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Sage Bastien

The number are actually the chapter haha I would say that sometime the way they protrait death in the LN are pretty gruesome

Sage Bastien

With my luck, i wouldnt dare to try those game lol

SleepyOldBear

Short version: My interpretation of the Yuki-Mishiro relationship in this show is that they are the antithesis of one another, so will inevitably clash due to their difference in values. Their rivalry is so intense because of Yuki challenging Mishiro as a leader, and then humiliates her in the Abandoned Building. Mishiro then sets Yuki on a pedestal and views her as her final goal, with intense feelings of admiration and hatred. Yuki clearly dislikes Mishiro from the offset, though develops a weird respect for her when she refuses help.

SleepyOldBear

Here's my longer breakdown by theme/arc: Characterisation and Identity: Mishiro: A very self-assured and has a strong belief that she is the best player in the game. She needs somewhere she can receive that constant validation. Mishiro was sold the idea by her agent that these games would allow her to be the best, so to find a natural talent like Yuki shattered her confidence. Yuki: A very cold, logical and detached. She doesn’t seem to care whether she lives or dies, and how she lives outside the games might point to her being severely depressed. We know she has the goal of 99 wins, but it doesn’t seem to ground her or provide a strong reason to live. Yuki also backs herself, and can be quick to judge others. Abandoned Building: Mishiro: Yuki challenging Mishiro’s decisions as leader, which turn out to be correct infuriates and embarrasses her to no end. Yuki coming to save her and taunting her whilst doing so was the last straw. Mishiro’s self-confidence shatters, and she starts to loathe Yuki. Beating her becomes her sole objective; Mishiro puts Yuki on a pedestal, viewing her as this natural genius that can only be reached by reinventing herself. She both loves and hates Yuki like she loves and hates herself. Yuki: When Yuki first meets Mishiro, the immediate personality clash and lack of trust shown in her experience causes Yuki to view her as inferior. When Mishiro refuses to apologise or accept her help, I think Yuki is taken completely aback by Mishiro’s pride and strength of character, so takes a strange attraction to her, despite finding her personality aggravating. Bath House game: Mishiro has spent the in-between period re-inventing herself and doing everything she can in order to beat Yuki in a climactic battle. Yuki here experiences a massive reality check when she gets her team murdered due to her lax approach to the game. They meet with the roles reversed, Yuki is at her lowest point here and Mishiro is here for her climactic showdown, so to see her rival run away scared for her life enrages Mishiro. Yuki was meant to be this perfect goal to attain, and now she shows herself to be a coward, meaning Mishiro has wasted all her time and energy.

Neila Reacts~

i m ngl, the anime didnt really do a good job at explaining that and it felt kinda rushed for them to have this intense rivalry.

Neila Reacts~

anime never explained that so i feel like only those who read the LN would get it

Neila Reacts~

ye i wouldnt do the game because i know i would be the first to be cooked lmao

RSquirrel

The other comments explain the relationship between the two so I’ll just talk about the actual setting. This is all interpretation from the anime with no LN context (I own them but haven’t read them yet). Going off the first line in the show as a basis “this is a story about a deranged world” and some of the lines said by the characters about people on the outside being insane, I think it is safe to say this takes place in a world where maybe death games are entirely normalised and accepted in society. Another this I noticed is the preservation treatment looking like cotton. I think it serves 2 purposes. The first to act as in world censorship, this would make it easier for the viewers to disassociate and treat the show as a show. The second being a way to fund the games. One thought I had while watching this was how do they afford all this and why do they all have to be pretty girls? The conclusion I came two is that they sell there corpses as premium dolls. This would make sense to me as when they die there insides would turn to cotton and almost any damage could be stitched together. I don’t know it this is also helpful for you but these details are one of the main things I enjoyed about this show. People call this a pretentious anime and if liking it makes me pretentious then I guess I’m a bit pretentious.

Neila Reacts~

the censorship thingy i did mention it the first time i saw it, about how we only see cotton but getting the second thought u had from the show doesnt really make sense since the anime itself doesnt tell u or like show it s ONLY pretty girls that r accepted (anyone can play the game since they all have different reaasons too) and also when i saw how they would recover their body parts that they lost in the first episode, i was thinking oh ok maybe u get hurt in the game but afterwards they heal u up to be back to normal? the girls also die in such brutal ways that sometimes i dont even think they would be able to harvest anything if u look at the way aoi or chie died. Even with the censorship, just because there s no blood, it doesnt mean the viewer doesnt HEAR the pain in their voices when they r dying so disassociation doesnt work anymore. the line of this is a story of a deranged world, no where in the anime do they explain it so all i got from it is that the game is their deranged world. i am not saying the anime has to like HOLD my hand when i m watching it but if i m left with questions unanswered before going to the next episode and then it just adds more questions because it s trying to be vague to "let" the viewer interpret it however they want then it s kinda oof to me. Just my honest opinion i also dont understand why people would even call this anime pretentious in anyway ngl

RSquirrel

IDK, this was just my interpretation when watching it. To me it just makes everything make sense under the caveat that this worlds ethics are vastly different from our worlds norms. And the cotton, when I said most can be made into dolls I meant most not all. And the disassociation, think of it in real life. You would be squirming and screaming at seeing someone chopped into chunks of meat and blood flying everywhere, but if you see what looks like a doll being torn up then you’ll get the sadness of watching a character die in a movie. There is another layer of separation as they have a screen in between them. If you have seen multiple of these games, and they are normalised to you. Then you might not feel it to be real until you’re in there for yourself, until you’re responsible. Anime is another layer that conditions the brain to accept awful things but of course this anime is taking things to extremes like most anime do but if the ethics are different then it makes sense. I wanted to type more, but I’m out of time. I don’t mean any offense by this.

Neila Reacts~

🤣🤣 no worries, I m not taking offense to this since I like seeing other people’s interpretation of the anime. I know I come off super mean via text but just know I m not mad or anything lol

VeeGee

Just as an FYI for Neila if she decides to finish this series. They made an hour and a half movie/special that's intended to watch after the original 11 episode TV anime. On streaming like Netflix and Crunchyroll it's there as "episode 12", but if on "other sites" it could be outside of the anime's episode count (I guess add the arc's name "Cloudy Beach" to look it up).

drZ

Honestly I wanted to disagree with the "antithesis" part but it seems to fit. I think they envy a certain part of each other. Yuki wants to be more than a ghost, so she admires someone who puts their ego over survival. Mishiro just hates losing and feels like losing control over her emotions is a weakness, so she admired the dispassionate ice queen.