Jinrou Game: Beast Side
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We never knew who were the twins, or what was the deal with Saeki.
"whoops I was the fortune teller but didn't know how it works xDD" was pretty baffling to say the least, and the very last flashback was tacked in
Poor written sequel.
"whoops I was the fortune teller but didn't know how it works xDD" was pretty baffling to say the least, and the very last flashback was tacked in
solely so MC could survive the last vote despite both of the other 2 knowing she was the werewolf.
I think these 2 Jinrou game stories are trash story wise. It's a bunch of drama with a whole lot of nothing in there.
What have we learned about the world? The game? ANYTHING? Oh we now learned the game turned the MC into Immoral murdering trash after being forced to. Is that really all after 36 chapters from both mangas?
This is basically someone's own game of Jinrou game or Salem and they made a manga about it after playing both sides. Complete Waste of time. Its like we got nothing for the time we put into this story, we pretty much have the same amount of information as when the Stories began.
Wow, 10/10. Why don't I just play the ACTUAL GAME of Salem instead or the actual Jinrou game on my computer instead of reading about one particular game of it?
This is basically someone's own game of Jinrou game or Salem and they made a manga about it after playing both sides. Complete Waste of time. Its like we got nothing for the time we put into this story, we pretty much have the same amount of information as when the Stories began.
Wow, 10/10. Why don't I just play the ACTUAL GAME of Salem instead or the actual Jinrou game on my computer instead of reading about one particular game of it?
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I mean it was fine.
It wasn’t horrible but I’ve read all three books hoping to find answers but It’s all rather inconsistent.
It’s just sub par.
It wasn’t horrible but I’ve read all three books hoping to find answers but It’s all rather inconsistent.
the screens showing how all the players are connected? Sick. But then they never talk about it again. Kill the person you vote for with your own hands? Ok, next round it’s all good you don’t have to do it the collar rips them. The collar rips their head off? Well now it shoots acid. Who are the people controlling it behind the scene? Do we never get their perspective or why they’re doing it or how they’re connected if at all?
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This is awesome that there is a sequel!!
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Honestly the MC played a horrible second round
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Neither of the parts I've read so far have managed to make the story work, tbh. As others said, removing the "kill the voted out person yourself" element was a terrible choice, especially when this part is supposed to be showing Nishina becoming a more enthusiastic killer. Inoue was by far the most interesting character, and she got deleted for no good reason here. Her relationship with Nishina was underdeveloped and undersold; it was definitely the manga's best chance for drama, but it seems it didn't much interest the mangaka. The last round's finale was predictable from the first chapter, but this one swings way too far in the other direction with its last minute flashback reveal.
Overall, it feels very wasteful. It wasted the protagonist's most compelling relationship, it wasted the part of the premise that would most effectively showcase her development, and it wasted a lot of interesting characters like Saeki.
Overall, it feels very wasteful. It wasted the protagonist's most compelling relationship, it wasted the part of the premise that would most effectively showcase her development, and it wasted a lot of interesting characters like Saeki.
I just finished Jinrou Game: Beast Side, and after reading death/survival game manga for around 20 years, this might be the worst-executed one I've encountered.
The premise is interesting, but the execution is terrible. There are virtually no meaningful twists, either in the characters' actions or the game's structure. Anything that might qualify as a twist is telegraphed so heavily that it barely registers.
Airi Nishina is easily one of the least likable death game protagonists I've ever seen. I kept hoping the story would pull a bait-and-switch and kill her off early, but instead she survives in the end because Miu Munakata essentially wins the game for her. It comes completely out of nowhere, with almost no setup, and Airi herself never even realizes how Miu feels about her nor does she use it to her advantage. Rather than feeling clever or surprising, it feels arbitrary.
What frustrates me most is Airi's character arc, or rather lack thereof, this time around. What I like about death game protagonists is that they struggle to maintain their humanity amongst the chaos, to me, that makes the compelling, teetering on the razor's edge, but Airi starts Beast Side fully committed to her dark "wolfsona", there is little to no humanity left(You could argue her character arc is resolved in the first Jinrou Game, she is able to confidently point as suspects in the end and eventually steels her resolve to take her lover's life) and, in that case, I have to wonder, why not just make Airi the antagonist? or focus on another wolf as the protagonist and have Airi playing support alongside Konomi Inoue? It doesn't make sense to me to just keep the status quo. She never meaningfully reflects on the previous game, never wrestles with guilt, and never tries to challenge or break the system like other Death game protagonists do. She simply accepts it, so, I have to ask, is there really even any merit in following a character like that in this kind of story specifically?
I was convinced Hitomi Tsushima, who mirrors Airi's former self, would force some kind of self-reflection or redemption. Instead, nothing happens. Airi survives, doesn't even take the money, and, quite literally, walks right back into the cycle without remorse. She doesn't honour the victims, doesn't question her actions, and doesn't even spare a thought for Tomohiro Tada. By the end, she feels less like a wolf and more like a loyal pawn serving the people behind the game, a hound, a domesticated dog, she is truly now a b*tch in every sense of the word lol making her former classmates look like saints in comparison.
Despite all that, I can't say I hated reading it. It's entertaining enough on a surface level. But compared to other death game series, it feels incredibly basic, it's more-or-less "baby's first survival game manga".
I wouldn't recommend it to fans of the genre unless they want to get one of the weaker entries out of the way first. Maybe Crazy Fox is better, but after Beast Side, I'm not getting my hopes up.
The premise is interesting, but the execution is terrible. There are virtually no meaningful twists, either in the characters' actions or the game's structure. Anything that might qualify as a twist is telegraphed so heavily that it barely registers.
Airi Nishina is easily one of the least likable death game protagonists I've ever seen. I kept hoping the story would pull a bait-and-switch and kill her off early, but instead she survives in the end because Miu Munakata essentially wins the game for her. It comes completely out of nowhere, with almost no setup, and Airi herself never even realizes how Miu feels about her nor does she use it to her advantage. Rather than feeling clever or surprising, it feels arbitrary.
What frustrates me most is Airi's character arc, or rather lack thereof, this time around. What I like about death game protagonists is that they struggle to maintain their humanity amongst the chaos, to me, that makes the compelling, teetering on the razor's edge, but Airi starts Beast Side fully committed to her dark "wolfsona", there is little to no humanity left(You could argue her character arc is resolved in the first Jinrou Game, she is able to confidently point as suspects in the end and eventually steels her resolve to take her lover's life) and, in that case, I have to wonder, why not just make Airi the antagonist? or focus on another wolf as the protagonist and have Airi playing support alongside Konomi Inoue? It doesn't make sense to me to just keep the status quo. She never meaningfully reflects on the previous game, never wrestles with guilt, and never tries to challenge or break the system like other Death game protagonists do. She simply accepts it, so, I have to ask, is there really even any merit in following a character like that in this kind of story specifically?
I was convinced Hitomi Tsushima, who mirrors Airi's former self, would force some kind of self-reflection or redemption. Instead, nothing happens. Airi survives, doesn't even take the money, and, quite literally, walks right back into the cycle without remorse. She doesn't honour the victims, doesn't question her actions, and doesn't even spare a thought for Tomohiro Tada. By the end, she feels less like a wolf and more like a loyal pawn serving the people behind the game, a hound, a domesticated dog, she is truly now a b*tch in every sense of the word lol making her former classmates look like saints in comparison.
Despite all that, I can't say I hated reading it. It's entertaining enough on a surface level. But compared to other death game series, it feels incredibly basic, it's more-or-less "baby's first survival game manga".
I wouldn't recommend it to fans of the genre unless they want to get one of the weaker entries out of the way first. Maybe Crazy Fox is better, but after Beast Side, I'm not getting my hopes up.
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