Official English: INKR, Azuki 6p66o
From Kodansha:
Like many of his peers, Ataru Kashiwagi has found himself addicted to the newest social networking service, Real . But one day, Ataru and almost 10,000 other people, get sucked into the Real Zone, where they have become players in a series of deadly games. The basic rules of these games are simple—if you lose all your followers, you die in real life, and if you die, all of your followers die with you. As these depraved games decimate the players around him, Ataru must use quick thinking and his knowledge of Real to win each round and return to the real world. But when true friendship determines whether he lives or dies, can Ataru really survive when the only people he can count on are his Internet friends?
24 Volumes (Complete)
If you are expecting any type of drama or suspense then don't waste your time on this. They took an interesting scifi survival story and turned it into 24 volumes of the most repetitive, incoherent mess possible. Every chapter is sillier and crazier than the one before it until it's all just noise.
I like the premise but.. boobs flaunting , panties here and there full of fanservice makes the...
The tension is gone..
It was supposed to be full of tension, game of death, horror, they introduced it that way in chapter 1
But the mood good they set in chapter 1 get destroyed because of those fans services
Part of the fun of a death game is considering how you would act in the situation and how you could feasibly past. To this, a game needs to play by its own rules. The host can lie by omission, but explicitly lying about the nature of the game or changing it partway through as a "gotcha" is cheap writing and negates that. Unfortunately, the host does that pretty regularly in this game. He will also kill people who have not broken the rules just to make an example. He only seems to be bound by the rules specifically when the MC is being a rules lawyer, and never else.
This leads to a game state that you can't reasonably think your way through to say, "Yes I do have a chance". It also turns the MC into a Mary Sue and he never really feels at any risk even when he errs.
I reread it, and i just cringe and past self, in my past i thought this was genius writing, but looking at it now through my current lense, its not, everything has some cliche to it, some mary sue shit happens to the plot whenever it is convient, all that junk.
Take my advice, do not read this, read 'tomadachi game' its great beginning and middle, but near the end there still some more to desire, but its much better than this. There is a more focused group of characters and there are not as much cliches as this manga
I really liked it. I liked the second one more than the first, cause I liked how the mc in the second one was smarter and also more of a jackass lol(I get bored reading ones about MC always being just and right. Not to mention, they end up being pansies or some sht lol)
Only reason why I brought down the rating a bit was cause I know that Mizuki x Yuuma(Arata) will never happen ;;
Oh the pains of being a fujoshi while reading a harem series...
I was finally able to read all the chapters and i was glad.....i was satisfied with the ending but i feel sad for all the good people who died some were really great and didn't deserve to die but they had to.....i m glad ataru was still alive in yuuma but feeling sad too that KOYORI is not with them....
Well, I liked the first part more than the second. The first MC and the other character's were better. The second MC is just the worst. The story and the explanation are clear and easy to understand. Thankfully there's not much ecchi.
... Last updated 8 years ago
I completed this one and enjoyed it very much, but was disappointed when I read Real II. There are plenty of improvements, like the art and Marble's personality, but I liked the characters and story in the first more.
It's entertaining but really not novel at all. It's like the Hwang Mi Ri of death game stories. On the side, you have a clingy girl or two who hang onto the MC that solves/survives through the death puzzles. Fanservice boob/panty shots once or twice every chapter. The twists in each of the death puzzles aren't that amazing. A lot of times, it's solved by the mangaka adding a new element just so that the MC can solve it. It brings the story down a notch.
Probably, the most interesting thing is the parallel story going on.
Read until chapter 62 in raws. The story ties up quite well by then, no spoilers. It's compact and not wishy-washy.
It does jump to a different MC at one point, and I felt that it linked up decently when it was after the MC revealed a fake identity. Naturally, we'd want to know the "real" one.
Throughout the series, however, I did feel that the games were overly simple and the MCs were slow to come up with solutions, when solutions were incredibly straightforward compared to Iutoori and Liar Game etc. This series is sorely lacking a genius character that makes the reader excited in Play/Die situations.
