Shangri-La Frontier Season 3 Sets January 10 Premiere with Two Consecutive Cours
A third two-cour block keeps Shangri-La Frontier on the same October-to-March rhythm the first two seasons used, so the franchise's anime output now depends on C2C holding a half-year production slot for a third straight cycle.
Key Facts
- Shangri-La Frontier Season 3 premieres on January 10, 2027 at 5:00 p.m. JST on MBS, TBS and 26 affiliated channels.
- Shangri-La Frontier Season 3 will run for two consecutive cours and will be streamed by Crunchyroll.
- Studio C2C returns for Shangri-La Frontier Season 3, with Toshiyuki Kubooka as chief director and Hiro Oki as director.
- Kazuyuki Fudeyasu returns for series composition and Ayumi Kurashima returns as character designer and chief animation director on Shangri-La Frontier Season 3.
- Netmarble Nexus is developing Shangri-La Frontier ~The Seven Colossi~, the franchise's first game, scheduled to launch this year.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, Anime Corner.
The official website for Shangri-La Frontier Season 3 posted a new key visual and confirmed the season begins January 10, 2027, running two continuous cours on MBS, TBS and 26 affiliated channels at 5:00 p.m. JST. The tagline on the visual reads "Konton ga Hazeru" (Chaos erupts), pointing at the Galaxia Heroes: Chaos material teased in an earlier trailer. Studio C2C returns to animate, with Toshiyuki Kubooka as chief director and Hiro Oki as director. Kazuyuki Fudeyasu returns for series composition, Ayumi Kurashima returns as character designer and chief animation director, and MONACA returns for music. The main cast reprises their roles, including Yuma Uchida as Sunraku, Azumi Waki as Psyger-0, Yoko Hikasa as Arthur Pencilgon, Makoto Koichi as Oicazzo, Rina Hidaka as Emul and Akio Otsuka as Vysache. Crunchyroll will stream the season. Both prior seasons also ran two consecutive cours, the first from October 2023 and the second from October 2024.
The key visual was posted alongside the premiere date and carries the tagline "Konton ga Hazeru," which the site renders as "Chaos erupts." That line points to the Galaxia Heroes: Chaos material shown in the season three trailer.
Naoki Kotani joins as assistant director, working under Kubooka and Oki. Riku Takizawa handles sub-character design. Monster design is split among Yoshihiro Nagamori, Hiroshi Arisawa and Naoya Sonoda, with Yūki Yokoyama on prop design, Satoshi Sakai as action effects director, and Takeshi Nishino, Kazunori Osawa, Rino Isago and Mitsuke Watanabe as action animation directors.
The larger production roster includes Masato Takagi and Sakiko Teguramori on color keys, Chiho Wada as art director over Yuki Shigekawa's art setting, Heartbeat on 3D CG with Kiyoshi Nishida as CG producer and Hiroyuki Kimura as CG director, Hikaru Yamaoku and Misako Ōtsu as compositing directors of photography, Azusa Tamura on 2D works, Kei Ishibashi on special effects, Gō Sadamatsu as editor, and Akiko Fujita as sound director.
The franchise's first game, Shangri-La Frontier ~Nanatsu No Saikyō-Shu~ (The Seven Colossi), is in development at Netmarble Nexus and was announced alongside the anime season right after the second season ended.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.