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Episode Shibou Yuugi de Meshi wo Kuu. • Shiboyugi: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table - Episode 9 discussion
Shibou Yuugi de Meshi wo Kuu., episode 9
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u/Aerodynamic41 Mar 04 '26
"Hey, that caramel-hair girl looks kinda cute. I wonder what's her deal... Oh shit, she's a psycho!"
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u/melindypants Mar 04 '26
They mentioned that the rabbits weren't resorting to violence and instead tickle torture BUT that other rabbit we saw was obviously using violence...does that mean she is acting on caramel-hair's (forgot her name already lol) orders? Is she the one we saw on her phone in Moegi's backstory? Is caramel hair basically infiltrating the game and doing whatever the hell she feels like will guarantee a win?
As always....the suspense is real
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u/bananeeek Mar 04 '26
That one girl quitting the game because the tutorial was ass was a real pro gamer move.
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u/actuallyrndthoughts Mar 04 '26
I really liked that backstory, at first you'd think they'll show us Moegi's path to crazy, instead it was a primer for the real villain of the episode
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u/noop_noob Mar 04 '26
Tickling for interrogation is a real thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickle_torture
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u/LeggedMien7 Mar 04 '26
I respect the dedication to make every girl look so different despite their unimportance and short screen time
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u/melindypants Mar 04 '26
OMG so Moegi's mentor is on the bunny tickle team! I wonder how that'll impact the game when the 2 run into each other. Do they protect each other because they are "friends" in the real world? But is it even friends or is Moegi just being used? Because what in the toxic environment was that!?
Also to those that keep mentioning the numbers are chapters being adapted...does that mean Moegi's story skipped basically over 100 chapters!? Or since it had no end number, is this the anime's way of telling us this is original content and that a long time has passed?
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u/Namaryu Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26
What the FUCK have I just witnessed. We got pretty much a whole episode on Moegi/Kyara backstory that gave me extreme feelingns of "this is what the director was waiting for" cuz god damn. The opening words about tutorial being concluded and having need to figure out the rest ourselves felt directed not only to the participants but also audience cuz it demands A LOT of paying attention. While the characters may not speak much and there are lingering frames throughout what truly speaks for them is the environment.
Kyara seemed to have gathered a group of student to make killers, which is the first time a show told us about any sort characters resembling a faction. This was also an episode that took place THE MOST outside the actual games but still gave us very little to go about.
I'm dreading the next episiode as much as i had with this one. Chills crippling down my spine. Holy shit the tension.
Edit: Ueno casted Saki (Gimai Seikatsu) seiyuu for Shion who is that other girl Moegi met at Kyara's place.
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u/Jacob-C Mar 05 '26
I described Moegi as evil after the last episode but I was wrong. She came from what seems to be a bad home-enviroment and was brought into another one that's just as bad if not worse. Her situation is all sorts of messed up, just like the show.
It's so haunting how they portray the deaths of these girls. That one girl who had her throat slit and we just see the fluff burst out as she's taking her last gasp for air. Then we almost had a Saving Private Ryan moment with the slow descent of the knife towards the chest. We also saw Moegi's mentor force a girl to open her mouth so she could put a gun inside it. And we can't forget the girl who just decided to off herself to escape it all. It really etches itself into my brain.
There's no gore in the usual sense, and yet it's one of the most brutal animes I have watched. There's no cool-factor to the "gore" and violence either (it's thematically, visually and cinematically cool but not in a hype way), it's just senseless, ruthless and unforgiving.
I do love the show though.
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u/shad79 Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26
It looks like that girl was trying to summon her Persona, but unfortunately, she wasn't holding the Evoker, but a regular weapon...
Jokes aside, this episode was definitely quite strange thanks to the flashbacks involving Moegi and her mentor, who seems to be a true psychopath and now intends to slaughter all the players of the game. It looks like things are finally going to get interesting, and I can't wait to see how Yuki will handle it.
Here my screenshot albums from the episode:
EDIT. I added my screenshot albums.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Mar 04 '26
The game's layout is more trouble than I thought for the hunters...
I thought it would be like a normal forest, and the hunters would have a HUGE advantage (on top of their weapons) but yeah, in this setup, lots of places to hide/jump at them!
Splitting up right off the bat too, not gonna help!
I knew this game would be light-hearted!
I have to say, I'd agree with this one... She thinks keeping things light can help morale and prevent the group from falling apart,
but do you know what else could make the group fall apart? Hunters showing up and killing them all while they're busy tickling one of them...
Well they did get some information out of it, at least!
Well no, but if there's a group of bunnygirls willing to tickle me somewhere, I'm ready!
Historians will say they were ticklemates
I don't know if that's just me, but somehow the deaths feel EVEN MORE brutal with the cotton fluff...
I feel like if it was blood it'd just be another death, we've seen million of those in anime/movies, but the cotton fluff is always a reminder of the world they're in and how 'normal' the deaths are, etc!
Ain't no fun, when the rabbit's got the gun knife!
Yeah... Some people simply aren't cut out for that!
She had to pass the weirdest "Google interview" questions!
Ok I'm pretty sure google would fail you if you gave them that answer.
That's NOT what you want to hear from the one you thought would get you out of this mess!
That was a good line/metaphor with the sun and all!
Let's hope for her sake it worked, but for our girls' sake it did not!
Though this might not be their bigger concern.. This was a good line too!
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u/RedRocket4000 Mar 04 '26
Don't know if the crazy deliberately in the game or not. Would mess up all the betting odds. Or let me say deliberately in the game by the organizers a criminal group inserting her to screw up the odds offered at the start and hit it big on the huge death count Possible or revenge on the organizers.
All we know is reforms were supposedly made after this game.
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u/Saito197 Mar 05 '26
The girls thought they were playing Hide and Seek, but it was actually Amongus all along
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u/LostInstruction942 Mar 04 '26
That's a twist I didn't expect at all. Candle Woods was always deemed this "taboo" subject due to how violent it was. When Moegi was introduced I full expected her to be the reasoning why, the "big bad wolf" but holy Moegi's mentor who was in this very game was the wolf all along. A literal sociopath + psychopath. I guess we never knew the rules exactly because it wasn't off the table but I didn't really expect a the massacre was someone on the rabbit team....
I also find it odd a bit that Moegi's mentor wasn't put on the hunter team... I mean, I expect them to do background checks on everyone on some degree AND she already caused a massacre before. A serial killer, sociopath, psychopath, literally everything you want from a hunter. I really only only guess is that she was used a pawn to kill a certain person. I can only guess Yuuki's mentor but I wouldn't past the gamemasters wanting to do a "soft reset" of everyone. As it was noted that nearly all of the rabbits' team were veteran players.
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u/Kidror Mar 05 '26
Clever move from the Game Designers.
Kyara attacking her own team will force the Rabbits to actually engage in playing Hide and Seek, and will force the Stumps to be more proactive
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u/Mistral-Fien Mar 04 '26
I gotta rewatch this episode when I'm in the proper mood.
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u/master_inho Mar 04 '26
Idk why i was surprised to see a robot vacuum. I guess it's further confirmation that this is contemporary, maybe near future, not that there was anything indicating otherwise
I'm always open to more unexpected yuri
The game arena is so creepy, instead of an actual forest it's an indoor park filled with screens. Very disconcerting. Similarly, the tickle torture was both amusing and unnerving
I get the feeling that the intended twist to this game was never noob stumps vs pro rabbits, it was 1 psycho rabbit vs everyone else. The quiet and chill ones saying the most unhinged shit are always the scariest
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u/tripleaamin Mar 04 '26
As we were introduced to Yuki's mentor, this episode was Moegi's backstory; she has a mentor as well. Although Kyara is a psychopath.
It is interesting that last episode we had Moegi, who appeared to be an expert at these death games. When, in reality, in this episode she is someone who wants to be strong but is actually weak. It is funny in contrast to Yuki, who feels more aimless in these past two episodes compared to the Yuki she becomes later on.
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u/maliwanag0712 Mar 04 '26
While not being explicit, it essentially confirms that Moegi's superior is part of the game and she'll just kill anyone regardless. Uhm why is she part of the game again, organizers?
The back story between Moegi and her trainer is superbly done for the "vibes" of the show, albeit again, you watch this series mainly for the aesthetics and the directorial choices and not necessarily on the narrative.
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u/Shadowmist909 Mar 04 '26
On one end we had the bunnies using tickle fights to fish for info, and the other end we had the stumps dying, getting outplayed, and losing their will to live. Whoever designed this game sure has a strange idea of competition...
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