The SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table X/Twitter account has revealed a visual of protagonist Yuki, wounded but with an undaunted expression, ahead of next week’s final episode.
The anime’s current arc depicts Yuki’s ninth death game, Candle Woods, which has proven to be a remarkably bloody affair.
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SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table began airing on January 7 with an extended-length first episode. It adapts the MF Bunko J light novel series written by Yushi Ukai and illustrated by Nekometaru. Yen Press describes the books’ synopsis as such:
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 novel series began in November 2022 and has nine volumes as of January 2026. There is a manga 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)
• 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)
• Sound director: Noriyoshi Konuma (Days With My Step Sister)
• Music composer: Junichi Matsumoto (The Ancient Magus’ Bride)
• Animation production: Studio Deen
Cast (Candle Woods)
• Chiyuki Miura as Yuki
• Yume Miyamoto as Airi
• Rina Honizumi as Kyara
• Ayana Taketatsu as Sumiyaka
• Shizuka Ito as Hakushi
• Natsuko Abe as Moegi
Source: @shibouyugi_
