Oct 13, 2023
Utterly disappointing sequel that rings any buildup completely hollow due to serialization being halted back in 2013 and a Part 3 likely never coming out.
***SPOILERS BELOW***
Shirube & Zaizen only appear at the start and very end of this part. The timeskip is completely handwaved and FKMT has clearly lost all sense of direction of where he wants to take it. Junko; who I thought would be a major antagonist, is utterly laughable comparable to Kotarou from the previous entry. Her menacing shtick of wanting to rip out people's teeth for her own "pure" beauty treatment eventually turns into a joke when Zero completely and utterly
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dogpiles her in every conceivable fashion with his Sherlock Holmes esque contrived deductions.
There are little to no thrills or catharsis in this part. It's not even a death game anymore. While yes it's funny how the previous entry didn't actually have deaths shown despite being an explicit Death Game, there was still tension and risk of death present. You will feel none of that here. Every opponent/obstacle is a cakewalk. Heck, it even stops being a gambling series mid-way through and transitions into this pseudo-detective "mystery" of finding a rich man who's been trapped somewhere for 3 years.
A meandering, meaningless, contrived, and convoluted "solve the riddle" "mystery" where the reader has 0 chance of figuring details out on their own. Basically just watching a compilation of characters circlejerk their superhuman intelligence to idiotic fodder while FKMT gets to show off his characters making the same expressive shocked facial expressions. All answers are tied to unknown character backstories, Japanese word-play, and contrived double meanings that leave you completely dumbfounded on why the hell Kijuurou would even send something like this as an SOS help message - after years of conditioning his food supplier and being Oldboy-ed. The reveal of bringing it back with his son & their past stinks and his reward to Zero is utterly unsatisfying as we having nothing after this. You could probably argue he'd rely on Tatsuki to solve such a convoluted riddle, but even he is just a fallible 13-year-old kid who clearly overthinks too much and would've never found him without the help of Zero. Another barebones antagonist btw, if you can even call him that.
No character resolution, no satisfying payoff, zero tension & intrigue, nothing but monotony and disappointment.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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