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シャングリラ・フロンティア [Shangri-La Frontier] #4
Shangri-La Frontier 4
As Sunraku and Cazzo grind levels like crazy to prepare for taking on in-game "Colossus" Wezaemon the Tombguard, Pencilgon introduces them to Setsuna. She tells them about her and Wezaemon's regrets, and the vestiges of the game's age of Divinity…and after promising to help her, the party sets off to take down the boss! Can they be the first to defeat one of the Seven Colossi and achieve a feat nobody in Shangri-La Online's accomplished before?!
191 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 17, 2021
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July 25, 2025
The farther I get into this manga the more hooked I become and the more I remember how much I truly enjoyed the anime. Wethermon is genuinely one of the coolest conceptual boss fights and the entire arc is incredible and even though this volume doesn’t see its end, I was amazed to see how far in they got considering I feel like this was half of the first seasons plot which I guess shows how much people love to stretch content out for views and money. But with the incredible artwork and the books actual pacing, I’m here and still all in. Also I seem to hear a lot about people judging the book and anime from jumping games from time to time like in this one and honestly I think it’s a brilliant way to break up heavy or long running arcs and it makes me feel like sunraku is a real guy and makes me invested in him and not just his bird man character. 4.25/5
April 23, 2022
Ce tome était sympa, mais pas suffisamment captivant pour que ça me donne envie de continuer la série. Je vais m'arrêter là malgré le petit cliffhanger de fin...
June 22, 2025
This is still a fun series, but the anime is still way better since it can actually emulate what's in the story infinitely better than hand-drawn artwork.
I still like the artwork, of course, it's just that it will always lack that certain core feature, like how Jem and the Holograms will never capture the musical element that defines it.
This time, I specifically deducted a star because Sunraku veers off into Berserk Online Passion (BOP), and while I get that Shangri-La Frontier shouldn't HAVE to be the only game featured JUST because it's the title, I sort of lose interest when he goes off and plays other games. I know from having seen the entire anime released to date that this is actually "important" as far as meeting different characters, but tell my emotions that and see how far my eyes roll at the diversion. Like, too long time expenditure for the plot-related payoff.
(I tolerate this a little more in the anime since all the different games are animated so well, but I do get impatient even then.)
The bulk of the story in this volume is where they begin the fight with Weathermon the Tombguard, which felt like a VERY LONG FIGHT in the anime, since they animated a very lot of what got cut for length in manga format—I imagine the artist(s?)/editor didn't enjoy dragging the fight sequences out in Dragon Ball Z fashion, preferring the plot as much as I do.
The raid on Asura Kai also seemed laughably short... was it that short in the anime? It's been a while since what happened in this volume, though, so I can't remember. That might've been what made the anime so good, padding out the parts that are cooler when padded out.
Definitely a recommended read for fans, though newcomers—even gamer newcomers—might be just a *bit* lost.
Edit to add: I forgot about one of the intermission pages, with filler about how their labour is all taken care of by robots. This... leaves out the real-world impact upon their society, which SEEMS like it would free up everybody to do more fulfilling jobs, or at least ones that require a "human" touch (e.g., caretaking), but it leaves out that this takes jobs AWAY from people who can't perform those kinds of roles. A lot of people, frankly, aren't able to do things OTHER than simple labour, and companies aren't always interested in training these people to do the non-labour jobs that can't be automated.
Do they have some kind of universal basic income that negates the need for people to have jobs or suffer homelessness? Maybe. Is their Japan a little more advanced than ours? Maybe. Is their Japan more advanced than, say, America? No doubt—the latter seems determined to NEVER let anyone who can't work through no fault of their own EVER just peacefully exist.
Sorry, those one or two throwaway flavour text sentences just set something off in me for no reason. Ugh. It was just supposed to be a bit of worldbuilding, to explain why Sunraku's middle-school sister has a job, and yet... UGHHHHHHH. I mean, it's counter-intuitive, for one thing. If the labour jobs have been removed by being handled by robots, how does that create a *shortage* of workers for non-labour jobs such that the working age is lowered to allow middle-schoolers to work?
One of those poorly-thought-out things that would've been better off left out.
I still like the artwork, of course, it's just that it will always lack that certain core feature, like how Jem and the Holograms will never capture the musical element that defines it.
This time, I specifically deducted a star because Sunraku veers off into Berserk Online Passion (BOP), and while I get that Shangri-La Frontier shouldn't HAVE to be the only game featured JUST because it's the title, I sort of lose interest when he goes off and plays other games. I know from having seen the entire anime released to date that this is actually "important" as far as meeting different characters, but tell my emotions that and see how far my eyes roll at the diversion. Like, too long time expenditure for the plot-related payoff.
(I tolerate this a little more in the anime since all the different games are animated so well, but I do get impatient even then.)
The bulk of the story in this volume is where they begin the fight with Weathermon the Tombguard, which felt like a VERY LONG FIGHT in the anime, since they animated a very lot of what got cut for length in manga format—I imagine the artist(s?)/editor didn't enjoy dragging the fight sequences out in Dragon Ball Z fashion, preferring the plot as much as I do.
The raid on Asura Kai also seemed laughably short... was it that short in the anime? It's been a while since what happened in this volume, though, so I can't remember. That might've been what made the anime so good, padding out the parts that are cooler when padded out.
Definitely a recommended read for fans, though newcomers—even gamer newcomers—might be just a *bit* lost.
Edit to add: I forgot about one of the intermission pages, with filler about how their labour is all taken care of by robots. This... leaves out the real-world impact upon their society, which SEEMS like it would free up everybody to do more fulfilling jobs, or at least ones that require a "human" touch (e.g., caretaking), but it leaves out that this takes jobs AWAY from people who can't perform those kinds of roles. A lot of people, frankly, aren't able to do things OTHER than simple labour, and companies aren't always interested in training these people to do the non-labour jobs that can't be automated.
Do they have some kind of universal basic income that negates the need for people to have jobs or suffer homelessness? Maybe. Is their Japan a little more advanced than ours? Maybe. Is their Japan more advanced than, say, America? No doubt—the latter seems determined to NEVER let anyone who can't work through no fault of their own EVER just peacefully exist.
Sorry, those one or two throwaway flavour text sentences just set something off in me for no reason. Ugh. It was just supposed to be a bit of worldbuilding, to explain why Sunraku's middle-school sister has a job, and yet... UGHHHHHHH. I mean, it's counter-intuitive, for one thing. If the labour jobs have been removed by being handled by robots, how does that create a *shortage* of workers for non-labour jobs such that the working age is lowered to allow middle-schoolers to work?
One of those poorly-thought-out things that would've been better off left out.
January 22, 2023
L'avevo un po' tralasciato e non se lo merita proprio.
Ammetto che mi sembra di avere novant'anni ogni volta che leggo questo fumetto. C'è tutto un vocabolario nuovo che mi irrita la orecchie. E anche il mondo del videogioco non è proprio facile da capire per chi come me ha giocato solo a due Far Cry e a due Assassin's Creed.
Però i protagonisti mi stanno simpatici e la storia si fa leggere. Certo, in questo volume c'è praticamente un solo, lunghissimo, combattimento e non sono mai stata una fan dei combattimenti. Però continuo a essere curiosa.
Ammetto che mi sembra di avere novant'anni ogni volta che leggo questo fumetto. C'è tutto un vocabolario nuovo che mi irrita la orecchie. E anche il mondo del videogioco non è proprio facile da capire per chi come me ha giocato solo a due Far Cry e a due Assassin's Creed.
Però i protagonisti mi stanno simpatici e la storia si fa leggere. Certo, in questo volume c'è praticamente un solo, lunghissimo, combattimento e non sono mai stata una fan dei combattimenti. Però continuo a essere curiosa.
March 9, 2023
Empezamos una batalla de verdad. Wezermon, el guardian de la tumba, plantea por primera vez un reto a nuestros jugadores. Con un equipo de tres miembros y muchos items para salvar la situación, la batalla está reñida. Y es Wezermon es un monstruo único, hay 7 en todo el juego, y no será fácil vencerlo.
El dibujo y el final del tomo han estado increíbles como va siendo habitual!
El dibujo y el final del tomo han estado increíbles como va siendo habitual!
April 14, 2025
The orignal author, from the source material web novel, actually built at least four gaming worlds for this story with their own backstory and gaming mechanics. There are more games incoming as well. The manga author, who adapts the source material, is proving to be up to the task of visualizing all this various worlds.
November 20, 2022
Un peu plus de peps dans ce tome avec le premier combat de groupe. J'ai toujours autant envie de lire la suite.
September 10, 2023
Très beau découpage des combats dans ce tome.
April 9, 2024
Honestly hadn’t expected to find a “watch other people play an MMO” story this fun, but I’m definitely engaged.
October 7, 2024
Adolescenziale.
October 31, 2024
Really good book I can’t wait to see how this fight ends
March 17, 2025
As enjoyable as the anime
April 25, 2025
pelea con todo contra Wezeamon.... aunque está entretenida la batalla, me decantó por la animación esta ocasión.
pero eso no le quita la emoción al leerlo.
pero eso no le quita la emoción al leerlo.
November 25, 2025
Shangri-La Frontier
Volume#04
Chapters: #26 - #35
Wezaemon
The Backstory
Setsuna Story
More Preperation
Volume#04
Chapters: #26 - #35
Wezaemon
The Backstory
Setsuna Story
More Preperation
January 24, 2026
Arthur selling out Asura Kai is such a boss move, this is why she is my favourite.
August 5, 2023
4.25/5
Volume 4 of 'Shangri-La Frontier' digs into one of the big bosses in the game. We get to see some great work from Sunraku as he tries to level up to take on Wezaemon. A good portion of the volume is the fight itself and leaves off on quite the cliffhanger. Excited to see what happens next.
Volume 4 of 'Shangri-La Frontier' digs into one of the big bosses in the game. We get to see some great work from Sunraku as he tries to level up to take on Wezaemon. A good portion of the volume is the fight itself and leaves off on quite the cliffhanger. Excited to see what happens next.
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