“Shangri-La Frontier“It is being one of my most positive surprises this fall of 2023, and I have been able to verify that on Crunchyroll it is having one of the best receptions of this entire anime quarter. But it is possible that even watching it week by week today, to More than one may know little. What do I mean? Well, this is like with Pringles, so If “Shangri-La Frontier” has whetted your appetite for something similar, I bring you up to 5 similar animes.
A Playthrough of a Certain Dude’s VRMMO Life
If there’s something quite peculiar about Sunraku, the protagonist of “Shangri-La Frontier,” it’s that This one plays in a way… let’s say strange. That is to say: he goes alone when the normal thing is to go in a group, he makes the cities at the beginning of the game in the order he wants, he puts points on a helmet in luck, which is a very rarely used attribute… and that is similar to what that the protagonist of “A Playthrough of a Certain Dude’s VRMMO Life” does. Here, we have someone who he takes the strangest and even useless skills in the game to be able to completely go about his businessbut it turns out that due to things of fate his ‘build‘ It will end up being a much more powerful one than I had anticipated.
- Synopsis: Taichi Tanaka is an ordinary 38-year-old man who likes to enjoy video games. One day he starts in a new virtual reality online multiplayer game called One More Free Life Online and decides to name his character Earth. Unlike his fellow players, he decides to dedicate himself to mastering the most humble skills of the game. Prepare the best meals, the most complicated potions and hunt monsters with weapons he created himself. This is the beginning of his fantasy life!
- Where to see: On Crunchyroll.
BOFURI: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Max Out My Defense.
Following the theme of ‘playing weird’, there are few things better than “BOFURI” in this regard. Basically, Its protagonist is dedicated to putting all his points in defense because he does not want to feel pain. In the end, he ends up becoming an impregnable tank that with an incredible filly also obtains brutal abilities that compensate for his lack of… everything else. Again, if like Sunraku you are interested in someone who plays the game on their own and without caring about anything around them, you should give “BOFURI” a chance.
- Synopsis: Maple wants to avoid getting hurt in her VRMMO game, so she puts all her skill points into defense until she couldn’t even move. Works??
- Where to see: On Crunchyroll.
Full Dive: The Ultimate Next-Gen Full Dive RPG Is Even Shittier than Real Life!
One of the main narrative points of “Shangri-La Frontier” is that its protagonist has become a gamer expert after completing countless garbage games with terrible mechanics. Well, the idea behind “Full Dive: The Ultimate Next-Gen Full Dive RPG Is Even Shittier than Real Life!” the thing is The ENTIRE anime takes place inside a trashy video game.. If any of the “Shangri-La Frontier” episodes in which Sunraku played one of those terribly configured games caught your attention, then you may find that “Full Dive: The Ultimate Next-Gen Full Dive RPG Is Even Shittier than Real Life!” be something that interests you.
- Synopsis: Hiroshi bought Kiwame Quest, the most realistic video game ever made. In it he can smell, taste, and even be physically hurt, but his abilities in this adventure are as bad as those he has in his daily life. Totally immersed, he vows to defeat it… even if it kills him!
- Where to see: On Crunchyroll.
Infinite Dendrogram
“Infinite Dendrogram” does not so much have the peculiarities for which I have referred to animes like “BOFURI” or “A Playthrough of a Certain Dude’s VRMMO Life”, but in the strictest sense of the concept of animes it is quite similar to ” Shangri-La Frontier”. As an added bonus, I will comment that I have seen more than one on the Internet. recommend it being a “Shangri-La Frontier” but worse. Come on, if you are liking “Shangri-La Frontier” so much that you wouldn’t mind a white label version of your own, “Infinite Dendrogram” is an alternative to consider.
- Synopsis: Reiji enters a captivating VRMMO that is more realistic than I thought. Luckily, his older brother Shu is there to teach him..
- Where to see: On Crunchyroll (but not available in Spain)
Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear
And yes, I had to end up returning once again to highlight one of the most absurd qualities of “Shangri-La Frontier.” Because, when you look at Sunraku, and especially when you see the beginning of the anime and see its enthusiastic protagonist with a character creator full of possibilities, what draws your attention the most is the combination of the bird’s head with the ‘look‘ half-naked. Well, “Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear” is about a player who receives a bear suit that offers you some beastly buffos in the game, to the point that it causes her to become known as ‘The Bloody Bear’. There are no more words, your honor.
- Synopsis: Yuna is not the typical quinceañera. Her life is practically perfect, until one day she wakes up inside the game she loves and at level 1.
- Where to see: On Crunchyroll.
Speaking with my hand on my chest, most of the anime on the list cannot be considered the best that you are going to find in the industry. However, they are probably those who best respond to the similarities with “Shangri-La Frontier”. Because yes, one could obviously recommend “Sword Art Online”, “Log Horizon” and such for the theme of immersive reality, but they are not quite the same. In any case, what I said: I hope you like these proposals if you are loving “Shangri-La Frontier”.
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