The problem is, they never stop adding new concepts, even until the final episode. There’s a lot going on in this show, it’s chaotic, which is good because chaos is my middle name. It’s also a dueling arena, a power struggle between clans, a citywide scavenger hunt, and it grants every player a random superpower known as a Sigil. Players enlist to earn cash money and to get away with murder. The titular death game everyone plays, shortened to D-Game, is a fight to the death downloadable right on your phone. So I prepared to suspend my disbelief, but nothing could prepare me for what I
I expected it to be dumb, shlocky, and nonsensical, which has never stopped me from enjoying an anime before. And by we, I do mean me, so take a seat and let me tell you why this anime is crap.ĭarwin’s Game tries to pass itself off as a battle royale, one of my favorite sub-genres, but it really isn’t. But because of an anime called Darwin’s Game, we need to talk about them.
Logic, reason, reality… these are things I simply do not care about. However, the pleasant surprise is short-lived, as his in-game opponent unexpectedly appears right in front of him and attempts to hunt him down with a knife.Īs he desperately runs for his life, Kaname puts two and two together and realizes that Darwin's Game is not an ordinary game, but rather, it's a brutal fight for survival. As the application appears to be just like any other battle game, Kaname breathes out a sigh of relief and decides to start his first match. Unfortunately, his curiosity gets the better of him and he uses the application once again. Although he is puzzled by what has happened, he dismisses the surreal experience as a hallucination and boards the train home. Waking up in the infirmary without any signs of a snake bite, he is told by the school to take the rest of the day off. However, as soon as he opens the application, a green snake suddenly pops out from his phone screen and bites his neck, leaving him unconscious.
High school student Kaname Sudou receives an invitation from a classmate to play Darwin's Game, a mobile game he has never heard of.