Sunraku

Sunraku is the game avatar of Rakuro Hizutome and the protagonist of Shangri-La Frontier. A specialist in poorly designed games, he enters the acclaimed virtual-reality game Shangri-La Frontier seeking a new challenge in Shangri La Frontier.

Sunraku's central conflict and character growth

Sunraku is competitive, analytical, playful, and attracted to difficult mechanics rather than conventional completion. He relies on speed, precise timing, unusual builds, boss-pattern analysis, and experience surviving broken game systems.

Sunraku's powers, allies, and character growth

His relationships with Emul, Psyger-0, Arthur Pencilgon, and Oikatzo turn solo experimentation into a high-level team pursuit of unique monsters.