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Genre : Adventure/Fantasty

Katarina is the author of the Japanese online novel serial Shangri-La Frontier. In May 2017, it was serialized on the website Shōsetsuka ni Narō, which publishes novels. Since July 2020, Kodansha's shōnen manga publication Weekend Shōnen Magazine has published a manga adaptation with illustrations by Ryosuke Fuji. As of November 2024, the chapters have been collected in 20 tankōbon volumes. Rakuro Hizutome, a youngster who likes to play trash games—old, flawed video games that only belong to a specific demographic—is the subject of the series. Rakuro chooses to switch things up and play the highly regarded, best-selling virtual-world game Shangri-La Frontier, which has 30 million registered players, after mastering these games despite their challenges caused by bugs. 

From the month of October 2023 to March 2024, a C2C-produced anime television series adaption was shown. October 2024 saw the beginning of a second season. More than 10 million copies of the manga were in circulation by September 2024. In 2023, it took home the forty-seventh Kodansha Manga Awards in the shōnen division. The narrative takes place in the near future, when full-dive virtual reality games are now widespread and games that employ antiquated display displays are categorized as retro games. Due to the popularity of these games, there are a lot of trash games that are hurried, flawed, and contain systems that are not up to date with the latest graphic technology. 

Rakuro Hizutome, often known as Sunraku, is a trash games hunter who enjoys playing these typically embarrassing games until he masters them despite their difficulties because of bugs. Rakuro is experiencing a form of burnout syndrome after finishing the massive Faeria Chronicle Online trashing game. He purchases the top-rated and best-selling Shangri-La Frontier, i=which is a full-dive virtual reality game with thirty million people registered players, at the recommendation of the proprietor of his favorite gaming store, RockRoll. As his bird-masked playable character Sunraku, he enters the land of Shangri-La Frontier, where all of his acquired talents as a skilled garbage game hunter will be useful as he advances in the game.