Death Billiards is one of the four anime works that each received 38 million yen (about US$480,000) from the "2012 Young Animator Training Project." Just like in 2010 and 2011, the animation labor group received 214.5 million yen (US$2.65 million) from the Japanese government's Agency for Cultural Affairs, and it distributed most of those funds to studios who train young animators on-the-job. An old and a young man find themselves in a mysterious bar where they have to play a game of billiard. The bet: their lives.
| Directing | Yuzuru Tachikawa | Director |
| Camera | Kazuya Arahata | Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | Liang Boya | Key Animation |
| Writing | Yuzuru Tachikawa | Screenplay |
| Visual Effects | Hiroyuki Horiuchi | Lead Animator |
| Visual Effects | Yuichi Takahashi | Lead Animator |
| Visual Effects | Tatsuhiko Komatsu | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Naoko Minai | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Izumi Murakami | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Eiko Mishima | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Aya Suzuki | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Ai Ogata | Key Animation |
| Writing | Yuzuru Tachikawa | Original Story |
| Visual Effects | Aya Suzuki | 2D Artist |
