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SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table
This is a story about a deranged world.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Chiyuki Miura
Yuki (voice)
12 eps
Inori Minase
Kinko (voice)
1 eps
Rena Motomura
Aoi (voice)
1 eps
Haruka Sato
Kokutō (voice)
1 eps
Mutsumi Tamura
Beniya (voice)
1 eps
Rina Kawaguchi
Momono (voice)
1 eps
Wakana Maruoka
Keito (voice)
3 eps
Shion Wakayama
Kotoha (voice)
3 eps
Rui Tanabe
Chie (voice)
3 eps
Rio Tsuchiya
Mishiro (voice)
6 eps
Aki Sugawa
Mishiro's Mother (voice)
1 eps
Yoshimitsu Shimoyama
Wolf (voice)
1 eps
Akira Miki
Mishiro's Agent (voice)
1 eps
Yukiyo Fujii
Yuki's Agent (voice)
3 eps
Shizuka Itoh
Hakushi (voice)
5 eps
Haruka Oribe
Azuma (voice)
1 eps
Sumire Morohoshi
Riko (voice)
2 eps
Mariko Higashiuchi
Kaya (voice)
2 eps
Suzuka Hara
Chikuyō (voice)
1 eps
Yukino Nishizono
Tsubaki (voice)
1 eps
Saya Hitomi
Mayumi (voice)
2 eps
Yuki Tanaka
Mikan (voice)
1 eps
Takatsugu Chikamatsu
Kinko's Father (voice)
1 eps
Yume Miyamoto
Airi (voice)
4 eps
Ayana Taketatsu
Sumiyaka (voice)
2 eps
Natsuko Abe
Moegi (voice)
3 eps
Ami Maeshima
Amon (voice)
1 eps
Kanna Nakamura
Karin (voice)
1 eps
Azusa Aoi
Sugiyama (voice)
1 eps
May Tachibana
Hiwada (voice)
1 eps
Minori Fujidera
Mizunoto (voice)
1 eps
Ayu Suzuki
Warabi (voice)
1 eps
Rina Honnizumi
Kyara (voice)
4 eps
Seina Kato
Amauchi (voice)
1 eps
Sonoka Tanaka
Iwan (voice)
1 eps
Yukina Shuto
Kabane (voice)
1 eps
Hijiri Shirakawa
Sakamaki (voice)
1 eps
Yuna Taniguchi
Suzuka (voice)
1 eps
Mao Yabuki
Nakamichi (voice)
1 eps
Honoka Kamada
Nishida (voice)
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table reads strongest on Bingeability, Spectacle and Cliffhanger Intensity.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
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.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Yuki plays death games for a living, but when she wakes in a mansion with five other women, can she survive a new lethal maze of locked rooms and traps?
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E01
All You Need Is ----
Five girls dressed in classical maid outfits wake up in a windowless mansion.
- Directed by Yui Kamura, Masahiko Watanabe
- Written by Rintaro Ikeda
S01E02
Chains of ----
In her tenth game, Yuki becomes frustrated when the other players refuse to heed her advice.
- Directed by Masahiko Watanabe
- Written by Rintaro Ikeda
S01E03
In the Name of ----
Mishiro refuses to admit her mistake and leads the others into harm's way.
- Directed by Naoki Murata
- Written by Rintaro Ikeda
S01E04
Bad ----
The players reach the finish line, but they must complete a final trial before they can leave.
- Directed by Shunji Yoshida
- Written by Rintaro Ikeda
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E12
L-O---E
S01E09
Can't Help Falling In ----
- Directed by Shunji Yoshida
- Written by Rintaro Ikeda
S01E07
Good ----
- Directed by 田口慶次郎, Matsuo Asami
- Written by Rintaro Ikeda
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
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Shuzo Kasahara
Executive producer
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Yoshifumi Mori
Executive producer
- Photo unavailable
Takamasa Ninomiya
Executive producer
- Photo unavailable
Makoto Hojo
Executive producer
- Photo unavailable
Nobumitsu Urasaki
Executive producer
- Photo unavailable
Sanggi Choi
Executive producer
- Photo unavailable
Takumi Fukaya
Writer
- Photo unavailable
Rintaro Ikeda
Writer
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Takaaki KoyamaProducer
- Hiroyasu TaniguchiProducer
- Shuzo KasaharaExecutive Producer
- Keisuke ToshimaProducer
- Yoshifumi MoriExecutive Producer
- Satoshi GotoProducer
Writing
- Takumi FukayaWriter
- Rintaro IkedaWriter
Direction
- 田口慶次郎Director
- Shunji YoshidaDirector
- Yui KamuraDirector
- Masahiko WatanabeDirector
- Matsuo AsamiDirector
- Naoki MurataDirector
Cinematography
- Shin'yo KondouDirector of Photography
Music
- Junichi MatsumotoOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
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