Bessatsu Shounen Magazine's hugely popular story of survival and suspense moves to Weekly Shounen Magazine as a completely brand new series! With the appearance of a strange daruma doll, ordinary life crumbles away in an instant. Even so, live on. Survive. This is the story of the "life" bestowed upon all those who have wished to die. Are you beef or chicken? Live, that's the only rule.
I think this is one of my favorite volumes of the series: Rock Paper Scissors begins. It’s one of the most stressful games… and we see SO much hilarity in the backstories of random characters that we haven’t paid attention to, plus development for ones we have. I’m probably partial to this volume because of Natsumegu. ❤️
The Reversi game finally comes to a long awaited end. At this point in the story, cube 109 has now been reduced to just 22 survivors. Things are really getting serious now. Sein shows up and explains the team format is now gone, and everyone will be competing 1 on 1 (versus Sein himself) in a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. We get to see all 22 people play; we are often given backstory on each character before it's there turn. This definitely helps to see these characters in a new, deeper way. The volume comes to a conclusion with just two people left to play: Akashi and Ushimitsu. Another absolute banger. 5/5