The TV anime SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table is set to premiere on January 7, 2026, with an extended 60-minute first episode. Alongside the announcement, five additional cast members were revealed, as well as a promotional video and key visual for the first game, “GHOST HOUSE”, and details about the opening theme.
The opening theme will be the instrumental track “¬Ersterbend”, written and arranged by LIN, a member of the five-person dance vocal group MADKID.
GHOST HOUSE Game PV:
GHOST HOUSE Game Visual:
It was also announced that a radio program will launch in January 2026, alongside a collaboration with the TV anime A Misanthrope Teaches a Class for Demi-Humans, which is set to premiere the same month. Further details about the radio program and the collaboration will be revealed at a later date.
ADDITIONAL CAST:
Rena Motomura as Aoi
Inori Minase as Kinko
Haruka Sato as Kokuto
Mutsumi Tamura as Beniya
Rina Kawaguchi as Momono
STAFF:
Director: Sota Ueno
Series Composition: Rintaro Ikeda
Character Design: Eri Osada
Sound Director: Noriyoshi Konuma
Animation Production: Studio DEEN
Yen Press publishes the series in English and provides the following description for the first volume:
Yuki wakes up to find herself in an unfamiliar manor, wearing a maid uniform and lying on a luxurious bed. Soon, she discovers five more girls, all dressed the same as her. This is the Ghost House, and the only way they can survive is to make it through the traps that lie in wait-deadly games full of blowguns, buzz saws, locked rooms, and weapons. It’s a hopeless, terrifying situation for everyone there…well, everyone except Yuki. After all, this is her career at seventeen. Do you think that’s odd? She would agree. But that’s how some people are-they earn their living playing death games.
Source: Comic Natalie
© Yushi Ukai,Nekometaru/KADOKAWA/Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table Partners
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