Steering the conversation towards America when the experiences and practices of any other country is mentioned, is the most American thing I’ve seen someone do today.
@@jacksondunn3284 The original post just shoehorns Canada in, so bringing up the US in response was no different. Bears exist and do that in any place that has bears. There are beavers, bears, and moose (The Eurasian elk is the same thing as a moose, but for whatever reason the North American elk is something different) in northern Europe, too.
I don't miss Mirai Nikki, but I do miss Yuno. Bring her back in a slice of life parody romcom where she's constantly threatening to kill people and everyone just goes "oh, Yuno!" Only Yuki knows she means it.
@@MemesYknow I don't want it to return though, since I don't want the ending changed. I'd just want a parody spin-off or something. In my dream world her and Yuki would show up as wild cards in Isekai Quartet, but they don't belong to that genre so that won't ever happen, unfortunately.
"The time an alien was reincarnated as an Immortal Scotsman, got amnesia, and now must compete in sword fighting battle royal until there is only one" Highlander (1986) - it was an isekai and a battle royale, before we knew what those terms were.
One thing about Battle Royale: Kitano's (I assume) involuntary comedy. I swear, Kitano's death scene cracks me up every time - he's shot, stands up after a while, makes a philosophical talk, has an argument on the phone, eats a cookie, says the cookie is good, and then dies.
That scene made me go from "Huh?" to "What?" to "REALLY?!" to "Is he dead NOW?!" to "That was absolutely GENIUS?!" to *Laughing non-stop for 5 minutes* to "Man, I really could go for a cookie right about now." The commentary totally went over my head when I wanted that cookie. Then I think I may have felt "survivor's guilt" when I went to eat the first cookie. I put it away. I still haven't looked at a cookie the same again. That movie really impacted my life. In all seriousness though, Battle Royale was great, and that death scene was extremely well done, fitting in with the movie and Kitano's character quite well.
Funny thing: Suzanne Collins was accused of plagiarizing Battle Royale when she wrote The Hunger Games. She claimed that she hadn't heard of Battle Royale until she heard that accusation.
@@diegomorales7290they really are, especially if you can get past the idea that it popularized love triangles in YA when... It really didn't. The games almost serve as a backdrop for dealing with an immense amount of trauma, and how the overall arc is a serious mental toll on Katniss. One of the points of the "triangle" is a manipulator and incredibly toxic, and she has to deal with THAT on top of being the face of an uprising that she almost doesn't want to be a part of because she's terrified of who it's getting killed. They're honestly worth a reread with the ideas of trauma and mental anguish in mind, because the subtext is there and I really don't recall the movies having any of it. But, hey, I also totally understand if the writing quality just didn't vibe with you, and if that's the case then fair nuff!
@@jenoc3541the entire point of hunger games’ love triangle is that it is a fake ploy that the characters are forced into. it is never actually positioned as “team peeta vs team gale” in the text. and the worldbuilding / plot setup is insanely tight and interesting when you get into it.
I had never heard of Battle Royale until after Suzanne Collins got accused of ripping it off. But I ended up watching it later and it was pretty much nothing like Hunger Games. Aside from the idea of a death tournament I couldn't see enough similarities. Eragon ripped of Star Wars harder than that
I absolutely fucking LOVE Killing Bites. It’s so horrible, but there’s just something about it that’s just so fantastic. There’s just something about the Tier Zoo esque animal battle that turns my brain into goblin goo.
it's the epitome of "dumb fun" to me. There are zero thoughts going on in that show, and every thought you have while watching it will detract from your viewing experience. However, if you can refrain from thinking too hard it is a DAMN good time. It's just a shame they never actually told us what killing bites was. I guess they're saving that reveal for the sequel that got teased but will never happen.
@@android19willpwn That first sentence pretty much captures it. While watching it when it was seasonal, I described the series to a friend thus: "I can't explain why I like it, considering just about everything about it is the antithesis of what I typically enjoy, but I do. It's just plain hilariously dumb fun." The only real competition it has for me is Kakegurui.
I think it be interesting to have a Battle Royale with pastiches to slasher and monster movies like Nightmare on Elm Street and Alien. Basically, it kinda been a through back to the Vs. era of monster movies, like Freddie vs. Jason or Alien vs. Predator. The main character would be a horror movie fanatic who notices that the serial killings that are happening recently matchup with the killings in the horror movies he watches. He'd stumble in to a fight between two killers and learn that there is a Battle Royale with horror characters appearing in real life to continue there murder sprees and kill each other. So, he uses his meta knowledge of the monsters/slashers to defeat them. Each episode would be titled ______ vs. ______ to show who the main monsters are that are fighting, but once the MC starts participating, his name is put in the episode titles. It would be revealed in the back half of the season that the MC is a horror movie villain. He is a homage of Billy Loomis from Scream. This is why killing is easy to him and how he can participate in the Death Game. He would have become a masked killer if it weren't for the Battle Royale allowing him to feed his blood lust and horror movie obsession. This would of course lead to the MC to do some self reflection.
I'd like a battle royale filmed like a documentary. There's no obvious heroes or villains. Definitely badass' and underdogs. It cuts between each of the contestants based on who's doing anything interesting at the time. All narrated by the dulcet tones of an Attenborough-ish host.
Next week on Nat Geo, we'll be exploring the suburban high rise-the natural environment of one of the game's deadliest predators the ex-NEET soccer mom.
PUBG actually did something akin to that a few months ago as an advertising campaign. They put a lot of backstory through a realistic documentary style, making the Battlegrounds seem almost real
5 Second Battlegame was... convincing the first dude that his quirk was "deadly" and "one of the strongest" and than keeping it that way for a long time probably the entire series. So despite his quirk seeming interesting at first they could have just given him that thing from the start and the story would have probably mostly played out the same.
I love Mirai Nikki. It is exactly my kind of trash. It feels like the tournament arc of a typical shounen, but with all of the restraint removed. I know we've all been watching a shounen at some point and thought "there's no way these kids with fantastical powers they can't fully control don't occasionally end up killing eachother" - well, the battle royale death game trash anime is here to show what that world looks like when the deadly nature of dumbasses with superpowers isn't handwaved away.
Darwin's Game's manga is wild, from forming their own organisation, to the protag being isekai'd, to timeskiping, to fighting something that tries to destroy the world.
reminds of "the time I was reincarnated into a battle royal secretly with the strongest skill, I will decimate my opponents with ease in another world" . . . . . . ok I may have made that up but it's totally plausible
If you've seen Gigguk's video about making AI-generated light novel titles, you know that any random stream of words that resembles a sentence is totally plausible as a realistic title.
My dream Battle Royale anime/manga would be one without a protagonist. So that you always have to guess who will win this battle. it would bring a different kind of thrill if the outcome of every battle would be not that clear because the protagonist can't lose until the end if they lose.
Weirdly that's kinda how the Battle Royale novel works since almost everyone gets at least one chapter if not more and you could see several characters as protagonist types until they're killed and even near the end you don't know who is going to survive and how they best the game. Of course that only works if you haven't seen the movie.
Records of Ragnarok is great, I love how every fight has me guessing who wins. Just avoid the anime adaptation. I tried Fate a few times but every time I get a flood of anime/manga that all play in different times or settings and I am confused. I heard that Fate/Zero is the best but I also heard that the ending is not finished. So I have patience and wait. Juuni Taisen is something I have seen but I will check it out, thanks for the recommendation. But I heard that you know who dies because it always that one hat gets his backstoy in the episode.
High Rise Invasion actually got me into anime for the most part. I had seen Death Note, Perfect Blue and Shin Chan, but not much else. Overall didn't like anime. Then I just threw on High Rise Invasion one day and I was hooked. Now I recognize how silly it is, but it's still fun and I appreciate it for what it is.
Funny you say that, HRI also got me into anime. I had only seen a few snippets of anime here and there but wasn’t too into it. Then bam, HRI got me into it.
The power to have every power your opponent thinks you have sounds fuqing awesome. Maybe not for the one who has it if he is as dumb as I am but the implications for mind games and creative storytelling XD
Yeah Honestly this is the best power in the whole series, followed by "copy any ability at 1/10th its power", "your bodily fluids are torture devices" and "copy and merge other abilities". Every other ability is uninspired or a knockoff version of another existing shonen power. Like, one person literally has Burning Down The House as a power lol
Here me out Geoff 1) I am pretty sure that everyone here wants that in-depth roast of King's Game. Like, right now. It's my lowest rated anime of all time to the point that I couldn't follow my usual adage of "Search for the small bits of good' because it was just so fucking bad I couldn't watch It entirely It without serious effort. 2) Darwin's Game is probably the unironic best BR anime I have seen. No seriously, I rewatched it recently after the season It came out in and I enjoyed It even more. That shit is fun. Dumb as most stories in the subgenre are, but still hella fun. I mean, just look at the cast of characters and how their powers are used. The murder-waifu has the basic shtick of "absurdly sharp, long and tough chains" but she uses them better than spiderman ever used his power. The small-girl-must-protect is an info broker with future reading abilities based on pseudoscientific stuff and snipes people. The plant villain-ally dude Is actually scary and gave me plenty of ideas for DnD enemy druids. The MC has probably the best rip-off of Unlimited Blade Works and one that actually understand how to make guns cool in a show without putting supernatural powers. And then there is the tough big boi whose power is reading people bs. And carrying huge machine guns and ridicolously tough kevlar body armor. C'on, it's several steps above most of the genre
Agree with all of this 100% except I actually watched all of King's Game. No idea what possessed me to do it but the stupid as ending made the whole thing worthwhile because I was just laughing my ass off by the end.
@@authorRisenfromash The ending seems to be the point if everyones criticism, while I did not enjoy it I don't really see how people can give it the super low ratings just because of that considering the state of the anime market at the moment, if it was a 2 then about 50% of the rest is below zero imo. I think it had plenty of redeemable features but idek, maybe that's because I knew of the poor reception in advance and had low expectations.
When he mentioned Fate being better than the other series he had talked about I was a little surprised, because I thought Darwin's Game was just as good as any of the Fate shows. Heck, I personally enjoyed Darwin's Game even more than Fate Zero, even if I agree they are about equal in terms of overall quality. Maybe it's just that Ufotable magic that makes him remember it better lol.
I agree, I had so much fun with Darwin's Game the season it came out!! I was expecting to drop it pretty early on but the show just knew how to keep being entertaining.
Alice in Borderland is death game, not BR. There were only 2 or 3 games that were actually formatted as a somewhat BR position. Really tho, it really struck me as very similar to The World Ends With You in a lot of ways lol
The show was great and arguably chose the correct time to end as the manga ending (as I found out having rushed to read after binging the show) is absolute garbage made even more insulting by the main antagonist spouting way more interesting endings before the ultimate f*ck you from the author.
Which is so funny coming from people who like Evangelion because the main defense to how useless and annoying Shinki is precisely "well, any other 14 year old would act the same if they were put into that situation! You can't hate him for that!"
It's easy to act like Rambo, Light Yagami and Rick Sanchez in one person when you are not just a depressed and lonely kid who's been told by his imaginary friend that 12 people in his city randomly decided to hunt and kill him just because your imaginary friend told them to do. Also, everyone who you will try to be nice to will use, betray and try to kill you at a moment's notice. Even your own father.
@@HellNutcaseThe issue though is that trying to apply so much realism to a scenario that is utterly ridiculous may not work for a lot of people. While yeah he’s a defenseless 14 year old and at the start that makes sense, it becomes increasingly aggravating as you continue watching. It may not really provide a compelling or interesting story depending on who’s watching. Meanwhile others may like the different take, especially for a protagonist in a realm of protagonists who are 15 and have to deal with thousands of deaths.
I don't know that he's a sociopath, but I deeply appreciate the way his character takes initiative and has a personality. I'm kinda sick of the "good guy who does good things" protagonist, tbh.
I actually liked Mirai Nikki a lot. I enjoyed all the edge. The whole "I have to be nice to the psycho or I'll die, but I see her humanity and that makes me feel for her but she's still a psycho" gave me intense emotions. I think the strategy was interesting and fun. It's not thematically deep or says anything very profound, but I really like it and think it's really good. Then again, I'm a very "no such thing as a guilty pleasure, if you enjoy it it's good" person and I understand why people might not like it and consider it trash. No hard feelings or judgement
1:24 the most well-written run-on sentence I've heard in a while. I'm pretty sure the last one came from this channel x3 I feel productive for holding my unacademic, unemployed brain in focus in that way! That BTOOM title reading was magical!
n onono. even better, make a battle royale where everyone has a pokemon, but instead of actual good ones, everyone has garbage like sunkern, magikarp, pidgey, and chikorita. would be hilarious.
Really wish Killing Bites had gotten an English dub/sequel. Was a fun popcorn anime that blue-balled everyone so hard with its cliffhanger of an ending.
After finishing the show, I went and read the manga. Unfortunately it’s still in production and iirc (it’s been a couple years at this point) chapter releases are kinda slow. Maybe it’s improved since 2019. Idk. I might reread it at some point in the future
To make Yuki bearable headcannon him as a closeted gay dude. And imagine Yuno as a stand-in for his battle with comphet. It kinda falls apart towards the end but makes most of the show a lot more bearable
The manga of Darwin's Game is unironically good, imo. I've had fun reading and re-reading it, going through the events and characters, who are actually well-written for this type of story. There's close to no ridiculous nonsensical shit, with every event, plotpoint or arc being competently written, explored, hyped up, and concluded, while making it connect to the previous and future events, making things feel connected. Also, the characters are much smarter than most in other BR shows, while being badass all the same.
I dont remember anything from ihghrise invasion except for the first introduction of mcs brother because i found it somewhat funny seeing her describe all his good traits and jumping to him slowly cracking open the head of a mask dude with a sledgehammer after every described character trait... also snipernask has a sexy voice
Future diary not good? Dude this show is such a fun Rollercoaster. Every few years I'll show it to a new buddie and get wrapped up into it again. It single handedly got be back into anime in a time where I had pretty much forgotten about it. I really dig this show.
It has some.. Good parts. Most is quite bad. The characters suck, the overall plot is just a big and stupid mess, the ending sucks and Yuki is the worst protagonist of all time. Fight scenes are quite good though.
I liked this show alot. I didnt know it was perceived as cringe worthy but then again im not a super big anime fan. Maybe is should keep Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya to myself then.
That's the second time I've heard someone bring up Juuni Taisen this week. I didn't know it was a Nisioisin story, but that makes a lot of sense actually.
Future Diary is a guilty pleasure of mine, fun show, interesting battles, entertaining Yandere, weakest part is Yuki for sure. I actually got emotional when 9th dies. I'll say Zodiac War (Juni Taisen) has some great animation and does get to the point, but it left me dissatisfied as the battles are really short and multiple episodes are spent introducing characters with long backstories only for them to die in a short fight the very next episode.
An in-depth roast of King's Game? Yes, please! Especially if it includes every other manga that's gone by the title or premise, because there are a surprising number of them out there (and they're all bad).
I liked mirai nikki because its one of the first and incidentally few battle royale anime that actually had a pretty satisfactory ending(if you liked yuno).
@@janisir4529 Yes That is the fork in the road for fans. I think the creators were just trying to appease some of the fans that weren’t happy with the “unhappy” ending, even though Yuki deserved it, by acting like a coward for most of it. I do go back to the manga as that’s really something else.
8:44 hard disagree. while she's not an incredibly written character by any standard her most important traits do not stem from her childhood abuse but from (SPOILER i guess??) from her experiences during the first round of battle royale where she got close to and losing the original yuki
I am so glad you finally covered Mirai nikki properly it is my first ever proper watch and I still love it years later, btooom is even better and oh my goodness it doesnt get enough coverage
I'm gonna sound like a loser. I like battle royale anime cause they have interesting powers. Otherwise all they do is make me depressed. (I know I'm baby) "Oh boy i love these characters in deadman wonderla- and they're all dead or insane now....great.." but looking at the powers and how they're used and who has them are great inspiration for D&D campaigns.
Since you made that video about returning to Manga recently, I highly recommend you read the BTOOM!! manga, the MC totally knows it's real life, and he just rolls with it. It's been a while since I read it, but I think that the head injury is only used as the "I don't know how I got here" framing device and is only brought up when some exposition is needed.
"[King's Game] really deserves its own in depth roast" Oh my god I need this roast yesterday. It was one of the first "death game" anime as I call the subgenre that I watched once I started getting into said genre & CHRIST
Mirai Nikki is my favorite anime, I know it isn’t perfect but I would say it is well written Edit: spoilers for mirai nikki: I think the primary reason for Yuno being insane is that she has suppressed memories from another timeline, I might be thinking wrong tho
I know I'm super late, but I will die on the hill that Magical Girl Raising Project is a legitimate masterpiece, animation quality aside. Don't let the title fool you, MGRP is definitely not a mahou shoujo anime; it's a death game through-and-through where all the participants just so happen to be magical-girls. Every character is memorable and unique, and that even includes the earlier casualties. (Two of the earlier victims spring to mind, but I shan't name them because I'm not going to spoil who survives and who doesn't.) The character designs are the most unique (and dare I say cosplayable) magical-girl outfits I've ever seen. Puffy dresses and random tokusatsu elements are out; dog costumes, school swimsuits, habits, cowgirls and literal androids are in! The soundtrack is amazing. "Hotel Priestess's Decisive Battle" (the OST that accompanies my favorite fight in the series) and "Sweeping Force" (which usually plays when a character dies) are particular favorites of mine. All of the (dub) actors are giving it their all; for as many problems as I have with Funimation, giving Ruler and Calamity Mary British and southern-US accents respectively is not one of them. Can't speak for the sub as I haven't watched it, but if the character song album is anything to go off, their voices are fine in Japanese too. Given the premise of a mobile game granting the participants their powers, the series uses video-game mechanics in an interesting way, unalike so many isekai and fantasy anime which have stats screens and level-ups for who knows what reason. And I've heard from several light novel-readers that the series only gets better after the first arc; in-fact the first arc seems to have a similar reception to JoJo part 1 (in that it's enjoyable but fairly generic, and is supposedly worse than every other arc by miles). Also Tama is best-girl and must be protected at all costs. On the other end of the scale, Killing Bites is the only anime I've ever dropped mid-first episode. 🤣
I feel the concept of Original Character Tournaments puts an interesting twist on the battle royal formula, because each character involved really does have their own story. Of course, the quality varies wildly just like with anime, but there are some real gems you can find. (Also, shout out to Juni Kaisen for inspiring me to start making animations.)
Thanks for reminding me that High Rise Invasion kicks soooooo much ass. It's my favorite anime this year so far, and honestly one of the best SHOWS I've seen this year alongside Amphibia, Owl House and Kid Cosmic, not even joking. It's basically unusally charming iwth it's quicky, yet at times kinda dark humor, that it actually amkes itself FUN, some the characters (Yuri, Majuko, Sniper Mask, for starters) are actually great, that show is just so much damn fun. Netflix, give it a second season NOW. It's only major drawback is that...yeah, it's done by an unknown animation studio, so it can look a tad...cheap at times, but they do try their best.
@@mesousagaby740 I dont quite remember but the plot gets pretty incomprehensible. I need to give it another read, I really do love the premise and the characters a lot still.
@@warpspeedscp Considering it has a "becoming a God" plot, I shouldn' t be surprised. I kinda hope that it's done in a tongue-in-cheek way, since the show itself was.
Damn it, Geoff. :) I just can't keep up with all of these but keep it coming. Your suggestions have saved me a ton of time and helped me find some great entertainment. Thank you! Edit: Apologies for the earlier misspelling. No disrespect intended.
I'm a real big fan of this genre. The biggest reason is that I like the challenge aspect of writing something like this: Make a good story and make as many good characters from an ensemble as you can while also systematically killing them off in a game with rules to be followed and twisted; even if the contestants don't end up dying- which I think is often used in these shows since it's "The Utlimate Consequence"- I still find plenty of unironic enjoyment out of them. That's probably why I like Slasher films, Harper's Island, Another (Yukito Ayatsuji's story), and Total Drama too, even if they don't really succeed in that aspect a lot of the time and are better watched ironically If I could recommend some games with this kind of formula. the Zero Escape trilogy (I think MB has mentioned playing them before), Lost Dimension (really generic title I know), and the Head AS Code trilogy (British) also have a similar battle royale/death game thing going on and are imo heavily underrated The World Ends With You and Fire Emblem have some similarities with what I like about this genre, but they're both really popular and Fire Emblem just has the "ensemble w/ quality characters that can die at any moment" part to it
Hmm...well you do have a point there. I honestly love Darwin's game..maybe it's because of the animation or the strategy in what they do..plus seeing how Darwin's game can be activated by using your phone in a app..and you know how much people love their phones. It kinda has it's own flare..to a extent. Plus the protagonist ability of summoning weapons like Unlimited Blade Works helps a lot.
Haven't been a fan of Battle Royal manga/anime in a long time honestly. The last one I watched was Darwin's Game, because Geoff said it was stupid fun. It was and I did indeed enjoy it.
What was that era again where you see every iteration of yuno in someone's bio or profile pic? Bro I think that was the time where larping is very rampant, so you'd see people acting like a yandere for no reason at all. Good lord that was over with
I was gonna ask if there are any death game anime where the protag is totally on board and murking fools from minute one, and their arc recolves around finding something that motivates them to make some real human connection and reign it the heck in. Then I realized I was describing SAO: Abridged.
Yeah, personally, I don’t find the concept of “Battle Royale” to compelling enough on its own as a plot structure. If it’s only part of a larger narrative, like confined to a single arc, then it’s tolerable for me. If the entire story is based around it, I couldn’t care less.
Almost surprised not to see Sekirei mentioned here, since that takes the "yeah, this is just dumb fun" aspect of the genre to 11 by just *not caring* who dies, at least until the veiled lady shows up. Though I guess showing even short clips of its fight scenes could be, uh, "difficult" for TH-cam, given that the "dumb fun" in that case is less about the violence and more about the other taboo.
Btooom actually sounds like something I would like - very strict, immediately laid out rules that characters must work within and become incredibly creative because of it. I loved Ajin (the manga) for that exact reason
*sees title* Might I add Sekirei to this? It's also a battle Royale, but with alien waifus with the harem tag attached. Also, it's set in a renamed Tokyo sometime in 2020.
I remember watching the movie Battle Royale and when Hunger Games came out I was like whattt they ripped them off. Little did I know the genre would take off so hard in media
Glad you didn't bring up Akuma no Riddle (not sure if it counts as a battle royale per se /shrug). Having a constant 1v1 to the death, but no one bloody dies, pissed me off to no end.
Thanks for watching (and summarizing) this whole sub-genre, so that I don't have to. Though I do look forward to the next time someone actually does it well.
Ngl Mirai Nikki is one of those guilty pleasure anime that you don't talk about unless someone else brings it up
I really liked it back in the day and how the ova ended up things.
Its funny how other people can say what im thinking
The ending turned me off. Not the ova ( haven't watched it). But yeah, it was a buzzkill for me.
I recommended it to quiet literally all of my friends
I loved it
"With the tact and grace of a bear going through garbage cans" is the most Canadian thing i could have heard today
Or American, we are neighbors...
Specifically the north east. We bears in the burbs.
Steering the conversation towards America when the experiences and practices of any other country is mentioned, is the most American thing I’ve seen someone do today.
@@jacksondunn3284 The original post just shoehorns Canada in, so bringing up the US in response was no different. Bears exist and do that in any place that has bears. There are beavers, bears, and moose (The Eurasian elk is the same thing as a moose, but for whatever reason the North American elk is something different) in northern Europe, too.
@@jacksondunn3284 yup.
I don't miss Mirai Nikki, but I do miss Yuno. Bring her back in a slice of life parody romcom where she's constantly threatening to kill people and everyone just goes "oh, Yuno!" Only Yuki knows she means it.
Cap you know you miss it
so ... Happy Sugar Life?
@@MemesYknow I don't want it to return though, since I don't want the ending changed. I'd just want a parody spin-off or something. In my dream world her and Yuki would show up as wild cards in Isekai Quartet, but they don't belong to that genre so that won't ever happen, unfortunately.
@@MemesYknow lmfao
@@FishSkeleton- well yuno and yuki technically isekai'ed themselves...
"The time an alien was reincarnated as an Immortal Scotsman, got amnesia, and now must compete in sword fighting battle royal until there is only one"
Highlander (1986) - it was an isekai and a battle royale, before we knew what those terms were.
Hey, they weren't aliens until Highlander 2, so it wasn't an isekai when it was released.
@@sagecolvard9644 And since there can be only one, the very concept of Highlander sequels is laughable.
We dont talk about Highlander 2
@@julian7247 we dont talk about what ?
@@rossman8919 exactly
"Bomberman meets Halo game" Oh no, he lives in a world where Bomberman: Act Zero was successful
My goodness my a horrible reality. Could you even imagine what sequels to that abomination would have been? Skin crawls just trying to imagine it.
We dont talk about that
One thing about Battle Royale: Kitano's (I assume) involuntary comedy. I swear, Kitano's death scene cracks me up every time - he's shot, stands up after a while, makes a philosophical talk, has an argument on the phone, eats a cookie, says the cookie is good, and then dies.
I am sure given Beat Takeshi's other work this scene is entirely intentional and probably has some deeper commentary I am too stupid to understand. XD
Exactly. I was saying "bitch???" the entire time.
That scene made me go from "Huh?" to "What?" to "REALLY?!" to "Is he dead NOW?!" to "That was absolutely GENIUS?!" to *Laughing non-stop for 5 minutes* to "Man, I really could go for a cookie right about now." The commentary totally went over my head when I wanted that cookie. Then I think I may have felt "survivor's guilt" when I went to eat the first cookie. I put it away. I still haven't looked at a cookie the same again. That movie really impacted my life.
In all seriousness though, Battle Royale was great, and that death scene was extremely well done, fitting in with the movie and Kitano's character quite well.
I think his character is one of the worst changes from the book aside from the stupid "transfer student" idea
Funny thing: Suzanne Collins was accused of plagiarizing Battle Royale when she wrote The Hunger Games. She claimed that she hadn't heard of Battle Royale until she heard that accusation.
Also, the books, as opposed to the movies, are actually very good.
...are they really tho
@@diegomorales7290they really are, especially if you can get past the idea that it popularized love triangles in YA when... It really didn't. The games almost serve as a backdrop for dealing with an immense amount of trauma, and how the overall arc is a serious mental toll on Katniss. One of the points of the "triangle" is a manipulator and incredibly toxic, and she has to deal with THAT on top of being the face of an uprising that she almost doesn't want to be a part of because she's terrified of who it's getting killed.
They're honestly worth a reread with the ideas of trauma and mental anguish in mind, because the subtext is there and I really don't recall the movies having any of it.
But, hey, I also totally understand if the writing quality just didn't vibe with you, and if that's the case then fair nuff!
@@jenoc3541the entire point of hunger games’ love triangle is that it is a fake ploy that the characters are forced into. it is never actually positioned as “team peeta vs team gale” in the text. and the worldbuilding / plot setup is insanely tight and interesting when you get into it.
I had never heard of Battle Royale until after Suzanne Collins got accused of ripping it off. But I ended up watching it later and it was pretty much nothing like Hunger Games. Aside from the idea of a death tournament I couldn't see enough similarities. Eragon ripped of Star Wars harder than that
I absolutely fucking LOVE Killing Bites. It’s so horrible, but there’s just something about it that’s just so fantastic. There’s just something about the Tier Zoo esque animal battle that turns my brain into goblin goo.
i'm happy to know i'm not alone in this one
All it really did was make me think back to the anime intro to Bloody Roar and wish that could've been a real thing.
it's the epitome of "dumb fun" to me. There are zero thoughts going on in that show, and every thought you have while watching it will detract from your viewing experience. However, if you can refrain from thinking too hard it is a DAMN good time. It's just a shame they never actually told us what killing bites was. I guess they're saving that reveal for the sequel that got teased but will never happen.
@@android19willpwn I mean there is the manga, which is equally dumb as shit but amazing.
@@android19willpwn That first sentence pretty much captures it. While watching it when it was seasonal, I described the series to a friend thus: "I can't explain why I like it, considering just about everything about it is the antithesis of what I typically enjoy, but I do. It's just plain hilariously dumb fun." The only real competition it has for me is Kakegurui.
You know, could you imagine a Battle Royale-style story involving several villains being forced into a battle royale.
I was scrolling past this and misread "villains" as "waifus". Which is also something you could imagine, but it would be a _very_ different anime.
@@timothymclean That one is called Magical Girl Raising Project. If you consider them waifus I suppose.
so deadman wonderland?
@@michealkackson5819 yeah but with more conventional villains rather than criminals.
I think it be interesting to have a Battle Royale with pastiches to slasher and monster movies like Nightmare on Elm Street and Alien.
Basically, it kinda been a through back to the Vs. era of monster movies, like Freddie vs. Jason or Alien vs. Predator.
The main character would be a horror movie fanatic who notices that the serial killings that are happening recently matchup with the killings in the horror movies he watches. He'd stumble in to a fight between two killers and learn that there is a Battle Royale with horror characters appearing in real life to continue there murder sprees and kill each other. So, he uses his meta knowledge of the monsters/slashers to defeat them.
Each episode would be titled ______ vs. ______ to show who the main monsters are that are fighting, but once the MC starts participating, his name is put in the episode titles.
It would be revealed in the back half of the season that the MC is a horror movie villain. He is a homage of Billy Loomis from Scream. This is why killing is easy to him and how he can participate in the Death Game. He would have become a masked killer if it weren't for the Battle Royale allowing him to feed his blood lust and horror movie obsession.
This would of course lead to the MC to do some self reflection.
I'd like a battle royale filmed like a documentary. There's no obvious heroes or villains. Definitely badass' and underdogs.
It cuts between each of the contestants based on who's doing anything interesting at the time.
All narrated by the dulcet tones of an Attenborough-ish host.
Next week on Nat Geo, we'll be exploring the suburban high rise-the natural environment of one of the game's deadliest predators the ex-NEET soccer mom.
Squid Game has some of those components
PUBG actually did something akin to that a few months ago as an advertising campaign. They put a lot of backstory through a realistic documentary style, making the Battlegrounds seem almost real
I mean, Punishment Park is like that. I enjoy that movie.
This is just total drama island as an anime
why they copying fortnite 😭😭😭
There were battle royales before Fortnite bro lmao
@@philo2189 r/woooosh
@@godzilla4189 god, whooosh is so over used I actually feel pain
@@philo2189 Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the joke flying over your head!
@@adrianruiz1139 you know what's funny? None of ya can tell me the joke.
5 Second Battlegame was... convincing the first dude that his quirk was "deadly" and "one of the strongest" and than keeping it that way for a long time probably the entire series. So despite his quirk seeming interesting at first they could have just given him that thing from the start and the story would have probably mostly played out the same.
He does swap abilities from time to time...
But its literally only when he meets a new enemy/person or when he's with one other specific person
Nah. That just hold true till team battle.
he might end up trying a different ability though
It’s better though because it keeps avenues open for creativity like the final battles in the series display.
Nah that's not it. was is the dealiest tho??
I love Mirai Nikki. It is exactly my kind of trash. It feels like the tournament arc of a typical shounen, but with all of the restraint removed. I know we've all been watching a shounen at some point and thought "there's no way these kids with fantastical powers they can't fully control don't occasionally end up killing eachother" - well, the battle royale death game trash anime is here to show what that world looks like when the deadly nature of dumbasses with superpowers isn't handwaved away.
Darwin's Game's manga is wild, from forming their own organisation, to the protag being isekai'd, to timeskiping, to fighting something that tries to destroy the world.
We need s2
reminds of "the time I was reincarnated into a battle royal secretly with the strongest skill, I will decimate my opponents with ease in another world"
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ok I may have made that up but it's totally plausible
For a moment there I really thought there is a series like this ｡ﾟ( ﾟ^∀^ﾟ)ﾟ｡
@@parabox8176 there is a battle royal death battle isekai but I think it's a comedy and I didn't read it
Too broad. Can you be more specific, please?
What does it say that I was surprised it wasn’t real?
If you've seen Gigguk's video about making AI-generated light novel titles, you know that any random stream of words that resembles a sentence is totally plausible as a realistic title.
I saw that bunny guy and immediately, IMMEDIATELY hollered at my ceiling "EQUAL OPPORTUNITY BUNNY OUTFIIIIIIITS"
My dream Battle Royale anime/manga would be one without a protagonist. So that you always have to guess who will win this battle.
it would bring a different kind of thrill if the outcome of every battle would be not that clear because the protagonist can't lose until the end if they lose.
Weirdly that's kinda how the Battle Royale novel works since almost everyone gets at least one chapter if not more and you could see several characters as protagonist types until they're killed and even near the end you don't know who is going to survive and how they best the game. Of course that only works if you haven't seen the movie.
Fate/zero?
The closest thing to that is
Records of ragnarok
Wasn't Juuni Taisen just that? Or was it just me being oblivious? 😅
Records of Ragnarok is great, I love how every fight has me guessing who wins. Just avoid the anime adaptation.
I tried Fate a few times but every time I get a flood of anime/manga that all play in different times or settings and I am confused.
I heard that Fate/Zero is the best but I also heard that the ending is not finished. So I have patience and wait.
Juuni Taisen is something I have seen but I will check it out, thanks for the recommendation. But I heard that you know who dies because it always that one hat gets his backstoy in the episode.
High Rise Invasion actually got me into anime for the most part. I had seen Death Note, Perfect Blue and Shin Chan, but not much else. Overall didn't like anime. Then I just threw on High Rise Invasion one day and I was hooked. Now I recognize how silly it is, but it's still fun and I appreciate it for what it is.
Underated comment...
Funny you say that, HRI also got me into anime. I had only seen a few snippets of anime here and there but wasn’t too into it. Then bam, HRI got me into it.
High rise is fun. I enjoy it
man, I used to follow high rise's manga religiously until it completely dropped the ball on the late game and idk got axed or something
this video was worth it just for hearing geoff say the word "BTOOOM!"
The power to have every power your opponent thinks you have sounds fuqing awesome.
Maybe not for the one who has it if he is as dumb as I am but the implications for mind games and creative storytelling XD
Just spread rumors about how much OP shit you can do and the powers will compound from there as exaggeration takes hold.
Yeah
Honestly this is the best power in the whole series, followed by "copy any ability at 1/10th its power", "your bodily fluids are torture devices" and "copy and merge other abilities". Every other ability is uninspired or a knockoff version of another existing shonen power.
Like, one person literally has Burning Down The House as a power lol
@@jonathand.t.5051 would you recommend the show?
@@MrSeuchenratte I dont watch it, I read it lol.
Its alright. Its the media equivalent of eating at a Mickey Ds.
Its actually prety easy to use that power as long as the enemy isn't a retard
Here me out Geoff
1) I am pretty sure that everyone here wants that in-depth roast of King's Game. Like, right now. It's my lowest rated anime of all time to the point that I couldn't follow my usual adage of "Search for the small bits of good' because it was just so fucking bad I couldn't watch It entirely It without serious effort.
2) Darwin's Game is probably the unironic best BR anime I have seen. No seriously, I rewatched it recently after the season It came out in and I enjoyed It even more. That shit is fun. Dumb as most stories in the subgenre are, but still hella fun.
I mean, just look at the cast of characters and how their powers are used.
The murder-waifu has the basic shtick of "absurdly sharp, long and tough chains" but she uses them better than spiderman ever used his power.
The small-girl-must-protect is an info broker with future reading abilities based on pseudoscientific stuff and snipes people.
The plant villain-ally dude Is actually scary and gave me plenty of ideas for DnD enemy druids.
The MC has probably the best rip-off of Unlimited Blade Works and one that actually understand how to make guns cool in a show without putting supernatural powers.
And then there is the tough big boi whose power is reading people bs. And carrying huge machine guns and ridicolously tough kevlar body armor.
C'on, it's several steps above most of the genre
Agree with all of this 100% except I actually watched all of King's Game. No idea what possessed me to do it but the stupid as ending made the whole thing worthwhile because I was just laughing my ass off by the end.
@@authorRisenfromash The ending seems to be the point if everyones criticism, while I did not enjoy it I don't really see how people can give it the super low ratings just because of that considering the state of the anime market at the moment, if it was a 2 then about 50% of the rest is below zero imo. I think it had plenty of redeemable features but idek, maybe that's because I knew of the poor reception in advance and had low expectations.
When he mentioned Fate being better than the other series he had talked about I was a little surprised, because I thought Darwin's Game was just as good as any of the Fate shows. Heck, I personally enjoyed Darwin's Game even more than Fate Zero, even if I agree they are about equal in terms of overall quality. Maybe it's just that Ufotable magic that makes him remember it better lol.
I agree, I had so much fun with Darwin's Game the season it came out!! I was expecting to drop it pretty early on but the show just knew how to keep being entertaining.
I am truly anticipating the King's Game roast. He mentioned it in another roast of another anime two years ago and I truly thought he forgot.
I really enjoyed "Alice in borderland". It's a nice Japanese Battle Royale.
Wait, that wasn't Korean?
not anime tho. Some games required teamwork where some actually needed you to pit against your teammates.
Alice in Borderland is death game, not BR. There were only 2 or 3 games that were actually formatted as a somewhat BR position. Really tho, it really struck me as very similar to The World Ends With You in a lot of ways lol
The show was great and arguably chose the correct time to end as the manga ending (as I found out having rushed to read after binging the show) is absolute garbage made even more insulting by the main antagonist spouting way more interesting endings before the ultimate f*ck you from the author.
@@alexandergifford there's gonna be a season 2
Yuki: acts like a normal defenceless 14 year old would
Everyone: *Surprised Pikachu face*
Finally someone realized that
Which is so funny coming from people who like Evangelion because the main defense to how useless and annoying Shinki is precisely "well, any other 14 year old would act the same if they were put into that situation! You can't hate him for that!"
It's easy to act like Rambo, Light Yagami and Rick Sanchez in one person when you are not just a depressed and lonely kid who's been told by his imaginary friend that 12 people in his city randomly decided to hunt and kill him just because your imaginary friend told them to do. Also, everyone who you will try to be nice to will use, betray and try to kill you at a moment's notice. Even your own father.
@@HellNutcaseThe issue though is that trying to apply so much realism to a scenario that is utterly ridiculous may not work for a lot of people. While yeah he’s a defenseless 14 year old and at the start that makes sense, it becomes increasingly aggravating as you continue watching. It may not really provide a compelling or interesting story depending on who’s watching. Meanwhile others may like the different take, especially for a protagonist in a realm of protagonists who are 15 and have to deal with thousands of deaths.
Looking forward to the king's game roast and the vid about how to make better battle royales!
Acting as if the mc in "Battle in 5 seconds after meeting" wasn't a complete sociopath who only uses the people around him as chess pieces. I see.
thats what makes him so good tho, it gets annoying when every mc in battle royale anime act like shinji
I don't know that he's a sociopath, but I deeply appreciate the way his character takes initiative and has a personality. I'm kinda sick of the "good guy who does good things" protagonist, tbh.
I actually liked Mirai Nikki a lot. I enjoyed all the edge. The whole "I have to be nice to the psycho or I'll die, but I see her humanity and that makes me feel for her but she's still a psycho" gave me intense emotions. I think the strategy was interesting and fun. It's not thematically deep or says anything very profound, but I really like it and think it's really good. Then again, I'm a very "no such thing as a guilty pleasure, if you enjoy it it's good" person and I understand why people might not like it and consider it trash. No hard feelings or judgement
I feel like mirai nikki is the best battle royale because it takes itself seriously enough with very little unecessary padding and terrible tropes
It has a real focus on the humanity of it's characters and that is what makes it good.
@@HeidelmannDoes it really though? I’m not so sure about that, but hey it’s been ages since I’ve seen it.
I remembered it as Edge: The Anime and that one kid you shot up his doll in the op because of memes.
"I didn't put the King's Game because I plan on giving it it's proper roast in a focused video."
Bless you.
1:24 the most well-written run-on sentence I've heard in a while. I'm pretty sure the last one came from this channel x3 I feel productive for holding my unacademic, unemployed brain in focus in that way!
That BTOOM title reading was magical!
After watching this I'm just thinking "how fun would it be to mix the death game/battle royale genre with Digimon?"
n onono. even better, make a battle royale where everyone has a pokemon, but instead of actual good ones, everyone has garbage like sunkern, magikarp, pidgey, and chikorita. would be hilarious.
@@clover9812 It's called a Nuzlocke.
Pretty sure that already exists, though it's been radio silent for years now.
Just dont let leomon die again
@@revoe5522 but that's a staple of Digimon, he HAS to die
Really wish Killing Bites had gotten an English dub/sequel. Was a fun popcorn anime that blue-balled everyone so hard with its cliffhanger of an ending.
definitely an awesome watch, closest thing we're ever going to get to a Bloody Roar anime too most likely
After finishing the show, I went and read the manga. Unfortunately it’s still in production and iirc (it’s been a couple years at this point) chapter releases are kinda slow.
Maybe it’s improved since 2019. Idk. I might reread it at some point in the future
To make Yuki bearable headcannon him as a closeted gay dude. And imagine Yuno as a stand-in for his battle with comphet. It kinda falls apart towards the end but makes most of the show a lot more bearable
The manga of Darwin's Game is unironically good, imo. I've had fun reading and re-reading it, going through the events and characters, who are actually well-written for this type of story. There's close to no ridiculous nonsensical shit, with every event, plotpoint or arc being competently written, explored, hyped up, and concluded, while making it connect to the previous and future events, making things feel connected. Also, the characters are much smarter than most in other BR shows, while being badass all the same.
I dont remember anything from ihghrise invasion except for the first introduction of mcs brother because i found it somewhat funny seeing her describe all his good traits and jumping to him slowly cracking open the head of a mask dude with a sledgehammer after every described character trait... also snipernask has a sexy voice
Future diary not good? Dude this show is such a fun Rollercoaster. Every few years I'll show it to a new buddie and get wrapped up into it again. It single handedly got be back into anime in a time where I had pretty much forgotten about it. I really dig this show.
It has some.. Good parts. Most is quite bad. The characters suck, the overall plot is just a big and stupid mess, the ending sucks and Yuki is the worst protagonist of all time. Fight scenes are quite good though.
I liked this show alot. I didnt know it was perceived as cringe worthy but then again im not a super big anime fan. Maybe is should keep Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya to myself then.
I mean, it's a fun, silly teen story. It's just not written with a lot of effort or care. But it's basically competent and has a lot of fun insanity.
@@wolfrex2721 There are far worse main characters. Kazuya and jesus kun for example
That's the second time I've heard someone bring up Juuni Taisen this week. I didn't know it was a Nisioisin story, but that makes a lot of sense actually.
As soon as you know that fact, the eventual winner becomes severely obvious by sheer resemblance to Koyomi from Monogatari
Future Diary is a guilty pleasure of mine, fun show, interesting battles, entertaining Yandere, weakest part is Yuki for sure. I actually got emotional when 9th dies.
I'll say Zodiac War (Juni Taisen) has some great animation and does get to the point, but it left me dissatisfied as the battles are really short and multiple episodes are spent introducing characters with long backstories only for them to die in a short fight the very next episode.
I really wish there was a list of the anime mentioned in the description. There are so many thrown out in this I cant remember half of them.
An in-depth roast of King's Game? Yes, please! Especially if it includes every other manga that's gone by the title or premise, because there are a surprising number of them out there (and they're all bad).
I really like high rise invasion. There's just some braindead fun to be had there
I liked mirai nikki because its one of the first and incidentally few battle royale anime that actually had a pretty satisfactory ending(if you liked yuno).
With or without the OVA?
@@janisir4529 Yes That is the fork in the road for fans. I think the creators were just trying to appease some of the fans that weren’t happy with the “unhappy” ending, even though Yuki deserved it, by acting like a coward for most of it. I do go back to the manga as that’s really something else.
8:44 hard disagree. while she's not an incredibly written character by any standard her most important traits do not stem from her childhood abuse but from (SPOILER i guess??) from her experiences during the first round of battle royale where she got close to and losing the original yuki
I am so glad you finally covered Mirai nikki properly it is my first ever proper watch and I still love it years later, btooom is even better and oh my goodness it doesnt get enough coverage
I'm gonna sound like a loser.
I like battle royale anime cause they have interesting powers.
Otherwise all they do is make me depressed. (I know I'm baby)
"Oh boy i love these characters in deadman wonderla- and they're all dead or insane now....great.."
but looking at the powers and how they're used and who has them are great inspiration for
D&D campaigns.
and now they've finally made the kings game video!
High Rise invasion started pretty intense then it lost all tension when a girl with a phone can control a tower that shoots giant lasers
I will say though I do like the ending twist in Future Dairies though
even if a lot of decisions are super questionable
Since you made that video about returning to Manga recently, I highly recommend you read the BTOOM!! manga, the MC totally knows it's real life, and he just rolls with it. It's been a while since I read it, but I think that the head injury is only used as the "I don't know how I got here" framing device and is only brought up when some exposition is needed.
One of the best plot twists in anime history 🔥👌
"[King's Game] really deserves its own in depth roast" Oh my god I need this roast yesterday. It was one of the first "death game" anime as I call the subgenre that I watched once I started getting into said genre & CHRIST
Mirai Nikki is my favorite anime, I know it isn’t perfect but I would say it is well written
Edit: spoilers for mirai nikki:
I think the primary reason for Yuno being insane is that she has suppressed memories from another timeline, I might be thinking wrong tho
honestly it's fun ott edginess.
I love Mirai Nikki so much I'm not even joking. Recently rewatched it for the first time in almost a decade and it was an absolute blast.
Killing bites is still going in the manga although slowly. And while I haven’t seen Mirai Nikki, I’m aware of the OVA
Future Diary is great idc what anyone says It's among my favorites
I love the way you say BTOOOOM! with such gusto every time it comes up.
I know I'm super late, but I will die on the hill that Magical Girl Raising Project is a legitimate masterpiece, animation quality aside. Don't let the title fool you, MGRP is definitely not a mahou shoujo anime; it's a death game through-and-through where all the participants just so happen to be magical-girls.
Every character is memorable and unique, and that even includes the earlier casualties. (Two of the earlier victims spring to mind, but I shan't name them because I'm not going to spoil who survives and who doesn't.) The character designs are the most unique (and dare I say cosplayable) magical-girl outfits I've ever seen. Puffy dresses and random tokusatsu elements are out; dog costumes, school swimsuits, habits, cowgirls and literal androids are in!
The soundtrack is amazing. "Hotel Priestess's Decisive Battle" (the OST that accompanies my favorite fight in the series) and "Sweeping Force" (which usually plays when a character dies) are particular favorites of mine.
All of the (dub) actors are giving it their all; for as many problems as I have with Funimation, giving Ruler and Calamity Mary British and southern-US accents respectively is not one of them. Can't speak for the sub as I haven't watched it, but if the character song album is anything to go off, their voices are fine in Japanese too.
Given the premise of a mobile game granting the participants their powers, the series uses video-game mechanics in an interesting way, unalike so many isekai and fantasy anime which have stats screens and level-ups for who knows what reason.
And I've heard from several light novel-readers that the series only gets better after the first arc; in-fact the first arc seems to have a similar reception to JoJo part 1 (in that it's enjoyable but fairly generic, and is supposedly worse than every other arc by miles).
Also Tama is best-girl and must be protected at all costs.
On the other end of the scale, Killing Bites is the only anime I've ever dropped mid-first episode. 🤣
thank you for justifying my love for mirai nikki, it slaps in the dumbest ways possible
agreed it's so amazing.
Mirai Nikki was my first Edgy Anime and I'm so happy for that fun ride lmao
It's just an incredibly fun show
This is reminding me that I still need to read the Gleipnir manga.
I love Mirai Nikki, but you're absolutely right. Yuno hard carried the show.
I am ready and willing to defend Mirai Nikki as something with at least passing value beyond the horrific violence
Being conceived was the first battle royale you ever won.
I feel the concept of Original Character Tournaments puts an interesting twist on the battle royal formula, because each character involved really does have their own story. Of course, the quality varies wildly just like with anime, but there are some real gems you can find.
(Also, shout out to Juni Kaisen for inspiring me to start making animations.)
Thanks for reminding me that High Rise Invasion kicks soooooo much ass. It's my favorite anime this year so far, and honestly one of the best SHOWS I've seen this year alongside Amphibia, Owl House and Kid Cosmic, not even joking. It's basically unusally charming iwth it's quicky, yet at times kinda dark humor, that it actually amkes itself FUN, some the characters (Yuri, Majuko, Sniper Mask, for starters) are actually great, that show is just so much damn fun. Netflix, give it a second season NOW.
It's only major drawback is that...yeah, it's done by an unknown animation studio, so it can look a tad...cheap at times, but they do try their best.
The other major drawback is that the story fell off at the end.
@@warpspeedscp Ah, dang, how much does it fall off? Let me guess; Yuri and Majuko DON'T end up together at the end?
@@mesousagaby740 I dont quite remember but the plot gets pretty incomprehensible. I need to give it another read, I really do love the premise and the characters a lot still.
@@warpspeedscp Considering it has a "becoming a God" plot, I shouldn' t be surprised. I kinda hope that it's done in a tongue-in-cheek way, since the show itself was.
@@mesousagaby740 the manga played it pretty straight i think. I should give the anime a watch
Damn it, Geoff. :) I just can't keep up with all of these but keep it coming. Your suggestions have saved me a ton of time and helped me find some great entertainment. Thank you!
Edit: Apologies for the earlier misspelling. No disrespect intended.
Yuno is the beat part about Mirai Nikki. I could rewatch it time and time again just for her.
I'm a real big fan of this genre. The biggest reason is that I like the challenge aspect of writing something like this: Make a good story and make as many good characters from an ensemble as you can while also systematically killing them off in a game with rules to be followed and twisted; even if the contestants don't end up dying- which I think is often used in these shows since it's "The Utlimate Consequence"- I still find plenty of unironic enjoyment out of them. That's probably why I like Slasher films, Harper's Island, Another (Yukito Ayatsuji's story), and Total Drama too, even if they don't really succeed in that aspect a lot of the time and are better watched ironically
If I could recommend some games with this kind of formula. the Zero Escape trilogy (I think MB has mentioned playing them before), Lost Dimension (really generic title I know), and the Head AS Code trilogy (British) also have a similar battle royale/death game thing going on and are imo heavily underrated
The World Ends With You and Fire Emblem have some similarities with what I like about this genre, but they're both really popular and Fire Emblem just has the "ensemble w/ quality characters that can die at any moment" part to it
The Culling Game in JJK is really shaping up to be an absolute banger of a battle royale arc right now.
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Oh, fuck. I love how you said "Wahrheit Zuerst" XD
Can’t wait for mother’s basement to talk about the Star Wars anime when it comes out
the adaptation for "High-rise Invasion" probably disappointed many of the manga fans.
I'm one of them
I enjoyed the animation, you suggest reading the manga?
@@morgianasartre6709 yes...., Yes I do.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I am quite glad that they actually put in the time to adapt it, but come on.
Hmm...well you do have a point there. I honestly love Darwin's game..maybe it's because of the animation or the strategy in what they do..plus seeing how Darwin's game can be activated by using your phone in a app..and you know how much people love their phones. It kinda has it's own flare..to a extent. Plus the protagonist ability of summoning weapons like Unlimited Blade Works helps a lot.
I really want to hear you talk about Fate at some point.
I just noticed you started playing Formaggio's theme in the background during Yuno's part. +5 respect
I dunno if this is ever something you'll circle back to, but I'd love a breakdown of the anime that do this well.
Haven't been a fan of Battle Royal manga/anime in a long time honestly. The last one I watched was Darwin's Game, because Geoff said it was stupid fun.
It was and I did indeed enjoy it.
"voiced by -insert name youve never heard before- which should tell you everything you need to know"
No, it really doesn't LMFAO.
What was that era again where you see every iteration of yuno in someone's bio or profile pic? Bro I think that was the time where larping is very rampant, so you'd see people acting like a yandere for no reason at all. Good lord that was over with
the Modern era
@@catharinrin Its not over it has just begun
I was gonna ask if there are any death game anime where the protag is totally on board and murking fools from minute one, and their arc recolves around finding something that motivates them to make some real human connection and reign it the heck in.
Then I realized I was describing SAO: Abridged.
Also Black Lagook even tho it isn't really a Battle royale
Yeah, personally, I don’t find the concept of “Battle Royale” to compelling enough on its own as a plot structure. If it’s only part of a larger narrative, like confined to a single arc, then it’s tolerable for me. If the entire story is based around it, I couldn’t care less.
So this was the warning for King’s Game that I missed all those years ago
there's also a Tokusatsu show with battle royale elements: Kamen Rider Ryuki, which is said to have inspired the Fate series.
I was looking for this comment
Almost surprised not to see Sekirei mentioned here, since that takes the "yeah, this is just dumb fun" aspect of the genre to 11 by just *not caring* who dies, at least until the veiled lady shows up. Though I guess showing even short clips of its fight scenes could be, uh, "difficult" for TH-cam, given that the "dumb fun" in that case is less about the violence and more about the other taboo.
Btooom actually sounds like something I would like - very strict, immediately laid out rules that characters must work within and become incredibly creative because of it. I loved Ajin (the manga) for that exact reason
Yeah, it can be incredibly tasteless, but holy shit, when it's having fun, it has fun
So if battle royale anime are similar to the horror genre. What will the “Scream” of battle royale anime look like?
4:56 Holy hell i don't remember juuni taisen's animation looking that good when it first aired
The first half did. The second half didnt; clearly ran out of time/money/both and even keyframes that were stills were low quality and off-model.
Killing Bites is more entertaining than High-Rise. 😁
The fact that Squid Game it's basically a battle royale anime but without the Yuno clone
Finally a popular youtuber Finally mentions eden of the east, I liked that show alot when I first watched it and yet never heard anyone mention it
*sees title*
Might I add Sekirei to this? It's also a battle Royale, but with alien waifus with the harem tag attached. Also, it's set in a renamed Tokyo sometime in 2020.
Sekirei is a great example
@@mothersbasement Shame the anime didn't get renewed. The manga was good, though the ending was a bit eh.
Still my guilty pleasure.
I remember watching the movie Battle Royale and when Hunger Games came out I was like whattt they ripped them off. Little did I know the genre would take off so hard in media
Glad you didn't bring up Akuma no Riddle (not sure if it counts as a battle royale per se /shrug). Having a constant 1v1 to the death, but no one bloody dies, pissed me off to no end.
14:36 ahh, さすが Geoff. A Re:CREATORS reference: you are always a man of culture.
Sekirei wasn't mentioned and I'm still waiting on a 3rd season of that. the wings were beautiful and i wanted more!!! very awesome anime
Thanks for watching (and summarizing) this whole sub-genre, so that I don't have to.
Though I do look forward to the next time someone actually does it well.
I love The Future Diary, it’s a 10/10 for me
Waifu Norman Bates is one of the most loaded descriptions I think I've ever heard...
Man, I remember the days when Yuno Gasai was peak waifu material. Like, christ, I never understood how that happened.
It's the fashionable accessories she has.
I’m surprised you didn’t talk about the masterpiece Handshakers.
Okay now I need a vid where you rag on Mirai nikki