Liar Game

College student Nao Kanzaki has always adhered to her name's meaning: "foolishly honest." However, after opening an unsolicited package containing one hundred million yen, she inadvertently accepts an invitation for the "Liar Game." In this tournament, contestants are encouraged to betray and deceive their opponents to gain a massive amount of cash; conversely, losing will incur a lifetime debt. With all hopes lost, her only option left is to seek help from a con artist.

On that same day, the infamous swindler Shinichi Akiyama is finally released from jail. This former psychology student is known for single-handedly bankrupting an entire company, and Nao believes he is her only chance at escaping her dire situation. At first, Shinichi is hesitant to commit another crime, ignoring Nao and her request. But after seeing her desperation and persistence, he agrees to assist her.

In this fraudulent world, Nao and Shinichi have their own motives. Yet, soon they see the true nature of not only the game, but also everyone involved.

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Akiyama, Shinichi Main

Ootsuka, Takeo Japanese

Kanzaki, Nao Main

Hitomi, Saya Japanese

Miyahara, Hitomi Supporting

Taichi, You Japanese

Leronira Supporting

Nakaya, Kazuhiro Japanese

Fujisawa, Kazuo Supporting

Tobita, Nobuo Japanese

Satou, Tetsuzou Supporting

Kiuchi, Tarou Japanese

Tamura, Makiko Supporting

Akechi, Riko Japanese

Fujita, Shingo Supporting

Kimura, Taihi Japanese

Kitamura, Hiroto Supporting

Asano, Ryousuke Japanese

Takada, Michiko Supporting

Kurogi, Ayaka Japanese

Miura, Fumito Producer

Yoshida, Yuuki Producer

Mori, Ryousuke Producer

Katou, Takahiro Producer

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May 4, 2026

BAbY_HORLICKS6-7

Recommended

Preliminary (5/? eps)

I've been watching this anime since it's airing. I didn't know anything about the manga or anime. I just watched it's teaser on youtube and I was really hyped up for it.

I generally like psychological, mind games related anime which includes manipulation stuff. This is one of those anime which doesn't relies on gore for shock value. Liar game uses mathematics for it's every sequence. This is one of those anime which maximize logic to a level so you could use your brain for itself solving puzzle.

Tbh, Everything in this anime makes sense at it's best. However, people are so impatient and they've got rotten ... by overconsuming shonen that they have rated it so poorly. it's likely due to Liar game lack of shock value factor. It had a underrated start. I expect more anime lovers to watch this one, it's going to be better i hope so.


Madhouse is really good at animation; if you'll see they have incredibly improvised their animation per episode, you can actually compare it to episode 1. But generally I don't have any frustrating experience throughout whole anime. So in my case, animation wasn't a problem.

People were calling out Nao character for being a weakling and stupidity honest which is a trait of her character as a excuse to call it boring. Ongg! I can't believe how can you be so stupid. Have you heard of character progression before? Excuse me duh...


Majority of animefans are based on hype. You can call them hypelovers; they won't appreciate a good story if it hasnt any banger episode. i really liked the story of Liar game no matter what will you say.

It has it's own flaws which i won't neglect here as I seem to reviwing it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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May 5, 2026

sotosama

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (5/? eps)

I get the premise of the "she's too honest/ pure" but damn girl get a hint. Every episode (scrap that - multiple times in an episode) she hits us with the "Soo-na" ("That can't be") voiceline or keeps spamming her "Akiyama-san" joker card everytime something doesn't go according to the "plan". Exposes all the "upcoming plans" to anything and anyone, prematurely celebrates until someone hits the uno reverse card like brother it gets to a point.

I like the art direction, i enjoyed the first episode quite a bit but it's a downward spiral so far. Hope it picks up for the remainder of the ... season (I didn't read the manga).

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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May 11, 2026

BudderDucky

Not Recommended

Preliminary (6/? eps)

Nao Kanzaki is supposed to be "foolishly honest", but they instead just made her super gullible and trusting of everyone. People CAN be honest without being trusting of everyone around them, but not her apparently. She also doesn't seem to have a single thought on her own somehow. She follows around the other main character of the show Shinichi Akiyama and only serves to be a reaction bot.
"Akiyama what should we do?"
"Akiyama?"
"I should just trust Akiyama"
"OOOHHHH NOOO AKIYAMA WHAT WILL WE DO".
"WE DID IT AKIYAMA"

No Kanzaki. You did nothing but annoy me and anybody else who expected anything good from this show. Genuinely if ... she wasn't around the show would be considerably better. Unfortunately, that is not the universe we were blessed with. I have other issues with the plot (like the fact that it's very mid), but those aren't as important. The most notable issue is it feels like there will be multiple episodes where nothing happens and then we get to an episode of a "big reveal". They don't really do this reveal well though and the episodes leading up to it are pretty boring.

Just watch Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor. It's 10 times better and you won't have to deal with one of the most annoying main characters ever written.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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