SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table
Shibou Yuugi de Meshi wo Kuu.
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At just seventeen, Yuki is a professional death game player. She’s survived enough rounds to know that survival is calculation, not luck—and that failure is final. For most players, the games are a nightmare with no escape. For Yuki, they’re simply business. Yet in a world where rooms turn into graves and every choice could be her last, even experience offers no protection.
(Source: Crunchyroll)
Note: The first episode aired with a runtime of ~47 minutes as opposed to the standard 24 minute long episode.
- 100
"This is a story about a deranged world."
The vibes are terrible and that’s the point.
You are complicit. Don't you dare look away.
- 85
"This is a story about a deranged world. But this is also the story of the world they lived in."
So many death games, but so little time…
- 75
Ueno’s direction makes ghosts of everything, which is both its great attractor and great repellent.
Style over substance, death games have never been this dull.
Intended to be profound and introspective, but severely misses the mark
It’s not that nothing interesting is happening, it’s that little is being said with what is interesting.
