Clear the Game or Di3
Arisu, Chota and Karube walk out of the building only to find the supposedly bustling city being totally empty, devoid of any living beings whatsoever. They find instructions for them to participate in games where clearing it will reward them with visas - basically pass for them to stay alive. If the visa expires before players manage to join a game, a laser will shoot from the sky straight into their heads, which of course ends said life. As they try to clear each game, Arisu comes across an intriguing girl called Usagi, a mountain climber with superior agility and skill at scaling vertical objects, and both end up sticking with each other to find the game master so they could return to the real world.
Coming from a generation that grew up with Battle Royale and the likes, hardly any scene of this show fazes me, despite them being all bloody and gory. The games are somewhat interesting, but the real motivation for me to finish the show is actually to see the real puppeteers behind those games.
Arisu, although comes from a somewhat well-off family, is not the hero type - he can’t fight, he is not stunningly handsome, he generally panics first and think later, and he used to live his life as a loser back in the real world, being frowned upon by his family as hopeless, thus suffers from considerable low self esteem. He wastes his life with video games and hanging out with equally hopeless friends. So yeah, he is not the ideal hero ML. But one thing he possesses is a very perceptive and quickwitted mind that analyzes situations in a more detailed manner than the usual bloke. This is the only thing that gets him through those games in borderland. You dont get to enjoy an ML who could fight off bad guys or protect his female counterparts. Nope! Scratch that expectation off. Arisu instead gets beaten all bloody quite a lot in here, and he doesnt really lift a finger to fight back. He is a total living punching bag, which sometimes frustrates me to watch as I am more inclined towards physically strong roles. But the show must go on, and my curiosity of the game master trumps my getting cringed at how physically weak the ML is.
Although the ML is weak and rather uninteresting, the females roles here have quite a range of interesting characteristics. We have Usagi the mountain climber, Kuina the black belt transgender, Ann the police forensic lady and Mira the mysterious psycho. The show really picked up when they finally arrived at The Beach that supposedly hold all the answers the players needed. Or so it seem.
Anyway, this is a total survival story, don’t go expecting smooching romance or mindblowing fight choreographs. There are lots of blood, gun shoot-out and knife and sword slashings with occasional racy bedscenes among unimportant characters, and head’ss up for rather icky almost r@pe scene, though. So be advised.
Coming from a generation that grew up with Battle Royale and the likes, hardly any scene of this show fazes me, despite them being all bloody and gory. The games are somewhat interesting, but the real motivation for me to finish the show is actually to see the real puppeteers behind those games.
Arisu, although comes from a somewhat well-off family, is not the hero type - he can’t fight, he is not stunningly handsome, he generally panics first and think later, and he used to live his life as a loser back in the real world, being frowned upon by his family as hopeless, thus suffers from considerable low self esteem. He wastes his life with video games and hanging out with equally hopeless friends. So yeah, he is not the ideal hero ML. But one thing he possesses is a very perceptive and quickwitted mind that analyzes situations in a more detailed manner than the usual bloke. This is the only thing that gets him through those games in borderland. You dont get to enjoy an ML who could fight off bad guys or protect his female counterparts. Nope! Scratch that expectation off. Arisu instead gets beaten all bloody quite a lot in here, and he doesnt really lift a finger to fight back. He is a total living punching bag, which sometimes frustrates me to watch as I am more inclined towards physically strong roles. But the show must go on, and my curiosity of the game master trumps my getting cringed at how physically weak the ML is.
Although the ML is weak and rather uninteresting, the females roles here have quite a range of interesting characteristics. We have Usagi the mountain climber, Kuina the black belt transgender, Ann the police forensic lady and Mira the mysterious psycho. The show really picked up when they finally arrived at The Beach that supposedly hold all the answers the players needed. Or so it seem.
Anyway, this is a total survival story, don’t go expecting smooching romance or mindblowing fight choreographs. There are lots of blood, gun shoot-out and knife and sword slashings with occasional racy bedscenes among unimportant characters, and head’ss up for rather icky almost r@pe scene, though. So be advised.
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