With Yuichi’splan officially in motion, all bets are loose in Tomodachi Game Episode 10. What crazy concoction of catastrophes does he have up his sleeves now? Let’s find out in this review!
Tomodachi Game Episode 10 Overview
Tomodachi Game, or Friends Game in English, is a psychological strategy anime belonging to the Death Game genre, a kind of anime that pits several characters against each other in a bid to make one of them outlast them all. It is based on a manga written by Mikoto Yamaguchi and illustrated by Yuuki Satou. This episode of the show is also referred to as Friends Game Episode 10.
The anime adaptation is developed by Studio Okuroto Noboru, a studio with only two full-length anime adaptations in its catalogue, Special Training in the Secret Dungeon and the second season of How Not To Summon A Demon Lord. The show is directed by Hirofumi Ogura, the director behind several well-known shows such as Black Butler and Cells At Work. You can read our review of the previous episode here!
– Friends Game Episode 10 Review does not contain any spoilers –
Tomodachi Game Episode 10 Review- Game Over
Greatness is hard to define. For some, it is a standard that is extremely hard to achieve, and only a few pieces of media in history have been able to achieve it. Others are more lenient, and anything that makes them feel a certain emotion can be classified as great. There are also limits to greatness. Everyone will agree that Death Note Season 1 was great and even achieved masterpiece status. Season 2? Not that much. How much of something should be great before one can proclaim greatness has been achieved? Is a single episode enough for this accolade?
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You might think of this chain of thought as weird, but it holds a lot of significance for this episode of the show. You see, Tomodachi Game just had what could be called its first great episode yet. It is a series that has displayed a lot of potential from the start, but its quality has been mired at multiple turns by the animation, the characters, or, most often, the storytelling. It just couldn’t get the essence of the death game right, and the setting wasn’t compelling enough to build a show on top of it.
Whether it was due to dropping Tenji, letting Yuichi run around wild in his element, having a fleshed out and extremely capable opponent on the other side of the game, or a combination of all of these, this is the first time that the titular game has held any sort of interest over an arc. This feels weird to say, but this was the first time the show made you look forward to an episode. All the rest you could take or leave, but you aren’t going to want to miss this follow-up. Isn’t that the point of every show? To make you come back for more?
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There were twists and turns in this episode that were of the perfect variety, the ones that fake you out with a somewhat obvious conclusion so that you think that you are out of the woods while being slightly disappointed. Then, you get the reveal that shifts your perspective altogether, and you remember how good being stupefied in this manner feels. You just knew that something was wrong with Yuichi’s plan, but even so, being the protagonist, he couldn’t lose. Or at least that’s what you thought 23 minutes ago.
The music in Tomodachi Game Episode 10 also contributed a lot to its overall setting and quality. Just a singular track doesn’t make this OST good on its own, but it was still really nice to hear something of obvious quality from this show. This was a refreshing episode, and even though the outcome was made very clear by the end segment, this is the kind of episode a series needs to establish itself. It is a shame that it came so late in its runtime and that we don’t know if this was a one-off or if it will continue being this way.
Verdict
Tomodachi Game Episode 10 was the best episode of the show so far and delivered far beyond what could be expected from it. Let’s hope that this is a resurgence for the show that can be maintained to the very end.
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