{"id":588344,"date":"2026-08-18T11:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T11:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/588344\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T11:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T11:14:21","slug":"liar-game-anime-adds-4-cast-members-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/588344\/","title":{"rendered":"Liar Game Anime Adds 4 Cast Members – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The official website for the television anime<\/a> of Shinobu Kaitani<\/a>‘s Liar Game<\/a> manga announced four new cast members for the anime on Tuesday. The new cast members are:<\/p>\n

Daisuke Namikawa<\/a> as Solario,\u00a0a dealer of the Liar Game Office. He oversees the next Revival Round held after Round 3 ends. He wears a mask with a sun design over the right eye.<\/p>\n

\"solario.png\"Image via Liar Game anime’s website<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a9 Kaitani Shinobu Products\/Shueisha, LIAR GAME Committee<\/p>\n

Y\u016bya Uchida<\/a> as Sho Kikuchi,\u00a0a participant in the Liar Game. He’s a bespectacled man.<\/p>\n

\"shokikuchi.png\"Image via Liar Game anime’s website<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a9 Kaitani Shinobu Products\/Shueisha, LIAR GAME Committee<\/p>\n

Hiroko Ushida<\/a> as Tadako Kosaka, a\u00a0participant in the Liar Game. She’s a strong-willed woman with long hair.<\/p>\n

\"tadakokosaka.png\"Image via Liar Game anime’s website<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a9 Kaitani Shinobu Products\/Shueisha, LIAR GAME Committee<\/p>\n

Minoru Shiraishi<\/a> as Yuichi Nishida, a\u00a0participant in the Liar Game. He’s a timid man wearing a tracksuit.<\/p>\n

\"yuichinishida.png\"Image via Liar Game anime’s website<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a9 Kaitani Shinobu Products\/Shueisha, LIAR GAME Committee<\/p>\n

\"Liar<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Kaitani Shinobu Products\/Shueisha, LIAR GAME Committee<\/p>\n

REMOW<\/a> introduces the series’ story:<\/p>\n

A Mysterious Invitation. One Hundred Million Yen. The Game Begins.<\/p>\n

College student Nao Kanzaki suddenly receives a strange letter and a suitcase containing 100 million yen. She’s been chosen to participate in the LIAR GAME\u2014a high-stakes psychological battle where lies, deception, and betrayal reign supreme. Na\u00efve and painfully honest, Nao quickly finds herself cornered. To survive, she turns to Shinichi Akiyama, a brilliant former con artist with unmatched intellect. As they dive deeper into the twisted game, the two must outwit opponents in a world where trusting others could be fatal. In a game built on lies, can honesty prevail?<\/p>\n

Y\u016bz\u014d Sat\u014d<\/a> (Kaiji -Ultimate Survivor-<\/a>, Akagi<\/a>, Trillion Game<\/a>, The Gene of AI<\/a>) is the chief director of the anime at Madhouse<\/a>, and Asami Kawano<\/a> (assistant director for The Vampire Dies in No Time<\/a> both seasons, episode director for Orb: On the Movements of the Earth<\/a>) is directing the anime. Tatsuhiko Urahata<\/a> (Baki<\/a>, Baki Hanma<\/a>, Monster, Muv-Luv Alternative<\/a>) is writing and overseeing the series scripts, Kei Tsuchiya<\/a> (Laidbackers<\/a>, Trillion Game, The Gene of AI) is the character designer, and Kisuke Koizumi<\/a> (The Gene of AI, My Happy Marriage<\/a>, Ghost in the Shell Arise<\/a>) is the sound director.<\/p>\n

The anime premiered<\/a> in Japan on TV Tokyo<\/a> and its affiliates on April 6 at 24:00 (effectively April 7 at 12:00 a.m.). The anime will run<\/a> for six months without breaks. The second part of the anime began on July 7. Crunchyroll<\/a> is streaming<\/a> the anime worldwide (excluding Japan and China) and hosted the world premiere screening of the anime’s first two episodes at this year’s Sakura-Con event in Seattle on April 5 at 1:00 p.m. PDT. AMEDIATEKA<\/a> is distributing the anime in the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n

The manga ran<\/a> from 2005 to January 2015 in Shueisha<\/a>‘s Weekly Young Jump<\/a> magazine. Shueisha published the manga’s 19th and final compiled book volume in May 2015. Kaitani launched<\/a> a new short serialization for the manga titled Liar Game: The Last Game in Shueisha’s Grand Jump Mucha<\/a> magazine on February 25.<\/p>\n

The manga previously inspired two<\/a> live-action films, two<\/a> live-action television series, and two live-action online series. The manga also inspired a stage play in 2023.<\/p>\n

Kaitani’s ONE OUTS<\/a> manga inspired a television anime in 2008.<\/p>\n

Source: Liar Game anime’s\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0via\u00a0Ota-Suke<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The official website for the television anime of Shinobu Kaitani‘s Liar Game manga announced four new cast members…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-588344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}