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Darwin's Game
Who's in it
Cast
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TV DNA
How Darwin's Game actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Darwin's Game reads strongest on Spectacle, Bingeability and World Building.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
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 the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Sudou Kaname, an ordinary high school student, receives an invitation email to try a mysterious app called "Darwin's Game." Kaname, upon launching the app, is drawn into a game where players fight one another using superpowers called Sigils. Without knowing the reason for all this, can Kaname survive furious battles against the powerful players who attack him?
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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
- Manami KabashimaProducer
- Manabu JingujiProducer
- Shota WataseProducer
- Fumitaka KitazawaProducer
- Takayuki TakagiProducer
- Tomoyuki OhwadaProducer
Writing
- Shu MiyamaWriter
Direction
- Yoshinobu TokumotoDirector
- Usaku MyouchinDirector
- Daisuke TakashimaDirector
Cinematography
- Takeshi HirookaDirector of Photography
Music
- Kenichiro SuehiroOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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