Trillion Game

Template:Nihongo is a Japanese manga series written by Riichiro Inagaki and illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's [[Seinen manga|Template:Transliteration manga]] magazine Big Comic Superior since December 2020, with its chapters collected in nine Template:Transliteration volumes Template:As of. It is licensed for English release in North America by Viz Media.

A television drama adaptation aired from July to September 2023. An anime television series adaptation produced by Madhouse premiered in October 2024. A live-action film adaptation is set to premiere in February 2025.

The series won the 69th Shogakukan Manga Award in 2024.

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 place from Gaku's perspective, who recalls 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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 Template:Nihongo, whilst in the manga she has seen wearing other clothes and has only been called "Mizuki."

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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.

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Dragon Bank related parties

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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.

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Kirika's personal bodyguard and assistant who always looks irritated whenever Haru and Gaku approach her. His first name Template:Nihongo was never revealed in the manga.

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Media

Manga

Written by Riichiro Inagaki and illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami, Trillion Game started in Shogakukan's [[Seinen manga|Template:Transliteration manga]] magazine Big Comic Superior on December 11, 2020. Shogakukan has collected its chapters into individual Template:Transliteration volumes. The first volume was released on March 30, 2021. As of April 30, 2024, nine volumes have been released.

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

Live-action

A television drama adaptation was announced on March 23, 2023. 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. Snow Man performs the theme song "Dangerholic." The drama began streaming on Netflix worldwide in October 2023.

A live-action film, featuring the same cast and staff from the drama series, is set to premiere on February 14, 2025. The film's theme song is "SBY", performed by Snow Man.

Anime

An anime television series adaptation was announced in September 2023. It is produced by Madhouse and directed by Template:Ill, with Ryunosuke Kingetsu overseeing series scripts, Kei Tsuchiya designing the characters, and Takurō Iga composing the music. The series premiered on October 4, 2024, on TBS and other networks,Template:Efn and will run for two consecutive cours. For the first cours, the opening theme song is "Beat the Odds", performed by &Team, while the ending theme song is Template:Nihongo, performed by Template:Ill. 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.

Crunchyroll is streaming the series outside of Asia, with an English dub premiered on October 17, 2024. 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.

Reception

By September 2023, the manga had over 1.5 million copies in circulation. Trillion Game was one of the fifty nominees for the Next Manga Award in 2021. It ranked eighth on Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2022 list of best manga for male readers. It was nominated for the 15th Manga Taishō in 2022 and placed sixth with 55 points. Along with The Elusive Samurai, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, and Sūji de Asobo, Trillion Game won the 69th Shogakukan Manga Award in 2024.Template:Efn

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