Darwin's Game (ダーウィンズゲーム) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by FLIPFLOPs. It was serialized in Akita Shoten's Bessatsu Shōnen Champion magazine from December 2012 to October 2023. An anime television series adaptation produced by Nexus aired from January to March 2020.
Premise
17-year-old high school sophomore Kaname Sudō accepts an online invitation from a friend to play an app game called Darwin's Game, unaware that it involves a fight between life and death. Those who play the game are given a Sigil, an ability that varies from player to player. Trapped in this game of relentless murder and conquest, Kaname determines to clear the game, and to seek out and kill the Game Master.
It is revealed later in the series that the Game Master is one of many in the multiverse and is actually benevolent, albeit in the greater good way. Monsters called Greed are infiltrating worlds and eating and replacing people, bringing about repeated Armageddon. Darwin's Game is meant to train Champions to eliminate them.