Oukoku Game

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Oukoku game or Kingdom Game is worth the quick read it will take (Anywhere from 1 sitting to 3 days depending on your speed).

The story's a death game between multiple groups of people that involves an absolute hierarchy that shifts every day. For this reason the characters have to be political about ordering around their group mates.

The story has a good pace at first and then ACCELERATES like it's about to go out of print. I personally think that the author got bored with the story or funding was cut, but whatever it is, the story picks up the pace like a mo-fo later ... on.

If you liked Mirai Nikki and other thinking+regular human fighting death games then you should like this, even though it's nowhere near as good. It's a fun concept and a fun story.

To be honest the beginning is really climatic and you just want to read more. The story and characters are well written and you can feel the sticky atmosphere. I would give it an solid 8 but have to go for 6 and only because of the 25-29 chapters. The ending is such a letdown that its hard to put it into words. Total bullshit and crap. I guess author had to kill the story and since he didn't want to leave it open he draw fast conclusion but its far from being satisfactionery. When i finished reading last few chapters i was ... like WTF is this shit?! That's how bad it was. Worst thing is even that crapy ending felt unfinished.

I don't know why this has a near 7 star rating what.

Do NOT read this manga. I'm pretty sure it was axed, and never gave a proper ending. There's no point in reading it.

Basically, this manga is nothing but good ideas that went to waste used on a poorly written manga that got axed probably not even halfway through. It really did have so many good ideas. If they were more well thought out, this could have been a much better manga.

I think the biggest waste in the series was the Hierarchy idea. Sadly, it was poorly done and thrown out the window by the ... "end" of the manga. The author could have taken this into two directions. One, they could have made the manga focused on the 7 characters. Forget the other Kingdom's and expanding. Forget the Godlike woman who gave them it. They could have written a character driven drama based purely off of the King idea alone, not changing anything about it, and it'd have had much more potential to be good.

On the flip side, they could have changed the King mechanic where the roles do not change unless something like the peasants rebelling happens. Except, instead of killing the current King, they're thrown to Peasant status, and a new King has to be decided upon. To prevent this from being abused, it could be limited to a certain number of times, or only be done after a set amount of time passes.

Just those changes alone opens up so many more possibilities. Imagine the King leading their subjects to war with other Kingdom's, taken their subjects and expanding their territory as well. That'd open up so many more possibilities as the main Kingdom we follow expands.

The entire manga is full of good ideas like that, and they end up poorly executed, or thrown out the window.

I think the worst part of this was the ending. I'm pretty sure the manga got axed, and the author was forced to wrap it up. That's usually the case for abrupt endings like this. Out of no where, in the middle of the biggest arc yet, the main character is sent to the real world, 6 years pass, and one of the girls come back to the real world and tells him she won. That's it. We don't get to see it, told how it happened, why it happened, and what the result of it was. Nothing but questions without any answers.