Liar Game
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| Liar Game | |
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| ライアーゲーム (Raiā Gēmu) |
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| Genre | Detective fiction |
| Manga | |
| Author | Shinobu Kaitani |
| Publisher |  Shueisha |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Weekly Young Jump |
| Original run | 2005 – ongoing |
| Volumes | 6 |
| TV drama | |
| Director | Hiroaki Matsuyama, Ayako Taiboku |
| Network | Fuji TV |
| Original run | April 14, 2007 – June 23, 2007 |
| Time slot | Saturday 23:00 |
| Episodes | 11 |
Liar Game (ライアーゲーム 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 later adapted into a drama series, which started airing on April 14, 2007 on Fuji TV, achieving a 11.4 viewership rating in the Kantō region.
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[edit] Plot
Nao Kanzaki, an honest college student, receives 100 million yen (about $1,000,000) one day, along with a card saying that she has been chosen to participate in the "Liar Game". In order to win the game, she must trick other players into giving her their 100 million yen while her opponents are left in debt.
The objective of the first round is to steal the 100 million yen that is issued to her opponent, Kazuo Fujisawa, a former teacher of hers, who easily deceives her, while preventing her opponent from stealing her 100 million yen. Before the round ends, she comes across Shinichi Akiyama, a genius swindler, who helps her to succeed winning the first round. However, after the first round, a second round of Liar Game awaits them.
The second round of the Liar Game is taken place in a mansion. The 22 players who won the first round are given a jewel worth 100 million yen each as "Game Money" as they compete in a game. The 22 players vote either "Yes" or "No" when asked a random question. The minority of the result survives and the majority leaves with a debt, 100 million yen. The final person gets the 2.1 billion yen, 2.2 billion yen minus his or her 100 million yen, as the prize. Akiyama enters (as a substitute for someone who doesn't wish to continue in the game), wins the game, and then decides to split the prize money so that Nao and the people they had teamed up with to win the game could pay their debt. However, after paying off everyone else's debt, Akiyama doesn't have enough money to pay the cost of dropping out himself. He decides to continue playing the Liar Game to find out who is behind it, and then loses all contact with Nao.
A week later, Nao enters the Liar Game Revival Round, for those who lost previous rounds of the Liar Game. She intends to win the Revival Round in order to get the money necessary to pay the cost for Akiyama to drop out.
[edit] Adaptations
[edit] TV Drama
Liar Game was adapted into a live action series directed by Hiroaki Matsuyama, Ayako Taiboku, and began airing in Japan on April 14, 2007. It featured Erika Toda as Nao Kanzaki, and Shota Matsuda as Shinichi Akiyama. Liar Game was overall 11 episodes long, with its finale 3 hours long, which is a first for a drama series.[1] It has also gained the second highest viewer satisfaction rating, for the season, in an Oricon survery.[1]
