The fall 2017 anime series King’s Game is having its home video releases handled by Amuse in Japan and they’ve set a standard schedule for it. As we’re just a few weeks away from the release of the third volume on February 21st, 2018, we now have a look at the appealing cover. The twelve episode series is getting a six-volume release that began on December 20th, 2017 where the DVDs are priced at 5,800 yen each and the Blu-ray’s at 6,800 yen each.
Noriyoshi Sasaki directed the series with Kenji Konuta handling the series composition. Kan Soramoto and Yosuke Ito worked on the character designs and it was being animated at Seven.
The Japanese cast includes Mamoru Miyano as Nobuaki Kanazawa, Shinya Hamazoe as Shingo Adachi, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Toshiyuki Abe, Miyuu Tsuji as Satomi Ishii, Suguru Narisawa as Hirofumi Inoue, Pile as Ria Iwamura, Yūma Uchida as Yōsuke Ueda, Yui Makino as Kana Ueda, Fukushi Ochiai as Akira Ōno, Kimito Totani as Yūsuke Kawakami, Ami Fukushima as Chia Kawano, Konomi Yūzaki as Akemi Kinoshita, Yuka Ōtsubo as Mami Shirokawa, Hisayoshi , Suganuma as Daisuke Tasaki, Kenji Akabane as Hideki Toyoda, Mirai Sasaki as Minako Nakao, Risa Yuzuki as Misaki Nakajima, Shinnosuke Tachibana as Naoya Hashimoto, Minori Suzuki as Nami Hirano, Kōdai Sakai as Toshiyuki Fujioka, M.A.O as Chiemi Honda, Mariko Honda as Kaori Maruoka, Misaki Suzuki as Emi Miyazaki, Shūta Morishima as Shōta Yashiro, Miya Amamiya as Hiroko Yamaguchi, Yui Nagano as Keita Yamashita, Yusuke Sasaki as Kenta Akamatsu, Yū Sanada as Masatoshi Ōi, Saki Fujita as Aya Kuramoto, Hitoshi Horinouchi as Daiki Kurosawa, Ai Nakajima as Yūna Kobayashi, Hayato Horiuchi as Toshifumi Sakakibara, Satoshi Hino as Takuya Sakamoto, Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Yūichi Satō, Yuusuke Tonozaki as Tatsuya Shinba, Hiroyuki Kagura as Ryō Sugisawa, Makoto Takada as Shin Takada, Rie Hanafusa as Nanami Takumi, Ryōta Suzuki as Teruaki Nagata, Masashi Uchida as Tsubasa Furusawa, Yui Horie as Natsuko Honda, Yuka Ozaki as Aya Matsuoka, Akari Uehara as Riona Matsumoto, Kana Yūki as Rina Minami, Ibuki Kido as Aimi Murazumi, Kazusa Aranami as Haruka Momoki, and Suzuna Kinoshita as Mitsuki Yukimura.
Plot Concept: Kanazawa Nobuaki has transferred to a high school far from where he used to live. Due to an incident at his old school, Nobuaki is afraid of getting close to his new classmates and keeps himself at a distance, but he starts opening up because of a sports day inter-class relay. Then, a single text message from someone calling themselves the “King” is sent to everyone in class. Nobuaki’s classmates think it’s a simple prank, and don’t take it seriously–but Nobuaki knows that a death game is about to begin, and struggles to oppose it…
| Volume | Date | Extras |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12/20/17 | Clean Opening, Clean Closing, Promos, Audio Commentary |
| 2 | 01/24/18 | |
| 3 | 02/21/18 | |
| 4 | 03/14/18 | |
| 5 | 04/25/18 | |
| 6 | 05/23/18 |
[Source: King’s Game]
