History Series / RunForMoneyTousouchuu

* DeadlyTrainingArea: Sort of. The men in episode 29 at one point need to go into a separated-off area of the game area with three Hunters in close proximity (the area is 80m x 40m) where they need to retrieve a combination to stop the alarms on their female partners' vests from going off and attracting all sorts of Hunter trouble. Four go in at once, [[spoiler:and only two make it out, but with the combination and saving all of the women from becoming Hunter beacons.]]

* DifficultySpike: Many games start out very easy, then sometime after the halfway point comes a NintendoHard mission which causes players drop like flies.

''Run For Money Tousouchuu'' is a Japanese GameShow that has been airing as a series of specials on FujiTV since 2004. It usually airs one new episode every couple months. As of this writing, the most recent new episode aired on April 8, 2012, bringing the total to 27 episodes. It spun off a short-lived US version by the name of ''{{Chase}}'' on the {{SyFy}} network. A SpinOff has been announced, titled ''Series/BattleForMoneySentouchuu'' and scheduled to premiere on May 19, 2012.

Players earn money for every second they evade the Hunters, but lose it all if they are eliminated from the game. Unlike the American spin-off, this ticker is actually meaningful - whenever ''Tousouchuu'' offers players a chance to leave the game, the offer is to take the money they have accumulated up to the exact second they accept the offer, as opposed to a small fixed amount. The amount of money earned per second and the total time limit differs from episode to episode.

** Even despite this there have only been 5 episodes out of 28 so far in which nobody won the pot.

* ChekhovsLecture: In episode 26 (January 2012), one NPC met early on was a fortune-teller who told players to "beware of blue things". A few minutes later, players had to face a WireDilemma, where the blue wire was the one that would release an additional Hunter into the game.

At the start of each game, contestants are set loose to roam in a set playing area, and must remain inside the area for the duration of the game. The show then releases "Hunters" into the area, paid {{MIB}} agents whose sole goal is to chase down and tag the contestants. If a player is tagged by a Hunter, they are eliminated from the game. The Hunters walk around the play area and will only start to run if they spot a player, and breaking line of sight for a couple seconds will cause them to give up the chase.

''Run For Money Tousouchuu'' is a Japanese GameShow that has been airing as a series of specials on FujiTV since 2004. It usually airs one new episode every couple months. As of this writing, the most recent new episode aired on April 8, 2012, bringing the total to 27 episodes. It spun off a short-lived US version by the name of ''{{Chase}}'' on the {{SyFy}} network. A spin-off has been announced, titled ''Battle For Money Sentouchuu'' and scheduled to premiere on May 19, 2012.

''Run For Money Tousouchuu'' is a Japanese GameShow that has been airing as a series of specials on FujiTV since 2004. It usually airs one new episode every couple months. As of this writing, the most recent new episode aired on April 8, 2012, bringing the total to 27 episodes. It spun off a short-lived US version by the name of ''{{Chase}}'' on the {{SyFy}} network.

* GenreBlindness: In Episode 27 (April 2012), the runners were faced with a mission of inflating one of 2 balloons to to bursting - one in a red box, the other blue - one balloon contained a switch that would prevent the area from being closed off, the other had a Hunter inside. [[WhatAnIdiot They picked blue]].

* TurnCoat: In episode 27, after considerable confusion is sown about if one of the players is a traitor, they're instructed to send someone up to the top of a nearby tower to learn their identity. The player who gets there [[spoiler:discovers there was no traitor to begin with, but is offered a guaranteed 300000 yen to become the traitor.]][[spoiler:He can't bring himself to do it.]]

Over time, the show has developed its own plotlines and mythology through cutscenes and occasional materials planted in the game, often simultaneously using them to explain missions. Initially, these plotlines were self-contained in each episode and simply connected together the missions in the episode, but they have since started developing into multi-episode {{StoryArc}}s and an overall MythArc. The MythArc gradually reveals a BackStory of the game, which is supposedly being run from hundreds of years in the future by a mysterious man named Satoshi Tsukimura, with the title of "GameMaster" in a company named Chronos; the Hunters are said to be androids built by Chronos and sent back in time by Satoshi for the sake of the game.

''Run For Money Tousouchuu'' is a Japanese GameShow that has been airing as a series of specials on FujiTV since 2004. It usually airs one new episode every couple months. As of this writing, the most recent new episode aired on April 8, 2012, bringing the total to 26 episodes. It spun off a short-lived US version by the name of ''{{Chase}}'' on the {{SyFy}} network.

''Run For Money Tousouchuu'' is a Japanese GameShow that has been airing as a series of specials on FujiTV since 2004. It usually airs one new episode every couple months. As of this writing, the most recent new episode aired on January 8, 2012, bringing the total to 26 episodes. It spun off a short-lived US version by the name of ''{{Chase}}'' on the {{SyFy}} network.

* NonPlayerCharacter: Later episodes frequently had hired actors involved in the missions

* ExactTimeToFailure: Mission time limits are enforced to the exact second. Even when the mission is something like "figure out the password to lock the gate before the Hunters arrive", players will be told the exact time at which the Hunters will reach the gate, and they ''will'' arrive at that exact time down to the second.

* Personnel: Only TheAnnouncer. In an unusual move for a game show, there's no traditional GameShowHost onscreen; the closest the show gets is a mysterious "GameMaster" who is only occasionally seen.

* Personnel: Only TheAnnouncer. In an unusual move for a game show, there is no traditional GameShowHost onscreen; the closest the show gets is a mysterious "GameMaster" who is only occasionally seen.

* WireDilemma: The locking mechanism on the Hunter Boxes in episode 26. Cut the correct wire and Hunter Box is locked, cut the wrong wire and the box immediately opens to release an additional Hunter into the game, who would almost certainly tag you right away.

* Personnel: Only TheAnnouncer. In an unusual move for a game show, there is no on-screen GameShowHost.

* TimedMission

* WireDilemma: The locking mechanism on the Hunter Boxes in episode 26. Cut the wrong wire and you release an additional Hunter into the game, who would almost certainly tag you right away.

* TimedMission