![]() The girl who sits beside him, Natsuko, refuses to give up and pursues him, inadvertently triggering the King’s Game–every night at midnight, the entire class receives a series of text messages on their phones from an unknown sender, the “king”, who commands the members of the class to follow their orders or face punishment. ![]() The members of the class attempt to befriend him, but he pushes them all away, afraid to get close. Story: One day, a quiet and cold boy named Nobuaki transfers to a high school in the mountains. (You might want to stay if you want to laugh at some really bad tropes, though.) Though Ousama Game isn’t exactly a killing game the way the aforementioned examples are, it unfortunately gave me neither of those things, so if you’re looking for them here I can only advise you to turn back. ![]() The idea of the “killing game” is by now such a well-loved idea in Japanese popular culture that endless renditions of the same plot can be found just about anywhere–from Battle Royale to Danganronpa to Btooom!, unleashing high school students on each other in a fight to the death has the potential to give us hours of entertainment and suspense.
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