Darwin's Game Discussion

It's decent, but I don't get what you mean with the Death Note stuff. Personally, I found the show really enjoyable, but there were a lot of issues with it too that means I can't give it that high of a rating

It's more like a combination of Btooom and Juuni Taisen imo

Personally I found it ok-ish.
I wouldn't recommend anyone watching it unless they're really into the battle royale kind of style.

But I think the anime fails to explain us why some things are the way they are, and I felt like I was left to watch 11 episodes of fighting without really knowing why I was watching the fights other than "yeah, it's because of the game".

And the entire "regular citizens that don't play D game just act as if nothing is wrong when people are dying left and right with weird ass pixels art" was way too unreasonable for me.

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I actually didn't enjoy it, in fact, I absolutely hated it lmao

I am with you, I enjoyed that show

Hmmm... yes i enjoyed it quite a lot.

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Nope. Hated it with a passion XD There was NOTHING for me to like about it. NOTHING i tell you.

You guys should read the manga, far more enjoyable than the anime for sure

i'm pretty hard to please when it comes to anime, but i definitely enjoyed it a decent bit. Maybe I'm bias because I watched it with a group of people in discord, but it was interesting, for sure.

i've watched only 2 eps , and i don't think i would enjoy the rest ♦

Facts, I loved Darwin's Game, I think it's a 7.5-8/10. The characters are interesting, it has a lot of suspense, I loved the fight scenes, the overall story was pretty good and the animation was great. I genuinely hope we get a season 2
Also Shuka is badddd

YES you hit it right on the head. it's like if you mixed re:zero and tokyo ghoul together and diluted it a bit with water. really it was a good watch. and whats-his-name the mc is cute. what more can you ask for?

also, it had some hot takes at the end. yknow when the speedy guy (i think) is fighting on of the bad guys and says "you used to be a great martial arts fighter until you accidentally killed a guy and dropped off the scene" and bad guy says "yeah i was so depressed and felt terrible about it till bad guy leader (who's name i dont remember) came up to me and was like You only feel bad about killing someone bc you've only killed one person and if you kill more you'll feel better, and turns out he was right." like tbh bad guy leader aint completely wrong, like he's sadistic but he's got a pijnt, you can desensitize yourself to anything if you do it enough.

aaaaaand at the very end when mc finds his friend chopped up in the box and shoots a subordinate of bad guy leader the minute he starts talking and mc says "you were getting on my nerves" like???!!! that was a whole 180 they were building up for. and they didnt even try to rationalize it (like tokyo ghoul) imo bc the last scene where they're all in black making their own posse.

anyway apologies for long comment I'm very passionate about this

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Personally, I was very iffy on the anime. I thought the plot was interesting. however, I can not recall anything that happened.

It was a typical death game. I don't remember much honestly but the pacing was bad. Given it had 11 episodes it was either gonna get rushed or the series leaves off on a cliffhanger with no season 2. This series was most likely a promotion to pick up the manga. A lot are like that sadly.
There was also a lot of competition in winter 2020 so it got overlooked. It happens :/

the first ep is the only good thing about it

I really liked it, when I watched it last year, and will watch a sequel, if one comes out. It wasn't something amazing but it was very engaging and pretty interesting. The characters weren't appealing, though.

It's definitely a fairly popular show. I have read the manga, and what the anime adapted (it got shit later) was actually fairly good source material. However, it was poorly paced, with only the first and last episode being good imho, and nothing was particularly noteworthy in the series. Just a mid show.

The main reason that nobody talks about it is likely because it's very forgettable, due to the aforementioned lack of uniqueness in the series.

Not sure if anyone will see this, but is there any anime recommendations you guys have for any show where romance is a small piece of the show, similar to Darwin’s game? Thank you!

to me, it was just a future diary rip off