Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table Anime Unveils Teaser, More Info
Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table Anime Unveils Teaser, More Info
by Joseph Luster
July 26, 2025
More information is here for the Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table anime, which adapts the Shibo Yugi de Meshi o Kuu light novels written by Yushi Ukai and illustrated by Nekometal. In addition to more on the staff and the lead cast member, you can check out an âultra teaserâ video and visual below.
Visual:
Chiyuki Miura will lead the cast as Yuuki when the series premieres in January 2026.
Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table is being made at Studio DEEN, with Takehiro Ueno of Days With My Stepsister helming the project as director. The person handling series composition is Rintarou Ikeda, whose credits include The Seven Deadly Sins: Dragonâs Judgement. Credit for character design goes to Eri Osada, who has worked on Blade & Soul. The task of sound direction is being done by Noriyoshi Konuma of The Dangers in My Heart.
Newly announced staff members include hewa on concept art, Imari Katsuragi on color design, Yoshihiro Nakamura as art director, Shinyo Kondo as director of photography, Haruko Kikuchi as editor, Kaori Yamada on sound effects and Junichi Matsumoto on music.
Yen Press publishes the original light novels by YĆ«shi Ukai and Nekometal and gave this description for them:
Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table Plot
Yuuki wakes up to find herself wearing a maidâs uniform in a strange manor. After wandering into the dining room, she comes across five other girls, each in the exact same outfit. Soon, the girls learn that the manor is brimming with lethal weapons and an array of deadly trapsâŠand that they can only escape by playing the most gruesome of games. As the terrifying truth sets in, each girlâs face goes paleâexcept Yuukiâs. Why? Because this isnât her first go-round. Thatâs rightâYuuki is a professional death game player who lives off the prize money she collects from winning brutal killing competitions, and sheâs not about to let this chance pass her by.
Source: Anime News Network
