The upcoming Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table TV anime has received an ultra teaser trailer and ultra teaser visual, along with the reveal of Chiyuki Miura as the voice of Yuki.
The ultra teaser trailer comes with new staff details like:
• Color designer: Imari Katsuragi (Days with My Stepsister)
• Background art director: Yoshihiro Nakamura (Butareba -The Story of a Man Turned into a Pig-)
• Compositing director: Shinyo Kondo (Days with My Stepsister)
Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table is set to premiere in January 2026. It’s based on the MF Bunko J light novel series written by Yushi Ukai and illustrated by Nekometaru, which debuted in November 2022 and has eight volumes as of February 2025. Yen Press describes the premise of the books as:
Yuki wakes up to find herself in an unfamiliar manor, wearing a maid uniform and lying on a luxurious bed. Soon, she discovers five more girls, all dressed the same as her. This is the Ghost House, and the only way they can survive is to make it through the traps that lie in wait-deadly games full of blowguns, buzz saws, locked rooms, and weapons. It’s a hopeless, terrifying situation for everyone there…well, everyone except Yuki. After all, this is her career at seventeen. Do you think that’s odd? She would agree. But that’s how some people are-they earn their living playing death games.
The light novels have also inspired a manga adaptation by Banzai Kotobuki Dai Enkai.
Staff
• Director: Sota Ueno (Days With My Step Sister)
• Series composer: Rintaro Ikeda (Insomniacs After School)
• Character designer: Eri Osada (Blade and Soul co-character designer and co-chief animation director, Suicide Squad ISEKAI director)
• Sound director: Noriyoshi Konuma (Days With My Step Sister)
• Animation production: Studio Deen
Source: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table anime website
