Tomodachi Game
 

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Looks like Tomodachi Game is getting an anime adaptation.

Synopsis

Anime domain registered

http://tomodachi-anime.com

Spring 2022 airing confirmed

https://twitter.com/tomodachi_anime/...87877529210888

Crunchyroll announced for streaming

https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-ne...e-at-anime-nyc

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I mean it can't be "stupid death game" when there is no death...

Not sure if I'm feeling this; its somewhere between Danganronpa and Kakegurui so far... and it apparently takes place in the same room as Euphoria, so... yeah. I might give it another episode, or I might not.

Ohh yeah, that's one reason this wasn't as funny as Ousama Games. No people dying in weird ways yet.

I think the first game is quite ingenious.

At first it would seem that your main purpose should be to just answer "yes" and get -2M to the overall debt.

But when you think more deeply about it, the point isn't to win the game, the point is to reduce the debt as much as possible. And Manabu-kun has said, during this episode, that in each game you get a chance to reduce the debt even more. And also that in this game it's absolutely vital to trust your friends.

So, if your purpose is to reduce the total debt to zero and provided you have absolute trust on every participant, the optimal strategy isn't to answer "yes" to the first question, that only nets you 2M.

The actual optimal strategy is to say "no" to the first 4 questions and "yes" to the last question.

That way 4 persons get their debt halved -2M to each, and then each person gets -400k for winning the game on the last question. That's a total of -10M.

In other words you could halve the whole debt on the first game alone. The only problem is of course that the last reader will have 3,6M to pay while everyone else only have 1,6M. But again if you trust your friends you would reason in terms of overall debt and not individual debt.


The funny thing here is that maybe that's what Yuuichi's friends were thinking, I mean it's not likely given the story, but it's funny to think that there's an entire possibility where there's no traitor just people playing the optimal strategy and the MC is just being paranoid and stupid.

I've not seen the other animes referenced by others in this thread, but I have seen Squid Game, so that was my first go to when I began watching Tomodachi Game.

Lot's of psychological scenarios and what-if vs what-should-happen motives at play here. It was an interesting premise for me and I'm going to continue watching to see how this all plays out.

Friends or money? Self preservation, group preservation, self sacrifice, scapegoating/abandonment? All of these I'm sure will be touched upon.

True, but another problem is that you can't trust that all the questions (with the added rules) are the same. The fact they can add secret rules like that is a major problem.

Well they woke up a beast sealed in yuichi, so let it bite in their asses.

I agreed on who left 2 millon yen in a locker just like that?, seriously...

Expected Squid Game and now I'm watching Mari Okada levels of teen melodrama. The game theory angle was somewhat intriguing but I don't think this is for me.

Seen the anime, I like how things are going, they explain the manga things well, let's see how they adapt what follows, wait for the next chapter.
Question for those who read the whole manga

The other, how many chapters will the anime have?.

Man, this is getting very complicated. At this point it's hard to think that there is even one person that isn't a traitor.

Yuuichi was the only one who revealed that his answer had a different condition that halved his debt, and there's simply no way that the other questions were normal. There must have been a reason for someone to choose "no", so at least someone other than Yuuichi had a similar condition. But at that point it's simply not plausible that only Yuuichi and conveniently the traitor had those, so it must have been all of them.


Anyway I'm not a big fan of this second game. How exactly can you strategize in that situation? In the end whatever you write you are at the mercy of someone else's decision.

Moreover I can't really fathom why they decided, at least openly, to keep writing blanks, even after Sawagiri got the lead. Even assuming everyone would simply do that (which obviously couldn't possibly happen at that point) that would simply lead to Sawagiri winning and leaving everyone else behind.

At this point question isn't who is "a" traitor, because there is certainly more then one NOW, but who is "the" traitor. You know one that roped everyone into it.

That could have been more than one too, Manabu never clearly stated that it was a single person that did that.

Let's say for example that two or more of Yuuichi's friends actually participated in this game before (and it was heavily hinted that they have been doing this game many times in the past with different groups) then they'd have a common interest in participating again to erase their debt and dump it all onto someone else.

The game has several conditions that allow for that to happen, so there could be very well two or more conspirators working together.

Also it's entirely possible that Manabu lied and there is no original traitor, but I guess that's unlikely.