currently watching: DBSuper, Re:Creators, Sagrada Reset
currently reading: Darwin's Game, World's End Harem, Dead Tube
Darwin's Game is about a cellphone game that augments reality a little too well…
- players get a Sigil (a superpower-like special ability), and start with a balance of 30 points
- features PvP battles
- killing your opponent results in a complete victory. winner takes entire balance
- if both players survive after an hour, the winner is determined based on three aspects: Damage, Technical, and Artistic (avoiding damage). winner takes points from loser based on loser's rank
- it's also possible to surrender
- "Zero Point Treatment": the game kills you if your balance reaches zero at the end of battle (it doesn't apply if your balance reaches zero as the result of purchasing items or trading points for cash)
- one rule happens to be the abridged version of the third law of thermodynamics ('you can't get out of the game')
World's End Harem kinda starts like Blue Gender, the main character has a then-incurable terminal disease and goes into cryostasis to awaken in the future when a cure is found (estimated time until cure: 5 years). he awakens in a world where the population is reduced due to crisis. instead of giant bugs eating people though, it's a virus dubbed MK Virus that wiped out every human male that wasn't in cryostasis at the time. and instead of bloodshed, there's titties.
Dead Tube is about a YouTube-like site that regularly holds contests that encourage people to become BuzzFeed, i.e. get the most views. nothing is taboo, so most people either go for porn or killing people. for each contest, the winner gets money, the loser gets the blame for any and all criminal acts committed for the sake of the contest.