Hi, everyone! Welcome to a new anime review! In this one, I'll be reviewing Darwin's Game!

So, Darwin's Game was adapted from a manga in 2020, meaning it's still really recent. It's a killing game anime, so the main themes are action, mystery, survival, and sci-fi. It's a pretty common (and effective) combo.

Before anything, I'd like to state that this anime resembles Mirai Nikki (Future Diary) in more than one way. I'm not going to say they copied it since it's still a little different, but I wouldn't be surprised if it served as inspiration for this manga/anime.

Okay, with this out of the way, the plot: it's okay. Not spectacular at all, but I enjoy survival games, so it didn't bore me. Still, I didn't feel like the pacing was all that great, so I got lost on a couple of occasions (especially from one episode to another).

This anime's cast of characters is saved by the main characters, and even them aren't amazing. The protagonist is decent, which is also the case for a few other characters, but most are boring and forgettable. The antagonist sucks (stereotypical).

I read some people say they loved the MC's character development, but I have to slightly disagree. Sure, it was entertaining, but not original in the slightest. The other characters get no development whatsoever.

Something fun about this anime is the dynamics between the characters, at least. They're a nice group, and they're better as a whole than on their own, clearly.

This anime's art looks average, but the animation during the action scenes is quite neat! It's not elite, but still good enough for me to mention it.

Musically, Darwin's Game is forgettable. No tracks really come to mind when I think of this anime, unfortunately. However, the opening is very good and sounds great. It's fitting, too.

Overall, this anime, without being very good, is still decent, in my opinion. It's clearly not finished, but will it ever get a second season? I think it could be interesting, but I have no idea if there are any plans for a sequel.

If you like survival games, you'll have fun watching this! Otherwise, it may not be for you. It's up to you!

Down below is the tierlist for the characters! Thank you for reading this review!

Outside: *unhinged* you think I'm scared of you? I wanna die!

I most say, I was excited about a survival game anime, ever since I watched Mirai Nikki, this genre became something. But no everything is as great as MN.

Darwin’s Game! The story goes around Kaname Sudou a high school student who got and invitation from his classmate to play a mobile game called ‘Darwin’s Game’, turns is a battle game but a sadistic real life one. Everyone who plays gets a ‘Sigil’ an special ability that will help them throughout the game, and they are also able to get close to other players and create ‘clans’ to get a better survival rate.

The plot itself is really simple, Kaname a normal high school student, full of frustration with a game he doesn’t want to play, and he gets to know people that will follow his final goal, stop Darwin’s Game. Since he’s the main character he is already more skillful than what you expect at first, plus his ability is to get any weapon he has seen before out of nowhere.

Other characters are nice what surprised me the most is how normal the majority is, normally in survival games characters are a bit or too much crazy, but I guess that’s always kind of attractive.

But in this anime things are a little different, characters are more mindful? You may say, specially with the ones that form part of his clan. Marino is kind of a crazy girl in love with Kaname, but with this really cool Sigil that controls wires. Then is Rein a lil girl who is an information broker who has in my opinion the coolest Sigil, and analogous to Laplace’s Demon. Maesaka who can see with his Sigil if people are saying the truth, and then we have Souta and Sui, a pair of twins stray share a body and control water and ice.

The animation is nice, character design is great but definitely some more than other. Battles are well animated you can really appreciate the Sigil of the players, and that’s probably the most important thing in an anime like this. Sound is okay, it wasn’t specially good to noticed it.

Overall Assessment

Let’s not speak of this again || Awful || Bad || Okay || Entertaining || Good || Better than Expected || Really Good || Amazeballs || What is this vision of glory I’ve witnessed?!

Second of the season’s anime finished!  Being out-of-work on lockdown has its bonuses in that I’m actually not behind on the anime I’m watching this season, and am, in fact, so caught up that I can write more of these.  Crazy!  So, next up, is Darwin’s Game.

Kaname's reaction really got me expecting a great fight in the next episode.