Darwin's Game
Premise. 17-year-old high school sophomore Kaname Sudō accepts an online invitation by a friend to play an app game called "Darwin's Game", unbeknownst to him that it involves a fight between life and death. Those who play the game are given a Sigil, an ability that varies from player to player. Trapped in this game of relentless murder and conquest, Kaname determines to clear the game, and seek out and kill the Game Master. Media. Manga. FLIPFLOPs launched the series in the January 2013 issue of Akita Shoten's "shōnen" manga magazine "Bessatsu Shōnen  Champion" which was published on December 12, 2012. The series has been compiled into 25 volumes as of January 7, 2022. The manga entered its final arc on January 11, 2020. Anime. An anime television series adaptation was announced in the 16th volume of the manga on November 8, 2018. The series is directed by Yoshinobu Tokumoto and written by Shū Miyama, the writer of the FLIPFLOPs duo and also original creator of the manga series, with animation by studio Nexus and character designs by Kazuya Nakanishi. Kenichiro Suehiro is composing the series' music. The series aired from January 3  to March 20, 2020 on Tokyo MX and other channels. The first episode was listed as a one-hour episode and had an advanced screening on the night of December 24, 2019. ASCA performed the series' opening theme song "CHAIN", while Mashiro Ayano performed the series' ending theme song "Alive". Aniplex of America licensed the series, and began streaming the series on FunimationNow, AnimeLab and Wakanim from January 3, 2020, and on Crunchyroll and HIDIVE from February 2, 2020. Funimation produced an English dub for the series. It ran for 11 episodes.