Darwin's Game

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Trapped in a game of terror, both series revolves round a cast of characters who must participate in twisted trials where their very lives are at stake. The main male protagonists from both series are similar in personalities while the games themselves contains many twists that tests their potentials. Throughout both series, they learn more about the nature of the games and what it really means to have their lives on the line. 

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Dead Tube addpermalink

The online world can be rather competitive. People may strive to gain an edge in online games or in presenting content on streaming websites.
But now that everything is actually real, what will they do?
How does their motivation change when they sign up for a real social fighting game as in Darwin's Game? Or a real streaming website with very disturbing content, as in Dead Tube? Doesn't that mean that there will be no more simulations, but fights with actual knives and guns? And that boring acting will be replaced with the bloody corpses of familiar people and content more mature than vintage Cheddar? And that both worlds will be full of horror and death?
Why, yes!
Now that the online world has become thus...
...is that okay? read more 

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Deatte 5-byou de Battle addpermalink

- Main characters are smart, strong, decisive, and have strong morals
- Main character joined/created a team
- Strong female companion
- Forced to play survival games and battle royale
- Each person has a unique power for themselves
- Fight to the death
- Both mangas shows a lot of suspense 

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Btooom! addpermalink

both revolves around a game. Both lead characters have hidden potential to beat this game. 

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Kamisama no Iutoori addpermalink

Both have an average boy thrust into a survival game . 

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Tenkuu Shinpan addpermalink

When thrown into the world of Darwin's Game and Tenkuu Shinpan, there's little option than to fight for survival. The main protagonist from both series realizes this after witnessing events that changes their lives forever. Indeed, both series' story involves a lot about surviving and discovering the mysterious origins of their settings. Anyone interested in a series with a theme similar to a death game or survival horror fiction may want to give these two titles a try. 

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Both have an average boy thrust into a survival game with cellphones as their means of playing and keeping updated about their situations. There is also a mysterious girl that wants to act as a guide for the main character for some reason. Also, the lives of the characters are in constant danger. In both series, the characters kill to gain status/improve their ranking toward a goal.  

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Thrown in a situation where their lives are at stake, both Darwin's Game and Kmawa no Kuni no Alice makes a strong premise for survival horror. The main male protagonists has a strong dedication to survive alongside some others. And throughout both series, they make allies and enemies. Puzzles are also part of both series' plot element as the main characters works to solve mysteries. There also exists violence to portray the deadly consequences of the game should one not follow the rules. Recommended for fans who are interested in fictional horror and survival horror with game gimmicks. 

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Ah, the age of technology! Technology means science to some, automation to others. But there's always that one person who wants to connect the virtual and the real - just for fun.
And fun it is!
Darwin's Game - entertainment and leisure, fun and relaxation, social bonding and connections - with such alluring qualities, all kinds of people are bound to gather if one were to massively spread a social fighting game. ...Which turns out to be real?! And gory?! Beep. Oops. He signed up.
Online: The Comic - entertainment and leisure, fun and relaxation... is what she thought when she opened the mailbox to find a game console! My, how wonderful! ..."If you destroy this console, it will explode," it says. She remembers the blown-apart corpse from the news. If she doesn't play the game, every person dear to her will be slaughtered. If she loses the game, her body will cease functioning, or worse.
Virtual and real... how far apart are these notions? They will find out. read more 

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Dorei Yuugi addpermalink

Both have a violent death game that comes with a phone app, an everyman protagonist that has to participate, depraved rich elites, and lots of gore. 

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Both contain games where they are teleported and then have to battle other participants and enemies. They gain supernatural powers as well. 

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Deadman Wonderland addpermalink

While Darwin's Game was focused on a deadly mobile game, Deadman Wonderland was about prisoners who were forced to fight (and kill) each other to entertain others. Both of the protagonists start out weak (and really pathetic tbh), but grow stronger (which is seen in...well, a lot of manga/anime but!! they really do turn badass :P). However, Deadman Wonderland has more of a (slightly) romantic theme (near the end), compared to Darwin's Game.  

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In both mangas (manwha, for Solo Leveling) the main character started as a shy and weak person who had been protected by someone close to them, but as the story progress they basically transform into a complete badass character. Also in both world are a game-like feature system. 

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Re:Birth: The Lunatic Taker addpermalink

Includes game/contract where you are encouraged to kill other participants.
Female  protagonist is stronger or more mature than male protagonist.
The male protagonists are squeamish about killing others.
Superhuman skills are granted to the participant. 

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A survival game in which a group of people have to play some games and if they fail, they die.  

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Manga: Teito Seihai Kitan: Fate/type Redline

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Both are a battle royale involving fighters with different classes
The mc gets stronger during the manga 

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Manga: Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e

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Both psychological games series with overpowered MC. Main difference is there is not super power system in Classroom of the Elite but the games/events are pretty similar. 

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The mcs are suddenly involved in a supernatural battle royale and want to end it for the good of humanity, they become stronger during the manga 

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Manga: 100-man no Inochi no Ue ni Ore wa Tatteiru

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While the two series have some surface level similarities (MC forced into another world with powers with their life at stake), Darwin's Game takes place in the real world whereas 100man is mostly an isekai. That being said, I think these two series are very similar in the fact that they take mediocre, overdone concepts and present them at face value before developing into stories that diverge significantly from what you'd expect. Both also get noticeably darker from where they start.

-100man has a relatively standard isekai setting, except that the characters often return to their own world in between missions. The quests they're given rarely end up being as simple as 'get more powerful and beat monster,' and the relatively meager videogame powers they're given rarely end up being the reason why they complete them. There's a lot more focus on the character's mental states and personal motivations, as well.

-Darwin's Game is about your typical generic shounen MC and his inexplicably acquired superhot, super OP, super murder-happy love interest trying to clear a death game. MC-kun's entire persona is about his absolute refusal to give in to the game and kill and it's pretty mediocre, until suddenly he does give in and the story turns on the turbo boosters.

Despite the genre differences, both are very entertaining reads that a lot of people would easily overlook for being too generic. They aren't necessarily masterpieces, but definitely worth the read ESPECIALLY if you tend to stray from these story setups. read more

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Ana Satsujin addpermalink

Have you ever thought that love is only limited to sex? If those of you who want to find a murder-themed manga I recommend this. Having a Yandere girl theme I think this has something in common, besides that the atmosphere I feel when reading is also not much different. 

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Nakanohito Genome [Jikkyouchuu] addpermalink

The story style of the two is similar, even the plot differs a lot :) 

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Bloody Junkie addpermalink

Both of these have similar feels and involve murder. Although Bloody Junkie is more of a wake-up-i-a-strange-place type, Darwin's Game is a thrown-into-a-mobile-killing-game scenario. How excitingly unfortunate for them. 

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Kamisama no Iutoori 2 addpermalink

Both have an average boy thrust into a survival game, hoping to save his friends from death.
Mysterious games . 

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KIG⊃R∩MI addpermalink

Both manga are intense psychological horror and contain a lot of killing.
People who are willing to kill in order to survive.
Both involve a protagonist gaining supernatural abilities

In other words, kill or be killed 

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Ousama Game addpermalink

Survival game defeating enemies or solving puzzles.
Find and kill the king before you get killed.
If You Can't

 

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ənígmə addpermalink

Both lead characters have hidden potential to beat this game.
A survival game , defeating enemies or solving puzzles. 

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Gantz addpermalink

Both involve people who are unwittingly drawn into a "game" where they must fight for their lives 

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Akame ga Kill! addpermalink

People with super human powers battle to the death 

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Tomodachi Game addpermalink

Average boy thrust into a survival game.
Survival game defeating enemies or solving puzzles. 

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βl@ck★OUT addpermalink

A survival game in which a group of people have to play some games and if they fail, they die.  

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Dolly♥Kill Kill addpermalink

Both of these involve powers, killing, and main characters with a similar wrath when angered. Although Dolly Kill Kill is more about alien “mascots” killing people and Darwin’s game is more towards a mobile game for killing, they both have a similar feel. 

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Killing and a certain amount of intelligence are in both of these. Both have a male main character who unwillingly takes part in killing to stay alive - “survival”. The only real difference is that Youkai Ningen involves killing through needles and drugs to escape “captivity” and Darwin’s game is mainly focused around a mobile game about powers, killing, and a strong need to earn “points” to live. 

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Darwin's Game is like the modern version of Ueki with alot of darker and gore. 

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Eden no Ori addpermalink

Both are full of survival and death! Both are sure to be classics. 

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Plunderer addpermalink

They were once powerful heroes who fought in wars for their country, against armies of evil .
 

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Yakushoku Distopiary addpermalink

Both main characters are unsupported online like world also both of these protagonists are misunderstood but the people of that world. 
The two protagonist are given skills that would lead them down the path of despair. 

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:REverSAL addpermalink

It started with a harmless-looking game and ended up in blood, desperation, and panic. :REverSAL and Darwin's Game feature what may appear as your conventional death game, albeit the former uses a more scientific approach. Both have unique types of weaponry used by a vast set of characters; these characters are on constant war not only physically, but also mentally on whom to trust, or what to believe in. 

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