Life Is Money

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Thrilling stories about group of people trapped in one place and forced into life or death situation by an evil mastermind as they turn against each other. 

Killing your neighbor, deceiving a comrade or even suffering through traumatizing stress has never been so appealing! Life Is Money's game quarters will pay you handsomely so that you may fulfill all of your desires! Dangan Ronpa's academy will offer you all kinds of delicious rewards so that you can do murder with no regrets! But what would that kind of gain be without an offsetting balance? If you fail in the game, you will lose more than just money... But it pays to play either! 

In both, the protagonist needs money and is tricked into a gamble that has much higher stakes then they expected. He needs to wage mind games against to other participants. 

1. Do some very harmless gamble 2. Hold up, what is that contract you just signed? No escape? 3. Oh no, did you just bet all of your money? 4. What?! What did you just bet?! 5. Stay calm. If you lose your mind, you'll also lose your... Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji and Life Is Money, premium tutorials on how to get involved in perilous games with ridiculously high stakes. In order to get out, would you do the same...? 

Both involve a main character pushed into a competition they don't want to participate but have no choice and both involve a game of survival. And the art style is a bit similar too, giving it a familiar vibe.  

The wonders of the human body and psyche - their adaptability is extraordinary! Let's try something and test just how adaptable they are! ...ah, wait. Where do we get the subjects? No problem! Bait them with a humongous pile of prize money as in Life Is Money, or use their offenses as an excuse to confine them in a school as in Dolls Code! Now they may play a game in which they either deceive and do worse things for that lump of cash, or gather enough points to leave the school by completing mysterious tasks! However, in either game, the mastermind will find a creepy way to make the players distrust each other... read more 

Deadly psychological warfare in an isolated space. Do not let your guard down, these are horror for a reason. Players are forced to keep on playing the game(s). People can lose all hope in the blink of an eye, deaths happen before you know it. *The facial expressions are drawn very expressively. <>Life Is Money: You get robbed of certain senses, Imawa no Kuni no Alice: If you don't play enough games, you die. 

The main characters are similar in personality and in their back story. Both series are psychological dramas that involve tragedy, conflict of morals, and death.  

Group of people gets locked in a secret location and are forced into a "game" that makes them turn against each other and causes some of them to try to kill the others. Battle royale fans will likely enjoy this. 

Games should be enjoyable. But how enjoyable is a game...? It doesn't matter! After all, the prize money may be 100000000 yen! Wow! Well, provided you as a player are prepared to deceive or mentally break your fellow participants. And provided you are aware that this is what will happen to you should you get the short end of the stick... Cruel, dirty lies in Liar Game. Even higher stakes involving deception and complete mental and bodily exhaustion in Life Is Money - if you participate in such games, how will you change...?