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No Game, No Life (ノーゲーム・ノーライフ Nōgēmu Nōraifu) is a light novel series by Yuu Kamiya. An anime television series adaptation by Madhouse premiered on April 9, 2014 and it ran till June 25, 2014.[1] The manga adaption of the series is also currently in serialization in Monthly Comic Alive.The Anime managed to secure a massive fan base which has spawned more than a decade.
Plot
Sora and Shiro are brother and sister, and they both have reputations as brilliant NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) hikikomori (shut-in) gamers. Their skills have even spawned urban legends all over the Internet. Unfortunately, these two gamers consider the real world to be just another "crappy game," and end up having the shock of a lifetime when they are summoned by a God named "Tet" to an alternate world.
There, Tet has prohibited war and declared this to be a world where "everything is decided by games" — even national borders. Humanity has been driven back into one remaining city by the other races. Will Sora and Shiro, the good-for-nothing brother and sister whose lives are all about gaming, become the "Saviors of Humanity" in this alternate world? The Anime has managed to secure a massive fan base which has spawned more than a decade. The MyAnimeList score of NGNL is 8.29/10, a very high score indeed. Also it is ranked in top 300 Anime-OF-All-Time list on the same platform. Another proof of NGNL’s massive popularity is its 9th position in MAL Popularity rankings.[2]
Cast
| Character | Japanese Voice Actor | English Voice Actor |
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| Sora | Matsuoka Yoshitsugu | Scott Gibbs |
| Shiro | Kayano Ai | Caitlynn French |
| Stephanie Dola | Hikasa Youko | Sara Ornelas |
| Jibril | Tamura Yukari | Amelia Fischer |
| Chlammy Zell | Iguchi Yuka | Kara Greenberg |
| Fiel Nirvalen | Noto Mamiko | Christina Stroup |
| Izuna Hatsuse | Sawashiro Miyuki | Kira Vincent-Davis |
| Tet | Kugimiya Rie | Shannon Emerick |
Release
Light Novel
| # | Japanese Release Date | English Release Date | Japanese ISBN | English ISBN |
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| 1 | April 25, 2012 |
April 21, 2015 |
ISBN: 978-4-8401-4546-6 | ISBN: 978-0-3163-8311-0 |
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No Game No Life 1: It Seems Gamer Siblings Will Conquer a Fantasy World (ノーゲーム・ノーライフ１ ゲーマー兄妹がファンタジー世界を征服するそうです) Pages: 275 English Pages: 176 Price: ¥580 Cover Characters: Shiro, Sora | |||
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| 2 | September 25, 2012 |
July 21, 2015 |
ISBN: 978-4-8401-4819-1 | ISBN: 978-0-3163-8517-6 |
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No Game No Life 2: The Gamer Siblings Seem to Have Their Sights on the Land of Kemonomimi (ノーゲーム・ノーライフ２ ゲーマー兄妹が獣耳っ子の国に目をつけたようです) Pages: 273 English Pages: 192 Price: ¥580 Cover Characters: Jibril | |||
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| 3 | January 25, 2013 |
October 27, 2015 |
ISBN: 978-4-8401-4958-7 | ISBN: 978-0-3163-8519-0 |
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No Game No Life 3: A Half of the Gamer Siblings Seems to Have Disappeared...? (ノーゲーム・ノーライフ３ ゲーマー兄妹の片割れが消えたようですが……? Pages: 293 English Pages: 208 Price: ¥580 Cover Characters: Hatsuse Izuna | |||
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| 4 | June 25, 2013 |
March 22, 2016 |
ISBN: 978-4-8401-5185-6 | ISBN: 978-0-3163-8521-3 |
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No Game No Life 4: The Gamer Siblings Have Run Away From a Realistic Romance Game (ノーゲーム・ノーライフ４ ゲーマー兄妹はリアル恋愛ゲームから逃げ出しました) Pages: 261 English Pages: 192 Price: ¥580 Cover Characters: Plum | |||
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| 5 | November 25, 2013 |
December 20, 2016 |
ISBN: 978-4-0406-6080-6 | ISBN: 978-0-3163-8523-7 |
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No Game No Life 5: It Appears the Gamer Siblings Hate New Game Plus (ノーゲーム・ノーライフ5 ゲーマー兄妹は強くてニューゲームがお嫌いなようです) Pages: 209 English Pages: 208 Price: ¥580 Cover Characters: Azril | |||
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| 6 | April 25, 2014 |
July 25, 2017 |
ISBN: 978-4-0406-6382-1 | ISBN: 978-0-3163-8526-8 |
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No Game No Life 6: It Seems the Gamer Couple Challenged The World (ノーゲーム・ノーライフ６ ゲーマー夫嫁は世界に挑んだそうです) Pages: 325 English Pages: 240 Price: ¥580 Cover Characters: Tet | |||
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| 7 | July 24, 2015 |
October 30, 2018 |
ISBN: 978-4-04-067494-0 | ISBN: 978-0-316-316443-9 |
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No Game No Life 7: The Gamer Siblings will Apparently Overturn the World (Standards) (ノーゲーム・ノーライフ ７ゲーマー兄妹は定石を覆すそうです) Pages: 311 English Pages: 240 Price: ¥580 Cover Characters: Miko, Sora, Shiro, Stephanie Dola, Jibril, Plum, Hatsuse Ino, Hatsuse Izuna | |||
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| 8 | December 25, 2015 |
April 2, 2019 |
ISBN: 978-4-04-067952-5 | ISBN: 978-0-316-50266-5 |
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No Game No Life 8: It Appears the Gamers will Inherit the Strategy (ノーゲーム・ノーライフ8 ゲーマーたちは布石を継いでいくそうです) Pages: 328 English Pages: 224 Price: ¥580 Cover Characters: Holou | |||
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| 9 | August 25, 2016 |
October 29, 2019 |
ISBN: 978-4-04-068457-4 | ISBN: 978-0-316-47134-3 |
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No Game No Life 9: It Seems the Gamer Siblings are Resting for One Turn (ノーゲーム・ノーライフ9 ゲーマー兄妹は一ターン休むそうです) Pages: 328 English Pages: 224 Price: ¥580 Cover Characters: Emir-Eins | |||
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| 10 | December 25, 2017 |
February 18, 2020 |
ISBN: 978-4-04-069336-1 | ISBN: 978-1-9753-8678-8 |
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No Game No Life 10: It Seems the Gamer Siblings are Paid in the Past (ノーゲーム・ノーライフ10 ゲーマー兄妹は過去を払わされるようです) Pages: 343 English Pages: 224 Price: ¥580 Cover Characters: Nýi Tilvilg | |||
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| 11 | November 25, 2021 |
May 17, 2022 |
ISBN: 978-4-04-065382-2 | ISBN: 978-1-9753-4549-5 |
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No Game No Life 11: It Seems the Gamer Siblings and Friends Can’t Leave Unless They Become Couples! (ノーゲーム・ノーライフ１１ ゲーマー兄妹たちはカップルにならなきゃ出られないそうです) Pages: 392 English Pages: 280 Price: ¥792 Cover Characters: Foeniculum | |||
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| 12 | February 25, 2023 |
December 5, 2023 |
ISBN: 978-4-04-682039-6 | ISBN: 978-1-97-537035-0 |
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No Game No Life 12: It Seems the Gamer Siblings and Friends Will Challenge the Devil! (ノーゲーム・ノーライフ12 ゲーマー兄妹たちは『魔王』に挑むようです) Pages: 360 English Pages: 280 Price: ¥748 Cover Characters: Shelah Ha and the Devil | |||
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| # | Japanese Release Date | English Release Date | Japanese ISBN | English ISBN |
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| Special 1 | December 23, 2016 |
October 5, 2021 |
ISBN: 978-4-04-068767-4 | ISBN: 978-1-975-31967-0 |
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No Game No Life Gaiden: Practical War Game (ノーゲーム・ノーライフ プラクティカルウォーゲーム) Pages: 328 Price: ¥580 Cover Characters: Think Nirvalen Shiro, Sora (Special Edition) | |||
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Manga
The manga adaptation is written by Yuu Kamiya and illustrated by Mashiro Hiiragi, who are also the author and illustrator of the light novels. Serialization began in the monthly seinen manga magazine Comic Alive, published by Media Factory, on January 27, 2013. It has been collected in a single tankoubon volume as of December 2013. The North American publisher Seven Seas Entertainment released an English adaptation of the manga in October 2014.
No Game No Life Part 1
| # | Japanese Release Date | English Release Date | Japanese ISBN | English ISBN |
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| 1 | November 1, 2013 |
October 21, 2014 |
ISBN: 978-4-0406-6114-8 | ISBN: 978-1-6269-2079-8 |
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No Game No Life 1 (ノーゲーム・ノーライフ １) Pages: 156 English Pages: 192 Price: ¥524 Cover Characters: Sora, Shiro | |||
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| 2 | February 23, 2018 |
January 15, 2019 |
ISBN: 978-7-204-09373-1 | ISBN: 978-1-642-75037-9 |
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No Game No Life 2 (ノーゲーム・ノーライフ ２) Pages: 146 English Pages: 180 Price: ¥594 Cover Characters: Stephanie Dola | |||
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No Game No Life Part 2
| # | Japanese Release Date | English Release Date | Japanese ISBN | English ISBN |
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| 1 | June 22, 2022 |
TBA |
ISBN: 978-4-0468-1079-3 | TBA |
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ノーゲーム・ノーライフ 第二章 東部連合編 １ Pages: Price: ¥671 Cover Characters: Sora, Shiro | |||
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| 2 | February 21, 2023 |
TBA |
ISBN: 978-4-0468-2141-6 | TBA |
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ノーゲーム・ノーライフ 第二章 東部連合編 ２ Pages: Price: ¥671 Cover Characters: Jibril | |||
| Content: TBA | ||||
Anime
The episode titles follow the titles of each chapter in the light novels. Most of the episode titles, like in Love, Chuunibyou, and Other Delusions, have Japanese titles written in kanji instead of the normal spelling.
| No. | Image | Title | Animation Director | Writer | Air Date |
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Beginner ( |
Kōji Ōdate | Jukki Hanada | April 9, 2014 |
| Sora and Shiro are unemployed and never leave their house, but on the net, they're known as "Blank", an invincible team of gamers. One day, these siblings are visited by a boy named Tet, who calls himself god. Tet summons them to a world where all war is banned, and everything is decided by games. | |||||
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Challenger ( |
Masaru Koseki | Jukki Hanada | April 16, 2014 |
| Sora and Shiro have been abandoned in another world by Tet. In this world all war is forbidden, and everything is determined by games whose rules are determined by the "Ten Pledges" that Tet established. They find themselves in the country of humanity, the weakest of the 16 races in this new world. | |||||
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Expert ( |
Masaki Hyuga | Jukki Hanada | April 23, 2014 |
| A girl named Chlammy has won the right to be the next king of Elkia by her overwhelming good luck. Steph lost to her and loses the chance to become the next ruler. Just as she defeats the last challenger, however, Sora and Shiro interrupt her. | |||||
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Grandmaster ( |
Chiaki Abe,
Keiko Yamamoto |
Jukki Hanada | April 30, 2014 |
| The game Clamy challenged them to wasn't normal chess. Shiro is a chess master, but even she is helpless against Clami's assault. But when Shiro understands the real rules of the game, things begind to turn around. The battle to determine the king of Elukia, and all of humanity, finally reaches its end. | |||||
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Weak Square ( |
Maria Ichino,
Takashi Nagayoshi |
Takashi Aoshima | May 7, 2014 |
| Sora and Shiro leave the running of the country to Steph and spend every day playing video games. Steph's hope that they would become not only the saviors of Elukia, but all of humanity, crumbles away. | |||||
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Interesting ( |
Kunihiko Hamada | Kento Shimoyama | May 14, 2014 |
| The siblings confront Jibril, a member of the Flügel race to reclaim the royal library in a game of Shiritori. | |||||
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Sacrifice ( |
Rie Harada,
Kakuto Gai |
Takashi Aoshima | May 21, 2014 |
| Intending to challenge the Werebeasts, the siblings discover that it's hard to come with a strategy to defeat the latter, as all memories regarding the games are erased from their challengers, until Stephanie entrusts Sora a key left by the former king, leading to his secret research on how to outwit them. | |||||
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Fake End ( |
Shinichi Suzuki,
Keiko Yamamoto |
Yū Kamiya | May 28, 2014 |
| The siblings pay a visit to the Werebeasts' embassy in Elkia, and expose the tricks that they use to outwit their opponents. Sora bets all of Imanity's remaining territory, along with the lives of all its citizens in an all-or-nothing game against the Werebeasts. However, while awaiting an answer from them, Sora mysteriously disappears without a trace, and Shiro realizes that she is the only one who remembers him. | |||||
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Sky Walk ( |
Masaki Hyuga | Jukki Hanada | June 4, 2014 |
| While figuring out the truth about her brother's disappearance, Shiro remembers that Sora is having a high-stakes game of Othello with Clammy in which they are betting their own existence and memories. With Sora in a dire position and unable to continue the game, Shiro assumes his place according to the game's rules and wins. With this, the siblings not only earn Clammy's allegiance and the support of her Elf partner, Feel Nirvalen, but by sharing his memories with her, Sora finally wins her trust. | |||||
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Blue Rose ( |
Maria Ichino, Takashi Nagayoshi,
Yumiko Kinoshita |
Kento Shimoyama | June 11, 2014 |
| After finishing their preparations, the time has come for Sora and Shiro to challenge the Werebeasts with the destiny of all Imanity at stake, accompained by Jibril and Steph. But just when the game begins, the siblings fall into despair when they see themselves in a city that resembles their own homeland and the traumas of their past come to surface. | |||||
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Killing Giant ( |
Masaki Hyuga | Kento Shimoyama | June 18, 2014 |
| Having regained their composure, Sora and Shiro confront Izuna with Jibril's help but soon realize that the game is rigged to the point that winning is almost impossible. All hope seems lost when Shiro is apparently put on enemy control, until Izuna realizes that she is actually falling on a trap by the siblings, and enjoying the game for the first time in her life, she finally decides to go all out against them. | |||||
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Rule Number 10 ( |
Kōji Ōdate,
Kunihiko Hamada |
Jukki Hanada | June 25, 2014 |
| Sora and Shiro are driven into a corner by Izuna's activated Blood Destruction, but just when Izuna thinks she's won the game, she falls into yet another of their traps and is defeated. Some time later, the siblings are summoned by the leader of the Werebeasts, the Shrine Priestess, who wants a rematch against them for the sake of her people, but the challenge "unexpectedly" ends in a draw. She is convinced into joining forces and establishing the Elkia Federation by merging the Imanity and Werebeast territories into a single nation. While making preparations for their next battles, Sora and Shiro renew their conviction to unite all the races of Disboard under their rule, and one day challenge Tet for his title of "One True God". | |||||
Movie
- Main article: No Game No Life: Zero
A movie was produced for the No Game No Life, adapting the 6th volume of the light novel series, named No Game No Life: Zero.
Mini OVA
Mini OVA are special animated programs that come together with each volume of the series anime BD/DVD.
| Ep | Title | Translation | included in BD/DVD |
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| 1 | 妄想《ワイルド・ファンシー》 | Wild Fancy | Light Novel Light Novel Volume 1 |
| 2 | 監督《ディレクター》 | Director | Light Novel Volume 2 |
| 3 | 復讐《リベンジ》 | Revenge | Light Novel Light Novel Volume 3 |
| 4 | 人形《ドレスアップ・ドール》 | Dressup Doll | Light Novel Light Novel Volume 4 |
| 5 | 成長《グロース》 | Growth | Light Novel Light Novel Volume 5 |
| 6 | 食欲《アぺタイト》 | Appetite | Light Novel Light Novel Volume 6 |
Music
| Type | Title | included in |
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| Opening | This game | album/single |
| Ending | Oración | |
| OST | Soundtrack 1 | BD/DVD Volume 2 |
| Soundtrack 2 | BD/DVD Volume 4 | |
| Soundtrack 3 | BD/DVD Volume 5 | |
| Shiro's Character Song | =ONESELF | BD/DVD Volume 1 |
| Stephanie Dola's Character Song | Light of Hope | BD/DVD Volume 3 |
| Jibril's Character Song | Yes, My Master My Lord | BD/DVD Volume 6 |
| Hatsuse Izuna's Character Song, Game Opening | Onegai☆Snyaiper |
BD Special Novels
There are some special novels attached together with all BD/DVD limited edition releases.
| Ep | Title | Translation | included in BD/DVD |
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| 1 | Omitted Scene: Threefold repetition | Light Novel Volume 1 | |
| 2 | Light Novel Volume 2 | ||
| 3 | Light Novel Volume 3 | ||
| 4 | Light Novel Volume 4 | ||
| 5 | Light Novel Volume 5 | ||
| 6 | Light Novel Volume 6 |
Spin-off Manga
- Main article: No Game, No Life, Desu!
A spin-off manga titled No Game, No Life, Desu! was serialized on Montgly Comic Alive from May 27, 2015 to November 27, 2017. The manga is drawn by Yuizaki Kazuya and features its original story plot described from the view of Izuna. The manga had 4 volumes in total.
Media
Images
Videos
【PV】TVアニメ「ノーゲーム・ノーライフ」PV Vol.1
References
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