Tasuuketsu

During his school computer class, Saneatsu Narita is presented with a strange screen posing a yes-or-no question that quickly disappears. The next day, Saneatsu wakes up to a world where everyone, save for himself and a few others, is dead.

An announcement from a mysterious figure known only as the Emperor begins to shed light on the situation. The question that Saneatsu saw on the screen is part of a game called Tasuuketsu. Every day, the survivors will see a question appear on a screen, and answering it will determine who lives to see the next day. Responding the same as the majority will guarantee death, and the last player standing will earn the right to meet the Emperor.

Saneatsu resolves to beat the Emperor at their own game, making use of the hidden envelopes containing powers that can aid the players. With the help of his small group of friends, Saneatsu must avoid falling into the machinations of the other players and win this wicked game.

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Narita, Saneatsu Main

Uemura, Yuuto Japanese

Koutei Supporting

Terasaki, Yuka Japanese

Fujishiro, Saaya Supporting

Nagase, Anna Japanese

Gokokuhoutenji, Bourinmaru Supporting

Aihara, Kotomi Japanese

Ouno, Raion Supporting

Kumagai, Toshiki Japanese

Yagihashi, Toujuurou Supporting

Ono, Daisuke Japanese

Kirishima, Kou Supporting

Ishikawa, Kaito Japanese

Seraphiel Supporting

Shirai, Yuusuke Japanese

Kasai, Kai Supporting

Kawashima, Noel Japanese

Kisaragi, Maria Supporting

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

Satou, Tatsuo Director, Series Composition

Tateishi, Yayoi Sound Director

Aiba, Aina Theme Song Performance

issey Theme Song Performance

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Feb 5, 2025

PhaseShifter

Recommended

This anime is a unique case of where the first season absolutely stumbles over itself to barely make the finish line. Whereas the second season somewhere does a 180-degree turn, to make you think 'actually that weren't too bad in the end'. For parts of this review, I will split it into two sections for season 1 and 2 because I feel some parts deserve that clarification here.

Story - You're essentially thrown in the midst of a death game called 'Tasuketsu' where every night at a certain a question will be asked and depending on the answer a collection of people will die or survive. ...

Pretty simple premise, the problem with season 1 here is they seem to sort of expect you know why this is all happening. For instance, there are many scenes between characters where they are talking about what happened prior to the death game, their reasoning for what they are doing. There's many where I'm sort like okay, I don't really get any of this and a lot of it glazed over so briefly left in this weird moment of should pause the episode to look stuff up on the internet. So for much of season 1 imagine you just being a random person tagging for the ride, and you're pretending you know what's going on.

Season 2, on the other hand, is a lot better there are a few moments where flashbacks explain a few of characters motives, and the story conclusion rounded quite well in this instance. Another positive is that there's clear goalposts for these group of characters, whereas in the first season, a lot of it was just guessing what to do until the last episodes. Here they clearly define what each group's goal at the end of all this is, and the last few episodes make you wonder if certain characters are in it for themselves to potentially backstab the others.

Characters - Very much a mixed bag depending on whether you tolerate the first 12 episodes, as a lot of characters get better in the last 12 episodes with introduction of a new protagonist and other side characters. I think what originally hooked for the second season was the introduction of Raion Ouno, he is an enjoyable character to watch as he's a more manipulative character than the others. If you weren't a fan of Saneatsu as a protagonist from the first season then you'll be glad to know that Raion is very much his polar opposite.

Art and Sound - Overall it's very consistent throughout the two seasons I didn't notice any drop in production value on this side of things. However, this show isn't breaking any records, and expect to be appearing in any 'Best of' awards.

Enjoyment - Now this where things get a bit iffy for this series. The first season I wasn't a big fan of held on for the ride till season 2 hits. At that point, I didn't expect season 2 to be much different, however, I was pleasantly surprised by the change of characters and the pace and different focus of the story. So much so, that I would recommend anyone to give those last 12 episodes a go.

So you're probably wondering why I'm so indifferent even though the review is tagged under 'recommended'?

Well, if you're a person that can tolerate the mediocrity of the first season, I tell you now that the second season most certainly raises the bar by a few points, and it will be worth the trek through the swamp you just had to go through to get there. However, if you tried getting into it from the start, but just couldn't continue. I urge to watch/read a brief summary of the first 12 episodes on the internet somewhere, and then watch those last 12 episodes.

Again it's weird I have to say this but, I just this series is worthy of a recommendation alone on those last 12 episodes!

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Dec 24, 2024

KANLen09

Mixed Feelings

Tasuketsu: Fate of the Majority - A high-stakes, psychological death game so bad that you'll want to reach out for the "Exit Game" button on your end that has an escape latch.

In the entirety of the AniManga industry, the one genre that it seems to have a tough nut to crack, is the Death Game premise, and seemingly for good reason. You got to have a lot of ingenuity to write a premise that's believable to have a high-risk, high-reward return, alongside characters that would constantly lie and betray, for and against their own kin, just to make ends meet for a victory so sweet ... that lands the remaining one standing: the Survivor, to Outwit, Outplay, and Outlast the competition.

One fine example of this is Spring 2022's Tomodachi Game, which, despite critics from all sides, is still a quality work in and of itself. But for mangaka Taiga Miyakawa's long-running series of Tasuketsu: Fate of the Majority? With just 6 volumes since September 2013, and the series' 4th part just getting started just in December last year, this is a work that, despite being ranked heavily justifiable on AnimeJapan's "Most Wanted Anime Adaptation" back in 2019 (to then fall 5 positions below the following year) based on the popularity of the WN (Web novel), all of these accolades are NOTHING compared to the abstract horribleness that is the anime adaptation being a slob and a slog to sit through all 24 episodes of BS nonsense...that made sense, be it that if you can get what's going on.

The anime itself works like your typical death game scenario, only except that this is more of a strategy puzzle game of wits and brains of a thriller mystery, where its question is the straightforwardness of its game: See the question, answer Yes or No, and the majority dies. But thankfully, just like with any RPG of the sort, it's a collectathon of skills called Rights that just about anyone could weave when integrated together with its user and be used when danger's in the way. But above all, each person has a unique Prime Right that is wholly the individual's alone, and can't be stolen from anyone, unless you're the Emperor that controls this game just before midnight strikes to emit questions daily and cut down the dead weight. Pretty simple, right?

Unfortunately, this is where the anime falters from the manga's writing, which you can think of as laid out in its sequential parts/arcs, that it takes the concept and runs along with it, while leaving the audience with barely any knowledge of what's going on, and forced to follow where the non-stop plot goes until it has time to breathe and explain what just happened back then. To add to the insanity, remember what I said about each person having a Prime Right? It has to be under the correct Attribute in order for the power to be used at its best, which, for the life of me, this is just way too much information just to remember which character has the specific power, that due to the progression of the plot, things could change here and there, that it becomes a whole tangled mess of a webbing.

Simply put, this series has an infodump with lots of characters that, despite inching out who are the real ones in charge (like Saneatsu Narita and Saaya Fujishiro in Part 1, to Raion Ouno leading Tojuro Yagihashi in Part 2), this Tasuketsu death game (if you could even call it that) just seems like an ordinary death game that's beatable under the right conditions, spawned from the cusps of those leading the charge for their own nefarious plans (that doesn't have logic either). The story at the start will put people off, and the high risk of that turning into high rewards at the end, I can confidently say that it's worth the run, though it's up to you to try treading through Part 1's rather mediocre run, to get to Part 2's exhilarating run.

Satelight certainly has seen better days, but over the last 5 years or so, it's beginning to look like the studio has been slowly downgrading into 3rd-rate status with bad animation and lifeless production values that just are like ravens already culling to fly away from whence they're from. For a studio whose Golden Era had been long past pre-Covid, this is the sad deterioration for a studio that is already looking at the finish line long before it started its hellhole down the production pipeline. Getting director Tatsuo Sato for the job, pretty much like its own production on Helck just last Summer, just hampers the success that both series could've had in its 2-cour, 6-month-long run.

The music is wholly forgettable, easily skippable even. Neither the OST nor the 2 sets of theme songs were that good to begin with, and I just find myself easily skipping over them like the plague they are.

In the end, what even is the purpose of this dreaded, lifeless adaptation that seems to drag on for weeks and months on end, for content that will easily disengage just about the equivalance of a TikTok person of small brainsize and have pursuers like myself hoping that the risk to stick with it will pay off with its rewards (which it did)?

Ultimately, the truth of the matter is this: Tasuketsu: Fate of the Majority, is a show that you'd be best to stay far away from if you're looking for a death game to satiate the investment of finite time. While I'd reckon that this is just not it, maybe a try would suffice...?

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Feb 9, 2025

Kotenryuu

Not Recommended

This is that kind of show where the author isn't intelligent enough to write very intelligent characters. It makes my brain bleeds from how fucking frustrating I was watching this, but I continued on and the ending wasn't that bad actually. Yes, the characters are dumb and don't make any sense whatsoever, the world is build upon the plot (which GOOD writing does completely otherwise), and the conflict is so dumb.

Let me say this straight, if you don't feel any frustration nor any irritated feelings during your watching this show, then good for you, but also that tells me something about you which is definitely ... not a good thing, or maybe you just like slop fiction and fanfics written by an immature 10 years old.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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