History Manga / DarwinsGame

* WhamLine: Chapter 82 has a one.

* LanguageDrift: Despite the remarkable fact the island natives speak Japanese like the main characters, one key term is different. For them, Sigils are the power to see the future that their shrine maidens inherited from their ancestors while for the main characters, Sigils cover every power granted by Darwin's Game. [[spoiler: After they joined Kaname in his world though, they started using the word like Kaname and the other people of his world does]].
* LeaveTheTwoLovebirdsAlone: [[spoiler: When Shuka and Kaname do the deed in Shuka’s room]], Sui is able to sense it when she tries to sees Shuka and pushes Ryuuji who was also nearby away.
* MascotVillain: Banda-kun is a cute panda mascot of a local baseball team. However, the person who wears said mascot costume is well-known as a newbie killer, as he has no hesitation about killing new people in Darwin's Game in cold blood. He is also the first enemy that Kaname has to face. [[spoiler: Later on, it's revealed that he is actually his best friend's adviser.]]

* TheMultiverse: It turns out that there are several universes. [[spoiler: The country of "Japan" that was featured in the Hunting Game came from one. The Duel with the Pirate King event features a universe where Earth's dominant species were not humans but {{Oni}}]].

* NoBodyLeftBehind: When one of the game's players dies, all that is left is a hole in the ground shaped like a pixellated version of their body. This does not happen if they are killed outside of a battle.

* PeoplePuppets: One application of [[GreenThumb The Florist's]] Sigil, by attaching vines to other players and injecting special drugs, he can control them. This doesn't kills them however, as their bodies do not disappear and once the vines are removed, they return to normal.

** The unnamed female character who appears for 2 pages before being killed off by "One-san", leader of the "Eighth" clan. She later stars in the omake strips, where the fact that she's killed before readers even know her name (Akane Shidou) gets brought up repeatedly.

* ScavengerHunt: The treasure hunt event of Shibuya, where people need to collect at least three rings in order to not die if the clearing condition isn't met by the end of the time limit.
* ShownTheirWork: The game ends up actually being a reasonable demonstration of different evolutionary advantages. While murdering everyone who opposes you initially seems like a good strategy, no matter how powerful you are you will eventually run into a problem you can't solve on your own and need allies. And turning your enemies into allies is a better use of energy than assuming everyone is against you. Cooperation is the reason humans are at the top of the food chain instead of bears.
* SlidingScaleOfFreeWillVsFate: Though Magnolia and Towa can see the future, the future's not set in stone. If they foresee a BadFuture, it is because they can take measures to prevent it. If the future ''was'' set in stone, then they wouldn't be getting visions in the first place. Only a future they could change will be given by their Sigil.

* SuperEmpowering: Everyone who joins Darwin's Game, even by accident, is given some superpowers (known as Sigils) from their phone (or somebody else's phone which has a Darwin's Game app in it) in order to survive Darwin's Game. Examples of Sigil powers include Telekinetic powers, Metamorphosis powers, Mind Control, Expanded Senses and so on.

* TimeTravel: The island the participants of the Island Hunting Game are on has a statue on it that is identical to one in Shibuya, including the chunks taken out from D-Game players having died on it. Ouji wonders if this means the game teleported them to the future for this event. [[spoiler:The island itself is called the 'Country of Japan', and Arabaki all but states that this is the case... but makes it sound more like an alternate universe version. There are however hints that point towards this, from the discovery of the island's monsters in Columbia by US Forces, to a [=USN=] Task Force steaming towards the island towards the event's climax, it's revealed that the island was actually ripped from an alternate universe.]]
* TrialByCombat: The people of "Japan" had a divine trial as a tradition decades ago. An accused person gets pitted against one of their tribe's warriors and they battle to the death. The one that survives is considered to be the one in the right, as it was believed that divine intervention gave them the power to win the trial. The current chief got rid of the trial because he considered it cruel and unnecessary. [[spoiler:Kaname gets thrown into one, but he and Rick are pulling a farce, neither intending to actually kill the other. The natives eventually realises this and ultimately understood that Kaname was never their enemy.]]

* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: People with weak Sigils often complain about it, but Kaname is of the opinion that even weak Sigils can be useful if people make the most of it. Kaname has yet to be proven wrong.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Inukai remarks that Kaname's sigil was so convenient that if he could only take one thing to a deserted island, he’d take Kaname. Turns out the setting of the next event took place on a deserted island.
* GoofySuit: The Panda costume. But no-one's laughing when it wields a knife and becomes invisible.

** Executioners, subordinates of the Game Master of Darwin's Game, are sent out specifically to deal with law enforcement personnel that have become aware of the game, or end up participating in it.
** Trinity agents attempt to pull this trope on Ayanokouji when they catch him communicating with a detective that got caught up in the Treasure Hunt event, though he wipes their memory so that they report back to their leader that they got nothing.

** Ouji thought his SuperSenses was too limited to be useful in most circumstances. But then he met Kaname and was encouraged to be more open-minded about his Sigil. He then literally shifted his perspective and discovered that his Sigil isn't limited to ground-bound perspectives and can see things from the sky.
* HiddenElfVillage: The island several players get sent to for a game actually contains a well-hidden village of humans. [[spoiler:They are the 'Human' targets listed as being worthy of points for killing them, as they are not D-game players and don't give a point penalty for killing. Kaname does his best to keep them alive from the other players.]]
* IllegalGamblingDen: Trinity has the Bookmaker privilege, which among other things, allows them to function as the main way patrons can bet on various matches and big game events.
* ImmuneToBullets: The Doume have a sigil that makes all projectile weapons pretty much useless against them. To defeat them, people need to use close-combat weapons, but that puts them in range of their mighty arms. Defeating just one is incredibly difficult at the best of times and only players with incredibly powerful or otherwise well-suited sigils can consistently defeat them.
* InstantHomeDelivery: All purchases made in the in-app store are instantly delivered to the buyer's current location, no matter where they are, even in the middle of a game event.

-->'''Ryuji''': I realise that when it comes to D-game, age and title aren't particularly meaningful. Because those that don't realize that, die first.

* FamedInStory: Banda-kun the Rookie Hunter, whose costume made him easy to remember, and Shuka the Undefeated Queen, for rather self-explanatory reasons. Kaname defeating both of them in his first two fights gets him noticed very, ''very'' quickly.

* DeadlineNews: While the RedshirtReporter was doing a broadcast of the damaged Moyai Statue, strange animals appear and kill her, alerting Darwin's Game GM to an invasion of the animals, resulting in him calling a Game Event on short notice with the goal of exterminating those animals.

* DishingOutDirt: Cross Kazuya's [[spoiler: pet parrot]] has a sigil that can manipulate earth and dirt. They used this to manipulate puppets of dirt created in Cross' image to gain revenge on Ryuji for killing Cross.

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Sudo Kaname is just another OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, but one day receives an invite from his friend to join the ''Darwin's Game,'' which is apparently a survival game played on one's phone. Kaname accepts, completely disregarding the fact that his teacher just told him that his friend--the sender of the invite--has apparently gone missing. The moment he does, a snake leaps out of the phone and bites him in the neck before vanishing. However, he was the only one able to see the snake, and he immediately collapses before he can say anything more.

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An AnimatedAdaptation by studio Nexus under director Yoshinobu Tokumoto will premiere on January 3, 2020. Creator/AniplexUSA has licensed the series with a simuldub being provided by Creator/FunimationEntertainment.

* WhatTheHellTownspeople: Towa calls out her own people for [[spoiler: venting their anger at the deaths of some of their children on the outsiders ''trying to help them'' rather than the outsiders who ''actually killed their kin'']].

* DefeatMeansFriendship:

** Also, he gets [[spoiler:The Florist and Machinegun Man to temporarily ally with him]] only after he has defeated them. A bit of EnemyMine was also involved though, especially on the latter's part.
* DishingOutDirt: [[spoiler: Cross Kazuya's pet parrot has a sigil that can manipulate earth and dirt. It used this to manipulate puppets of dirt created in its deceased master's image to gain revenge on Ryuji for killing Cross]].
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: [[spoiler: The main villain of the Off-Range Village mini-arc was a pet parrot that once belonged to a member of Eighth. Somehow, its owner managed to get it to accept a Darwin's Game invite and it gained a sigil]].
* EnemyMine: Ryuji (the player with the skull-faced tactical armor) refuses to team up with Kaname's group at first [[spoiler:because of the Florist's presence]] but quickly changes his mind when he finds out they have a common enemy.
* EveryoneHasASpecialMove: All the players have a Sigil, which lets them use a supernatural ability. For instance, the panda man can turn invisible while Shuka can control the movement of string-like objects.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Kaname]] Downplayed. [[spoiler:His response to seeing his friend be killed by One is to no longer abide by his ThouShaltNotKill morals]].
* FamedInStory: Banda-kun the Rookie Hunter, whose costume made him easy to remember, and Shuka the Undefeated Queen, for rather self-explanatory reasons. [[spoiler: Kaname defeating both of them in his first two fights gets him noticed very, ''very'' quickly]].

* LeaveTheTwoLovebirdsAlone: [[spoiler: When Shuka and Kaname do the deed in Shuka’s room, Sui is able to sense it when she tries to sees Shuka and pushes Ryuuji who was also nearby away]].

* TheMultiverse: [[spoiler: It turns out that there are several universes. The country of "Japan" that was featured in the Hunting Game came from one. The Duel with the Pirate King event features a universe where Earth's dominant species were not humans but {{Oni}}]].

* {{Oni}}: [[spoiler: The Duel with the Pirate King pits Kaname and the other players against another universe's Oni. The {{Mooks}} can be dealt with but the leaders have powerful Sigils and any one of the commanders is by Kaname's own words roughly on Xuelan's level, putting his team at a severe disadvantage]].

* StarterVillain: The person who wears the Banda-kun mascot is known as the Novice Killer, [[spoiler: who is revealed to be none other than Kato, the adviser of Kaname's friend, Kyoda.]] He is also the first person Kaname has to face in Darwin's Game.

* WhatTheHellTownspeople: [[spoiler: Towa runs between the dueling Kaname and Rick and interrupts them. She then proceeds to call out her own people for venting their anger at the deaths of some of their children on the outsiders ''trying to help them'' rather than the outsiders who ''actually killed their kin'']].

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** Ryuji thought his LivingLieDetector ability was worthless. Then Kaname declared to One that he didn't consider Ryuji a friend and that we was just an ally of convenience, ''which his Sigil called bullshit on'', proving to Ryuji that Kaname actually feels the exact opposite. Ryuji was incredibly moved by it and was grateful to know his Sigil wasn't so worthless after all.

* TheClan: Some people on Darwin's Game also build clans in order to win the game. Kaname Sudo's Sunset Raven and One's Eighth are the prime examples of it.

* DeadlyGame: Darwin's Game is a survival game where players are given some super powers known as Sigil, with its objectives being a KillEmAll game with the winner being given a huge sum of prize money.

** How Kaname wins Shuka over as an ally.

* EveryoneHasASpecialMove: All the players have a Sigil, which lets them use a supernatural ability. For instance, [[spoiler: the panda man can turn invisible while Shuka can control the movement of string-like objects.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Kaname]] Downplayed. [[spoiler:His reponse to seeing his friend be killed by One is to no longer abide by his ThouShaltNotKill morals]].

* KillEmAll: The objective of Darwin's Game. The person who kills all of the other contestants and survives until the end will be announced as the winner.
* LanguageDrift: Despite the remarkable fact the island natives speak Japanese like the main characters, one key term is different. For them, Sigils are the power to see the future that their shrine maidens inherited from their ancestors while for the main characters, Sigils cover every power granted by Darwin's Game.

* TheMole: Superintendent Ayanokouji is one for the police, as he is a supporter of Trinity, the company that runs Darwin's Game, who are unaware that he is heading the police investigation into them.

* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Kaname.

* SuperEmpowering: Everyone who joins Darwin's Game, even by accident, is given some superpowers (known as Sigil) from their phone (or somebody else's phone which has a Darwin's Game app in it) in order to survive Darwin's Game. Examples of Sigil powers include Telekinetic powers, Metamorphosis powers, Mind Control, Expanded Senses and so on.

* SlidingScaleOfFreeWillVsFate: Though Magnolia and Towa can see the future, the future's not set in stone. If they foresee a BadFuture, it is possible to take steps to prevent it.

* ScavengerHunt: Darwin's Game has a special event which is essentially a treasure hunt game. One of the examples of the treasure hunt event in the game is the event at Shibuya, where people need to collect several rings in order to win the game.

* {{Fanservice}}: The chapter covers have most, if not all, the female members of Sunset Ravens underclothed, in erotic poses, or both.

* TrialByCombat: The clan had a divine trial as a tradition decades ago. An accused person gets pitted against one of their tribe's warriors and they battle to the death. The one that survives is considered to be the one in the right, as it was believed that divine intervention gave them the power to win the trial. The elder got rid of the trial because he considered it cruel and unnecessary. [[spoiler:Kaname gets thrown into one, but he and his opponent are pulling a farce, neither intending to actually kill the other. The clan eventually realises this and ultimately understood that Kaname was never their enemy.]]

* MascotVillain: Banda-kun is a cute panda mascot of a local baseball team.However, the person who wears said mascot costume is well-known as a newbie killer, as he has no hesitation about killing new people in Darwin's Game in cold blood. He is also the first enemy that Kaname has to face. [[spoiler: Later on, it's revealed that he is actually his best friend's adviser.]]