About this season
Kanazawa Nobuaki has transferred to a high school far from where he used to live. Due to an incident at his old school, Nobuaki is afraid of getting close to his new classmates and keeps himself at a distance, but he starts opening up because of a sports day inter-class relay. Then a single text message from someone calling themselves the "King" is sent to everyone in class. Nobuaki's classmates think it's a simple prank and don't take it seriously - but Nobuaki knows that a death game is about to begin, and struggles to oppose it...
Episodes (12)
1. Begin Again (Break Again)
Aired 5 October 2017 • 25 min
Transfer student Kanazawa Nobuaki has a secret--one that makes him afraid of making friends with his new class. His classmates aren't so easily pushed away, and start breaking down the wall around his heart. But it might all fall apart when the entire class recieves orders for something called the King's Game...
2. Chaos (Scars Disorder)
Aired 12 October 2017 • 25 min
Nobuaki begins to tell the story of the King's Game that happened at his old school to his new classmates, who have just witnessed the death of one of their own firsthand. The orders started out simple enough, but quickly escalated...
3. Friendship (Melting Emotion)
Aired 19 October 2017 • 25 min
Kenta comes to Nobuaki's rescue, but a suddenly changed Natsuko urges Mizuki to kill both of them. Then, Nobuaki continues the story of the last King's Game, which moved on to a deadly popularity vote...
4. Breakthrough (Solution | Hades)
Aired 26 October 2017 • 25 min
Nobuaki, Kenta, and Mizuki leave for the abandoned village where the first King's Game took place. On the trip, Nobuaki tells them what happened when he theorized that King was a member of his old class...
5. Wail (Karma | Tears)
Aired 2 November 2017 • 25 min
The death count rises as Nobuaki and classmates try to find a way out of the game. Can they figure out the meaning of the cryptic newest order before it kills them all?
6. Revolt (Counter | Oppress)
Aired 9 November 2017 • 25 min
Only ten members of Nobuaki's original class remain. This time, the number of lives that will be claimed is left up to a gruesome game of chance...
7. Eternity (Forever | Dread)
Aired 16 November 2017 • 25 min
Nobuaki, Kenta, and Mizuki arrive in Yonaki Village to search for clues about the first King's Game.
8. Determination (Blood | Judgment)
Aired 23 November 2017 • 25 min
Riona asks Nobuaki to meet her--and shares a secret about Natsuko. Plus, the new day brings with it a new order for everyone in class...
9. Solidarity (Wedge | Binds)
Aired 30 November 2017 • 25 min
Teruaki carries out a plan to take back the upper hand from Natsuko, who stole Teruaki and Nobuaki's phones--but will it work?
10. Race (Evil | Run)
Aired 7 December 2017 • 25 min
The next order is a race, and Nobuaki begins in dead last place...
11. Advance (Forward | Invade)
Aired 14 December 2017 • 25 min
Nobuaki and Riona are still in last place of the deadly race, with a scheduled punishment coming up--how will they decide who survives?
12. Demise (End | Grudge)
Aired 21 December 2017 • 25 min
The survivors of the race barely have any time to catch their breath before the next grotesque order arrives from King. Can Nobuaki and Natsuko put their differences aside to find a way to end the King's Game?