Anime · Tokyo MX
Btooom!
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Btooom! actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Btooom! reads strongest on Spectacle, World Building and Bingeability.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Sakamoto, an unemployed young man, is one of the world's top players of an online fighting game called Btooom! One day, he wakes up on what appears to be a tropical island, although he doesn't remember how or why he got there.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E12
Bonds
Taira has lost it and is attacking his friends. Ryouta doesn't want to fight but this time he truly might not have a choice.
- Directed by Kotono Watanabe
- Written by Yosuke Kuroda
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E09
The Strongest Player
- Directed by Takahiro Kawakoshi
- Written by Yosuke Kuroda
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Takema OkamuraProducer
- Hitoshi KawamuraProducer
- Takeshi MinamiProducer
- Yuki YoshidaProducer
- Jun FukudaProducer
Writing
- Yosuke KurodaWriter
Direction
- Takahiro KawakoshiDirector
- Makoto KatoDirector
- Noriaki SaitoDirector
- Kazuo NogamiDirector
- Hitomi EzoeDirector
- Hideki HosokawaDirector
Cinematography
- Kenji FujitaDirector of Photography
Music
- Keiji InaiOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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