 It has been revealed on the Tuesday's release of this year's 16th issue of Futabasha's Manga Action magazine that Nobuaki Kanazawa's horror novel series Ousama Game (King's Game) will receive a TV anime adaptation. Titled as Ousama Game The Animation, the series will premiere in October 2017 on AT-X, Tokyo MX, and BS11. The official website and Twitter for the anime adaptation have been opened and announced the cast and staff members for the anime.Synopsis Nobuaki Kanazawa, who transferred to a high school far away, is afraid of getting intimate with his new classmates because of the events that happened from his previous school. This led him to shut his heart. However, he starts to open up during the sports festival's class relay. He and all his classmates received an email from "Ousama." At first, his classmates didn't take what they were told seriously, thinking it's just a joke, but Nobuaki, the only one who knows the real meaning of it, fights against the "death" game that will soon begin... The rules of the Ousama Game are as follows: 1. All class members must participate. 2. The order sent by Ousama thru email must be followed within 24 hours. 3. A punishment will be given to those who don't follow the order. 4. Quitting the Ousama Game halfway is forbidden. Cast Nobuaki Kanazawa: Mamoru Miyano (Ajin) Shingo Adachi: Shinya Hamazoe (Yume-iro Pâtissière) Toshiyuki Abe: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Shokugeki no Souma) Satomi Ishii: Miyuu Tsuji (Kemono Friends) Hirofumi Inoue: Suguru Narisawa (Tonkatsu DJ Agetarou) Ria Iwamura: Pile (Love Live! School Idol Project) Yousuke Ueda: Yuuma Uchida (ReLIFE) Kana Ueda: Yui Makino (Gundam Build Fighters Try) Akira Oono: Fukushi Ochiai (Hai to Gensou no Grimgar) Yuusuke Kawakami: Kimito Totani (Dream Festival!) Chiya Kawano: Ami Fukushima (Shounen Ashibe: Go! Go! Goma-chan) Akemi Kinoshita: Konomi Yuuzaki Mami Shirokawa: Yuka Ootsubo (The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls) Daisuke Tasaki: Hisayoshi Suganuma (Natsume Yuujinchou) Hideki Toyoda: Kenji Akabane (The iDOLM@STER) Minako Nakao: Mikoi Sasaki (Tantei Opera Milky Holmes) Misaki Nakajima: Risa Yuzuki Naoya Hashimoto: Shinnosuke Tachibana (Kamisama Hajimemashita) Nami Hirano: Minori Suzuki (Macross Δ) Toshiyuki Fujioka: Koudai Sakai (Mayoiga) Chiemi Honda: M.A.O (Mao Ichimichi) (Hinako Note) Kaori Maruoka: Mariko Honda (Wagamama High Spec) Emi Miyazaki: Misaki Suzuki (Military!) Shouta Yashiro: Shuuta Morishima (Ishida to Asakura) Hiroko Yamaguchi: Miya Amamiya Keita Yamashita: Yuusuke Nagano Kenta Akamatsu: Yuusuke Sasaki Masatoshi Ooi: Yuu Sanada (Oushitsu Kyoushi Heine) Aya Kuramoto: Saki Fujita (Shingeki no Kyojin) Daiki Kurosawa: Hitoshi Horinouchi (Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu LOVE! LOVE!) Yuuna Kobayashi: Megumi Nakajima (Macross F) Toshifumi Sakakibara: Hayato Horiuchi (Fudanshi Koukou Seikatsu) Takuya Sakamoto: Satoshi Hino (Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan (TV)) Yuuichi Satou: Tatsuhisa Suzuki (Nanatsu no Taizai) Tatsuya Shinba: Yuusuke Tonozaki (Kakegurui) Ryou Sugisawa: Hiroyuki Kagura (Bungou Stray Dogs) Shin Takada: Makoto Takada Nanami Takumi: Rie Hanafusa (Precure All Stars Movie New Stage 3: Eien no Tomodachi) Teruaki Nagata: Ryouta Suzuki (Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka Gaiden: Sword Oratoria) Tsubasa Furusawa: Masashi Uchida (Kenka Banchou Otome: Girl Beats Boys) Natsuko Honda: Yui Horie (Black Bullet) Aya Matsuoka: Yuka Ozaki (Kemono Friends) Riona Matsumoto: Akari Uehara (Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii desu ka?) Rina Minami: Kana Yuuki (Seireitsukai no Blade Dance) Aimi Murazumi: Ibuki Kido (Subete ga F ni Naru: The Perfect Insider) Haruka Momoki: Kazusa Aranami (Oniichan no Koto nanka Zenzen Suki ja Nai n da kara ne!!) Mitsuki Yukimura: Suzuna Kinoshita (Ojisan to Marshmallow) Staff Director: Tadayoshi Sasaki (Ojisan to Marshmallow) Series Composition: Kenji Konuta (Servamp) Character Design, Chief Animation Director: Kan Soramoto (Episode 6 animation director of Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse) Character Design: Yousuke Itou (Masou Gakuen HxH chief animation director) Studio: Seven Ousama Game is a five-volume cellphone novel by Kanazawa under the pen name Pakkuncho. Futabasha has released three editions of the novel's compilation so far; a 12-volume tankobon and bunkoban format, and a new Junior Bunko label edition. The latest edition's sixth volume was released on March 15. Four manga adaptations were also inspired by the novel beginning with a five-volume series, followed by another five-volume sequel, a six-volume prequel, and a four-volume side story. The franchise has also received a film adaptation and a tie-in game adaptation in 2011. Official site: http://www.kingsgame-anime.com/ Official Twitter: @kingsgame_pr Source: Moca News Ousama Game on MAL |
tsubasaloverApr 12, 2018 8:08 AM
| Sounds interesting. That cast tho. |
| MAL has no influence on Japanese Anime/Otaku industry so Self-righteous Elitist people here are really wasting their time on writing 'Critical Reviews'. |
| manga rating is low and so many negative reviews i think i'll pass |
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| Let's see. A survival game (or so is what the plot implies), with implied supernatural elements, a big cast of characters (who implies lots of fodders) and rules who indicate people is probably going to die here. Are we before another Mayoiga/Another? I'm excited about this.  |
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| Heard some stuff about this in the past but I can't say I remember the details |
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| I wonder if this will even be a full length show. Been reading the manga and it's rather meh. |
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| Pass. i've read the manga version and it's pretty good... only the first ten chapters. After that it's become meh so i dropped it. |
SuzuhadaAug 1, 2017 5:19 AM
| I saw some of the movie. Either the source sucked dick or the adaption sucked dick. Either way, something sucked dick. |
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Stark700 said: I wonder if this will even be a full length show. Been reading the manga and it's rather meh. With a cast like that, im pretty sure its full lenght .... well, i hope it is. .-. Anyway, i didnt really heard positive stuff about the manga,so it might be an intertaining trainwreck. |
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| If it's the manga I think it is, then I agree. Meh is the perfect description. |
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| Crowded Casting So? Is this some kind of Battle Royale Sudden Death Game? >Studio Seven Quite Expecting some borderline here (If you know what I meant) I'd bet they keep push towards every set of characters who will die all throughout the show then afterwards it will ended just like Mayoiga that had done RIGHT.. |
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| The story is complete and utter trash.. but gloriously bad terribad-movie-night-with-friends-trash. Gonna watch it for a few cheap laughs. |
| Steel Ball Run anime when? |
| Having read the manga, I hope that this reaches Pupa-tier levels of infamy if it's a short (which looking at the studio's other excellent offerings, I suspect). |
| I hope it will not become a mess like in the end of the manga. |
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| This is quiet interesting. I've heard the manga and probably gonna check it out before the anime aired. |
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| Voice actor showcase on the level of Dog Days. It reminds me of Danganronpa, which is not my cup of tea at all. |
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| I'll take anything horror related, horror needs a breakthrough. |
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| It sounds interesting and I'll check it out but if I can trust what others are saying then I'll keep my expectations low. |
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. MAL is literally just anime Twitter as its own website lol. |
| Well that's one hell of a cast. Too bad that their roles are going to be short lived. Read the Manga, and it was really disappointing. But I'm going to watch it anyway because I want to watch a certain scene animated. That might be unlikely though if it follows the novel instead of the Manga... |
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| Dat cast though O_O I've heard some good things about manga version, hopefully anime will turn out to be decent as well. |
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| I've seen the movie and it wasn't that great. I hope that the anime is going to be at least better than the movie. |
| Well yeah, no. I rarely saw novels with ratings so low on amazon tbh. Rating for the manga adaptation is catastrophic as well. I can't expect anything from that I'm afraid. Cast has plenty of very talented seiyuu though, can't deny that point. |
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| Please be good. Please be good. Please be good. |
| I've had the manga on my PTR list for a while now, so I might check this out. But wow, that one large cast :O |
| Gee, how often can you possibly rip off Battle Royale? |
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| That cast, it already looks like a clusterfuck. Probably the most interesting thing would be seeing Serval in a horror setting. XD |
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| Well judging by the comments posted by the others it does not looks like a great series but neverthless i am excited about this because horror animes are quite few and rare compared to other genres in anime so i will definitely check it out and i hope that it will be atleast a 12 episode tv series. |
| manga was shit to be frank but i want this to reach the mayoiga lvl of cult |
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| Seven... please be of a decent lenght, pleeeeeeeeeease |
TrashDax said: Gee, how often can you possibly rip off Battle Royale? Battle Royale pretty much created a new sub genre. Having more stories in this sub genre automatically means that they're influenced by battle royale. With your mindset, every single novel in the world is a rip off of the first novel in that sub genre, so I don't think that's a very smart way to see this. |
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| WOW 47 people in the cast.... |
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| I hope they don't stick to the manga because it was so freaking bad. Haven't read the novel so I don't know how true the manga is to the novel. But yeah the manga started off well then started to go downhill fast. The plot twist at the end was the icing on the cake -- just so freaking stupid. |
| I didn't even know this was from a novel; I only ever read the manga. In that case, I have no idea what's different between the two. I imagine not much. If this will indeed be adapting what I've read, then I'll probably pass. The large cast looks intimidating, but it doesn't mean much. |
| wow seems cool that's a huge cast for a 1st announcement |
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| I'll take a guess n say the novel is much better than the manga n manga was probably rushed n had quite a few changes. I enjoyed the manga tho so this is something I can look forward to, gotta admit tho, im surprised there adapting it. |
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| So Danganronpa but with a larger cast? |
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ichii_1 said: I'll take anything horror related, horror needs a breakthrough. +1 Couldn't agree more with that |
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| Lol that's a lot of casts.... And yes, I also hope for anime original. I remembered reading this months ago and how underwhelming it is for 20 chapters series and how it ended. What surprised me is that they got plenty of spinoffs and sequels and prequels lol. I guess it's quite popular enough in Japan, I wonder if those spinoffs and sequels made the first one more enjoyable, but I don't plan to read or look it up unless the anime pique my interest. |
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