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Sep 29, 2022
FunnyFunny
A show that completely deviated from what was supposed to be a psychological drama, and turned into.....I don't know what. If there is anything that I like about this show, it is the fact that it doesn't even try to take itself seriously. The character introduction was enough to show that. Each character had a wall of text right next to them, with some vague descriptions about their hobbies and personalities. The author has already made it clear that he doesn't care about these guys. What matters is the premise of the show right? The thing is, this show has no premise.

The show clearly is not about how money can ruin friendships, and all it takes to know that is to watch the first few episodes. We have a psychopath of a main character, who apparently has killed people in the past. We have a girl who's been bullied to the point of trauma and needed money to stop her bullies. We have a guy who's actually taking part in these games for the second time in order to avenge his father, and holds a grudge against one of the girls in the group. Most of the main characters do not act or behave like normal people, and their friendship is questionable at best. The trauma girl tells Yukichi that he's the one she considers close to him ( not the other three). Tenji claims that he holds a grudge against the other girl for ruining his friendship with his old friends. What premise would you expect when these guys are not even close friends, or have their own reasons for acting the way they do? Not to mention how the games themselves are constructed specifically to make our main characters argue and fight with each other. Literally one of the games consists of writing nasty stuff about your friends. They're not even trying to be subtle about it. It was done in Kaiji, but in a much better way because the end result was what made Kaiji's "friends" betray him, not the actual rock-paper-scissors game.

I've been cackling during the first 6 episodes due to the random unexpected twists, as well as the incredibly weird dialogue. Shibe literally tells one of the girls something like " you sure seem innocent for a virgin", right after it was revealed that she used to date men for money. And we're still meant to believe that these guys are close friends? What even was the point of that statement by the way.. is it implying that a virgin is innocent while someone who's not considered a virgin is..Nah must be just me. They certainly didn't think too much about it. Well no, because after a few more episodes we've got another quote along these lines " Women are capable of putting on an act to get what they want". And it's funny because later on our male main character starts shouting and screaming, acting as if he lost the game while he actually predicted it and was just...putting on an act to get what he wanted. Not only the author seems to have something against women, he goes on to contradict his statement by giving what he considers "exclusive female traits" to male characters. But he has no other choice, because acting to get what you want is not a gender exclusive trait in the first place. The most annyoing character in the series for me ( aside from angry basketball guy ), is one of the women who does the social commentary. She literally says the most general shit that you've probably heard more times than you can count before watching this show, and always begins with "Humans are prone to...". You get the idea, she's not a human, she's an observer of human nature.


I kinda wanted to give it a 4* rating, due to how it made me laugh during the most inappropriate moments that I was supposed to take seriously, however once the forest hide and seek begins, it stops being funny and it gets extremely boring, not worthy of anyone's time. I kinda feel bad shitting on this show due to the unbelievably pathetic writing, but the incel comments make me lose all of that guilt.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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