Trillion Game

Trillion Game (Japanese: トリリオンゲーム, Hepburn: Toririon Gēmu) is a Japanese manga series written by Riichiro Inagaki and illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Superior since December 2020. A television drama adaptation aired from July to September 2023. An anime television series adaptation has been announced.

Trillion Game
First tankōbon volume cover
トリリオンゲーム
(Toririon Gēmu)
Manga
Written byRiichiro Inagaki
Illustrated byRyoichi Ikegami
Published byShogakukan
MagazineBig Comic Superior
DemographicSeinen
Original runDecember 11, 2020 – present
Volumes7
Television drama
Directed byYoshiaki Murao
Produced by
  • Akiko Matsumoto
  • Hiromi Matsushita
  • Shoichi Kato
Written byDaisuke Habara
Licensed byNetflix
Original networkTBS
Original run July 14, 2023 – September 15, 2023
Episodes10
Anime television series
Original networkTBS

Plot

The founders of big company Trillion Game, Haru and Gaku, are two young men who become the first Japanese people in the 21st century to be listed in the top 10 of The World's Billionaires. The story takes from Gaku's prespective, who recalled how he came this far: his first encounter with Haru, their first establishment of Trillion Game, and people who are involved with the success of the company.

Characters

Main
Haru Tennōji (天王寺 陽, Tennōji Haru)
Portrayed by: Ren Meguro[1]
A self-proclaimed "world's most selfish man" who aims to earn trillion dollars by establishing the Trillion Game. Haru is gifted with high communication skills, intelligence, and physical strength. He is good at negotiating, has unmatched will to never give up, and willing to use any means necessary to achieve his goals. As co-founder of Trillion Game, he serves as its liaison, sales representative, as well business decision maker.
He was once got a part of Dragon Bank, a large corporation runs by the Kokuryū, but quits on day one because Gaku was not hired. He values Gaku and his engineering ability and would support him anytime. His speciality dish is a large-portion spicy fried rice. He is multilingual; fluent in including, but not limited to English, Chinese, and French.
It is still unknown why he is nowhere to be seen in the present timeline.
Manabu "Gaku" Taira (平 学, Taira Manabu)
Portrayed by: Hayato Sano[1]
The narrator in most part of the story, who established Trilion Game with Haru and serves as the President of the company in the present timeline. Contrary to Haru, he is reclusive, timid, socially awkward, and weak-willed. His first encounter with Haru was when he saved Gaku from being bullied, where Haru found out about Gaku's talent. A computer otaku who, despite being self-taught, has a skill that is on par with professionals: he hacked into Dragon Bank's server, even found out the fault in the company's security system. He unintentionally admitted this during his job interview there, which caught Kirika's attention. His nickname "Gaku" (ガク) is the result of the on'yomi reading of his first name.
One of his treasured asset is a ¥200,000 (around $1,300) office chair that Haru bought for him using their starting fund.
Kirika Kokuryū (黒龍 キリカ, Kokuryū Kirika) / Kirihime (桐姫)
Portrayed by: Mio Imada[2]
The board director of Dragon Bank as well the only daughter of its President Kazuma Kokuryū. She is nicknamed "Kirihime" by media for her atmosphere and personality. A brilliant, calm, but arrogant and irreverent, she treats everyone around her in business-like manner. Kirika likes people who "can do their job" and has a keen eye for people as well selfish nature inherited from her father. She became obsessed with Haru and Gaku after witnessing what's they capable of and has been trying to take them under her control, though none resulted in success. Despite this, there's multiple times when she helps Haru and Gaku, thinking it's more fun that way.
Rinrin Takahashi (高橋 凜々, Takahashi Rinrin)
Portrayed by: Riko Fukumoto[3]
The President of Trillion Game, who was only a college student when she was hired. She is known for being too stiff, which was a part of the failure in her job hunting. But also because of her personality, she is sensitive to even very smallest detailーsomething that neither Haru or Gaku posses. Before joining Trillion Game, she worked as a part-timer at a flower shop, which explains her knowledge about flowers. Using this, she posed as Trillion Game's then-fake "AI system" that offers consultation about flower arrangement in the company's online flower shop "Yorinuki" under name "Torinrin." As an actual AI replaced her job and she graduated from college, Rinrin officially become the company's President.
Kazuki Kedōin (祁答院 一輝, Kedōin Kazuki)
Portrayed by: Kōji Kikkawa[4]
The President of Kedōin Venture capital as well Haru and Gaku's first investor. He is noticeable always seen wearing a cowboy hat, sunglasses, and leather shoes with heart and clover accessories on its soles. Despite his foul-mouthed personality, he seems to be good looking after his alliance.
He used to work as a manager at talent agency God Production but was forced to step out for covering one of its talent's scandal, having his life temporarily ruined. After teaming up with Haru, he successfully taking over the company and becoming its President.
Mizuki (水樹)
Portrayed by: Akari Ayase[5]
A high school student who works part-time as Kedōin's assistant. She also appears in present timeline where she works for Gaku. She has sharp tongue and does not hesitate to speak up against Kedōin or Gaku.
In the live-action drama, she is always seen with sailor school uniform and has her first name revealed, being named Fūka (風華), whilst in the manga she has seen wearing other clothes and has only been called "Mizuki."[6]
Shingo Sakura (桜 心護, Sakura Shingo)
Portrayed by: Yoshitaka Hara
The former President of Sakusaku Lab, a small indie game company that Haru and Gaku acquired to rival Dragon Bank's big hit game "Dragon Musume." He takes pride in game making; his employe describe as someone who is "capable of making good games, but lack of talent to make him hits" which caused all of his produced game resulted in company loss. The company's first online game, "Puchi Puchi Land," is Sakura's first produced game that gets a remake. It became a hit success after Trillion Game successfully employed Dragon Musume's former producer Hebijima into the company.
Kazuma Kokuryū (黒龍 一真, Kokuryū Kazuma)
Portrayed by: Jun Kunimura[7]
The president of Dragon Bank and Kirika's father. Selfish just like his daughter, he calls his desire for control and ownership of anything that gets in the way of his business. He confessed that he does not like fighting his rivals, and would either buy them over, or just completely crush them. After Trillion Game's online flower Yorinuki's success catches his attention, he started to imitate all the business attempt that Trillion Game does, and offering a large sum of money take Trillion Game under his control. He even asked Haru to marry his daughter in order to make him part of Kokuryū.
Nagase (長瀬)
Portrayed by: Terunosuke Takezai[7]
Kirika's personal bodyguard and assistant who always looks irritated whenever Haru and Gaku approach her. His first name Tadanori (忠則) was never revealed in the manga.

Media

Manga

Written by Riichiro Inagaki and illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami, Trillion Game started in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Superior on December 11, 2020.[8][9] Shogakukan has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on March 30, 2021.[10] As of July 12, 2023, seven volumes have been released.[11]

Volumes
No. Japanese release date Japanese ISBN
1 March 30, 2021[12]978-4-09-861010-5
2 August 4, 2021[13]978-4-09-861113-3
3 January 4, 2022[14]978-4-09-861228-4
4 July 4, 2022[15]978-4-09-861320-5
5 October 28, 2022[16]978-4-09-861456-1
6 March 30, 2023[17]978-4-09-861605-3
7 July 12, 2023[11]978-4-09-861853-8

Drama

A television drama adaptation was announced on March 23, 2023.[18] The series stars Ren Meguro as Haru Tennōji and Hayato Sano as Manabu "Gaku" Taira, and aired on TBS from July 14 to September 15, 2023.[19][20] Snow Man performs the theme song "Dangerholic."[2][1] The drama began streaming on Netflix worldwide in October 2023.[21]

Anime

An anime television series adaptation was announced on September 15, 2023. It will air on TBS and other networks.[22]

Reception

By September 2023, the manga had over 1.5 million copies in circulation.[23] Trillion Game was one of the fifty nominees for the Next Manga Award in 2021.[24][25] It ranked eighth on Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2022 list of best manga for male readers.[26][27] It was nominated for the 15th Manga Taishō in 2022 and placed sixth with 55 points.[28][29]

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