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FuMomo-kun said: My prediction last episode was kind of correct. Sadly. Yuuichi did say what he said to increase his debt and "gain trust". And, I still think he could have said anything at all. So, the specific thing he said and the way he said them could have just been avoided! The characters' personalities don't seem to be well fleshed out. Their behaviours are all over the place. No one actually seem like friends. I wish we got to see them being friends first, before we saw the friendship getting destroyed. Though, I have a feeling this story is just about the game, and not about the characters. Except, the games are not that good. I keep finding myself comparing this to Liar Game. That's because this anime literally give you a paragraph of each character's description and thrust them immediately into the tomodachi game without showing you much of their day-to-day interactions. But trust me, keep watching and you'll see their personality flesh out more and more. The writer like to do show not tell, so they would show you what each character is like with their actions and decisions throughout the games rather than straightup tell you from the very beginning. Characters is one of the best thing about this series because all of them are so well-written and have flesh and blood rather than just a cardboard cutout of common tropes. Nearly every character, including the villain and side characters, have character development. It's just very gradual. Like how the long-haired girl Shiho is basically the embodiment of the word but you don't see that until later games. The focus of this series is on the characters rather than the game. But in the beginning, I understand why it may seem like the focus is more on the game. (and since the adaptation is turning out kinda mediocre with bad pacing and a few skipped dialogues if you really want a great series like Liar Game you should check out the manga which is highly-rated and quite exceptional) |
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Taiguts_Moejoe said: h1r0k1_s41t0 said: I liked it because in this episode we have a love confession from Sawaragi to Yuuichi and her ex didn't like it and said that she likes it now and that she already dated him and that she had plastic s I didn't get the part where they say she had surgery, what surgery??? maybe it was a translation error pretty sure that was correct, once again the implication is that ran up a debt. |
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| Still enjoyable to watch. Lots of drama and stress that make you curious about what's next. Expectations are still low. Its early so maybe it'll be a better fleshed out story later on. |
| I have absolutely no idea how Yuichi's debt got doubled then halved, was it because he was the one to clear the game? I'm kind of invested, there's a lot of drama and secrets in this friend group and I want to know who decided to torment them, if they're from the group at all. I suspect every single one of them now, even Yuichi. We don't know what their motives are, it could be that one of them is trying to test how real their friendship is. |
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| What did I even watch? Man... the part that "Sawaraigi likes this guy and that guy" just makes it hard to watch in a bad way... Everything just feels random and out of place. |
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FreezePeach said: Pile of crap. Random torture of bunch of innocent people for no reason whatsoever. Game rules are not clear and can be changed any moment. There is no winning strategy because there is no internal logic or even a pretense of fairness in the game. It is obviously rigged from start to finish. In this episode loss/gain on game squares are not revealed in advance. Places are semi-randomly defined by some "observers". There is nothing to plan and no way to meaningfully control the flow of the game. It is absurdly unfair and players don't really play, they are just punchbags. Any additional amount of debt can be assigned to any of them at any moment. They should quickly run it to the finish ignoring ridiculous "debt" and then let the legal system deal with game organizers. Figuring out who is "the traitor" is pointless. Betrayal implies that some player deviates from winning strategy that is good for everyone to gain something for himself. But with these rules it is impossible, there is no winning strategy. These people are not much of a friends to begin with and we know next to nothing about them. New "shocking" details can be revealed any moment for fake drama and completely throw off any attempt of analysis. "Themes: High Stakes Game, Psychological, Strategy Game" - nope, nothing of these. Just a pile of random crap. I don't know why this thing exists. Very well explained ! I read your comment 3 times. Way better than how I can explain this anime. |
| August 6th 2023: Biggest upset ever, deception, selfishness, or scammed, manipulated. Heavy damage costs, and more. Days since: 15 Last updated: 8/21/2023 One Piece Episode 1041 & 1042 & 1047 & 1048 & 95.75%/1049 & 1053 were a mistake and Uta brought the salvation -AhriTheS3xyFox |
Taiguts_Moejoe said: h1r0k1_s41t0 said: I liked it because in this episode we have a love confession from Sawaragi to Yuuichi and her ex didn't like it and said that she likes it now and that she already dated him and that she had plastic s I didn't get the part where they say she had surgery, what surgery??? maybe it was a translation error In the ending credits she is shown with a huge scar running down the right side of her body. I assume she had an accident and needed surgery for that. |
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AhriTheS3xyFox said: FreezePeach said: Pile of crap. Random torture of bunch of innocent people for no reason whatsoever. Game rules are not clear and can be changed any moment. There is no winning strategy because there is no internal logic or even a pretense of fairness in the game. It is obviously rigged from start to finish. In this episode loss/gain on game squares are not revealed in advance. Places are semi-randomly defined by some "observers". There is nothing to plan and no way to meaningfully control the flow of the game. It is absurdly unfair and players don't really play, they are just punchbags. Any additional amount of debt can be assigned to any of them at any moment. They should quickly run it to the finish ignoring ridiculous "debt" and then let the legal system deal with game organizers. Figuring out who is "the traitor" is pointless. Betrayal implies that some player deviates from winning strategy that is good for everyone to gain something for himself. But with these rules it is impossible, there is no winning strategy. These people are not much of a friends to begin with and we know next to nothing about them. New "shocking" details can be revealed any moment for fake drama and completely throw off any attempt of analysis. "Themes: High Stakes Game, Psychological, Strategy Game" - nope, nothing of these. Just a pile of random crap. I don't know why this thing exists. Very well explained ! I read your comment 3 times. Way better than how I can explain this anime. Nah, this is just an pointless "explanation" by someone who has started off with the wrong idea of what the show is about. |
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borderliner said: AhriTheS3xyFox said: Very well explained ! I read your comment 3 times. Way better than how I can explain this anime. Nah, this is just an pointless "explanation" by someone who has started off with the wrong idea of what the show is about. Alright, I will be willing to hear your own take. |
| August 6th 2023: Biggest upset ever, deception, selfishness, or scammed, manipulated. Heavy damage costs, and more. Days since: 15 Last updated: 8/21/2023 One Piece Episode 1041 & 1042 & 1047 & 1048 & 95.75%/1049 & 1053 were a mistake and Uta brought the salvation -AhriTheS3xyFox |
| It's funny how after the second ep Im already starting to doubt the game's rules. For what we've seen so far it feels like almost every rule has had some sort of twist in it. There's basically no way of beating this game since the game itself is rigged. Hate to say it but after 2nd ep I'm already thinking about dropping this. |
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eld0r said: Damn, the trust in the group broke a lot faster than I thought it would. Yeah, Discussing about relationship between friends can be the cause of it. That was really sad |
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Zyukichan said: These type of murder mystery game anime always get a shot from me. But the start was pretty fast paced. There is no real connection with the characters yet (both viewer to characters and characters between each other). I hope it is intentional but so far I feel like they should put more effort into showing why they are friends (emotional bagage) to make things more heavy. Its about their friendship after all. The stakes feel pretty low right now and it would be nice if they can create a feeling for the viewer that makes them care about them being friends. Not all in one episode ofcourse.. but they seem to gloss over it rn. Throughout the episode I feel like they wanted us to be like 'omg nooooo that's terrible' but it all feels very... Blank? Hope they can create this. The setting is interesting though. I will definitely give this another 3 episodes at least. Pacing got a lot better. But the rest of my previous comments remain. I am not giving a shit about these characters at all. They are throwing love confessions out like its nothing and I couldn't give a rats ass. If a character would die next episode... Then what? There is no reason for me to actually care about these characters. The show tells me they are friends, but I havent seen any of that whatsoever. To me that completely throws away the reason to care. And I have a feeling with something called "Tomodachi game" that I should care? The second thing I noticed is that they can literally throw in any horrific detail in the game or about a character and it would be completely legit. ...Because we have no sense of boundarjes and stakes, or do we know any of these characters. I guess floating comments of online viewers in the sky is considered normal in this world. Will I continue? Well yes because I want to give this show a chance. |
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AhriTheS3xyFox said: borderliner said: Nah, this is just an pointless "explanation" by someone who has started off with the wrong idea of what the show is about. Alright, I will be willing to hear your own take. My comment wasn't really about having a take, more that the previous posters take is based on insufficient information. The irony of that is it's the same as the behaviour we see in the show If I had to have a take I'd say the key is understanding the way information flow is being manipulated, but of course I also don't yet have enough information to support that take ;-) |
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| Euphoria has better plot than this. |
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| This whole episode just confirmed they aren't really that great friends. I feel like it'd be alot more interesting and entertaining if they were all like actually good friends and we got to see that |
| I feel bad for Sawatori. But she might be the traitor. Who knows... Or maybe there are two traitors? |
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| I was about to say not bathing for a week is worse than plastic surgery, but the dude is poor so maybe he couldn't help it lol Also Shiho's got a full on harem right there. |
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| So this episode showed (foreshadowing to episode 3)... |
UnknownUser101 said: Looking forward to next episode aswell. The cut to Kokorogi screaming makes the third episode likely to reveal some juicy details. Will keep watching.Intense and greeeaaattt episode. The pacing is kinda better now. The drama is starting to unfold. You'll love to see all of them slowly breaking apart. What a banger ed by saji. saji keeps making great songs. Looking forward for next episode. -Flaky- said: Im sure there is gonna be some juicy details next episode due to that ending with her screaming. Look forward to next episode.I always suspected that brown hair girl since episode one, I suspected everyone even the Mc himself but I suspect that brown hair girl more. She feels like a pick me, too bad none of the guys like her that way. She probably was screaming cuz Yuichi doesn’t like her back Spellar said: Think so? Well guess we will find out next episode. Im not entirely convinced it was her that wrote that about Kokorogi.Loved it!!! Can't wait for episode 3. It is kind of clear to me that Yutori wrote that entry about Shiho. She is jealous about Yuuichi. Sayms said: Cant wait until I see the next episode. That ending promises that some juicy details are going to be revealed.the episode 2 is fine, but the ending holydamm is bangger Mod Edit: Merged posts, please use the edit function |
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CataOrShane said: My immersion went out the window the moment Yuichi was allowed to stay behind, stood there for half an hour with ANOTHER character (the pretty girl) and THEN ANOTHER CHARACTER (glasses guy) is seen eavesdropping. Which means that the Doll was cool with only bringing the shy girl and the blond guy to the next game and neither of these two were bothered by their friends not being around. This... this is an excellent point! I hadn't even considered the weirdness of this story framing, but you're totally right. What ARE the other two doing? My beef with this episode is just how completely unrealistic the character interactions are, especially in light of how it breaks THEIR OWN CONSISTENCY. Like, okay. I don't know about all of you, but I can't think of a single high school girl whose friend goads his other male friends about something so personal and private as her underwear color who would just... shrug and accept it when he really weakly says he was just trying to change up the tone/mood. Really? You think teenagers have that good a grasp on their emotions that a friend being a huge JERKFACE like that would not evoke some kind of reaction? Even if she likes the guy... strike that, ESPECIALLY if she likes the guy, him embarrassing her and demeaning her like that should not result in quiet restraint and then a blushing confession. She'd be horribly hurt by that. And what I mean by breaking their own consistency is, all right, fine. Everyone maintains silence during the game. But then they all just drop the issue of the aggressive, crude baiting afterwards... and what happens in game 2? All the guy characters FREAK OUT over who she likes. Yet none of them had any choice words after game 1? If they care so dang much over possessing this girl, how are they like, "eh, it's cool man" after game 1? This to me would be like if you had a heist movie where one character says he stole the others' money. But then is like, "Just a joke!" And everyone's like, "Yeah, that's fine." And ten minutes later another character just walks near where the money stash is and all the other characters suddenly whip guns out and are convinced that guy is about to steal the money. Either you're insecure and care about the money (read: Sawaragi), or you're not and you don't. Pick one! Sounds like the manga is better. For me, I'm not wasting anymore life on the anime. Manga may be worth a read instead. Hinade said: Why are they all getting mad each other for liking people. If a girl I liked also liked my best friend, then that's okay and I wouldn't get mad. She's not my property or something and can make her own choices. Very weird seeing people get mad at each other for who they like. If there was cheatibg involved I could get behind all the anger. This is a refreshingly mature mindset. I wish we'd get more shows pointing this out and showing teenagers in a more nuanced, mature light. |
| I decided to start watching it with a friend of mine, I gotta say, this has to be the episode where I started losing the initial hook I had for the show. My two friends seemed to remain on board with the premise, but for me this really is starting to feel like 'Flashback: The Anime'. I don't want to be a drag, but it seems like the worst aspects of the things it's based around... i dunno... |
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| It becomes more and more.apparent as to how dumb these characters are. Firstly girl likes main dude just because, people really going crazy over who dated who and some other game mechanics bs lol. I don't care about the premise being dumb, but the whole thing after is silly lol. |
| Lol of course you have love and jealously because of that with Sawagari having the two other boys in love with her and both girls being in love with MC obviously, now the game of life part is kinda interesting with all the revealed secrets (and I expected ridiculous ones that are pulled for extreme drama like this surgery thing xD) |
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| Plottwist Yuuichi was the traitor all along. So far the games themselves aren't interesting compared to say Kaiji, but still nice to see drama between the bff's unfold. |
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Red_Ranger_Wien said: This is trash but it's entertaining trash ^ basically this lmao. God.... that telenovela-esque scene was so hilarious "yes, neither of us had romantic-" "I really did like you" - the glasses dude reveals, as he turns around dramatically *surprised pikachu face* "even now i'm still in love with you" *gasp!!* |
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