It has been revealed on the Tuesday's release of this year's 16th issue of Futabasha's Manga Action magazine that Nobuaki Kanazawa's horror novel series Ousama Game (King's Game) will receive a TV anime adaptation. Titled as Ousama Game The Animation, the series will premiere in October 2017 on AT-X, Tokyo MX, and BS11. The official website and Twitter for the anime adaptation have been opened and announced the cast and staff members for the anime.

Synopsis
Nobuaki Kanazawa, who transferred to a high school far away, is afraid of getting intimate with his new classmates because of the events that happened from his previous school. This led him to shut his heart. However, he starts to open up during the sports festival's class relay. He and all his classmates received an email from "Ousama." At first, his classmates didn't take what they were told seriously, thinking it's just a joke, but Nobuaki, the only one who knows the real meaning of it, fights against the "death" game that will soon begin...

The rules of the Ousama Game are as follows:
1. All class members must participate.
2. The order sent by Ousama thru email must be followed within 24 hours.
3. A punishment will be given to those who don't follow the order.
4. Quitting the Ousama Game halfway is forbidden.

Cast
Nobuaki Kanazawa: Mamoru Miyano (Ajin)
Shingo Adachi: Shinya Hamazoe (Yume-iro Pâtissière)
Toshiyuki Abe: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Shokugeki no Souma)
Satomi Ishii: Miyuu Tsuji (Kemono Friends)
Hirofumi Inoue: Suguru Narisawa (Tonkatsu DJ Agetarou)
Ria Iwamura: Pile (Love Live! School Idol Project)
Yousuke Ueda: Yuuma Uchida (ReLIFE)
Kana Ueda: Yui Makino (Gundam Build Fighters Try)
Akira Oono: Fukushi Ochiai (Hai to Gensou no Grimgar)
Yuusuke Kawakami: Kimito Totani (Dream Festival!)
Chiya Kawano: Ami Fukushima (Shounen Ashibe: Go! Go! Goma-chan)
Akemi Kinoshita: Konomi Yuuzaki
Mami Shirokawa: Yuka Ootsubo (The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls)
Daisuke Tasaki: Hisayoshi Suganuma (Natsume Yuujinchou)
Hideki Toyoda: Kenji Akabane (The iDOLM@STER)
Minako Nakao: Mikoi Sasaki (Tantei Opera Milky Holmes)
Misaki Nakajima: Risa Yuzuki
Naoya Hashimoto: Shinnosuke Tachibana (Kamisama Hajimemashita)
Nami Hirano: Minori Suzuki (Macross Δ)
Toshiyuki Fujioka: Koudai Sakai (Mayoiga)
Chiemi Honda: M.A.O (Mao Ichimichi) (Hinako Note)
Kaori Maruoka: Mariko Honda (Wagamama High Spec)
Emi Miyazaki: Misaki Suzuki (Military!)
Shouta Yashiro: Shuuta Morishima (Ishida to Asakura)
Hiroko Yamaguchi: Miya Amamiya
Keita Yamashita: Yuusuke Nagano
Kenta Akamatsu: Yuusuke Sasaki
Masatoshi Ooi: Yuu Sanada (Oushitsu Kyoushi Heine)
Aya Kuramoto: Saki Fujita (Shingeki no Kyojin)
Daiki Kurosawa: Hitoshi Horinouchi (Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu LOVE! LOVE!)
Yuuna Kobayashi: Megumi Nakajima (Macross F)
Toshifumi Sakakibara: Hayato Horiuchi (Fudanshi Koukou Seikatsu)
Takuya Sakamoto: Satoshi Hino (Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan (TV))
Yuuichi Satou: Tatsuhisa Suzuki (Nanatsu no Taizai)
Tatsuya Shinba: Yuusuke Tonozaki (Kakegurui)
Ryou Sugisawa: Hiroyuki Kagura (Bungou Stray Dogs)
Shin Takada: Makoto Takada
Nanami Takumi: Rie Hanafusa (Precure All Stars Movie New Stage 3: Eien no Tomodachi)
Teruaki Nagata: Ryouta Suzuki (Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka Gaiden: Sword Oratoria)
Tsubasa Furusawa: Masashi Uchida (Kenka Banchou Otome: Girl Beats Boys)
Natsuko Honda: Yui Horie (Black Bullet)
Aya Matsuoka: Yuka Ozaki (Kemono Friends)
Riona Matsumoto: Akari Uehara (Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii desu ka?)
Rina Minami: Kana Yuuki (Seireitsukai no Blade Dance)
Aimi Murazumi: Ibuki Kido (Subete ga F ni Naru: The Perfect Insider)
Haruka Momoki: Kazusa Aranami (Oniichan no Koto nanka Zenzen Suki ja Nai n da kara ne!!)
Mitsuki Yukimura: Suzuna Kinoshita (Ojisan to Marshmallow)

Staff
Director: Tadayoshi Sasaki (Ojisan to Marshmallow)
Series Composition: Kenji Konuta (Servamp)
Character Design, Chief Animation Director: Kan Soramoto (Episode 6 animation director of Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse)
Character Design: Yousuke Itou (Masou Gakuen HxH chief animation director)
Studio: Seven

Ousama Game is a five-volume cellphone novel by Kanazawa under the pen name Pakkuncho. Futabasha has released three editions of the novel's compilation so far; a 12-volume tankobon and bunkoban format, and a new Junior Bunko label edition. The latest edition's sixth volume was released on March 15. Four manga adaptations were also inspired by the novel beginning with a five-volume series, followed by another five-volume sequel, a six-volume prequel, and a four-volume side story. The franchise has also received a film adaptation and a tie-in game adaptation in 2011.

Official site: http://www.kingsgame-anime.com/
Official Twitter: @kingsgame_pr

Source: Moca News

Ousama Game on MAL