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dejadrew (dejadrew) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-06-25 22:25:00

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creator: kaitani shinobu, medium: manga, title: liar game

Thank You for participating in the LIAR GAME!
I've been sorta going through my scanlations folder, trying to remember what I have and where I was in various stories. While I'm at it, I figure I can share some of the tidbits I dig up from the depths of my hard drive. This time, it's Liar Game.

I discovered Liar Game through fansubs of the TV adaptation, which the local anime club introduced me to. Kinda weird, and you occasionally wanted to throttle the female lead, but for all that, it was like crystal meth addictive. The actor playing the male lead is really hot, that may have something to do with it.

It was hard to find a good scene to excerpt, since the plotting and scheming gets awfully complicated and math-y. They can take pages explaining it. Diagrams are involved. (Horrible people inflicting math and psychology on each other are surprisingly entertaining. Just hard to understand out of context, and not in the hilarious way.)

So let's keep it simple, and introduce the yep-she's-cute-but-I-still-want-to-throttle-her-in-2D heroine, the not-as-hot-as-the-actor-who-plays-him-but-still-okay hero, and the powerful-secret-organizations-clearly-have-too-much-time-on-their-hands situation!

To put this into perspective, 100 yen is about a dollar. Actually, a little less.

Probably one of the cops just pops it in the vending machine after she leaves.

"bills, bills, You May Have Already Won A Hundred Mill-HOLY SHIT."

What should she do? NOT what she does do, which is "lose all the money to her opponent on the first day."

Yeah, she's about as good at this as you'd expect.

Oh, what ironically opposite personality could possibly have the skills to help her out?

Oooh...

"Without running into anyone." Interesting choice of words...

On the list of "things you don't expect to hear the day you get out of prison," that's gotta be in at least the top five.

Liar Game is scanlated by Null.

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	superfan1 2009-06-26 02:32 am UTC (link)
	Where can you find this series book at btw. :) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	dejadrew 2009-06-26 06:19 pm UTC (link)
	It hasn't been licensed in English yet, but there are fan translations online, which is what this is from. A Google search should bring you to one of the sites archiving it. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	thosefew 2009-06-26 03:24 am UTC (link)
	Damn EULAs... (Reply to this)

	legba 2009-06-26 07:47 am UTC (link)
	Brilliant. I started reading the series based on this, and I'm really enjoying it so far. Thanks for posting. (Reply to this)

	tanetris 2009-06-26 07:17 pm UTC (link)
	Should've googled em first. Or at least checked the Wikipedia entry. I don't think that EULA would hold up in court if someone actually challenged it. Not an American court, anyway. I know little of the Japanese legal system. (Reply to this)