Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
akmoid3
Ousama Game The Animation is truly a masterpiece… and by masterpiece I mean a chaotic rollercoaster that somehow keeps you glued to the screen while you question every life decision that led you to press “play.” And honestly? That’s exactly why it deserves a 10/10.
The anime throws you straight into a mysterious and extremely questionable situation that somehow keeps getting more intense. Every episode raises the tension and also raises the number of times you say, “What is going on?” But instead of stopping, you just keep watching.
The characters are… memorable. Not because they always make the best choices (they absolutely do not), but because their reactions make the whole experience even more entertaining. Watching everything unfold feels like witnessing pure chaos, and somehow that…
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King's Game is hilarious for all the wrong reasons. This anime is so bad that it's good, the best way to enjoy this is to get some friends together so you can make jokes at King's Games expense. The twists are so hilariously predictable, and the way side characters will switch up out of nowhere and for no reason other than to make our main character more tragic is so funny. Characters will do bad things and no one will care, but if the main character, Nobuaki, does it everyone will start beating him up. But don't think that when a character ends up disrespecting Nobuki they won't get punished, because they'll die the worst death imaginable. Those death scenes are so over-dramatic that they end up being funny.
Kenta is the best character, he is Nobuaki's yes man. If Nobuaki told him that Sa…
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In spite of it's rating, this is my favorite anime of all time.
Horror is a genre that does not generally fare well among anime fans, however this gem remains hidden by its poor ratings.
This show excels at its character development. By the end of the show, the characters have all been thoroughly explored and we get to see that many of them are fighting to survive for more than just their own sake and many of them are willing to sacrifice themselves to save their friends.
Honestly not sure why this one got such a bad score from others. It goes up there with Higurashi as a show that is crushing but amazing at the same time.
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Going by a majority of these reviews, Ousama Game may well be one of the worst animes ever listed. And you know what? They are probably right. Well, objectively, anyway. But watching anime has never been about objectivity.
Allow me to make a case for it:
That perhaps it is never meant to be evaluated in the context of every Battle Royale survival anime (or whatever sub-genre you like) there is. Perhaps it can be appreciated simply because it is the best adaptation of the source material we have.
Both stylistically and narratively, the anime version improves leaps and bounds upon the live action film. There are three major differences that to me substantially elevated the experience:
[Stylistic spoilers below]
1. In the anime, we are brought right away into a vibrant world, an attractive…
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Such a let down. The concept was great and this could have been good but the biggest problem in my opinion was the characters. The protagonist was very annoying. He was very corny, and if he knew how to talk to people he wouldn't have to play the crappy savior by himself.
The antagonist, they weren't a problem, they did a good job of making me dislike them, BUT the way the other characters react to the antagonist actions was very dumb and not realistic. People are not gonna just sit there and watch someone do evil things right in front of them, especially when it affects them. Example (this didn't happen in the anime) bad person tells my friend to jump off a cliff because they are a loser, I'm not gonna just sit there and watch my friend jump off the cliff with out trying to physically st…
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In Defense of Kings Game
Alrighty, I know I am very late to this anime. Like really late, but I just had to conjure up a review of this anime to defend it against its haters. Now, by no means am I saying this anime is a masterpiece, but I want to point out the fact that a 5/10 on MyAnimeList does it no justice. It does not deserve a 5/10. However, I can see why this anime gets a bad rep from people. It's because they're either a 13 years old kid that has never seen worse than a butterfly in anime or they watched the first 5 minutes and called it quits. The main problem people point out is that there are too many flashbacks but really they work though. It simultaneously tells the story of the previous kings game and the story on beating the game; it works that way, trust me. Secondly, peop…
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I'm going to keep this review short and simple. This anime is like Saw the movie but a retarded version of it. Watch it only if your bored out of your mind. you may get a laugh or two but most likely you will end up annoyed with it like I did.
Good luck lol
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Dammit, why are they making me write a longer review? Ok, fine then. It did start out with promise but the mc pissed me off several times were I kinda wanted him to die. He's not a bad person so don't get me wrong. Just a dumbass. At least there were some cute anime girls in it and a few sex scenes that will maybe perk your interest. Either wa…
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If there existed such thing as an anime definiton of "dreadful/pathetic", it's Ousama Game. No need to write a detailed review.
The only SOMEWHAT mediocre part of this anime is the "story" and they managed to make it incredibly unappealing the longer it went on. However if you came here expecting to find some answers to this thing's "story", you're in tough luck. You aren't getting them. Because they were never given...
The animation was so poor that sometimes you could actually count frames. Horrendous art style that sorely lacked detail. Some sound effects were okay-ish but I can't remember ANY tune from the OST. They're that unmemorable.
The characters.....oh boy. I don't think I've ever found characters more stupid than the ones in this show. It amuses me that as the episodes passed…
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Stunning. This show is the breath of fresh air the anime industry needed. Never before have I seen a show go to such lengths to cover its bases. The voice acting, music production, even the screen lighting is some of the most top notch work I've seen in a very long time. A few weeks back, I mentioned in an article that I had started Ousama Game over a decade ago and dropped it because it bored me. To anime fans, this is about the same as saying, “I really love the Bible but I am not keen on this whole God character.” Boy was I wrong. Putting off the masterpiece of Ousama game was the single greatest mistake of my life. A lot of people tell me that Ousama game is what got them into anime. And it's easy to see why: It's nothing like the vast majority of American cartoons of its time. Ousama…
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Okay so I'm only giving this a 1 because that's the lowest score available. This is the first time ever I'm writing a review and I thought I just HAD to after miraculously finishing this pile of shit. I hope my review can save people from wasting their time on watching this.
before this came out, the summary seemed promising, I was pretty excited, but the more I watched the more disappointed I got, by the 4th episode I completely lost hope that they will make anything good out of this, and it just kept getting worse afterwards. they just gathered up a bunch of characters whom they didn't even introduce properly and then killed in "brutal" ways, though I gotta say the art and the sound and the pseudo dramatic actions of the characters made the death scenes laughably ridiculous, you can't b…
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Okay, this anime has been getting tons of flack from all sides, and I get it. This is a thoroughly unpleasant, dreadfully grim anime. I get it. But that is the point.
King's Game is like if you combined Death Note and Saw, two pieces of media I love, so I can appreciate this show. If you don't like horror, stay far away from this show, as it has some of the gnarliest gore and horror I've ever seen in an anime. Even so, the core idea is a good one that is executed properly.
Like Saw, the game in King's Game is one that tests just how badly a person wants to live, or whether they would ever put themselves on the line to save somebody else, and, just like with Saw, it creates some powerful drama. It shows people pushed to the absolute limits. However, this idea has been botched when it does…
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Disclaimer: This a rant and review about my honest thoughts about this show, it contains spoliers and it's a long one.
An anime like this dosen't deserve to exist or have a sequel and people who find some sort of good fucking enjoyment out of this piece pure garbage can go to hell with this anime. Let's talk about the fanbase, I have seen SO ANY GOD DAMN SHIPING POSTS AND COMMENTS THAT IT MAKES SICK DOWN TO MY STOMACH "I want Riona-chan and Nobu-kun to survive because they are sugoi kawaii dream relationship and I want my fanfic to become true" AND THATS MOST OF THE FANBASE IN A FUCKING NUTSHELL. And that horrible, cancerous, disgusting, shit ending is just the god damn top on the shit Sundae. This garbage makes SAO look good, FUCKING SAO. And let not forget the BIG LARGE ELEPHANTS in the…
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It is truly sad, the amount of time, effort and money complied into creating this work of anime. That could of been so much better used on something more coherent and thought out.
Not knowing anything about the Manga or Live action film, but just based on the trailer I was hoping for something that would really make me think twice, and although it definitely achieved that, it was not in the way I was intending.
Ousama Game had a good enough story concept to be something worth while, the premise being students from a average everyday classroom getting a text message from a sender known as "King" to complete a extreme task in order to stay alive to take part in the next round. There could be a lot of fascinating and cool little twists the studio could of taken with this idea. But it seem…
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I wouldn't say I was "disappointed" with Ousama Game. I had no expectations for it to begin with... Okay, I had expectations, but they weren't positive ones. I figured it was going to be edgy; something along the lines of Danganronpa or Mirai Nikki. That's okay, maybe it will still be somewhat enjoyable right? But noooooooo. Ousama was able to surpass all levels of the shit-tier and earn its spot as my #1 worst anime (excluding memes). I'm not even joking when I say this abomination is worse than Akame ga Kill and Mayoiga.
***Light spoilers ahead, not like any of it matters***
Let's start with the animation studio, "Seven." ... Their profile: Ousama Game, I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying, aaaaand literally 100% of everything else they made is hentai. Soooo yeahhhh the product…
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This anime is absolute garbage, but it's one of those shows that's so bad its good. I have never laughed at so much absurdity in my life.
If you like final destination this anime is perfect for you. The plot sucks, the logic makes no sense, and in the end you have twice as many questions and no answers. The ending is stupid. It's all stupid. And I regret none of it. If you need a show to make fun of, this is the anime to do it.
Despite this being one of the worst anime I've ever seen, it was one of the most enjoyable anime experiences of my life. But don't make a second season of this show, it's so trash lol
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If you are the type that look for terrible anime's with bad writing to watch with your friends to laugh at... look no further... this anime is for you.
God, was this anime one of the most awful pieces of shit I've seen in awhile. While the kid's are dropping off like flies, they show it in such a way that I should feel something. Instead I was left with, "Oh.. who were you again?" The new group of kids don't even matter cause we focus on the MC's old school who is already dead and gone.
Half the time I thought the writing was an absolute joke. It felt like a preteen who just discovered the drama genre writing their first fanfic. Half the crap on fan-fiction.net is better than this talentless pile of garbage. It astounds me that better anime out there don't even get at least 12 episodes.…
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Ousama Game The Animation is more of the same. If you have ever watched Mirai Nikki, Mayoiga, Another, Danganronpa, Corpse Party or anything similar to these, you know how Ousama Game is.
STORY 1/10
The story is just a space of time when the mindless gore and edgy pseudo-philosophy take place. The flashbacks shows the first King's Game of the main character, following his classroom and give to us more stupidness than the second and main part of the anime. In particular, the explanation of the origin and mecanism of the death game is simplory and boring.
ART 3/10
The art is quite regular. Not good or bad, it just exists.
SOUND 3/10
Same as the art: it's there.
CHARACTER 1/10
This part is awful. Really, really awful. Over 64 characters (two classrooms) and NONE of them have the appropria…
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Down the anime rabbit hole I go.
The King's Game is the worst anime I have ever seen.
Am not kidding. The King's Game is the most terrible piece of shit I ever had sat through
I honestly shocked at the anime director’s ability to blow all expectations of god-awful anime that are popping out from the rabbit hole.
When I aware that was I say this is the worst anime I have seen that it comes with the expectations of this somehow being worse than the likes of Big Order, Handshakers, and Eromanga Sensei which before I saw this they were the worst animes I have ever seen.
I had no interest in watching this show because I thought it’s one of those shitty novel adaptions that pop up in every anime season. The only reason why I ever decided to watch this show in the first place because a couple of…
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Survival anime are nothing new when looking back over the last few years. Shows such as Btooom!, Danganropa and Mirai Nikki are all based around a particular survival game and have all found moderate to massive popularity among anime fans. Even outside of anime, you just have to look at franchises like The Hunger Games and Maze Runner to see how successful the subgenre is. It’s clear that stories based around a group of characters, their impending doom and how they try to survive such are intriguing to a lot of people. But why is that? Personally, I believe these kinds of premises can present a darker look at morality; show a darker side to ourselves through characters put in a severe set of circumstances that test one’s beliefs, values, friendships. It’s surprising how a simple concept ca…
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2017 has been an underwhelming year for fanatics of horror and survival based anime. Taking a close look at the lineups, there were barely any at all and the only ones we’ve got were short series that were easily forgettable. Where does Ousama Game position itself on the board? Terrible doesn’t even begin to describe what this anime turned out to be. Ousama Game is a primal example of how desperately an anime tries to get viewers to appreciate. It’s a catastrophe that self-destructed from the very start that the meme of “so bad, it’s good” doesn’t even come to close to describe what it really is.
I can talk for hours about what went wrong with Ousama Game (King’s Game) but to start, we have to understand what this anime is really about. On the surface, it’s a survival horror show based on…
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