King's Game

Anime that do it better: Future Diary Darwin's game (more of an action one, but same premise) Danganronpa:if you haven't played the game this one is worth a watch. If you have them the game has more detail, I find games like it so boring though.

Tomodachi Game.

I looked into the manga a lot because the anime is kind of all over the place. Didn't read the manga, just synopsis of all of them. So there's like 4 different mangas all following the same plot, no real character development, and since the main character has already played before the level of suspense that these types of anime usually supply is gone. There's a lot more of these that are better. It's also unnecessarily perverted, I guess in like the 3rd manga they explain it as "The King is a Pervert" but I'd say half the tasks are forcing some girl to sleep with some guy, or some girl will use sex for leverage, or it'll force a guy to grope her. They're all high schoolers too, I know that's not a surprise for anime really. But I find it tremendously uncomfortable. Also everyone but the main characters have no individual thought process. It seems like it's just the person that the episode is following and the main character have any persuasion, everyone is just really dumb.

I don't dislike something just to dislike it but I really dislike this anime. It feels like it's Missing 12 episodes to explain the plot. You're dumped off in what feels like the end of a story. Bad things happen but it makes no sense. People just die and you don't even know them enough to care or be concerned. I guess I need to fill in more space to meet the quota So here goes. This anime sucks the big one. It's Boring and has no plot worth watching. People either have sex or they die. It's not even a good anime plot. It's like a middle schoolers prepubescent fantasy. Whole show feels like it was written by a 12yo.

One would think, if anyone is consistent, that if Another was highly received, with all its gore, that this would also be popular... but no, somehow.

Both have gore, that is undeniable, and that by itself doesn't make anime better or necessarily worse (although if it's there for no reason then it's worse rather than better, and this is what I thought happened with Another). Both really tried to up themselves several times throughout the series.... maybe Ou did more, considering the nature of the game, but... that is the point, at least the gore here made sense... happened due to a conscious decision, whether insane or not, whereas with Another it just happened due to some unspecified supernatural force. Not that the 'king' here totally isn't 'supernatural', but there is an attempt at an explanation, whereas in Another there is only history (both do have attempts at understanding these background forces, but only one is 'conscious' per se, and so feels like Ou makes more sense due to this).

So, do people prefer random accidents over deliberate games? I've no idea. But, I certainly prefer Ou, even if it could be slightly more gory in comparison to Another, because it makes sociological sense, and also... there were these sort of cathartic moments in some of the characters' lives... not all, but then Another practically had none of that from what I can remember...

While both can be observed from a sociological 'what if' perspective, conscious games make more frightening sense because this is more likely to happen in real life too. Absolute monarchies still exist, and while they don't normally send messages to people's phones the concept remains the same; people can turn on each other (as in Lord of the Flies too), even if survival depends on cooperation... and would even more likely to not help anyone if survival actually depended on hurting others, even if there might be a chance of collective survival if, in many cases, understanding the cause would resolve it.

I actually liked the plot, I thought the characters were cool. The shows pacing was eh especially with flashbacks being like half of the 6 episodes I feel like we really did not get enough time with the present and focused on the past too much and what was needed from the past was not really explained I mean I liked the past parts but it got annoying. I liked the show honestly until the end like wtf is that man. Also the to be continued had me intrigued but also mad for one we most likely will never get a continuation based on how people felt about season one and honestly I just don't see a point of continuing after all of that happening I mean I would watch a season 2 100% because I love darker shows like this ex (future Diary/Mirai Nikki) one of my favorite animes oat but this could of been executed way better tbh. I like the show but also don't its mixed feelings. I did like the voice actors though they were great. I would like a season 2 to possibly see if this can redeem itself. They had everything perfectly lined up. In terms for my basketball fans it's like having a 40 point game then you brick 3 game winning attempts in a row or fumbling a game winning touchdown multiple times. I can only compare how much of a fumble this is to the promised neverland ending. But maybe it was doomed to fail from the start when they adapted a sequel before the prequel. I will say the opening song is goated tho fr.

It's an average anime if not better! If we are comparing it to Another or D game then its not as good but it is definitely worth a watch! The gore is amazing.