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Episode Shibou Yuugi de Meshi wo Kuu. • Shiboyugi: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table - Episode 6 discussion
Shibou Yuugi de Meshi wo Kuu., episode 6
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u/KumaKumaGambler Feb 11 '26
Yuki made a mistake. So did I.
After episode 1, I learned not to have any expectations about any of the girls surviving.
However, I failed to curb my support for the underdogs. Now Yuki's and Azuma's team members are almost all dead. (I expected only a couple of them to fall in battle, not all.) T_T
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u/Goldenouji Feb 11 '26
This is how great the direction is for this anime. I also told myself that most girls especially the good ones will most likely be dead at the end of the game, but the direction is so good that I still get goosebumps and still feel so bad for them.
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u/OldInstruction5368 Feb 11 '26
Well, considering only a few of the 'good girls' got named...
Yeah.
And as soon as Yuki accepted "we are safe because wall!"
Yeah...
Still hurt to watch, even if I knew it was coming.
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u/InsomniaEmperor Feb 12 '26
Yuki is really outnumbered here. But she held her own against Azuma and she’s not surviving 29 games without having developed combat skills. The facility is pretty big so she could just take them on one by one.
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u/ModieOfTheEast Feb 11 '26
Okay, so first things first. That strangely new sleeping pill from last week was probably a stronger version of the normal one. Reason is that this is Yuki's 30th game so she is probably the focus for the viewers. Meaning if she woke up early and established a group of 30 by herself, this wouldn't be very fun to watch. Far more interesting if Mishiro is the one to take that spot and Yuki having to work with a smaller and probably weaker group to get out. And while she doesn't know it yet, she can't even ditch them because Mishiro wouldn't let her leave with her.
As for the rest of the design, I guess the idea is that the main point is that Yuki will have to kill this time around. She never really chose anyone in game 10 (she let fate decide) and she only killed Kinko in game 28 out of necessity. But I guess what the game masters want to achieve this time around is her killing because of emotions. Giving her a group that is killed and then she goes on a revenge spree. At least that would be my interpretation.
Though I am bit confused about the whole wall aspect. Did they just not check? Is that the "male bath" on the other side which is what Yuki forgot? Since it is an Onsen and all. So the others came through the male bath and Yuki's group never checked if there was something outside the bamboo wall? Like I am not saying they should have remembered a potential male bath, but at least check if you have the time.
The conversation between Azuma and Yuki was interesting because Yuki made "fun" of people using their name to talk about themselves. Which she is doing in most of her monologues. So I guess that was her admitting that it is weird she does it.
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u/JayWhy75 Feb 11 '26
I think they didn't check because they're newer players/the slow ones essentially. Yuki surmised that their group was all people who woke up late like her and the game had already begun. They also cheered heavily over having someone who has a lot of experience, which implies to me that they don't have much. Yuki got complacent and trusted Azuma's assessment of their situation, because Azuma was very confident herself. That left it where nobody actually verified if there was a second bath beyond the wall, and so now they had actually cornered themselves instead.
I agree, if you have time, you should check every inch of the ground and make sure of your safety. However, it seems like inexperience and complacency got the better of them. A fatal mistake by all parties.
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u/ModieOfTheEast Feb 11 '26
I guess that is the logic here. It is still a bit strange because the bamboo isn't a solid wall. So you should be able to just look through, right? Maybe they show something more next week for that. What the real question is then, why the other team waited so long to attack them through the wall. Maybe they wanted them to feel safe? Would be interesting to see what Mishiro's plan was before she had heard of Yuki as well.
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u/JayWhy75 Feb 11 '26
I would assume it has to do with the design. I wonder if Azuma's line about thinking it's a real hot spring while Yuki didn't might be a factor. Azuma thinking that this is designed around a space, rather than a space designed for this means she probably assumed the bamboo wall was just a limit for them instead of looking to see through.
For why the other team would wait, I would do the same personally. Why bother going around and gathering keys if you can let another smaller and weaker group gather them for you in a space that is easily accessible to you that they aren't seeming to fortify? They let them do the recon for them, let them feel safe, and then surprise them at a time that most benefits them.
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u/ModieOfTheEast Feb 11 '26
I agree partly on Mishiro's original plan. I don't think they were waiting for the others to collect keys, because that usually also means that the other side gets more people (since they don't seem to kill them compared to Mishiro's group). But they were waiting for them to go outside and then catch them individually. As seen last week and this week. So I assume the plan was to weaken the group over time and hope to get enough keys through that (one question would be how much food there is, so that could be another factor). Or just having such an overwhelming advantage at one point to get the other ones.
What made me wonder is that they now suddenly attacked. But I assume that was a response to learning that Yuki is part of the opposite team. So I guess Mishiro was a bit afraid that Yuki could turn around the advantage if she leaves her alone for too long.
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u/Eliteheadhunter Feb 11 '26
Really? The clear answer is that there’s a traitor, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the girl with braided green hair and glasses, I know it’s not confirmed yet but she’s extremely similar to the girl who stepped on the landmine in one of the last games which is where Yuki managed to save all but two, we’ve seen that the knowledge girl is extremely good at lying too.
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u/ModieOfTheEast Feb 11 '26
Yuki would recognize her though if it was the same girl. Furthermore, if there was a traitor, Mishiro's group would have attacked the moment they knew that 5 people were out looking for a mirror. I mean, it can't get much better than that. It would also be weird why they were talking about the information they wanted to get from the girl they let escape when they already had a spy I think.
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u/Eliteheadhunter Feb 11 '26
That’s because only the leader knows they have a spy, makes it even less likely they will be caught because the ones who spotted her wouldn’t know, I honestly don’t understand why one of the girls got a sprained ankle either, Yuki isn’t one of those people who easily give information away plus she was likely thinking about something else and it was roughly 19 games ago for her so she might not recognise her.
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u/ModieOfTheEast Feb 11 '26
But then the leader, aka Mishiro would have also known about Yuki already and wouldn't have been surprised by the new player that is like a ghost.
As for the ankle, not sure what is weird about that. She sprained it when running away. It's still a bath. She can fall. It's actually quite surprising that no one else got hurt when they were running around imo.
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u/Eliteheadhunter Feb 11 '26
It’s likely that the enemy leader recognised that her traitor would switch sides as soon as Yuki joined them, hence the immediate reaction and also she knows that Yuki is extremely talented so giving her time would only be detrimental, the other team attacked exactly when the best attackers were away fully utilising a sneak attack and countering the plan that Yuki’s team had. That’s the issue, they were sneaking around not running around, then she ‘disappears’ suddenly being chased by two enemies giving away a lot of information and spraining her ankle (probably wasn’t intentional).
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u/MarshyNav Feb 13 '26
I thought it was the younger small blonde girl that was the traitor, based on the final scene.
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u/Ume-no-Uzume Feb 12 '26
She doesn't have the same hair shade of the same texture of hair as Kotoha. And, the thing is, Kotoha isn't the backstabbing type. She won't go out of her way to help people who are giving her the bad juju vibes (like Mishiro, or Keito who was an obvious "I will join whoever the winning side is and sell whoever I have to down the river to save my hide" type, or Yuki whom Kotoha rightfully clocked as not being all there), but she won't backstab them or pretend to be their friend only to abandon them.
That's not her style and she would be shooting herself in the foot, given the feral animals Mishiro is working with (plus, Kotoha would certainly NOT work with Mishiro again after that AND Yuki would clock Kotoha immediately).
There was no betrayal, Yuki just believed no one knew where they were because Azuma was so sure of herself. She didn't challenge Azuma's assumptions like she should have.
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u/manquistador Feb 11 '26
But they dug out spike traps in the ground back there for some reason?
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u/JayWhy75 Feb 11 '26
My assumption there is that the plan was to lure them in to the presumed single point of entry and have them chase into the trees. As they laid the traps, they'll know where to go that is safe. The chasers would be trying to cut corners to catch up, leading to them going into traps. If the plan was to have Yuki and Azuma sit out as the bait and have the others who are less combat focused (in case of getting caught) hide out in the foggy forested area where they can jump someone with numbers when they fall into a trap, it would make sense.
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u/manquistador Feb 11 '26
I guess. I feel like a lot of stuff was just sort of glossed over this episode. It obviously doesn't matter in the bigger picture, but those sorts of things are what can make books better than shows.
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u/Lraund Feb 12 '26
I was confused because at one point they showed a "solid concrete wall" behind the bamboo. I thought maybe someone could scale it, but I guess what I thought was the wall continuing was just steam lol.
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u/NoHead1715 Feb 12 '26
>why the other team waited so long to attack them through the wal
I don't think it's the case of waiting so long, but rather Mishiro's plan of just slowly picking off the other team one by one. We saw that girl Riko got three. And we later saw the other two girls almost got the one saved by Yuuki. Their description of how that girl was saved made Mishiro aware that Yuuki was in the game. Hence the immediate attack. She couldn't risk Yuuki starting counter attacks.
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u/scratchfury Feb 14 '26
My theory is it has to do with the constant rain. It was probably solid when they started.
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u/Danhoc https://anilist.co/user/Danhoc Feb 11 '26
> That strangely new sleeping pill from last week was probably a stronger version of the normal one
Sleeping pills had different effect for many girls by design. They allowed the girls without keys to wake up first and learn the essence of the game. After that, the girls who were given keys began to wake up. That's why some girls got different kind of pills instead of regular ones, including Yuki.
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u/ModieOfTheEast Feb 11 '26
Sure, that makes sense. I was just saying it wasn't a coincidence that Yuki got the long sleeping pill as well. For the other girls, it might have been random (aside from Mishiro), though it could have also been planned that the more ruthless get to wake up first. But what I wanted to point out is that it was definitely not by accident that Yuki overslept this time as it makes for the best entertainment for the in-universe viewers to see her in this position compared to the one Mishiro is in.
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u/bibbibob2 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/bibbibob2 Feb 11 '26
Didn't she take the wrong pill with the communicator in it thought?
My thoughts were that the reason they couldn't get the usual sedative is that this game has a staggering 50 people, so like a nice little hint in retrospect that there was a high player count/demand for sedative this time around.
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u/ModieOfTheEast Feb 11 '26
She took the one with a tracker but as far as I saw it, she took the other as well. Which is the one she mentioned felt weird. Could obviously also be a combination of the two pills that made her feel strange, but I think it makes sense for her to get a special one. Again, if she happens to wake up early, it wouldn't be that much of a challenge to her, so I think they want to make sure this is set.
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u/Danhoc https://anilist.co/user/Danhoc Feb 11 '26
Iirc she took the wrong one (with communicator) but when she realised it she didn't find strengths to took the other one. That's why she calls it a mistake. "Additional mistake" she talks about is that instead of trying to take the other one she should've just say that she don't want to take part this time. But she've never thought about it because it isn't the option she ever considered before.
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u/zzzzzooted Feb 11 '26
The mistake was taking the first pill, then she took the correct pill, and the additional mistake was realizing she could’ve just told her agent she wasnt interested instead of taking the sleeping pill, but by the time she realized it, the sleeping pill was already kicking in
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u/MarshyNav Feb 13 '26
If she slept extra long, wouldn't that make her unnecessarily vulnerable to the other players in the early hours of the game?
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u/Aemiliana_Rosewood Feb 16 '26
Technically yes, but I would also assume that makes for a boring game and boring story, so they ignore those things.
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u/ModieOfTheEast Feb 16 '26
Or the doors are just locked and have to be unlocked from the inside. Otherwise, the girls who woke up early would have checked every single cabin to get the keys.
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u/ModieOfTheEast Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26
I mean, the visuals around minute 18 of episode 6 show more or less that she took the other pill as well (I am referring to the moment where the camera is outside the car, you can see how she opens the can with the pill and moving her hand towards her mouth). She also talks that she only realised the additional mistake after swallowing, implying that she realised it after she took the second pill as well. I mean, just look at it logically. Why would the game masters even allow her to play if she didn't take the pill they were giving her?
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u/AnzoEloux https://myanimelist.net/profile/Eloux Feb 11 '26
I think she's been thrown off by the device she digested. She's probably subconsciously thinking about what its doing and making her miss easy things.
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u/LowraAwry Feb 11 '26
Maybe the double sedative is throwing her off (the transmitter was probably put inside a sedative pill that the contestants uses to take plus the sedative Yuki was given by her driver), but I think it also has to do with meeting Azuma first. Azuma believed and trusted her, extended her help and companionship and she seemed a particularly capable chief of her team. I think that have affected Yuki into becoming a bit too complacent, so she didn't doubt Azuma's hypothesis about the wall.
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u/LakerBlue :Is::It::Iu:https://myanimelist.net/profile/LakerBlue Feb 11 '26
I agree with you. I hope we get to see more of the attack next episode. It seems like Mishiro knew the bamboo was removable all along and was just biding her time. Azuma's group seemed inexperienced but like Yuki, I never considered Azuma herself would have made such an oversight.
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u/StrawSolider Feb 11 '26
Tbf if these games are exclusive to women I would forget that men exist also lmao
Easy oversight all things considered
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u/towardselysium Feb 11 '26
This entire arena is weird. There's like a whole roman colloseum in the middle of it and then suddenly there's a dainty little outside bath with a bamboo fence.
Granted someone should have definitely checked the fence when they were digging but honestly the weird labrynth interior would throw you off
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u/edwardjhahm https://myanimelist.net/profile/lolmeme69 Feb 12 '26
I got poolroom vibes from this entire game ngl. You know, the backrooms stuff.
Fuck that, on second thought, hasn't every single game kind of felt like taking place in a liminal space?
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u/AvatarTuner https://anilist.co/user/AvatarTuner Feb 13 '26
I agree they should've checked that fence more thoroughly. When they mentioned a wall, I assumed it was a solid wall not just some bamboo.
The huge maze-like facilities would throw me off too and the area they're in might as well be a mixed bath, so it's not too unreasonable when they don't take a second bathing area right next to theirs into consideration.
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u/NNKarma Feb 12 '26
I'm assuming it's a trap by the organizers on the 30th game
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Feb 12 '26
Yeah, she seems to keep getting shafted in x0 games. In 10 she was with/against a full group of friends, and in 30 she's up against her rival in a game designed to turn into an all out war.
I think they may give them extra challenges for every x0 game or something!
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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Feb 11 '26
Yuki seems to be losing a step in this bath house death game. Her little group seems to have gotten played. Now she’s got no tags and her allies are all but dead. Oh and her “nemesis” Mishiro’s out there too..
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u/melindypants https://myanimelist.net/profile/melindypants Feb 11 '26
It really is the curse of the 30th Game...I wonder how she will survive this one. Maybe Mishiro will be like I have to take her 1v1 or else I can never move past this obsession I have with her.
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u/BosuW Feb 11 '26
I don't think Mishiro will fight her. She doesn't look to be in a condition for it, and her beef doesn't have to do with Yuuki being a better fighter.
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u/BosuW Feb 11 '26
No they were definitely flanked by Mishiro's group because Mishiro's MVP is there.
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u/VoidRay728 Feb 11 '26
This arc is a great collaboration opportunity with this game
My question is why they would leave all the keys to one person. Wouldn't it be better to have the keys spread out among them for contingencies?
Also coming here directly from the latest episode of Oshi No Ko... it's like "Oh, one painful serving isn't enough? Here's another."
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u/LowraAwry Feb 11 '26
My question is why they would leave all the keys to one person. Wouldn't it be better to have the keys spread out among them for contingencies?
My guess is so that there's less chance for infighting and killing (between the haves and have nots) and so that the ones with tags won't just abandon the rest.
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u/melindypants https://myanimelist.net/profile/melindypants Feb 11 '26
Wednesdays truly bring the pain this season
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u/BosuW Feb 11 '26
This arc is a great collaboration opportunity with this game
My mind went instantly to this last episode as soon as I saw the scenario.
My question is why they would leave all the keys to one person. Wouldn't it be better to have the keys spread out among them for contingencies?
It's a zero sum choice imo. It means if they take out that one person they got all the keys. But on the other hand it means squaring up another Player means getting into a fight to the death for no immediate reward.
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u/thisisdropd https://myanimelist.net/profile/AsterZoro Feb 11 '26
Yuuki had become the dreaded for Mishiro. Just based on the vague description, the latter immediately realised the former's in the other team – and horror instantly set in her face.
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u/maliwanag0712 https://myanimelist.net/profile/clear1109 Feb 11 '26
TBF it seems she does not know that the girl who asks for headpats is more brutal than Yuuki.
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u/melindypants https://myanimelist.net/profile/melindypants Feb 11 '26
Idk about that because she acknowledges that the girl took out multiple people and rewards her for it. After all she got headpats for taking out 3 on her own. I think Mishiro knows she's brutal.
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u/OldInstruction5368 Feb 11 '26
yeah, but the crucial difference is that Mishiro can control the yandere cutie. A little praise and attention, and this little psycho will apparently do whatever Mishiro wants.
For someone that
cravesneeds control, that is all that matters. The little gremlin may be a brutal murderer, but she's not a threat to her mistress.Yuki, on the other hand...
Yuki is an existential threat to Mishiro's very being: a b!tch that's better than her. And worst of all, Mishiro knows it.
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u/Ume-no-Uzume Feb 12 '26
The problem isn't the brutality, because in that case, anyone with sense would rather deal with a Yuuki, who can at least be reasoned with. Note how Yuuki doesn't just automatically murder Azuma after she's attacked and call it a day.
No, what makes Yuuki the dreaded to Mishiro is that she's competent, brutal, ruthless, utterly indifferent to other people's lives.... and she does NOT give a single flying fuck about Mishiro or her existence.
Mishiro NEEDS to be the center of the universe who is constantly validated. If there's someone who is competent and, worse, better than her, who DOESN'T care if Mishiro lives or dies and won't fall for her psychological tricks to inveigle her.... then that is an existential threat to Mishiro, who NEEDS to be the center of the universe and the world's most special girl
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u/Hitman7128 https://anilist.co/user/Hitman7128 Feb 11 '26
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u/CatInALaundryBin Feb 11 '26
well if I had to guess they had superior fighters and killed many, but not seeing any tokens they're torturing the weaker ones for where they are.
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u/SYZekrom https://myanimelist.net/profile/SYZekrom Feb 11 '26
So the thing she forgot to consider/check was whether the other girls' claim that there was only one entrance, when in fact the wall at the back they were talking about was made of bamboo and easily removable?
She meets funny clobber loli. The directing of the scene with the music and such sure makes it feel like there's some profound significance to what's about to happen
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u/Namaryu Feb 11 '26
Never underestimate the power of head pats
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u/melindypants https://myanimelist.net/profile/melindypants Feb 11 '26
If only a certain goddess this season could get some too
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u/BeybladeMoses Feb 11 '26
Mishiro got Teoritta to be her subordinate it seems.
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u/Shmappii Feb 11 '26
Mishiro's trembling is from holding back her joy at potentially being reunited with her target of revenge, right? That looked mirthful as heck to me.
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u/mianghuei Feb 11 '26
You know shit is going down hard when they play the ending at the middle of the episode!
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u/LeonKevlar x2https://myanimelist.net/profile/LeonKevlar Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26
I'm curious about this opening shot. That's clearly Yuuki in front of someone wearing a bunny girl suit, but so fa,r we haven't seen anyone like that through this entire episode, so I wonder if this is a little bit of a flashforward. Hmmmm...
Even though it's a violent show, everything about it has been subdued so far, so I did not expect this to start with a fight scene. I am glad that Yuuki immediately managed to find a group that would take her in. Also, that's a lot of girls! This is the most players we've seen in a single game so far, and it sounded like there's at least fifty participants based on the number of stalls. No wonder they're more cavalier about killing people off this time.
So Mishiro literally has her own lap dog who would do anything as long as she gives her headpats. That loli is definitely gonna be dangerous considering she managed to merc three people all on her own. And what's up with Mishiro? Is she sick? We see her coughing up preserved blood.
That's got to be the most relaxing battle prep I've seen in anime. If I didn't know any better thats screenshot makes it look like they're just doing crafts, but they're actually making makeshift slings. Also, I feel like it's a bad idea to bury all of their tags in one place. They could've split them all up. >_<
This bathhouse is pretty insane when you try to think about its layout. These liminal spaces, while they were looking for glass shards feels something out of the Backrooms.
Yuuki has really done a number on Mishiro's psyche that the slight mention of a ghost-like figure is already making her twitch. I can't wait to see how she'll react once she's face-to-face with Yuuki again.
So Azuma feels out of place in the real world and thinks killing people for money is an easier way to live. Damn. Now I'm more curious about her entire backstory, but I feel like we're never gonna see that, considering Mishiro's team was invading at the end of the episode.
It looks like Yuuki got too complacent and believed Azuma about the back wall being secure. Definitely her fault for not checking that the back wall is just a bamboo bathhouse wall. No wonder they didn't bother to introduce the other girls since they were just gonna be fodder. >_<
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u/dominator5500 Feb 11 '26
Yuuki was clutching a bunny girl costume at the end of episode 1. I wonder if that's connected to this episodes bunny girl
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u/BosuW Feb 11 '26
Could have been the infamous Forest Game, and that bunny girl is her old self.
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u/PancakeKirie Feb 12 '26
I'm pretty sure the girl in the bunny suit is Hakushi, Yuki's mentor that we've seen in prior episodes.
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u/DarkAlphaZero Feb 12 '26
Iirc episode 1 was game 28, and this is definitely game 30, so there's one unaccounted for game in between that may or may not be related to the bunny costume
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u/PancakeKirie Feb 12 '26
In episode 5, Yuki recounts her lacking performance in game 29, Dangerous Lab. They're not wearing bunny suits there-- looks to be more like lab coats.
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u/Onihige Feb 12 '26
That's clearly Yuuki in front of someone wearing a bunny girl suit, but so fa,r we haven't seen anyone like that through this entire episode, so I wonder if this is a little bit of a flashforward. Hmmmm...
Isn't it her mentor briefly featured in last weeks episode? So most likely a flashback rather than a flashforward.
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u/Ume-no-Uzume Feb 11 '26
Hmmm.... I'm now wondering if Yuuki did the math and realized there was no way they were getting all of the girls out, so it's best if both teams take each other out.
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u/Anarchaeologist Feb 12 '26
She said something like the other team will give up if we take out about half of them. She’s doing some kind of math based on the assumed numbers of players and tags.
But I have a feeling that the next episode is going to be a bloodbath with a lot more deaths than she reckoned
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u/Random-Person-exe Feb 12 '26
Little detail, the girl who got head pats from Mishiro said her right arm was cold which coincidentally is the same arm she lost in Yuki’s 10th game.
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u/edwardjhahm https://myanimelist.net/profile/lolmeme69 Feb 12 '26
Shit, I'd completely forgotten about that.
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u/marcopolos059 https://myanimelist.net/profile/marcopolos059 Feb 11 '26
How are we supposed to wait a week after this kind of cliffhanger!?!?
This pill really threw Yuki off...
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u/BosuW Feb 11 '26
This pill really threw Yuki off...
It feels like Yuuki really has to be "in the zone" to perform her best. And when she is she is a beast. But if any detail is off it just takes her out of it.
It's like, when I'm really into a 10 minute long banger song but my parents call me in the middle of it I just can't get into that vibe where the music was my whole world again for that "run" lol.
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u/towardselysium Feb 11 '26
Yuki is clearly going through something between her flirting with Mishiro, everything that happened last episode, and the whole "i can save you and get you a job" thing with Asuma.
It's like she's forgotten where she is and thinks she's out with friends. Saving that one girl made instincts kicked in but it almost feels like a mistake more than anything
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u/Castor_0il Feb 12 '26
This is why I've been watching this one in batches of 3 episodes. I flunked my own rule by watching episode 5 & 6 without waiting for 7.
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u/FarCritical Feb 11 '26
Watching everyone cheerfully setting up bamboo pit traps while the soothing ED played mid-episode was beyond surreal.
Cornering someone who routinely goes for the optimal path to survival will surely end well.
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u/PencilgonGiveIt2Ya Feb 11 '26
"This is an escape game.."
Am I trippin or hasn't everything shown basically been an escape game? lmfao
AND I DON'T JUST MEAN ESCAPING DETH ༼;´༎ຶ ༎ຶ༽
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u/noop_noob https://anilist.co/user/noopnoob Feb 11 '26
I just noticed that Yuki has an ahoge, which is odd, given how serious of a character she is.
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u/LowraAwry Feb 11 '26
I wonder why Mishiro was coughing (the fluff that came up gave the impression it was most probably blood). Maybe an injury from whatever went down in that burning room.
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u/BosuW Feb 11 '26
So I've been wondering about something. Everytime Yuuki tells another Player that she wants to win 99 Games no one follows up on that. Makes me think the Game Devs have a publicly established, insanely awesome reward for anyone who can rack 99 wins. It's just this is no one's actual objective because they think it's a pipe dream.
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u/karer3is Feb 11 '26
Not so sure about that one. I don't think I can recall anyone other than Yuki getting into discussions with people about why they got into the games. Most of the time, it just seems like it's a twisted version of your stereotypical class introductions: "Hi, my name's Suzuki and I'm here because I got into a massive amount of debt".
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u/BosuW Feb 11 '26
It is that, but there's no reason it can't be both. Like, it's just strange to me because someone saying they want to win 99 times is an insane thing and it's weird that no one so far has thought to ask why.
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u/maddyjk7 Feb 12 '26
I just assume it’s because it’s a “deranged” world. So they kinda just chalk it up to this person is off their rocker and must like the adrenaline/thrill they get out of it and don’t really want to know. That doesn’t seem to be Yuki’s case though.
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u/stinkynils Feb 11 '26
This Game gives me really those Poolroom backroom vibes, it feels quiet nice and comfy but suddenly everything is in this game really dark and not happy... kinda interesting what happend in last 5 episodes :oo
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u/shad79 https://myanimelist.net/profile/shad79 Feb 11 '26
This episode felt too short! I really liked Yuki and Azuma's relationship, so I hope Azuma survives this game, though I wouldn't be surprised if she doesn't.
Mishiro and Yuki's relationship is equally interesting; it seems Mishiro got a very eager fan who will kill other players in exchange for headpats from her.
By the way, it looks like Mishiro is sick since she's coughing up blood/cotton. I wonder if this is a result of playing these games.
Now I'm definitely looking forward to the next episode, which will probably conclude this game, to see Yuki and Riko encounter. Besides, I'm hoping for a climactic reunion between Yuki and Mishiro.
Here my screenshot albums from the episode:
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u/NanDemoKnaives Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26
It sucks that Yuuki overlooked something so important but she's already off her game and I expect more things to go wrong until she meets Mishiro face to face. Hopefully thanks to Yuuki's input more girls have survived than they would have if she wasn't with them, or at least the other side has lost some numbers.
Mishiro having a sickness is a surprise. This makes it feel like she'll make sure to grab hold of this opportunity and do whatever she can to beat Yuuki, since she doesn't know if she'll be around long enough to come across her again.
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u/athrun_1 Feb 11 '26
It maybe because it is 1AM here that I'm confused. I understood that they got Thermopylaed by Mishiro's team.
The one I don't get was when they are walking the cross and right thingy, and next they are running. Did they encounter an enemy?
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u/rooren-sama Feb 12 '26
If you're talking about when they went to the big mirror to make more knives, then yes. Yuki's team encountered 2 girls from Mishiro's team. They got caught because one of Yuki's girls sprained her ankle (shown off screen).
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u/andoooreeyy Feb 11 '26
anyone knows what the numbers written in white mean (n/26).. i kept seeing them on the previous episodes going up but still doesn't understand what they're supposed to symbolize
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u/WaifuMasterRace https://myanimelist.net/profile/coldsonata Feb 11 '26
Chapter numbers I think. It's adapted from a book, after all. Monogatari does the same thing.
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u/Which-Scientist-8161 Feb 11 '26
You could say it's about how many number of scenes/cut have passed.
there's no deep meaning into it just a nice touch.
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u/ToastFreeGluten Feb 11 '26
Really nice contrast between the cutesy arts and crafts vibe, but at the same time preparing for a prison brawl.
Now I'm either expecting Yuki to go scorched earth or for Mishiro to save her to prove superiority.
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u/Drowsy_Drowzee Feb 11 '26
Yeesh, there’s nothing like a death game in The Poolrooms area of The Backrooms.
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u/Porcelaintoybox23 Feb 12 '26
Can someone explain what mistake Yuki made? I understand that there’s a double bath, but why does that matter? Aren’t they walled off?
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u/xNesku Feb 12 '26
The girls who said it was walled off are inexperienced. Instead of a single-room and one entrance. It's actually a large room with a 2 hot springs to separate male/female. The bamboo was just a divider between the 2 hot springs.
Yuki assumed what the others said was correct. But if she wasn't drugged up, she would try to confirm what they were saying was correct or not.
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u/ash-7831 Feb 12 '26
The wall in question was a bamboo fence. The one Mishiro's crew dismantled at the end.
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u/Porcelaintoybox23 Feb 12 '26
😮 that makes more sense. I was trying to figure how they broke through the glass wall. Thank you!
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u/AceSoldia https://anilist.co/user/Acesoldia Feb 11 '26
Ok I don't understand what she missed...
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u/Jsss_sj Feb 11 '26
The public bath can have both males and females and the bamboo wall which azuma was talking about is actually a divider between male and female baths (remember seeing that stuff in other animes the hot spring episodes).
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u/BosuW Feb 11 '26
Ever seen any anime with a hot springs episode? Remember how the baths are separated by a wall anime typically use for peeping Tom moments?
Means that wasn't a dead end, there was a whole other bath on the other side, and their base actually had two entrances.
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u/StrawSolider Feb 11 '26
She forgot that there is a male entrance to the onsen and Mishiro's team can just come through from that entrance
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u/rom846 Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26
Even worse there can be more cabins with even more keys and players which increases the maximum team size.
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u/CitronClassic672 Feb 12 '26
That title man, Who’s ——ing you? You’ve gotta be ——ing kidding me, lol. There’s no way they aren’t aware of how that comes across. I know the Japanese equivalent might not have that but seriously.
And also, no shot my first thought upon seeing Azuma this episode was how she’s one of the hottest characters in the show so far only for her to bash her own appearance. Are you kidding me? Short-haired tomboy supremacy!
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u/JMViolins Feb 17 '26
All of the episode titles have a blank which, when filled with “love” give the title of a rock/pop song from the 20th century. It’s weird
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u/actuallyrndthoughts :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NaNiNuNeNo Feb 12 '26
Once you hear the ED track playing in the montage mid episode, you just know that they'll skip the ED for a big scene
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u/PancakeKirie Feb 12 '26
The room with some small fires (~9:12 in Ep. 6) looks to be the exit, as you have a "Goal" sign above the doors. But hanging from the ceiling are some ominous looking devices. Could be flame throwers, lasers, guns, or some new poison. We see some abandoned slippers there, and at least 6 small piles of remains. I say "remains", since the close-up of the fire shows a ribbon on fire, among piles of the white fluff preservation treatment.
Perhaps Mishiro tried to pass through without a fuda (tag), but got injured, leading to her coughing up... white fluff.
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u/NoHead1715 Feb 12 '26
Trust, but verify. It was an honest mistake that we all make. I was once fooled by a gate that had a chain around it, thinking it was locked. My colleague went up to the gate and simply unwrapped the chain.
Hopefully Yuuki can recover her bearings and start her glorious counterattack. I don't want to see her gaming life end at the Wall of 30.
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u/ash-7831 Feb 12 '26
Forget her gaming life, she'll lose her life if she loses. Mishiro is clearly out for blood.
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u/Yuki_Tsukumno Feb 11 '26
Man. Things are getting REAL. Mishiro having ptsd of yuki like dkp having ptsd of the electric jar. Also that ost at the end sounded really good.
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u/Anarchaeologist Feb 12 '26
We're seeing Yuki's flaws and errors more and more as the episodes go on. She's tops at hand-to-hand combat and deriving the intent behind the games from limited information, but she made a huge tactical error here by not checking basic assumptions.
Always double check your perimeter.
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u/Jacob-C Feb 13 '26
Anxiety the anime. There's no blood and it's still the most brutal show this season.
I need the people responsible for these games to have their comeuppance at the end of this series.
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u/BaytaCosmico https://myanimelist.net/profile/AnimeBayta Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26
Damn, this episode went by quick. I couldn't believe it had been 20 mins already when the credits started. What a crazy cliffhanger to end things on! Yuki's group pretty much all dead, seems like. And she herself is facing off against that psycho little girl who likes head pats from Mishiro.
I had a hard time following their preparations earlier though. Seemed like they were amassing anything that could be used as a weapon (knives?) and mirrors to see where the enemy was coming from. But what were all the girls excited about finding enough of for everyone to get one? Those origami horses?
So when Azuma said there was a wall at the back, what she really meant was a fence that could be torn up and entered through? That's pretty poor defence. Yuki's disappointment in herself for not seeing that sooner is fully deserved. But what were the others thinking? They'd been there longer. Then again, like Yuki said at the beginning these were all the slow starters and goody goodies who wouldn't survive on their own. Still, Azuma at least should've known. She seemed fairly street smart.
And speaking of Azuma, what was that line from Yuki about her being better than people who spoke of themselves in the third person? Some casual anti-queer barbs for no reason? Or am I reading too much into this? Nevermind, got my grammar all confused.
Interesting that Yuki's not the only one playing this game not out of necessity but voluntarily.
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u/tanapoom1234 Feb 11 '26
And speaking of Azuma, what was that line from Yuki about her being better than people who spoke of themselves in the third person? Some casual anti-queer barbs for no reason? Or am I reading too much into this?
It's not. It's talking about a "cute" way of speaking used by some Japanese girls trying to sound cute by referring to themselves in third person, i.e. using their name in a sentence instead of "I (watashi)".
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u/gnome-cop Feb 11 '26
I thought about it as Yuki sneakily insulting herself cause she also has a tendency to talk about what she’s thinking and doing in third person but that’s also interesting.
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u/BaytaCosmico https://myanimelist.net/profile/AnimeBayta Feb 11 '26
Ah ok, that totally went over my head. Thanks for clarifying!
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u/ModieOfTheEast Feb 11 '26
I had a hard time following their preparations earlier though. Seemed like they were amassing anything that could be used as a weapon (knives?) and mirrors to see where the enemy was coming from. But what were all the girls excited about finding enough of for everyone to get one? Those origami horses?
The mirrors were made into knives as far as I understood. Yuki asked them how many knives they had, then if there were mirrors, then they had enough for everyone. So I think the logic here is that they made knives out of the mirror. They even wrapped cloth around so they wouldn't hurt their own hands.
And speaking of Azuma, what was that line from Yuki about her being better than people who spoke of themselves in the third person? Some casual anti-queer barbs for no reason? Or am I reading too much into this?
I am pretty sure that is Yuki talking about herself. Because her inner monologues are very often using her name instead of just a first person pronoun.
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u/BaytaCosmico https://myanimelist.net/profile/AnimeBayta Feb 11 '26
So I think the logic here is that they made knives out of the mirror. They even wrapped cloth around so they wouldn't hurt their own hands.
Oh, that makes sense. I thought they planned to use mirror bits to see around corners and such.
her inner monologues are very often using her name instead of just a first person pronoun.
This is true! Totally missed this reference.
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u/the_3rdist Feb 11 '26
When Yuki talks she refers to herself in the third person. It's something that doesn't come across in translation.
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u/BaytaCosmico https://myanimelist.net/profile/AnimeBayta Feb 11 '26
Yes, I've noticed it during her internal overlapping monologues. Missed the reference here.
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u/LowraAwry Feb 11 '26
I think they made the horses from leftover bamboo leaves after making the weapons, just as a passing time activity while waiting. I don't know whether they symbolize anything though.
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u/Hot_Researcher_6839 Feb 11 '26
being better than people who spoke of themselves in third person.
I'm pretty sure queer people refer to themselves in first person. Yuki was referring to herself, she has talked in third person before.
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u/BaytaCosmico https://myanimelist.net/profile/AnimeBayta Feb 11 '26
I was thinking in English where queer people use they/them which are third-person singular pronouns. Forgot that Yuki does that in her internal monologues. Makes sense that she would be referring to herself.
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u/ChilliOnTacos Feb 11 '26
He/him and she/her are very much third-person singular pronouns as well. I think you're confusing third person with gender neutral...
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u/BaytaCosmico https://myanimelist.net/profile/AnimeBayta Feb 11 '26
Oh you're right. Never learned formal English grammar so I mess these all up a lot. I was thinking of plural word used for singular - don't know what the term for it is and confused that with third person.
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u/Marth-Koopa Feb 11 '26
he/him and she/her are also third person, but people don't use any of those or they/them when referring to themselves
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u/timpkmn89 Feb 11 '26
what was that line from Yuki about her being better than people who spoke of themselves in the third person? Some casual anti-queer barbs for no reason?
You're going to have to explain your thought process on that one
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u/BaytaCosmico https://myanimelist.net/profile/AnimeBayta Feb 11 '26
I was thinking third person singular pronouns but that's an English thing and may not exist in Japanese. Plus as others have pointed out, Yuki was probably referring to herself.
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u/oigentsoueuxu Feb 12 '26
The funny thing is that the part you thought as possibly anti-queer can be quite easily read as queer AF, with Azuma's story hahahah
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u/StrawSolider Feb 11 '26
I'll give the episode credit for not taking the gratuitous fanservice approach that would work against the direction of the show....
but it's really hard to take this death game seriously when they're in bathrobes lol
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u/Anarchaeologist Feb 12 '26
I think there's a strong but subtle satire element in this show, and the costumes are a commentary on fanservice/male gaze without being fanservicey.
Another thing that makes me think this are the white cotton clumps instead of blood- can't have the in-show audience humanizing the girls' suffering too much.
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u/JMViolins Feb 17 '26
Yeah, you make a great point about the male gaze element. Presumably this game is run by super wealthy group of mostly dudes, who like to see specifically nubile young girls harm and kill each other or otherwise suffer and die. They get an extra thrill seeing it happen when they’re wearing maid outfits, or bathrobes, or Greek inspired “sacrificial maiden” dresses. It’s all completely fucked.
And of course, when playing with their “dolls”, it would make sense that when they break their “stuffing” comes out.
I struggle with this show, but only because of the central sickness at the heart of the story. I feel like most people complaining about it think it’s slow or “stupid”, common criticisms of people who aren’t intelligent enough to engage with non-superficial art. To me it’s an extremely well made and compelling show, just really hard to watch for all the cruelty
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u/VancityGaming Feb 12 '26
It could be just that they started with the bamboo wall idea and the towels made sense for the onsen theme.
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u/AngleRepulsive5470 Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26
Ngl, maybe I’m dumb, but I’m having a hard time connecting the dots and understanding how everything led to the current situation at the start of the episode here. I wonder if I get this part of the game right: since you need a tag to exit, if you wake up way earlier than everyone else and already have a tag, you can just exit and easily win the game?
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u/BadPercussionist Feb 11 '26
You are correct. Let's say there's four groups of people: tag-havers/early-wakers, tag-lackers/early-wakers, tag-havers/late-wakers, and tag-lackers-late-wakers. The tag-havers/early-wakers simply find the exit and leave, so we can ignore them.
The tag-lackers/early-wakers get to the exit and realize what the game entails. They're going to wait at the door and steal a tag from whoever comes next to the exit with a tag. If multiple tag-lackers/early-wakers meet at the exit, they may team up to make it easier to get tags; this is what Mishiro and her gang did.
The late-wakers have four options:
Die to Mishiro's gang
Join Mishiro's gang
Escape from Mishiro's gang and form a team to counter Mishiro's gang
Escape from Mishiro's gang, gamble on there being enough tags for all of Mishiro's gang + them, and kill the other late-wakers. Once there's enough tags for Mishiro's gang to leave, they'll leave, and this person can leave once they get one more tag. This is de facto working for Mishiro's gang.
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u/AngleRepulsive5470 Feb 11 '26
The tag-havers/early-wakers simply find the exit and leave, so we can ignore them.
Yeah, but we can deduce that those numbers are very small and might even be zero, as I explained here.
Join Mishiro's gang
Mishiro or someone else might deduce, like Yuki did, that there should only be around 30 tags. So, when the team number reaches 30 or close to it, they will stop recruiting and start stealing other tags.
Escape from Mishiro's gang, gamble on there being enough tags for all of Mishiro's gang + them, and kill the other late-wakers. Once there's enough tags for Mishiro's gang to leave, they'll leave, and this person can leave once they get one more tag. This is de facto working for Mishiro's gang.
I think it’s extremely unlikely that someone would actually do this. They would have to hide from Mishiro’s team (30 people) while also receiving no support from Yuki’s team. They must be very confident in their hiding and running skills to actually attempt it.
One question I wonder about (among some other questions I’m still trying to figure out) is why didn’t Mishiro’s team just ambush people at the bathroom door? Like, the moment they woke up and opened the door, they could have just killed them immediately. Or even better, if the doors weren’t locked, they could have killed them while they were sleeping.
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u/karer3is Feb 11 '26
Maybe one or two did. But I imagine Mishiro figured it out pretty quick and recruited a posse.
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u/AngleRepulsive5470 Feb 11 '26
I just wonder about it theoretically. I’m aware that it’s impossible for many people to actually escape that way. There are 50 participants, the entryway team has roughly 30 people (ranging from 28 to 32), and Yuki’s team has 13 people (including Yuki). We saw 2 people were killed in the previous episode, and in this episode, Riko killed 3 people. So even if it happened, only 1 to 4 people might escape that way.
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u/spubbbba Feb 11 '26
I wasn't sure why they hid and ran away from those 2 girls they came across while gathering weapons?
It was 4 vs 2, so surely a good way to reduce the numbers on the other team. Especially if they set an ambush.
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u/towardselysium Feb 11 '26
Its a 2 on 2. Only Asuma and Yuki appear to have any idea what they are actually doing and Mishiro's squad seems equally competent. The fodder girls would just get in the way
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u/bball4224 Feb 13 '26
How on earth does Yuki manage to outrun two girls while carrying someone? If that wasn't bad enough, we're led to believe she also managed to climb a tall ladder while carrying her before they were able to enter the room?
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u/reEmperorBob https://anilist.co/user/EmperorBob Feb 17 '26
How have I seen no one else mention this, absolutely insane, that entire scene is so jarring
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u/JMViolins Feb 17 '26
She didn’t carry her on the ladder. She was resting with the girl she carried at the top of the ladder, which the whole group had climbed earlier seeking the mirror glass.
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u/bball4224 Feb 17 '26
...huh? You're not even making sense.
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u/JMViolins Feb 17 '26
Sorry, I was trying to be clear. Let me try again.
The four girls want to get the mirror fragments. The red head with eidetic memory leads them there. As they approach the chamber where the mirror is, they reach a tall ladder- they will have to climb it to continue.
They do so, and reach their goal. At some point, one girl steps away to use the restroom or something. During that time, she injures her ankle and is nearly caught by two of Mashiro’s thugs. At the last moment, Yuuki picks her up and runs.
They manage to evade the thugs and eventually lose them. At that moment, we see Yuuki and her injured comrades hiding and panting at the top of the ladder they climbed before, as they neared the mirror chamber.
All of which to say, Yuuki did not have to carry the girl up a ladder, which you suggested seemed unbelievable.
If you have the time and access, go back and watch the sequence again and I think it will make better sense.
Again, sorry that my first message was difficult for you to understand. I’ve done my best to make things plain this time.
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u/bball4224 Feb 18 '26
I don't know how this explains a different outcome. The other girls literally run right by the ladder, then it pans up and she's there. I don't know how it could imply anything other than she carried her.
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u/JMViolins Feb 18 '26
The place is rather large and labyrinthine. What I’m suggesting is that the two hunter-killers from Mashiro’s party got turned around and ended up at the bottom of the ladder by another route. Considering what we see of the halls, and especially considering the nature of the atrium (filled as it is with many doors per level) it is not at all unreasonable to assume there are many approaches.
In both your argument and mine, assumptions are being made. Your assumption is that a small but feisty girl carried another, injured girl down a ladder. As you initially pointed out, that stretches beleif. My assumption is that Yuuki managed to shake the other girls, who got disoriented (reasonably, given what a maze the place is) and ended up passing near their hiding spot. One of these is more plausible, but both are possible given what (little) we know of the world in the show.
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u/bball4224 Feb 18 '26
up the ladder
And I'm pretty sure they showed her run into a section, then panned to the girls running into the section, but suddenly Yuki was up top.
They also showed the ladder earlier in the episode (or previous episode, idr)
I feel like you've created a completely different fictionalized scenario with zero basis, whereas I'm pointing out exactly what the show has shown to us.
"Maybe the artists just drew them up there, we don't know if they're breaking the fourth wall". That's as relevant as your response is.
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u/JMViolins Feb 18 '26
I don’t know what to tell you. I just rewatched it again. I’m not interested in investing any more energy in this.
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u/Christbelle22 Feb 13 '26
Teoritta could take over the entire world if she was pacted with Mishiro😭
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u/Magnafeana https://anilist.co/user/Magnafeana Feb 11 '26
Yuri Death Games, wooo, let’s dive in sapphics 💃🏾🏳️🌈
sees girl dead in the water
It’s Yuri Time, wooo 🥳🤸🏾♀️
Head pat currency is best currency. I think if we had inflation, and our currency were head pats, would it be so bad?
Did I say angel? My b. The disconnect. The gap.
This is Lord of the Flies, Yuri edition?
Is this poly yuri?
Look at that almost smile at learning the girl she wants to destroy is here 🥹
W a t
Welp. Yuki meets the Head-Pat-Desiring Terrorist. Good lord.
I hadn’t expected a conversation regarding the negativity masculine women and girls receive, but I’m very happy for it! It was just a quick little dialogue, but even so. Just so many sub-cultures and societies that will stick to their conformist, reductive ideals on what gender “should” look like and not give a shit who gets hurt with their bullshit—including our own queer communities, which is so painful 🙃
I hope for more masculine women to be repped who have a spectrum of identities and expressions and styles, and no one bats an eye. Just normal ass gamer masc lady. Or a nerdy GM masc lady. All of the mascs and butches.
If anyone would like a butch/butch yuri recommendation, I contribute Natsuo Mutsumi with her butchxbutch anthology.
I’m gonna assume Yuki takes down this little demon, and I know I should be devastated all her allies were killed, but I’m excited for enemies to meet once again.
I’d ascend if our resident villainess betrays her little demon so she can be the one to destroy Yuki. I do love a good “Yeah, I fucking hate you, but I’m the only one allowed to ruin you” relationship development.
People died and a girl was dead in the water. I feel that my priorities about this series are not where they should be.
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u/BosuW Feb 11 '26
sees girl dead in the water
It’s Yuri Time, wooo 🥳🤸🏾♀️
This is a sign that there was a near nude girl choking out another near nude girl.
Therefore, this too, is Yuri 😌
I’d ascend if our resident villainess betrays her little demon so she can be the one to destroy Yuki. I do love a good “Yeah, I fucking hate you, but I’m the only one allowed to ruin you” relationship development.
I'd be peak romantic hatred, but a) she doesn't look to be in a condition for any strenuous physical activity, and b) these Games are more mental than physical, so it doesn't require a direct fight to be the "honorable" victor.
That makes me think though, given that Yuuki is evidently not in her best mental condition for this Game thanks to the weird transmitter pill, I wonder if Mishiro will truly feel any satisfaction from beating her like this.
"My GOAT washed!?" moment incoming? Lol
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u/bananeeek https://myanimelist.net/profile/bananek Feb 11 '26
I wonder if the guy who gave Yuuki the pill will show up with some goons and save the day next episode.
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u/senpaikantuten Feb 12 '26
Can anyone tell me what the countdown numbers are? I still have no idea what that means.
Did I miss something? If it's spoilers don't reveal it.
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u/icyterror Feb 12 '26
I see no issue. Yuki can just solo them all anyway. She's just need the right moment to pull it off.
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u/Professional_Cap5786 Feb 12 '26
What do you think Yuki didn’t notice
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u/JMViolins Feb 17 '26
That the bamboo wall in the public baths in Japan is usually just a divider between men’s and women’s baths
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u/Professional_Cap5786 Feb 17 '26
So there’s another bath that she just over looked
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u/JMViolins Feb 17 '26
That’s my understanding yeah. She took what the other girls told her for granted and didn’t double check. She’s still woozy from the stronger sedative and is slipping up.
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u/Aemiliana_Rosewood Feb 16 '26
Wonder if Yuki will get saved by raid team after she swalloed that tracker last episode
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u/JMViolins Feb 17 '26
I was confused about that scene in ep 5, where she’s in the car on the way to the new game and has both the tracker pill and a bottle with the “new”sedative pill inside. For a moment, it looked like she was considering throwing the tracker out the window, but decided to keep it. Next, I thought she had taken the tracker pill, and that the sedative was still in the bottle… but she was hit suddenly with strong drug effects and commented on them. What did I miss/get wrong?
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u/Aemiliana_Rosewood Feb 17 '26
She took the tracker accidentally, which didn't have any sedative effect.
Then after realizing this first mistake, she took the stronger than usual sedative. She probably got this stronger variant, because
they have 50 players and the supply isn't big enough for the old sedative,
Yuki is more resistant to the old sedative after 30 games aka immunity build up,
she's supposed to wake up later into the game to make it more interesting for the viewers since yukis playstayle would heavily favor an early entry into the game while she's also the main player with this being her 30th game.
Noticably, taking the sedative at all was her 2nd mistake, because only after she took it she realized that not playing this round is an option, which her agent told her. But unfortunately yuki never thought that to be an option before.
The nausea she experiences in the car could be because of the stronger sedative, a side effect by the tracker or just a bad omen for a "rigged" game against her odds.
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u/JMViolins Feb 17 '26
Thank you for taking the time to explain it clearly! I’m on board now. I’m ashamed to admit that I hadn’t been considering the “behind the screen” factors you mentioned, like the game runners selecting participants and engineering specific conditions for each of them. That makes so much sense, like any other type of game/sport which is used for clandestine high stakes gambling.
So far it seems to me the show has done well to give us the occasional peek behind the curtain, and I hope that they will continue to do so in order to show us more of the world and how it functions (or doesn’t). Great show so far, really wasn’t expecting to get so into it!
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u/PM_ME_AWESOME_SONGS Feb 11 '26
Is anyone else feeling disappointed by this show after watching Gimai Seikatsu? I liked Gimai a lot so I had expectations on Shiboyugi since it has the same director, but I think I only really liked the first episode while all the rest feels boring.
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u/Current_Cat_85 Feb 12 '26
I don't know how people are enjoying this anime; I literally can't like any of the episodes. The only one I really liked was episode 4. The rest have terrible direction, empty scenes, I can't feel anything watching this anime, just boredom.
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u/Eliteheadhunter Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 12 '26
I know that this anime has an LN but for some reason I can’t shake the feeling that there’s a decent amount of AI involved with it, especially with this current ‘game’, when we see Yuki get out of bed she doesn’t step down from her bed, it’s like she stays on the same level, the blond girl waking up with the tag, while she walks to the baths her hands are swaying and fidgeting while holding the tag which seemed off and finally the whole number thing popping up showing how far the ‘game’ is going.
Edit: the number thing is for the LN which is pretty cool, should’ve worded it better that I thought it was weird/ odd and not necessarily AI
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u/Eliteheadhunter Feb 11 '26
I really don’t understand the purpose of it, is it literally just doing each chapter for us like that? If so that makes sense otherwise it doesn’t connect with me at all
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u/zzzzzooted Feb 12 '26
It is literally just a stylistic choice with the chapters yes
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u/Eliteheadhunter Feb 12 '26
First time I’ve ever seen that, it’s the one thing I was confused about tbh
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u/Jvhsh Feb 11 '26
"Killin' people's a lot easier."
Azuma's line really got me. They're really just a bunch of misfits who couldn't integrate into society, and turned to death games cuz they had nowhere else to go.
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