New details for the Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table TV anime adaptation reveal that it will premiere in January 2026, and that Studio Deen is its animation production studio.
The show’s director is Sota Ueno, who previously helmed 2024’s Days With My Step Sister TV anime. Also part of the staff are Rintaro Ikeda (Insomniacs After School) as series composer, Eri Osada (Blade and Soul co-character designer and co-chief animation director, Suicide Squad ISEKAI director) as character designer, and Noriyoshi Konuma (Days With My Step Sister) as sound director.
Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table is based on the MF Bunko J light novel series written by Yushi Ukai and illustrated by Nekometaru, which debuted in November 2022 and has seven volumes as of September 2024.
Synopsis:
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.
