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THE GAMES BEGIN ANEW!!!

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Christian Seibold

I feel like the biggest thing that explains some of the people coming back is that they didn't remember being there before until they actually got there again, if that makes sense. I do like the change in motivation with Arisu. It feels like his character has grown a lot over the time he was away in the real world - he's a counselor, has a wife, etc. And I think the way he approaches some of the people and talks to them is with greater confidence, using his experience as a counselor. I feel like because of this, Arisu is going to have very different responses in this season than he did in the past two. I expect that this season might ramp up at the episode 3 mark, because the first two seasons were also kinda like that too.

Steven W

Sister forgot about PEMDAS lol

JP

Super late but it seems you're hung up on why people would return to playing the games, but they keep repeating that no one really remembers. Almost as if there is a part of them that's just missing and some people move on from their original near death experiment, but for others like Usagi they can't let it go or something is driving their desires to have another experience to see what is missing. I'm sure you'll get others who are thrill seekers, but the majority of them didn't know what they'd be experiencing. Also you seem to be misunderstanding that the citizen choice would make them play the games all over again when citizens don't play the regular games, they set them up. So people who become citizens either want to control the games or like Kyuma and his friends or kurzuya, they feel more free in the borderlands and they use the games to understand people better or their motivations of what life is. I think the framing of the third season sort of works, but the emotional draw isn't as compelling as the original sequel in Retry. Retry wouldn't be adapted because it's so short and it's a single game, but the emotional draw is Arisu is driving to the hospital because Usagi is in labor only to get into a large car accident I believe with others and they are pulled into the borderlands. He basically remembers everything when he starts playing the game in order to return back to Usagi or else he risks making her a widow with a child. Him following Usagi is compelling, but the desperation isn't as pronounced because they're both in the games again. In the manga I believe people who died in a collective accident or in close proximity are pulled together so it makes more sense why multiple people get taken to the borderlands and why others dont