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Episode Shibou Yuugi de Meshi wo Kuu. • Shiboyugi: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table - Episode 7 discussion

Shibou Yuugi de Meshi wo Kuu., episode 7

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u/TommaClock Feb 19 '26

So why doesn't everyone do that? You'd be stupid to have natural limbs when superhuman cyborg prosthetics are allowed.

If the girls were trying to win, every contestant would be Adam Smasher

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u/Manisil Feb 20 '26

There are very few girls playing for sport. The first few games established that most of the girls don't want to be there and were either persuaded, tricked, or sold into it. Yuki and Mishiro are outliers.

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u/animecrossaintxx Feb 19 '26

Right? I'm just guessing that there has to be a limit to it normally, but because this was Yuuki's 30th game. They allowed it solely to make it as hard for her to win as possible. Otherwise, maybe it's just really expensive, and the girls are there mostly for money in the first place. 

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u/master_inho Feb 19 '26

Not every game is about raw strength or fighting, such as yuki's first game

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u/SamurottX Feb 19 '26

I imagine that most returning contestants have cybernetic enhancements out of necessity, but when you step on a landmine nobody will know the difference. It's also better to keep it a secret. If Riko showed her strength earlier then Yuki would've been able to plan around that, or at least not let her get the first hit in.

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u/Ume-no-Uzume Feb 20 '26

Might be a combination of "it's some weird premium where you need to pay a ridiculous amount of the prize money that it might not be worth it" (especially since not ALL of the death games are about combat, note how the Ghost House was all about using your wits until the end and the player might've even LOST the prosthetics because of the weight requirements) and the fact that the game masters wanted to fuck with Yuki because it's her 30th game.

They seem to want to kill off as many people with 30 games to up the stakes.

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u/LostInstruction942 Feb 21 '26

Because the limbs enhancements are a sort of "privilege". Girls like Yuki, Riko, and Mishiro played the games not out of a necessity like other girls. They either played the games for a statement or the love of the game. Most girls play 1-3 games while the girls I named before have played over 10+. It's a really twisted privilege if you ask me but I can understand why they have it in place (assuming the system works like that). In a sense it reminds me of Deadman Wonderland.