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** Toshiko possibly could have accepted this... if her father had bothered explaining it to her. [[PoorCommunicationKills But he didn't, so here we are.]]
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* Kiyoko being chosen as the Inō family representative over Toshiko seems out of left field with her lack of combat training and naïveté. But considering that Toshiko was supposed to be the head of family as the eldest, Boar's father likely chose the youngest to make sure the family still had the heir. Too bad that Toshiko's jealousy lead her to drive Kiyoko to suicide and take her place in the Juuni Taisen, where she's unceremoniously killed off once the tournament starts.

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** Boar, Monkey, Horse, Snake, Dragon and Tiger are shown with red eyes. [[spoiler:These characters are killed by the red-eyes Rabbit and his zombies.]]
*** [[spoiler:Actually, the latter was killed by Ox, but because of Rabbit.]]
*** [[spoiler:Also, four of them does end up as red-eyed zombies.]]
** Ox is shown with blue eyes. [[spoiler:He is killed by Rat.]]
** Dog, Chicken and Sheep are shown with green eyes. [[spoiler:They are killed by someone else (Chicken, Ox and Tiger, respectively).]]
** Rabbit's eyes aren't shown. [[spoiler:He commits suicide.]]
** Rat's eyes are normal. [[spoiler:He wins the tournament.]]
* It's odd that the Tatsumi Brothers, twins, represent different EasternZodiac signs: Snake and Dragon. However, it's important to known that there is more to the Chinese astrology than the "Animal of the Year": the twelve signs are also assigned to the month, day and hours[[note]]called inner, true and secret animals, respectively[[/note]] of the person's birth. This means that someone born during the Year of the Dragon can have Snake as an Inner Animal, for example.
** An simpler interpretation is that they born minutes from each other, but the Lunar calendar year has passed the threshold from the year of the dragon, to the year of the snake. The year of the snake comes after the year of the dragon. (i.e. Year of the Dragon: February 17, 1988 to February 5, 1989. Year of the snake: February 6, 1989 to January 26, 1990)
** In the eastern culture, dragons are considered evolved snakes.

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** Boar, Monkey, Horse, Snake, Dragon and Tiger are shown with red eyes. [[spoiler:These These characters are killed by the red-eyes Rabbit and his zombies.]]
zombies.
*** [[spoiler:Actually, Actually, the latter was killed by Ox, but because of Rabbit.]]
Rabbit.
*** [[spoiler:Also, Also, four of them does end up as red-eyed zombies.]]
zombies.
** Ox is shown with blue eyes. [[spoiler:He He is killed by Rat.]]
Rat.
** Dog, Chicken and Sheep are shown with green eyes. [[spoiler:They They are killed by someone else (Chicken, Ox and Tiger, respectively).]]
respectively).
** Rabbit's eyes aren't shown. [[spoiler:He He commits suicide.]]
suicide.
** Rat's eyes are normal. [[spoiler:He He wins the tournament.]]
* It's odd that the Tatsumi Brothers, twins, represent different EasternZodiac signs: Snake and Dragon. However, it's important to known that there is more to the Chinese astrology than the "Animal of the Year": the twelve signs are also assigned to the month, day and hours[[note]]called inner, true and secret animals, respectively[[/note]] of the person's birth. This means that someone born during the Year of the Dragon can have Snake as an Inner Animal, for example.
** An simpler interpretation is that they born minutes from each other, but the Lunar calendar year has passed the threshold from the year of the dragon, to the year of the snake. The year of the snake comes after the year of the dragon. (i.e. Year of the Dragon: February 17, 1988 to February 5, 1989. Year of the snake: February 6, 1989 to January 26, 1990)
** In the eastern culture, dragons are considered evolved snakes.



** [[spoiler:Boar kills in abundance. Her zombie corpse is "killed" in abundance, being devoured by an entire horde of crows.]]
*** [[spoiler:Boar is also very confident on her skills and takes pride on being the last champion's daughter, so much that she killed her sister just to enter the tournament and prove her worth. What is the most karmic and humiliating way for her to go, if not being one of the first victims.]]
** [[spoiler:Dog kills by biting his enemies. He has his skull crushed by an "ally", Chicken, after biting her.]]
** [[spoiler:Chicken kills by pecking, and her ability is also called the "Eye of the Cormorant". She is stabbed in the [[EyeScream eyes]] by Ox and devoured by her own crows.]]
** [[spoiler:Monkeys “kills” by talking peacefully. Once her negotiations with Rabbit fail, he stabs her, and [[DissonantSerenity peacefully]] talks her down as she dies, while she remains silent.]]
** [[spoiler:Sheep kills with trickery[=/=]kills by deceiving others. He was fooled by Tiger's appearance and is killed by her, before he could react.]]
** [[spoiler:Horse kills silently. He dies quietly and alone withing the bank's vault, after Snake's corpse burns down the place, due to the lack of oxygen.]]
** [[spoiler:Snake and Dragon robs their victims as they kills. Rabbit kills them, getting possession of their bodies, weapons and abilities. Tiger also steals their weapons and use it against them.]]
*** [[spoiler:Dragon has planned on using his brother as an distraction to launch an sneak attack on Ox and Tiger; instead, it was Rabbit who used Snake's head to distract Dragon, and reached him with Monkey's help.]]
** [[spoiler:Rabbit kills strangely[=/=]kills psychotically. He is killed-off for good while looking like an [[BodyHorror human abomination]].]]
** [[spoiler:Tiger kills powerfully while drunk/kills in a drunken rage. She is [[MercyKill mercy-killed]] by Ox, while weakened, sober and at peace.]]
** [[spoiler:Ox kills directly. His body is [[DeaderThanDead atomized]] by Sheep's grenade.]]
* Rabbit's character design makes perfect sense, given his powers and fighting-style: The giant bunny tail can hide a pair of large knives, his [[ScaryTeeth sharp teeth]] exists so he [[spoiler:can, successfully, bite his own tongue to reanimate himself as a zombie]], and his [[{{Stripperiffic}} weird choice of clothes]] intentionally makes him look silly, thus distracting others and causing them to underestimate him. Plus, if he [[spoiler:became a zombie, clothes would just get in the way of his reanimated limbs and CombatTentacles.]]

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** [[spoiler:Boar Boar kills in abundance. Her zombie corpse is "killed" in abundance, being devoured by an entire horde of crows.]]
crows.
*** [[spoiler:Boar Boar is also very confident on her skills and takes pride on being the last champion's daughter, so much that she killed her sister just to enter the tournament and prove her worth. What is the most karmic and humiliating way for her to go, if not being one of the first victims.]]
victims.
** [[spoiler:Dog Dog kills by biting his enemies. He has his skull crushed by an "ally", Chicken, after biting her.]]
her.
** [[spoiler:Chicken Chicken kills by pecking, and her ability is also called the "Eye of the Cormorant". She is stabbed in the [[EyeScream eyes]] by Ox and devoured by her own crows.]]
crows.
** [[spoiler:Monkeys Monkeys “kills” by talking peacefully. Once her negotiations with Rabbit fail, he stabs her, and [[DissonantSerenity peacefully]] talks her down as she dies, while she remains silent.]]
silent.
** [[spoiler:Sheep Sheep kills with trickery[=/=]kills by deceiving others. He was fooled by Tiger's appearance and is killed by her, before he could react.]]
react.
** [[spoiler:Horse Horse kills silently. He dies quietly and alone withing the bank's vault, after Snake's corpse burns down the place, due to the lack of oxygen.]]
oxygen.
** [[spoiler:Snake Snake and Dragon robs their victims as they kills. Rabbit kills them, getting possession of their bodies, weapons and abilities. Tiger also steals their weapons and use it against them.]]
them.
*** [[spoiler:Dragon Dragon has planned on using his brother as an distraction to launch an sneak attack on Ox and Tiger; instead, it was Rabbit who used Snake's head to distract Dragon, and reached him with Monkey's help.]]
help.
** [[spoiler:Rabbit Rabbit kills strangely[=/=]kills psychotically. He is killed-off for good while looking like an [[BodyHorror human abomination]].]]
abomination]].
** [[spoiler:Tiger Tiger kills powerfully while drunk/kills in a drunken rage. She is [[MercyKill mercy-killed]] by Ox, while weakened, sober and at peace.]]
peace.
** [[spoiler:Ox Ox kills directly. His body is [[DeaderThanDead atomized]] by Sheep's grenade.]]
grenade.
* Rabbit's character design makes perfect sense, given his powers and fighting-style: The giant bunny tail can hide a pair of large knives, his [[ScaryTeeth sharp teeth]] exists so he [[spoiler:can, can, successfully, bite his own tongue to reanimate himself as a zombie]], zombie, and his [[{{Stripperiffic}} weird choice of clothes]] intentionally makes him look silly, thus distracting others and causing them to underestimate him. Plus, if he [[spoiler:became became a zombie, clothes would just get in the way of his reanimated limbs and CombatTentacles.]]



* [[spoiler:Rat, surprisingly, got along with AxCrazy Rabbit in one of the Deleted Paths. In the Vietnamese Astrology, Rabbit is replaced by Cat (Rat's best friend in the Chinese tale) as the 4th zodiac sign.]]
* Some events of the story are similar to the ones from the original Chinese Tale: [[spoiler:Snake "scarring" Horse, Monkey making an alliance (and Chicken being one of her allies), and Rat using Ox to win the race.]]

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* [[spoiler:Rat, Rat, surprisingly, got along with AxCrazy Rabbit in one of the Deleted Paths. In the Vietnamese Astrology, Rabbit is replaced by Cat (Rat's best friend in the Chinese tale) as the 4th zodiac sign.]]
sign.
* Some events of the story are similar to the ones from the original Chinese Tale: [[spoiler:Snake "scarring" Snake "scaring" Horse, Monkey making an alliance (and Chicken being one of her allies), and Rat using Ox to win the race.]]
race.
* It's odd that the Tatsumi Brothers, twins, represent different EasternZodiac signs: Snake and Dragon. However, it's important to known that there is more to the Chinese astrology than the "Animal of the Year": the twelve signs are also assigned to the month, day and hours[[note]]called inner, true and secret animals, respectively[[/note]] of the person's birth. This means that someone born during the Year of the Dragon can have Snake as an Inner Animal, for example.
** An simpler interpretation is that they born minutes from each other, but the Lunar calendar year has passed the threshold from the year of the dragon, to the year of the snake. The year of the snake comes after the year of the dragon. (i.e. Year of the Dragon: February 17, 1988 to February 5, 1989. Year of the snake: February 6, 1989 to January 26, 1990)
** In the eastern culture, dragons are considered evolved snakes.
* The character birthdays in general: The warrior of the Rat (first eastern zodiac sign) was born on March 3rd, which makes his WesternZodiac sign Pisces (the 12th and last sign), Ox (2nd eastern sign) was born on February 2nd (Aquarius, the 11th western sign) and so on. The Zodiac Criminals from Book 2 also have these same birthdays.
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* Michio Tsukui/Dog has an adoptive daughter. However... [[spoiler:now that he's been killed by Ryouka Niwa/Chicken, who's going to be looking after his daughter?]]

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* Michio Tsukui/Dog has an adoptive daughter. However... [[spoiler:now now that he's been killed by Ryouka Niwa/Chicken, who's going to be looking after his daughter?]]daughter?



* Rat's power side-effect. [[spoiler:During the entire tournament, not only he is stressed due to his mind being loaded with information for "participating" another 99 times, but he also recalls the pain from dying in the other routes: stabbed in the back by Rabbit, decapitated by Ox, gunned down by Boar, eaten alive by Chicken's crows etc. And when he finally wins, he gets killed at least 40 more times by Duodecouple, for avoiding the interview. No wonder he wanted to forget about it.]]

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* Rat's power side-effect. [[spoiler:During During the entire tournament, not only he is stressed due to his mind being loaded with information for "participating" another 99 times, but he also recalls the pain from dying in the other routes: stabbed in the back by Rabbit, decapitated by Ox, gunned down by Boar, eaten alive by Chicken's crows etc. And when he finally wins, he gets killed at least 40 more times by Duodecouple, for avoiding the interview. No wonder he wanted to forget about it.]]
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* When Monkey found out that Sheep had planted explosives beforehand, why did she move them to below floor instead of just disarming or throwing them outside? This leads to Snake's early death, with indirectly leads to [[spoiler:Boar, Horse, Dragon, and her own death.]]

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* When Monkey found out that Sheep had planted explosives beforehand, why did she move them to below floor instead of just disarming or throwing them outside? This leads to Snake's early death, with indirectly leads to [[spoiler:Boar, Boar, Horse, Dragon, and her own death.]]


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** [[spoiler:Monkeys “kills” by talking peacefully. Once her negotiations with Rabbit fail, he stabs her, and [[DissonantSerenity peacefully]] talks her down as she dies.]]

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** [[spoiler:Monkeys “kills” by talking peacefully. Once her negotiations with Rabbit fail, he stabs her, and [[DissonantSerenity peacefully]] talks her down as she dies.dies, while she remains silent.]]
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** An simpler interpretation is that they born minutes from each other, but the Lunar calendar year has passed the threshold from the year of the dragon, to the year of the snake. The year of the snake comes after the year of the dragon. (i.e. Year of the Dragon: February 17, 1988 to February 5, 1989. Year of the snake: February 6, 1989 to January 26, 1990)

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* When Monkey found out that Sheep had planed explosives beforehand, why did she moved it to the bellow floor instead of just disarming or trowing them outside? This leads to Snake's early death, with indirectly leads to [[spoiler:Boar, Horse, Dragon and her own death.]]

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* When Monkey found out that Sheep had planed planted explosives beforehand, why did she moved it move them to the bellow below floor instead of just disarming or trowing throwing them outside? This leads to Snake's early death, with indirectly leads to [[spoiler:Boar, Horse, Dragon Dragon, and her own death.]]]]
** This one is directly addressed in the anime: She wanted to use the bombs for her own devices, so removing them wasn't in her best interest. ''She's'' the one who set them off in the beginning to give her team a chance to escape after sensing someone else's killing intent in response to her trying to make an alliance, which she expected would happen given she's trying to broker peace in an assassin based killing game.
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* Rabbit targeting the Tatsumi brothers before the tournament makes perfect sense, as their weapons are one of the few things that can destroy his zombies.

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* Rabbit ** He targeting the Tatsumi brothers before the tournament also makes perfect sense, as their weapons are one of the few things that can destroy his zombies.




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* Some events of the story are similar to the ones from the original Chinese Tale: [[spoiler:Snake "scarring" Horse, Monkey making an alliance (and Chicken being one of her allies), and Rat using Ox to win the race.]]
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* How Sheep expect to ally with anyone if he is a former champion known as "the Warrior that kills by '''deceiving''' others"?

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* How Sheep expect to ally with anyone if he is a former champion known as "the Warrior that kills by '''deceiving''' others"?others"? Also, by planing to show his Beast Gem to other participant to convince them that he can remove them, Sheep expect them to react with ''"Wow! This guy is a wizard! He can create wormholes inside your body!"'', instead of ''"You never ate your Gem, cheater!."'' or ''"You must have killed another participant and taken it."''



* When Monkey found out that Sheep had planed explosives beforehand, why did she moved it to the bellow floor instead of just disarming or trowing them outside? Not only this leads to Snake's early death, but also to [[spoiler:Boar, Horse and her own death.]]

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* When Monkey found out that Sheep had planed explosives beforehand, why did she moved it to the bellow floor instead of just disarming or trowing them outside? Not only this This leads to Snake's early death, but also with indirectly leads to [[spoiler:Boar, Horse Horse, Dragon and her own death.]]

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* Rat's power side-effect. [[spoiler:Not only he is stressed due to his mind being loaded with information for "participating" of the Juni Taisen 99 times, but he also recalls the pain from dying in the other routes: stabbed in the back by Rabbit, decapitated by Ox, gunned down by Boar, eaten alive by Chicken's crows etc. And when he finally wins, he gets killed at least 40 more times by Duodecouple, for avoiding the interview.]]

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* Rat's power side-effect. [[spoiler:Not [[spoiler:During the entire tournament, not only he is stressed due to his mind being loaded with information for "participating" of the Juni Taisen another 99 times, but he also recalls the pain from dying in the other routes: stabbed in the back by Rabbit, decapitated by Ox, gunned down by Boar, eaten alive by Chicken's crows etc. And when he finally wins, he gets killed at least 40 more times by Duodecouple, for avoiding the interview. No wonder he wanted to forget about it.]]


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* When Monkey found out that Sheep had planed explosives beforehand, why did she moved it to the bellow floor instead of just disarming or trowing them outside? Not only this leads to Snake's early death, but also to [[spoiler:Boar, Horse and her own death.]]

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* [[spoiler:Rat, surprisingly, get along with AxCrazy Rabbit in one of the Deleted Paths. In the Vietnamese Astrology, Rabbit is replaced by Cat, who was Rat's best friend in the Chinese tale, as the 4th zodiac sign.]]

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* Rabbit targeting the Tatsumi brothers before the tournament makes perfect sense, as their weapons are one of the few things that can destroy his zombies.
* [[spoiler:Rat, surprisingly, get got along with AxCrazy Rabbit in one of the Deleted Paths. In the Vietnamese Astrology, Rabbit is replaced by Cat, who was Rat's Cat (Rat's best friend in the Chinese tale, tale) as the 4th zodiac sign.]]


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* How Sheep expect to ally with anyone if he is a former champion known as "the Warrior that kills by '''deceiving''' others"?
* For some reason, Chicken never though of ordering her birds to drop bombs to the tournament, despite doing so in her flashback.
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* Rabbit's character design makes perfect sense, given his powers and fighting-style: The giant bunny tail can hide a pair of large knives, his [[ScaryTeeth sharp teeth]] exists so he [[spoiler:can, successfully, bite his own tongue to reanimate himself as a zombie]], and his {{Stripperiffic}} intentionally makes makes him look silly, thus causing others to underestimate him. Plus, if he [[spoiler:became a zombie, clothes would just get in the way of his reanimated limbs and CombatTentacles.]]

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* Rabbit's character design makes perfect sense, given his powers and fighting-style: The giant bunny tail can hide a pair of large knives, his [[ScaryTeeth sharp teeth]] exists so he [[spoiler:can, successfully, bite his own tongue to reanimate himself as a zombie]], and his {{Stripperiffic}} [[{{Stripperiffic}} weird choice of clothes]] intentionally makes makes him look silly, thus distracting others and causing others them to underestimate him. Plus, if he [[spoiler:became a zombie, clothes would just get in the way of his reanimated limbs and CombatTentacles.]]
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* Rabbit's character design may be seen as silly, but is very convenient, given his necromancy powers: the giant bunny tail is used to hide his pair of knives, [[spoiler:his ScaryTeeth exists to make sure that he can bite his own tongue in the first attempt to reanimate himself as a zombie, and his {{Stripperiffic}} appearance is understandable as it makes him looks silly, thus making others underestimate him. Also, if he kills himself and became a zombie, clothes would just get in the way of his reanimated limbs and CombatTentacles.]]

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* Rabbit's character design may be seen as silly, but is very convenient, makes perfect sense, given his necromancy powers: the powers and fighting-style: The giant bunny tail is used to can hide his a pair of large knives, [[spoiler:his ScaryTeeth his [[ScaryTeeth sharp teeth]] exists to make sure that so he can [[spoiler:can, successfully, bite his own tongue in the first attempt to reanimate himself as a zombie, zombie]], and his {{Stripperiffic}} appearance is understandable as it intentionally makes makes him looks look silly, thus making causing others to underestimate him. Also, Plus, if he kills himself and became [[spoiler:became a zombie, clothes would just get in the way of his reanimated limbs and CombatTentacles.]]
* [[spoiler:Rat, surprisingly, get along with AxCrazy Rabbit in one of the Deleted Paths. In the Vietnamese Astrology, Rabbit is replaced by Cat, who was Rat's best friend in the Chinese tale, as the 4th zodiac sign.]]
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* Rabbit's character design may be seen as silly, but is very convenient, given his necromancy powers: the giant bunny tail is used to hide his pair of knives, [[spoiler:his ScaryTeeth exists to make sure that he can bite his own tongue in the first attempt to reanimate himself as a zombie, and his {{Stripperiffic}} appearance is understandable as it makes him looks silly, thus making others underestimate him. Also, if he kills himself and became a zombie, clothes would just get in the way of his reanimated limbs and CombatTentacles.]]

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*** [[spoiler:Also, four of them does end up as red-eyed zombies.]]



*** [[spoiler:Boar is also very confident on her skills and takes pride on being the last champion's daughter, so much that she killed her sister just to enter the tournament and prove her worth. What is the most karmic and humiliating way for her to go, if not being one of the first victims.]]



** [[spoiler:Rabbit kills strangely. He is killed-off for good while looking like an [[BodyHorror human abomination]].]]

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*** [[spoiler:Dragon has planned on using his brother as an distraction to launch an sneak attack on Ox and Tiger; instead, it was Rabbit who used Snake's head to distract Dragon, and reached him with Monkey's help.]]
** [[spoiler:Rabbit kills strangely.strangely[=/=]kills psychotically. He is killed-off for good while looking like an [[BodyHorror human abomination]].]]


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* Rat's power side-effect. [[spoiler:Not only he is stressed due to his mind being loaded with information for "participating" of the Juni Taisen 99 times, but he also recalls the pain from dying in the other routes: stabbed in the back by Rabbit, decapitated by Ox, gunned down by Boar, eaten alive by Chicken's crows etc. And when he finally wins, he gets killed at least 40 more times by Duodecouple, for avoiding the interview.]]

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* In the opening credits, the characters are shown with glowing eye colors, mostly red and green. This is a {{Foreshadowing}} of their fate:
** Boar, Monkey, Horse, Snake, Dragon and Tiger are shown with red eyes. [[spoiler:These characters are killed by Rabbit and/or his zombies.]]

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* In the opening credits, the characters are shown with glowing eye colors, mostly red and green. This is GlowingEyesOfDoom. Other than making them look evil, the colors also works a a form of {{Foreshadowing}} of their fate:
** Boar, Monkey, Horse, Snake, Dragon and Tiger are shown with red eyes. [[spoiler:These characters are killed by the red-eyes Rabbit and/or and his zombies.]]



** Dog, Chicken and Sheep are shown with green eyes. [[spoiler:They are killed by someone else.]]

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** Dog, Chicken and Sheep are shown with green eyes. [[spoiler:They are killed by someone else.else (Chicken, Ox and Tiger, respectively).]]
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* The characters eye color during the opening credits [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadow]] their fate:

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** In the eastern culture, dragons are considered evolved snakes.
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** [[spoiler:Boar kills in abundance. Her zombie corpse is "killed" in abundance, as it is devoured by an entire horde of crows.]]

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** [[spoiler:Boar kills in abundance. Her zombie corpse is "killed" in abundance, as it is being devoured by an entire horde of crows.]]



** [[spoiler:Chicken kills by pecking, and her ability is also called the "Eye of the Cormorant". She is "peeked" in the [[EyeScream eyes]] by Ox and devoured by her own crows.]]

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** [[spoiler:Chicken kills by pecking, and her ability is also called the "Eye of the Cormorant". She is "peeked" stabbed in the [[EyeScream eyes]] by Ox and devoured by her own crows.]]



** [[spoiler:Horse kills silently. He dies alone withing the bank's vault, when Snake's corpse burns the place, due to the lack of oxygen.]]

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** [[spoiler:Horse kills silently. He dies quietly and alone withing the bank's vault, when after Snake's corpse burns down the place, due to the lack of oxygen.]]



** [[spoiler:Rabbit kills strangely. He is killed for good while looking like an human abomination.]]
** [[spoiler:Tiger kills powerfully while drunk. She is mercy-killed by Ox, while weakened and sober.]]
** [[spoiler:Ox kills directly. His body is [[DeaderThanDead atomized]] by Sheep's bomb.]]

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** [[spoiler:Rabbit kills strangely. He is killed killed-off for good while looking like an [[BodyHorror human abomination.abomination]].]]
** [[spoiler:Tiger kills powerfully while drunk. drunk/kills in a drunken rage. She is mercy-killed [[MercyKill mercy-killed]] by Ox, while weakened weakened, sober and sober.at peace.]]
** [[spoiler:Ox kills directly. His body is [[DeaderThanDead atomized]] by Sheep's bomb.grenade.]]
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* The characters eye color during the opening credits [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadow]] their fate:
** Boar, Monkey, Horse, Snake, Dragon and Tiger are shown with red eyes. [[spoiler:These characters are killed by Rabbit and/or his zombies.]]
*** [[spoiler:Actually, the latter was killed by Ox, but because of Rabbit.]]
** Ox is shown with blue eyes. [[spoiler:He is killed by Rat.]]
** Dog, Chicken and Sheep are shown with green eyes. [[spoiler:They are killed by someone else.]]
** Rat's eyes are normal. [[spoiler:He wins the tournament.]]
** Rabbit's eyes aren't shown. [[spoiler:He commits suicide.]]
* Also a case of DeathByIrony, most of the character have deaths that echoes or mirror their killing style:
** [[spoiler:Boar kills in abundance. Her zombie corpse is "killed" in abundance, as it is devoured by an entire horde of crows.]]
** [[spoiler:Dog kills by biting his enemies. He has his skull crushed by an "ally", Chicken, after biting her.]]
** [[spoiler:Chicken kills by pecking, and her ability is also called the "Eye of the Cormorant". She is "peeked" in the [[EyeScream eyes]] by Ox and devoured by her own crows.]]
** [[spoiler:Sheep kills with trickery[=/=]kills by deceiving others. He was fooled by Tiger's appearance and is killed by her, before he could react.]]
** [[spoiler:Horse kills silently. He dies alone withing the bank's vault, when Snake's corpse burns the place, due to the lack of oxygen.]]
** [[spoiler:Snake and Dragon robs their victims as they kills. Rabbit kills them, getting possession of their bodies, weapons and abilities. Tiger also steals their weapons and use it against them.]]
** [[spoiler:Rabbit kills strangely. He is killed for good while looking like an human abomination.]]
** [[spoiler:Tiger kills powerfully while drunk. She is mercy-killed by Ox, while weakened and sober.]]
** [[spoiler:Ox kills directly. His body is [[DeaderThanDead atomized]] by Sheep's bomb.]]

!FridgeHorror
* Michio Tsukui/Dog has an adoptive daughter. However... [[spoiler:now that he's been killed by Ryouka Niwa/Chicken, who's going to be looking after his daughter?]]
* While Nagayuki/Dragon and Takeyasu/Snake are both horrible people, their situation is is pretty terrifying when you think about it. The only people that they care about at all in any way is each other and they have fought together as a team for their entire life. They were extremely excited to be able to fight in the Zodiac War and were sure that they would be able to win together...only to find out at the last minute that their family conveniently left out the fact that "killing everyone" includes each other and that they will be expected to fight to the death if they both make it to the end of the tournament. Even though they had time to process that fact and were pretty much resigned to it by the time the contest started, it still had to have been pretty horrible, particularly for Nagayuki/Dragon; how would you like to spend your whole life protecting someone and taking pride in doing so, only to be told that you need to kill that person?
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