Tasuketsu Anime Debut Disappoints Fans

"It's just not good, on any level". Fans are left disappointed as the highly anticipated anime series finally premiered.

Diksha ThapaJuly 5, 2024 at 2:41 pm

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Will 'Tasuketsu: Fate of the Majority' recover from its rocky start? Fans eagerly await the second episode to see if the series can turn things around.

Tasuketsu : Fate Of The Majority animated series, by Japanese anime director Tatsuo Sato, just debuted which left many viewers upset. “Tasuketsu” is a battle for survival where players are trapped in a facility.

They have no other way to leave but to play along. It was one of the top most-wanted anime adaptations in 2019 and thus, when the debut episode released fans were completely locked in. After the airing of the first episode, viewers took to social media to express their opinions.

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A Deficient Debut

Fans were left disappointed as the new survival game anime, ‘Tasuketsu :Fate of The Majority’, premiered on July 2, 2024, did not meet their expectations. Fans of the manga, which has the same name, claim that the premiere episode lacked depth and personality. A recent reddit thread is on fire with debate about the anime’s launch. Most of the people were extremely let down by the animated adaptation’s first ever episode.

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“Tasuketsu“, The Death Game Manga

Kimi ga Shine – Tasuketsu Death Game is a Japanese horror visual novel by Taiga Miyakawa, that you can access online for free. It is a very popular visual novel developed by Nankidai. The story revolves around two friends who are kidnapped and forced to play a ‘Death Match’.

Here, “someone’s death is decided by everyone else.”Originally released on NicoNico, the manga has now been translated into English for the international audience. Vgperson translated the light novel to “Your Turn to Die -Death Game By Majority.

Fans Demand Anime Adaptation

Death matches and fight-till-you-die thrillers are a popular trope in horror and psychological-horror genres. So, people who were fans of the manga were eager to check out it’s animated adaptation.

They were curious to see how they played out the “majority rules=death” question in the anime. The manga had received a crowd-funded 7 minute long OVA (Original Video Animation) titled ‘Tasuketsu: Judgement Assizes’, back in January 2021.

The manga series was placed second on AnimeJapan’s Most Wanted Anime Adaptation poll in 2019. Again, it ranked 7th the following year. Additionally, death game anime tend to be fun and that’s what the fans were hoping for Tasuketsu as well.

Tasuketsu Episode One Releases

Tasuketsu: Fate of The Majority’s first episode was all set to be released on 3rd July, 2024, at 2:10 AM JST (Japanese Standard Time). Due to the differences in the time zones, the international audiences could expect it on 2nd July, 2024. Tasuketsu is the prodution of Satelight, a Japanese animation studio. It is now available on multiple streaming platforms and sites. Tatsuo Sato is the writer and the director of the series.

The plot revolves around five players who are given a do-or-die condition in a battle for survival known as ‘Death Match’. The self-proclaimed “Emperor” communicates with the players through anonymous messages. The captured participants have to answer the question “Do you want to live or die?” The only exception? The majority vote loses and those players are promptly eliminate from the game.

The male and female players hope to overpower The Emperor using special powers called “Privileges”. Saneatsu, a guy who hates computers befriends Saaya, his female classmate and confides in her his desire to win the game and kill the mysterious Emperor.

Why Were Fans Disappointed?

Tasuketsu -Fate of the Majority anime series released on July 3, 2024.

Firstly, the characters are not the same as in the manga. The latter’s MCs (Main Character) has a pair of close friends who know each other and trust each other. However, the anime is centered around Sanaetsu and Saaya who barely know each other. Fans consequently expressed their opinions regarding the lack of plot and substance in the first episode.

There’s a lot of information dumped in this first episode, and there are a lot of mysteries that are still unanswered, some of which are explicitly pointed out.

As you can see, readers of the manga were disappointed with how the story was portrayed. The character writing was “clunky” and the narrative is confusing. You are left with many unanswered questions as the narrative is very confusing. Unlikely characters were eliminated without any explanations.

According to viewers, death game animes are not often well-made. So, the pilot of any death game animated series should give a considerable amount of hints to the backdrop of the story. It should answer questions like : What, How, When and Why? But this anime evidently fails to do so as fans found the 20 minute episode growing more incoherent and annoying one scene after another. Moreover, it is willfully unable to define the rules of the ‘Death Match’.

What’s Next For Tasuketsu?

Well, we can hope for a better second episode because there are still many unanswered questions from the first one.The next episode is set to release on 10th July at 1:59 AM (JST). Each episode is going to be about 23 minutes long. Tasuketsu: Fate of the Majority will be available on DMM TV, ABEMA, U-NEXT and d Anime Store. You can also catch it on streaming sites such as Hulu, Netflix, Crunchyroll and Amazon Prime Video.