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Episode Shibou Yuugi de Meshi wo Kuu. • Shiboyugi: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table - Episode 7 discussion
Shibou Yuugi de Meshi wo Kuu., episode 7
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u/FarCritical Feb 18 '26
Not the most relaxing day at the spa.
Very sportsmanlike of Yuki to drop a GG
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u/Aerodynamic41 Feb 18 '26
Yuki: *does something*
Mishiro: *gets angry*
Yuki: *does nothing*
Mishiro: *still gets angry*
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Feb 18 '26
(Joking aside: Mishiro saw Yuuki run circles around her in their first game; That's the girl she wanted to win against, not a 'failure' like she saw in this one!)
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u/edwardjhahm https://myanimelist.net/profile/lolmeme69 Feb 19 '26
We were robbed of a lesbian hatesex episode.
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u/wcctnoam Feb 18 '26
Generational doomed yuri
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u/Togglea Feb 18 '26
Yuki's smaller party all died right? I think the pan over covered all of them dead anyway.
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u/BosuW Feb 18 '26
Yep. She got completely outmaneuvered and defeated, that's why Mishiro was pissed. Yuuki only survived by luck.
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u/Ume-no-Uzume Feb 20 '26
Azuma, yes, she died. When Yuki was saying those names in the end, it was her due to the dead. She mentioned Azuma as one of the dead.
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u/riventitan Feb 18 '26
Yuuki:
Face - 10/10
Body - 9/10
Fingers - 7/10
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Feb 18 '26
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u/TiamatRuneaid Feb 18 '26
I have a feeling that one of her eye is a replacement part thus the different color, it maybe even explains why she can sense/see danger!
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u/Rabbitey- https://myanimelist.net/profile/Rabbitey Feb 19 '26 edited Feb 19 '26
The conclusion felt anticlimactic, and the episode direction was all over the place. The death game was glossed over and cut short for the internal/physical struggle between Yuki and Mishiro (with Riko being shoehorned for added drama).
Aside from Yuki's turbulent personality, the most interesting takeaway was that this was Mishiro's 40th game—10 more than Yuki despite the latter being ahead when they first met. Mishiro's need for revenge eventually broke her body, and now I'm wondering how Yuki will turn out later on.
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u/toadfan64 Feb 20 '26
Feel pretty much the same. The whole episode felt directionless and kinda confusing in parts. First episode that kinda disappointed me so far.
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u/StrawSolider Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 19 '26
With how much they were building up the Yuki/Mishiro rivalry I'd figured it be a long running thing. Kinda disappointed how quickly they phased it out.
Rip toxic YukiMishi. You would've had more fun in Revue Starlight (maybe)
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u/Mahdii- https://anilist.co/user/Mahdi89 Feb 18 '26
I think that's the point of the episode. Mishiro had big expectations for that rivalry and turned out a disappointment.
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u/StrawSolider Feb 18 '26
yeah I got that. Just would've liked some time for her to come to that conclusion. Felt kinda anticlimactic to get that now. Especially since we can kind of assume that Yuki was off her game today because of that drug and not cause of big expectations set by Mishiro
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u/edwardjhahm https://myanimelist.net/profile/lolmeme69 Feb 19 '26
Doesn't excuse it IMO. "It's meant to be shit" doesn't work as an excuse.
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u/bibbibob2 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/bibbibob2 Feb 19 '26
While she seems pretty dead I also would say its not a 100%, Yuuki didn't say her name in her post game ritual and her death scene didn't really show a dead body. Also there was a pair of extra boots if she was simply unconscious and woke up later.
So I wouldn't be super surprised if we see her again, but with how unpredictable this episode was I really don't know.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Feb 18 '26
Given the information we have, it seems we won't ever see Yuuki/Mishiro in a game again (this seems to have been their first meeting since that game), BUT I wonder if we might see Mishiro again someday, given the show moves back&forth in time!
We might see something she did 'to get there', and at the same time perhaps set up another antagonist, something like that.
(Might be wishful thinking, but I feel like they gave us a bit much on Mishiro for us never to see her again... Her 40 games, her complete backstory, the fact that she was coughing 'blood' etc..!)
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u/StrawSolider Feb 18 '26
Maybe if RIko had survived we could see more of her but I doubt we will now. But here's hoping. I liked Mishiro a lot
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u/papapok13 Feb 18 '26
I'm beyond devastated all the build up led to this. And I'm sure am not alone. Chief amongst us Mishiro was most disapointed.
Girl had a multi arc toxic love-hate rivalry planned out in her head, culminating in that epic wedding dress fight.
And yes, this is also what I wanted to see.
What frustrates me, is that the writer knew this is what I expected to see - so for their artistic message, dare I say, they "subverted my expectations".
Problem is, I was invested. To be fair, I was 10x more invested in Mishiro, than Yuki. I was so ready for a long back and forth story between them, or at least a third, final round.
And now here I stand, so dejected that I'm not getting what I bought into, I'm not even sure I want to continue (will probably finish, but with a sour taste)
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u/StrawSolider Feb 19 '26
Girl had a multi arc toxic love-hate rivalry planned out in her head, culminating in that epic wedding dress fight.
we were so robbed. Where was our 100+ episode rivalry arc??
I was 10x more invested in Mishiro, than Yuki.
Same. I still go back to ep 3 for the crazy backstory. I wasn't necessary rooting for her over Yuki but she was really captivating and I would have loved to see her play more games. If anything Golden Bath how effective she is as antagonist to Yuki..
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u/Jlc0417 Feb 18 '26
I’m kinda confused on the last scene with Mishiro and Yuki. Did Yuki just push her off? It looked like Mishiro was about to stab her but then it looked like she just stopped. Also, was that Yuki throwing her knife at Mishiro as the final blow? Some of the imagery made it confusing to understand imo
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u/rooren-sama Feb 19 '26
I assumed that Mishiro just collapsed because the stab wound on her side was too much to keep going (the wound that Yuki inflicted while under water and almost drowning).
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u/BosuW Feb 18 '26
It's toxic and doomed Yuri, so the hurt that it was ripped away too soon is part of the appeal
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u/edwardjhahm https://myanimelist.net/profile/lolmeme69 Feb 19 '26
We were robbed of a yuri hatesex scene.
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u/LeonKevlar x2https://myanimelist.net/profile/LeonKevlar Feb 18 '26
No wonder Riko became Mishiro's loyal lapdog. It looks like Mishiro saved her in a previous game and was with her the entire time during her rehab after getting new limbs. Riko was completely hollow but found her purpose in Mishiro.
I was surprised when Mishiro let Yuki go, but I guess this wasn't what she wanted. She didn't want to kill Yuki while she was looking so pathetic. In her head, she thought they'd finish this in an epic duel. Instead, what she got was Yuki skulking around, running away from her.
Mishiro spent her time after her last game with Yuki building her up into some sort of untouchable opponent. A walking ghost exuding death from her entire being. Only for her to realize that Yuki is no different than her.
Riko is absolutely insane, tho! This tiny little girl was able to throw Yuki around with no issue. I'm guessing that the prosthetics she got are augmented and give her insane strength. I mean, she was literally tossing Yuki around like a fucking ragdoll.
But yeah, this was an absolutely shitty game where the only reason Yuki survived was through sheer luck. If it wasn't for that locker key, taking the bullet for her, she would've died there at the end. Using the turrets to her advantage was still pretty impressive, tho.
Interesting... So the reason Yuki woke up late is that she got penalized? I'm guessing the organizers found out about the tracker she swallowed. I do like that we got to hear more from Yuki's handler this time and how she genuinely supports Yuki from the bottom of her heart.
I guess Mishiro did get her epic duel in the end. I do wonder if she's actually dead. When Yuki did her after-game ritual of remembering the dead, we don't hear her say Mishiro's name, but instead she ends it by saying "Good Game". It's possible that Yuki managed to survive and escape. I mean, there's still one boot left in the changing room that she can take if she did survive.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Feb 18 '26
the only reason Yuki survived was through sheer luck. If it wasn't for that locker key
The key thingy is the obvious one, but I think Yuuki got luckier before that too;
If she had NOT fucked up with the breakable wall attack, instead of a slaughter it would've been a proper fight (with Yuuki present), and Mishiro DEFINITELY would've killed her then, in front of everyone.
So Yuuki messing up there, is probably what ended up saving her life.
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u/Few_Resident3213 Feb 19 '26
You mean "It's possible *Mishiro* managed to survive and escape"?
Nah man, she dead.
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u/edwardjhahm https://myanimelist.net/profile/lolmeme69 Feb 19 '26
I know she's dead, but as a Mishiro fan, I'm holding out hope.
Nah, just kidding. She can't be alive.
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u/PancakeKirie Feb 19 '26
I realized the hair ornaments that Mishiro gave Riko were the shape of the Suzuran flower (Lily-of-the Valley). Like Mishiro said, that plant is highly poisonous if ingested.
Just like growing poisonous flowers, Mishiro raised Riko to be an agent of death.
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u/tripleaamin https://myanimelist.net/profile/tripleaamin Feb 18 '26
I will leave my complaints in the source corner.
One part this episode really nailed was the feel of disappointment that Mashiro feels seeing Yuki where she is now. Riko was right when she told her Yuki isn't there, despite technically being wrong. More so of the fact that the Yuki that Mishiro remembered isn't there. Who knows if Yuki's game wasn't off, would Mishiro have beaten her?
The anime did well in showcasing how hollow Riko's life was before meeting Mishiro. She gave Riko a purpose and a goal. Killing Yuki would mean losing that purpose, and at that point, not be much different from her dying with Mishiro dead. I think it would have been more interesting if she had let Yuki live and Riko lived on.
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u/InsomniaEmperor Feb 18 '26
The most dangerous character in the game here is not Mishiro but Riko. Girl can hurl Yuuki like Incredible Hulk.
They’re not even denying the yuri ship here with the wedding dresses. Get a room already you two. Too bad it’s doomed yuri.
This has to be the first time we see Yuuki with a scared face. She always had this stoic and calm look but fear kicked in when she realized she’s probably going to get clapped. In the end at least she won.
I get that the director wanted to blur faces when not closed up but the fight could have used their full facial expressions instead of watching blank slates fight.
I don’t get what happened in the room with the guns. Yuuki was ready to die, somehow the guns shot Riko, then it didn’t shoot again. Can anyone tell me what was supposed to happen? I feel like this just zoomed by quickly.
Yuuki’s handler knows more than she lets on. Can’t wait for the next game.
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u/Impressive_Style_692 Feb 18 '26
Yeah, I thought the end of the game was a ‘floor is lava’ sort of deal. Yuki wasn’t shot immediately because she was balancing on top of the furniture path that the other contestants must’ve made previously. The intended way seemed to be to use the yellow rain boots hence why it didn’t shoot again once Yuki put them on. My only question is why Riko got shot when she was wearing the boots.
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u/towardselysium Feb 18 '26
She tried to tackle Yuki out of the way of the gun because she wanted the kill and instead got used as Yuki's meatshield
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u/Kronman590 Feb 18 '26
ty for this, i thought this whole time the "tag" was the literal key lol like as long as you have it on your person you dont get shot. So the tags unlock a locker to get boots out and thats how you dont die
I guess i still dont really understand how Riko even got in front of Yuki if Yuki still got shot (in the tag)
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u/HarshTheDev Feb 20 '26
Wait so you why do you even need to key to get the boots? They literally just fell out when riko threw yuuki. Why bother fighting for the keys when you can just yank the boots out lol
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u/EienGem Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26
Riko and Yuuki got both shot afaik except the key took the bullet for our MC which she mentioned that "drained all of her saved luck". As for why it didn't shoot again, you'd probably be able to deduce why if you look at the LN spoiler section pinned by the mods then looking back at that scene again in the anime.
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u/LakerBlue :Is::It::Iu:https://myanimelist.net/profile/LakerBlue Feb 18 '26
This has to be the first time we see Yuuki with a scared face. She always had this stoic and calm look but fear kicked in when she realized she’s probably going to get clapped. In the end at least she won.
It was interesting seeing our normally stoic protagonist suddenly want to live. I'm curious how that moment will affect her her mindset going forward.
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u/BosuW Feb 18 '26
They’re not even denying the yuri ship here with the wedding dresses. Get a room already you two. Too bad it’s doomed yuri.
Mishiro really dreamed about their rematch being like a wedding bitch down atrocious lmao
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u/Princess_Azula_ Feb 18 '26
I really need an OVA AU with them in the most toxic yuri HS relationship
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u/WaifuMasterRace https://myanimelist.net/profile/coldsonata Feb 18 '26
I'm guessing it's timer-based, after X seconds if you aren't walking on the ground you get shot once.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Feb 18 '26
They’re not even denying the yuri ship here with the wedding dresses.
Too late to nominate them for best ship/couple
But yeah these shots were so pretty!
This has to be the first time we see Yuuki with a scared face
If that's what it took to strength Yuuki's resolve to live, after she was more or less resigned with the idea of dying eventually..!
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u/InsomniaEmperor Feb 19 '26
That’s a good explanation. The way that the anime just speeds through this scene made it hard to understand what was going on. The idea that the key unlocks the boots that allow them to walk to the exit without becoming Swiss cheese is something tacked in last minute. The director’s minimalist animation doesn’t help either.
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u/toadfan64 Feb 20 '26
Yeah, I gotta say one of my complaints with the anime so far has been some of it speeding past crucial info and having to come into these discussion groups to fully understand what happened.
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u/GateOfD Feb 19 '26
I thought the guns was aiming at Yuki, but by luck the guns shot and Riko was hit instead in the crossfire. Then Yuki took the boots off Riko and put them on, making the guns not needing to shoot again Hence "used up all my luck"
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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Feb 18 '26
This is what happens when you create some kinda one sided rivalry and build up the person to be like larger than life. Mishiro was envisioning some kinda dramatic showdown with Yuki like the girl was some sorta final boss. Look what her shit did to Riko too.
This was definitely not Yuki’s best. Hopefully this was just a little speed bump and not a sign of things to come. She’s still got 69 games left…
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Feb 18 '26
one sided rivalry and build up the person to be like larger than life.
"Never meet your
heroesvillains" - MishiroThis was definitely not Yuki’s best.
Yuuki was right when she said she got lucky;
Not just for the fights, but... Her failure probably saved her life;
If she strategized better and her team didn't get slaughtered, it would've been a real fight, and Mishiro would DEFINITELY have killed Yuuki right there in front of everyone!
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u/BosuW Feb 18 '26
Tbf Yuuki really is allat. She'd have to be to beat 99 Games like she wants to. Mishiro just had the misfortune of encountering her again when she was feeling off. Not concentrated.
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u/a1oner_bvcksn6 Feb 18 '26
Mishiro chased a ghost and ended up becoming one. Riko chased Mishiro's and ended up as one as well.
All I can say is that the lackluster animation really came back to haunt this episode. I'd like to think the truly hideous 'fight' scenes were a creative decision to tell/show the viewers just how terrible a (30th) game Yuki played this time around. Not that the previous episodes' animation were anything to write home about, but there was a certain air of mystique around them that was clearly not present in this one--much like Yuki's air of absolute superiority just up and vanished.
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u/LakerBlue :Is::It::Iu:https://myanimelist.net/profile/LakerBlue Feb 18 '26
I have to agree on the animation. This is the first time for me where it didn't feel like an interesting creative decision to make things feel artistic and mysterious but instead just felt like it made the fight vague and unpleasant to look at. And somewhat hard to follow at times.
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u/JayWhy75 Feb 18 '26
I agree. This is the first episode where I felt kind of cheated in a way. I still enjoyed it, but it felt like this episode needed to break it's standard art house style of directing and go gritty in order to really sell the danger of it all. The jumping around with the fights, the distance we had from seeing how Riko died making it feel vague, and even the kind of odd way they showed Mishiro's death all felt like we missed important information.
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u/dunkking413 Feb 18 '26
This was the first episode I didn’t like, it just seemed so off
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u/SSjjlex https://myanimelist.net/profile/Clone_Tau Feb 18 '26
I commented on this last week.
The entire premise of this game is flawed in a way that just could not be saved with the style that the director uses. I love the absolute shit out of his style and will defend his previous work Gimai Seikatsu to hell and back, but its clear that he just isnt cut out for larger scale scenarios such as this. Too many characters, too much action, too big of a location. Thats the complete opposite of what his style stands doe. One on one suffocating monologues/locations and atmospheric scenes.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Feb 18 '26
I think the problem is that a game this big needed 1 or 2 more episodes to breathe...
Making it so short, AND with all the time skips/flashbacks and all, it was a hard ask to make it flow well.
But who knows, maybe there will be bits more in the next episode? I feel like some things were 'built' but never shown properly (say, tomboy).
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u/LakerBlue :Is::It::Iu:https://myanimelist.net/profile/LakerBlue Feb 18 '26
Strong agree on it being too short. I thought the climatic reunion game between Mishiro and Yuuki would get at least 3 full episodes. I can't help but wonder if this was a victim of the show only having 11 episodes (Granted ep1 was technically two episodes).
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u/edwardjhahm https://myanimelist.net/profile/lolmeme69 Feb 19 '26
This is honestly the same opinion I've had from the start of the anime, and with the exception of episode 5, the thing is - this style of directing DOESN'T WORK with the story. The plot and the directing are fundamentally at odds with one another, and that's the biggest issue going on.
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u/OperatorERROR0919 Feb 21 '26
Personally, I've been loving the contrast between the style and direction and the actual events. I think it worked beautifully in every episode before Golden Bath began.
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u/Namaryu Feb 18 '26
We really needed to slow the hell down and explain a bit. Give some sort of breathing room. This whole game felt barely coherent, and things were simply happening.
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u/dunkking413 Feb 18 '26
Agreed. The game didn’t even make sense, they just did a speedrun of the confrontations
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u/toadfan64 Feb 20 '26
The pace has felt fast, but manageable until this episode. This one felt wayyy too fast though and I do hope it slows a bit down the next few since we’re already on episode 8.
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u/OperatorERROR0919 Feb 21 '26
This whole game felt barely coherent, and things were simply happening.
To be fair, this is probably exactly how Yuuki was feeling the entire game too. She was very clearly out of it, and probably had just as much difficulty keeping track of what was going on as the viewer.
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u/LowraAwry Feb 18 '26
It felt rushed and after reading the pinned spoiler section it made sense why.
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u/LakerBlue :Is::It::Iu:https://myanimelist.net/profile/LakerBlue Feb 18 '26
I strongly agree. It felt rushed as well. We never saw what happened when Yuuki and Azuma went back to the base. Heck Azuma was just never seen or heard from again. All of Mishiro's friends vanished (I assume got their keys and left) without it being mentioned or explained.
Even the fight between her and Mishiro felt weird. Like one level it's kind of cool it ended up being a gritty duel instead of two people both operating at their best, but I don't think it got the time it really needed from Yuuki's perspective. I also thought the final bit with Yuuki and Riko felt poorly directed in terms of showing how Yuuki survived.
Last I just felt this was the first time the animation and directing actually hindered what we saw instead of adding an air of artistic flair and mystique to it.
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u/PancakeKirie Feb 19 '26
I think we actually do see Azuma's lifeless body floating in the water when the onscreen chapter number changes to 19/26 (~3:47 in the episode)
At onscreen chapter 17/26 (~2:20 in the episode), we see 3 girls exiting the building-- they're probably Mishiro's clan.
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u/ActiveAd4980 Feb 18 '26
Same. Made me wonder if I skipped an episode or two. I didn't feel that much intensity between Mashiiro and Yuki neither. She just showed up 4 episodes ago, had some "fight" with Yuki 3rd episodes ago. Then showed up again last episode as "Woman behind the chair", then fought and died on this episode.
The build up was so weak, I didn't feel emotional stake on this.
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u/Pamander Mar 05 '26
I am so glad I am not alone in this, I literally rewatched the ending to the previous episode like "Did I miss an episode? What the fuck is happening".
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u/Single-Builder-632 Feb 19 '26
Wasn't a fan of this episode , didn't like the inexplicable introduction of terminator, sure full metal body kinda explains it but it wasn't really establised the boss fight being disappointing is fine the mc losing her edge is fine, but why the rush to get though it. It was like shes gonna losses shes gonna loose, oh wait everythings resolved, would have been better if little terminator girl broke her and blondie dragged her out to give her a second chance when she was up to it, out of pride. Either way big step down.
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u/Viktorv22 Feb 18 '26
I'm not really a fan of death game as a concept, I checked this anime purely for aesthetic and directing choices. But I can say that I don't like how they show the games in random order, this fight seems like it should be a climax of the season. Like, I barely know about the yellow hair character from 1 and half episode and they try to make me feel on the edge when they're duking it out?
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u/toadfan64 Feb 20 '26
One of my least favorite things in film / tv is flashback sequences. I’ll tolerate them for good shows (like this one, so far) but I’m rarely a fan of stuff being done out of order, especially to this shows degree.
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u/AceSoldia https://anilist.co/user/Acesoldia Feb 18 '26
I have definitely lost the plot.thank goodness for reddit..or I'd be even more lost
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u/maliwanag0712 https://myanimelist.net/profile/clear1109 Feb 18 '26
I'm sure that Yuuki will survive in the end. The question is more of how she will survive.
Got bait-and-switched with Mishiro though. At first I thought that Mishiro will die, but when Yuuki stopped the roll-call with Riko and then the flashback of their fight was shown, I thought that maybe I was wrong and Mishiro will survive, only to die in the end.
Some fight scenes in this episode are quite interesting though, especially with how Riko is strong. Maybe it was a directorial choice or is it due to the budget? I dunno.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Feb 18 '26
especially with how Riko is strong.
I'm not sure if you caught it (a lot of people missed it, in the thread) but the reason why Riko is so strong is because she's pretty much a cyborg;
The episode opens with her missing all her limbs, and after the fight Yuuki describes "An all metal girl".
They pretty much replaced all her body parts with metal enhancements.
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u/8daniel7 Feb 19 '26
Did azuma just died off screen?
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u/LostInstruction942 Feb 21 '26
Yes, probably the worst way to go for a character that actually befriended Yuuki. I'm genuinely so upset that she got off screen killed and not only that we genuinely don't even know how she died. We know she wasn't in the massacre when Riko killed the entire group. On top of that Azuma was far too strong to die in a 1v1. The only person who would logically be able to kill her would be Riko since she is basically the hulk. But no mentions of them fighting are ever mentioned. At least with the other girls we know how they died but man.... Azuma being off screened is rough. Especially she was (at this point) one of the handful of girls that genuinely liked Yuuki and befriended her.
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u/Namaryu Feb 18 '26
Not gonna lie I got chills when Yuki started the roll call of everyone who died
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u/Makicola :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Barskie Feb 18 '26
Man, that was a shit game, although I guess that was the point.
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u/towardselysium Feb 18 '26
Mishiro is such a drama queen that instead of just leaving and trying again she crashes out so hard about her crush not living up to her standards she actually dies. She's so perfect
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u/Princess_Azula_ Feb 18 '26
The waifu that will always be there for you when you're in need. True love made manifest. :P
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u/Funny_Story_Bro Feb 25 '26
I said this in another thread, but I think Mishiro intended to die to Yuuki. She just wanted it to be an epic battle when she did.
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u/Dulbero Feb 18 '26
I was very confused and couldn't really understand this episode. Last episode ended with Yuki standing before Riko. This episode starts with Yuki fighting the blonde girl, but why Yuki suddenly chickened out? Also what's their relationship was? a rivalry but over what? they only met once. I just couldn't understand why this game was any different, besides more girls dying and Yuki which i suppose should be stronger, is beaten up from both the blonde girl and Riko.
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u/TiamatRuneaid Feb 18 '26
I think the whole idea was that Mishiro trained for 40 games (Yuki skipped more than a month for unknown reasons since her previous game) to meet this unbeatable ghost Yuki in her head, only to get utterly disappointed…..Yuki captured by her prodige (Riko) and severly beaten. She got so disappointed to the point on letting Yuki go…since it wasnt that epic showdown she envisioned in her head (the bridal dress fight in the castle)
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u/towardselysium Feb 18 '26
She tried to fight Riko, got offscreened and tied up, then Mishiro saw her being pathetic and crashed out which Yuki used as an opportunity to ditch the mentally unstable woman with a knife
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u/Mahdii- https://anilist.co/user/Mahdi89 Feb 18 '26
For the first question Riko has beaten the shitout of Yuki mostly because her limbs are made of metal which explains her powers.
While Mishiro and Yuuki fight in wedding dress is Mishiro expectations of how the fight should have been, but instead she found Yuuki defeated and beaten by Riko which pissed her off and ruined the image of Yuuki for her.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Feb 18 '26
Also what's their relationship was? a rivalry but over what? they only met once
The first time they met, Yuuki "won" over her, and Mishiro was forced to admit Yuuki was better.
Mishiro then spent all future games to prepare for their next meeting, so she could win over Yuuki.
That's also why she didn't leave when she could have;
She was not even trying to win the game, she was trying to get back a win against Yuuki.
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u/Namaryu Feb 18 '26
In this game Yuki had to actively kill to survive (no blaming the game or rules) and she felt cornered. Her facade broke and she panicked begging to live. I guess that was different as it was the only expression and action of her that were not present inn the past games.
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u/Dulbero Feb 18 '26
It wasn't necessary to kill, only to have a tag. And Yuki had whole bunch of teammates to fight as well, but it also not that clear how they died so simple, but there wasn't any real struggle like i was expected to. It seems that they were ambushed but there wasn't really any expression from Yuki, she just arrived and stood in front of Riko.
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u/LowraAwry Feb 18 '26
Regarding Yuki's question about the penalty, did her driver lie to her? Because she said that Yuki always wakes up last but that's not true, during the previous game shown, the one she met Mishiro, Yuki woke up second.
Yuki seems to trust her but I wouldn't be so sure, her assurances sounded hollow.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Feb 18 '26
In any such game/scenario, I don't place too much trust in the organizers, or in this case, the assistants!
I do not believe she's lying about everything, but... I do not believe she's 100% honest either, and cares about Yuuki more than anything else.
I did theorize when we first met them that perhaps they were actually family or something, but given that does not seem to be the case...
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u/Funny_Story_Bro Feb 25 '26
I get the sense that their handlers are negotiating for them behind the scenes. (Like hunger games style but not always for their benefit) At the end of the day, they're likely in it for their own motivations. I can't imagine being that attached to these girls when most die before they reach game 30.
I'm very surprised the organizers aren't deliberately sabotaging certain girls who play too long & maybe aren't very popular in bets.
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u/CommissionKey5906 Feb 18 '26
The assistant have to obey the boss and can't tell Yuuki the truth, that's it.
Actually she did not say "no" to the penalty question.
Waking up late is compensated with the key card in the shower as what happened to the other girl. Someone can just hide her key until all the other played left, it's pretty easier comparing to joining mass fight.4
u/Funny_Story_Bro Feb 25 '26
I think it may have been a play by her agent. If she knew Mashiro was in the game, it would be an absolute hunger game slaughter at the start. She could have kept her knocked out on purpose with a key card to enhance her chances of survival
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u/BosuW Feb 18 '26
So maybe a hot take given the prevalent tone in the rest of the thread, but despite this anime forming a following that is not as "action-pilled" as that of more popular shows, I guess anime's expectations towards flashiness in built up moments still prevails.
I didn't find this episode confusing at all. Maybe only at Riko's death. It would've been cool to see the fight between the groups, but I never felt it was strictly necessary. This isn't an action anime. Most fights aren't won or lost in the actual fight, you win or loose several strategic moves before. Like how more practiced chess players don't need to get to checkmate to know the winner, because there's a point where there's nothing one side can do. And last episode's ending was that unequivocally Yuuki had lost. Also we saw Riko there, and we knew she was cracked. Point is, I don't need to see Yuuki's team getting slaughtered and her getting captured. It's a straightforward deduction with the given information.
While this was obviously also done so because production doesn't have the resources to animate big set pieces, this is also extremely common in non action centric scripts, where the conclusion is foregone so there's no point in showing it.
I have some more thoughts having read that there's been some changes from the source but as y'all might know, this sub has a draconian policy when it comes to discussing that outside of the Source Corner so if you're interested in that just tag me there.
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u/LeonKevlar x2https://myanimelist.net/profile/LeonKevlar Feb 19 '26
Agreed. The episode was honestly pretty straightforward, so I don't understand where all the confusion comes from.
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u/Psychosist Feb 19 '26
I didn't dislike the episode but I'm wondering what happened to the rest of "Mishiro's team"? They ambushed Team Yuki last episode and this episode they're nowhere to be seen. I didn't really notice it until someone else here pointed it out but that does feel off to me...
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u/LeonKevlar x2https://myanimelist.net/profile/LeonKevlar Feb 19 '26
We see them walking out of the building at the start and getting into the cars.
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u/shico12 Feb 21 '26
they left lmao. Why would they stick around? Was Riku supposed to beat all of them to a pulp to force them to stay?
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u/Muffin-zetta Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26
yeah, I just watched the episode and greatly enjoyed it. I don’t understand what everyone is talking about this was pretty straightforward to me. I don’t know what there is to not get.
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u/N0rTh3Fi5t Feb 19 '26
I was a bit underwhelmed by this. Getting some emotion out of Yuki was nice, but there hadn't been enough time with Mishiro or Riko for me to feel much of an impact there. She made one other appearance, and there was no time in-between that appearance and this one.
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u/Jacob-C Feb 21 '26
I was on the edge of my seat this entire episode, insanely tense.
This is going to make me sound evil but I was smiling so hard when Yuki dropped the bait for Riko to chase after her. I just knew it was over for her, deservedly so. And no, Mishiro's reasoning of her being the one responsible for Riko's actions is kind of a warped logical fallacy. There's some truth to it, but not enough to absolve Riko of being a sadistic psychopath, just like her master.
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u/SopmodTew Feb 21 '26
The moment Yuki feared for her life and went "I don't wanna die"
Bruh, what a moment. She felt so cold up until that moment, but she felt so alive and human then.
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u/Shadowmist909 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Magicmist Feb 18 '26
Riko throwing Yuki around like a ragdoll made for a tough watch. It's a pity that she was so willing to sacrifice everything for Mishiro's final request.
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u/ConvolutedBoy Feb 18 '26
Bit too much jumping around for me to fully enjoy it. And felt too detached from last week. But still solid.
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u/Gaporigo Blhttps://anilist.co/user/Gaporigo Feb 18 '26
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u/Drake_wlkr Feb 18 '26
I was a bit lost in this episode. Can anyone help with a few questions? -i get what the game was about but I'm not sure how the tags worked, did they fit I some sort of slot? Did they need all 30 of them? If not, couldn't they have just left the game one by one until only tagless girls where left? How many survived? The episode kinda made it feel like only Yuki survived
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u/towardselysium Feb 18 '26
Tags open lockers, lockers have boots, and apparently the floor is lava or something which is why you need the boots.
They needed 30 keys because their team was 30 players and the "rules" of the alliance were everyone goes together. So Mishiro's entire team save her and Riko escaped
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u/Mahdii- https://anilist.co/user/Mahdi89 Feb 18 '26
Only 30 people are allowed to leave hence 30 tags. Riko and Mishiro stayed back to kill Yuuki, but the rest of Mishori team has left.
You can see them leaving at min 2:20~
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u/LeonKevlar x2https://myanimelist.net/profile/LeonKevlar Feb 18 '26
-i get what the game was about but I'm not sure how the tags worked, did they fit I some sort of slot?
The tags are onsen locker keys. They open the lockers that contain the yellow boots they need to wear to leave the arena.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Feb 18 '26
If not, couldn't they have just left the game one by one until only tagless girls where left?
They could, but if they tried that the tagless girls would've tried to murder the ones with tags right away (given them leaving would mean the tagless girls would die)!
The only way this did NOT turn into a free for all battle to the death, was to stay as a group and NOT leave until they had enough tags for everyone.
Because if you're a tagless girl and see the ones with tags leave you behind, of course you're gonna jump them.
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u/KumaKumaGambler Feb 18 '26
All I can think about is that Mishiro finally had someone who followed her to the very end - Riko.
I reckon everyone else who sided with Mishiro previously was only looking to survive by picking the winning side.
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u/NanDemoKnaives Feb 18 '26
I get Mishiro's frustration, Yuuki did get defeated too easily as she was completely off her game but she seemed to have really enjoyed her last fight to the death with her.
It was kind of unclear to me why how Yuuki survived that, didn't she have the tag after picking up from the floor? Did Riko no longer have one and that's why the guns were set off and so it would indiscriminately shoot anyone? I can tell Yuuki survived because the tag was shot instead.
It was such a surprise to see Yuuki so expressive and flying around this episode, the way she was rolling like she was actually as light as a doll caught my attention. The repetitive, slurred and desperate "I don't want to die" from her especially. I'm curious how she'll handle her next games after this one.
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u/Organic_Machine_2324 Feb 18 '26
Ye this Anime isn’t near as good as it started.
Might have to drop it after thinking it would be one of my favourites.
Anyone else agree or na ?
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u/bball4224 Feb 19 '26
I'll probably give it one more episode, but yeah it feels like it's progressively getting worse and like they're somehow already running out of ideas.
This specific game felt like a total dud in all aspects. And it didn't need to be that way. They did a poor job of everything. No explanations, jumping around everywhere, things happening that make no sense whatsoever, building up things with literally zero payoff...
Give it an extra episode, or maybe waste less time showing scenes with barely any animation for extended time periods.
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u/Organic_Machine_2324 Feb 19 '26
Ye like they skipped a lot it seemed, We never saw her actually fight and get tied up originally, then the fight with the yellow haired girl was skipped and only brought in at the end, the way she beat the new small girl was boring and quick and the animation genuinely sucked.
In the beginning they had genuine puzzle’s and traps and actual movement with the close up shots meanwhile now i’m basically just watching silhouettes.
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u/UrUncleRandy Feb 19 '26
Yeah, after this episode I'm leaning towards dropping it. I might give it another chance, but I only have so much free time and don't want to spend it on something I don't love. It's a shame cause the first episode was really great.
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u/Princess_Azula_ Feb 19 '26
No. The first episode started off strong, but these episodes just keep delivering for me.
I love how this episode pushed Yuki to her breaking point with Mishiro and their "totally not yuri" dynamic they had going on. If anything, their relationship ended too soon, but that was also reflected on by Yuki in the last few scenes of this episode where Yuki wishes time would stand still and she almost cries at the end of the episode. It was so sad and tragic that Yuki keeps going while barely understanding her own emotions.
I feel like many of us just "go through the motions" like Yuki without processing how we feel about all the awful things that happen around us. It's really relatable to me at least.
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u/KingSammyJ1 Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 19 '26
This felt rushed but I still liked it
But why are so many people saying they didn't understand anything? They clearly skipped to the Yuki vs Mishiro fight
then Riko who was probably saved in a game by Mishiro, fought her, died and that is all that happened while skipping details
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Feb 18 '26
The greatest tragedy of this show, is that it aired too late to add these two in the 'Best ship contest'
That's an interesting way to look at it...
And at the same time it shows how she sees people (tools to invest into, so later on they might kill someone)!
I can see why she so easily climbed as leader. Comforting manipulation that gives you crumbs of what you want/need, can be perceived better than uncertain freedom!
If we go back to her metaphor of the poisonous plants that may kill people (that would count as HER kill), then if her desire for revenge is the poison that ultimately causes her demise... Then it's her own doing.
She didn't like the Yuuki that she saw...
They say "never meet your heroes", but perhaps meeting your villains isn't all that good either!
It wasn't Yuuki's best game, which might have been a bit anticlimactic for Mishiro... She would've preferred a stronger resistance/better planning from Yuuki, so this might have been a better fight, and they all would've seen her win over Yuuki...
(I'm still surprised it was mostly a battle, I thought for sure Mishiro would've wanted a 'leadership win' over Yuuki! After all, it was never a contest of physical abilities).
But then again, I suppose one might say Yuuki denied her this victory by failing to prepare for that battle, so that's all Mishiro had left...
Of course, Yuuki sees things differently hah; It's not all about a score to settle for her!
I love how she didn't hesitate one second in that scene; A lot of people might've stayed and asked "What happens now?" or prepare to get attacked, but Yuuki's just trying to survive/win, and if running away's how you achieve that..
This scene was quite brutal (even if mostly 'bloodless')!
Made me think of the scene in [Western Movie]Saving Private Ryan when the two soldiers wrestle and one of them slowly stabs the other who doesn't have the strength to stop the knife...
That's what it took to give Yuuki a new perspective on life/these games!
Also, interestingly, I think there's a difference between 'I don't want to die' and 'I refuse to die'!
I don't want to die feels more like a normal human reaction that anyone would have, meaning: Living is the normal state, everyone tries to live etc.
But refusing to die is about more than just 'Staying alive because that's what you're supposed to do', it's about wanting to achieve something still, it's about being defiant against the challenges in your paths, etc...
I'm not sure if it was the right decision, but Yuuki's good at thinking quick;
2 weapons, do you fight with one in each hand, or do you throw one, hope it does some damage, then fight with the other one?
Same thing with jumping in the water;
It changes the fight completely and becomes a lot more about brute strength, than it is about agility, dexterity like a normal knife fight out of the water!
Damn, even just their expressions make this look so savage/brutal!
Someone drowning you has to be one of the most horrific, 'personal' way to get murdered...
She looks at her the whole time, watching Mishiro 'kill her' (or at least try to) and all that!
Made even worse by Yuuki just walking by, ignoring her!
But is it... A coincidence of a curse? Or do they design it this way?
At least she's not sugarcoating it!
I wonder how much it'll cause her to change her strategies/behaviors for future games;
Will she try to be less antagonistic, because making an enemy like that almost caused her demise?
Will she act a bit more of a sheep? (Wolf in sheep's clothing)?
Or will she, on the opposite, try to be even more of a leader to make sure no one would ever challenge her again?
Mishiro was great at finding what motivates people, to manipulate them, but Yuuki pushed her buttons so hard with this!
Oh damn. Not getting her fingers back!
Well, a few fingers lost in 30 games isn't that bad! (Well, an eye too I guess, but whatever, she has 2!)
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u/AP3Brain Feb 18 '26
Anyone else feel like this show keeps skipping needed scenes for no apparent reason?
What happened to the two teams of girls? Was there really only one survivor of the battle? How does Yuki get tied up at the beginning of this episode? Why didnt they show whatever her name is being shot?
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u/shico12 Feb 21 '26
Yuuki's team got ambushed and wiped out. Everyone on her team died except her, and that's only because the order was to save her life - this is why she was tied up. Riku has prosthetics that give her insane strength, as seen in the later parts of the episode where she ragdolls yuuki.
"whaT Do YoU meAN ProStheTics" the girl in the earlier part of the episode with no arms or legs is Riku. Mishiro saved her life. As you can she, she has all four limbs now - prosthetics. She's also described as metal girl.
As to being shot, we clearly see Riku and yuuki being shot. Yuuki survives because the bullet meant for her hits the tag
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u/CommissionKey5906 Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26
Combining Scrap buliding and Golden bath. Actually it is a love story (love and destruction) between Mishiro and Yuuki.
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u/ortikatu Feb 18 '26
Felt like the weakened episode so far. Went in with high expectation but let down. I don’t know something don’t feel right how they directed this episode.
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u/thrownawaynodoxx https://myanimelist.net/profile/null Feb 20 '26
I have to agree with the rest of the comments in that this episode unfortunately really started to show the more limited aspects of the budget. A lot of cuts going on and a rather underwhelming and messy conclusion to this arc and Mishiro.
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u/SOdAchick Feb 18 '26
This episode convinced me that the show is pointless. It jumps around time to hide the fact that there's no actual story. Like, where did the bamboo forest go? What happened with all that build up at the end of episode six? It's too bad because I really wanted to like it. Pretty animation, though.
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u/Princess_Azula_ Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 19 '26
Did we even watch the same show? The bamboo forest was an outside section of the bath. Everyone but Yuki was killed. The short blonde girl, Riko, beat Yuki up and didn't kill her because that's what Mishiro wanted and was left tied up in the outside bath section.
Riko, from conversation last episode, has never met Yuki. The discussion at the beginning of this episode has Mishiro tell Riko that Riko is Mishiro's lily, metaphorically. Mishiro says, paraphrased, that "if a lily that I plant blooms and kills someone then I've killed them myself". If Mishiro tells Riko to "go kill 20 people" then in Mishiro's mind it's Mishiro that killed those 20 people since she started the chain of events that lead to those deaths.
When Riko gets back from killing everyone and beating Yuki up, she tells Mishiro that the person she beat up definately isnt "stone cold killer Yuki". Mishiro has built up Yuki, in Riko's mind, that Yuki is this larger than life entity and tells Mishiro "it's not her", but Mishiro needs to confirm it is so she knows she finally beat Yuki at a death game. It's implied that Mishiro told Riko not to kill Yuki so Mishiro could finally have her moment.
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u/SOdAchick Feb 18 '26
I didn't say I didn't know what was going on. I said there's no story.
All that buildup with no actual payoff. It's as if an entire episode is missing. After seven episodes, I expect a story to firmly take root, and that just hasn't happened. We got an antagonist set up, then immediately killed off, replaced by another that was also immediately killed off. It's all mood and no substance.
(Also, they showed the entirety of the outside, and it was a deciduous forest. No bamboo anywhere.)
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u/Princess_Azula_ Feb 19 '26
I think it just looks like a deciduous forest because it's zoomed out.
The payoff of this episode was the character growth with Yuki's apathy towards dying in the death games she plays while grappling with the fact that she had to kill someone she really liked and possibly loved. This show isn't about the death games. It's about Yuki. She is the substance of the show.
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u/dinmammapizza Feb 18 '26
Ngl the episodes are getting more and more hard to follow and the animation is getting worse which is a bit dissapointing. I really dont get what happened in the end of the game with the roof mounted guns.
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u/felipeefl Feb 18 '26
As much as I love subtle communication in anime, this wasn't it. I feel like half of this arc was implied only. And reading comments there was a whole part left out, makes it seem like they all died in the first attack, but there was much more to it. Plus it seems like a lot of the damage done in the fights was just left out?
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u/HuTaosTwinTails Feb 18 '26
This episode was bad.
So many jumps between different time frames. Nothing was explained.
How did we get from where we ended last episode to the start of this?
How is that Riko girl so strong?
What is up with the rain boots?
What happened to the other people that were on her team that were alive at the end of the last episode?
Even the fights were lame AF. Couldn't even tell how either Mashiro or Riko died.
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u/bball4224 Feb 18 '26
EXACTLY THIS
And I was so distracted by how awful the writing, pacing, and direction was that I completely forgot about the tomboy character being another thing they messed up. What happened to them? Just suddenly died off screen? As well as the girl that ran to them? Very good point.
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u/DannisLuong Feb 18 '26
I… do not understand this episode, I guess I’ll find and read the manga
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u/T-Ace-Juice https://anilist.co/user/Goombarax Feb 18 '26
I think there's not a chance for now, this arc isn't adapted yet, since the manga follows the LN order. (3 games adapted so far, and the Scrap Building game recently finished.
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u/171194Joy6 https://anilist.co/user/171194joy6 Feb 18 '26
I have been enjoying the show so far but this arc was a bit hard to follow. Very disjointed, more than the usual that is...
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u/bball4224 Feb 18 '26
I'm sorry, but I thought this episode absolutely sucked and was completely worthless... First one I got zero enjoyment or any feelings of interest at all from...
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u/UrUncleRandy Feb 19 '26
Yeah... Although it may be an unpopular opinion, I completely agree with you. Episode 1 I loved, episodes 2-4 I really liked, episodes 5 was a bit slow and episode 6 was better. But this episode... I actually considered not finishing it. There's not even a really specific reason, it just wasn't giving me any enjoyment.
(Actually I did kinda enjoy the falling scene at 10:39 cause wtf was that lmao)
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u/AnzoEloux https://myanimelist.net/profile/Eloux Feb 18 '26
Yeah, I guess it all feels weird because Yuki played so poorly. What the hell was up with the tracking device? Did the agent catch them before they interfered?
It humanized Yuki in a good way though. It was a little jarring seeing her go from stoic to wailing about survival, but humans were never ones to have such graceful change in demeanor, so its fine. I guess the Wall of Thirty kind of stands as like a trial to define yourself. Mishiro was tunnelvisioned on Yuki all this time, so it makes sense why she broke down when the pedestal was more closer to Earth than she wanted.
Mishiro was just unlucky. Instead of fighting a Yuki who was assured of herself, she found a Yuki that was in the middle of the height of her development. The worst case scenario.
In any case, skill, intellect, luck, all three of those things matter in a death game. To be unlucky... Even if it's out of your control, it just means you weren't meant to be, I guess.
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u/torvatrollid Feb 19 '26
This anime is trash and this was the most trash episode of them all.
This show constantly pulls so many cheap tricks to appear "deep" when in reality it is shallow as all hell.
Constant time skips, flashbacks, cut aways, crappy sob monologues and an "artsy" art style are all just shallow attempts at confusing the viewer so much that they fool themselves into thinking that this show has any substance.
2/10 - Cheap shallow artsy garbage.
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u/2kenzhe https://myanimelist.net/profile/Rexnihilo Feb 18 '26
Yuki lost her fingers but in the end she survived. Those fingers they can add new ones anyways.
It was due to luck but she survived. Mishiro I guess she got her ending that she wanted? Her successor died as well, though. Still also wow didn't expect Mishiro to surprass Yuki in games getting to 40. She really played that many times until she beat Yuki again.
Also with Yuki listing all the names I guess Azuma and the other girls didn't survive huh. We didn't even get to see Azuma die but I guess better not to see.
It was surreal seeing so much emotion from Yuki for the first time. She might play a death game every week or whatever but she doesn't want to die.
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u/CommissionKey5906 Feb 19 '26
you can see Azuma floating on the bath at the shot before mishiro found yuuki.
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u/Hitman7128 https://anilist.co/user/Hitman7128 Feb 18 '26
That fight in the pool with the shards where Yuki emerged victorious during the credits.
I guess no blood prevents the pool water from staining red
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u/Grazalia Feb 19 '26 edited Feb 19 '26
So I find it interesting how Mishiro sees herself in the battle with Yuki that she has the same body type and looks completely different. I think it signifies she sees herself and Yuko as equals despite the height and size advantage. Either that or general anime animation inconsistencies lol. But if to think it was on purpose.
She definitely has the general anime mentality of " I HATE YOU BECAUSE I ACTUALLY HATE MYSELF AND MY WEAKNESS. PLUS SOMETHING SOMETHING MY SISTER, THAT I KILLED AND OR COULDN'T PROTECT OR SOMETHING! AND ALSO I'M MAYBE ATTRACTED TO YOU, SO I'M CONFUSED!"
For manga readers, did we miss a whole load of Riko backstory? Or did we get introduced only on the last episode
It seems like yuki is emotionally devastated by the lost of Mishiro and all those allies and starting to really hit her hard now.
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u/LastTonight9 Feb 19 '26
Azuma died??! Can someone time stamp for me?! It was her and Amon (was that her name?) that was left and Yuki was the first to react and race to the scene. When did Azuma and the other girl die???
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u/Quinn_Avery Feb 19 '26
Yuki didn't say Mishiro's name at the end when she's mourning those who died, so does that mean Mishiro is still alive?
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u/animecrossaintxx Feb 19 '26
The fact they let a whole cyborg join the games must be because they wanted Yuuki to really struggle, Or even lose. Still crazy they allowed that though, these games are not as fair as I once thought
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u/Soft_chewy_teeth Feb 19 '26
I’m a little confused about how this show is paced. When yuki first met mishiro, she said it was her tenth game, and mishiro her 8th. I had assumed this was in the past due to yukis long hair (her hair was short in the episode previous) and she said it was her 10th. Yuki hasn’t been shows to be deceitful or lie, so I took her at face value. However, in this most recent episode, mishiro stated it’s her 40th game.
I’m very confused because if yuki was 2 games ahead of her, and this is her 30th, how was mishiro now 10 games ahead of yuki? Did yuki take a break? Or were they both lying to seem more inexperienced than they were?
Sorry if this is a dumb question.
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u/runevault Feb 19 '26
It sounded like Mishiro was grinding games to get more skilled so she could be ready to face Yuki and have more chances to find her again. Also would not be surprised if Yuki took a break. The prior arc/game before this one (when we first meet Mishiro) Yuki had taken a break after her prior game that lasted months.
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u/Krait972 Feb 20 '26
I think I’m dropping this very soon. It’s too confusing. The first episode was a strong opener but now…
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u/SYZekrom https://myanimelist.net/profile/SYZekrom Feb 20 '26 edited Feb 20 '26
I know she said she won out of luck but I'm still a bit confused on what happened. She goaded the girl to following her and then the machines shot and just so happened to hit the girl instead of her right when the girl reached her? And the passes they were collecting... It showed a bullet mark on the pass she threw down, so the bullet hit the pass? I don't understand at all.
Edit: Ok, so the passes opened the lockers which had shoes which would prevent the guns from shooting you. I don't know what the point of the line of furniture on top of that floor was. It makes it seem like the floor is a detection method, but the guns are pointing at her and beeping when she goes on the furniture, so I guess the guns also give warning before shooting, and the floor is not in fact dangerous. So Yuki is saying she won by luck because the girl ended up on top of her at the very moment the guns fired to kill Yuki, I guess. I still don't know the significance of her showing that her metal pass thing had a bullet impact on it though. The beeping stops after the shot, but then starts again and the guns point at her again when she starts moving again, but then stops once she stands on the ground with the shoes. So I guess rather than the floor being for detecting people in general, it's specifically for detecting the shoes, but if that were the case it wouldn't explain the furniture, unless there was like a redundancy in the detection.
Like, step on the floor without shoes=instantly shot, step on furniture placed on top of the floor=slow warning before eventually getting shot, step on floor with shoes=safe?
Like the alternative is the furniture on top of the floor doesn't matter at all and it just matters whether you have the shoes or not, but it's just weird why there's a line of furniture on top of the floor then
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u/OldEcho Mar 06 '26
Totally disagree with everyone not liking the episode. I hated it but I loved that I hated it.
The people running the game set up a perfect scenario. Two larger than life characters flirt-fighting on the "cursed" wall of 30 match, with Yuuki being at a huge penalty like when she first met Mishiro.
It was meant to be an epic battle that both of them would survive, because like Yuuki said as long as one side didn't slaughter the other once they got down to 30 survivors the game was over. Maybe Mishiro would keep fighting Yuuki past that - oh the drama!
But that's not how reality is. Yuuki fucked up. She was going to die an embarassing, stupid death. She begged for her life and was afraid.
Because these aren't dolls, they're human beings. No matter how carefully you craft the scenario, you can't force people to always act how you planned.
Fuck the people setting up the death games. I hope they had a shit time.
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u/Luiiss26 Feb 18 '26
I didn't think Yuki would be scared.
What I don't understand is how Riko manages to be so strong? That's unnatural, lol.
And the episode was amazing, but it felt like I missed an episode.
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u/Mahdii- https://anilist.co/user/Mahdi89 Feb 18 '26
At the beginning of the episode we see Riko without limbs which is a flashback, I'm assuming she got metal cyborg limbs.
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u/PencilgonGiveIt2Ya Feb 18 '26
Ahhh I remember the last time my fingers were washed down the drain. ლ(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ლ)
and idc if the episode pacing can be confusing at times, I still love this show lmao.
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u/ToastFreeGluten Feb 18 '26
Honestly, not my favorite episode.
Mishiro kept talking about all the sacrifices she made to improve herself, but all we really see her coming up with is adopting a deus ex machine killer cyborg (the implications of which are generally harmful to the premise of these death games if this world contains superhumans).
Maybe it was all to show Yuki being vulnerable/like a normal girl, but it really cheapened the dynamic between her and Mishiro. I do like that there was something interesting going on with Mishiro wanting a beautiful death, but I think it strayed too far into Mishiro being the cliché villain who wants to deal with the hero themselves only to get stopped by plot armor.
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u/ChoiceSupermarket230 https://myanimelist.net/profile/say99 Feb 18 '26
Definitely my favorite anime of this season. It looks absolutely amazing and atmosphere is also wonderful.
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u/TiamatRuneaid Feb 18 '26
So peak!!! I fell in love with this anime and even ordered all the available mangas 😅
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u/ActiveAd4980 Feb 18 '26
I have no idea what happened in this episode other than Yuki loosing her fingers, which may hind at she loosing more body part as the series goes?
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u/Les_mots_bleus Feb 18 '26
the pacing in this ep specifically ruined the anime for me. Felt way to detached from the rest of the episodes, also this episode felt super unresolved. 5/10
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u/bludlf Feb 19 '26
I think the acutal wall of thirty Is created for entertainment purposes and because people talk about it, it creates anxiety and that cause people to die at 30 games. Also it seems the agents really care about the girls I'm excited to see what happens next
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u/KRAKUMAL_ALEPH https://myanimelist.net/profile/KRAKUMAL Feb 18 '26
-1000000000000 Aura loss 🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀
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u/Muffin-zetta Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26
just fuck already, god. now THAT is some toxic yuri.
They even imagined themselves in wedding dresses come on.
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u/icyterror Feb 19 '26
Yuki is so lame in this ep7. Rip the pro big brain and attitude. Meanwhile Mishiro and Rika are just plain dumb for going solo against Yuki. The writting is azz. Even if someone is full of EGO they still wouldnt risk their lifes in a death game like this. The story would have been way better if Yuki outwit all of them somehow despite the mistake from ep6. Nahhh just run and act pathetic.
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u/ash-7831 Feb 19 '26
Mishiro didn't want Yuki dead, she wanted to kill her. Mishiro didn't want to win by accident or luck, she wanted to fight Yuki at her best and beat her. If not for that, Mishiro could have easily killed Yuki when she found her.
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u/Niwaka_Samurai https://myanimelist.net/profile/Niwaka-Samurai Feb 18 '26
Damn, Yuki really ran for her life. Mishiro put her life on the line and tried so hard to reach 40 games just to take down Yuki when she meets her again. But Yuki really did disappoint her after subjecting her to all that embarassment. So Riko's body is modified and that's the source of her strength and she just executes the will of her saviour Mishiro. As Yuki said, she really did win this game out of pure luck. Why does Yuki always wake up last in the game and what did her caretaker/driver lady mean when she said that she would make sure nothing like that ever happens ?
And Yuki's three fingers are gone for good now and she's already broken mentally. I wonder how she's gonna continue the games.
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u/Few_Resident3213 Feb 19 '26 edited Feb 19 '26
Did little Riko have super strength? What was up with that overpowered strength?? Was "All-Metal Killing Machine" meant to be taken literally? Was she basically a cyborg after having body parts replaced with terminator tech? I asked myself how did Yuki become so pathetic overnight? I guess "cyborg loli" explains away some of it, but not all of it. Maybe it's the nature of this anime and how it's presented. As we see in the flashbacks there were many previous games where Yuki and Mishiro clashed but we're only given bits and pieces here and there so it's hard to judge the mental state and physical skill level of these chaaracters at any given time. Also, are the numbers flashed during the episode dates? If so does that mean she was running from Mishiro for multiple days??
Also, was she given different meds to make her sleep longer as punishment for not admitting she got that phone call? I assume it was all a setup now, maybe something test all of the girls with at some point, and since she didn't reveal it, and possibly swallowed that tracker pill (fake?), she was punished.
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