Survival • Death Games

Alice Ryouhei will leave high school soon, but he's trying to avoid thinking about his future. Late one night, when he's hanging out with his tough friend Karube and his silly, girl-crazy friend Chota, they see fireworks. After one blindingly bright explosion, they find themselves waking up in a different world. In this 'Borderland,' people are forced to either participate in potentially deadly games or simply die.

• has even better live adaptation

9/10

Kotaro Kudo was known as the "Streets' Strongest". Once, 13 thugs, thirsty for revenge, kidnapped his younger sister. Kotaro beat everyone, and on the same night, he was arrested on suspicion of murder, as each of them was later found dead.
He is then forcefully enrolled to a certain school, in which all students must meet "a special criteria" to enter... be a killer.

8/10

Igarashi Tohru, a college student, took a 6-month part-time job in a child care facility located deep within the mountains to take care of children for 3 million yen. However, in this remote area, sin runs deep in the work to be done.

8/10

Ogasaka high school students of class 1-A can get involved in an unreasonable game called "friendly game". In which one of the conditions of the game eat the bodies of their friends to survive. Cannibal school begins.

A young man, Kaneda, is inflicted with trauma-induced amnesia after discovering the body of his classmate and friend, Hiwako Shima. After being picked up from the hospital by a mysterious benefactor, he resumes school, and tries to piece together his memories of the incident. To make matters more confusing, his buried memories have manifested in the form of a surreal being, whose head is shaped like a crescent moon. Together, they set off to solve the mystery of Hiwako's murder.

8/10

One day, amidst a boring life, an invitation message appears before my eyes. [Would you like to enter the tutorial world?]

Following it is a difficulty-selection window. [Easy] [Normal] [Hard] [Hell]. I select hell-difficulty without hesitation.

And I regret it.

I know it said hell-difficulty, but this is just too much.

7/10

Ten contestants agree to put their life on the line to have a chance of winning 100 million yen. To win, they must survive 10 days inside the prison...

In a world driven by fictionalized friendship, courtesy of the program named "real account", the table suddenly turns, and the cybernetic world turns real! how will they survive?

In a world driven by fictionalized friendship, courtesy of the program named "real account", the table suddenly turns, and the cybernetic world turns real! how will they survive?