In an interview at Japan Expo , the creators of Shangri-La Frontier , author Katarina and illustrator Ryosuke Fuji , spoke about various topics in the creation of their work. In the meantime, they also revealed what the process of merging the real world with the game in the story was like.
Shangri-La Frontier – Creators talk about the complexity of its story
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Originally, the interview took place in Paris, but later arrived in Brazil via Crunchyroll . Then the creators are asked how the idea of bringing the real world into the game affected their creative process.
Katarina : Each character hides something, and this is a big difficulty. The simplest of all is my character, Sunraku, because he plays for fun and that's all. For example, the heroine Rei Saiga is quite shy in real life, but she is very strong in video games, and she does this to get closer to Sunraku because she has feelings for him. And that's also the case for the people behind the company that develops Shanfro, they have some pretty complicated ideas in their manga. So I try to have different characters and do different things in both worlds.
Fuji : I separated real life [in the manga] from the Shanfro video game world. For example, in the video game, try not to use too much black and don't fill in the boxes and drawings in black to save it for the monsters. And in the daily life parts of the manga, I use black more often. It's my way of differentiating the two worlds.
Synopsis:
Rakurou Hizutome, a second year high school student, is only interested in one thing: finding “shitty games” and beating them. His playing skills are unparalleled, and no game is that bad for him. So when he's introduced to the new VR game Shangri-La Frontier, he does what he does best: max out and skip the prologue to jump straight into the action. But will even a skilled player like Rakurou be able to discover all the secrets the game hides?
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Source: Crunchyroll
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