Shibou Yuugi de Meshi wo Kuu. Episode 6 Discussion

I feel a reason for making them all girls was because one of the themes of this show is the manipulation/abuse of less fortunate people. Women throughout history have been abused by power more. Additionally, it’s most likely as simple as people are more likely to watch this because of the girls. This is even the case in the show itself. In episode 1 Yuki talks about how the viewers like the girls the cuter they are.

Most of them are in it for money which should tell you a lot about the state of this world. People would rather risk dying a horrible death than living broke. An example of this is episode 4 I think, when the girl that stepped on the mine was talking about how she desperately wanted to leave the country with her winnings.

Overall this is one of those shows that wants you to piece together the world yourself instead of just showing it you. It wants you to theorise and guess. I suggest trying to overanalyse this show because there are so many carefully hidden hints. Ep 1 does this best imo. Everything from the outfits to the music can tell you something. I will say though I don’t think eps 2-4 have the same quality/depth.

@magatetus I think that's Riko, not Mishiro, far as I can tell. Mishiro's still coughing up fluff, Riko has been shown as desperate for Mishiro's attention, so she seemingly set something up and that conflict is going to reflect on MIshiro's ongoing rivalry with Yuki

While I think I get the gist of what's going on I wasn't clear on a few things such as the loli character that took Yuki's tag for safekeeping but then went to Mishiro claiming that she killed 3 girls (unless that was another girl?). Also, I'm assuming that there are more than 2 groups in this game? Because I believe 50 participants were mentioned but it looks like we seen about half of them. Beyond the confusing points I thought that this episode was ok, and I'm curious to see how Yuki is going to handle the breach that happened at the end.

Azuma's reason for playing death games made absolutely no sense. If that was supposed to be a part of the worldbuilding of this society somehow, I feel like it doesn't work because we don't have any concrete knowledge about their world at all and almost as few hints about it. How am I supposed to know whether to take that as worldbuilding or just a poorly done backstory, when I'm comparing this new information against nothing? There's nothing to build on or extrapolate from.

Also, I think the thing that Yuuki was missing is confusing if you're not from a culture where public bathhouses are common (that is not a criticism). I think the issue is that public bathhouses often (always?) have a wall made of bamboo, and the other team used that fact to dismantle the wall and ambush Yuuki's team. My issue is that that seems like a massive oversight. Just way too big for no one to have noticed. For Yuuki, because of the "wall of 30" and whatever, I can kind of get it. We are told that this is where a lot of veterans start to mess up, and it's starting to take a noticable psychological toll on her. We were also told that she messed up in her last game as well (along with the 28th game that we saw). It was appropriately foreshadowed that she would make another major mistake because she's been getting sloppy lately because of all of that. This seems to me like too obvious of a mistake to make even with that, but I could let that go because putting your life on the line 30 whole times and seeing so many people die must do some pretty crazy things to your psyche.

However, I will not extend the same understanding to everyone else. In a team of like 30 people, you're telling me no one noticed that?? Everyone thought "Oh, a bamboo wall? Totally rock solid, no way that'll ever be a problem."? Really? This is not everyone's 30th game, nor is it everyone's first either. So what's their excuse? The only thing I could think of is not noticing it because it's so common. Like, if this is how all public bathhouses are, I guess it could be so normal that the problem becomes invisible, but that didn't stop the other team from taking advantage so idk if I can buy that. Bottom line is someone should have noticed, and the fact that no one did just makes them all look really dumb.

@Alfredo-Sauce I'm pretty sure the girl in Yuki's group and the girl begging for Mishiro's attention are two different girls. I thought they were the same at first but on closer inspection they have different eye colours, hair-styles and slightly different hair colours as well. But it was a bit confusing on a first watch.

I feel a reason for making them all girls was because one of the themes of this show is the manipulation/abuse of less fortunate people. Women throughout history have been abused by power more. Additionally, it’s most likely as simple as people are more likely to watch this because of the girls. This is even the case in the show itself. In episode 1 Yuki talks about how the viewers like the girls the cuter they are.

Most of them are in it for money which should tell you a lot about the state of this world. People would rather risk dying a horrible death than living broke. An example of this is episode 4 I think, when the girl that stepped on the mine was talking about how she desperately wanted to leave the country with her winnings.

Overall this is one of those shows that wants you to piece together the world yourself instead of just showing it you. It wants you to theorise and guess. I suggest trying to overanalyse this show because there are so many carefully hidden hints. Ep 1 does this best imo. Everything from the outfits to the music can tell you something. I will say though I don’t think eps 2-4 have the same quality/depth.

Yeah, this episode wasn’t it, and I’m not sure what the hell the people who are praising it were watching...

I hate it when an adaptation is so incomplete that you need to have read the source material. Bunch of names thrown out, girls we've never met all wearing the same outfits, zero indication that the MC and the green-haired girl were even remotely close to have a heart to heart. I had to watch that weird hide and chase scene twice, because it was just so poorly shot and conveyed.

But I’m sure the manga/LN readers loved this slop. They just want to see what they’ve already read on screen.

First of all i really love the towels-only fanservice, it looks beautiful



About the plot - i understood the rules of this game, but i didnt understand the ending
What exactly did Yuuki do wrong?
Guess we will find out in the next episode

Drills blonde looked very happy that she gonna see her crush soon
I love yuri

Moments with faceless silhouettes in this episode reminded me of Signalis (one of my favorite games)
And maybe its just me, but the visual quality seems a little worse in this ep?
There are literally a couple of high quality close up moments, but a lot of moments with silhouettes and even the art quality at medium distances looks bad

I really hate how shit like this has high-quality art while good anime lack a budget
This is a real problem for the entire anime industry... although its probably even a problem for popular culture as a whole because trash usually sells best


Well im waiting for the next episode