A TV anime based on Shinobu Kaitani’s LIAR GAME manga series was announced by REMOW at Anime NYC on Saturday. The show produced by MADHOUSE is slated to premiere in 2026 with Yuzo Sato as chief director and Asami Kawano as the anime director. Tatsuhiko Urahata is the anime adaptation screenwriter and Kei Tsuchiya the character designer.
In addition, the LIAR GAME anime adaptation first teaser poster was also unveiled along with a teaser trailer. The manga has already inspired two live-action films, two live-action television series, and two live-action online series.
An uncommonly naive college student named Nao Kanzaki receives a package containing 100 million yen (about US$1 million) and a note that she is now a contestant in the Liar Game Tournament. In this fictional tournament, contestants are encouraged to cheat and lie to obtain other contestants’ money, with the losers forced to bear a debt proportional to their losses. When Nao’s first opponent, a trusted former teacher, steals her money, she seeks assistance from a con man named Shinichi Akiyama. Though they manage to defeat him, Nao and Akiyama decide to buy out his debt and advance through different rounds of the Liar Game Tournament against merciless contestants, while at the same time attempting to free their opponents from debt and defeat the Liar Game organization from within.
