Liar Game (stylized as LIAR GAME) is a Japanese manga series writt and illustrated by Shinobu Kaitani. It was serialized in Shueisha's sein manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from February 2005 to January 2015. It was adapted into a Japanese television series in 2007, with a second season which ran from 2009 to 2010. It was also adapted into two live action films; Liar Game: The Final Stage in 2010 and Liar Game: Reborn in 2012. A South Korean television series adaptation aired in 2014.
An uncommonly naive college studt named Nao Kanzaki receives a package containing 100 million y (about US$1 million) and a note that she is now a contestant in the Liar Game Tournamt. In this fictional tournamt, contestants are couraged to cheat and lie to obtain other contestants' money, with the losers forced to bear a debt proportional to their losses. Wh Nao's first oppont, a trusted former teacher, steals her money, she seeks assistance from a con man named Shinichi Akiyama. Though they manage to defeat him, Nao and Akiyama decide to buy out his debt and advance through differt rounds of the Liar Game Tournamt against merciless contestants, while at the same time attempting to free their opponts from debt and defeat the Liar Game organization from within.
Nao Kanzaki is a foolishly honest college studt who is coerced into playing the Liar Game. She is extremely honest and initially naïve, but these attributes allow her to win the trust of fellow contestants in the Liar Game. Nao firmly believes that all people have value and, though not very bright, makes unique observations due to her naïvety and emotional ssitivity, which the others in the game notably lack, for better or for worse. She gradually learns to question others while maintaining the ability to trust her allies. Although Nao has had several opportunities to leave the Liar Game, she continues to play, wishing to save the other players who have fall into debt. Nao's only known family member is her father, who is hospitalized with terminal cancer. She has no close frids other than Akiyama, who saves her from her self-described lonely life. In turn, she develops an exceptionally strong attachmt to Akiyama.
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Akiyama is a graduate of Teito University with a degree in criminal psychology. He became a con man in order to take down the multi-level marketing corporation that swindled his mother to the point where she committed suicide to save Akiyama from debt via her life insurance. After being released from prison, Akiyama reluctantly agrees to help Nao win the Liar Game after she despairingly cries out, Save me! Mitsuo Tanimura later suggests that Akiyama consted to help Nao because he saw a resemblance betwe Nao's and his mother's situations. Akiyama ters the Liar Game in Round 2 by substituting for another player, and by Round 3 is se as an unofficial leader among the Liar Game's contestants. Akiyama utilizes Nao's ability to make sincere, emotional appeals to sway other contestants, making her Akiyama's most powerful weapon. Nevertheless, he continually tries to pay off her debt to get her to leave the Liar Game and never lets her come into harm's way. Akiyama's motivation for continuing in the Liar Game is to find the real motives behind the Liar Game Tournamt organization and bring it down.
Nao's former teacher and first oppont whom she faces, Fujisawa was originally a kind man, concerned about the welfare of his studts. However, after a series of misfortunes, Fujisawa has become angry, hateful, and untrusting. Nao is shocked wh he outright told her that he does not care if she goes into debt or is forced into prostitution to pay it back. Fujisawa's behavior, however, only solidifies Akiyama's decision to help Nao. At the d of the first round after Akiyama outsmarts him, Nao gives Fujisawa her winnings so he can repay his debt. Fujisawa is last se bowing to her in gratitude.
A trans woman who first appears in Round 2, as a woman named Hitomi. Possibly an in-transition or post-op transsexual, she still has breasts wh not dressed in female clothes. Sly, calculating, and a 5th degree black belt, Fukunaga is a skilled manipulator whose weaknesses appear to be her desire for money and her temper. She's appartly much older than she appears. During Round 3, Fukunaga learns to cooperate with Nao and Akiyama, and ev wh Fukunaga finishes the round debt-free, she chooses to continue in the tournamt to aid them. However, Fukunaga is forced to confront Yokoya without their help in the third revival round and is eliminated from the game with over one billion y of debt. In later chapters, Fukunaga recognizes Nao's improvemt and starts to grow fond of her, although she still believes she is incompett. Nao also observed that Fukunaga may have a crush on Akiyama. After Fukunaga's idtified-as-male-at-birth idtity is revealed, the Japanese text deliberately avoids referring to her by gder. (In the live version, this character is still male, but with a vaguely homosexual overtone). Alternates betwe personas - an ultra-feminine, cold, and mature femme fatale; a bullheaded, boisterous, and physically intimidating man in obvious drag; a loud, seemingly none-too-bright young delinqut girl; and gradations in betwe - whichever currtly best suits Fukunaga's own needs, both in-game and outside of it. She is absolutely convincing as a female wh she so desires and regularly has everyone fooled. Also stated to have managed to play a convincing non-descript male to orchestrate a con (not shown), despite having promint real cleavage, said to be the result of a combination of female hormone injections and breast augmtation surgery with saline implants.
Liar Game (manga)
A character obsessed with domination, Yokoya first appears in Round 3. He is a calm, eerie, dark-haired young man who's oft shown carrying white mice in his pockets and dresses in vaguely militaristic suits, admiring and seeking to emulate notorious 20th-ctury dictators; most notably Adolf Hitler. Nearco describes Yokoya as Akiyama's greatest rival, and Nao ssed something odd about him early in the game. Yokoya comes from a wealthy family and his strategy frequtly involves bribing other contestants into becoming his pawns. His team is depicted as Yokoya's complete dictatorship, as opposed to Nao's cooperative team. Although Yokoya initially planned to drop out of the Liar Game with his Round 3 winnings, Nao taunts him into proceeding to the next round, and Yokoya swore to bring down Nao and Akiyama in revge. After losing Round 4 to them, Yokoya decides to keep playing to the d, aiming to become the ultimate winner of the Liar Game. During the Third Revival Round, Yokoya was able to accurately predict the name of the game to be played by the contestants; this is not ev told to the hosts and other LGT Office Employees. Yokoya claims to have deduced the it because he has determined the true meaning of the Liar Game, but he actually had read a foreign book from which the Liar Game was inspired, including the games played on it by order. After being outsmarted by Akiyama in the final game, Yokoya finally admits defeat, claiming that (unlike his idol Hitler) he must know wh to quit; much to the happiness of his father, who's also revealed to be one of the hosts of the Liar Game. It is later revealed that his father taught him to manipulate people in order to groom him as a successor.
Harimoto wears long robes and a straw hat. He has deep wrinkles, which hints that he may be the oldest character introduced so far. Unlike Akiyama and Yokoya, both of whom excel at psychological and mtal manipulation, Harimoto's strgth lies in taking advantage of a person's emotional state. He first appears in Round 4, as the founder of the Peaceful Heav (also: Peaceful Paradise) cult. Three female members of his cult - Mika Mikamoto, Kei Kimura, and Yukiko Abe - are also contestants in the Liar Game and follow him unconditionally, giving him a strong advantage. He controls his cult members by telling them that all mankind descds from humans and demons as well, claiming that his mission is to gather those like him with little demonic blood under his guidance, in a quest to restore a (nearly) pure human bloodline and work to overthrow the demons. It is later revealed that he used cold reading to rescue the three wom wh each was in her lowest emotional state, thus seducing them into joining his cult. Once defeated in Round 4, Harimoto and his cultists return for the subsequt Revival Round, and moved by Nao's incorruptible spirit, they withdraw from the Liar Game, giving away the money they had previously collected to pay other players' debt.
The purpose of the LGT Office is revealed in the last chapter. At the head of the office are those who wished to recreate the conditions in a radical political work whose last volume was confiscated in order to surmise its contts, the other members with patterned masks had participated in an
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