Liar Game Anime Unveils Trailer, Theme Songs
The Liar Game anime adaptation revealed a new key visual, trailer, the theme songs, and an April 7 premiere date. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime outside of Japan and China, with AMEDIATEKA, which is handling the Russian Federation distribution.
Yorushika is performing the opening theme song, titled "Bubble." Lucky Kilimanjaro is performing “Asahi,” the ending theme song. The staff includes:
- Chief Director: Yuzo Sato
- Director: Asami Kawano
- Series Composition / Screenwriter: Tatsuhiko Urahata
- Character Designer: Kei Tsuchiya
- Sound Director: Kisuke Koizumi
- Music: Yugo Kanno
The cast includes:
- Saya Hitomi as Nao Kanzaki
- Takeo Otsuka as Shinichi Akiyama
- Kazuhiro Nakaya as Leronira
- Nobuo Tobita as Kazuo Fujisawa
- Yoji Ueda as Mitsuo Tanimura
- Yasutaka Tomioka as Teruyuki Eda
- Shoya Ishige as Takahiro Kikuzawa
- Ryosuke Asano as Hiroto Kitamura
- Taro Kiuchi as Tetsuzo Sato
- Riko Akechi as Makiko Tamura
- Toshinari Fukamachi as Daisuke Danno
- Naoya Miyase as Kosuke Tsunoda
- Misuzu Yamada as Reina Nishihara
- Taihi Kimura as Shingo Fujita
- Misano Sakai as Jun Hosoe
- Aya Gomazuru as Yuki Makihara
- Ryo Nishizawa as Fumio Matsubara
- Taku Yashiro as Takayoshi Miura
- You Daichi as Hitomi Miyahara
Liar Game manga has been serialized in the Weekly Young Jump from 2005 to 2015. It has been compiled into 19 volumes. The manga has been adapted into a J-drama, a two-part live-action movie, and a South Korean drama. Anime Planet describes the plot as:
"Congratulations! You are 1 of 100,000 people who have been entered in the amazing Liar Game tournament!" For Nao Kanzaki, an overly-naïve student, receiving this message in the mail was only the beginning of an unending financial and psychological nightmare. Winning the game means riches beyond one’s wildest dreams, while failure means crushing debt. And with no choice but to play the game, Nao quickly turns to Shinichi, a well-known swindler, for help. However, little do the two know just how far the Liar Game goes. Who will win, and who will lose it all?
Source: Press Release
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