Btooom! - Review

The main characters on the island in Btooom! (Image taken from: animereviews.co)

Here's my Btooom! review finally. I've put this down as a recommendation a couple times yet didn't have a review to tell you guys what it is, so here it is. Btooom! is a bit of a demented series in a sense. In the series a lazy adult guy whom lives with his parents still is obsessed with a strategic explosives player versus player game called Btoom. The twisted part comes in  the form of the creators of the video game creating a real setting for this game on a deserted island. Of course, the main guy gets sent to said island and meets his in-game wife, Himiko, on the island. The goal of the real-life Btooom is to get a total of seven chips, which are lodged in the participants hands and used as radar like in game. The problem is that the chip cannot be removed unless the person's heart stops or the limb is removed, thus the characters are set in a death game in order to try and escape the hell that they were forced into experiencing.

Ryouta and Himiko on the island after they've discovered each others' identities (Image taken from: mhcdn.net)

Btooom! is another anime that was more action-y than I usually like, but the emotional bits between Ryouta and Himiko added a bit. Even just the action was quite interesting since most online games for player versus player tend to be shooters rather than purely explosives and more strategy based, much less a real-life death game. The series had so much suspense at some points that it kept me on the edge of my seat awaiting the next episode when I was watching it. All in all, Btooom! was great even if it is out of my dominant genres.

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Ruri's Rating: 8.5/10

Suggestions: Sword Art Online, Accel World, Danganronpa, Accel World