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***THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS***

Never have i ever felt the need to write a review for an anime as much as i do after watching 3 episodes of Tomodachi Game. I hope that by reading this wall of text you will realize its better to save your precious time. Warning: this review may contain slight spoilers, also excuse any mistakes, im not native in english.

Story 2/10
I feel like high stake game anime/manga have a really hard time being anything above average. It's always the same setting with the same character tropes and the same games repeated over and over. How can one not get sick ... of it ESPECIALLY when multpile tries to make this genre good have always failed. We had Danganropa anime, Torkigao no Tsugai, Judge, Doubt all of which are nothing worth going through. Tomodachi Game is no exception. We have the most generic group of "friends", who don't even seem to like each other, trapped in a game beacuse one of them has a huge debt. By participating in minigames they have a chance to win enough money to pay the said debt back. As the viewer may have already predicted the main goal is to tear apart our lovely group of friends. Why? We don't know yet. In fact, if you care to think a little while watching, you can easily predict everything that happens in this utterly boring show. This magnificent friendship that our main characters have is easily shaken up by the first game. BFFs right? But wait, it gets better. In episode 2 they already are about to rip each other apart over the pretty girl of the group. Oh no! Who could have predicted that right? Chill guys we are just 2 episodes in and you already completed the goal of the game. The only reason im giving this section a 3 instead of 1 is because those minigames are actually pretty okay, if only a different set of characters was playing them.

Characters 1/10
Lord have mercy. The most generic group of friends you could ever think of is here! We have the pretty girl, the shy girl, the funny/cool guy, the smart guy with glasses and our main mc - loser with iq 200 who will manipulate everyone else so that he gains the most out of this circus. Yet again, all their action, secrets, hidden motives, whatever are so predictible and cringe, it's impossible to take this show seriously. "I ALWAYS LOVED YOU" says the megane guy to the pretty girl of the group as the cool guy gets frustrated because OBVIOUSLY he also has loved her since the day they met. I remind you we are on episode 2 and our tomodachi group is already in crubs. Let's not forget about brilliant manipulation tactiques that our loser mc is trying to perform. Sadly i think he's only getting away with them because his "friends" are morons who would believe anything they hear. We also have two mysterious ladies who seem to watch over and comment on the actions of our protags. The only purpose they serve so far is to make the viewer believe that the MC is a genius and that the whole show is actually good. Well, to put it simple, they did not convince me.

Art 3/10
It just looks so cheap. You could ask a 4 year old to design the characters and animate them and it would still look better than what it is now. Sometimes it looks like they just traced over a manga panel and added shake effect to animate it. The opening visuals are okayish, very mid but still better than the rest of the show.

Sound 5/10
is there any music in this show? Aside from WhateverOpening and IneverMadeitThroughTheEnding? Nothing that caught my attention for sure.
I'm giving a 5 because of the medicore voice acting performance.

Overall, it's one of the worst shows ive seen and i wish i never started it in the first place. It's nothing new that mangas are often better than their anime adaptaions but how can something like THIS, with such horrible set of characters become any good? That is the question i want to find an answer for. Sadly we have yet to see a good high stakes game anime series