Liar Game
Liar Game (stylized as LIAR GAME) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shinobu Kaitani. It was serialized in Shueisha's "seinen" manga magazine "Weekly Young Jump" from February 2005 to January 2015. It was adapted into a Japanese television series in 2007, with a which ran from 2009 to 2010. It was also adapted into two live action films; "" in 2010 and "" in 2012. A South Korean television series adaptation aired in 2014. Plot summary. An uncommonly naive college student named Nao Kanzaki receives a package containing 100 million yen (about US$1 million) and  a note that she is now a contestant in the Liar Game Tournament. In this fictional tournament, contestants are encouraged to cheat and lie to obtain other contestants' money, with the losers forced to bear a debt proportional to their losses. When Nao's first opponent, 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 different rounds of the Liar Game Tournament against merciless contestants, while at the same time attempting to free their  opponents from debt and defeat the Liar Game organization from within. Characters. Liar Game Tournament (LGT) Office. 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 contents, the other members with patterned masks had participated in an initial attempt to conduct a simulation of the radical work (i.e. a first Liar Game Tournament). They agreed to return to help in the second (successful) attempt at holding a Liar  Game Tournament. This second tournament is what is described in the manga. "Handlers" manage individual contestants and provide information on upcoming rounds, and "hosts" carry out the actual rounds of the Liar Game and observe the contestants. The identities of some of the LGT Office members are revealed: Media. Manga. "Liar Game", written and illustrated by Shinobu Kaitani, was serialized in Shueisha's "Weekly Young Jump" from February 17, 2005 to January 22, 2015. Shueisha collected its chapters in nineteen "tankōbon" volumes, released from September 16, 2005 to April 17, 2015. A short story "Roots of A" has been published  as the title piece of a Shinobu Kaitani's anthology released in July 2008. Live-action. "Liar Game" was adapted into a Japanese television series: "Liar Game", a 2007 Fuji series broadcast, followed in 2009 by "". In 2010, the full-length film "" was released as a continuation of the TV series. A sequel, entitled "", was released in 2012. A 2014 Korean drama adaptation also titled "Liar Game" aired on cable channel tvN.