The game continues in another season.
Following the 26th episode of the first season of Liar Game, the production team has confirmed the series will have a second season. To celebrate the announcement, character designer Kei Tsuchiya dropped an illustration featuring the characters flashing peace signs for Season 2. A premiere date was not announced at the time of this article’s writing
Madhouse animated and produced the adaptation with Asami Kawano directing with Yuzo Sato as the chief director. Tatsuhiko Urahata wrote the series script with Kei Tsuchiya designing the characters and Kisuke Koizumi as the sound director. Yugo Kanno composed the soundtrack. yorushika performed the opening theme song “Bubble” with Lucky Kilimanjaro taking the ending theme song “Asahi.”
Portraying the painfully naive protagonist Nao Kanzaki is Saya Hitomi. Opposite her is the ex-convict and conman Shinichi Akiyama who will be voiced by Takeo Otsuka. Nobuo Tobita will voice Kazuo Fujisawa, Nao’s former teacher and her first opponent. Yoji Ueda voices Leronira, one of the masked hosts of Liar Game.
Written and illustrated by Shinobu Kaitani, Liar Game ran from February 2005 to January 2015 in Weekly Young Jump. A short story, Liar Game: Roots of A was released in July 2008 with another series called Liar Game: The Last Game serializing in February 2025 in Grand Jump Mucha.
Liar Game has enjoyed various adaptations, all of which are live action. The first was a Japanese two-season television series that aired in 2007 and 2009. A film continuation called Liar Game: The Final Stage was released in 2010 with a sequel Liar Game: Reborn released two years after. A Korean adaptation was released in 2014.
Liar Game premiered on April 7 on Crunchyroll and ran for two cours. There is no official English translation for the manga.
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