King's Game The Animation


King's Game The Animation is a Japanese anime television series adaptation of the Ōsama Game cell phone novel and the sequel, Ōsama Game: Extreme. It is animated by Seven.

Plot

The students in Class 2-1 of Kure Academy receive cellphone messages from a person known only as the "King". The messages contain orders that the students must obey, lest they be punished with gruesome deaths. As part of the deadly "King's Game", the orders become more and more extreme as time goes on. One student, Nobuaki Kanazawa, having survived a previous game, is determined to put a stop to the carnage befalling his class.

Characters

Main characters

;Nobuaki Kanazawa
;Ryou Sugisawa
;Natsuko Honda
;Chiemi Honda
;Naoya Hashimoto
;Ria Iwamura
;Riona Matsumoto
;Kenta Akamatsu
;Mitsuki Yukimura
;Teruaki Nagata

Other characters

;Nami Hirano
;Daisuke Tasaki
;Shouta Yahiro
;Misaki Nakajima
;Yousuke Ueda
;Kaori Maruoka
;Emi Miyazaki
;Kana Ueda
;Satomi Ishii
;Hideki Toyoda
;Yuusuke Kawakami
;Minako Nakao
;Mami Shirokawa
;Masami Matsumoto
;Chia Kawano
;Hiroko Yamaguchi
;Keita Yamashita
;Hirofumi Inoue
;Fujioka Toshiyuki
;Abe Owata
;Akira Oono
;Shingo Adachi
;Akemi Kinoshita
;Aimi Murazumi
;Yuuna Kobayashi
;Haruka Momoki
;Aya Kuramoto
;Nanami Takumi
;Aya Matsuoka
;Rina Minami
;Tsubasa Furusawa
;Masatoshi Ooi
;Takuya Sakamoto
;Yuuichi Satou
;Toshifumi Sakakibara
;Tatsuya Jinba
;Daiki Kurosawa
;Shin Takada

Media

Anime

On August 1, 2017, an anime television series adaptation by Seven was announced. It aired from October 5 to December 21, 2017. The series is directed by Tokihiro Sasaki and Kenji Konuta is in charge of series composition. Kan Soramoto and Yōsuke Itō are the character designers, and Soramoto is also credited as the chief animation director. The opening theme is "Feed the Fire" by Coldrain and the ending theme is "Lost Paradise" by Pile. It ran for 12 episodes. Crunchyroll streamed the series while Funimation have licensed the series and streamed an English dub. Anime Limited have licensed the series for a UK release.