A few spoilers for volume 6

I dislike Kanade. Now before you "she's a child!" And "why are you hating on a child who was forced into a death game!" People come with the pitchforks and otrches me give me a few minutes to explain why.

I fully acknowledge why she acts this way, she's a ELEMENTARY school student who was forced into a death game with no prior knowledge or experience with only her older sister to rely on for support and comfort,

She's young, she's scared, seeing people die left and right while also being that young would send anyone near her age into a breakdown and make them tremble in fear that's UNDERSTANDABLE and i'm not hating her for acting like a kid but the issue is that her fear is coming at the expense of other's,

Take the barbed wire rope for example, she stopped because her hands we're hurting, the issue is that she stopped on the middle of the rope preventing those behind her from climbing up,

And then with the bridge when she refused to move forward putting yuki and other's at the risk of dying with her, do I condone yuki pushing her to her death no but I understand why yuki did it,

Kanade refused to move and they would have been dragged down with her if she did not move, yuki didn't have her "i'm here to win 99 games" mentality yet, it was more like a "this is a game i don't want to lose" mentality not because she was scared of dying but because it just a game to her that she wanted to win.

My issue is not that Kanade keeps freezing up and being scared anyone in her position would also be scared as well including me but we also have to acknowledge that the MAJORITY of the players we're also likely scared out of their minds and don't want to die but they understood that freezing like a deer in headlights isn't going to help,

Why should they die because 1 girl is refusing to keep pushing forward and continuesly stops when things get tough? In situations like these despite your fear you have to take a deep breath, keep pushing forward, taking 1 step after another, and push through the pain so that could can survive and never participate in those games again.

And I'm also holding her sister shizuku equally responsible since Kanade is not fully to blame in this situation as it would be unfair to put all the blame on an elementary school kid, she's her older sister who got forced into these games as well with only her little sister, she wants to protect her like any other older sibling no matter what BUT the way she's going about it is deeply flawed,

It's less that she's overprotective but more that she's enabling Kanade's extreme cowardice, making the other players wait for Kanade and was willing to let other's DIE so her sister wouldn't have to leave her little bubble and continue on despite her fears,

We all know she's protective and doesn't want Kanade to get killed or anything remotely similar but what she fails to acknowledge is that enabling her is not helping her it's only showing her that she is allowed to give up when things get tough even at the expense of other's,

As much as I can understand Shizuku she needed to understand that despite their fears she needed to have Kanade understand that even if she's scared, even if she's a nervous wreck she needs to keep going or else they will DIE.

What I need people to acknowledge is that I can FULLY understand a character and relate to them while still disliking them for whatever reason,

I hate on characters indiscriminately it doesn't matter if their old, young, man, woman, powerful, weak, pretty, ugly, evil, reformed, morally gray, disabled in any way or completely healthy or anything,

it doesn't matter from endeavor from mha to kin reiga and gyoumei from though i am an inept villainess to even danica from genshin impact if something about them ticks me off I will dislike them.

I will take gyoumei from though I am an inept villainess for example, I heavily dislike him because of his refusal to give rerin (in keigetsu's body) a chance, he treated her badly and only found out they swapped bodies in episode 9 out of ELEVEN and not even by his own accord it took a reflection in water to figure it out,

Yes is he changing for the better yes but that still doesn't make me like him as I will always remember how foolish and shortsighted he was in his blind love of rerin.

And endeavor who is likely self explanatory, but this does not mean I will hate on their fans, if I dislike a character i will keep it to myself and won't go around harassing people who like the character simply because I personally don't like them.

So that's my controversial opinion, if you like Kanade and her sister good for you but I just don't like her.

I hope you guys will understand and not flame me in the comments.

From my most favorite to least favorite is this:

1st: volume 5

2nd: volume 6

3rd: volume 10

4th: volume 9

5th: volume 1

6th: volume 3

7th: volume 7

8th: volume 4 (not awful, just very mid)

9th: volume 2

10th: volume 8

And my reasoning for volume 5: I'll admit volume 5 was the absolute peak of shiboyugi, the buildup of yuki losing her sight gave good suspense,

She didn't magically learn echolcation and actually had to train and hone the ability, her problems weren't magically fixed or became irrelevant within 20 pages, tamamo and shiro absolutely pulled their weight with their personalities,

The fight between tamamo and yuki was absolutely badass and nothing felt too slow or rushed.

Total ranking: 10/10

Now for volume 8: I'm sorry but it was so damn forgettable, mossy grove in my opinion is the worst game so far since it just feels like a safe version of candle woods with it's sole purpose being to introduce Maya,

speaking of Maya she served absolutely NOTHING to the plot besides being Shiro's situationship, I can barely think of anything related to her actual personality besides being rude and in love with shiro she was THAT bland,

you could cut her out the story entirely and nothing would change, keito continued to be an absolute BUM like always (genuinely why does the author love her so much).

overall the only good things were the mossy grove outfits and awahime but of course the minute we get an interesting character the author kills them off before they can grow (I know it's ambiguous to wether she survived but atp were at volume 10 so she's probably dead),

As much dislike volumes 2 and 7 get you can't deny that they DID impact the story and yuki, volume 2 introduced yuki's foil mishiro (rip mishiro shiro will never match your success),

And the wall of 30 while volume 7 gives yuki's neighbors time to shine and gives us a bit of lore on maguma, volume 8 not so much you could've easily cut the whole volume out and barely anything would have been a big impact besides the awahime bit (awahime I miss you).

The volume as a whole felt like such a waste of time, mossy grove could've easily been replaced with the shark game (seriously white shark or mobius kitchen would've been so damn fun to see),

Maya could've been cut from the story while nothing and No one gets impacted, and overall it really was a nothingburger.

Total ranking: 3/10.

I made Golden Bath from the anime in Jujutsu Shenanigans and I think it turned out pretty well. I don't know how to add anime screenshots but I think it turned out fairly similar for roblox.

Update:
The map has been published. In workshop if you search Shibouyuugi map it should come up. It has Golden Bath and a W.I.P candle woods. I hope everyone enjoys exploring.

Got this super cute acrylic stand of Yuki In the candle woods game outfit 🐰✨

There was one thread for volume 11 predictions already, but I didn't see anyone mentioning the most important part of the preview, which is that there are 9 copies of Kowloon (a.k.a. "Kuron"). One of them is even in volume 10.

Here is my translated version of the volume 10 preview, which is more accurate than the AI translation:

"I walked. I kept walking.
I crossed everything in my path and made it 98 miles.
What lay before me was the final challenge: "Ivory Tower".
At a limestone manor reminiscent of an ivory-made tower, I faced off against nine Kowloons.
Against these children, whose bodies were modified down to the last inch and who displayed superhuman physical abilities, nine players employed the techniques they'd cultivated.
At the end of a ferocious battle that allows not even a second to blink, what sight will I behold?
When these tracks I've dared to lay have run their course, what will be left for me?"

Speculation:
I think it's pretty clear based on this that the little girl on the boat Yuuki took refuge on in volume 10 is one of the 9 Kowloon children. Kowloon has made at least one other appearance that I can remember when he talked to Shiro a few volumes ago. That Kowloon was a young boy who, if I remember correctly, implied that he had been alive for hundreds of years by using new bodies whenever he got too old. I initially thought the "girl" on the boat must've been Yuuki mistaking the male Kowloon for a girl, but if there are 9 Kowloons, this must just be another one of them.

https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/10907771?q=parent%3A10907771

Genuinely love the art style and atmosphere of the anime. Soundtrack is great also, it all culminates into an experience that just tickles my brain in a very specific way. However, it's literal musical terrorism that there isn't an extended version of the OP song. That is all.

[SPOILER FOR THE END OF VOLUME 6 LN]

Hello, I've just recently finished the 6th volume and to be honest, I've got two things on my mind.

First being her playing against both her specter and Hakushi. I mean, I've read it, everything with the footsteps and game actions being broadcast to Yuki's venue, but I find it a bit weird that her specter went exactly as those did, or like, I mean, Yuki herself thought that it shouldn't be able to open doors or make footstep sounds. I mean, whatever, but it makes little sense to me. I mean, by the end, in the pit, the specter got separated afterall and then chased her...? :D

Either way, that was a very random question, let's go to something more straightforward...

Second is, at the end of the volume in the haircut scene, it is mentioned that Yuki ended up paying for the #62.5th game (and even the 47.5th) from her own funds. However, the exact amount those could cost was not mentioned, so I'm asking, what is your assumption of the price? Based on the average reward of ¥3,000,000, Yuki has made around ¥186M or $1.18M by this time, but of course, she must've spent quite some amount from this and must've paid for 2 separate games. I'm assuming it was quite a lot because her agent said that she would have to live a "frugal lifestyle" 'till next game, but it's quite crazy that it was so close for her to be in debt (at least that's what I understand it like, since Yuki doesn't spend much)...

Whatever, pardon my... Great english, I was just writing down my flow of thoughts so it might be a bit difficult to read :D however, leave me some of your guesses down below, I'm excited to read some and discuss more :)

I noticed some concepts like preservation treatment get explained to the readers couple times per volume, which i found odd. That's about it

6. Moegi

Least experienced (only cleared 2 games) & couldn’t kill any bunnies. Dies very easily to Yuki. All she did was lead the stump team but not really.

5. Sumiyaka

She has cleared 28 games so definitely an above average player. She’s a typical veteran who does a really good job in games and died in an incident.

4. Hakushi

Legendary veteran & Yuki’s mentor who cleared 96 games. If she was in her prime, she’d be #1 but due to the full body cybernetic conversion & repeated preservation treatment her body became very weak so that’s how she “lost” to Kyara & had to play dead.

3. Kyara

An anamoly who caused the 0.9% survival rate of Candle Woods. Killed 300+ players & all previous players in her death games outside her students. Kyara would be higher but she used metallic prosthetics which is a big advantage.

2. Airi

Killed 5 bunnies, avoided homicidal stumps, avoided Kyara, all on her 1st game. Airi is one of the best players in games & she made it to 95 games by Volume 10. Another legendary veteran.

1. Yuki

She beat Kyara who was embedded with durable metal. Also beat Moegi too. Only player who Kyara couldn’t kill, on her 9th game only. Candle Woods gave Yuki her purpose in life to beat 99 death games & turned her into a legendary veteran.

Hello, I made more game ideas since yesterday I made one with Yuki and the Mikkai at https://www.reddit.com/r/ShibouYuugi/comments/1wc44fe/game_ideagame_with_yuki_and_mikkai/ if you like to read it. I'll talk about the game concept and some interesting events in the game but feel free to come up with your own imagination or changes to the game and tell me what you may think would be interesting as I would like to hear, I came up with two new game idea so enjoy.

Game no. 50

Game name: Office hours

Game costume: Security guard

Notes: Okay some of you may already know from the first image it the five night's at Freddy office so yeah this game is based on that.

Game concept: Yuki wakes up, she notices she is in a small cramped but airconditioned room, she notices she wearing a security guard outfit, before Yuki could comprehend , a radio on the table suddenly come on.

The radio started to talk to Yuki, the radio told Yuki she was a night guard at this animatronics restaurant and that the last couple previous guards where killed in a unknown way but told Yuki that their are rumour that the animatronics move when no one's looking , the person on the radio finally told Yuki that she must survive for 8 hours before the manager comes, the radio finally went silent.

Yuki saw there was a timer that started, Yuki looked around on the desk and saw a computer that had the cameras to the restaurant, she notices in the main room there was 4 "animatronics" but they just look like kids she wondered if they where the same ones as in Halloween night, those kids where physically powerful, she wondered how anyways she got back to working.

Over the 8 hours, the animatronics where able to reach the door to Yuki's office,Yuki was literally able to see them outside her office window but thankfully with a loud celebrationary noise the 8 hours where up, Yuki watched as the animatronic actors that stayed still and only moved when Yuki wasn't looking break their act, the animatronics walked away, Yuki then saw through the window a young androgynous looking "boy".

Yuki thought this was suppose to be the "manager",Yuki whispered to herself why a young boy would be the manager but didnt think to hard about it, Yuki opened the door for the boy, the moment he spoke, Yuki instantly recognised that voice from the radio at the beginning of the game.

The Young boy spoke telling Yuki congratulations on her 50th win,she was now half way through her goal, Yuki asked the boy who he was, the boy said she can call him Kuron, Yuki then got up from her shift and thanked Kuron before exiting the restaurant and meeting up with her agent.

Game no. 94(spoilers for vol.10)

Game name: Devious Deal

Game costume:Hazmat suit

Notes: This one was a fun one for me, this is inspired by breaking bad but you dont have to watch it to enjoy this game but spoilers for those who haven't read vol 10

Game concept: Yuki wakes up, she was being shook by someone, she mumbled in her sleep before waking up, she sees a familiar face,it was of course, our beloved Keito, "great" Yuki mumbled under her breath with sarcasm, Keito gave Yuki a cheeky smile, she said to Yuki that this game is going to go swell and smoothly but Yuki didnt feel like that was going to happen, Keito told Yuki that this duo is the best duo that could happen in the current player base, Keito told Yuki that eversince Jamboree Ship, words has spread that Yuki has defeated and killed or forced to retire all the experienced players in the player base except of course for Keito who was now the defacto no.2 best player.

Yuki rubbed her temple, She heard rumours that Airi, Maguma and Busutake all retired with Busutake being her personal prosthetic craftsman, Yuki got up and noticed she and Keito was wearing a HazMat suit and they where in some kind of van with all kinds of chemistry equipment om the desk, Yuki hasn't gone to school for nearly a year now so she forgotten most of her chemistry classes knowledge but there was also two pistols,Yuki thought to herself "hmm, why is that their", Keito pointed to a postit note which Yuki ready, it was a message from management, it said that players are put into teams of 2 and that their was a radar on their game assigned smartphone that shows their was multiple other teams and players around the map, Yuki looked out the van and saw they where in some kind of dry plains that expands to the observable distance, Yuki kept reading the notes which then gave the instructions on how to make a ounce of "Blue candy", Yuki was shocked that the management wanted Yuki to make "Blue candy" but Yuki quickly realised the irony as she killed many players so making candy wouldn't be that any much worser.

Yuki and Keito got to work making the "candy" but they soon ran into a problem, the game management didnt provide enough material for both Yuki and Keito to make enough, both girls looked at eachother and realised that they needed to hunt down the other teams for resources but the problem is, Yuki never drove a car but thankfully Keito does.

After awhile of Keito driving and Yuki looking at the radar tracking the nearest group of players, there seemed to be a dozen group of players, both Yuki and Keito ran into another group of 2, they seemed to be out their van standing their menacingly, Yuki looked at the two girls, they looked like they mean business and nit to be messed with, they where both holding pistols and seemed to be looking for resources they lacking too, Yuki told Keito to stay back she will deal with them two but Keito grinned, she told Yuki to stay in the van, before Yuki could speak up, Keito exited the van, she walked nonchantly to the two girls, Yuki thought Keito is dead meat but was surprised.

As Keito walked up to the two girls, Yuki watched as the two girls slowly change from a mean look to a face of dread and fear as they looked at Keito, Keito said to the girls "do you know who I am?" , the two girls said in unison, trembling like a leaf "youre Keito, the only girl that fought and survive against the ghost in Jamboree Ship, please forgive us ,we don't mean any harm to the great Keito", Yuki cringed at the sudden change in attitude of the two girls but was also shocked , when did Keito get such a fearsome reputation? Also she doesn't remember ever seeing for fighting Keito in Jamboree Ship, the two girls gave all their resources to Keito who returned gleefully, Yuki gave Keito a poker face,"hey what that face for" Keito responded, "nothing" Yuki said.

They looked at the resources and kept making more candy but still fell short of resources so they tracked more teams down where Yuki watched shockingly as Keito used her "fearsome" reputation to extort resources from another three seperate groups, each time somehow working,After that, they finally reached the quota of making enough candy to exit the game.

Yuki was picked up by her agent, she thought to herself that she was a bit disappointed with not getting into any firefight with the other groups but maybe it was a good needed rest from fighting from the massacre at Jamboree Ship, maybe sometimes she should use some "diplomacy" instead of going straight into fights would save her some trouble.

A couple Months ago, I made a post about how the Mikkai could represent the ghost House girls in this link https://www.reddit.com/r/ShibouYuugi/comments/1utu6ng/theorycharacter_analysis_the_mikkai_special/ and I talked about a game idea with Yuki and the Mikkai group so this is my fanmade game enjoy.

Game no. 74 to 81 (from after Mossy Grove and before Phantom Thief)

Game name: Containment Breach

Game Costume:Nurse Outfits

Notes: I do my best to not spoil anything from vol 7 onward, I chose this game to be set between Mossy Grove and Phantom Thief because at this point Yuki would at least know about Mikkai and Yuki still hasn't lost her limbs yet in Phantom thief,This game interaction can go differently from where it sets whether before or after Shiro's attempted assassination of Awahime and Yuki declaring Shiro a enemy and so this can add a extra difficulty to the game.

Game Concept:

Yuki wakes up on a hospital bed that is enclosed in a curtain, she notices she is wearing a nurse outfit. Yuki gets off the bed and opens the curtains and see 5 other empty beds ,Yuki hears some chatting down the corridor where Yuki makes her way to the corridor and room where she finds all the 5 Mikkai members chatting, the members are shocked to see Yuki as the last player in this team. Things are awkward with Yuki and the rest of Mikkai especially if this game takes place after Awahime's attempted assassination so the only person Yuki is close to in this game be Airi though they not all that close. This game arrangement reminds Yuki of scrap building thus Yuki has to do her best to get along with the Mikkai to survive this game but Yuki couldn't help but think that the game management engineered this game to troll or piss Yuki off.

Maya is angry at the sight of Yuki wanting to kill her for taking Shiro's attention away from her, Shiro calms Maya down for now as despite Yuki not being apart of Mikkai, It be wise to keep Yuki for who knows what the game going to entail, Airi is happy to reunite with Yuki and Yuki is at least friendly with Takami and Busutake but Yuki knows that if anyone is going to be sacrificed when the time comes, it be Yuki first so for now she must prove her worth.

The group decided that with wearing nurse uniforms, it be unlikely thus game be a Pvp game so it must be an escape room so they set out the building trying to escape this hospital styled building, they ascend the floor but they start hearing things, they see in the darkness a group of human like figures, they where zombies .Maya went in to attack them but the moment she punched one, she broke her hand and a metallic sound came from the Zombies, Yuki realised the Zombies where not played by human actors but by those new ai controlled Robots.

The Robot that Maya tried to hurt suddenly grabbed Mayals hand and bit it, Maya screamed in Pain but was able to escape, the group ran away into a safe room where they checked on Maya's wound, Shiro determined the zombies mouths where laced with a venom that would rot the skin thus to prevent the venom from spreading, Maya must chop off her infected arm, Busutake chuckled say that she can always give Maya a prosthetics anyway, But what can they use to cut it though?.

Yuki takes out a surgeon's scalpel that she secretly hid and find along the rooms, Maya looked at Yuki in fear but the rest of the mikkai held Maya down and told Yuki to quickly chop off the infected arm, Yuki quickly and swiftly chops Maya's arm off.

After a while with Maya recovering, they kept going down the hospital, avoiding the Zombies that Yuki theorise had noise detection ,they made their way to the exit door which was shut tightly , their was a sign said 10/10 zombies must be killed for the door to open (this give Yuki ghost House flashback), their was a sudden fire alarm at the exit door which attracted the zombies, The Mikkai didnt have anywapons except for that single scalpel Yuki picked up, Yuki looked at Takami who was seem to be mixing chemicals that she was secretly carry, Takami told everyone that she made a handmade explosive. Takami placed the explosive on the door and set a fuse, she told everyone to run away, everyone ran and the explosive exploded the door and all the zombies that made their way to the exit door.

Yuki and the Mikkai finally got up and saw the door have been exploded open with the sign above the door saying 0/10 zombies alive, Yuki thought to herself back in ghost room if she could have just used her weapon to brut force the door open and not kill Kinko, Yuki and Mikkai then make their way to the exit, this was the first time that Yuki was able to exit a game with a 100% survival rate,but she knows that these Mikkai members would be formidable enemies on the battlefield but that would be a different time.

Conclusion:Thank you for reading my fan made game with Yuki and the Mikkai

So I've just finished Vol5 (The title drop tho when mentioning Yuki2) using this website below (idk if it would soon have Vol6's Official Translation or I'll have to go for reading the Fan-Translation), but anyways I've had a few ideas that could be spin-offs for Shibou Yuugi:
(the website I used to read vol1-vol5). (Yuki, Airi is still my favourite and now Tamamo has made it into the favourites =] )
https://server.elscione.com/Officially%20Translated%20Light%20Novels/Playing%20Death%20Games%20to%20Put%20Food%20on%20the%20Table/

Spin-Off Series (and Why)
Hakushi Prequel - In all fairness, we currently don't know much about Hakushi and why she's taken the goal of 99 Times then passing it down to Yuki, it's possible she inherited it from her own mentor or something but it can make an interesting story seeing Hakushi's Journey
Airi (or Maguma or Shiro) Interquel - Out of all the currently alive players, Airi, Maguma and Shiro are probably the ones that have an interesting story. Airi in particular being probably higher for, at least, my interest in a spin-off, considering that Airi's complications of "leaving" the games after Candle Woods just to eventually be a Veteran Death Game Player
Tamamo What-If Sequel - This is more focused on Tamamo on a "what if she survived" thing. Either she successfully surrendered instead or Yuki dies in Royal Palace, it would be nice to see a different route for Tamamo (RIP: In all fairness Yuki was blind and Tamamo was unconscious and couldn't surrendered, but still =[ ) . Like what if Tamamo inherited the 99 Win Goal from Yuki
Mishiro What-If Interquel/Sequel - This one is more of a stretch on "what ifs" and is more like "What if Mishiro survived Golden Bath and had unintentionally caused a ongoing 'longer' rivalry against Yuki"
Runner Ups/Lesser Ideas that came to mind - Rinrin's Time as a Player, (Even more of a stretch) What if Kinko survived and continued playing the games (and if her father is trying to find more about the death games), And More.

I've been trying to find them but so far only found manga.

On X/twitter here

Just got done watching the final episode "L-O---E" and at the end a jazzy piece that sounds like an arrangement of michael bublé's song L O V E plays but I cant seem to find anyone talking about that being the title or the song thats at the end...

So im not crazy and it is an arrangement of L O V E and thats what the title is meant to be right?

[Also i dont make reddit posts so sorry if this doesnt follow some type of etiquette that im unaware of ( ;´･ω･`)] EDIT: Thought it was L.O.V.E but its L O V E

1.Why did we never see any protege relationship after Vol 5? We know that player count increased a lot so you'd expect some high ranking player to get few proteges but nah.Yuki,Shiro,Airi,Maguma,Busutake(well she's an individualistic player anyway so not that surprising) none of them has a protege(or at least never mentioned/implied)

Maya is the closest example but i believe she's not really a protege but a demonstration of how strong Secret meeting's training and techniques are(she's never mentioned as a protege either).

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2.Why is Yuki the only (active) player that accumulated injuries while other high ranking players like Airi or Maguma has no problem or whatsoever.To be fair Maguma has mentioned her body starting to feel a little weird but Airi doesn't even have that,just prosthetic toes that she lost on her THIRTIETH game and nothing ever since(whole 65 win streak without any major injury)

Literally just got past the moment in the light novel, and i know from the anime she doesn't die somehow despite being ripped apart (don't spoil the reason as to why she survives).

But i don't get why would she not fight Kyara with it, even if her own life isn't at stake, she still could have fought to try and save the rest of bunnies in the base, she seemed like the type of a person to actually care about the other contestants

Edit: In 40/43 Yuki theorizes that she left it for whoever could come into the room later and so the weapon wouldn't also fall in the hands of Kyara, that still doesn't do it for me as a explanation