Shangri-La Frontier
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| Well, even though the place Senraku ended up being in this episode is virtual, it was still a dangerous place. The look of that enchanting forest contained dangerous creatures. He fought like an RPG adventurer would and continously leveling up his stats. Senraku is practically the poster child of a RPG protagonist at this point in the show. |
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| 3:28 此岸 (shigan lit. "this beach") is a Buddhist word meaning "this world". I'm actually so happy he accepted the friend request. Was getting kinda frustrated with Psyger-0 not being able to talk with him ngl. Really enjoyed the second half too. I just hope he crafts something with the loot he gathered (or I guess it's only possible in special places in this game). Watch the scene after credits too! |
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| Aw. Rei went for it and sent our boy a friend request, and he actually accepted. Despite his suspicion of her 4D chess game, it's still a win, right? The color commentary provided by Rakuro and Emul added a humorous touch |
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| Well well well back to the grinding matter again for the birdman i guess. Glad that they already reach the area boss so they can speeding up a bit to the progress. Yes, progress, Psyger. Congrats for that. Just like Psyger, Pencilgon guild also owned by the family, huh? Hmmm Pencilgon trying to fight those unique monster alone. Idk whose that graveyard was, but seems important to our pretty evil model there. Tho perhaps we need like one or two more episode again before finally the trio of the kusoge hunter decided to create a party and do the chaos over Shanfro world. Let's just see the next then... |
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| have i mentioned that this is one of the best OP of this season if not the year? cool farming episode and finally some progress on the romance(?) with the friend request. lol RIP mantis-kun what terrible luck. |
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| Ah the feeling of arriving just in time to damage a boss and get the loot you needed.. Loved the commentary and Sunraku's enjoyment of the new area! |
| Second half of this ep might as well have been narrated by David Attenborough |
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| Surprised that the forest isn't full with players already, I'd keep coming back to that place just to enjoy the ambience and the music if that's an option. |
| Psyger-0 finally managed to become friends with Sunraku, good job girl. Now just gotta confess. We got to know about Pencilgon irl and she's a beauty with a few screw loose when she plays games. She's planning to clear one of the seven unique monsters. Hyped for the next arc. |
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| she's geeking over an accepted friend request, can't say that's completely unrelatable. |
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| Even Ashura Kai is sensing that Sunraku and Emul will lead them to new ventures, only the few like Sunraku's fellow PK-er friend Arthur Pencilgon would continue to risk her life hunting down them both. Sunraku hiding in his ghost armour along with Emul, running away from Psyger-0, which leads to other players looking for him looking to trap him, he's internationally running to the weong gate in order to then run back to the correct one heading to the Prismatic Forest Grotto...which Psyger-0 also follows, wanting to make a friend request out of him, which he did and Rei is definitely excited about that being a total guess. Of course, both Sunraku and Emul left thereafter, but for Psyger-0, only Emul raises her suspicions, and effectively helped to cover Sunraku's tracks. Onto the Prismatic Forest Grotto, it's a beautiful forest dungeon with normal monsters, loot items and the usual area boss. But the Quad Beetle fighting against Empire Bees for their honey, Sunraku and Emul's colour commentary is rather appealing...that the Quad Beetle came after them when it spotted them. And sure enough, the loot item of the Empire Bee's nectar proved critical, as well as its damage already done by the Empire Bees for Sunraku to defeat it and earn its loot. The area boss, the Clown Spider, is the next target. |
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| Wait, so Pencilgon is actually a celebrity model that in-game behaves like a murder machine? They left that information in the mini theatre? Weird choice. |
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| Good for Rei to finally make some kind of progress with a friend request being accepted by Hizutome.... well sort of at least. Episode was just kind of there. Not the worst but not great. |
| No opening thrash game explanation and shorter(but useful) SLF theater, made for a nicer length of episode, with good ending point. |
| Pencilgon's real identity was blatantly obvious since the first episode. I mean they deliberately had her face on that magazine cover which we saw in the dude's room lying on the floor. Anyways, good on that girl she managed to place a conversation with him I guess? Though surprised it just took 9 episodes and not the whole damn season. |
| For a guy that allegedly has spent hundreds of hours on other shitty games and has already made friends or at least aquaintances, Sunraku is a complete moron. Why would his first thought on Psyger-0 would be that she's seeking revenge for being used as a trampoline when she jumped in to help out against the PK players? This contrived writing just for the sake of keeping her as a doormat stalker is plain stupid and obnoxious. Meh, it's already bad that the mini theatre already hogs time, to the point that we need yet another stupid gag segment with Sunraku acting as a game caster on the Kabuto and bees fight. Last but not least, how the heck does a model like Pencil-goon get the time to play hundreds of hours in a videogame (or even several viedeogames), when real models have very little time for their own hobbies between photoshootings, make up, routine exercise, commuting and social interactions to attract more paying clients? |
KimurahNov 26, 2023 6:02 PM
Reply to rasterman7
Wait, so Pencilgon is actually a celebrity model that in-game behaves like a murder machine? They left that information in the mini theatre? Weird choice.
| @rasterman7 I mean it's not like her real life identity is that big deal, in game that is not full of P2W everyone is equal regardless of what 5heybdo once they close game Also we did see her on magazine cover in episode 1 or 2 already so it's not like it's completely new information. |
Reply to Tenzen12
@rasterman7 I mean it's not like her real life identity is that big deal, in game that is not full of P2W everyone is equal regardless of what 5heybdo once they close game
Also we did see her on magazine cover in episode 1 or 2 already so it's not like it's completely new information.
Also we did see her on magazine cover in episode 1 or 2 already so it's not like it's completely new information.
| @Tenzen12 True, but it wasn't cut and clear yet that they were the same person. That information is probably not going to come into play but it still feel pretty odd to have it there. |
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Just perfection <3. There's something that really catches my attention about Pencilgon; she has a peculiar personality that attracts me. In fact, today we were able to see her double identity. Indeed, it's what I suspected from the first episode. I don't know if you remember, but there was a magazine in the first episode that pointed out something important about the story; now everything fits together!! I love that they keep dropping story easter eggs every so often. |
kitohaNov 26, 2023 2:14 PM
| great episode the animation is really good i laughed a lot... |
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| Another awesome episode! Finally get a proper, albeit extremely awkward conversation between psyger 0 and sunraku. Glad he apologised for using her as a stepping stool a few weeks ago lol. Guess in a game world like this with so many PKs you do always have to be cautious about random people coming up to you. Pretty chill episode outside of that, of course the blue beetle fight was well animated Speaking of PKers, we finally get info about Pencilgon! So she’s a model by day and a player killer by night. Surprised they didn’t reveal that during the main episode instead of a post credits scene. Need more of her in this show 🙏🏾 |
Marinate1016Nov 26, 2023 10:14 AM
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| Buying throwing knives for those rare edge case scenarios where your melee-focused build really needs a ranged option? And using them to draw aggro from distant mobs? This writer really gets it. He just like me fr. The commentary sequence was comedy gold. Love the reaction faces this anime produces. |
| I agree with Sunraku seeing a new biome is always exciting. Also good for knight girl she finally worked up courage to talk and send him a friend request. Next episode we're getting a boss fight hope its a good one. Love how Pencilton was hot in real life. |
| Love the animation in this episode, the new forest-area was gorgeous. |
| My heart could barely take seeing Psyger-0 dance out of happiness. Wish they started to travel in a party together. |
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Me after seeing that spider: Ps: they changed the poster to a less cool one, they did this with Overtake, Mokushiroku no Yonkishi and now with Shangri-La Frontier too.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ |
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| Aside from more idiotic localizations ("suss out" are you kidding me?) It was a pretty decent episode |
| killing that quad beetle was a cinch for him since he made the emperor bees do all the work for him lol too bad he let the beetle kill the queen bee, unless he already got the queen bee drop... |
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| So funny seeing Psyger-0 acting like the love-struck school girl she is in IRL when her avatar looks more like Alphonse Elric. Glad she was able to at least get on Sunraku’s “friend” list, though he proves to be the typical male protagonist, managing to overthink things while still be totally clueless about her true intentions Sunraku is truly a master of disguise, at one point pretending to be laundry hung out to dry while in his “ghost” armor. And Pencilgon just proves that the sexiest girls are the ones that are at least a little crazy. |
OhayotakuNov 26, 2023 8:54 PM
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| Three lies is the key to victory. Show your vorpal soul Sunraku! |
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Reply to Jonas-K
Me after seeing that spider:
Ps: they changed the poster to a less cool one, they did this with Overtake, Mokushiroku no Yonkishi and now with Shangri-La Frontier too.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ps: they changed the poster to a less cool one, they did this with Overtake, Mokushiroku no Yonkishi and now with Shangri-La Frontier too.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
| @Jonas-K Thats because its the title card. Of the second half of the season's cour. Ie episodes 12-24~. Unfortunate. As I liked the other one better too. But, its for accuracy I guess. Can't fault MAL for that. 🤷♀️ |
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Reply to waldy713
@Jonas-K Thats because its the title card. Of the second half of the season's cour.
Ie episodes 12-24~.
Unfortunate. As I liked the other one better too. But, its for accuracy I guess. Can't fault MAL for that. 🤷♀️
Ie episodes 12-24~.
Unfortunate. As I liked the other one better too. But, its for accuracy I guess. Can't fault MAL for that. 🤷♀️
| @waldy713 Based on MAL's habits, they'll change it back to the previous visual later. These mid-season visuals are a nice little change of pace but they never end up being permanent replacements. |
| Hot model by day and hardcore gamer/griefer by night. Pencilgon's character just got even better. |
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Reply to BetaMaleUltra
Hot model by day and hardcore gamer/griefer by night. Pencilgon's character just got even better.
| @BetaMaleUltra What we really need is for the crew to meet up IRL. Then have the pro gamer friend, Senraku, and Pencilgon. Go on a shopping trip or some typical sol insert. With Psyger-0 along for the second hand embarrassment feelz. That would make for peak gaming time. |
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| Finally She made a progress by sending a friend request and accepted XD |
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| I thought this episode was pretty funny with the way Sunraku used his ghost costume to hide along other hanging clothes to the commentary that he provided (too bad Emul was bad at color commentating though lol). Another funny part was the misunderstanding between Sunraku and Psyger-0 although I don't blame Sunraku since he has no idea who Psyger-0 really is. There was a bit of action which was entertaining and I'm curious how the next boss fight will go. |
| The stalker girl finally befriended her prey in the virtual world... lmao |
| It's not that I dislike this genre but... to add unnecessary fan services to/in/for heroines and ultimately destroys her character and personality; their purity tarnished because of it, is the only thing I hope to not happen to them. For that sole purity is my fan service. |
| I can't stop laughing with Psyger-0 dancing so cute with that menacing armor LMAO Of course Pencilgon is that model. The hint from the first episode? |
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| Practically a farming episode for this week. It was kinda cool, I guess. Also nice to see Rei finally making some progress with her crush. |
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