Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table Light Novels Get TV Anime

Yūshi Ukai, Nekometal's light novel about professional death game player launched in 2022

The live-streamed "MF Bunko J Natsu no Gakuensai 2024" (MF Bunko J Summer School Festival 2024) event on Sunday revealed that writer Yūshi Ukai and artist Nekometal's Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table (Shibō Yūgi de Meshi o Kuu) light novel series will get a television anime adaptation. Rie Takahashi voiced the announcement video.Kadokawa's MF Bunko J imprint published the light novel series' first volume in November 2022, after it won the Excellence Award at the 18th MF Bunko J Light Novel Newcomer Award that same year. The novels' seventh volume will ship in Japan on September 25.The light novel series also ranked #1 in the New Title category of Takarajimasha's 2024 Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! (This Light Novel Is Amazing!) rankings. Banzai Kotobuki Daienkai launched a manga adaptation in Kadokawa's Comp Ace magazine in April 2023. Kadokawa published the manga's second compiled book volume on December 26.Sources: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table light novel's X/Twitter account, MF Bunko J Natsu no Gakuensai 2024 livestream