Liar Game: Roots of A

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"Liar Game: Roots of A" -- is supposedly a prequel to the long "LIAR GAME" manga. I haven't read the original one (its sequel) & this review is going to be on this 6 chapters manga/short stories.

-- All these 6 chapters are short stories based on different psychological phenomena such as FORTUNE-TELLING, PSYCHOLOGY, DESTINY & FATE.
-- I found the stories really heartwarming & each story has a good end. Once you reach the end, you really ask for more.
-- The MCs in each stories are really likable characters and with nice personalities.

Overall, It was a good read for me & ... its something i will recommend. I will give it a score of 9.

In case you decided to essentially ignore the synopsis like I did, this really has little to do with Liar Game. The first chapter is about Akiyama's college days and the rest has absolutely no relation to Liar Game. However, each of the stories are pretty heart-warming and sorta involve risky gambles. The gambles are more like everyday dilemmas that involve either getting in trouble or succeeding at your goal.

As these stories are quite short, I can't really talk about them without spoiling them. I kinda guessed all the plot twists in the stories in advance... I dunno, there wasn't any specific reason for ... me to be so suspicious and accurate. I guess if you read through this expecting it to be some intense mystery, you'll probably do the same. There's no reason to not just simply read the stories as they are, though. If you enjoy Liar Game, you'll surely find these stories good and interesting. The few pages about Kaitani's dog were sorta weird and less meaningful/entertaining, but some of it was a little funny.

On a sorta side note, there was a certain aspect of the last story I quite liked. It's about online relationships and shows a side of them where the couple can be very open and honest with each other. I think it shows how a relationship like that, one where you can just be yourselves and love each other as you are, is much better than putting on an act to impress your boyfriend/girlfriend. I quite agree with that and it's sorta similar to how my girlfriend and I got to know each other, so it just had that much more appeal to me.

It would've been nicer to have more of Akiyama's past revealed or if The Forbidden Divination could've been longer. Overall this was just a quite enjoyable read and these one shots seemed to have a decent amount of potential, so it's just too bad that's it for them.

This feels like a series of (interesting) one-shots, with one of them being related to Liar Game.

This isn't a bad manga, but it really isn't what is on the tin. As a concept I enjoyed all three stories, however it feels like the third story goes on just a bit too long, where as people reading this are likely to only be coming to read about A.

It's short, so you won't waste too much time, but personally.. I feel like this is false advertising. Liar Game is great, this is good, I just wish it was more consistent in the offering, ... rather than so many different one shots. It almost feels like a manga magazine...

Then again a Manga magazine solely focused on gambling/gaming manga would be really good.

ARGH.. yeah, that's why it's mixed. It's good, but I wish they used a different name.