Shangri-La Frontier (Shangri-La Frontier: Kusoge Hunter, Kamige ni Idoman to su) (2023)

“I wasn’t really interested in this series at first because in my experience anime about videogames tend to be crap, but this one got quite the positive reception so I checked it out, out of curiosity, and surprisingly I found it to be fun and I enjoyed it.

Unlike other videogame anime this one doesn’t have endless exposition about how videogames work, partly because the protagonist doesn’t care about the lore of the game he plays, and partly because the director realized he could add all the information needed as quick short descriptions in or outside the HUD of the videogame for those who don’t play and don’t know the terminology of MMORPGs.

Since a big part of the second part it’s about a specific boss raid, it means that part of the buildup to that it’s” read more