Liar Game
Apparently I'm doomed to like almost obscure fandoms.
Join theliargame. A community for Shinobu Kaitani's brilliant psychological manga, Liar Game. Basically a game where the best of liars (or conmen) compete and the main protagonist is a naive girl.
Notes:
I like how every game, no matter how hopeless winning it may be, always has some catch or weakness that can be exploited, a strategy that may be used. There is no such thing as "just plain luck". This is just one of the few stories I read for the plot rather than the characters. You'd think the games and the cycle of deceit, loss, and "crowning moments of glory" (to steal a term from tvtropes), would get old after awhile but they don't. It's like a graphic encyclopaedia of psychological and game science.
Another good thing is that our naive heroine doesn't stay passive and dumb always. While she is the perfect foil for Akiyama's brilliance, she has enough moments of "character development" that prevents her from becoming annoyingly helpless. Although I would not term her a favourite character yet, I like her enough to go, "YES!" when she pwns.
Read Liar Game online (One Manga).
Join theliargame. A community for Shinobu Kaitani's brilliant psychological manga, Liar Game. Basically a game where the best of liars (or conmen) compete and the main protagonist is a naive girl.
Notes:
I like how every game, no matter how hopeless winning it may be, always has some catch or weakness that can be exploited, a strategy that may be used. There is no such thing as "just plain luck". This is just one of the few stories I read for the plot rather than the characters. You'd think the games and the cycle of deceit, loss, and "crowning moments of glory" (to steal a term from tvtropes), would get old after awhile but they don't. It's like a graphic encyclopaedia of psychological and game science.
Another good thing is that our naive heroine doesn't stay passive and dumb always. While she is the perfect foil for Akiyama's brilliance, she has enough moments of "character development" that prevents her from becoming annoyingly helpless. Although I would not term her a favourite character yet, I like her enough to go, "YES!" when she pwns.
Read Liar Game online (One Manga).