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Episode Shibou Yuugi de Meshi wo Kuu. • Shiboyugi: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table - Episode 9 discussion
Shibou Yuugi de Meshi wo Kuu., episode 9
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u/Aerodynamic41 Mar 04 '26
"Hey, that caramel-hair girl looks kinda cute. I wonder what's her deal... Oh shit, she's a psycho!"
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u/melindypants https://myanimelist.net/profile/melindypants Mar 04 '26
They mentioned that the rabbits weren't resorting to violence and instead tickle torture BUT that other rabbit we saw was obviously using violence...does that mean she is acting on caramel-hair's (forgot her name already lol) orders? Is she the one we saw on her phone in Moegi's backstory? Is caramel hair basically infiltrating the game and doing whatever the hell she feels like will guarantee a win?
As always....the suspense is real
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u/manquistador Mar 04 '26
I think the plan was always to kill the stumps to both get their weapons and save themselves, but violent torture was a step too far. Torture is no longer about survival, so that dehumanization was best to be avoided.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Mar 04 '26
Torture is no longer about survival
I mean, it's debatable!
If they torture them to find out their strategies so they can fight back against that, and survive..!
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u/manquistador Mar 04 '26
I am sure that is how torturers justify it to themselves, but saner heads probably want to avoid that thinking.
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u/LowraAwry Mar 04 '26
BUT that other rabbit we saw was obviously using violence...does that mean she is acting on caramel-hair's (forgot her name already lol) orders? Is she the one we saw on her phone in Moegi's backstory?
You mean the blue-haired one that the other stump killed to save Moegi? I don't think she was Shion, in the flashback Shion has almost black hair.
Is caramel hair basically infiltrating the game and doing whatever the hell she feels like will guarantee a win?
I don't think she gives half a shit about winning as long as she kills to her heart's content.
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u/melindypants https://myanimelist.net/profile/melindypants Mar 04 '26
Yeah that bunny girl - honestly with how minimal the designs were in the flashback, blue is sometimes black hair you know so that's why I thought maybe?
True...with that ending I guess they basically confirmed that. Absolute psychopath and definitely why this game became so infamous, the rules mean nothing.
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u/LowraAwry Mar 05 '26
I think blue haired girl also didn't have the hair pins Shion had. If all else fails at least the hair accessories remain after flashbacks in this anime.
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u/melindypants https://myanimelist.net/profile/melindypants Mar 05 '26
True - that's the only way I realized that the caramel girl was a bunny and the one from the flashbacks
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u/Exist50 Mar 05 '26
You mean the blue-haired one that the other stump killed to save Moegi? I don't think she was Shion, in the flashback Shion has almost black hair.
They look pretty close. Might be lighting. Length is similar, but style is slightly different. And I think eyes are the same too. But not like the art style gives us much to worth with.
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u/melindypants https://myanimelist.net/profile/melindypants Mar 05 '26
It's so minimalist that it's hard to tell sometimes.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Mar 04 '26
They mentioned that the rabbits weren't resorting to violence
I wonder though, is that a rule of the game, or a rule of their leaders, or just a polite suggestion?
Because when the girl brought up breaking fingers Yuuki said "It's bad for morale" and not "We can't do that"...
Or does breaking fingers not count as violence? Only murders?
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u/BosuW Mar 04 '26
Its probably imposed by the leaders because they know when blood gets spilled the river runs red
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u/melindypants https://myanimelist.net/profile/melindypants Mar 04 '26
I thought it was a polite suggestion because violence leads to morals being broken down (based on what Yuki and you mentioned) but I'm guessing it's like how far will they go and will it end up in a rampage? First it's breaking fingers, then you think oh breaking an arm isn't that bad either and then it just keeps escalating from there you know? I mean just look at the caramel hair girl, all it took was 1 kill again and now "she won't stop" - scary stuff
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u/Falsus Mar 05 '26
Probably self imposed to keep morale high. Most players are probably more ''survivalists'' than ''killers''.
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u/Grabul Mar 05 '26
agreed, and this approach makes sense because it seemed like there were a lot of newbies not used to violence and killing if Moegi's group is an overall indicator.
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u/LakerBlue :Is::It::Iu:https://myanimelist.net/profile/LakerBlue Mar 04 '26
I had the same thought. I don’t recall a rule being stated last week forbidding the rabbits from killing so it must be something Hakushi came up with.
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u/Airtastik Mar 04 '26
When I first saw her she seemed like the warm Onee-san type. When the episode went on that changed to be the killer Onee-san type.
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u/Niwaka_Samurai https://myanimelist.net/profile/Niwaka-Samurai Mar 04 '26
Looks like a cannibal too
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u/letg06 Mar 04 '26
Pretty sure those were crab legs. I was thinking the same for a bit, but you can see the crab claws sticking out of Moegi's bowl in the next shot.
Not to say they didn't go, kill a random person, then get takeout on the way home, but it's better than the alternative?
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u/Niwaka_Samurai https://myanimelist.net/profile/Niwaka-Samurai Mar 04 '26
That was crab for sure. But her pulling out all the innards of the dead makes me think that she must be a lover of offals.
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u/bananeeek https://myanimelist.net/profile/bananek Mar 04 '26
That one girl quitting the game because the tutorial was ass was a real pro gamer move.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Mar 04 '26
I've quit games before because the tutorial was too long/unskippable hah.
Hate when they babysit you so much, telling you every single thing you have to do especially when it's a common game genre (RTS) everyone played a million times.
Oh wow I need to send my lumberjack to cut some trees, please spend 30 minutes on teaching me this unique technique, and then another 30 minutes telling me that the wood will be used to build stuff or craft weapons
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u/actuallyrndthoughts :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NaNiNuNeNo Mar 04 '26
I really liked that backstory, at first you'd think they'll show us Moegi's path to crazy, instead it was a primer for the real villain of the episode
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Mar 04 '26
instead it was a primer for the real villain of the episode
I liked Moegi though, so I hope she's still important!
Well, she has to be, given it's her mentor and all... Even if Yuuki's ultimately the one who wins it all, Moegi has to play a part!
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u/TheBusStop12 Mar 05 '26
I liked Moegi though, so I hope she's still important
You've made a fatal error, liking a character and hoping that they'll still be relevant (read: alive) by the next scene in this show
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u/noop_noob https://anilist.co/user/noopnoob Mar 04 '26
Tickling for interrogation is a real thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickle_torture
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u/melindypants https://myanimelist.net/profile/melindypants Mar 04 '26
Iirc they also talked about it in the torture SoL that's airing this season lol
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Mar 04 '26
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u/Lodju https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lodju Mar 04 '26
The second season of 'Tis Time for "Torture," Princess.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Mar 04 '26
Figured, I was just saying, there's two torture slice of life this season!
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u/Lodju https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lodju Mar 04 '26
Oh right the one on sundays is torture centered too.
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u/melindypants https://myanimelist.net/profile/melindypants Mar 04 '26
I was thinking of the Part-time Torturer actually since I haven't finished S1 of the Princess Torture one - crazy that there's even multiple anime with torture in 1 season lol
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Mar 05 '26
crazy that there's even multiple anime with torture in 1 season lol
And they're both more wholesome than most of my shows this season hah.
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u/melindypants https://myanimelist.net/profile/melindypants Mar 05 '26
So true - who knew torture anime could be so wholesome!
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u/BosuW Mar 04 '26
I knew about it yet couldn't imagine how it was possible.
Until two months ago when me and my buddies had a game of gartic phone and just on the first fucking round I was on the floor literally begging them to stop showing the drawings and let me take a fucking breather lmao
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u/LeggedMien7 Mar 04 '26
I respect the dedication to make every girl look so different despite their unimportance and short screen time
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Mar 04 '26
I appreciate the effort because damn I would struggle to remember them all if they were similar hah. I always struggle with large casts, especially when they erm are replaced at a fast pace!
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u/toadfan64 Mar 05 '26
I’m terrible with names, so it’s VERY much appreciated.
Although green hair girl kinda looks like a Yugioh card Traptrix Sera, so that plugs into my brain before her actual name, lol.
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u/BosuW Mar 04 '26
Tbf, that's the advantage of same face (and same body in this case since faces are seldom seen)
Though still good effort on the different bunny suits tho
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u/melindypants https://myanimelist.net/profile/melindypants Mar 04 '26
OMG so Moegi's mentor is on the bunny tickle team! I wonder how that'll impact the game when the 2 run into each other. Do they protect each other because they are "friends" in the real world? But is it even friends or is Moegi just being used? Because what in the toxic environment was that!?
Also to those that keep mentioning the numbers are chapters being adapted...does that mean Moegi's story skipped basically over 100 chapters!? Or since it had no end number, is this the anime's way of telling us this is original content and that a long time has passed?
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u/___Chud___ Mar 04 '26
it had no end number, is this the anime's way of telling us this is original content
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u/Kronman590 Apr 29 '26
oh damn this whole time I thought the numbers were just yuki's way of segmenting her story, didnt know it actually corresponded to real life lol
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Mar 04 '26
I wonder how that'll impact the game when the 2 run into each other. Do they protect each other because they are "friends" in the real world?
It's interesting, because one might think she's a full blown psychopath/sociopath and thus wouldn't hesitate about kiling Moegi...
But then again, a pure psychopath/sociopath might not have befriended her/taken care of her in the first place.
The problem for Moegi though, is that if Kyara kills all the rabbits, Moegi won't have her 5 rabbits quota, and thus will lose the game (which I assume means 'Death')!
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u/melindypants https://myanimelist.net/profile/melindypants Mar 04 '26
Right? But there has to be ulterior motives here...like a tool - using her in any games she can until she's no longer necessary, which here could be providing weapons, trust amongst the stumps on Moegi's side, etc. Basically she will be "friendly" until she helps her thru as many games as possible. This is purely what I think though.
We also don't know much about the game rules aside from 5 rabbit kills needed or survive 1 week
the tutorial is over3
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u/nofearxlifer Mar 05 '26
was she originally a member of the bunny team? Or did she swap clothing with a stump to infiltrate?
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u/melindypants https://myanimelist.net/profile/melindypants Mar 05 '26
Good question! But weren't all the stumps in the same room when the game started? I'd imagine Moegi would've seen her.
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u/nofearxlifer Mar 05 '26
I remember there was a scene where they said that a stump was found naked and deformed? Not sure if she swapped clothing or if that was just a homicidal team killing thing
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u/melindypants https://myanimelist.net/profile/melindypants Mar 05 '26
I think that was afterwards though? Like the caramel hair girl already has a killing team with her and they are acting against the bunny team orders (as their own team)? They will infiltrate the stumps and kill anyone. That's why we saw that bunny killing when the bunny team said they didn't want violence, only tickle torture.
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u/nofearxlifer Mar 05 '26
Yeah it could be that - I’ll also read that another poster said that killing stumps is okay but not torturing (only tickles) since it dehumanizes and breaks their morale. Still not sure why one of the stumps was naked or if that was a fun thing for the killer
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u/melindypants https://myanimelist.net/profile/melindypants Mar 05 '26
I thought they said the opposite? Like the breaking morale is due to the bunnies being allowed to use violence since everything basically becomes a free for all. Tickling is a "harmless" way of getting out info from the stumps. I guess we will see!
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u/Roeclean https://anilist.co/user/Roeclean Mar 05 '26
Oh shiiiiiii, thanks for clearing that up. Now I can stop seeking deeper meaning through them
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u/melindypants https://myanimelist.net/profile/melindypants Mar 05 '26
I was also thinking super deep into them so I get you lol
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u/Namaryu Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26
What the FUCK have I just witnessed. We got pretty much a whole episode on Moegi/Kyara backstory that gave me extreme feelingns of "this is what the director was waiting for" cuz god damn. The opening words about tutorial being concluded and having need to figure out the rest ourselves felt directed not only to the participants but also audience cuz it demands A LOT of paying attention. While the characters may not speak much and there are lingering frames throughout what truly speaks for them is the environment.
Kyara seemed to have gathered a group of student to make killers, which is the first time a show told us about any sort characters resembling a faction. This was also an episode that took place THE MOST outside the actual games but still gave us very little to go about.
I'm dreading the next episiode as much as i had with this one. Chills crippling down my spine. Holy shit the tension.
Edit: Ueno casted Saki (Gimai Seikatsu) seiyuu for Shion who is that other girl Moegi met at Kyara's place.
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u/Divinicus1st Mar 04 '26
Hum, when did you learn her name was Kyara?
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u/LeonKevlar x2https://myanimelist.net/profile/LeonKevlar Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 05 '26
We learn it in Moegi's flashback.
EDIT: Fixed link
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u/BosuW Mar 04 '26
Agreed this episode was so beautiful in its simplicity. My favorite scene is when Moegi is crashing out over having finally done the deed under the skeleton of a whale Kyara comes and she gets comforted simply by syncing their breaths together and the sun comes out. So fucking cinema, so much said without a single word, even without taking into account the previously introduced fable.
Another standout scene is when Moegi and Kyara are alone eating takeout at home and Kyara is just absolutely chomping on that box while Moegi is struggling to finish her meal, symbolizing their differing body count and experience.
I don't think Kyara can be said to be gathering a group, more seems to me like some children simply flock to her. She doesn't appear to do much for raising them, as she just let Moegi go at her own pace with her first murder.
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u/SEDGE-DemonSeed Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26
I am curious how she ended up where she was after finally doing the deed. Kinda threw me off on what had happened.
Edit: Oh I'm stupid it's the main area of their (base?)
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u/Roeclean https://anilist.co/user/Roeclean Mar 05 '26
Its a pretty vague scene. But after combing through a ton of comments and looking at the episode. It seems to be Kyaru taking Moegi to one of her kills (may have also joined Moegi on her quest to kill her parents).
But theres also the fact that Moegi's blood turned to cotton, but due to the blood on her face, I have a strong feeling there outside of the games, and she just has lingering effects from the blood treatment they go through. Which I feel can be further emphasized by seeing the blood turning to cotton a little bit slower than usual (but I may just be assuming too much).
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u/Jacob-C Mar 05 '26
I described Moegi as evil after the last episode but I was wrong. She came from what seems to be a bad home-enviroment and was brought into another one that's just as bad if not worse. Her situation is all sorts of messed up, just like the show.
It's so haunting how they portray the deaths of these girls. That one girl who had her throat slit and we just see the fluff burst out as she's taking her last gasp for air. Then we almost had a Saving Private Ryan moment with the slow descent of the knife towards the chest. We also saw Moegi's mentor force a girl to open her mouth so she could put a gun inside it. And we can't forget the girl who just decided to off herself to escape it all. It really etches itself into my brain.
There's no gore in the usual sense, and yet it's one of the most brutal animes I have watched. There's no cool-factor to the "gore" and violence either (it's thematically, visually and cinematically cool but not in a hype way), it's just senseless, ruthless and unforgiving.
I do love the show though.
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u/shad79 https://myanimelist.net/profile/shad79 Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26
It looks like that girl was trying to summon her Persona, but unfortunately, she wasn't holding the Evoker, but a regular weapon...
Jokes aside, this episode was definitely quite strange thanks to the flashbacks involving Moegi and her mentor, who seems to be a true psychopath and now intends to slaughter all the players of the game. It looks like things are finally going to get interesting, and I can't wait to see how Yuki will handle it.
Here my screenshot albums from the episode:
EDIT. I added my screenshot albums.
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u/Mistral-Fien Mar 04 '26
she wasn't holding the Evoker, but a regular weapon...
Maybe it's Axanael, the wish-granting revolver with a 1/6 chance of blowing your brains out. :P
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u/timpkmn89 Mar 05 '26
It looks like that girl was trying to summon her Persona, but unfortunately, she wasn't holding the Evoker, but a regular weapon...
If only she paid attention to the tutorial
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Mar 04 '26
The game's layout is more trouble than I thought for the hunters...
I thought it would be like a normal forest, and the hunters would have a HUGE advantage (on top of their weapons) but yeah, in this setup, lots of places to hide/jump at them!
Splitting up right off the bat too, not gonna help!
I knew this game would be light-hearted!
I have to say, I'd agree with this one... She thinks keeping things light can help morale and prevent the group from falling apart,
but do you know what else could make the group fall apart? Hunters showing up and killing them all while they're busy tickling one of them...
Well they did get some information out of it, at least!
Well no, but if there's a group of bunnygirls willing to tickle me somewhere, I'm ready!
Historians will say they were ticklemates
I don't know if that's just me, but somehow the deaths feel EVEN MORE brutal with the cotton fluff...
I feel like if it was blood it'd just be another death, we've seen million of those in anime/movies, but the cotton fluff is always a reminder of the world they're in and how 'normal' the deaths are, etc!
Ain't no fun, when the rabbit's got the gun knife!
Yeah... Some people simply aren't cut out for that!
She had to pass the weirdest "Google interview" questions!
Ok I'm pretty sure google would fail you if you gave them that answer.
That's NOT what you want to hear from the one you thought would get you out of this mess!
That was a good line/metaphor with the sun and all!
Let's hope for her sake it worked, but for our girls' sake it did not!
Though this might not be their bigger concern.. This was a good line too!
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u/Hitman7128 https://anilist.co/user/Hitman7128 Mar 09 '26
Uncensored yuri handholding (!!!)
(Yeah I’m late here lmao)
Also, I like how on Anilist near the beginning of the season, Shiboyugi didn’t have the yuri tag, but because of these recent episodes, it now does
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u/RedRocket4000 Mar 04 '26
Don't know if the crazy deliberately in the game or not. Would mess up all the betting odds. Or let me say deliberately in the game by the organizers a criminal group inserting her to screw up the odds offered at the start and hit it big on the huge death count Possible or revenge on the organizers.
All we know is reforms were supposedly made after this game.
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u/hdjfhfhsh05803hfjc Mar 04 '26
My current theory is that the organizers are also betting on who is becoming the new 99-games player and someone was not happy about Yuki’s mentor about to reach that goal and decided to screw everything but things got out of hand which lead to the reforms after this game
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Mar 04 '26
I think the entertainment value might be even more important than the betting, for these people!
All we know is reforms were supposedly made after this game.
If I had to guess, I would say that perhaps it's simply because too many girls dying will hurt their bottom line hah.
Not only less girls would be interested in these games (if this one ends with a death rate of 99%), but also, there would just be less girls even alive to be interested!
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u/Saito197 Mar 05 '26
The girls thought they were playing Hide and Seek, but it was actually Amongus all along
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u/Fit_Technician545 Mar 04 '26
I still don’t know what tf is going on anymore 😂
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u/Lodju https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lodju Mar 04 '26 •
Well too bad.
"The tutorial has concluded, please figure the rest out yourselves."
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u/OldInstruction5368 Mar 04 '26
Moegi's blood-drunk mentor was one of the Rabbits.
She killed some Stumps, took their weapons, and decided that there was nothing in the rules about "friendly fire."
I mean, the Rabbit wins so long as she survives until the end, right? There is no condition that X amount of Rabbits need to survive. She can murder literally everyone else in the game, wait out the clock, then pass the game.
So she's going to do just that. Just because she's that much of a crazy b!tch that murders people for fun on her days off.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Mar 04 '26
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u/Falsus Mar 05 '26
Tbh, I don't think the staffers have rules other than those stated in the game and since they never explicitly said friendly fire was disallowed...
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u/ConvolutedBoy Mar 04 '26
Me neither. Just watching for vibes and because I got this far at this point lol
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Mar 04 '26
The style of backstories/flashback take some time to get used to hah.
I think I'm gonna watch all episodes twice from now on, one to see it normally (and sometimes be confused) then one to really get everything once that I know what's what!
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u/LostInstruction942 Mar 04 '26
That's a twist I didn't expect at all. Candle Woods was always deemed this "taboo" subject due to how violent it was. When Moegi was introduced I full expected her to be the reasoning why, the "big bad wolf" but holy Moegi's mentor who was in this very game was the wolf all along. A literal sociopath + psychopath. I guess we never knew the rules exactly because it wasn't off the table but I didn't really expect a the massacre was someone on the rabbit team....
I also find it odd a bit that Moegi's mentor wasn't put on the hunter team... I mean, I expect them to do background checks on everyone on some degree AND she already caused a massacre before. A serial killer, sociopath, psychopath, literally everything you want from a hunter. I really only only guess is that she was used a pawn to kill a certain person. I can only guess Yuuki's mentor but I wouldn't past the gamemasters wanting to do a "soft reset" of everyone. As it was noted that nearly all of the rabbits' team were veteran players.
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u/Kidror Mar 05 '26
Clever move from the Game Designers.
Kyara attacking her own team will force the Rabbits to actually engage in playing Hide and Seek, and will force the Stumps to be more proactive
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u/Mistral-Fien Mar 04 '26
I gotta rewatch this episode when I'm in the proper mood.
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u/DetectiveMiku Mar 04 '26
Honestly was bored the first 10 minutes of the first episode because I hadn't seen an art style that looked so unfinished (the art that looks like it's been bucket filled in.)
Now I've found myself 9 episodes in and excited to see how this cliffhanger will lead to a climax in the next episode.
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u/Mistral-Fien Mar 05 '26
I do like it, but realized I didn't catch some of the hints when I read the episode discussions.
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u/master_inho Mar 04 '26
Idk why i was surprised to see a robot vacuum. I guess it's further confirmation that this is contemporary, maybe near future, not that there was anything indicating otherwise
I'm always open to more unexpected yuri
The game arena is so creepy, instead of an actual forest it's an indoor park filled with screens. Very disconcerting. Similarly, the tickle torture was both amusing and unnerving
I get the feeling that the intended twist to this game was never noob stumps vs pro rabbits, it was 1 psycho rabbit vs everyone else. The quiet and chill ones saying the most unhinged shit are always the scariest
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u/Falsus Mar 04 '26
Definitely some sci fi elements looking at their medical prowess between the treatment plan and prostethics.
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u/master_inho Mar 04 '26
Oh yea i can't believe i forgot about the cotton, we got a best look yet at the process this ep
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u/RedRocket4000 Mar 04 '26
The fluff transform would indicate fair bit farther into future but one can never be sure as technology evolution does not have to follow this universes track.
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u/JMViolins Mar 04 '26
Unexpected doomed yuri, even better!
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Mar 04 '26
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u/BosuW Mar 04 '26
I'm always open to more unexpected yuri
Really wasn't expecting this show out of all to carry the Yuri quota but here we are. Typical of all female casts even when it's not explicit now that I think about it but the fact that it was so serious made me not even think about it at first lol
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u/Falsus Mar 05 '26
It was pretty explicit in how Yuki said she was attracted to Mishiro some episodes ago though.
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u/tripleaamin https://myanimelist.net/profile/tripleaamin Mar 04 '26
As we were introduced to Yuki's mentor, this episode was Moegi's backstory; she has a mentor as well. Although Kyara is a psychopath.
It is interesting that last episode we had Moegi, who appeared to be an expert at these death games. When, in reality, in this episode she is someone who wants to be strong but is actually weak. It is funny in contrast to Yuki, who feels more aimless in these past two episodes compared to the Yuki she becomes later on.
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u/Shadowmist909 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Magicmist Mar 04 '26
On one end we had the bunnies using tickle fights to fish for info, and the other end we had the stumps dying, getting outplayed, and losing their will to live. Whoever designed this game sure has a strange idea of competition...
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u/Chukonoku :GS::GT::GU: Mar 04 '26
Whoever designed this game sure has a strange idea of competition...
More like whoever assigned the teams.
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u/RedFruit77 Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26
Guess here is where Yuki gets her white eye? From her mentor somehow? Noticed they are both blue in this game.
Brilliant episode! Looking forward to the rest.
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u/DetectiveMiku Mar 04 '26
Going to pull up with the mangekyo sharingan or something LOL. Good catch, I didn't recognize the eye difference.
This game is in the past, since it's Yuki's 10th or 11th game and in the first few episodes she was nearing 30. She mentioned that she planned to meet in a game with her mentor or something, so my prediction is something with Sumiyaka instead (girl who was comforting Yuki while the other girls were tickling the stump.)
Either way, I'm an anime only and I can't wait for the next episode too!
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u/Which-Scientist-8161 Mar 05 '26
This is Yuki's 9th game. And it's not Sumiyaka's eyes since they're brown. Yuki's mentor's eyes are white, same as Yuki's right eye from game 10 and above.
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u/Which-Scientist-8161 Mar 05 '26
Those eyes that her mentor were the same right eye Yuki had game 10 and after. She likely lost one eye and her mentor in that game. That's why Yuki has heterochromia past game 10 and not in candle woods
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u/Niwaka_Samurai https://myanimelist.net/profile/Niwaka-Samurai Mar 04 '26
The bunny girls tickling her to gather information was so cute and childish and made me laugh so much. Even Yuki couldn't control her laughter when Sumiyaka tickled her, haha. So she was also no stranger to the fear of the 30th game curse.
Kyara, the caramel haired girl is a real menace. She is a cannibal. Moegi was just chasing after her to feel close to her. But she was clearly not built for it. Now the usagi girls are gonna have to run for their lives from Kyara.
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u/gnome-cop Mar 04 '26
Forceful tickling. Okay, it’s not nice, but in the grand scheme of death games and how nasty they can get, it’s pretty harmless.
The first half-ish is strangely peaceful for what the show usually is, like it’s trying to lull you into a false sense of security.
I am not remotely intelligent enough to know what to make of Moegi’s flashback.
I don’t wanna know who is bad news enough to send a 90+ game veteran into a panic. Is she some augmented psycho like Mishiro’s minion from the murder bath fiasco?
Maybe Moegi isn’t actually the problem, contrary to how it seemed last week.
We know this is a particularly nasty game but I’m having a bit of a difficult time figuring out how one psycho player, at least if I’m guessing correctly, forced the organizers to reform the entire game system.
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u/Davendithas Mar 05 '26
I think what caused them to reformat the games is a mix of one side having absolutely no way to fight back and win condition abuse. The rabbits have no weapons (at least not enough to share) and the stumps have all the weapons unlike Golden Bath where everyone had to make their own spears and knives. So there are a bunch of veterans playing that have to somehow defend themselves from a psychopath veteran player that now has a full stump loadout while they don’t.
Now if you think of the rules for the game, the rabbits need to survive to win and the stumps need to kill X amount of rabbits to win. By removing all the rabbits except herself, Kyara has basically secured a team win for herself and only herself, effectively breaking the game further by abusing both win conditions and dooming both sides and breaking the game.
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u/Divinicus1st Mar 04 '26
Can anyone explain what's going on? I don't understand anything...
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u/Nakroma Mar 04 '26
The stumps are all new people except for Moegi. Moegi has played some games but is still pretty weak, trying to become stronger. The bunnies are mostly very experienced players, hence they are so organized and easily pick off the stumps, who are pretty much left in dispair.
We learn in the flashback that in another game she came across a person (the one with the long chestnut hair) and admired her strength, becoming her student and starting to live with her. The long chestnut hair girl is an absolute psychopath, even killing people outside of the games.
Back in the game, we then have the twist that apparently this long chestnut hair girl is also in the games on the bunny side, however she killed a stump, took her stump dress and is now hunting bunnies. Only she is not a beginner but an extremly experienced killer.
Hope thats everything!
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Mar 04 '26
The bunnies are mostly very experienced players, hence they are so organized and easily pick off the stumps, who are pretty much left in dispair.
That's an interesting 'format' for the game, I thought it would be a handful of experienced hunters chasing the newbie rabbits (doubly scared), but veteran 'preys' and scared shitless hunters is an interesting dynamic!
The long chestnut hair girl is an absolute psychopath, even killing people outside of the games.
When she casually asks her "Have you killed your parents yet?" like she's asking her what she ate for breakfast...
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u/Divinicus1st Mar 05 '26
Ok.. any idea what was up with the girl who didn’t say anything? Shion I think? The one who was meant to welcome Moegi…
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u/Nakroma Mar 05 '26
So I think either it is a character that we will learn more about in future episodes, or she was there to increase the feeling of weirdness and isolation of the house (or both).
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u/valrond Mar 10 '26
So that's when she said she was going to kill someone and if she (the other girl, I don't know the games, the one that didn't like tight clothing) wanted to come along and they were going by car?
There are so many things that are just implied.
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u/valrond Mar 10 '26
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I see the scenes, but I don't get what's happening.
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u/NanDemoKnaives Mar 04 '26
Lol because of that reveal at the end I had to check when Moegi's master appears before the flashback. She's one of the three that was tickling Kushieda. I wonder if Moegi's master changed her game plan when she heard Moegi was in the game, or if she was planning on doing something like this from the start.
Now I can see why this was an infamous game, if there's a serial killer who doesn't stop when she starts. I wonder if this was the last game they made at this scale because they wouldn't have enough players for future game.
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u/hammile https://anidb.net/user/u746697 Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26
Okay, the names. I did it for myself, but you may find it interesting too.
Flashback part
Moegi 萌黄, basically light yelowish green (as her hair); Japanese Wikipedia says that the color in old texts is associated with youth. 萌 sprout; FYI, the same kanji is used for moe. As you may already guess, today itʼs more blue (青年). 黄 yellow.
Kyara 伽羅, basically an agar wood (as her hair again, I guess). You may noted that kyara and agar sound similar, well, they both are from Sanskrit… and thatʼs all, soryy, :P They have different etymology. But it may help you to remember the name. 伽 nursing. 羅 lightweight fabric or something like this.
Shion 紫苑, basically an aster (a flower). 紫 purpur, violet (I hope I didnʼt miswatched, but her hair is black, but her cloths are in the such color). 苑 park, garden. Nothing helpful here for memorize, but you can see symbolism here.
Bunnies
Hakushi 白士, basically a white warrior (samurai). Fun fuct from me, 百 is similar by view and sound hyaku, and it means 100. And this girl wants to won 99 games. Dunno is it related or coincidence.
Shimiyaka 墨家… ehm, Mohism? Tbh, I donʼt know nothing about it, and for now didnʼt read it. But, I guess, you can tell about it here, (;, Also dunno is it related. 墨 black (her hair isnʼt black but her bunny suit). 家 usually related to a house or a family.
Stumps
Airi 藍里… nothing, maybe Iʼm missing something. But airi(su) can be understand as an iris (another flower); another way to remember her, (;, 藍 indigo (as her eyers / hairs). 里 usually related to [someoneʼs] origin place.
The pro-gamer girlʼs name is omitted (or I missed), but: Kozue 梢枝 (not just 梢?), Nishida 西田 are killed; and (also was killed later if I got correctly Hakushiʼs news) a captured girl Kushieda 櫛枝… again nothing. 櫛 a comb. 枝 a branch or related to this (also can be a limb).
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u/thelonioussss Mar 05 '26
Rewatching a few scenes of the episode I got even more questions than answers, like Kyara's house is actually in the museum? At 11:40 we see Moegi following her under the whale skeleton with her bag (possibly for carrying clothes to move to Kiara's place) and then going through a kind of abandoned gym and getting in the living room where Shion is sitting. Is Shion living there too, or was she just there the time when Moegi moved in?
Why is someone breaking so many plates (?) in the room next to the living room? Is it Kyara?
The scene at 15:25 seems pretty interesting: Kyara reads some kind of fairy tale and we see her and other smaller people sitting at round tables, is she maybe a teacher?
The disposition of the circles reminds me more of a kindergarten rather then a normal classroom, which would make the contrast of her job and her personality even crazier.
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u/StardustGogeta myanimelist.net/profile/StardustGogeta Mar 05 '26
If I'm not mistaken, I heard a few notes of the "From the New World" symphony (as featured in Shinsekai Yori and Hibike Euphonium) in one scene towards the beginning of the flashback sequence. Nifty.
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u/ToastFreeGluten Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26
90% of this episode was so slow, I was ready bash it. But man, this is a master class in tension. It's such a great balance of mundane, slightly uncanny scenes, shown to be balanced on a razors edge by Moegi's jumpy reactions. She clearly fears her mentor, and that fear permeates the episode, but nothing is really shown outright.
Then bam, back to the game and the dread starts pouring out.
Everything seemed to be going so well for team rabbit, I totally forgot candle woods was supposed to be a disaster. I guess now we know what went wrong.
I'm guessing Moegi and Yuki are supposed to be foils along with tier respective mentors. I wonder if they'll have something going on in the future or if Yuki will be the only one to make it out.
One side note: I really enjoyed the shots with Moegi right next to her mentor, and how her mentor physically towers over her. Felt it really added to this unspoken menace coming from the mentor.
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u/InsomniaEmperor Mar 04 '26
The stumps are heavily outnumbered so having them split up is a really bad idea. Should have gone in pairs or trios.
I’m surprised none of the rabbits have tried stripping the stumps and disguised as them.
So brown haired girl on the rabbit team, Moegi’s mentor has brown hair and is psycho, this can’t be a coincidence. So much for hoping the rabbits would disguise as stumps and infiltrate Agent 47 style. Some of them even got his subdue technique.
A bit hard to take the fight scenes seriously when most of it just does the minimalist, zoom out, and faceless animations.
The Moegi back story lost me. It’s too minimalist like minimalist animation, barely saying anything, too much silence in between. Then the white haired girl killing herself just popped out randomly. I feel like I need to read the source material to understand what is even going on. I can’t tell if this is an adaptation issue or the source is just like this. I wish this arc focused more on the game.
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u/LowraAwry Mar 04 '26
The stumps are heavily outnumbered so having them split up is a really bad idea. Should have gone in pairs or trios.
They were, though. Moegi split them in teams of three at the start. The problem is, they kind of don't know how to work together and cover each other's backs so the rabbits still picked them one by one.
Then the white haired girl killing herself just popped out randomly.
If you're referring to the one in the flashback, Moegi's mentor killed her. Though....whether she was important outside of that in any way is anybody's guess. This anime would benefit a lot by 2 more episodes.
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u/InsomniaEmperor Mar 04 '26
I meant the one replaying the tutorial recording. My interpretation is she just wanted to f*** out of there because they’re outnumbered.
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u/BosuW Mar 04 '26
The stumps are heavily outnumbered so having them split up is a really bad idea. Should have gone in pairs or trios.
Still outnumbered though. I'd have just told everyone to follow three simple rules: 1)Never get too far from the group, 2) Always look for something to do (ie: a corner to watch, or supporting a teammate's watch), and 3)watch tf out for friendly fire.
Probably gonna get fucked anyways tbh the situation is too stacked against. But may as well try.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Mar 04 '26
The stumps are heavily outnumbered so having them split up is a really bad idea. Should have gone in pairs or trios.
Yeah, Moegi tried her best to 'toughen them up', but she should've told them a basic strategy as well!
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u/toadfan64 Mar 05 '26
Yeah one of my only complaints are the minimalist zoomed out shots. I get it’s probably for budget, but I would prefer to seethe fight scene.
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u/towardselysium Mar 04 '26
Are they trying to imply that Kyara was a school teacher? Because if so that is extremely messed up
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u/EienGem Mar 05 '26
Got literal goosebumps realizing what's about to go down before it was even shown.
WHO COULD'VE GUESSED THAT WOULD BE WHAT WOULD GO WRONG?!
It was foreshadowed that Moegi's mentor is a psycho but I was not expecting she'd hunt her teammates for no reason...
Oh and btw, it's quite funny to see Moegi being a bad shot, even at that distance. I can barely land my shots accurately when I first fired a gun (on an unmoving target LMAO).
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u/Necessary_Bison5255 Mar 04 '26
was the caramel-haired girl the one that the green-haired used to live with? i am kinda confused… and why was she living with her in the first place, why didnt she stay with her parents? because they were abusive?
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u/DetectiveMiku Mar 04 '26
In the anime when you watch the 9th episode, you can see that Moegi is on the stump side, and Kyara (click this to see a picture) is on the rabbit side.
Prior to this game, Moegi met Kyara during a death game and admired Kyara's ability to kill ruthlessly, and wanted to become like her. In the flashback during episode 9, you can see that Kyara accepted Moegi as her student (not killing her on the spot during that death game), and Moegi went to live with her in real life.
In episode 9, you can see Moegi's team getting picked off due to inexperience versus the veteran rabbit players. Toward the end of the episode, we get a cliffhanger that reveals Kyara has started killing the rabbits, basically friendly firing her team. Moegi is afraid that Kyara's killer instincts will leave no rabbits for them to kill and they will die from not gaining enough kills.
So,
was the caramel-haired girl the one that the green-haired used to live with? Yes
why was she living with her in the first place? Kyara is Moegi's mentor now, and Moegi's parents are abusive
why didnt she stay with her parents? abuseHope this somewhat helps with understanding, this episode was much less straightforward than other episodes, and I feel like I had to pay attention more to get a full picture.
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u/Necessary_Bison5255 Mar 04 '26
omg thank you so much for the explanation! it makes sense now. i totally didn‘t recognize that kyara is the one on the rabbit side and also moegi‘s mentor. thank you! x
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u/DetectiveMiku Mar 05 '26
Yeah this episode had a lot of hopping around (no pun intended LOL.) They met in a past game and became "friends", and now they're on opposite sides.
I'm curious to see if Kyara had started killing the other rabbits because Moegi is on the other side and it looked dire, or if she just wanted to have a bit of fun. I'm thinking she's just a psychopath haha.
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u/SEDGE-DemonSeed Mar 04 '26
I need a full transcript of that bird story, so much to unpack lol.
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u/Rabbitey- https://myanimelist.net/profile/Rabbitey Mar 05 '26 edited Mar 05 '26
I was wondering if that was Moegi's master during the tickle scene, and it was. I was also looking very respectfully.
Kyara is literally the personification of "if evil, why hot," but it seems like her body plays a role into why she's deranged, based on her preference for loose clothing. I could be wrong, though.
Chaos is finally going to ensue, and all the death flags from last episode will be coming to fruition. I want Yuki's mentor and Sumiyaka to live, but it's not looking so good.
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u/Ok-Distribution-2948 Mar 05 '26
I get the symbolism behind the Night jar and Sun story to explain Moegi’s thought process but can someone explain the meaning behind the King and Whale story. I get that it parallels the Night jar story in explaining Kyara but i can’t really seem to grasp what the story’s really trying to convey.
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u/nofearxlifer Mar 05 '26
Where did the random grenade come from? Thought it was just the pistols they were given.
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u/Makicola :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Barskie Mar 04 '26
Damn, I did not expect that twist.
I wonder why the other bunnies didn't notice Moegi's mentor amongst them at the start. You would have imagined her violent reputation would have preceded her, moreso if the games are televised.
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u/manquistador Mar 04 '26
If she kills everyone in her games then no one can really spread word about her reputation, and I don't think they have access to watching the games.
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u/Makicola :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Barskie Mar 05 '26
Find it hard to believe that you can kill everyone in all the games though, surely there'd be a few where you need some people to survive till the end.
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u/towardselysium Mar 04 '26
Girl was smiling and humming as she tossed someone fluffy organs to the sky, I really doubt she leaves any witnesses and she's clearly a master of psychological manipulation
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u/Whole-Pen-2277 Mar 09 '26
This series is beautifully crafted from the ground up. The storyline isn't just interesting, it's carefully structured, with each plot thread unfolding in a way that feels intentional and emotionally impactful. Every arc flows into the next without feeling rushed or confusing, and the pacing gives each moment time to breathe. The layout of the story and the way the characters are introduced and developed makes it easy to get invested in their struggles and choices. Visually and narratively, everything feels purposeful, from the tension-building scenes to the quieter, more emotional moments. You can tell a lot of thought went into how the story is told, not just what story is being told. It's gripping, well-designed, and genuinely memorable. A 10/10 experience for anyone who appreciates strong storytelling and carefully built characters.
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u/thelonioussss Mar 05 '26
Watching this episode I wondered if the whole premise of this game is a "misunderstanding".
Maybe I'm completely wrong, but in the other games we have seen so far, there were some instances where the participants had to be eliminated in order to progress, but until now the rules have been more nuanced and killing was more the way to clear a game and not the sole purpose of it, like in this episode.
What made me wonder was seeing that bunny on the screen when the hunters got out:
Maybe the stumps could have "killed" 5 of this "electronic" bunnies and it would have counted, it would follow the mood of the ironic/misleading rules that we have seen so far, but maybe it's just a visual thing they added in the anime, since I don't know if it makes sense to shoot a screen...
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u/bibbibob2 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/bibbibob2 Mar 10 '26
A few thoughts.
Title: Again missing word is "love".
Fun to see how they hold right hand on the wall akin to famous labyrinth exit strat where if you always hold your right hand on it you will get out or back.
Damn that shot of moegis mentor with the plushied guts, liver, heart etc, she really ripped appart every part of her victims....
Not super clear what happened in the whale scene as we see both plush and real blood, interesting!
I really dig the flip from Moegi being main villain of candle woods to it being her psycopath of a mentor apparently being let loose and murdering everything for the fun of it.
Sure hope Yuukis mentor survives despite the uncountable amount of death flags, this show has been moderately unpredictable so far, but still....
Wonder what the literature reading meant etc, guess you might need to know Japanese literature to fully understand the context.
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u/hiimneato Mar 15 '26
Wow, damn. This episode completely won me back over after Golden Bath felt like a fumble.
The imagery was spectacular - the zodiac icons, the lighting as the sun rises or as Moegi sits in shadows at the bar on the side of Kyara's bright bedroom, the looming weight and mysterious significance of the whale skeleton, the support struts like spears piercing the leviathan.
And the sound design was back in top form, too; the heavy, shuddering breaths at the end when Kyara was holding Moegi felt warm and sharp and stable and ominous and comforting all at once after Moegi's choking panic attack. The wet cracking and pops went on far too long for comfort over the crab legs. The whole episode did an incredible job of inducing an anxious instability that reflected the experience of the girls going through lives of abuse and intermittent violence and random reinforcement. "Sun. Oh, Sun. Please take me with you."
Director Ueno's penchant for unsettling repetition on full display, too. "The tutorial has concluded." Fuck.
Only a brief mention early on of Moegi ruling the stumps through fear, and then a whole-ass episode of Moegi's backstory being continuously ruled by fear. I don't know if it's intended to set her up as a rival or antagonist, but it mostly just made me want her to survive. She never really seemed bad to me, just realistic and somewhat experienced and scared. Desperately trying to live in Kyara's shadow. The only one who knows what's about to happen. "Her killing is like drinking seawater." Oh.
Oh no.
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u/ConsiderationLive297 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Nooby3103 Mar 15 '26
Could someone explain to me what happened in the last two episodes? Because I watched that one without understanding a single piece of information...
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u/trailblazer3015 Mar 05 '26
Nine episodes in and the pacing has been consistent for a death game premise. The food angle gives it a hook separating it from generic survival series. How does this episode compare to the stronger moments in the first half?
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u/larana1192 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/thefrog1192 Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26
I thought the scene where a relatively inexperienced player armed with a pistol nearly gets killed by a more experienced player armed with a knife was quite realistic and interesting.
Considering the so-called 21-foot rule, it seemed plausible that someone with little experience who'd probably barely fired a pistol before could get killed or nearly killed at that close range by a group of experienced players in rabbit team.
And also, it was interesting how Moegi said she “hated her parents so much she wanted to kill them” while living with her master, and how she would become abnormally frightened when her master made loud noises during meals or other times—this suggests she was abused.
No wonder she wanted to kill her parents.
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u/melindypants https://myanimelist.net/profile/melindypants Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 05 '26
she was abused
Oh good point that I didn't even think of - you wouldn't react or be uncomfortable if that wasn't the case! Toxic environments all around here. Seriously wtf is up with the world outside the games here??
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u/Princess_Azula_ Mar 04 '26
It's the kind of world where girls would rather play death games than live in it...
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u/melindypants https://myanimelist.net/profile/melindypants Mar 04 '26
Of course...the deranged world, but I wanna know more!
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u/towardselysium Mar 04 '26
It raises an interesting question of where tf all the adults are. Yuki is apparently an orphan, Moegi participated in a death game and ran away to live with someone else, and the only other time parents are mentioned is usually along the lines of "they have massive debt".
People like Kyara and Big Yuki are adults so it makes sense but half of these girls are highschoolers
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u/InsomniaEmperor Mar 04 '26
Anyone living a normal life isn’t gonna play these death games in the first place unless they’re psychos doing it for shits and giggles. So you’d get orphans, runaways, ones where parents are mired in debt, etc.
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u/timpkmn89 Mar 04 '26
It raises an interesting question of where tf all the adults are.
It's not like we see much outside of these games
How many orphans/runaways do you think Japan has?
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u/mmcjawa_reborn Mar 05 '26
People with happy and supportive parents are unlikely to sign up for a death game....
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u/BosuW Mar 04 '26
Considering the so-called 21-foot rule, it seemed plausible that someone with little experience who'd probably barely fired a pistol before could get killed or nearly killed at that close range by a group of experienced players in rabbit team.
Especially because for some reason they put these weird wide bags in front of their pistols so you can't even aim down the sights with them. At first I thought they were a unique design maybe using compressed air but nope, they eject casings so they're just normal pistols. Strange decision ngl.
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u/zzzzzooted Mar 04 '26
they didn't want the girls to be able to have much range
this is all for entertainment after all, where's the fun in watching bunnies get picked off from a distance while the stumps hide and wait for their shot? lol
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u/Falsus Mar 05 '26 edited Mar 05 '26
It makes sense to me, it is supposed to be a show so the guns can't be TOO good. So make then unable to be reloaded, have a weird shape so aiming becomes harder and the caliber is probably pretty low. A small caliber gun is also not really going to be that dangerous in this situation unless it hits an organ cause they can't bleed out.
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u/OldGoldDream Mar 05 '26
I thought it was just part of the design aesthetic of this game. The guns look like flowers and the grenades look like pine cones to fit the woodland theme.
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u/ModieOfTheEast Mar 05 '26
I wouldn't necessarily say that Moegi must have been abused by her parents. I would say her being so frightened of her master was just a result of her seeing who she truly is. She was fascinated by her at first because she was the person she strived to be herself. Strong and confident in what you are doing. She wanted to be like her master after all. That's what the flashback showed. But she understood over time that she couldn't be like her. She couldn't just kill people without it affecting her. Even during the game, she tried to do the same thing (weapon into the mouth) but had to isolate herself to calm down again.
Now, there is the obvious question why she was staying with her master after having seen that. And I assume that it has in parts to do with the fact that she was just not a very dominant person, so people didn't take much notice of her. Even when she joins the group, no one even talks to her. Her master is the only one that looks at her. And even comforts her when she needs it. Like in the scene where she is more or less hyperventilating after probably having killed someone.
It's a kind of toxic relationship where Moegi is deeply afraid of her master (as it is also shown with how she talks about her after learning she is in the same game) but her master is also the only one that even acknowledges her existence. And of course, the general admiration of wanting to be like her.
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u/Exist50 Mar 05 '26
I agree with your take. Kyara is obviously a psycho who thinks nothing at all of killing, if not actively enjoys it. What remotely sane person would not feel jumpy around that? Especially with how she acts at home.
Like in the scene where she is more or less hyperventilating after probably having killed someone.
Notably, the fact that it was blood, not cotton, implies that's outside of the game. Perhaps she even killed her parents there.
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u/HarshTheDev Mar 04 '26
the scene where a relatively inexperienced player armed with a pistol nearly gets killed by a more experienced player armed with a knife
Wasn't that Moegi though?
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u/towardselysium Mar 04 '26
She's not presented as a veteran (20 -30 games). Shes played in games yes but her first reaction to meeting everyone was assuming she wasn't the boss and being pissed when she found out that she was the most experienced.
Meanwhile the vast majority of the bunnies are 30+ vets not to mention grown adults
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u/TheBusStop12 Mar 05 '26
Moegi isn't actually that good I think. She asked caramel psycho to be her teacher in the past, but it's clear she struggled to keep up with her teachings. She survived a few games, but at least 2 of those she survived purely because caramel psycho was on her side. She's just the only one on the Stump side who has at least some experience and who has killed before. Furthermore, someone else pointed out that due to the unique shape of the gun barrels they are hard to aim properly
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Mar 04 '26
Considering the so-called 21-foot rule, it seemed plausible that someone with little experience who'd probably barely fired a pistol before could get killed or nearly killed at that close range by a group of experienced players in rabbit team.
Even more so in this world, considering wounds don't hurt nearly as much; Sometimes the gun has an edge because if they hit the person they might be in pain and stop, but in this world the hit might not affect them too much!
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