Chapters 10-50 are essentially follow the same repeating cycle: Enter dangerous game, back is against the wall, Yuuichi pulls miraculous strategy out of his ass to complete the game and make everyone else look stupid. This is obviously amusing, especially some of Yuuichi's panels where he looks like a patient in a mental hospital. However it gets quite repetitive and predictable to the point where the reveals are just plain ridiculous, so much so i nearly dropped the manga multiple times. What needed to happen was more progression in terms of the whole traitor and background plot of Yuuichi's background story, which would make it feel as if the game was not the sole reason to read the manga. Series like Classroom of the Elite and Alice in borderland do this particularly well and still created amazing psychological games (which are honestly better than the ones in this series). This does improve once they enter the gambling game on the ship, as the plot finally progresses past the point of "Yuuichi is badass". Here is the point in the story where I was able to discover the plot of twist of "SPOILER" Yutori was the traitor, mostly because of how much emphasis the author put towards expressing her "excellent" acting skills. Not saying this was a bad reveal, just an obvious and predictable one. Anyways continuing to the best arc in the series: The island game (up until chapter 84 which ill get to later). Although it feels like the author stuffed 60 chapters worth of plot into this one arc, it ended up quite well. All because this game combined the game idea along with progressing the plot into one, this way the games are actually worth reading because the outcome is unpredictable. In other words Yuuichi is no longer invicible.
SPOILERS FOR THE LASTEST CHAPTERS BELOW.. this review is a lot more subjective so im sorry but this is my review soooooo
the author fucked himself in the ass what is this guy doing.. the one chance he has to make Yuuichi into a fantastic character he contniues with the notion of invicibility and the "I planned this all along" edgelord schtick. The whole Tenji stalking everyone and knowing everything is complete bullshit, theres no way he could've been everywhere at all times. On top of that what is up with the whole OP step-brother reveal, this was clearly an asspull as this character really had no business being anyone that. On top of that having Shibe as the other traitor.. cmon fr?! This author has clearly lost his mind with over the top plot reveals because he cannot write a decent plot to save his life. Then again he created Yuuichi who has the potential to be one of the best characters I've seen in manga.. please just hand your manga over to Oda or Inoue so they can fix this mess that was chapters 83-85.
I'm being overly critical of this manga, it's really not that bad. if you want an edgy main character who's a genius and solves everything this is for you. But if your looking for psychological death games with a decent story then look elsewhere. Manga such as Battle royale, Classroom of the elite, and Alice in Borderlands do the concept significantly better.
yeah there's grammar and spelling mistakes.. i just got a 54 on my summative english essay so take what i say with a grain of salt.
