High-Stakes Games

Sixteen Magical Girls are gathered inside a new game that gives them no simple way to walk away. Every three days, their Magical Phones pull them into an RPG-like world where they fight enemies, solve puzzles, and collect Magical Candy in order to advance together.Cooperation begins cracking when they learn that ten billion yen waits at the end, and only the players who land the finishing blow can claim it. Friendships and alliances become possible betrayals, while every choice between helping another player and getting ahead carries a real cost. Worse, losing all of their hit points means far more than a simple game over. Under brutal rules and growing suspicion, each girl must decide whom she can trust and what is worth risking her life for.

Ganta Igarashi's class is preparing to visit Deadman Wonderland, a privately run prison that doubles as a grotesque amusement park, when a mysterious figure in red massacres everyone except him. Instead of being treated as the sole survivor, Ganta is framed for the killings, condemned to death, and sent to the very prison his class was meant to tour.Inside, inmates are turned into entertainment and survival depends on obeying cruel rules enforced by a lethal collar. Ganta soon discovers that something unnatural has changed inside his own body as well. To stay alive and clear his name, he must endure the prison's deadly spectacles while searching for the Red Man who destroyed his life and uncovering what Deadman Wonderland is truly hiding.

The Final Killing Game has left the Future Foundation shattered, but one last crisis threatens to replace despair with something just as dangerous. Ryota Mitarai prepares to broadcast a video capable of forcing hope directly into the minds of humanity, erasing the despair he hates along with the freedom to choose.Makoto Naegi and the remaining survivors race to stop him, only to receive help from the restored members of Class 77-B, people once consumed by Ultimate Despair. Their return transforms the final confrontation into a question larger than victory: whether hope has any meaning when it is imposed, and whether those who caused terrible harm can still choose to atone and move forward.

Neku Sakuraba wakes in the middle of Shibuya’s crowded Scramble Crossing with no memory of how he arrived. He soon learns that he is trapped in an unseen layer of the city, unable to interact normally with the living. A mysterious message assigns him a timed mission, with one simple penalty for failure: erasure.To survive, Neku forms a pact with Shiki Misaki and enters the Reapers’ Game, where every day brings a new objective and hostile creatures called Noise. Neku has always preferred shutting other people out, but this game makes partnership a condition of staying alive. As the missions grow more dangerous, the people he meets and the secrets hidden beneath Shibuya force him to confront why he entered the game at all.

The dead sometimes awaken in the bar Quindecim with no memory of how they arrived. Bartender Decim places each pair into a seemingly ordinary game such as darts, bowling, or air hockey, then ties pain and consequences to memories from their lives until emotions they once hid are forced into the open. He uses what he sees to send each soul toward reincarnation or the void. Decim rarely questions this system until a woman arrives whose memories are missing and whose nature he cannot judge by the usual rules. Keeping her beside him forces Decim to observe humans rather than reduce them to one moment of fear, revealing that deciding the value of an entire life may be far harder than determining who lost a game.

Two men awaken in an elegant bar with no memory of arriving there. The bartender Decim explains that they cannot leave until they complete a game chosen by roulette, and that they must play as though their lives depend on the outcome.The selected game is billiards, but the balls bear disturbing connections to their bodies and memories begin returning as tension rises. Competition strips away the dignity both men brought to the table, revealing the fear and violence that Decim intends to judge.

The student council's authority begins to crack as Yumeko Jabami becomes more influential, so Kirari Momobami announces an election that will decide a new president in 30 days. Every student receives a single voting chip, and whoever gathers the most will control both the council and the Momobami clan. 11 members of the clan's branch families transfer into Hyakkaou, each armed with a different talent for gambling, manipulation, or deception. Yumeko has little interest in political power, but the election gives her exactly what she loves: higher stakes, stranger opponents, and games where losing can cost far more than a title.

Koyuki Himekawa loves the social game Magical Girl Raising Project, never expecting its promise to choose a few players as real magical girls to be true. After becoming Snow White, she joins other chosen girls in using genuine powers to help people and earn Magical Candies for their good deeds.Then the mascot Fav announces that there are too many magical girls and their number must be cut in half. The girl with the fewest candies will lose her powers, but the first elimination reveals that losing means far more than returning to ordinary life. As new rules reward betrayal and desperation, a friendly competition becomes a lethal struggle in which kindness itself can be exploited.

In underground mahjong parlors, money is not always the most valuable thing on the table. Crushing debts, human organs, and lives themselves can become stakes. Among these players is high school student Kei, known in the underworld as 'K of Ice' for his expressionless calm and ability to read opponents without giving anything away.Kei enters games where a single mistake can destroy far more than his bankroll, facing veteran gamblers willing to use deception and violence when tiles are not enough. His cold manner hides a personal reason for remaining in this world, and a girl living in his home is connected to the most dangerous part of his secret life.

Kaiji Itou is left with an enormous debt after a former coworker uses him as a guarantor and disappears. With little money and no real future, Kaiji is offered an impossible way out by a debt collector: one night of gambling aboard the ship Espoir could erase everything he owes.Once aboard, he discovers that the simple-looking games are engineered to make desperate people betray one another, and losing can mean far more than money; years of forced labor await those who fall deepest. Kaiji has no special strength and no reliable luck. His only weapon is the ability to read people and keep thinking when fear becomes panic. Every gamble he survives merely leads to a larger, crueler wager, as though the world of debt will release him only after he risks his life itself.

Nao Kanzaki is so painfully honest that deception barely seems to exist in her world. Then a mysterious package containing 100 million yen arrives at her door and pulls her into the Liar Game, a competition where contestants are rewarded for stealing one another's money through manipulation and deceit. Losing does not simply mean defeat, but a crushing debt that can follow a person for life.After being tricked almost immediately, Nao turns to Shinichi Akiyama, a brilliant former psychology student and notorious swindler newly released from prison. Akiyama understands how people lie; Nao stubbornly believes they can still choose not to. Together they enter a succession of psychological battles where every alliance can be a trap, and where Nao's seemingly disastrous honesty may prove more dangerous to the game itself than any clever deception.

Hope's Peak Academy welcomes Chisa Yukizome as the energetic new teacher of Class 77-B, a room filled with extraordinary students whose talents are matched only by their eccentricities. Chisa throws herself into bringing the class together, while gamer Chiaki Nanami gradually becomes the heart connecting its scattered members.Elsewhere, Reserve Course student Hajime Hinata aches for a talent of his own and becomes entangled in the academy's secret research. As Junko Enoshima begins spreading despair from the shadows, ordinary school days twist into manipulation, tragedy, and the chain of events that will destroy Hope's Peak and plunge the world into its greatest catastrophe.

Akira Shiroyanagi loves games more than almost anything, so when a mysterious woman named Mion abducts him and announces that he has been placed in a combat experiment, he reacts less like a victim than his captors expect. Participants receive special abilities and are forced into battles that can become lethal. Akira's own power is unusually psychological: it becomes whatever his opponent believes it to be. Instead of relying on brute force, he turns information, deception, and the way other people think into weapons. His goal is not merely to survive the next round. He wants to understand the organization running the experiments and find a way to turn its own rules against it.

Kaname Sudou accepts a mysterious invitation on his phone and is immediately trapped in Darwin's Game, a deadly competition whose players fight using supernatural abilities called Sigils. His first encounters teach him that losing can mean death, and that there is no simple way to uninstall the game and walk away.Kaname survives attacks from experienced opponents and discovers that his own Sigil lets him recreate objects he understands. His clash with the undefeated Shuka changes his position in the game completely, leaving the newcomer with a dangerous ally, powerful enemies, and an urgent need to learn the rules before the next player decides to hunt him.