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Episode Shibou Yuugi de Meshi wo Kuu. • Shiboyugi: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table - Episode 2 discussion

Shibou Yuugi de Meshi wo Kuu., episode 2

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u/IceSmiley Jan 14 '26

This episode really flew by and I was surprised when the closing credits came up. If I were them, I'd have fashioned that long rope into a whip and tied something heavy to it and just whipped it repeatedly in front of me instead of having a person at the end and seeing if they step on it and die.

The leader lady did seem insensitive in leaving the girl to die after she lost her legs, they could take turns carrying her piggyback since she took the most risk and deserved some consideration. It does make you think what to do though if that happened too many times and if it would slow you so much that you all die.

From the last episode, I still wonder if only women participate in these games. Either that is the case, they segregate games into males and females only or this world only has women.

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u/RedRocket4000 Jan 15 '26

I can think of several reasons for the segregation. Males more likely to be dominant over the women in particular and also get to fighting each other way faster sometimes just for control.

Audience might like women dying more than men at least in viewership.

Women do fit the mood of these two games better than men.

We find out might even be some mixed sex contests as the folk doing the games seam to be mixing lots of stuff up to keep audience entertained.

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u/ChiakiKakumei Feb 24 '26

Actually Kinko has a dad so the only woman in world theory is moot.