King's Game
An entire high school class of 32 people receive a message on their cellphones from a person known only as the "King." The messages contain orders that the students must obey, or they risk the punishment of death. With their lives on the line, the students soon find out that the orders are getting more and more extreme as time goes on. But one student, Nobuaki Kanazawa, is determined to put a stop to the murderous King's Game, once and for all. If it’s the sort of thing you fancy, no shortage of anime about high-school students killing each other off. Where once the niche was so narrow you could accuse any such project of copying Battle Royale, now you can find a new example every handful of seasons. King’s Game the Animation was the representative for the last part of 2017, and it went hard with the drama, gore, and consequences but with so many projects like this surfacing, the trick becomes differentiating oneself from the rest. Why is this particular mass...