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6.30Community score
from 3,368 ratings

EWeak · #6,753

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LIAR GAME

Wishing she would live up to the ideal, Kanzaki Nao's father named her thusly for “honesty”. Nao has more than lived up to her father's wishes--even exceeding them and earning the label of "a foolishly honest girl". This makes Nao the least qualified candidate for the high stakes 'Liar Game', where winning requires deceiving the opponent out of their money and losing means receiving massive debt. However, that doesn't stop a box containing a hundred million yen in cash and a card informing her of her participation in the game from arriving at her doorstep, nor does it stop her from being promptly tricked out of the entire sum of money. Upon hearing that a genius swindler, responsible for the bankruptcy of a major corporation, is being released from jail, Nao goes to the swindler, Shinichi Akiyama, to enlist his help. With that, the two are drawn into the dark, greed-filled, and deceptive world of the Liar Game.

Names

OriginalLIAR GAME (latin)
RomajiLIAR GAME
EnglishLIAR GAME
Chinese欺诈游戏 (simplified · via bangumi)
Also known as ライアーゲーム · Игра лжецов

Facts

FormatTV series · 24 min
Aired2026-04-07 (Spring 2026)
StatusRELEASING
StudioMADHOUSE
SourceManga
OriginJapan (Anime)
DemographicSeinen
GenresDramaPsychological
ThemesGamblingFemale ProtagonistMale ProtagonistSeinenPrimarily Adult CastComing of AgeDeath GameConspiracy
StreamingCrunchyroll

Reception

Community score6.30 / 10
Bayesian score6.70 / 10
Composite38.9
On lists41,628
Favourited478 (1.1%)
Completion1.8%
Drop rate14.6%
In backlog43.8%
Score spread σ2.16

Score distribution

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Where it places

CohortValueTierRank
Lengthunknown13 of 13
Broadcast seasonSpring 2026E65 of 70
Year2026E195 of 203
StudioMADHOUSEE223 of 229
GenrePsychologicalE383 of 416
EraMid 2020sE465 of 487
DemographicSeinenE715 of 775
Season (all years)SpringE1,708 of 1,868
GenreDramaE1,811 of 1,917
Source materialMangaE2,836 of 3,025
FormatTV seriesE2,989 of 3,322
OriginJapanE6,505 of 7,157

Key staff

DirectorYuuzou Satou, Asami Kawano
Series compositionTatsuhiko Urahata
Character designKei Tsuchiya, Ai Yokoyama
Original creatorShinobu Kaitani

AniList id 197754 · MAL id 62331 · Bangumi 580133 · record updated 2026-08-27