Trillion Game

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• Haru Tennōji (天王寺 陽)
• The self-proclaimed "world's most selfish man" who aims to earn a trillion dollars by establishing Trillion Game. Haru is gifted with high communication skills, intelligence, and physical strength. He is good at negotiating, has an unmatched will to never give up, and will use any means necessary to achieve his goals. As co-founder of Trillion Game, he serves as its liaison, sales representative, and business decision maker.
• He was once a part of Dragon Bank Enterprises, a large corporation runs by the Kokuryū, but quits after they refuse to hire Gaku. 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 Taira (平 学) / Gaku (ガク)
• The main narrator of the story, who established Trillion Game with Haru and serves as 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 on par with professionals: he hacked into Dragon Bank's server and discovered a fault in the company's security system. He unintentionally admitted this during his job interview there, which caught Kirika's attention. His nickname "Gaku" 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) / Kirihime (桐姫)
• The board director of Dragon Bank and the only daughter of its President, Kazuma Kokuryū. She is nicknamed "Kirihime" by the media for her atmosphere and personality. While brilliant and calm, but she is also arrogant and irreverent, treating everyone around her in a business-like manner. Kirika likes people who "can do their job" and has a keen eye for people, as well as a selfish nature inherited from her father. She became obsessed with Haru and Gaku after witnessing what they are capable of and has been trying, unsuccessfully, to bring them under her control. Despite this, there are multiple times when she helps Haru and Gaku, thinking it's more fun that way.
• Rinrin Takahashi (高橋 凜々)
• 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. However, her personality makes her sensitive to even the tiniest detail, a trait neither Haru or Gaku possesses. Before joining Trillion Game, she worked part-timer at a flower shop, which helped her gain extensive knowledge about flowers. Using this, she posed as Trillion Game's then-fake AI system "Torinrin", offering consultations about flower arrangement through the company's online flower shop "Yorinuki". As an actual AI replaced her job and she graduated from college, Rinrin officially become the company's President.

Trillion Game related parties

• Kazuki Kedōin (祁答院 一輝)
• The President of Kedōin Venture capital, as well as Haru and Gaku's first investor. He always wears a cowboy hat, sunglasses, and leather shoes with heart and clover accessories on its soles. Despite his foul-mouthed personality, he is good at looking after his alliance.
• He used to work as manager at a talent agency called God Production, but was forced to leave for covering up one of its talent's scandals, having his life temporarily ruined. After teaming up with Haru, he successfully took over the company and became its President.
• Mizuki (水樹)
• A high school student who works part-time as Kedōin's assistant. She also appears in present timeline working 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".[9]
• Shingo Sakura (桜 心護)
• 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, being described by his employer as someone who is "capable of making good games, but lack of talent to make hits", which caused all of his produced games to result in company loss. The company's first online game, Puchi Puchi Land, a remake of Shingo's first game, became a hit success after Trillion Game successfully employed Dragon Musume's former producer Hebijima into the company.
• Futaba (二葉)
• Nanamori (斜森)
• Ogura (巨椋)

Dragon Bank related parties

• Kazuma Kokuryū (黒龍 一真)
• The president of Dragon Bank and Kirika's father. Selfish just like his daughter, he desires 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 rather buy them out or completely crush them. After the success of Trillion Game's online flower shop catches his attention, he began to imitate all of Trillion Game's business ventures, offers a large sum of money to buy the company, and even asked Haru to marry his daughter in order to make him part of Kokuryū.
• Nagase (長瀬)
• 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.
• Tōru Hebijima (蛇島 透)

Others

• Sumeragi (皇)
• Akari Shirotora (白虎 あかり)
• Kunugi (功刀)

Manga

Written by Riichiro Inagaki and illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami, Trillion Game was serialized in Shogakukan's manga magazine Big Comic Superior from December 11, 2020, to December 12, 2025.[15][16][17] Shogakukan has collected its chapters into eleven volumes, released from March 30, 2021,[18] to January 30, 2026.

In February 2024, Viz Media announced that they licensed the manga for English publication on September 17 of the same year.[19]

Volumes

Live-action

A television drama adaptation was announced on March 23, 2023.[41][42] 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.[43][44][45] Snow Man performs the theme song "Dangerholic."[4][46][47] The drama began streaming on Netflix worldwide in October 2023.[48]

A live-action film, a sequel to the drama series, featuring the same staff and cast, premiered on February 14, 2025.[49][50][51][52] The film's theme song is "SBY", performed by Snow Man.[53]

Anime

An anime television series adaptation was announced in September 2023.[54][55] It was produced by Madhouse and directed by Yuzo Sato, with Ryunosuke Kingetsu overseeing series scripts, Kei Tsuchiya designing the characters, and Takurō Iga composing the music.[56][57] The series aired from October 4, 2024, to March 28, 2025, on TBS and other networks,[58][59][60][61] For the first cours, the opening theme song is "Beat the Odds", performed by &Team, while the ending theme song is "Unbelievable" (アンビリーバブル), performed by Klang Ruler.[7] For the second cours, the opening theme song is "Over the Top", performed by Hiroji Miyamoto, while the ending theme song is "Egoist", performed by imase.[13]

Crunchyroll streams the series outside of Asia,[63] with an English dub premiered on October 17, 2024.[2] Medialink licensed the series in Southeast, South, and Central Asia, and Oceania (except Australia and New Zealand) for streaming on Ani-One Asia's YouTube channel.[64]

Episodes