Gods’ Games We Play anime revealed a new trailer and an additional cast member at this year’s Anime Japan 2024 event. Voice actress Miyu Tomita is joining the cast as Mysterious Beautiful Girl. The anime is set to premiere on April 1 with studio Liden Films in charge of the animation. The latest trailer features the ending song “I’m GAME!” by Hina Tachibana.
Tatsuya Shiraishi is directing the anime with Yoshihiro Watanabe designing the characters. AliA is singing the opening theme song “NewGame,” and the main cast includes:
The anime adaptation is based on a light novel series written by Kei Sazane and illustrated by Toiro Tomose. The series started as a web novel published on the Kakuyomu website in 2020, before being picked up by Media Factory in January 2021 and published under the MF Bunko J imprint.
Yen Press licensed the light novel in English and they described the plot as:
When the gods grow bored, they decide to spice up their eternal existence by challenging all takers in an ultimate battle of wits! Of course, these deities are capricious, unfair, and incomprehensible at the best of times, so winning is virtually impossible for a mere mortal. Even so, things are bound to get interesting when a former goddess and a genius human boy team up in a bid to win the game to end all games!
Source: Official Website, Anime Japan 2024
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