Kadokawa has released a new PV trailer for the upcoming anime adaptation of Gods’ Game We Play, which will air in Japan on April 1, 2024.
Miyu Tomita was also revealed as the newest addition to the anime’s voice cast, where she will be voicing the “Mysterious Beautiful Girl.” The character was teased towards the end of the trailer.
Tatsuya Shiraishi (Bastard!! episode director) is directing the anime series, with NTL as series screenwriter and scriptwriter, Frontier One’s Yoshihiro Watanabe (Iwa-Kakeru! Climbing Girls) as character designer, and Busted Rose’s Gin as music composer. LIDENFILMS is handling the animation production.
Meanwhile, the anime’s voice cast includes:
- • Nobunaga Shimazaki as Fay
- • Akari Kito as Leoleshea
- • Hina Tachibana as Pearl Diamond
- • Kanna Nakamura as Nel Reckless
- • Ami Koshimizu as Miranda
Gods’ Games We Play is based on the light novels of the same name written by Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World‘s Kei Sazane and illustrated by Toiro Kinoruru. It was first published by Media Factory’s MF Bunko J imprint on January 25, 2021 and has released seven volumes as of July 2023. The light novels also inspired a manga adaptation by Piko Toriumi in 2021.
Yen Press releases the Gods’ Games We Play light novels in English, describing the first volume as:
In their (overabundance of) free time, the gods grew bored and decided to create challenging battles of wits to spice things up! Their opponent? Humanity! A select few players called “apostles” meet the gods on the spiritual realm’s playing field to beat the deities at their own games. A former god named Leshea has woken after sleeping for thousands of years, and her first demand is to meet “this era’s very best player!” She is introduced to Fay, an acclaimed rookie apostle. Together, they plan to challenge the gods and win the ultimate prize, but no one in human history has managed to clear ten games—because the gods can be capricious, outrageous, and sometimes downright incomprehensible! In the face of absurdity, what can the apostles do but enjoy the contest to its fullest?
