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EP. REVIEW: King's Game The Animation

Oh, and the whole episode looks awful too, pretty much guaranteeing that there's no chance of taking this absurdity seriously. But that's okay! Finding new ways to suck is the only path to survival for this show, and King's Game succeeded at failing in just about every way this week.

Rating: C

Ep 8

That was actually a pretty smart move. By having everyone else pass on the order and assigning all -5 points to Natsuko he's trying to make sure she gets punished. He broke his right finger as an insurance policy so that even if Natsuko were to try and get revenge on him or target Nobuaki he can assign that +1 point to protect and ensure Natsuko loses.

Of course this can all come crashing down easily if the remaining participants dont pass on their turns

I gave this week's episode 4 stars because the haircut thing is the funniest segment I've seen in anime in years.

Except it's not that smart at all? Since Natsuko's turn is after his, she can still break her whole hand to save herself. And with only one plus point from his right hand finger, Natsuko could still break off two fingers to put Nobuaki (or whoever gets Teruaki's point) in a minus. This would've been smarter if the person AFTER Natsuko agreed to sacrifice however fingers necessary to save whoever Natsuko targeted and/or guarantee that she ends with negative points. At best, Teruaki is forcing Natsuko to sacrifice her right hand with no guarantee of killing her, so basically he's wasted all those fingers.

Something else that adds to the stupidity is that the premise of the finger game depends on the characters being not-so-nice-people and wanting to kill each other. We saw this materialize in the first game with many characters being openly hostile to each other, but nothing in this second game has been indication that any of these teens would want to kill each other. The writing treats this as some super tense moment, but the "trick" to win it is so extremely obvious it would've been a completely pointless order without Natsuko as a wildcard

But he was gonna go to beauty college

You've just gotta love the thinking of these kids: "I just saw my best friend explode into a puddle of blood, but you want me to break my finger? That's crossing the line!"

Would someone explain to me how the hell you give CPR underwater?

v1cious wrote:

But he was gonna go to beauty college You've just gotta love the thinking of these kids: "I just saw my best friend explode into a puddle of blood, but you want me to break my finger? That's crossing the line!"

That is why I thought it was a mistake for the very first episode to have people die. It's pretty hard to believe that they would genuinely struggle with the King's orders when a gruesome death is on the table. Escalating the punishments to the point where to many failure means death would give the players reason to consider whether they could afford to fail. Plus, if things started off in a less spectacular fashion, they'd also have reason to doubt the game was real and waste some of those lesser punishments. When like half the glass hangs themselves and another has blood explode out of him in front of everyone on the first day, they've lost any reason to doubt that this is real.