Takaku tobitatsuyo iki ga tsuzuku made link
(Translation) Flying high, our strength will continue as we, all-together, will grow...!Though, in the world of Anime AND its production, whether it’s ACTUALLY be based on an already-existing, BUUUT not quite finished yet, Manga or Light Novel series. Or if it's based on something like a: Play, Game, Movie, etc., odds are... if it's a "Long-Running" series; i.e., FULL-YEAR-ROUND new episodes... it's GONNA go into filler at one point or another, IF it's based on something still being made, ITSELF...! -ALL-OF-A-SUDDEN 2020 HITS, EVERYONE IS INSIDE FOR "SOCIAL-DISTANCING", and a "Presumed" Gameshow goes on Japan called: Run for Money! (I'm not entirely sure MYSELF, if it's only a Live-Gameshow, a Live-Action Fictional movie... or BOTH, but...) This show apparently became popular enough, THAT WE LATER FINALLY GOT... "Run for Money: The Great Mission"! format(webp))As from what was said up before up above, this was an original Project, most-likely, based on the Gameshow. ALTHOUGH, there are DEFINITELY some twists with the ANIMATED series! Produced by Fuji TV, and more CONGRADULATORY for how it looks... TOEI Animation! And given how their record for how their series looked in the... 2010's onwards, somewhere here in the 2020's, this and ONE OR TWO others shows looks more like might be trying to put themselves back together after WHATEVER was going on with them during the decade BEFORE...! Run for money/”Tousouchuu: The Great Mission” stars a simple delivery-boy/escaper-of-the-Authority: Tomura "Tom" Sawyer, who, like most people in this Futuristic-looking world, is a fan of a Game-Show called: Run for Money, a VIRTUAL-REALITY contest where players who compete are digitally sent into alternate places and worlds and must complete certain missions, all while AVOIDING THE HUNTERS CHASING AFTER THEM, in order to win a grand cash prize from the Company behind the Show, "Chronos. Inc.". Although, every cent that Tomura makes up from doing his job must go towards helping medicate his adopted little brother: Hal, who seems to have a sickness... One day, when he talks to his brother to cheer him up, Hal eggs Tom on to not worry about him for a few minutes and LIVE-OUT HIS DREAM. ...After some consideration, he accepts his brother's wish for him, and though he wasn't ORIGINALLY part of the competition, once after having seen him run throughout the facility and MAKE-IT AFTER ONE LAST DANGEROUS OBSTSICLE to the send-off room to partake in the game, the “Master” of the game and assumed creator: Satoshi Tsukimura, takes a LIKING to his athleticisms, tenacity, and efforts... and calls the guards off once he makes it into the room, and as everyone else accepts him from the Master's personal "Testing for him", as he EVEN gets to meet one of his favorite players: Morris Shoemaker, everyone is ready to PLAY, and run for money, in the Runaway World! Right from episode 1, the MAIN series begins! The first game that the contestants play is a "Survival" Game, put inside of a __"Present Day" _(Modern Day Japan 2020’s)_ Akihabara that is going to be under the attack of a GIANT MONSTER, and with the help of an "A.I." character...__ (Cough, NPC, cough) the team must compete both, with and against, each other to rescue any surviving citizens and eliminate the potential threat! Obviously, as it's the VERY FIRST "ARC." of this new series... the animation REALLY shows what the show... and studio REGARDLESS of the prior decade complications, WHATEVER THERE WAS, could do with this completely original and “non-source continuing” series. It feels more like a full game of "Mario Party", BUT WITH A COMPLETE STORY-MODE TO GO ALONG WITH THE ACTUAL PROBLEM the characters must face: Time-managing Tasks to complete, Power-Ups, and Equipment to either help or hinder the players show-up either at random or by the "Game-Master" and his whole controlling/Programing Crew to keep the players on their feet or make the show more interesting to keep the viewers interested in one way or another, and leveling-up either conveniences for the players or situations to make the players keep on their feet to test them of their problem-solving skills WHILE STILL escaping the main task of the whole Game, Narrator: ESCAPE, THE HUNTERS..! (Suspenseful music usually proceeds to play right after.)Overall, there is HONESTLY only about 7-9 storylines that the characters ACTUALLY play through, (NOT including the single one the directly LEADS into a... "Sort of" Civil War between two different Moon-Colonies, WHICH IS WHERE EVERYONE ACTUALLY LIVES, IN THE REAL WORLD!) and though UNFORTUNATELY the whole show from the beginning, through a GOOD PERCENTAGE, starts to slip with how WELL the normal animation is presented, along with some of the Games within the first half, ALONG WITH NOT BEING CONSISTANT OR EXPLAINING IN-FULL what can ONLY exist within the VIRTUAL WORLD of the GAMES, and what actually GETS TO EXIST IN REAL LIFE, REGARDLESS of having only been obtained... or MEANT TO BE PART in the virtual world for the overly extreme and dangerous missions...! ...Although, I still PERSONALLY liked the series for the first half, in general overall. One common trait within EACH AND EVERY "ARC." that only started to crop up once around the Egypt Game or so was... that no matter HOW BIG AND DISASTEROUS the situation had turned out against the players, there was ALWAYS at least “ONE LAST HOPE” to turn the entire battle in the competitors' (And NPCs') favor to ULTIMATELY keep them in the game until the greatest evil would INEVITABLY get defeated. And, YES I DO REALIZE THAT THIS IS A SHOW TARGETED FOR A YOUNGER AUDIENCE, but unlike THOSE other shows of the kind like: Bakugan, Sonic X, Yu-Go-OH, etc., where the main villains HERE, (SO FAR in this series...) never EVEN actually get a SINGLE full Storyline where they at least have BACK something while they get defeated permanently no matter how powerful and they were to conquering THEIR own world, I was a ...LITTLE disappointed to not see what would happen to the In-Game stories (But you know, show for YOUNGER VIEWERS.) if there was NOT EVEN ONE LAST HERO to help save the day. ...Also what would happen to the PRIZE-MONEY if whoever was left either: Got caught by a Hunter before the full game was over, or if there was no one left to save the Game's storyline from the villain winning..!?

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Although, at one point, the comedic, cowardly, rascal-Criminal: Penta, is suddenly given an "Easy-Out" given by the "Game Master" to make the competition more INTERESTING to see who would ACTUALLY take it to get an Automatic ___“Cash-Bonus”_ Prize__, REGARDLESS of how far or whatever much they did in the game themselves! And only ONCE in the whole show... DOES EVERYONE GET CAUGHT AFTER THE STORY IS COMPLETE... and after it's quiet for a minute in confusion of "Who Won the Game", PENTA CELEBRATES AS WITH HIS "SURRENDER"-CHOICE HE IS (Having only Characters that actually played in this round.) THE ONLY CONTESTANT THAT "WON THE GAME"!

Although, stuff starts getting REEEALLY INTERESTING JUST after THAT Game...! The next Contest SEEMS to take place inside of a... LITTLE PLAYROOM IN A HOUSE...!? -BUT SUDDENLY ALL THE HUNTERS, NOT ONLY NOW FULLY RESEMBLE THEIR REAL-LIFE SHOW COUNTERPARTS, having the black face-masks, again I'm assuming because of the original show was coming out during "The Pandemic", BUT ALSO BEING A LOT FASTER TO CATCH THE CONTESTANTS IN THIS SPECIFIC GAME...!! THIS... is when we FINALLY, get about a good 46 episodes/about HALFWAY through the whole series as we FINALLY get some lore and explanation about if THIS SPECIFIC city of humanity is the ONLY group either that LIVES her on the Moon, OR LEFT.

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They're not. Every city/state lives in its OWN Moon-Dome City. VERY MUCH like how Japan has multiple "Prefectures" for all of its citizens to live in.

FROM HERE ONWARDS, THE SHOW COMPLETELY GETS BACK ITS MOMENTUM of having ALL the new possibilities to explore about how Humanity works in this completely CLARIFIED DIFFERENT world as well as some GOOD Lore-Drops about how to either: Conquer or DESTROY all of Humanity and what technical/actual home that the have left. And NO, the very first villain of the series from THIS point on STILL ISN'T the ACTUAL "MAIN"/FINAL Villain for the Contestants and Characters to face-off against...! Also, I DO REALLY want to note somewhere in this Review, the the Theme Song: Runaway World, by Fhana, reminds me very much of other Action/Adventure shows from when I was growing-up personality. not in terms of RYTHEM or whatever else, buuut in terms of... that even though there is only the ONE song for the entire series, much like how those shows back THEN would either mix-up their openings with new animation, having Characters show-off their new RELEVANCY for the up-n-coming story-Arcs in the seasons ahead, having different lines from other parts of the song, in this case for NEWLY DISCOVERED Plot-Relevancy, and even make the opening EVEN A TAD LONGER to witness how "Grandiose" things may turn-out to become later-on in the show! ALTHOUGH, I'd be lying if he said that EVERY single mystery or hanging plot-thread IS either explained or answered with the entire show as is when you actually finish the while series... SO FAR in this Review's Publish-Date.
(In-Game Narrator: DEFEAT the FINAL BOSS, and SAVE "RUN FOR MONEY" AND THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE...!) _(Not the form the Final-Villain originally appears in as...)_ SPEAKING OF the "Final Villain", the ACTUAL final villain TECHNICALLY DOESN'T actually appear AS the Villain in their own Story! They actually first appear after the "Failure" of the Storyline at the time's main Villain FAILS his evil ploy in his stage and... KINDA... COMES OUT OF NO WHERE... LATER IN RETURN... HONESTLY. BUT, ONCE THE LAST GAME/ARC. STARTS-OFF, although it starts-off and COUNTINUES to be PRETTY STANDARD (That is, for the LATER PORTION of the series), THE TWO LAST EPISODES AND ESPECIALLY THE VERY LAST ONE BRINGS EVERYTHING FULL CIRCLE AND HONESTLY HAS JUST ABOUT THE BEST KIND OF EPIC "FINAL-CRISIS” AND HAVE! EVERY RETURNING-CONTESTANT TRAVELS ACROSS THE ENTIRE MAP OF STAGES FROM THE WHOLE SERIES TO HELP GET THE ULTIMATE "MYGUFFEN" TO DEFEAT THE ENEMY BY HELPING TO CREATE THE SUPPOSED FINAL WEAPON, ALL WITHIN THIS WHOLE LAST ARC. and honestly the WHOLE SERIES actually makes it worth watching in whole!Honestly, this whole show REALLY reminds me of those TECHNICALLY-NOW older "PG-PG13"/"Shonen-Seinen” Anime of the 90's-00'.s It's a very long, but not OVERLY SO long Action/Adventure series where the main character in the first few episodes must prove himself to go on the entire Series's quest, gaining new stronger-and-strong rivals amongst other either: friends, enemies, and random rivals all on the same or similar missions across an array of different areas and landscapes. Gaining a POTENTIAL Love-Interest, BUT ultimately either not doing ANYTHING with it except only LITERALLY confessing to each other in the very LAST episode (Or close to it....) only for the receiving person to be nothing but abruptly bashful just for a quick last-laugh or only IMPLYING they start dating AFTER the ending of the show! Have a minor character-relative whom plays SOME KIND of bigger role near or at the end of the story that they both/all share a "Beyond the end of the series" Dream. Have some SOMEWHAT important character come from or bring about wild changes, and have new lore revealed about how the world/universe's normalcy be changed by the newly established events for all the characters to NOW go on and make right of the newly established enemies wrong-doings, to change the story's Status-Quo to keep it interesting for long-time watchers. AND finally, have an all-powerful Supernatural or all-consuming ultimate evil try to kill or enslave all of reality/existence and have the main character unlock a new "All-Powerful" Super-Form added onto his already individual Super—Powered form and have everyone help through the entire series in one way or another to ultimately help in a Second-to-Last or actual Final attack on the final villain. Then have the entire or half of the last episode just be main character epilogues and the Leader of the population order for a "Brand New" Quest to try relevant actions that... MAY actually get answered, IF this already-made series either remains or has another popular sequel sourced.

Tomura Sawyer:

I will be... the Greatest Player... the Moon has ever known! I... can do it!Takaku tobitatsuyo negai tsukamu made
Atarashii sekai eKono mi sen kirete mo tachidomatteirarenai
Kono ito tadoreba kitto deaeru link.(Translation) If I decide to protect you,
My warmest feelings will come gush-ing straight through-out!Flying high until you catch it.
Towards a new world, when tomorrow is met!