Liar Game

1 billion!!! Yo go Yokoya.. you go!!

So?!? What now? Is this the end of Nao?

"The publication will be on break for a while"

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU I felt the same killing pain whenever I read that trolling "'till next time" in an end of a Berserk chapter.

One thing is still unclear: are Harimoto and his followers gone for good or not?

I mean, sure, they have money to cover Akiyama and the other players' debts, but isn't there a rule according to which winners of consolation matches must attend the next round? The four of them got ranked, so they are technically winners and should be required to play at least the next round.

Well, maybe the author has made a mistake here. It doesn't affect the plot much, so I won't complain. Or maybe they have resorted to forfeiting the next round and thus returning all their winnings or something (but that wouldn't allow them to clear Akiyama's debt, so the inconsistency remains).

As for Fukunaga, I'm guessing he will have struck a deal similar to Akiyama and Sakai's with a winner who is in debt: he will shoulder both debts in order to remain in the game and not suffer the fate (which we still don't know) of players who are removed from the game in the red.

The worst debt Fukunaga can have accumulated by himself in this round is 250 million (by losing all his coins and not getting ranked). And since he had profited 100 million in the musical chairs game, his negative balance cannot be more than 150 million. It's heavy debt, probably made significantly worse by shouldering another person's, but it's hardly the end of the world (Akiyama and Nao were, at one point in this game, 500 million in the red).

Damn. Last time this thing went on hiatus, it took a year and a half. Oh well, at least we're back to the real villian.

Nooooooo! Another hiatus~ T_T

I've always wondered this but who come up with these convuluted schemes.I mean damn, most mangas like these usually have a writer with a PH.D in bullshitting. But damn, I just caught up after a marathon of Liar Game.Not like this dude is spending months in a think tank with the most brilliant minds in Japan per chapter, this stuff comes out on the regular. I'm truly afraid if this guy comes up with enough money to stage this in real life. I mean. Damn

Welp, it's hiatus time:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-02-10/liar-game-manga-goes-on-hiatus-before-new-arc

Just started this manga and have powered through half of it. Since the first chapter I have no idea what the rules are when first explained or how the clever little tricks and scams they use to get out of it work. But damn, it sure as hell sounds cool.

@Nolonar:

They can, but not now, because this is a revival round. Only the ones who lost can walk away if they pay their debts. That means at least Mikamoto, Abe and Harimoto are stuck for one more round.

I'm guessing the Harimoto group doesn't have significant debt, precisely because they must have rampaged through the game until they met Akiyama. So their combined debt from musical chairs plus bid poker must be offset by their previous profits.

Perhaps they can elect to cease to be representatives, and pay the original players' debt as well.

@VanderDeckenIX
They can, so long as they pay off all their debts.
That's how Kanzaki Nao was saving all those poor fellas who lost previously, remember?

She gave her (and Akiyama's) winnings to the loser of the first round, thus had no way to pay back half her 100 Million winnings and was unable to forfeit the game.

HALLELUJAH!!! when Harimoto walks..

Can they withdraw? Maybe Kanzaki would be their representative?!?

Ah and on the subject of what I'd love to see there's definetely an argument between Akyiama and Nao, with some nice clashing of the two - I know I know not gonna happen, but hey, here's to hoping.

I actually liked finally seeing Harimoto's face ... that baldness is definetely creepy
About the bad guys ... well yea it might be that Yokoya gets beaten, but who knows .... Anyway I sure hope there'll be a new villain in the next game. Cause damn ... the musical chairs was brilliant, and that was thanks to the 3-way fight (and the game was absolutely great in all its strategical aspects)

Well, the background story was a bit far-fetched, but I liked the final religious epiphany of Harimoto's.

Hatless ! \o/

Actually I think its because our old friend Mr. Creepy Face returns in the next match, unless a new villain who caused him to lose is introduced, so its easier to deal with one genius villain than two more than likely. And you'll be able to tell when this series is ending when they start to really show what's happening behind the scenes, who these people really are.

So, one of the big players withdraws from the game... the next game really is the last one.

Oof... I guess it's occasionally necessary, but I really dislike these severely text-heavy chapters...

@LupoSolitario Transformation to giraffe 15% complete.

@TylerDurden:

Oh, yes, I only meant as a general rule. If you scroll down, you'll see that I made an endgame simulation that suggests that, of the five men who allied with Akiyama and Nao, only Yasukawa will move on.

And maybe not even that. I think you yourself said that Mikamoto may purchase the J to give Kimura enough money to purchase one of the other two lots and be classified. In that case, Yasukawa will be dropped from the game.

In this case, the alternative endgame would be like this (however much Mikamoto pays for the J - I'm assuming 301 million to prevent Nao from intervening - will end in Abe's possession when Kimura buys the 4):

Akiyama: 500 million, forced to move on (compulsory after a revival round)
Harimoto: 100 million, forced to move on
Mikamoto: 50 million, forced to move on
Abe: 201 million, forced to move on
Kimura: 100 million further in debt, forced to move on
Nao: 200 million, dropped from the game
Yasukawa: debt relieved by 52 million, dropped from the game
Kawai: 50 million, dropped from the game
Shimoharada: 90 million, dropped from the game
Taninaka: 151 million, dropped from the game
Saeki: 448 million, dropped from the game

That's slightly better for the Harimoto group, because it saves them from the penalty for pigs. But it also leaves Nao and Akiyama with more money to redeem the debt from the pig group. And it allows for an emotional move in which Nao offers to be Abe's substitute and thus release her from the Liar Game. And in exchange, another emotional move in which Abe gives Nao her profit or something like that to express her gratitude.

@kendama
A bunch of them just don't have the required cards to get to the next round, so Akyiama and Kanzaki won't necessarily have to watch out for all of them.
I was actually nicely surprised by this chapter .... Though it was Harimoto who had told Bald Guy to add two coins to his bidding

Kimura looks so deformed in the first page

@Saracin: Not quite yet. Even if Himekawa can redeem all their combined debt, there is still the rule that the winner of a revival round must attend the next actual round. This game can only be left at the end of actual rounds, or if the player loses the revival round and has no debt.

The most Akiyama can do is to make sure, as Kanzaki Nao made in the first revival round (downsizing), that all players will enter the next round in a safe position, being able to lose and leave without consequences.

Hey boys and girls, it's time for Harimoto's story! Yaaaaaaay!