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.
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ライアーゲーム (Raiā Gēmu) |
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| Genre | Drama, Psychological thriller, Gambling, Mystery |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Shinobu Kaitani |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Weekly Young Jump |
| Original run | 2005 – 2015 |
| Volumes | 19 |
| Television drama | |
| Liar Game | |
| Directed by | Hiroaki Matsuyama, Ayako Taiboku |
| Music by | Yasutaka Nakata |
| Original network | Fuji TV |
| Original run | April 14, 2007 – June 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, 2009 – January 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 |
| Runtime | 133 minutes |
| Live-action film | |
| Liar Game: Reborn | |
| Music by | Yasutaka Nakata |
| Released | March 3, 2012 |
| Runtime | 131 minutes |
| Television drama | |
| Liar Game | |
| Directed by | Kim Hing-sun |
| Written by | Ryu Yong-jae |
| Original network | tvN |
| Original run | October 20, 2014 – November 25, 2014 |
| Episodes | 12 |
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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