Crunchyroll has announced the anime adaptation of Yūshi Ukai and Nekometal’s SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table light novel series will get a same-day English dub alongside the premiere on January 7. The English dub cast and crew of SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table was also confirmed.
English Dub Cast
- Suzie Yeung as Yuki
- Dawn M. Bennett as Hakushi
- Michelle Marie as Kinko
- Morgan Berry as Beniya
- Kayli Mills as Momono
- Brianna Knickerbocker as Aoi
- Sky Santacruz as Kokuto
English Dub Crew
- Voice Director: Alex von David
- Producer: Eric P. Sherman
- Mixer: Ben Harrington
- Engineer: Jonathan Jay Brannen
The first episode of the SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table anime will premiere on January 7, 2026 at 11:00 p.m. JST on Tokyo MX, and it will be 60 minutes long. The second episode will premiere at 11:30 p.m. JST. Crunchyroll and Netflix will be streaming the anime.
The anime’s Japanese cast includes:
- Chiyuki Miura as Yuki
- Rena Motomura as Aoi
- Inori Minase as Kinko
- Haruka Satō as Kokutō
- Mutsumi Tamura as Beniya
- Rina Kawaguchi as Momono
LIN from MADKID performs the opening theme song “¬Ersterbend” (Not Ersterbend).” Chiai Fujikawa performs the ending theme song “Inori (Prayer).” Fujikawa wrote the lyrics of the ending theme song, and the song was composed and arranged by Seima Kondō from Elements Garden.
Sōta Ueno directs the anime at Studio DEEN. Rintarou Ikeda is in charge of series composition. Eri Osada is designing the characters, and Noriyoshi Konuma is the sound director.
Additional staff members include:
- Concept Art: hewa
- Color Design: Imari Katsuragi
- Art Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
- Director of Photography: Shinyo Kondō
- Editing: Haruko Kikuchi
- Sound Effects: Kaori Yamada
- Music: Junichi Matsumoto
- Music Production: Nippon Columbia
Yen Press publishes the light novel series in English and describes the story:
Yuuki wakes up to find herself wearing a maid’s uniform in a strange manor. After wandering into the dining room, she comes across five other girls, each in the exact same outfit. Soon, the girls learn that the manor is brimming with lethal weapons and an array of deadly traps…and that they can only escape by playing the most gruesome of games. As the terrifying truth sets in, each girl’s face goes pale—except Yuuki’s. Why? Because this isn’t her first go-round. That’s right—Yuuki is a professional death game player who lives off the prize money she collects from winning brutal killing competitions, and she’s not about to let this chance pass her by.
