Just something I noticed in the past chapters.

I must say, for all the criticisms of Kaitani’s art (and I do have a couple), one thing that he tends to get down stat are facial expressions, particularly in the later chapters. Not the overly exaggerated panicked ones the characters get when they’ve just been had, but some of the more subtle ones. Particularly in 97 and 98.

In Defense of 97

First, yeah, it’s been a while. Yay school. -.-

Anyway, since the releases are coming regularly now, I’m going to stop the summaries. As fun as it is to get new spoilers, I can’t justify the hours it takes from my thesis to try and translate a chapter. Especially if I’m personally having more fun doing analysis and writing fanfic to distract myself. >.>

So…back to the topic.

Chapter 97 is definitely NOT a typical Liar Game chapter, and while many people don’t like the fact that 97 was spent on Glasses’/Four-eyes’ story and warm fuzzy feelings, I actually really loved the chapter, and think it’s pretty big as far  as plot development goes

Happy New Year!

Hello and Happy New Year to everyone!    I hope it got off to a great start (one of my friends actually got sparkling cider up their nose…ouch), and I hope it will be yet another awesome year!  I am very thankful for all the support you’ve given us for the past 10 months!

So, cheers to a new year at liargame.wordpress.com! =D <3

And Jais, did I ever tell you that you light up my virtual world?

<3 Quantula

On Assumptions and Absolutes

Ahh! I really didn’t expect to have to be on such a complete hiatus. >.< Sorry.

Just some thoughts about the current state of the Infection game, and the speculation that’s out there, particularly on the One Manga Forums.

There are some small spoilers for rules the  “Musical Chairs Game,”  but it’s really, deliberately obscure. If you know even the most basic rules, of the game, you’re probably safe.

What seems like the best strategy to get a short-term advantage ends up becoming problematic in the long view. And conversely, what seems really stupid in the short-term might actually help in the long term.

Also:

A lot of the “twists” in the game don’t come from stated information being false, but unstated assumptions being false.

I think those statements could really become a thesis for the entirety of Liar Game, and how the story works on an arc-to-arc basis.

Akiyama working for the LGT?

More random pet peeving, than analysis.

It seems like there’s a few people (on MangaFox) who think that a good plot twist for Liar Game would be if Akiyama was discovered to be working with the LGT folks, or if he ended up being the mastermind behind the LGT.

Certainly there would be some drama to it. It would be interesting. But personally, that sort of plot twist wouldn’t work either on a story level or on a character level.

Chapter 107

No wonder the literal Japanese for “Musical Chairs”  is “Chair Taking Game” ^.~

Raw is on Mangahelpers.

Usual spoilers apply.

Player Roster

Since this is somewhat easy, and amusing to look for patterns, all the names, ages, and occupations for everyone in the Liar Game up through the 4th Round Preliminary. In other words, this has nothing about the Musical Chairs game. These are also fairly literal translations, except in a few cases where I took some liberties.

Invitation Answers and Information

So, my copies of Vol 10, and Liar Game Invitation finally came in.

Information and comments before.

No spoilers. Promise.

Where are all the Updates?

For the curious and/or the slightly enraged.

Yes, I’m slowing down posting here a lot. Reasons for this:

1. School has started back up, thus the time spent writing fandom analysis has gone to doing homework.
2. Working on my thesis and securing an internship (i.e. Real Life issues) need to be a bigger priority than Liar Game.
3. Spending time with my fiancee when our schedules match up needs to also come before fandom.

This does not mean I’m giving up on summaries or analysis, just that I can’t promise huge elaborate updates on a timely basis. I’m working on whether I should keep the summaries and analysis simpler, or post at the same level but less often.

Anyway speaking of summaries, now that a good portion of them are out in scanlation, I want to ask what people think of them. Are you finding them accurate? Enjoyable? Worth reading?

Chapter 106!

In which black is white, and up is down, and Nao actually wears pants.

Raws are at Mangahelpers.

Spoilers are a given.