Kokumin Quiz Death Game Quiz Manga Gets Netflix Series

Netflix Japan announced on Tuesday that it is producing a live-action series adaptation of Reiichi Sugimoto and Shinichi Kato’s Kokumin Quiz (National Quiz) manga starring Takayuki Yamada (live-action Densha Otoko’s “Train Man,” Bakuman.’s Akira Hattori, Gintama’s Elizabeth).

The manga’s story is set in a Japan where a quiz television program called the “National Quiz” holds the highest institutional power in the country, enshrined in Japan’s constitution.

But when a group seeking to dismantle the National Quiz makes contact with K-i K-ichi, it sets into motion a wild series of events.