pretty sure there's some incest going on. Main character is clearly in love with her sister, and there's no indication she suddenly shifts into non-romantic feelings. Still, yuri romance or not, crap ending.

sorry looked at it again and you are right Yuri Girl 1001

It's still garbage yuri.

I'm just here wondering why they didn't even try to stop battle royals all together. Like do they even continue after this one? It's just so strange there's no real motive behind the battle royals now. The story could have been better if it was just a drama about a killer on the loose.

Yeah, in a super murderous free-for-all run by some organization that gives out wishes, you think they would mention a reason or that one of our victors would be interested in stopping those horrors, considering they should be pretty scarred for life from all that. Hard to root for protagonists who just... don't care about that in this sort of story? Imagine Naegi getting out of Dangan Ronpa and just chilling with his sister and ignoring everything else in the world.

...And I don't fully understand what happened with Karen at the end, why would You get to be on her own when Karen seemed willing to kill You if she left? So many questions.

We could make a better Yuri Killing Game (That would cool let's do that).

There's https://dynasty-scans.com/series/angel_game but it's subtext at best. It is an interestingly written take on a killing game though, it feels like everything left unanswered was done so purposely and I liked the ending in a way.

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Probably the best-written killing game I've read was The Long Walk, because there was actually an established setting that explained the existence of the game and what happened to winners and their wishes.

Most others just settle for some vague explanation "something for rich people to bet on" or "a method of the government exerting control" which always feels like a lame attempt to sidestep the real reason: "There is a killing game because you wanted to read about a killing game."

Here they author didn't even attempt to explain what's going on or why, which has the benefit of at least not insulting the reader's intelligence with an explanation that's obvious bullshit.

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Probably the best-written killing game I've read was The Long Walk, because there was actually an established setting that explained the existence of the game and what happened to winners and their wishes.

The Long Walk by Stephen King? Would you recommend it as a book itself or is it just good in comparison to most in the genre?

Most others just settle for some vague explanation "something for rich people to bet on" or "a method of the government exerting control" which always feels like a lame attempt to sidestep the real reason: "There is a killing game because you wanted to read about a killing game."

Here they author didn't even attempt to explain what's going on or why, which has the benefit of at least not insulting the reader's intelligence with an explanation that's obvious bullshit.

That's a very optimistic way of looking at it, I like looking at it that way. I hope one of these kids eventually wishes for the games to end, though. We didn't see what these two wished for, so maybe they wished for exactly that :D

...That's not what I've seen. From my hand, giving no explanation for the killing game just proves you have no investment in the story or characters.

...That's not what I've seen. From my hand, giving no explanation for the killing game just proves you have no investment in the story or characters.

In a good story, the setting evolves as an extension of the characters' interactions and progress. Often only part of the mystery is revealed, rooted in conveying a sense of the social and political conditions that could lead to such a thing.

On the other hand are series with sudden reveals leading to contradictory, internally inconsistent explanations. Or silly and convoluted explanations that feel like jokes.

If the writer goes out of their way to add some stupid reveal with a half-assed explanation, it only makes the story worse. A good explanation is better than no explanation, but a bad explanation is worse than nothing. In this story, the characters are forced into some horrible circumstances without knowing why. It's perfectly reasonable that the characters never learn the reason behind their torment, and thus we don't either.

The worst part of this series was the ending, starting with Komiyama's betrayal and bullshit reveal. Do you really think more of that would have improved this story?

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...That's not what I've seen. From my hand, giving no explanation for the killing game just proves you have no investment in the story or characters.

In a good story, the setting evolves as an extension of the characters' interactions and progress. Often only part of the mystery is revealed, rooted in conveying a sense of the social and political conditions that could lead to such a thing.

On the other hand are series with sudden reveals leading to contradictory, internally inconsistent explanations. Or silly and convoluted explanations that feel like jokes.

If the writer goes out of their way to add some stupid reveal with a half-assed explanation, it only makes the story worse. A good explanation is better than no explanation, but a bad explanation is worse than nothing. In this story, the characters are forced into some horrible circumstances without knowing why. It's perfectly reasonable that the characters never learn the reason behind their torment, and thus we don't either.

The worst part of this series was the ending, starting with Komiyama's betrayal and bullshit reveal. Do you really think more of that would have improved this story?

I think it needed to be longer, and the characters introduced needed to not just be throw-aways. Like that bear hoodie girl who was built up and then offed so suddenly, or those girls introduced at the end who existed solely to give to antagonist a reason to turn on the protagonist and prove that she was indeed evil.

I think it needed to be longer, and the characters introduced needed to not just be throw-aways. Like that bear hoodie girl who was built up and then offed so suddenly, or those girls introduced at the end who existed solely to give to antagonist a reason to turn on the protagonist and prove that she was indeed evil.

The most jarring thing was how many characters were brought in just to be immediately killed off even though they looked interesting. I feel like they could have managed the short length if they didn't waste so many pages doing that multiple times. It didn't add to anything, and it didn't help make the atmosphere feel any more dreadful after the first one.

It feels really rushed as everyone was saying. Too much characters just showed up and died almost immediately with little to no background on who they were. No reason was given why the organization does these school battle royale, just to give two girls a wish? Uh.. What?

In the end, it seems that Karen set it up so that she and You can win but didn't really matter when to her when they instead went out the passage since she's getting You anyway. I was expecting Marika and Akane to end up together and they did one way or another, just not romantically. Kind of sweet how they remained loyal (?) to their partners after the years. The hairstyle swap though and the scars were a nice touch.

Okay, I think that's all missing pages accounted for.

Hah, they exchanged hairstyles

Akuma no Riddle did this concept wayyyy better. This was a mess honestly and cause I hate incest generally, the sister reveal was bleh. Jesus what is with all of these people killing each other left and right; they don't even have a reason to do so like the academy's assassins did. From what I remember no one even dies in Akuma no Riddle. Now I remember why I stopped reading after the first chapter. I guess I thought maybe it'd redeem itself.

I just read this and immediately though “wtf? This was so fucking stupid!”
Idc much about the sister reveal, but the Karen thing was just stupid. Wtf even happened between Karen and You in the three year timeskip!? We can see in the epilogue that You leaves Karen a note(at least I’m interpreting it that way) and then Karen gets comforted by the long light haired girl whose name I’m not even gonna bother trying to remember. The game ends and then You is with Karen for three years? Why does Akane even worry about interfering with Karen’s happiness? She’s fucking stole You and arranged for the event to happen to all of them

ALSO...
Why was You with Karen for three years? What kept her from leaving sooner Why did Akane even stay with that long haired girl for three years anyway? The leaps in logic and lack of information piss me off so damn much. I have read series I didn’t like, I’ve read series that have pissed me off. But even then I could accept it and give the author a break for whatever reason. But this time, I just want to know WTF the author was thinking!? I’m sorry to anyone else who has read this and I’m even more sorry to those who will read it in the future. I’m going to do my best to forget this one and never think of it again

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meh

This is some of the worst pacing I've seen in my life. None of these characters are fully developed, they're just a bunch of cardboard cutouts. And the reveal flattens out any kind of complex feeling we might have derived from You and Akane into sisterly love. If this went the incest route, I might have respected it even if I wouldn't enjoy it, but there is not a single interesting thing going on here. I expect my fluff to be more interesting than this, let alone something selling itself as a classroom death game drama.