Tomodachi Game (Season 1)

Tomodachi Game (2022) is a psychological mystery anime you can watch online on iFILM. Yuichi Katagiri puts friendship above money and above himself. He has four close friends and an unbreakable bond — right up until the whole group is kidnapped and dropped into a basement where a screen lights up with a stranger's debt.

The setup is simple and cruel: one of the five owes a huge sum, but the debtor's name stays hidden. The game is a team effort, yet the debt splits evenly between them — so the smart move isn't to help, it's to expose and hand someone over. Round after round their greed, fear and lies get tested, and Yuichi, the supposed idealist, turns out far more calculating than anyone guessed. Each game is its own psychological trap, won not by the strongest but by whoever cracks the other's weakness first.

Adapted from Mikoto Yamaguchi and Yuki Sato's manga, it sits beside Liar Game and Alice in Borderland: the math of deception matters more than action. The show runs on cold calculation, not fistfights — who outplays whom at the table. If you like detective thrillers about people backed into a corner and don't mind that half the "friends" are lying from minute one, it lands fast. Stream Tomodachi Game online on iFILM.