Tomodachi Game

I can't wait to see what happens, so I looked for the RAW.

And I realized that the last page of ch 4 was mistranslated. The original text is:

"Sawaragi Shiho ga suki nano wa Kataragi Yuiichi da. Sonna Sawaragi Shiho wa, mukashi... Mikasa Tenji to tsukiatte ita."

Which should translate as "The one that Sawaragi Shiho likes is Kitaragi Yuiichi. And that Sawaragi Shiho, in the past, had been going out with Mikasa Tenji."

So she went out with Tenji in the past. It's not like she's two-timing or anything.

At least no one is gonna die playing the games. Fking sick of people dying in the name of entertainment. Yes, I looking at you Real Account. 

OK, it's wrong of me to come and crap on a manga I'm not going to read, to each their own and all that, so my apologies in advance.

. . . but really, I take one look at that description and it seems amaaaazingly dumb, just ludicrously artificial.  Isn't the audience getting at all tired of the trend in (mostly shounen) manga for these almost ritualized setups?  What's the point?

Well I thought similarly (though not to that extreme) when I read the summary.  In fact I probably would have skipped it entirely if I didn't skim the comments section.  After trying it out myself it didn't seem so bad, in fact it was fairly entertaining.

However, this is just my opinion on the manga and it could very well be not to your tastes.

OK, it's wrong of me to come and crap on a manga I'm not going to read, to each their own and all that, so my apologies in advance.

. . . but really, I take one look at that description and it seems amaaaazingly dumb, just ludicrously artificial.  Isn't the audience getting at all tired of the trend in (mostly shounen) manga for these almost ritualized setups?  What's the point?

Where can I go to be spoiled? I don't want to wait for new translations to be released but I really want to know what happens, if that girl is really telling the truth, who the traitor is if it's been revealed, and stuff like that. I can't read or understand Japanese so the raws won't help me since I'll have no idea what's going on 

just finish reading the raw for the 2nd arc (until ch10) and omg its soooo goood 

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that ain't the case baby

 

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Volume 3’s cover spoils who’s the asshole in the group.

 

IS THAT TRUE SHIHO?!?!

Getting Gantz vibes here.

This is a really interesting manga with a lot of mind games and hidden truth. Its a really good manga and I do hope somebody translates it because its really good

this yes/no kokkuri-san game is kinda trippy, so the condition on the paper states that to win the coin gotta be on yes, if the answer is no the questionnaire gets half less debt.

The MC could've asked a wrong question and answered yes to move the yen to yes, if there was one asshole who’d answer the opposite (obviously there is), the coin’ll still move to yes. Even if there were two assholes plus the MC answering yes then the yen will move to no and answers the question correctly, either way you get to win the round coz no one stated those rules are inclusive. 

and yeah

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the amount stated on that page in the raws is '200万' (nihyakuman), which is commonly referred to as 'two million' in english (200 x 1,0000).

on the next page however, he says the kids can also quickly return their debt of 20 million; '2000万' (nisenman or 2000 x 1,0000).

on page 38 it's back to two million again, which is 10% of the 20 mill debt. and next is four million.

 

counting is a little different in japanese as they have a distinct word for 1,0000, '万' (man or the ban in banzai, which means ten thousand years (of age)), and therefor count the zeros by four instead of three like we are used to. it's easy to get confused. 200 million is '2億' (nioku or 2 x 1,0000,0000) btw.

(did that make any sense at all?)

 

i should probably say something to whoever wanted to go with 200 mill. just two million is way more than a kid could ever hope to pay back. the amounts mentioned would be terrifying for kids. two million (currently) being just 16-17k in american money doesn't really change this. kids don't have that much money. i could only hope to earn enough to pay that much back in a whole year with a full time job even in norway. and that's without counting the interest. i won't be eating at all during that year though. 

 

nihyakuman is apparently also a new card game for kids:

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/172524/chikara-awaseru-nihyakuman

(chikara awaseru means to join forces or combine one's strength)

no idea if there's any link at all between that and the sum in this manga, but there could be some sort of reference in it. the question is probably whether that odd npc character seems to be imitating gunma-chan in any way.

2 million yen are apparently not that much although it seems much if converted in dollar/Euro/Yuen/whatever. However, people get payed more for their work (which is necessary since living in Japan is expensive, especially food) and spend more money for daily necessities, so raising that "much" money might be doable even by a few kids in 1-2 years if they work part-time (late night shifts/jobs could actually rake in some cash even faster).

But well, discussing this is pointless as it's the only way the story works out: If they can't just pay it the normal way...

*Looks at new titles* Oh, tomodachi game. Looks like some romcom manga. Meh why not.

*Sees cover* Scratch that, this looks hardcore.

*Reads synopsis* This sounds like Life is Money ! Let's go !

You have no idea how excited I will be when this updates! XD

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the amount stated on that page in the raws is '200万' (nihyakuman), which is commonly referred to as 'two million' in english (200 x 1,0000).

on the next page however, he says the kids can also quickly return their debt of 20 million; '2000万' (nisenman or 2000 x 1,0000).

on page 38 it's back to two million again, which is 10% of the 20 mill debt. and next is four million.

 

counting is a little different in japanese as they have a distinct word for 1,0000, '万' (man or the ban in banzai, which means ten thousand years (of age)), and therefor count the zeros by four instead of three like we are used to. it's easy to get confused. 200 million is '2億' (nioku or 2 x 1,0000,0000) btw.

(did that make any sense at all?)

 

i should probably say something to whoever wanted to go with 200 mill. just two million is way more than a kid could ever hope to pay back. the amounts mentioned would be terrifying for kids. two million (currently) being just 16-17k in american money doesn't really change this. kids don't have that much money. i could only hope to earn enough to pay that much back in a whole year with a full time job even in norway. and that's without counting the interest. i won't be eating at all during that year though. 

 

nihyakuman is apparently also a new card game for kids:

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/172524/chikara-awaseru-nihyakuman

(chikara awaseru means to join forces or combine one's strength)

no idea if there's any link at all between that and the sum in this manga, but there could be some sort of reference in it. the question is probably whether that odd npc character seems to be imitating gunma-chan in any way.

Kids cannot be in debt anyway.

im Looking forward to it..
last phrase really tell me of what i wanted to say..
haha xD

That kiss can be taken out of context so easily.

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So have the translators finally decided to stick with 20 million for the debt? Because it's hard as hell trying to keep track of what's going on when they fluctuate between 200 and 20 every few pages especially with amounts being added, subtracted and doubled all over the place.

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So have the translators finally decided to stick with 20 million for the debt? Because it's hard as hell trying to keep track of what's going on when they fluctuate between 200 and 20 every few pages especially with amounts being added, subtracted and doubled all over the place.

Once I saw the white room and the little mascot character I started to think this was Saw and dangan ronpa all over again.  I'm happy that isn't the case and that there won't be senseless killing.  Instead this is a simple trust experiment using money to test the depths of a friendship.

I can't believe I'm fan girling over Yuuichi.

Jesus H. Christ, the guy is so cool! The chapter sums up how Yuuichi is smart, cool and has a lot of balls.

well, need the next chapter to handle the excitement!!!