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Liar Game

Liar Game
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The first tankōbon of Liar Game as published by Shueisha featuring Nao Kanzaki (center) and Shinichi Akiyama (right) on the cover.
ライアーゲーム
(Raiā Gēmu)
Genre Drama, Psychological thriller, Gambling, Mystery
Manga
Written by Shinobu Kaitani
Published by Shueisha
Demographic Seinen
Magazine Weekly Young Jump
Original run 20052015
Volumes 19 (List of volumes)
Television drama
Liar Game
Directed by Hiroaki Matsuyama, Ayako Taiboku
Music by Yasutaka Nakata
Original network Fuji TV
Original run April 14, 2007June 23, 2007
Episodes 11
Television drama
Liar Game: Season 2
Directed by Hiroaki Matsuyama, Ayako Taiboku
Music by Yasutaka Nakata
Original network Fuji TV
Original run November 10, 2009January 19, 2010
Episodes 9
Live-action film
Liar Game: The Final Stage
Directed by Hiroaki Matsuyama
Music by Yasutaka Nakata
Licensed by Pony Canyon
Released March 6, 2010 (2010-03-06)
Runtime 133 minutes
Live-action film
Liar Game: Reborn
Music by Yasutaka Nakata
Released March 3, 2012 (2012-03-03)
Runtime 131 minutes
Television drama
Liar Game
Directed by Kim Hing-sun
Written by Ryu Yong-jae
Original network tvN
Original run October 20, 2014November 25, 2014
Episodes 12
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The Liar Game (Japanese: ライアーゲーム Hepburn: Raiā Gēmu?) is a Japanese manga series originally written and illustrated by Shinobu Kaitani. The manga was first serialized in 2005 in the Japanese manga magazine Weekly Young Jump, published by Shueisha. It was adapted into a TV series, which started airing on April 14, 2007 on Fuji TV, achieving an 11.4 viewership rating in Japan's Kantō region. A sequel, Liar Game: Season 2, ran from 2009 to 2010. It was also adapted into two live action films: Liar Game: The Final Stage in 2010, and Liar Game: Reborn in 2012.

The manga has also been translated into Chinese and into Dutch. In Italy the series is licensed by J-Pop and in France it is licensed by TONKAM.

At the start of the manga, a scrupulously honest college student named Nao Kanzaki receives a package containing 100 million yen (about 1 million USD) 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.


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