancer: Dancer in the Dark Night.”
The anime's first season premiered in October 2023 on the 28 MBS/TBS network. The anime was broadcast in two consecutive courses. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired.
Toshiyuki Kubooka (Harukana Receive, Wandering Witch-The Journey of Elaina) directed the anime at C2C with assistant directors Hiroki Ikeshita and Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (Black Clover, Dropkick on My Devil!, Hetalia The Beautiful World, In the Land of Leadale, Record of Ragnarok) is supervising and writing the series. Ayumi Kurashima (DEVILMAN crybaby, Megalobox 2: Nomad) serves as character designer and animation director. Monaco composes music.
Kodansha USA published the manga adaptation of Katarina's Shangri-La Frontier web novel by Ryōsuke Fuji and describes the story:
Second-year high school student Rakurō Hizutome is only interested in one thing: finding “bad games” and beating them. His gaming skills are second to none and no game is too bad for him to enjoy. So when he's introduced to the new VR game Shangri-La Frontier, he does what he does best—the bare minimum and skips the prologue to get right into the action. But can an expert gamer like Rakurō discover all the secrets that Shangri-La Frontier hides…?
Katarina launched the novel series on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Let's Be Novelists) website in May 2017. Katarina also writes an additional novel series in Weekly Shōnen Magazine.
Fuji launched the Shangri-La Frontier manga in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in July 2020.
Netmarble Nexus is also developing a game and Netmarble is publishing it.
Source: website, Natalie Comics
