On January 8, Shueisha’s Young Jump magazine will release its combined sixth and seventh issue of the year with an announcement that Shinobu Kaitani’s (One Outs, Winner’s Circle e Youkoso) Liar Game manga will end in the eighth issue on January 22, 2015.
The magazine had announced last February 2014 that the manga author will be on a short hiatus while preparing for the final arc. A month after, the magazine revealed that the manga will be entering the final arc of the story.
The drama, game, psychological and thriller manga, Liar Game (or Liar of the Game/LG), was first serialized on Spetember 16, 2005 under the publisher Shueisha and the label YJ comics. The manga has currently 18 compiled manga volumes. The 18th volume’s first printing was issued on December 24, 2014, the release was on December 19, 2014.
Liar Game has two prequel manga titled Liar Game: Roots of A and Liar Game: Roots of A #2 respectively. The first prequel manga was published on September 1999 to January 24, 2008 with one compiled manga volume containing six one-shot chapters (one of them has 2 chapters):
1. Liar Game: Roots of A (LIAR GAME roots of A)
2. Nine Darts
3-4. Sansou: Kindan no Senjutsu (Three Phase: The Forbidden Divination)
5. Kaitani Shinobu no Aiken Monogatari (The Tale of Shinobu Kaitani’s Dog)
6. @Lovers
The second prequel manga was published on February 16, 2010 with only one chapter.
The series has received a Japanese television series adaptation and it aired on April 14, 2007 to June 23, 2007 on Fuji TV. It was directed by Hiroaki Matsuyama and Ayako Taiboku. The first season has 11 episodes. Succeeding the first season was the second season titled Liar Game: Season 2 with 9 episodes. It aired on November 10, 2009 to January 19, 2010. Two months after, on March 6, 2010, a 133-minute live-action film was released: Liar Game: The Final Stage. A sequel to the movie titled as Liar Game: Reborn was released on March 3, 2012.
Last year, a Koren television series adaptation of the manga was released with the same title as the series, Liar Game. It was directed by Kim Hing-sun and was written Ryu Yong-jae. It has 12 episodes. It aired on October 20, 2014 to November 25, 2014.
Synopsis of Liar Game manga from MAL:
Wishing she would live up to the ideal, Kanzaki Nao’s father named her thusly for “honesty.” Nao has more than lived up to her father’s wishes—even exceeding them and earning the label of “a foolishly honest girl.” This makes Nao the least qualified candidate for the high stakes “Liar Game,” where winning requires deceiving the opponent out of their money and losing means receiving massive debt; however, that doesn’t stop a box containing a hundred million yen in cash and a card informing her of her participation in the game from arriving at her doorstep, nor does it stop her from being promptly tricked out of the entire sum of money. Upon hearing that a genius swindler, responsible for the bankruptcy of a major corporation, is being released from jail, Nao goes to the swindler, Shinichi Akiyama, to enlist his help. With that, the two are drawn into the dark, greed-filled, and deceptive world of the Liar Game.
Visit Young Jump magazine’s official page for the Liar Game manga here.
Source – ANN
