Life Is Money

[MangaDex]

 

[Nightlilygirl-]

This had potential, but soon went downhill... The characters are stereotyped, their reactions unrealistic and exaggerated, and the narration is all over the place. It tries to be philosophical, but most of the time it's just confusing, and most of the tension and scare factors probably come from the art, which is however so overemphasized it often actually has the opposite effect. I still may try to reread this sometime to see if I just approached it in the wrong way...

 

[HangBXI]

To the person saying the characters were stereotyped... Uhhh, dont see it. Oh yeah, what do you mean by 'scare factor'? This wasnt a horror manga.

Anyways, Ive never read a manga that was this relatable on an emotional level. Of course the characters personal circumstances are far from most of what I have experienced in life, but the emotions these situations made them feel and how they affected their view on life was relatable to an almost scary degree. Its funny, I could actually see some of my friends in these characters. Sadly not all of them were as fleshed out as otheres. The only characters which were properly fleshed out were the ones that were needed to drive the story forward. Usually that would make sense, but in a manga about a mental battle between 10 people you would think they would go more into the psyche of all the participants. Anyways, I cant really give a proper review since this manga made me feel too many types of ways for me to give it an unbiased judgement.

 

[bigdaddy12]

What a clusterfuck, the rules are completely dynamic changing on the fly, the mind games and tricks revealed are things that are sub 80 iq person would think of. It's like he read Kaiji got excited and made a absolute shitshow dumpster fire rip off of it. The pacing is all over the place, the story is so bad despite the interesting premise. Alot of missed opportunities and 2 people were working to make this. Holy shit

 

[carero12]

I'm lost.. Idk if its my brain malfunctioning or is it the translation so bad..
What I didn't like about characters, is how they were so desperate to get their hands on this money, but ofc there wouldn't be any plot without such character trait..

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BUT, I liked how in one of first chapters, when the fat guy stole food, the story was heading into a brain-dead yet-another bad guy shit-hole, but then it turned out quite different and I quite nice. Weeelll, it later went poo anyways, but, yeah..

 

[4V29LN0n]

Well, that was a waste of time.

 

[IEatWater]

This manga is really good. It might be because I had low expectations, but I really liked it. It had good character development and an interesting enough plot. They actually explained how this game could even exist, they didn't just leave it undiscovered how they could afford it like some mangas

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It was made for rich people to gamble

The mc is good. At first he's basic but atleast he's a hard worker and

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he becomes a badass later

The fmc isn't useless! 😮 She's not just there so the mc can show off, she actually does things! I don't usually expect this from mangas because useless fmc is a widespread trope.

 

[ll72]

It's fine for a 15 chapter manga. I mean it gets really overwhelming since story wise it's very fast paced yet character wise it brings lots of philosophy "paths" that needs a little more time than some pages to develop/understand.
The only part that annoyed me a lot

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was that one of the most interesting rules was totally ignored.
I get it that in 15 chapters that it wouldn't be possible/easy to keep the rule but yeah dissapointing