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Type: Manga

Volumes: 24

Chapters: 194

Status: Finished

Published: Jan 9, 2014 to Nov 9, 2019

Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi

Theme: Psychological

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Bessatsu Shounen Magazine

Authors: Watanabe, Shizumu (Art), Okushou (Story)

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Score: 7.05¹ (scored by 11,596 users)

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Ranked: #8661²

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Popularity: #520

Members: 38,248

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Ranked #8661Popularity #520Members 38,248

MangaBessatsu Shounen MagazineWatanabe, Shizumu (Art), Okushou (Story)

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Real Account is a popular social media app that enables its users to link their account to reality. From socializing to buying things in real life, the app has become indispensable in daily life, especially for second-year high school student Ataru Kashigawa. He uses Real Account as a means to escape reality and he feels a sense of belonging and connection to his followers, whom he considers as his friends.

However, Ataru's views on friendship drastically change when he gets plunged into the virtual world of Real Account and is forced to participate in horrific death games alongside ten thousand other users. But these are far from ordinary online death games as dying in the world of Real Account means that you and all your followers die in reality. To make matters worse, having no followers also means certain death. As Aratu begins to participate in these death games, he discovers the existence of Yuuma Mukai, a teenager who looks just like him. This discovery creates a twist in events.

Betrayed by his so-called friends one by one, Ataru is left with one anonymous follower. In this virtual world where a single follower could be the difference between life or death, Ataru must survive and complete these games in order to return to the real world.

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Real Account was published in English by Kodansha Comics USA from March 22, 2016 to August 29, 2023. It has also been published in French by Kurokawa.

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Jun 4, 2025

hexashadow13

Recommended

Real Account is an absolute mess of a manga. The overarching plot is pretty much just nonsense, and is full of contradictions and plot holes. There are very abrupt shifts to the direction of the story that often feel really forced, such as the mangaka just suddenly dropping the first set of main characters pretty much completely two volumes in. There’s also a lot of foreshadowing that leads to absolutely nothing. I strongly suspect that the mangaka had different plans for where he wanted to take the manga but ended up changing course multiple times.

The themes explored in the manga are also really shallow. The ... manga is heavily centered the internet and social media and thus tackles things ranging from internet bullying to fake news to AI. However, it basically just shows that they exist and that they are bad without really saying anything more about them. If it did this more subtly, I suppose this wouldn’t be too much of a problem, but it is incredibly in your face a lot of the time and all of it just seems completely ridiculous.

The characters in this manga are also incredibly inconsistent. Their personalities are constantly changing and shifting in ways that don’t make sense. Their actions also don’t quite make sense in the context of their motivations a lot of the time. I kind of feel like the mangaka was completely changing characters roles in the story based on how popular they were and that led them to behaving in really bizarre ways. As such, it’s pretty hard to get invested in the cast. As such, the ending while decent enough, doesn’t hit all that hard either.

Despite all that, the manga is somehow really interesting. A lot of that stems from the social-media based death games that serve as the core of the manga. These are sometimes very straightforward at first, such as a game where all the players tweet something and the players that don’t get enough retweets die. But as the manga progresses they get more complicated, such as with a game where people’s tweets are projected over their head and the players have to run around town around beating up people with problematic tweets.

These aren’t particularly well written either, to be honest. A lot of the games involve tricks that are just dumb or rules that straight up are not explained. Despite that, they’re still quite engrossing. This is primarily comes down to two reasons. The first reason is that they’re very unique. I have not read a manga before that just straight up had a variety of different social-media based death games that it cycled through, and this manga does a lot of really creative things with the concept.

The second reason is that the manga has a very unique atmosphere that along with its fast pacing and constant suspense makes it quite the page turner. This is achieved through constantly throwing a lot of fanservice and edgy insanity at you. However, the comedy is pretty great and fuses incredibly well into all this chaos. The art is also somewhat generic in style and isn’t all that amazing in terms of quality either, but the mangaka is very good at portraying things in a fun manner. The end result is that the manga ends up entertaining even in the face of all of the manga’s shortcomings. Or I suppose to put it more simply, this manga is trash, but it’s enjoyable trash.

tl;dr: A manga that has a lot of issues but is still pretty enjoyable in a braindead sort of way.

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Nov 2, 2022

ArcadeRice

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (194/194 eps)

It's a manga about how social media affects your daily life, and turns it into a death game but becomes so mind-numbingly stupid, it's entertaining.

FYI: There are essentially two parts, I'll cover them both as they are essentially the same.
Further below I wrote some plotholes the story had or things that reinforce my points.

Story: 4
The early parts are extremely relatable, touching on very specific subjects within the internet. Likes/dislikes which was a good starting point, real/fake lives they create online and offline, streaming and how far they'd go for views when it depended on their lives, giving up both their phones and personal data with ...

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Sep 23, 2023

uiorwejklfsd

Not Recommended

Yep, it's as bad as other reviewers have pointed out. I applaud anyone who actually made it to the end of this dumpster fire.

If you are expecting any type of drama or suspense then don't waste your time on this. They took an interesting science fiction survival story and turned it into 24 volumes of the most repetitive, incoherent mess possible. Every chapter is sillier and crazier than the one before it until it's all just noise. The author just throws whatever nonsense they thought up that day for shock value regardless if it has any reason or logic behind it. The absurdity of the ...

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