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SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table 44: Cloudy Beach Anime Film Streams in Southeast Asia on July 13

Kadokawa announced on Monday that the SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table 44: CLOUDY BEACH anime film will stream on Muse Asia and iQIYI in Asia, on Bahamut Animation Madness in Hong Kong, on Transvision and catchplay in Indonesia, on catchplay in Singapore, on True Visions and bilibili in Thailand, and on Twitch,  MOD&Hami Video, My-Video, FriDay, Bahamut Animation Madness, LiTV&Ofiii, LineTV, catchplay, Renta!, and CNS bbTV in Taiwan.

The film will also stream on Netflix worldwide.

The movie will have a limited two-week screening run in Japan starting on July 10.

The film stars:

• Aino Shimada as Maguma
• Anna Nagase as Essei
• Hikaru Tōno as Mozuku
• Konomi Inagaki as Hizumi
• Riko Akechi as Mitsuba
• Yukari Tamura as Koyomi
• Yume Miyamoto as Airi

The film's story continues from the series, after Yuuki overcomes the "thirty-game-jinx," the arbitrary (yet nevertheless real) number of games where long-time survivors of the games begin to have drastically reduced rates of survival. Yuuki continues playing games, this time on a remote island in the middle of the ocean with seven other players, and among them is someone Yuuki knows. The game they are about to play is called "Cloudy Beach."

SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table, the television anime of writer Yūshi Ukai and artist Nekometal's Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table (Shibō Yūgi de Meshi o Kuu) light novel series, debuted on January 7, and the first episode was 60 minutes long.

Muse Asia streamed the anime as it aired. Netflix is also streaming the anime.

The film features a returning staff. Sōta Ueno (Days With My Stepsister) is directing the anime at Studio DEEN. Rintarou Ikeda (The Seven Deadly Sins: Dragon's Judgement) is in charge of series composition. Eri Osada (Blade & Soul) is designing the characters. Noriyoshi Konuma (The Dangers in My Heart) is the sound director.

The staff also includes:

• Concept Art: hewa
• Sub-Character Design: Keika Ōtsuka, Sōta Komatsu
• Prop Design: Sonoka Kuroiwa
• Color Key Artist: Imari Katsuragi
• Art Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
• Compositing Director of Photography: Shinyo Kondō
• Editing: Haruko Kikuchi, Keiko Onodera
• Sound Production: Bit Grooove Promotion
• Sound Effects: Kaori Yamada
• Music: Junichi Matsumoto
• Music Production: Nippon Columbia

Yen Press licensed the light novel series and describes the story:

Yuuki wakes up to find herself wearing a maid's uniform in a strange manor. After wandering into the dining room, she comes across five other girls, each in the exact same outfit. Soon, the girls learn that the manor is brimming with lethal weapons and an array of deadly traps…and that they can only escape by playing the most gruesome of games. As the terrifying truth sets in, each girl's face goes pale—except Yuuki's. Why? Because this isn't her first go-round. That's right—Yuuki is a professional death game player who lives off the prize money she collects from winning brutal killing competitions, and she's not about to let this chance pass her by.

Kadokawa's MF Bunko J imprint published the light novel series' first volume in November 2022, after the series won the Excellence Award at the 18th MF Bunko J Light Novel Newcomer Award that same year. The novels' 10th volume shipped on June 25.

The light novel series also ranked #1 in the New Title category of Takarajimasha's 2024 Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! (This Light Novel Is Amazing!) rankings.

Banzai Kotobuki Daienkai launched a manga adaptation in Kadokawa's Comp Ace magazine in April 2023. Kadokawa published the manga's fifth volume on January 23.

Source: Press release