Liar Game Anime Renewed For Second Season After First Ends
The renewal lands on the day the first season ends, with no broadcast window announced, so the free ABEMA and Niconico marathons are the near-term plan for keeping the series in front of viewers.
Key Facts
- The Liar Game television anime's second season was announced by the anime's official website and its official X account.
- Liar Game season 1 ran 26 episodes, premiering in Japan on TV Tokyo on April 6 and ending Monday.
- Kei Tsuchiya, the Liar Game anime character designer, drew a commemorative illustration for the second season announcement.
- All 26 episodes of Liar Game season 1 will stream free on ABEMA from 19:00 on October 10 and on Niconico Live Broadcasting from 19:00 on October 17.
- Shinobu Kaitani's Liar Game manga ran in Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump from 2005 to January 2015 and ended at 19 compiled volumes.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, Denfaminicogamer.
The television anime of Shinobu Kaitani's Liar Game manga is getting a second season, the show's official website announced. The first season's 26th and final episode aired Monday, and the anime ran six months without a break on TV Tokyo and its affiliates after an April 6 premiere. Character designer Kei Tsuchiya drew a commemorative illustration. The official X account released interviews with four cast members, including the voice of Nao Kanzaki. All 26 first-season episodes will stream free in marathon form on ABEMA from 19:00 on October 10 and on Niconico Live Broadcasting from 19:00 on October 17, where episodes will run in two blocks. Yuzo Sato was chief director at Madhouse, Asami Kawano directed, and Tatsuhiko Urahata handled series scripts. Crunchyroll streams the anime worldwide outside Japan and China, and AMEDIATEKA distributes it in Russia. Broadcast timing for the second season is not announced.
Kisuke Koizumi, whose credits include The Gene of AI, My Happy Marriage, and Ghost in the Shell Arise, was the sound director. Saya Hitomi voices Nao Kanzaki and is among the four cast members interviewed on the official X account.
The manga source ran in Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump from 2005 to January 2015, and Shueisha published the 19th and final compiled volume in May 2015. Kaitani started a new short serialization, Liar Game: The Last Game, in Grand Jump Mucha on February 25. The franchise has previously produced two live-action films, two live-action television series, two live-action online series, and a 2023 stage play. Kaitani's ONE OUTS manga became a television anime in 2008.
The free marathons have specific windows. ABEMA's Anime LIVE Channel 2 runs all 26 episodes from 19:00 on October 10 into the next 8:00, then again on October 11 from 8:00 to 21:00. Niconico splits the run: episodes 1 through 13 on October 17 from 19:00 to 24:40, and episodes 14 through 26 on October 18 in the same window.
Crunchyroll hosted the world premiere screening of the first two episodes at Sakura-Con in Seattle on April 5 PDT.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
Sources
- Anime News Network News Liar Game Anime Gets 2nd Season
- Denfaminicogamer TVアニメ『LIAR GAME -ライアーゲーム-』第2期が制作決定！お祝いイラスト＆キャスト陣へのインタビューが公開