I started watching the anime first and found out there was no season 2, so I decided to read the manga (I’m guessing the anime was to promote the manga). It’s a really good story imo, many compared it to classroom of the elite, though I haven’t watched that anime so I can’t comment on that.
My honest thoughts on this manga is that it’s an excellent read. Yuichi is a well written character. His traumatic childhood lead him to become a shit person. He’s evil, but not a monster. He clearly valued his friends and didn’t give a rats ass about money. He clearly didn’t care about having a good reputation; as long as he finally achieved his goal of ending the fucked up twisted game that the “Tomodachi Game” was. It wasn’t explicitly mentioned, but my thoughts are that he felt a sense of responsibility for the shit show that created this monstrosity of a game, and he was willing to sacrifice his own life for the cause. Obviously he was still a total jackass and a mean motherfucker, but that’s to be expected given his past and the man who raised him.
As for Tenji, I feel like they downplayed the fact that brother literally stalked Shiho just because he thought that she was the reason for his father’s death. Overall he was pretty decent and there was nothing else that he did that could’ve been considered a crime, unless we count the second game early on in the manga or the fact that he was the reason why the group were even applied to the Tomodachi Game. This raised a question of why they would completely change this point later on in the manga. Tenji was the one who stole the 2 million yen to get the group applied into Tomodachi game after deliberately setting up the friend group to meet up with fake letters, but then this is completely forgotten near the end chapters? Yutori claiming that SHE, even Shinji had set this entire shit up. But then it’s found out that Shibe’s dad is the mastermind behind it all?! It doesn’t make sense, because Tenji’s dad was killed after Tenji told him about the game, which means that Shibe’s dad would be responsible for assassinating him. Honestly, I feel like this part was a mess and that it could’ve been explained a lot clearer as it only left me questioning more than nodding in understanding.
Yutori was honestly just a scum bitch ngl, nothing else to add here, I don’t even know what reason she would have to be so horrible towards her mother. Like tf did she do to you? It’s your dad that was a piece of shit, and he’s already dead! And none of the traumatic shit she experienced was the fault of her mother, it was the other people around her. She was a victim of abuse and CSA, and clearly she ended up just as fucked in the head as Yuichi.
Shiho, she’s just there honestly. The most “normal” one in the group I’d say, there isn’t even much to say about her. She’s definitely the least fucked up one and the only one who wasn’t acting shitty despite experiencing a kidnapping and the deteriorating relationship between her parents.
Shibe…! He was also just a regular dude, most likely dealing with mommy issues and his dad being a piece of shit (direct cause of the mindfuck experienced by Yuichi and Taizen, but most importantly Yuka or whatever her name was). I have one problem, and it’s the fact that it was literally stated that he was in fact about to SA Shiho… and I am strongly disturbed by how it was just swept under the rug and that he’s just a “stupid wittle little idiot boy”
I started watching the anime first and found out there was no season 2, so I decided to read the manga (I’m guessing the anime was to promote the manga). It’s a really good story imo, many compared it to classroom of the elite, though I haven’t watched that anime so I can’t comment on that.
My honest thoughts on this manga is that it’s an excellent read. Yuichi is a well written character. His traumatic childhood lead him to become a shit person. He’s evil, but not a monster. He clearly valued his friends and didn’t give a rats ass about money. He clearly didn’t care about having a good reputation; as long as he finally achieved his goal of ending the fucked up twisted game that the “Tomodachi Game” was. It wasn’t explicitly mentioned, but my thoughts are that he felt a sense of responsibility for the shit show that created this monstrosity of a game, and he was willing to sacrifice his own life for the cause. Obviously he was still a total jackass and a mean motherfucker, but that’s to be expected given his past and the man who raised him.
As for Tenji, I feel like they downplayed the fact that brother literally stalked Shiho just because he thought that she was the reason for his father’s death. Overall he was pretty decent and there was nothing else that he did that could’ve been considered a crime, unless we count the second game early on in the manga or the fact that he was the reason why the group were even applied to the Tomodachi Game. This raised a question of why they would completely change this point later on in the manga. Tenji was the one who stole the 2 million yen to get the group applied into Tomodachi game after deliberately setting up the friend group to meet up with fake letters, but then this is completely forgotten near the end chapters? Yutori claiming that SHE, even Shinji had set this entire shit up. But then it’s found out that Shibe’s dad is the mastermind behind it all?! It doesn’t make sense, because Tenji’s dad was killed after Tenji told him about the game, which means that Shibe’s dad would be responsible for assassinating him. Honestly, I feel like this part was a mess and that it could’ve been explained a lot clearer as it only left me questioning more than nodding in understanding.
Yutori was honestly just a scum bitch ngl, nothing else to add here, I don’t even know what reason she would have to be so horrible towards her mother. Like tf did she do to you? It’s your dad that was a piece of shit, and he’s already dead! And none of the traumatic shit she experienced was the fault of her mother, it was the other people around her. She was a victim of abuse and CSA, and clearly she ended up just as fucked in the head as Yuichi.
Shiho, she’s just there honestly. The most “normal” one in the group I’d say, there isn’t even much to say about her. She’s definitely the least fucked up one and the only one who wasn’t acting shitty despite experiencing a kidnapping and the deteriorating relationship between her parents.
Shibe…! He was also just a regular dude, most likely dealing with mommy issues and his dad being a piece of shit (direct cause of the mindfuck experienced by Yuichi and Taizen, but most importantly Yuka or whatever her name was). I have one problem, and it’s the fact that it was literally stated that he was in fact about to SA Shiho… and I am strongly disturbed by how it was just swept under the rug and that he’s just a “stupid wittle little idiot boy”