It was one of the best action type anime of this season. It was pretty generic though with nothing extraordinary from other Survival type anime(s). Animation was a dull at few points but overall it was good. I would definitely love to watch another season or two.:fingers_crossed:

I read the whole manga (well, all the released issues) like a couple of years ago, then I just stopped because reading an issue once in a while isn't my cup of tea. Now I find out there's a season of THIS and it's almost finished. Finally an anime to watch.

How have they not made a season two!? So good!!

Schoolboy Kaname Sudou receives an invitation from a classmate to play the mobile game Darwin's Game. When Kaname opens the app, a snake erupts from his display and bites his neck, causing him to lose consciousness. He wakes up in the hospital room and realizes that he doesn't have a bite mark on his neck. On the way home, he reflects on his experience and dismisses the surreal experience as a hallucination. Curiosity overcomes him on the train and he opens the app again. However, since this seems like any other fighting game, he breathes a sigh of relief and decides to start his first match. His initial relief is short-lived, however, as his in-game opponent unexpectedly appears right in front of him and tries to chase him with a knife. As he desperately runs for his life, Kaname puts two and two together and has to admit that Darwin's Game is no ordinary game, but a brutal struggle for survival. "Darwin's Game" has nice fight scenes, but that's about all I can think of from the anime. The characters are completely flat across the board and the main protagonist has a thick layer of "plot armor" It's ok, but clearly more could have been made of it.

Pros: - Generic but well done concept - Interesting characters and battles (Its not often you see someone with Multi Personality Disorder in the main cast of a show, kinda neat) Cons: - Final battle felt kinda dull, I do love overpowered MCs, but you've got to have their opponents at least put up a fight; unless you're going for "This character could always have killed everyone with a snap of their fingers, but you pushed them past a line", which I think they probably were - however it wasn't particularly convincing. - Show felt quite rushed. Even having one more episode to make it the standard 12 would have helped. - Included some fanservice (mostly in the first half), which one would come to expect from anime - however this felt a bit forced. Based on season 1 I'd give t a 6/10, but I'd expect a second season to be at least an 8.