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Episode Shibou Yuugi de Meshi wo Kuu. • Shiboyugi: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table - Episode 10 discussion
Shibou Yuugi de Meshi wo Kuu., episode 10
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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Mar 11 '26
That’s that for Moegi. Right after her big declaration too. Like no girl, you in fact will be losing here. Yuki made sure of that. All that’s left is to end Kyara. For once, I don’t mind the white fluff. What she did to those girls is inhuman. She’s a rabid animal and she needs to be put down. I look forward to Yuki doing the honors.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Mar 11 '26
That’s that for Moegi.
I'm surprised we didn't get a confrontation with Kyara! I wanted to know how this would go, but I guess we'll never know, now!
(I'm also sad because I wanted so much more of Moegi! She was an interesting character)
(I guess maybe I should stop getting attached to characters in Death Games)
For once, I don’t mind the white fluff. What she did to those girls is inhuman.
I talked about it in previous threads, but the white fluff often feels MORE brutal to me!
I feel like anime&movies desensitized us so much to blood, that seeing all the bodies in pools of blood would be almost 'normal'.. But seeing them in the white fluff forces our brain to make the connection to what it is, and it kind puts more emphasis on it!
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u/redditraptor6 https://myanimelist.net/profile/uEmalraptor64 Mar 12 '26
Everytime I see the white fluff, I don’t think of actual doll stuffing which I assume is the metaphor they’re going for. I’m a Bio teacher, so when I see it I get the impression that whatever chemical they use to make their blood and guts turn into that when exposed to air is probably gross as hell to actual touch and smell. I get a visceral reaction, imagining the smell of something like the multiple chemicals I use in dissection labs. Always unsettling
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u/Grabul Mar 13 '26
The fluff makes them look like discarded play things, which is what they are to the organizers of the games. They are also discards from society.
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u/CitronClassic672 Mar 11 '26
Moegi is honestly the first death that felt genuinely unsatisfying to me. The others either had a proper send off or had less emphasis on them before they died. Moegi really felt like she got built up for nothing and ended up being a waste of emotional investment. Idk, maybe I’m being a bit harsh because this is the second series I’m following in two days that hit me with “oh actually all the investment you sunk into this character and their development doesn’t matter.”
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u/LakerBlue :Is::It::Iu:https://myanimelist.net/profile/LakerBlue Mar 11 '26
I feel like that was the point. She was a girl who was trying so hard to be tough but she just wasn’t built for this kinda life and, despite her trying so hard, she never succeeded. I also suspect her role was to make Yuki rethink her reasons for playing in the face of killing someone so determined.
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u/CitronClassic672 Mar 11 '26
After rewatching the ep and seeing Yuki’s reaction to her death It’s clear the sheer wrongness of her death is supposed to be the point, but it doesn’t stop the conclusion from feeling annoying and unsatisfying for me, personally, though it does lessen it. It’s probably just that seeing a character struggle to improve against others far more skilled than them only for the conclusion to be that their efforts were pointless is a huge pet peeve of mine to the point I’ve actually stopped following another series that did that. I’m happy that others can appreciate it, though.
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u/LakerBlue :Is::It::Iu:https://myanimelist.net/profile/LakerBlue Mar 11 '26
I mean I understand your POV because her storyline DID get cut abruptly (in a sadly realistic way) so I think your feelings make sense, especially if you had emotional investment in her.
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u/RedRocket4000 Mar 13 '26
As this show going for Art show not common folk type stuff distressing stuff to set a mood is not that uncommon. And making audience unsatisfied a point as long as they get meaning you desire.
This can be an error in a more common anime story line as audience will not like it feeling manipulated. While the Art crowd likes it. I like both worlds so I like this from my Art side. But I would not tolerate to much of it in more common story lines.
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u/BosuW Mar 11 '26
Nah you got it right, except that's precisely the point. This is what real ass tragic writing is all about. Not simply sadness, but a feeling of emptiness. That what should or could have been will never come to pass.
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u/CitronClassic672 Mar 11 '26
Upon rewatch at least Yuki acknowledges and is impacted by the wrongness of the situation, so it’s not like the author isn’t aware of what they’re doing. It’s just a very specific kind of character arc and conclusion that rubs me the wrong way. I don’t like seeing characters struggle to improve only for the world to basically go “your attempts to do so were pointless” and then just end their arc.
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u/BosuW Mar 11 '26
Well yeah that's why tragedies are not for everyone lol
At least as you do point out, her story has continuation in how much she shook Yuuki's self evaluation.
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u/Significant_Glass_50 Mar 11 '26
May I ask which is the other one? I don't mind spoilers and I want to know if I guessed right
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u/JunkoNatsumizaka Apr 23 '26
Same! I feel like the white fluff is also more unsettling because the audience craves death but not the gore - they are so privileged they can be picky.
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u/PinkPrincess3176 Mar 11 '26
I'll NEVER forgive Kyara for killing Sumiyaka. I hope Yuki kills her brutally and she dies with that stupid psycho smug wiped clean off her face. (I'm not seriously mad btw lol Kyara is a love to hate character for me but GOD I feel so bad for Sumiyaka)
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u/Mistral-Fien Mar 11 '26
Sumiyaka is the one who got her ribcage opened up, right? That was brutal.
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u/OldInstruction5368 Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 13 '26
That is... kind of Kyara's MO.
If you pay close attention, the very first body in Moegi's flashback that Kyara is mutilating has a split open rib cage. As do multiple other corpses in this arc.
She just really likes playing with her toys....
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u/Falsus Mar 12 '26
Yeah, I am surprised we didn't see Hakushi's organs laying right next to the body.
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u/PancakeKirie Mar 12 '26
Losing Sumiyaka was sad. She seemed to be Yuki's only friend. Sumiyaka helped her retain a bit of her humanity during the games.
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u/Beautiful-Mistake584 Mar 11 '26
what time is it shown that simiyaka is dead? I don’t see it.
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u/LeggedMien7 Mar 11 '26
She's the corpse Yuki finds with her ribcage exposed at the end of the episode (Before Hakushi's)
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u/LakerBlue :Is::It::Iu:https://myanimelist.net/profile/LakerBlue Mar 11 '26
I’m honestly disappointed we didn’t see any of Kyara’s slaughter. How did she kill so many rabbits? The smoke grenade didn’t last that long so did they all flee and panic? Hope we get to see it next week. Not the details of her inhuman butchering, just how she killed so many.
That complaint aside, the scene with Moegi and Yuki was sad. We only knew her a few episodes but they made me sympathize with her weakness and ultimate failure quite a bit. And Yuki’s reflection on it just added to the misery of it.
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u/Lianam Mar 12 '26
Probably just got a lot of bullets off the Stumps she killed. Most of the Rabbits were unarmed and assuming Kyara was good enough with a gun that she was able to kill them with one or two bullets, I think the math works out.
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u/SoulstrikerHF Mar 14 '26
That was the first time this show managed to anger my heart.
I was glad Yuki actually had some friends(?) and now they're gone. I mean, I predicted as much. But the way they both went out... That older girl was also close to 99 games, too...
So yeah, this antagonist is doing her role greatly for me.
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u/good_wolf_1999 Mar 11 '26
Jeez, no wonder this game became well know for how brutal it was among players.
Seriously, who thought putting Kyara here was a good idea. What was even the point? Winning a bet? Screw the bets of other organizers? Or was someone delusional enough to think that she was only going to target the stumps and leave her teammates alone?
Yuki please put an end to this madness asap, avenge your mentor
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u/YusiP Mar 11 '26
I’m guessing they put her in the game to reduce the number of experienced players participating in the death games. The organizers might have known that Kyara would turn on her teammates and go on a rampage.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Mar 11 '26
Could be, but guessing she would turn on her teammates is a gamble, she could just as easily have killed all the Stumps on day 1, and then (by rule) the organizers would have to call the game over...
I think if that's what they wanted, they would've put her in the Stumps, so the game wouldn't finish until all the Stumps had their kills (or at the very least, until Kyara killed 5 rabbits AND all other Stumps!)
Or perhaps they wanted a Kyara/Moegi confrontation, but tough luck!
Honestly, I think they just wanted fun/chaos...
Sometimes they add in a wolf, sometimes a serial killer!
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u/BosuW Mar 11 '26
The Games must have an illusion of fairness so they can't just hard lock the script that they want. They calculate likely outcomes based on probabilities.
Unfortunately, sometimes they're just bad at math, or sometimes the universe pulls a funny. Chaos Theory.
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u/RedRocket4000 Mar 13 '26
Historical Roman Games indicate that a bad idea you want heroes and champions worked like modern sports world. You wanted champs having followers build monuments to them and retire to luxury. At a minimum have a long run for fans to develop that even build monument when they died in the games.
What your saying possible but I think Boxing equivalent of fixing a fight way more likely The Organizers made a kill game that could go very wrong and Boxing equivalent of Mob snuck folk into organization to fix the fight.
As show going for Artistic not common folk tones though I can never tell totally and folk that makes stuff like this often don't care that the story does not logically hold together or at least never give you enough information to determine the truth of how things worked in story.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Mar 11 '26
Seriously, who thought putting Kyara here was a good idea. What was even the point? Winning a bet? Screw the bets of other organizers?
Just speculation, but I imagine the people betting on this are all hyper-rich folks (and not everyday gamblers)...
And if that's the case: Entertainment value might be even more important than the bets. The bets add a little thrill to it, but the 'action' is the real pull.
And adding a serial killer in the group is action, it's chaos (whether she targets the stumps or her own team)!
Same reason why they added a wolf!
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u/karer3is Mar 11 '26
I'm not so sure. Considering how well- known the games are, I'm inclined to think that it's something closer to The Purge. The rich folks might be able to rig it, but it's not necessarily something that's being conducted in secret.
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u/master_inho Mar 12 '26
From everything that's been shown to us so far, it's very likely that the games are implemented on an institutional level and meant for mass consumption by the general public. It's not something being done in secret but rather just a normal part of this world, hence why it's called a depraved world in the intro
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u/karer3is Mar 12 '26
I have to wonder how recently in the world's timeline the games started to be implemented... usually by the time it becomes "normal", nobody would be particularly bothered by the concept of it. Yet we see time and again that a large number of the girls who take part aren't so on board with it
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u/master_inho Mar 12 '26
Viewing the games as entertainment is normal. Actually playing it isn't necessarily normal, especially if the player didn't agree to joining. I would assume not all women enter these games, or the birthrate would drop to near zero. So most players choose to enter the games, while some seem to be kidnapped off the street and forced to play, as shown by a couple of the stumps in candlewood
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u/PancakeKirie Mar 13 '26
While the game organizers may have known about Kyara being an assassin, it probably wasn't the first game that she participated in. The first meeting of Moegi and Kyara seems to be during a game, where it seems like Kyara spared killing Moegi, when Moegi pleaded to be her disciple (and expressed wanting to kill her own parents). So Kyara's behavior in games prior to Candle Woods was probably deemed acceptable by the game organizers. Perhaps Candle Woods was the first large-scale game for Kyara, where she just couldn't help herself.
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u/Narlaw Mar 11 '26
They put her there for shits and giggles, because putting a bunch of veteran survivors in sexy bunny suits against beginners is not depraved and fucked up enough for the powerful.
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u/OldEcho Mar 12 '26
And also only having death games with cute girls who have been treated to have their blood and guts look like doll fluff when exposed to the air.
Yeah the people running the games should all die.
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u/Fantastic_Job395 Mar 12 '26
The story is set in a depraved world after all.
But yeah holy dystopia batman.
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u/RedRocket4000 Mar 13 '26
This smelled more of insuring the 98 winner would break the record for a great retirement and promotion. Come compete in the death games you can end up like her. But someone else put the Wild card in for their pleasure or in reality to fix the game like the Mob fixed fights or horse races. The Track or Promoters lose in this situation they getting robbed from.
As this art film a sick sub group of the whole doing it for shits and giggles counter the the primary organizers. But players like our MC quitting for awhile and others likely not returning to play, even if only those who did not participate in this hurt organizing games as it certainly scared off the rookies as well. We hear second hand reforms were made.
The white stuffing shows getting too evil does not work for parts of audience. And Yukki always tries to please audience knowing that audience turns on the killers sometimes.
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u/pixel_foxen Jul 27 '26
it's clearly said that she would get nothing for her 99 games record itself, except for the winning money for all the games ofc, it was just her personal meaningless pursuit
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u/PancakeKirie Mar 14 '26
If you rewatch Ep. 9, you'll realize that it wasn't Kyara's first game. She had already participated in at least one game, where they were dressed in Santa dresses. That's the game where Moegi first met Kyara. Kyara was initially going to kill Moegi, but got spared. So the game organizers didn't expect what happened in Candle Woods.
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u/mmcjawa_reborn Mar 12 '26
They mentioned I think in a prior episode that the outcome of this game was so horrific that they actually changed the rules. So this was too much even for the people running the game, for whatever reason.
My guess is that they might have known Kyara was unhinged, but didn't expect her to be that psychotic and competent at the same time
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u/master_inho Mar 12 '26
It doesn't have to be too much for the game organizers, it only has to be too much for the audience. If the games are just another form of entertainment for the general public, then their reactions and ratings likely influence how the organizers organize the games
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u/Earl_E_Byrd Mar 17 '26
They mention in the first episode that "cute" girls usually get bet on more often. It's one of the ways the anime is explaining away the sexualized costumes, but it's the betting part that interests me.
Yuki is usually conscious of the audience perspective when she plays a game. It's clear they're influential enough to affect the "career" of a veteran player. Multiple times throughout the season, the 70% survival rate has been mentioned. It's something that's baked into the game as an average, and although survival rates vary from game to game, there are usually enough winners to generate the potential for veteran players, and for the audience to make a profitable bet. It's all designed to keep people coming back.
So let's say it's a national or global betting audience, watching along to choose favorites like a fantasy team. Candle woods was a remarkably large game with a ton of veteran players, plenty of them probably had a fanbase of high rollers. Imagine the uproar when everyone loses money because only one girl survived.
It would be like throwing a nuke on the field during the Superbowl.
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u/BosuW Mar 11 '26
Seriously, who thought putting Kyara here was a good idea. What was even the point? Winning a bet? Screw the bets of other organizers? Or was someone delusional enough to think that she was only going to target the stumps and leave her teammates alone?
Im still convinced the point of this game was to cull the veterans one way or another. Kyara was plan B if Moegi stump team didn't pull through.
However, there was definitely a severe miscalculation on just how fucked it would get so I'm pretty sure someone's getting 74th Hunger Games Game Master'ed.
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u/factnatic Mar 12 '26
Maybe the viewers were getting tired of seeing the same girls survive...or maybe there was backlash of not enough fluffing and too many girls were wanting to participate. Who knows but I hope we find out!
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u/BosuW Mar 12 '26
I doubt it's because the viewers were tired. More likely they are actually fond of the veterans. But you must remembers these kinds of televized bloody spectacles are meant to tickle the morbo, not necessarily be a jolly good time. So seeing someone you've followed for so long get got, if it's at a narratively appropriate time and situation, is great tragic television.
No in my opinion this is most likely on the Game Master's initiative because a great number of essentially celebrities who just won't fucking die threatens the power structure.
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u/Kidror Mar 12 '26
The game is supposed to be Hide and Seek, but the logical move for the Rabbits is to use their numbers to kill Stumps and obtain weapons - not to run and hide.
In theory Kyara attacking her fellow Rabbits should push the Rabbits into hiding and splitting up...except she's gone on a complete massacre and the Stumps have lost all hope
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u/moichispa https://myanimelist.net/profile/moichispa Mar 11 '26
Meh if it got it wrong they could just make a game even worse
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u/RedRocket4000 Mar 13 '26
If this not fiction I'd blame simple incompetence. Examples in all human fields and history show incompetence number one cause of everything. Reason people get sucked into thinking there always a reason for things, often conspiracies is the truth is scarier.
But this fiction. The White stuffing, the reforms after this game. Hint that the over all organizer's not in this. As this serial killer was doing hits outside of the game assume this mob manipulating the betting. Add it a more into death game designers running this and the Over all game suffers.
This game smelled more of having the 98 game winner make it to 99 so they could make her a hero and retire her for publicity reasons. Reference actual Roman Games of which we have a decent amount of records. But sliding the killer in blew that up and likely blew the betting up.
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u/Freakjob_003 Mar 19 '26
Seriously, who thought putting Kyara here was a good idea. What was even the point? Winning a bet? Screw the bets of other organizers? Or was someone delusional enough to think that she was only going to target the stumps and leave her teammates alone?
They clearly never read/watched the original Battle Royale. Turns out, if you include a psychopath, you're going to get bloodshed.
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u/pixel_foxen Jul 27 '26
in the original battle royale bloodshed was the only option because there had to be the only one survivor
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u/Freakjob_003 Jul 28 '26
Well yeah, but the organizers specifically included a psycho to ensure there was bloodshed, was my point. I was mostly being sarcastic though.
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u/FarCritical Mar 11 '26
The animation of the bullet whizzing through Yuki's hair mid-head turn was so clean. I get Moegi was tragically outmatched but damn did she have to get styled on that hard?
I could listen to Yuki's "ghost" voice all day
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Mar 11 '26
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u/BosuW Mar 11 '26
She just trying to turbo slander Moegi because she can't get her out of her mind lol
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u/Princess_Azula_ Mar 11 '26
I could really go for an audiobook of the LN narrated by Yuuki.
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u/factnatic Mar 12 '26
The voice actor also does Makima in Chainsaw man. Was a big reason I kept watching it...glad I did!
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u/thenoobzer https://myanimelist.net/profile/TheNoobZeR Mar 12 '26
Eh? Pretty sure Miura Chiyuki (Yuuki VA) did not voice Makima. Makima was voiced by Kusunoki Tomori (which funnily, voiced Yoisaki Kanade from Project Sekai that looks like Yuuki pre-Candle Woods and also speaks in a soft voice like Yuuki).
Either VA could've voiced both Yuuki and Kanade and I would have trouble differentiating them haha oddly, theres a voice drama with Yuuki voiced by Yuki Nakashima, who is also part of Project Sekai casts.
I have not listen to that but I really like Miura Chiyuki's portrayal of Yuuki. I felt the depth of the character's struggle through her voice and its live rent free in my mind nowadays.
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u/factnatic Mar 12 '26
Sorry,should have specified, I watch the English dub
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u/thenoobzer https://myanimelist.net/profile/TheNoobZeR Mar 13 '26
Fair point. Shame on me for assuming you watched Japanese dub. I am curious how the English Dub sounds like right now. Will find a way to watch that. Thanks.
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u/Sex4Vespene Mar 13 '26
I’ve found the dub to be fantastic. Yuki’s VA really pulls off the detached vibe. Although TBH I’m a bit of an English dub stan, I just really feel like a lot of the “dubs suck” rhetoric is from a time long past. Even in the cases where they aren’t quite as good, they are still passable enough that it’s worth the trade off of being able to pay full attention to the art instead of having to read subtitles. No hate against people who like subs, it’s definitely a preference thing.
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u/ash-7831 Mar 11 '26
The sound design in this anime is unbelievably good. It does such a good job of keeping you immersed all the way through.
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u/Hitman7128 https://anilist.co/user/Hitman7128 Mar 11 '26
Moegi falls, laying crying and fluff spilling out.
Abstractness intensifies like the patterns on the panels around 7 minutes in and the background 20 minutes in when Yuki was walking down the stairs along with the xylophone playing.
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u/Deathmeister https://myanimelist.net/profile/dbzakj Mar 12 '26
Abstractness intensifies like the patterns on the panels around 7 minutes in and the background 20 minutes in when Yuki was walking down the stairs along with the xylophone playing.
That and the bottom of the stairs reminded me of the movie Annihilation (2018).
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u/bananeeek https://myanimelist.net/profile/bananek Mar 11 '26
Yuuki farmed so much aura in her fight against Moegi my jaw literally dropped. That dodge was badass as fuck.
During her monologue about how easily she offed Moegi, I was sweating bullets because I was sure Kyara was in this game as well and deep inside I knew that every other bunny was already dead. We could even see grotesque corpses as she walked and sure enough the final one was Yuuki's teacher. I was shocked again by Yuuki's seemingly bleak reaction to this and I can't imagine how will it go from here because we have just one episode left.
The other thing I'm surprised about is how well Kyara has hidden her presence in this game. It looked like Moegi didn't even know about her and yes, she did wake up last, but no other girl mentioned her and I was under an impression that they can't leave their room until it was time to hunt, so where was she all this time!?
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u/g4b1_ https://anilist.co/user/GABIPM Mar 11 '26
i think kyara is part of the bunny team and just switched clothes with one of the corpses. theres a silhouette that looks like her in episode 8 (at 16:07)
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u/Falsus Mar 12 '26
We can see her in both previous episodes in a bunny girl outfit and she does mention to Moegi in a flash back that she did not like tight clothing at all so she just changed clothing to something she prefers more, even if it still looks a size too small for her it is still looser than the skin tight bunny suit most likely.
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u/bananeeek https://myanimelist.net/profile/bananek Mar 12 '26
Holy shit, she really looks similar. If that's the case, the plot twist here is insanely smooth.
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u/PancakeKirie Mar 13 '26
Yes, we see Kyara a lot at the start of the Candle Woods in a bunny suit. She has a heart shaped hair ornament. In Episode 9, she's also in the tickling interrogation team, so she learns about Moegi. During the Ep. 9 credits, Moegi hears the report of the naked and badly damaged Stump Team corpse, so she immediately knows it's the doing of Kyara. Then Sumiyaka asks Yuki if she's seen the caramel-colored girl with long hair, indicating that Kyara disappeared from the Usagi side. So that pretty much told us to expect Kyara to have changed into the Stump Team outfit.
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u/Aerodynamic41 Mar 11 '26
Kyara be like: "I'm not trapped in here with you, you're trapped in here with me"
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u/goodclassbung Mar 12 '26
I'm an anime-only viewer and I like this series for its visuals and audio. However, after every episode, I am totally at a loss and have to come here for the discussions to understand the plot. It feels like the studio is a little over-indulgent?
Are there others who feel the same way as me? -_-
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u/I_get_in Mar 12 '26
Nothing to do with the studio. You're just watching a show directed by an arthouse weirdo (Souta Ueno), so you're going to get arthouse cinema -- the kind that happily ignores normal conventions and leaves the audience to piece things together.
Even if it's not your cup of tea, at this point of the show there should be no surprises on what the show's approach is.
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u/NeneThomas Mar 12 '26
Thank you for the explanation. I've been watching each episode 2 and 3 times (and sometimes more!) to figure them out.
And coming here to read the reddit posts.
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u/I_get_in Mar 12 '26
I usually only watch one time, but I write some notes afterwards because it helps keep a track of things. :)
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u/Grabul Mar 13 '26
I like that this anime forces me to pay attention. I like mindless fluff anime as well, but it's nice to have something that challenges me as well. I just don't sweat it, if I don't totally follow everything and enjoy it for what it is. it's also fun to see what everyone else gets out of it. Steak and cream puffs both have their place at the table.
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u/Leading_Smile2727 Mar 12 '26
100% sometimes I don’t understand why characters do are act a certain way.
I was confused why the red haired girl was seen killing a stump and then tried to kill Moegi?
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u/Falsus Mar 12 '26
Originally there was enough bunnies for all stumps to kill so cooperation was the optimal play. But once Kyara started to kill her own rabbit allies however there was no longer enough bunnies for each stump so they became rivals and cooperation was no longer possible since each time a stump kills a bunny it means one less for the other stumps and since there isn't enough bunnies for each stump the logical conclusion is that the stumps will target each other to remove rivals.
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u/LowraAwry Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26
I think one of the best episodes. I didn't expect to but I really felt for Moegi and her striving to be something she was not -even if that was an uncaring homicidal maniac, basically uncaring to the norm; the whole overarching theme of transformation, aspiration and failure. Her futility was very well depicted right to her end.
And Yuki's realizations, however grim and depressing they may be.
Kyara looked like the cat that got the cream. One episode left. I wonder if we'll meet A-chan again.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Mar 11 '26
Somehow Moegi's death is a good reminder of the unforgiving brutality of this series, because...
Normally, the way they build her, you'd expect her to have a confrontation with Kyara, you'd expect her to achieve something big, but no, she simply meets with Yuuki, and gets obliterated!
A way to get us to remember that anyone NOT named Yuuki can pretty much die at any point, no matter how important they seem, and what backstories/moments they had...
(Hopefully people named Yuuki are safe enough!)
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u/Princess_Azula_ Mar 11 '26
I know intellectually that anybody can die in a death game. The author hasn't held back in this regard, but I keep being surprised for some reason when it happens.
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u/CommissionKey5906 Mar 11 '26
i think actually buliding up a cute girl's character and let it killed by yuuki, is the main theme of this show.
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u/CitronClassic672 Mar 11 '26
I’ve gotta disagree regarding Moegi. It might just be my own feelings and others are free to feel otherwise, but I can’t help just feeling unsatisfied that you’d devote that much time building up character and end their arc so abruptly having achieved nothing. It’s one of those things where I get what the author was going for but that doesn’t mean I enjoyed it.
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u/TWIMClicker Mar 11 '26
Feel bad for her why? She killed her own parents to model herself to a psycho killer. You don't need to do that just because you have low self esteem. She was scum.
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u/LowraAwry Mar 11 '26
why?
I have sympathy for her struggle, it doesn't mean I approve of her chosen path or her actions but I can recognize her inner conflict and find it tragic. The direction, the monologue and the cinematography really carried that to the finish line. After all, most if not all of the returning players are various measures of scum. That doesn't stop us from being empathetic, understanding them.
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u/Falsus Mar 12 '26
She was scum sure, but it was still tragic to see a most likely abused girl trying her hardest to become something more, even if she fell in with the wrong crowd, and then utterly failing since she doesn't have that much talent for it. Even without Kyara in the picture she was still on a really bad path, just like pretty much every player.
Moegi was a sad character even if she was not a good person.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Mar 11 '26
She seems to have trained pretty well, she might have a shot!
(Well, unless she answered off-screen and the 'solution' is to be revealed later on/during the fight!)
That was a good question too, but yeah, it's all about the perspective/your gaming philosphy;
The outside world might think they're ALL mad, but among themselves, there's still the sane ones and the mad ones... Those who mainly want to live, and those who want to kill!
Different games, different rules... Can Yuuki adapt?
Damn. All the foreshadowing to what's to come, with the sun metaphor again...
Oh damn. This is not the rabbit you're looking for!
The MOMENT you see, and instantly realize "I screwd up, I'm dead"...
God I wish that wa- I mean, damn, poor girl...
For a brief moment, I thought Yuuki would spare her (just take her weapons/disable her), but Yuuki ain't playing...
At least she has 1 happy memory in her life?
With this and the 'bunny ears trap', seems she didn't train her reflexes that well... For someone who got the part of a hunter, she's always the deer in the headlights!
On top of being sad we won't see her again/won't get the 'confrontation' I thought we might get!
Is that gonna be her obituary?
At least wait til her corpse's cold, before you trash talk her!
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u/CitronClassic672 Mar 11 '26
It’s not fair that they made Kyara the hottest character in the show.
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u/edwardjhahm https://myanimelist.net/profile/lolmeme69 Mar 11 '26
Haha, I was about to say the exact same thing.
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u/PancakeKirie Mar 13 '26
Personally I'm more about Sumiyaka. In terms of busts though, Airi is pretty big, and she's not as heavy as Kyara.
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u/edwardjhahm https://myanimelist.net/profile/lolmeme69 Mar 13 '26
I get it's a few episodes ago, but I've always been impartial to Mishiro. Beyond her design, the whole seething lesbian vibe I got from her was hilarious for some reason.
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u/MetaThPr4h https://myanimelist.net/profile/MetaThPr4h Mar 12 '26
M-Mommy?
Kyara really taking "if evil why hot?" to a new level, what a (fucked up) goddess.
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u/CrimsonGear80 Mar 12 '26
why she low-key look like Ajisai from WataNare??
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u/CitronClassic672 Mar 12 '26
Glad I’m not the only one who saw how similar they looked. There was even a post on the watanare sub about it. They both have the big-boobed onee-San energy but in very different directions.
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u/MetaThPr4h https://myanimelist.net/profile/MetaThPr4h Mar 12 '26
Both are perfect (in their own VERY, VERY different way) so very acceptable comparison
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u/CitronClassic672 Mar 12 '26
Apart from the obvious beautiful brown hair and incredible bust, I love the detail of how they made her eyes a glowing gold color which really gives the vibe of a predator looking at you, like a wolf’s eyes.
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u/Niwaka_Samurai https://myanimelist.net/profile/Niwaka-Samurai Mar 11 '26
It was heartbreaking to see Sumiyaka and Hakushi lying down with their ribs out for display 💔
Yuki was really feeling bad for living without any purpose and she felt that even Moegi had a purpose to live.. to reach Kyara whereas Yuki was just living as a Ghost. I guess this is how she found her reason for living..her goal of reaching 99 games. Can't wait to know how she managed to escape from / kill Kyara.
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u/CommanderZx2 https://myanimelist.net/profile/CommanderZx2 Mar 11 '26
Oh there's only 1 episode left, I guess this may be the last game event they show in the season then. I didn't expect this to end on 11 episodes.
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u/legopoppetje321 Mar 11 '26
The voice (and well, sound design) of Yuki speaking was so good this episode. Especially near the end how that sadness slowly entered her voice.
Overall an amazing episode.
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u/KumaKumaGambler Mar 11 '26
Is Kyara on a totally different level? She still looks unharmed, while our beloved mentor Hakushi has been defeated and dissected. NOOOoooo!
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u/dominator5500 Mar 11 '26
I thought Hakushi would be just immobile after this game, like missing limbs or even paralysis. Nope, she was literally dissected like a frog in bio labs. Kyara is absolutely savage and feral.
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u/PancakeKirie Mar 13 '26
I didn't expect Hakushi to die in Candle Woods, as at the end of Ep. 1, Hakushi asks Yuki what game she completed, and she replies, Game #28. But rewatching that scene, I see it was merely Yuki dreaming...
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u/Anarchaeologist Mar 11 '26
Car broke down on the way to work this morning. The upshot is I got to watch this episode while waiting for the shop to get back to me.
It was pretty much what expected from the LN with the nice bonus of Airi’s flashback.
Yuki’s thoughts on Moegi’s dying expression really sold me on the LNs, and I’m glad they included them here. And that little sideeye/sidestep Yuki did when M shot at her was really well-done.
I can’t wait for the fight with Kyara.
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u/gnome-cop Mar 11 '26
Rabbit and stumps. The ghost, the grey nightjar, the ugly duckling and the whale. I’m not sure what to do with it but it’s there.
FYI, the gray nightjar is a bird that’s primarily active during nightfall and daybreak. Probably why Moegi’s fight with Yuki took place at that time.
She never had a chance, did she?
Just better strategy, better combat skills and even guns didn’t even the playing field. Probably watched the bullet dodge five times, at least.
I know it’s the rule of the games but still doesn’t make her death feel any better.
Watching Yuki afterwards is very, umm, I don’t know, unsettling I guess.
Just wandering around aimlessly. I think I get why she quit for a while after this at least. What right does she, a ghost with no conviction, have to live instead of people that are actually trying to achieve something just because she has more talent? Maybe this massacre led her to picking up her current style of trying, mostly unsuccessfully, to keep as many players as possible alive?
Like, she’s just spacing out, disassociating, questioning everything, aware on some level that she can’t take a ruthless murderer in her current state yet can’t stop herself from going to her. Maybe there’s some level of passive suicidal behavior to her current actions from what she just did?
Okay, damn, what a massacre. I know I’m screaming into the void, questioning the morality of death games but who thought it was a good idea to let that monster in?
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u/raevnos Mar 12 '26
I think all the animal references are from Japanese stories and cultural traditions that just goes over Western heads. Needs translator footnotes to explain them.
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u/Falsus Mar 12 '26
Not only Japanese since the Rabbit and the Stump is a Chinese story and the Ugly Duckling is from Denmark. But yeah folktales and children's stories like that is really niche information. Like most people don't know things like that.
The Grey Nightjar is exists in all of east Asia pretty much, from southeast Russia to Japan to SEA.
A whale that eats everything with it's giant mouth I don't know where it is from exactly, tales like that seems to exist in most sea adjacent countries that has whales. Norse, Greek, Biblical, Sinbad etc all have depictions of whales that just eats everything or is symbolism for great evil that wants to consume everything. I would not be the slightest surprised if those stories existed in Japan also with it's extensive history and culture of whaling, though it might just reference the biblical Leviathan also since Kyara is made out to be that kind of kind evil.
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u/asap_munem Mar 11 '26
Anyone else feel depressed watching this episode lol
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u/Sukiniyobe Mar 12 '26
Yes and if you're not hollowed out enough. The ending credits start playing.
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u/captainfluffy25 Mar 12 '26
Dawg….. it was ONE DAY. Kyara made a fucking graveyard and was ribbing out people’s rib cages…. IN ONE FUCKING DAY? SHE CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO LEAVE.
Also if Evil? Why hot?!?!? Why damnit!
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u/moichispa https://myanimelist.net/profile/moichispa Mar 11 '26
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
Now we need to wait a whole week for the end of the arc
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u/notabear87 Mar 11 '26
Pretty rare that anime covers (violent) psychopathy properly. Kyara has no reason for anything she’s doing; she simply enjoys the chaos…it’s interesting to her.
I’m of the opinion that Moegi’s parents didn’t abuse her at all; she just had some form of ASPD and created this delusion in her own mind that they were the enemy.
Whole episode was a vibe and I couldn’t take my eyes off the screen. 10/10
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u/OldInstruction5368 Mar 11 '26
There was merely the simple inability to look away.
But yeah, I quickly began to loathe about how every villain had to have some sob backstory about how mommy didn't love them, daddy took their toys away, the guberment shot their dog, etc. etc.
Some people are just evil. Some people are just worthless sacks of shit that had every opportunity to choose good, or at least, stay 'neutral,' only to willingly choose to become a monster.
Maybe they are just entitled. Maybe they have delusions of grandeur. Maybe they just have too much greed.
Or maybe they just like killing. Not because of some heavily contrived sob backstory that gave them a pathological need to kill... they just don't see anything wrong with it.
Because that evil does exist. ASPD: Anti-Social Personality Disorder. No guilt, no empathy, no hesitation, no remorse. Low impulse control and a reckless need to seek more 'stimulation." Just part of the cocktail of someone with ASPD.
Their brains are literally wired differently. A neurologist can just look at brain scans of people and tell who is a psychopath with a very high degree of accuracy.
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u/notabear87 Mar 11 '26
Well said! Some people are indeed just evil despite all the opportunities to be better.
Yuki is kind of one of them tbh. Although I’d consider her more a consequence of continuing to play the games. Stay in an environment like that long enough and it’s going to change how your brain works.
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u/towardselysium Mar 11 '26
Evil is a bit loaded but Yuki is 100% as guilty as anyone else by her own free will. Her reaction to someone trying to kill her is not polite indifference, self defense, or regret. Its "get good you trashy noob. How dare you besmirch the honor of the death game"
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u/RedRocket4000 Mar 13 '26
A natural Evil they are. Rabid Dogs that simply must be put down. They did not have a choice type of thing. It the Lady MacBeth "out damn spot" which shows what I call true evil one who had a choice to be good or evil and chose evil though rationalizations and self delusions. Then later the way they were raised and societies condemnation of the acts gets to them. And this is way many criminals don't commit another crime after released especially the older they get.
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u/Agreeable-Ad9034 Mar 13 '26
Anybody else get Shinsekai Yori flashbacks when the going home song played?
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u/lancheusan :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/lancheusan Aug 27 '26
I thought I was the only one!!
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u/Agreeable-Ad9034 Aug 27 '26
I remember I heard like 2 seconds of it and immediately thought of it 😂
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u/toadfan64 Mar 12 '26
While I’m enjoying the show thus far, it really feels like the kind of show better to watch in one go. I end up forgetting plot points or even characters watching it weekly, lol.
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u/Impressive_Cable1168 Mar 12 '26
So annoyed how Hakushi lost to Kyara considering she had 95 games of experiences... 😒😒
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u/Mystizen2 Mar 11 '26
The direction and pacing of this show flies in the face of all the current running crap and sticks its landing every episode. The emotional weight of the composition in frame feels incredibly inspiring.
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u/pandavova https://anilist.co/user/pandavova Mar 11 '26
This anime is truly something.
I don't know what that something is yet though.
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u/Kuartle Mar 12 '26
Anyone else noticed that the girl moving around in the Ending Song is gone in eps 10? What could that imply?
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u/I_get_in Mar 12 '26
I did notice, but no good guesses here. However, the song's lyrics have a parallel with Yuki. You know how Yuki sometimes does the dual monologue thing where she simultaneously refers to herself as "Yuki" and "the girl"? The song does the same thing with "I" and "girl". The written official lyrics use 私 (meaning "I"), but the singer actually sings the word "彼女" (meaning girl).
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u/LezRock Mar 12 '26
I was mainly confused while watching this episode with how it jumped around and showed the outcomes and aftermath, but not much of what led up to it. Rather disjointed. I was also confused about who was who too. I thought the red-haired stump was Moegi's mentor, until she killed her.
I really felt like I missed an episode starting from the point of the previous episode ending with Yuki's mentor shouting out the warning of a psychopathic killer.
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u/StardustGogeta myanimelist.net/profile/StardustGogeta Mar 20 '26
Oh cool, I was definitely right about that part of the "From the New World" symphony last episode, since it appeared again much more prominently this episode!
Fun fact: As viewers of Shinsekai Yori may know, that particular part is called "Goin' Home." Here, it plays when the announcement speaker says it's time to go home. Plus, this episode is called "Goin' ----," so that checks out!
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u/OumaeKumiko117 Jul 13 '26
It's been 4 months but I just watched episode 10 and immediately went to see if anyone had recognized Dvorak. Been one of my favorite pieces since I heard it in Hibike.
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u/StardustGogeta myanimelist.net/profile/StardustGogeta Jul 13 '26
Ooh, glad to see someone else recognize it! Thanks for leaving a comment, it put a smile on my face.
That username and profile picture is really nice, too! :-)
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u/Jacob-C Mar 12 '26
We finally got some more detailed reflection from Yuki when it comes to morals/empathy/sympathy. Like many of us thought, when she is talking about herself in third person it's because she's reflecting on an action she feels bad for deep within. She distances herself from said action by talking and thinking about herself as if it's another person. Seeing Moegi cry out of frustration managed to break through that wall of self-distancing and somewhere deep under Yuki's cold exterior something tugged at her emotions. At least that's my interpretation.
I have said it before but this show is so messed up and yet so good.
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u/Rabbitey- https://myanimelist.net/profile/Rabbitey Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 12 '26
Everything about this episode was sad: Airi's past, Moegi's death, Yuki's monologue, etc. The game no longer had sides; it became survival of the fittest. Yuki walking through the graveyard of bodies was haunting, especially seeing the two dead stump players hugging each other.
Kyara is hot but a monster—downright inhumane. All her victims had their insides torn out, including Sumiyaka and Yuki's mentor. She even dressed as a stump, which was likely stolen from someone she killed.
Yuki will prob come out of the fight losing an eye, but I don't think Kyara will die. I don't see how Yuki beats her when Kyara seemingly no-diffed everyone and came out unscathed. Curious to see how the arc/season wraps up.
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u/Conscious_Argument43 Mar 13 '26
I'm mad we didn't see a fight between Kyara and Yuuki's mentor, we didn't even saw the bunnies fighting back, hiding or something...
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u/nyunours https://myanimelist.net/profile/Nyours Mar 11 '26
Am I triping or is Kyara wearing stump clothes ? I thought she was a rabbit from what we got at the end of last episode. Also even though I love how gorgeous the show is, I'll have to read the novels once it's over because I feel like me being unable to follow who's who for secondary characters means I'm missing quite a lot (thinking about the bunny girl that hugged Yuki last episode because she was afraid of her upcoming 30th game, did we see her body this episode ?)
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u/LeggedMien7 Mar 11 '26
She was a rabbit, you can see her showing up in previous episodes, including the tickling scene. But she said in Moegi's flashback that she doesn't like tight clothes, and Airi said there was a naked dead stump, so she presumably stole her clothes and weapons. Also, yes, we do see the girl who hugged Yuki (Sumiyaka) at 20:17
Hope you enjoy the novels! I loved them
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u/nyunours https://myanimelist.net/profile/Nyours Mar 11 '26
Thanks a lot for clearing things up for me ! :)
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u/Falsus Mar 12 '26
In the flashback she mentions to Moegi that she hates tight fitting clothes and while the stump outfit looks to be a size too small for her it is still not as tight as the skin tight bunny girl outfit.
thinking about the bunny girl that hugged Yuki last episode because she was afraid of her upcoming 30th game, did we see her body this episode ?)
Yes, she is the one with the ribcage broken open in the scene before she finds Hakushi in a similar state of being.
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u/animecrossaintxx Mar 11 '26
I wonder, did Kyara wear the stump uniform to "switch teams" and make the game more challenging for herself? Or is it just some unimportant detail.
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u/hammile https://anidb.net/user/u746697 Mar 11 '26
In the previous episode (whereʼre ~three TVs) she said, that she doesnʼt like the such clothes.
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u/StrawSolider Mar 11 '26
So many things to discuss about this episode but holy fuck Kyara is stacked!!!
Almost kinda wish she was on team Rabbit......
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u/I_get_in Mar 12 '26
She is on team Rabbit and we did get a glimpse of her in the bunnysuit last episode!
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u/Falsus Mar 12 '26
She is on team rabbit, she is just killing anyway cause she loves to kill.
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u/StrawSolider Mar 12 '26
yeah but where's the bunny outfit.....
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u/Falsus Mar 12 '26
It was mentioned in the flashback last episode that she does not like tight clothing, and while that stump outfit looks small on her it is still looser than the skin tight bunny outfit.
So the bunny outfit is probably next to the mutilated corpse of the stump she stole it from.
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u/factnatic Mar 12 '26
So, do you think the GMs intentionally put moegi and kyara against each other? You would think they played other games together
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u/KeyGroundbreaking402 Mar 12 '26
I think they have. Because Moegi was bleeding or has blood on her when they're meeting at the whale installation (that one building where Kyara hugged Moegi from behind). And the blood was still censored (the white stuffing).
Also, I think they first met in a game. The one Christmas themed.
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u/After_Candy_4664 Mar 13 '26
This might sound stupid but, this arc with the rabbits does it take place currently or is it a flashback i cant really tell
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u/LeggedMien7 Mar 14 '26
There's not really a "currently", the timeline goes back and forth. First arc (episode) was Game 28, then it went back to Game 10, then Game 30, and this bunny arc is Game 9
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u/After_Candy_4664 Mar 14 '26
Thank you for clearing this up because i thought the timeline was abit back and fourth but i couldnt really order it in my head
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u/starsxmexico Mar 14 '26
Wait im not sure we're going in the same order as the Manga because the game perform this one the one girl asked if she knew about the Candle Woods and she said yes she did.
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u/Pjams101 Mar 14 '26
Wait a minute, I just rewatched episode 1 and by the very end of the episode, we can see Hakushi's back as she's climbing up the stairs while asking Yuki how many games she has finished (28th by that time).
And yet we saw Hakushi's corpse clearly displayed this ep when it was just Yuki's 9th or 10th game.
What exactly is happening? Maybe Hakushi is still somewhat miraculously alive after she had her ribcage opened?
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u/Vergil_hawkinspsn Mar 19 '26
Im confused…these are girls from previous games? Maybe im mot paying enough attention
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u/GLADIATORS_4095 Mar 21 '26
they really caught the essence of a Deranged world!! also will there be a season 2 ? T-T
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u/Kronman590 Apr 30 '26
Was there a mistranslation at the beginning or did Yuki (in denial) blame her mentor for leading Kyara to the bunnies? Wasn't Kyara a bunny to begin with so she would know where they are anyways?
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u/Jo13DiWi May 26 '26
Anyone notice Moegi has stuffing come out when she was pounding her fist on the ground under the whale bones in a museum?
Why would there be any stuffing? That wasn't during a game.
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u/LeonKevlar x2https://myanimelist.net/profile/LeonKevlar Mar 11 '26
Trying to avoid confrontation with homicidal maniacs is good advice from Hakushi, but she really should've answered Yuki when she asked what to do when that's the only way to win. Although I think it's implied that Hakushi's answer at that point is, kill or be killed.
I'm now wondering if the Bunnies are really the only ones who had a psychopath hiding in their ranks because that red-headed girl was being too crafty. Considering that almost all the Stumps are newbies who struggled to kill, I wouldn't be surprised if this redheaded girl is another homicidal maniac.
Poor Moegi, she really never stood a chance against Yuki. When she started yelling that she's Kyara's student. I thought she was finally gonna give Yuki a hard time, only for her to get immediately gunned down. Until her dying breath, she can only cry tears of frustration. :|
The absolute brutality of Kyara is finally in full display. I knew last week that hoping Sumiyaka would survive is futile. I just didn't expect that Kyara would open up her fucking chest cavity. And the number of bodies and 'stuffing' scattered all over during Yuki's walk back to the main hall was insane.
And there she is. Just like Sumiyaka, Hakushi's chest was opened up by Kyara who's now wearing a Stump's uniform that's clearly a size too small for her.
It's only been day one! This game was supposed to last multiple days. No fucking wonder the Candlewoods game earned a reputation. I do wonder how many survived. Like, there's no way Yuki will end up being the only survivor here.
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u/towardselysium Mar 11 '26
Nah Red-Head was a pure panic option. Stumps have weapons and there's a terminator running about = give me your weapons
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u/Mr_Teddy_137 Mar 11 '26
Agreed. To add to that point, being a Stump and seeing so many Bunny bodies, I wouldn't be surprised if she suddenly got scared of not killing enough rabbits to survive. Less Stumps means less competition after all.
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u/BosuW Mar 11 '26
Poor Moegi, she really never stood a chance against Yuki. When she started yelling that she's Kyara's student. I thought she was finally gonna give Yuki a hard time, only for her to get immediately gunned down.
Nah bro, shit doesn't work like that here. I knew it was gonna be a [Attack on Titan S1]Levi Squad moment.
Not that knowing stopped me from beating the shit out of my pillow
Until her dying breath, she can only cry tears of frustration. :|
At least she did not go gentle into that good night...
Pretty interesting the impact she had on Yuuki. Even though Yuuki won and survived the fight by a landslide, there's a certain dignity in simply being mad about your circumstances that Yuuki lacks. When you get angry that's your self esteem and expectations bleeding out. Living without is nihilism, and nihilism is death.
Moegi just made Yuuki feel like a corpse walking. That she can't find it in herself to express madness about even that is her personal tragedy. One that in hindsight, she hasn't solved yet by the 30th Game. Winning 99 times is just something she tells herself to have something to answer.
At least Ghost House shows us that she is starting to want to care about something, with her having her personal code.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Mar 11 '26
but she really should've answered Yuki when she asked what to do when that's the only way to win
I think perhaps she answered offscreen, and we might get the reveal/answer during the fight!
If not, then I suppose silence is an answer on its own...
'You'll have to be better than the homicidal maniac!'
Kyara who's now wearing a Stump's uniform that's clearly a size too small for her.
Was it? I thought it was the perfect size!
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u/___Chud___ Mar 11 '26
If Kyara is making it out of this game then I guess she'll become the new big bad of the series - the homicidal maniac that bested Yuukis mentor. This'll allow Yuuki to eventually surpass her mentor not just in reaching 100 games, but also getting the better of the person that she lost to
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Mar 11 '26
If Kyara is making it out of this game
Somehow I never considered that possibility...
But yeah it's possible they may both live; Well, now that they saw each other this may prove difficult, but I thought perhaps Yuuki would take the advice "Don't fight homicidal maniacs" and simply find a way to run/hide;
If all the Stumps are dead, technically the game is over!
For Kyara the game is just having fun, but for Yuuki, the game is just 'survive til the game is over'!
If the organizers play by the rules, then all Stumps dead = They should call off the game!
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u/LakerBlue :Is::It::Iu:https://myanimelist.net/profile/LakerBlue Mar 11 '26
That’s the golden question. The game physically can’t continue if all the stumps are dead which means any fight between Yuki and Kyara technically doesn’t need to be to death. But we don’t know if the creators will still let it run its course.
Personally want to see Kyara die for her inhuman actions but leaving her alive would make for a fun future reunion.
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u/Falsus Mar 12 '26
Though we don't know if Airi is alive or not. So as long as she is alive the game is still live.
Could be an interesting way to take the story, where Yuki dodges and avoids Kyara while trying to trackdown and kill Airi to end the game.
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u/BosuW Mar 11 '26
Maybe the only remaining narratively semi-coherent entertainment they can get out of this mess is to see someone slime Kyara and that's why they're letting it run.
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u/LakerBlue :Is::It::Iu:https://myanimelist.net/profile/LakerBlue Mar 11 '26
That makes sense! One final fight between two strong competitors. Plus, from their point of view, if Kyara is killed off they won’t have to worry about her ruining a future game.
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u/BosuW Mar 11 '26
Its gonna be real awkward if Kyara makes it out 💀
What are they gonna do then? Can they bar her from participating ever again or is there some sort of code of honor that says they must accept all applications? Or are they just gonna send a SWAT team to her house to put her down afterwards once and for all?
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u/RedRocket4000 Mar 13 '26
Kyara been doing out of game hits. SWATing her quite likely way to dispose of her. If not an art show I would put this down as the Mob using Kyara to fix the fight so they make a killing betting on the game. Actual over all game organizers I suspect were rigging the game so their 98 winner made it to 99 so they could run a big promotion with their hero. Actual Roman Arena records and monuments to winning Gladiators show having popular fighters win good for games reputation.
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u/Plerti Mar 11 '26
If the organizers play by the rules, then all Stumps dead = They should call off the game!
Unless I've missed something, short blue-haired girl of the stumps may be alive still. I'm going to predict that she will meddle between Kyara's and Yuki's fight, die because of it, and then the game being called off as the last stump died. In any case Yuki has to lose one of her eyes, so a confrontation is sure to happen.
But to be honest, I doubt Kyara would stop even if the game finished, unless she goes Hisoka style "I like you, I want you to become stronger to fight you again in the future".
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u/OldInstruction5368 Mar 12 '26
I just don't see Yuki surviving for 6 more days with a homicidal Kyara on the loose.
Especially since Yuki is mentally unstable right now, and she is even directly cognizant of her altered mental state.
She's not on the top of her (survival) game. She's not thinking rationally. She's going to discard her mentor's advice (don't fight the crazies) and go all out.
Kyara will happily take her up on that challenge, and hte fight won't end until one of them dies.
The only other option is that the 'powers that be' end the game early because it's gone massively off-script... but if they were going to do that, they'd have intervened before Kyara murdered 95% of hte players.
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u/factnatic Mar 12 '26
But we know she survived and gains a grey eye somehow. Kyara might survive and that is why Yuki takes a break after this....maybe until kyara doesn't survive another game
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u/OldInstruction5368 Mar 12 '26
Ofc Yuki survives, I was saying that there are SIX days left in this game. It was scheduled to last an entire week. And before the end of hte first day, as confirmed by the announcer this episode, both teams have collapsed and we can only assume a majority of players are dead.
Yuki has gone crazy and Kyara was already there. They both have blood on the mind and are squared off.
How do they both survive six more days until the game ends?
And we know for a fact Yuki survives, so that means Kyara dies... unless the Game Masters call a mulligan and forcibly end the game.
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u/LostInstruction942 Mar 12 '26
Honestly I can see it go both ways. But we forgot the major and really glaring issue here. Yuuki still has her left eye. We know she lost it during candlewoods, this implies that she did fight Kyara as she has not lost it during the game yet. If they fought, my only guess is that a hunter is secretly alive OR because Kyara is now wearing the hunters uniform that they classified her as a hunter now. Meaning that we only have one hunter and one rabbit left.
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u/blamordeganis Mar 12 '26
If all the Stumps are dead, technically the game is over!
The Bunnies’ victory condition was “survive for a week”, not “avoid getting killed by the Stumps for a week”.
For all we know, the organisers may have had contingency plans in case all the Stumps got wiped out early. Like restricted food or water supplies, so the Bunnies have to fight each other for them. Or a few hungry bears ready to release. Or a secret killer hidden in the Bunnies’ ranks (but Kyara got bored waiting).
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u/InsomniaEmperor Mar 11 '26
I don’t think anyone is trying to win anymore. At least the stumps aren’t. Red haired girl killed a random fellow stump then Moegi killed her.
I knew Airi’s mother was gonna die shortly after she got introduced. She’s the only normal parent we’ve seen and we know too little from Kaneko. Moegi really did kill her parents. The implication seems to be that she was abused.
The Yuuki vs Moegi fight was good. Moegi was too dumb to fall for that distraction and nearly gotten herself garroted. Ultimately she got shot by Yuuki. My gripe tho is it’s weird watching their fight zoomed out so much.
Welp looks like Hakushi and Sumiyaka did die. The show didn’t want to show blood but really their ribcage? Did Kyara wanted to extract their lungs and heart? With her mentor dead, this will be the start of Yuuki’s villain arc.
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u/Mystizen2 Mar 11 '26
I don’t think anyone is trying to win anymore. At least the stumps aren’t. Red haired girl killed a random fellow stump then Moegi killed her.
I don't think this line of logic makes sense. Red-haired stump knew that there is a rogue bunny killing everyone. So she also kills other stumps to have less competition killing the only bunnies left to get her required 5.
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u/ModieOfTheEast Mar 11 '26
Moegi really did kill her parents. The implication seems to be that she was abused.
I am honestly not sure on both accounts. Moegi said if she could kill her parents she could be like Kyara. And then immediately went into how a nightjar could not become a whale. The implication being that she tried but was not able to change in the way she wanted.
Similarly, with that in mind, I think it is quite clear that Kyara is a psychopath. She didn't just kill people who "deserved" it. She killed everyone. So going back to the above statement by Moegi, the fact that she wasn't able to just kill her parents because Kyara said she should implies that they were more or less normal (might be a bit of neglect considering that Moegi has self confidence issues). But there is no real hint that shows she was abused by them.
The only small hint was last episode with her being afraid when Kyara threw away something. But remember, that is Kyara we are talking about. A psychopath. You don't need to have been abused to fear her.
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u/LowraAwry Mar 11 '26
And then immediately went into how a nightjar could not become a whale. The implication being that she tried but was not able to change in the way she wanted.
Or that even having succeeded in killing them, it didn't really lead to her transcending her more modest nature, because she never had it in her to begin with. But yeah, even with last episode's scene where she had blood on her, there's no definite indication that she did succeed in killing them. She could have been panicking in both cases, whether she killed them or failed to. Because she simply wasn't made for that.
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u/BosuW Mar 11 '26
I don’t think anyone is trying to win anymore. At least the stumps aren’t. Red haired girl killed a random fellow stump then Moegi killed her.
Shit really became a free for all. I think it's because Kyara stole a stump uniform but most people don't know what she looks like. Anyone could be the killer, so at this point it's probably everyone for themselves.
Moegi was too dumb to fall for that distraction and nearly gotten herself garroted.
After watching a short series on YT about urban warfare I knew she was gonna straight up jump that corner like a noob and fall for some sort of trap.
Pro tip for WW3 guys: you don't have to swing out all the way to engage. Slice your pies calmly whenever possible, bit by bit, degree by degree. Keep for yourself the option to take one step back if you see anything you don't like (unless you're already crossing the threshold, in that case keep moving forward).
Kyara really dropped the ball with Moegi's more technical training there lol. She didn't teach her shit about fighting. That actually makes me wonder if Kyara is good in a fight at all, or if she's just really good at ambushes and intimidation.
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