ShangriLa Frontier is The Perfect New Manga to Get Gamers Into Comics

Shangri-La Frontier is The Perfect New Manga to Get Gamers Into Comics

Shangri-La Frontier pierces the wall between comics and video games with a gritty tale about when an expert player of “trash” games goes mainstream.

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ShangriLa Frontier is The Perfect New Manga to Get Gamers Into Comics

Kodansha USA’s new manga series Shangri-La Frontier delves into the long, if quiet, history of association between comic books and video games through the story of high schooler and serious gamer Rakuro Hizutome. This connection between the two pastimes makes it the perfect entry point for gamers looking to get into manga.

Hizutome loves the video games people love to hate. He is what is known as a “trash game hunter” or an expert gamer who focuses his time on playing glitched, and unfinished games or those that are still in beta release. While most gamers avoid these games at all costs, Hizutome relishes playing and winning them, especially since to be successful means not just overcoming other players, who are as passionate about playing trash games as he is, but also beating the considerable and endemic problems with the game itself. Despite these difficulties, Hizutome has become one of the best in the trash game niche.

Playing trash games is hard work, so Hizutome decides to “relax” by playing the mainstream virtual reality game Shangri-La Frontier which has a Call of Duty level of fan worship. Hizutome believes that the skills he learned mastering trash games will make for easy playing in a game where most participants are casual players. However, when he finds out how difficult the game turns out to be, his gaming experience is turned on its head, with some of the effects seeping through into his non-gamer life.

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There is much in the manga that professional and hard-core gamers will immediately be able to relate to and recognize. There’s the unforgiving need at the beginning of a game to spend countless hours mind-numbingly “leveling up” one’s powers and abilities in order to be able to play with any degree of effectiveness.There’s also the exasperation of playing with novice or casual players whose lack of dedication and irreverence often results in mistakes that cost the expert player.

Indeed, for gamers of a certain level of experience and breadth of gameplay, they may even be able to pick out actual references in the manga to games they have played. Gamers will also recognize the camaraderie and closeness that develops between players who often play together online but have never met in real life. Perhaps most obviously, they will recognize the basic irony of gaming, namely that no matter how skillful a gamer may become, the ultimate power in the video game resides with the people and organizations that make the game.

Beyond all the links and references to hard-core gaming, Shangri-La Frontier is also a really good manga. It has the quirky characters, eye-watering martial arts action, iconic artwork, and the compelling storylines that all great manga exhibit. Having gaming experience is not necessary to enjoy it, though some experience would certainly improve its entertainment value. Whether you are a gamer or a manga fan, there is something for everyone in Kodansha USA’s Shangri-La Frontier.

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