During AnimeJapan 2026, the staff of the anime adaptation of Yūshi Ukai and Nekometal’s SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table light novel series confirmed that a new theatrical anime, subtitled 44:CLOUDY BEACH, will open on July 10 in theaters in Japan. The 44:CLOUDY BEACH anime sees Yuki take part in a “Cloudy Beach” game, continuing the death game shenanigans from SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table. The anime will only be screening for two weeks.
SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table is streaming on Crunchyroll with English subtitles and an English dub. Netflix is also streaming the anime.
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.
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
- Wakana Maruoka as Keito
- Shion Wakayama as Kotoha
- Rui Tanabe as Chie
- Rio Tsuchiya as Mishiro
The English dub cast includes:
- 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
The English dub crew includes:
- Voice Director: Alex von David
- Producer: Eric P. Sherman
- Mixer: Ben Harrington
- Engineer: Jonathan Jay Brannen
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.
