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->''"Dear God...please, give me my boredom back."''
''Kami-sama no Iu Toori'' (roughly translated as "As the Gods Will") is a Japanese manga series written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrated by Akeji Fujimura.
The series consists of two arcs: I and II.
In the first arc, Takahata Shun's day at high school begins just as normal and boring as ever, but it doesn't end that way. After his teacher's head explodes in front of the class and a daruma doll emerges from the headless body, he and his classmates find themselves forced to play children's games, starting with Daruma ga Koronda (a game similar to Red Light/Green Light), with deadly stakes. With no idea who is behind this mysterious deadly game session, and no way of knowing when it will finally end, the only thing Shun and other students can do is keep trying to win.
The second arc focuses on Akashi Yasuto, who ditched school before the daruma dolls appeared. As "trash" who ditched, he finds himself collected along with other truants to be "educated" through a "Kamiculum." But what waits for him afterwards goes beyond anything else the game has thrown at him...
The first series ran for 5 volumes in ''Bessatsu Magazine/ShonenMagazine'' from 2011 to 2012, while the second part was serialized in ''Weekly Shounen Magazine'' and ran for 11 volumes from 2013 to 2017. It was adapted into a live-action film directed by Creator/TakashiMiike and released November 15, 2014; it was released in the United States by {{Creator/Funimation}} [[https://www.funimation.com/shop/home-video/as-the-gods-will-live-action-movie-combo-sub-only-bld-00639/ on Blu-Ray and DVD on June 5, 2018]], nearly four years later.
The second part is serialized on Website/{{Crunchyroll}}'s Manga app under the title ''As the Gods Will: The Second Series''.
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!!Tropes:
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[[folder:General Tropes]]
* AnyoneCanDie: Yes, even [[spoiler: Takahata and Akashi, the main characters of their respective parts]].
* AngstySurvivingTwin:
** Subverted in Sanada's case. He doesn't even mind that his brother's dead (not even that he was killed ''right next to him'') since he bossed him around most of the time.
** Played straight in Part II, where Hiroki is depressed about his brother Daiki's death and wishes to see him again if he got the chance to ascend to godhood and bring him back. [[spoiler:He at least ends up TogetherInDeath with him after the Rock-Paper-Scissors fight.]]
* AssholeVictim: A lot of the students that get killed are looking out for themselves most of the time, and don't hesitate to start sacrificing others for the sake of their own survival. They all still die brutally, but you can't help but think that they had it coming on some level.
* ArtEvolution: By the later sections of part 2, there's a clear change in style from the first series and the early second. Everyone's more streamlined, screentones are used with gusto, and the art in general takes a quality increase.
* BookEnds: The first and second parts begin with the Daruma challenge. [[spoiler:The second part ends with the Daruma challenge, now that everything's been set back up to that exact moment.]]
* CharactersDroppingLikeFlies: Don't expect to get attached to anyone in this story, since most characters outside of the main two or three bite it fairly quickly. Sometimes in the middle of their ''[[DeathByFlashback backstories]]'', which would otherwise signal survival.
* CrapsackWorld: Even discounting the massive elephant in the room that is the Gods and their games, the main characters have pretty awful backstories for the most part, and many of the contestants have their uglier sides brought out by the game.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: You have kids from broken homes, kids who've been assaulted and abused, kids who've seen war up close, kids who've been experimented on... and all this isn't even ''touching'' the bullshit they have to go through now.
* DeadlyGame: The entire premise of the story, actually. Japanese schoolchildren are forced to play supernatural life-or-death versions of common children's games.
* DeityOfHumanOrigin:
** Kamimaro is this. [[spoiler:Mana]] explains that he was just a regular human that got imbued with a higher form of Tomfoolery because [[spoiler:she and her sibling]] just wanted to test it out. [[spoiler:Eventually Amaya, Ushimitsu, and Akashi become this, but only Ushimitsu survives.]]
** [[spoiler:This is also the case for Mana herself, who originate from a Aman, a human girl from a future Earth. Technically, she is the only "true" human from the series as all the others are created from her imagination.]]
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters
* {{Foreshadowing}}: All of the games are just twisted versions of games that children would play. [[spoiler:That's because the gods ''are'' children. Well, plus one {{Manchild}}.]]
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Shun and Akashi participate in different games and events that transpire around the same timeline. [[spoiler:Their stories slowly intersect in Part 2 starting with the two interacting with each other during Akashi's shadow-stepping challenge, and finally when Ushimitsu rescues Shun and Amaya from falling to their deaths.]] For both stories, the {{NEET}} is this as he eventually partially discovers the truth of the situation even though he's not participating in the games, and Aoyama is one of these for the second part since there is constant mention of his adventures and actions while the other two games occurred.
* HeterosexualLifePartners:
** After all they've been through, Akashi and Ushimitsu basically become each other's reason to live, and they care for each other quite a bit. Akashi also used to have this relationship with Aoyama, and Ushimitsu had one with Roku.
** Also counts as BashBrothers, but Shun and Amaya serve as this for the first part and well into the second. They get off to a rocky start, but afterwards they work together like a well-oiled machine. After [[spoiler:Shun takes down Kamimaro during the Old Maid game]], Amaya turns out to be repressing some serious mourning for him.
* InfantImmortality: News reports after the Daruma and Lucky Cat games note that all of the schools involved were high schools. The hospital that housed the kokeshi doll game also had some college students running around, and [[spoiler: Kamimaro]] even splits up the survivors in the second round into age groups that don't seem to go on before grade 6. [[spoiler:Finally averted with "Portrait of Hell", as Mana and Kamimaro decide to get ''everyone'' involved, and the manga shows a couple of panels of children about to be killed by the monsters.]]
* JerkassGods: Kamimaro, Sein Kami and [[spoiler:Mana]].
* KarmaHoudini: After all is said and done, only [[spoiler:Acid Mana]] escapes the story scot-free. At the very least Kamimaro [[spoiler:gets taken down with Shun]] and Sein Kami not only gets decked by Akashi, but [[spoiler:killed by Mana]] as well-- [[spoiler:Mana]] on the other hand doesn't even get a chance to be brought down to size.
* [[invoked]]LifeImitatesArt: It turns out that all of the crazy events of the manga were based off of the comics Kamimaro made when he was human. They're also shown as video game adaptations as well.
* LovecraftLite: When the gods are nothing but cruel bullies who aren't even phased by the deaths of millions of humans, there's nothing the human race can do but try to survive the deadly games they're thrust into, and [[spoiler:Earth turns out to be some kind of glorified toy for higher beings]], you know your universe is fucked beyond relief. Even so, it is possible for humanity to go above and beyond what's expected of them, and they do have the power to affect their world on the level of the Gods, provided they have all the necessary tools.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: [[spoiler: Mana]] most definitely, since she wanted to raise the stakes on the game and [[spoiler:straight up kills her brother because his games were getting "boring".]]
* MusclesAreMeaningless: This trope is played straight with characters like Amaya and Ushimitsu who are lean, but throw around people like tissue paper and hurl helicopter propellers like they were nothing.
** Lily averts this trope by being built like a tank and hitting like one too. Hell, he even gives [[TheBigGuy Ushimitsu]] and [[LightningBruiser Amaya]] a run for their money.
* PsychologicalHorror
* SeriesMascot: The Daruma doll from the first trial, seeing as that it has the most appearances of any of the different things used in the games, and appears on more than one manga cover.
* ThemeNaming: All of the Kamis have Kami hidden their name somewhere. [[spoiler:Mana]] is the only one of the gods to break such a rule.
* TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: For some inexplicable reason, all of the cubes from around the world are all gathered in Japan in the last stretch of the game.
* {{Troll}}: All the "Gods" are this, Especially [[spoiler:Mana]]. They gladly will place "players" in games without telling them a single limitation or how to do certain key things.
* YourHeadASplode: A great many of the games have this as a consequence, but this trope is more remembered as the punishment of losing the Daruma game.
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[[folder:Part 1]]
!! Part 1 contains examples of:
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Amaya gets too excited about the nature of the game, and strikes up a conversation with Takahata about which of the surviving girls are hotter. When Takahata tells him not to touch either of them, Amaya decides to wack off, right there, right then.
* AxCrazy: Amaya - he has no issues with killing other participants in the games and is often [[PutTheLaughterInSlaughter laughing while doing so]].
* {{Cliffhanger}}: [[spoiler:Part 1 ends with Takahata and Amaya falling to their deaths and Kamimaro still actively playing his game]].
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Let's see... Part I ends with both Takahata Shun and Amaya Takeru failing to kill the {{Big Bad}} of their arc, and falling to their demise. Or, rather, what ''[[BigDamnHeroes initially]]'' is their demise...]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:Acid Mana]] shows up in Kamimaro's room wearing an alien costume near the end of Part I. We don't know exactly why she's there at first, because she blows up the room as soon as she's discovered.
* {{Fingore}}: An early flashback into Takahata's childhood treats us to the [[SarcasmMode delightful]] image of his finger being cut clean off his second knuckle. It's reattached at present, though.
* GodhoodSeeker: Amaya. He seems to think that he is the ChosenOne in these death games and that his purpose is to ascend into godhood. [[spoiler:His ambitions at least earn him that much by Part 2.]]
* GratuitousEnglish: During the second game, the characters are asked to answer some of the questions "Yes or no" in English (as opposed to "Hai" or "Iie" in Japanese).
* TheHero: Takahata, who comes up with the solutions to most of the games.
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler: Or did he?]]
* HopeSpot:
** After the first round of the games are over, the survivors are taken to a version of Ryugujo and are given actual food and entertainment for a while, with no death games in sight. They talk, laugh, and even promise to exchange contact information if they make it out alive. Towards the end of their time there, they're all given sticks with either an X or no mark at all... only for the Taro doll that's with them to inform them that the last game is a game of "luck", and kills all the contestants with the X sticks.
** Takahata decides on a plan that might stop the current game they're playing without any bloodshed. He and Amaya then take the bomb poles used in the game, and chuck both of them at [[spoiler: Kamimaro]] in the last couple of seconds. Smart plan, right? Well, he [[spoiler: shrinks the poles down, "disqualifies" the two of them, and spits them back out at them for the bombs to explode in their face.]]
* ItsPersonal: Shun's motivation for partaking in the sports festival. He has it out for [[spoiler:Kamimaro]] when he found out that he was responsible for the death of his friends.
* LeanAndMean: Kamimaro for sure, considering the hell he put everyone through.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Both [[spoiler:Ichika]] and [[spoiler:Takahata]] have this reaction after [[spoiler:winning the first game.]]
* NightmareFetishist: Amaya and Ichika are both sexually aroused by the danger they're in; Ichika in particular gets disappointed when Takahata tells her that they will survive a particular task.
* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: All Takahata wanted was a thrill in his boring, plodding life. What he got, however, was way more than he bargained for.
* OneSteveLimit: The aversion of this is what ends up saving Christopher's life, since Takahata thinks that Ichika had been transformed into one of the monster kokeshi dolls. Keep in mind that their names ''are'' spelled with different characters, but the names written on the dolls are written in hiragana, which caused the confusion.
* PassionIsEvil: Amaya's character motivations are centered around this. He only truly feels alive when doing acts of violence.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After surviving the first round, Shun made it his life goal to kill the mastermind behind the games after everyone (Shouko in particular) was killed for nothing.
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler: Amaya]] reveals himself to be one during the pole toppling game. His parents mistreat him one too many times, and he retaliated with a TapOnTheHead. Think that gives him a FreudianExcuse? No, not really.
* ShirtlessScene: Amaya gets quite a few during the initial cube portion of the first game. And boy, is he ''[[MrFanservice ripped]]''.
* TheTeam: The God's Children of the first cube.
** TheLeader: Shun Takahata
** TheLancer: Ichika Akimoto
** TheSmartGuy: Yukio Sanada
** TheBigGuy: Takeru Amaya
** TheHeart: Christopher "Kento" Akimoto
* TimeSkip: Minor one, but the second round of games takes place three months after the first round.
* TokenEvilTeamMate: Amaya literally derives pleasure from killing others and justifiably makes everyone around him very nervous. However, once they decide to work together he does become a part of Shun's team and his complete disregard for human life ends up saving them. Not that anyone can be particularly happy about it.
* TookALevelInJerkass: After surviving the first round of the games and becoming a celebrity, Chris turns into a vain, kind of jerky idol.
* WhamEpisode: 21: [[spoiler:Takahata Shun, and Amaya Takeru failing to kill Kamimaro and falling to their almost certain deaths]].
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: As soon as Shun has an opportunity to off Kamimaro during the games, he takes it immediately and devises a plan to kill Kamimaro while his guard is down. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for Shun, Kamimaro is able to catch his plan and literally spit it back out at him.]]
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[[folder:Part 2]]
!! Part 2 contains examples of:
* AbortedArc:
** Sein Kami wants to put Kamimaro's ideals to the test by having his surviving students go against the survivors of Kamimaro's games, emphasized even more by the fact that Shun and Akashi's main groups each had about five people by the time the second games began. [[spoiler:With Sein Kami getting killed by Mana and most of Kamimaro's children dead, that never had a chance of happening.]]
** Tomfoolery is only ever used in the Demon Extermination arc, and then only rarely brought up afterwards.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Akashi's {{Cameo}} in the ''Manga/RealAccount'' crossover reveals that he jacks off 12 times a week.
* AffectionateNickname: Akashi and Ushimitsu get "Aka-shii" and "Ushimi-chan" respectively.
* AGodIAmNot: [[spoiler:Even after Ushimitsu ascends to godhood, he doesn't do much with his powers besides reset time to the first day and become the new GM for the games. He says that it's because he's not fit to be a god, and he waits for Akashi to take his place and kill him.]]
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: During the Three Kingdoms Cops and Robbers arc, Natsu-Megu is tagged and runs the risk of being executed come the six hour mark going off, and Akashi desperately tries to avert this trope while trying to have winning the game on his mind. Everyone ''else'' convinces him to go through with it because saving people is "who he is", but [[spoiler:he comes to the jail cells just in time to see her say some final words and die.]]
* AmnesiacGod: For the final battle, all three remaining candidates run the risk of this. [[spoiler:As they attack one another, they lose memories of people they've met one by one until there's no one left. In Amaya's case it doesn't affect him much, but it's critical for Akashi and Ushimitsu, as their lives are defined by how they interact with others and they don't want to run the risk of [[LossOfIdentity losing their true selves]] after their ascension.]]
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Akira makes one to Mei during the Rock-Paper-Scissors game, and Mei herself makes one to Akashi during the "Demon Extermination" mission. [[spoiler:In both cases, the confessing party is in a position where they may or may not die. And then they do.]]
* AndTheAdventureContinues:[[spoiler: ''The Second Series'' manga comes to a close with Akashi dying and Ushimitsu becoming a God. Ushimitsu, unable to come to terms with Akashi's death, rewinds the clock and becomes the new Game Master in this new-timeline.]]
* ArcWords: "Beef or Chicken", Aoyama and Akashi's code words for being brave or cowardly. [[spoiler:Akashi ends up bringing Aoyama back from his rut because of these code words.]]
* ArtInitiatesLife: Mei's knack for drawing ends up becoming her greatest strength in the Demon Extermination portion of the Kamiculum, as her Tomfoolery can bring to life anything she draws of something/someone she likes. This mostly just manifests in making Akashi body doubles.
* ATasteOfPower: After the Kamiculum is completed, Sein Kami gives the survivors another assignment to take care of-- one that involves Tomfoolery, a creation based power that takes the shape of something that the user is fond of. After the assignment, it's only used sparingly, and then not at all after Three Kingdom Cops and Robbers. [[spoiler:Mana later says that it's just a lesser form of the Power of the Gods, which is also creation-based, so in retrospect Sein Kami was preparing his "students" with this.]]
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: How [[spoiler:Amaya]] makes his godhood debut on Earth.
* TheAtoner: Akashi's main motivation for participating in the games, to meet up and apologize to his best friend Aoyama. Lily becomes this later as well, and he's shown feeling remorse for all of the violence he'd taken a part of.
* BackFromTheDead: Akashi's main goal for getting the power of God is to restore his lost friends. [[spoiler:...Only to discover it's impossible. You can create a duplicate of someone, but their personality would be entirely shaped by the image of you in their head and not their true self. Alternatively, you can create a genetic clone and age them up, but they'd be the same as a baby, mentally. You simply can't bring the real person back.]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Discussed during the Old Maid game by Kamimaro. He sees everyone's resolve to win the game and ascend to godhood, but he specifically raises the point that there'd be a moral line that humans could not cross, proving that they'd never be able to fully understand the power and mentality of a god.
* BigDamnHeroes: Ushimitsu ''would'' have been this for Akashi after hijacking a helicopter to rescue him, but [[spoiler:Mana]] foils that plan and teleports him away. [[spoiler:He's actually able to play the trope straight after saving Shun and Amaya from falling to certain doom.]]
* BrownNote: Sein Kami uses this to demonstrate his god powers to the "trash" students. It blows the unfortunate kid's head clean off his body.
* CartwrightCurse: It's impossible for Akashi to fall in love given the [[DeadlyGame setting]]. '''All''' of his [[LoveInterest love interests]] die in one way or another, with [[spoiler:Natsumegu]] being his last casualty. And ultimately, [[spoiler:it gets ''inverted'' as Akashi, Ushimitsu's crush, dies after the final battle]].
* ChildSoldier: Lily and his six most-trustworthy comrades before they enter the games.
* CharactersDroppingLikeFlies: [[spoiler:Kris, Bandou, Kyouko, and Junko]] are all killed after they get a proper place back in the spotlight after their cameos in the "Shadow Stepping" chapters. [[spoiler: Kris]] doesn't even get the honor of fighting his dramatic foil as a Child of God.
* TheChosenOne: There really was no such thing throughout the whole adventure, but after [[spoiler:Ushimitsu resets to the first day]], he makes Akashi this. On [[spoiler:this second go-around, assuming there won't be any others]], he's hoping that Akashi will be the one to save the world and [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou take God down]].
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: [[PlayedForDrama Dragged and beaten by the narrative]] any chance they can get. There's some kind of hope in having a person who will look out for you no matter what, but what good is having a person like that around when everyone around them will still die regardless? And when they aren't truly able to save the people they've worked so hard for, what of their psyche? Are they still able to hold onto their beliefs? Many of the contestants mock Akashi and Aoyama for having dispositions like this.
* TheConscience: Youhei's ghost acts as one to Harakai as he starts slipping further into madness.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Chapter 46; it's a little too perfect for Megu to take out one of the School Mysteries and send them flying out the building ''just'' as Akashi and Tsuge were falling off the edge of a building.
* CowardlyLion:
** Akira all the way, after the sand-scooping competition. He gets pants-wettingly terrified of all of the nightmarish monsters and events that come their way, but despite that he keeps trudging through, partly because he can't bring himself to commit suicide, and half because he's thriving on his love for Mei.
** Shimura's cowardice has saved his life on many an occasion, even though he chastises himself for it.
* DecoyProtagonist: The first few chapters play out the Daruma game in the perspective of Aoyama Seiichi. The real hero of the story is Akashi Yasuto, his friend who ditched class that day.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: [[spoiler:When forced into a rock-paper-scissors game with Sein Kami for her life, Tsuge confronts Sein Kami on his actions and calls him "a mass murderer who does it for fun" and not a god at all. By [[DefiantToTheEnd refusing to play the game]], she dies but she manages to seriously piss him off in the process.]]
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Akashi follows up on Tsuge's sacrifice, and proved himself to be the biggest badass in the manga when he [[spoiler:punched out Sein Kami across the stage after confronting him with the lives he'd just taken during the rock-paper-scissors game and even avoided death by telling Sein Kami that he pulled rock and won against Sein Kami's scissors. He defied a God and LIVED.]]
* DownToTheLastPlay: The Daruma game plays out like this. Where Aoyama couldn't accurately kick a soccer ball and score for his team, he gets to do so here by kicking another soccer ball into the button on the back of the daruma in the last ten seconds and saves the remaining class. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, that just means ''he'' was the one that won, and [[ShootTheShaggyDog everyone else is killed anyway]].]]
* DramaticIrony: During the "Three Kingdom Cops and Robbers" arc, we learn from Mert that Fathma is a very unusual seer in her family because [[spoiler:all of her predictions are death omens and shouldn't be followed under any circumstances]]. Problem is, her subordinates don't know that, and the audience can only watch in horror as the Star and Moon teams ally themselves against the Sun team as she predicted.
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: Many of the love interests in the story go out like this. [[spoiler: Megu, Mei, Ichika]], and even [[spoiler:Tenma]] get to pour their feelings out to their loved ones before their time is up.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome:
** [[spoiler:Mitsukuni]] gets the dubious honor of taking out [[TheHeavy the monkey]] by summoning enough ice crystals to combat the monkey's flame output, and nearly blowing himself up to do so.
** [[spoiler:Shun gets to go out in a blaze of glory by taking ''GOD'' down with him, ending his boredom and [[WorthyOpponent earning Kamimaro's respect]] in the process.]]
** Tsuge gets one, as noted above.
* FakeOutMakeOut: A variation of this happened in Judgement Old-Maid game. Akashi and Ushimitsu kissed to pretend [[spoiler:the card Ushimitsu took from Akashi was a kiss card (while it was a ticking time-bomb card) so that Male-Female in the next turn would be fooled into thinking he took the kiss card he needed to win]]. What went different was that Ushimitsu didn't know the plan until the moment they kissed (even after the kiss he didn't know full well about it).
* ForegoneConclusion: After learning that he dies in the game via BoomHeadshot, Akashi weaponizes this and uses it to great effect against the monsters knowing that he cannot be killed by them. [[spoiler:He does get shot eventually, but he doesn't die.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: We first get a glimpse of Akashi's [[spoiler:Akashic Eyes]] when he fights against the smallest oni robots.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Tasuku has this trope in spades [[spoiler: until he gave his life to save Akashi's]].
* {{Gasshole}}: Kamimaro burps and farts a lot, mostly to reminds us how disgusting he is.
* GenreShift:
** With the addition of Tomfoolery, the Demon Extermination arc briefly turns the series into a battle shounen manga with all the AppliedPhlebotinum it usually comes with.
** It seems to go from a children's game-themed horror/survival manga to a science fiction war manga in the "Three Kingdoms Cops and Robbbers" arc.
** The Old Maid game takes the series into a strategy tabletop manga or a card game manga, not unlike ''Manga/{{Akagi}}'' or ''Franchise/YuGiOh''.
* TheGlassesGottaGo: Sara seems convinced that she looks better when she takes off her glasses and lets her hair down... [[SubvertedTrope but no one else agrees]]. One of them even vomits when she does it again.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: [[spoiler:The final battle, while involving some amount of god power, basically amounts to a three-way brawl where the last one standing is the winner.]]
* GoOutWithASmile: Quite a lot of people who died tends to smile upon their death. [[spoiler:Tasuku]] after forfeiting his chance of survival for Akashi, [[spoiler:Aoyama]] who won the big prize in Amanojaku Labyrinth mixed with ManlyTears, [[spoiler:Natsumegu]] before squashed flat, [[spoiler:Yuu Tenma]], not to mention those who died in Kamiculum...
** [[spoiler:Amaya]] finally goes out with a large grin after losing the final game.
* GratuitousEnglish: Ushimitsu likes to dabble in this way more than anyone else in the manga.
* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler:Instead of stopping the games altogether, Ushimitsu decides to reset it all over to get Akashi to take his place as a god.]]
* HostileShowTakeover: Can't get any more hostile than [[spoiler:killing the old host]].
* IdiotBall: Despite proven multiple times that Akashi [[spoiler:and Aoyama]] are quick thinkers, they conveniently miss out one of [[spoiler:Amanojaku Labyrinth]]'s instructions which cost them [[spoiler:Aoyama's life]].
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Akashi and [[spoiler:Aoyama]] have one while they're hanging off of ropes. Over a [[SpikesOfDoom spiked pit]]. While they're wildly swinging around and the rope is on ''fire''.
* ImaginationBasedSuperpower: The Tomfoolery ability Sein Kami gave to Kami's Jr. loosely works on the users' imagination of what they want to do the most with their precious item.
** [[spoiler:Acid Mana later confirms that Tomfoolery itself is a lesser version of God's Power she and Sein Kami will give. Survivors of Judgement Old-Maid are given literally power of imagination to manipulate everything in the universe.]]
* IncompatibleOrientation: Ushimitsu is in love with Akashi. Akashi does not and cannot feel the same way, as he is straight. Despite this the two are still great friends anyway.
* IWillWaitForYou: [[spoiler:Ushimitsu, after resetting the world, is expecting this version of Akashi to rise to the challenge again and kill him.]]
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:Every named character except for Ushimitsu and Mana dies.]]
* LastRequest: [[spoiler:Tenma]] asks, once Akashi becomes a god and reshapes the world, that [[spoiler:Tenma be reincarnated or reborn as a woman]].
* MagicalGirl: Megu's Tomfoolery turns out to be this, as she bases hers off of an in-universe magical girl. After she uses it once to heal everyone, she doesn't use this ability again.
* ManicPixieDreamGuy: Ushimitsu's old friend Roku was a boy like this. Before the game started, Ushimitsu was a meek, scrawny nerd with no friends until Roku came along. With his friendship, he learned the power of living like it's your last moments, gained more confidence, and bulks up a fair amount as well. Like a lot of these types of characters, Roku turns out to be sick and dying, and passes on after a particularly bad case of his unspecified illness.
* MeleeATrois: The final battle is supposed to be this, with [[spoiler:Akashi, Amaya, and Ushimitsu]] pitted against each other. However, two of them decide to gang up on the third, and in thenend it gets averted as two duke it out while the third spectates.
* MightMakesRight: Harakai becomes a staunch supporter of this mindset after his Santa Trial, where since everyone couldn't communicate with each other to get the objective done, he knocks everyone else out and finishes the game himself. This way of thinking consumes his personality to the point where the sweet young man we was before the Kamiculum started nearly vanished. Luckily, he regains his composure after the first fight with Ushitora.
* MultistageTeleport: [[spoiler: Akashi's Tomfoolery is the "Akashic Eye", which allows him to teleport short distances, wherever he kicks his soccer ball.]]
* MundaneMadeAwesome: The Old Maid game. Despite divine alteration, it's for the most part a very long, ordinary game of Old Maid. But it's a very ''awesome'' game of Old Maid nonetheless.
* [[invoked]]NeutralGood: Sanada during his brief stint back in the spotlight. He doesn't really care about people's goals one way or the other-- he just seems to help out whoever he thinks is alright. And at the moment, he just so happens to have taken a liking to Akashi.
* OppositeDay: Basic rule in [[spoiler:Amanojaku Labyrinth. Do the opposite of what was told there. Consequently, the solution to solve the labyrinth is to get back to starting point without bringing any keys.]]
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Amaya, again, and this is exactly what he aims to be [[spoiler:on a divine scale once he gains access to the Power of the Gods.]]
* PlotHole: One that shows up at the very end of the manga, no less. [[spoiler: When Ushimitsu and Akashi ascend to godhood, they try reviving Natsu-Megu, only to be told and shown that the people they "revive" will only be their mind's eye versions, and not the actual people themselves. However, Ushimitsu is told that he has the power to turn back time, and he takes that opportunity. How he is able to do ''this'' and not revive people outright is never explained, since he essentially brought the ''whole world'' back as it once was before the games.]]
** [[spoiler:As revealed in ''0 -zero-'', the prequel manga, the "earth" upon which the series takes place and all its people are essentially a big simulation. Ushimitsu's just hitting the "rewind" button on it.]]
* PuppetKing: It turns out the cult of Shiner had Aikou pulling the strings all along, since he was the one who hypnotizes Shimura in the first place and feeds him all the information that he later tells the cult while Shimura's asleep.
* RagingStiffie: During the Demon Extermination arc, Ushimitsu doesn't quite know how he first activated his Tomfoolery. All he remembers doing is running off with an erection, and tries to whip up another one to do so.
* RecapEpisode: Since the second part of the series is hosted in a different magazine than the first, the daruma game serves as one. They start with the same two games from the first, and explain the situation and what's been happening.
* RefugeInAudacity: Akashi pretends to be a member of the Space Police to prevent his involvement in the games from being found out after teleporting in front of a group of grade schoolers.
* RefusalOfTheCall: It turns out Kamimaro didn't even ''want'' to be a god in the first place, when he was offered the chance by Sein Kami and [[spoiler:Mana]]. The games of the first and second parts are the result of that, setting up a situation in order to find a decent replacement for him.
** The NEET turns out to have also done this, as he flat out refuses to take the Kamiculum when one of the statues comes for him. He only survives due to the statue interpreting it as filial piety.
* ResetButton: [[spoiler:Ushimitsu]] pushes it at the end, setting it back to the very first day. [[spoiler:But even he knows that it's not a full reset, as everyone as he knew them is dead and the reset only has copies of everyone.]]
* {{Retcon}}: Minor; Christopher was referred to as "Crystal C" in the first part, but his nickname changes to "Crystal A" in Part II.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge:
** When [[MauveShirt Rui]] dies protecting Akashi from [[spoiler:Ushitora]], Akashi tracks down the monster to avenge her and delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to it, restricting its movement and when it managed to escape, Akashi finds him and kicks the grenade to kill it.
** [[spoiler:When Ushitora tried to use its powers to bring up painful memories and teleport him to another part of the school, [[NoSell Akashi wasn't affected by the power.]] Rui's death was his most sad memory and he proceeded to beat down Ushitora]].
* SecondComing: Shiner's cult seems absolutely convinced that he can see the future and ascend to godhood, and he lets them indulge in their fantasies as he's just as crazy as they are.
* SecretTest: [[spoiler:Turns out the whole game was one by the Gods, as they were trying to see which of the participants would be the best candidate for godhood.]]
* {{Seers}}: Fathma's family is traditionally made up of these, usually making paintings that give happy predictions of the future. Fathma's, however, are instead omens of death and should not be followed.
* ShoutOut:
** The picture that accompanies the exposition about Johann going off to search with some students is meant to invoke the ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' cover. Johann even looks like a dead ringer for John Lennon!
** The regions where Lily and the Sun crew hailed from are called the [[Manga/AshitaNoJoe Yabiku and Rikiishi]] regions.
* ShutUpKirk: To every notion of being called inhuman, Kamimaro replies that [[CaptainObvious he already knows that]]. To Akashi's offer of being reborn, he rejects such an offer because he expects less out of himself than he would anyone else on the planet.
* SingleTargetSexuality: After Akashi started to prove himself in Ushimitsu's eyes, he's pretty much obsessed over him ever since. Part of it's because Akashi reminds him of his old friend Roku.
* TheSevenMysteries: The third phase of the "Kamiculum" has the students explore school in the hopes of eliminating the mysteries. However, they multiply the number of mysteries by seven, making there 49 different mysteries to defeat divided across 3 different teams.
* SoullessShell: As it turns out, [[spoiler:Akashi]] turns into one during the final battle. [[spoiler:His memories had been beaten out of him by Amaya, so his personality as he knows it is gone. He can only run on the feelings he had based on his lost memories.]]
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler: All of the first part's main cast save for Amaya]] do not survive to the final battle. [[spoiler:And even then, Amaya lasts just until the penultimate chapter.]]
* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler:Ushimitsu's ultimate long-term goal at the end of the game, now that he's ascended to godhood.]]
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Shun throws away his chance to become a god and leave the Judgement Old Maid alive in order to kill the BigBad that started the death games to begin with.]]
* {{Tanuki}}: The Amanojaku Labyrinth features a number of these in symbol and statue (oh, that statue) form.
* TheTeam: The [[spoiler:(remaining)]] Kami's Jr., though it morphs into a proper FiveManBand later on.
** TheLeader: Yasuto Akashi- The WideEyedIdealist who is focused on leading any fellow survivors and inspires many individuals who have a questionable sanity, self-centered or evil.
** TheLancer: Natsu-Megu- A perfectionist and one of the more capable survivors who shares Akashi's desire to survive the DeadlyGame. [[spoiler:Trades her position with Shimura to become TheChick when she gets separated from Akashi, and is forced to give him limited support due to being with the enemy kingdom in Three Kingdom Cops and Robbers.]]
** TheSmartGuy: Yai Horai- Arguably the voice of reason, and formulated a plan [[spoiler:to bust Akashi out of prison in Three Kingdom Cops and Robbers.]]
** TheBigGuy: Kiyoshirou Ushimitsu- One of Akashi's close allies and can nearly match [[AxeCrazy Amaya]] in strength and sanity. Can overlap with GeniusBruiser however.
** TheHeart: Kagemaru Shimura- The [[TheLoad least capable of the group]] until his CharacterDevelopment. [[spoiler:Later gets promoted to [[TheLancer Lancer]] and exchanges his position with Nutmeg when he and Akashi get forced to participate in The Portrait of Death.]]
* ThereCanBeOnlyOne: [[spoiler:Akashi, Ushimitsu, and Amaya have all ascended to godhood. But because of Akashi and Ushimi's different mindset from Amaya, they all agree to do one final game; the winner becomes the ''only'' god of the universe. And as of the end of Part II, the winner is Ushimitsu, as Amaya loses the final game proper and Akashi's body gives out after Amaya goes down.]]
* TitleDrop: After Akashi figures out that Hitsujisaru of the "Seven by Seven Mysteries" challenge can show him the future, he wonders if he could change the outcome of [[spoiler:Rui's death]] had he been shown the future sooner, or if everything is predestined "as the gods will".
* TopGod: Subverted--[[spoiler: Mana is the creator of "this" version of Earth and all its inhabitants, but it's heavily implied that she is just another speck]].
* TragicBromance:
** It was Aoyama's spirit and motivation that kept Akashi running for as long as he did, and he desperately wanted to go see his friend throughout the Kamiculum. Come the time when he's finally out of it and learns that Aoyama survived, and [[spoiler:Aoyama's lost all of his memories from the shock of winning his games. He eventually snaps back to life after "Portrait of Hell", but for the most part he's detached from most emotions except a survival instinct until the Amanojaku Labyrinth episode. He ends up getting squished by the guardian of the place.]]
** After the end, [[spoiler:Akashi and Ushimitsu]]'s relationship takes this turn, as [[spoiler:Akashi's body gives out immediately after Amaya's been defeated in the final battle.]]
* TragicKeepsake: Rui's scrunchie, which is later given to Natsumegu by Akashi. Roku's skateboard is one for Ushimitsu (though this breaks during the "Three Kingdoms Cops and Robbers" arc), and [[spoiler:Akashi and Aoyama's soccerball]] qualifies for this[[spoiler: after Aoyama's death]].
* UndyingLoyalty: Ushimitsu's main priority after the "Mamemaki" game is to help out Akashi, even if that means he will perish himself.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: [[spoiler:Tenma is revealed to be a boy when Akashi solves a puzzle by finding a mannequin that most closely resembles Tenma; all the other mannequins were female, while the solution was the male mannequin]].
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Amaya is practically half naked for the entirety of the game, once he comes back.
* WhamEpisode:
** Chapter 84: Akashi is teleported to the next phase of the game, only to discover [[spoiler:Kami [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled by gigantic school materials]] with his sister, Mana, declaring that she's taking over]].
** Chapter 104: [[spoiler:The timelines of part 1 and 2 fully intersect as Ushimitsu teleports to Takahata and Amaya (who are both falling from the sky]].
** Chapter 179: Does it again by revealing that [[spoiler: Mana is the creator of their world and all the inhabitants in it.]]
** Chapter 180: Follows it up with another shocking reveal.[[spoiler:They can't bring back anyone who has died, they can only bring back exaggerated clones of the people they love.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Mana says as much when Ushimitsu decides to reset and become the new Game Master. She even points out that he could use his powers to end the whole ordeal whenever he likes. But despite that, she's incredibly pleased with the outcome.]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Mei's backstory mentions that after her teacher got caught trying to sexually assault Mei, he tried to blame her by using her InLoveWithLove attitude as an excuse for his position. It works, and Mei is bullied harder than ever before.
* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Sister]]: [[spoiler: Mert hates Male-Female because he's the one who killed Fatma, leader of moon team who doubles as his sister. And ultimately, he dies without getting the revenge he so sought as [[KickTheDog Male-Female laughs in his face]]. Akashi and Ushimitsu do make good on Mert's revenge, though.]]
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->''"Dear God...please, give me my boredom back."''
''Kami-sama no Iu Toori'' (roughly translated as "As the Gods Will") is a Japanese manga series written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrated by Akeji Fujimura.
The series consists of two arcs: I and II.
In the first arc, Takahata Shun's day at high school begins just as normal and boring as ever, but it doesn't end that way. After his teacher's head explodes in front of the class and a daruma doll emerges from the headless body, he and his classmates find themselves forced to play children's games, starting with Daruma ga Koronda (a game similar to Red Light/Green Light), with deadly stakes. With no idea who is behind this mysterious deadly game session, and no way of knowing when it will finally end, the only thing Shun and other students can do is keep trying to win.
The second arc focuses on Akashi Yasuto, who ditched school before the daruma dolls appeared. As "trash" who ditched, he finds himself collected along with other truants to be "educated" through a "Kamiculum." But what waits for him afterwards goes beyond anything else the game has thrown at him...
The first series ran for 5 volumes in ''Bessatsu Magazine/ShonenMagazine'' from 2011 to 2012, while the second part was serialized in ''Weekly Shounen Magazine'' and ran for 11 volumes from 2013 to 2017. It was adapted into a live-action film directed by Creator/TakashiMiike and released November 15, 2014; it was released in the United States by {{Creator/Funimation}} [[https://www.funimation.com/shop/home-video/as-the-gods-will-live-action-movie-combo-sub-only-bld-00639/ on Blu-Ray and DVD on June 5, 2018]], nearly four years later.
The second part is serialized on Website/{{Crunchyroll}}'s Manga app under the title ''As the Gods Will: The Second Series''.
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!!Tropes:
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[[folder:General Tropes]]
* AnyoneCanDie: Yes, even [[spoiler: Takahata and Akashi, the main characters of their respective parts]].
* AngstySurvivingTwin:
** Subverted in Sanada's case. He doesn't even mind that his brother's dead (not even that he was killed ''right next to him'') since he bossed him around most of the time.
** Played straight in Part II, where Hiroki is depressed about his brother Daiki's death and wishes to see him again if he got the chance to ascend to godhood and bring him back. [[spoiler:He at least ends up TogetherInDeath with him after the Rock-Paper-Scissors fight.]]
* AssholeVictim: A lot of the students that get killed are looking out for themselves most of the time, and don't hesitate to start sacrificing others for the sake of their own survival. They all still die brutally, but you can't help but think that they had it coming on some level.
* ArtEvolution: By the later sections of part 2, there's a clear change in style from the first series and the early second. Everyone's more streamlined, screentones are used with gusto, and the art in general takes a quality increase.
* BookEnds: The first and second parts begin with the Daruma challenge. [[spoiler:The second part ends with the Daruma challenge, now that everything's been set back up to that exact moment.]]
* CharactersDroppingLikeFlies: Don't expect to get attached to anyone in this story, since most characters outside of the main two or three bite it fairly quickly. Sometimes in the middle of their ''[[DeathByFlashback backstories]]'', which would otherwise signal survival.
* CrapsackWorld: Even discounting the massive elephant in the room that is the Gods and their games, the main characters have pretty awful backstories for the most part, and many of the contestants have their uglier sides brought out by the game.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: You have kids from broken homes, kids who've been assaulted and abused, kids who've seen war up close, kids who've been experimented on... and all this isn't even ''touching'' the bullshit they have to go through now.
* DeadlyGame: The entire premise of the story, actually. Japanese schoolchildren are forced to play supernatural life-or-death versions of common children's games.
* DeityOfHumanOrigin:
** Kamimaro is this. [[spoiler:Mana]] explains that he was just a regular human that got imbued with a higher form of Tomfoolery because [[spoiler:she and her sibling]] just wanted to test it out. [[spoiler:Eventually Amaya, Ushimitsu, and Akashi become this, but only Ushimitsu survives.]]
** [[spoiler:This is also the case for Mana herself, who originate from a Aman, a human girl from a future Earth. Technically, she is the only "true" human from the series as all the others are created from her imagination.]]
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters
* {{Foreshadowing}}: All of the games are just twisted versions of games that children would play. [[spoiler:That's because the gods ''are'' children. Well, plus one {{Manchild}}.]]
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Shun and Akashi participate in different games and events that transpire around the same timeline. [[spoiler:Their stories slowly intersect in Part 2 starting with the two interacting with each other during Akashi's shadow-stepping challenge, and finally when Ushimitsu rescues Shun and Amaya from falling to their deaths.]] For both stories, the {{NEET}} is this as he eventually partially discovers the truth of the situation even though he's not participating in the games, and Aoyama is one of these for the second part since there is constant mention of his adventures and actions while the other two games occurred.
* HeterosexualLifePartners:
** After all they've been through, Akashi and Ushimitsu basically become each other's reason to live, and they care for each other quite a bit. Akashi also used to have this relationship with Aoyama, and Ushimitsu had one with Roku.
** Also counts as BashBrothers, but Shun and Amaya serve as this for the first part and well into the second. They get off to a rocky start, but afterwards they work together like a well-oiled machine. After [[spoiler:Shun takes down Kamimaro during the Old Maid game]], Amaya turns out to be repressing some serious mourning for him.
* InfantImmortality: News reports after the Daruma and Lucky Cat games note that all of the schools involved were high schools. The hospital that housed the kokeshi doll game also had some college students running around, and [[spoiler: Kamimaro]] even splits up the survivors in the second round into age groups that don't seem to go on before grade 6. [[spoiler:Finally averted with "Portrait of Hell", as Mana and Kamimaro decide to get ''everyone'' involved, and the manga shows a couple of panels of children about to be killed by the monsters.]]
* JerkassGods: Kamimaro, Sein Kami and [[spoiler:Mana]].
* KarmaHoudini: After all is said and done, only [[spoiler:Acid Mana]] escapes the story scot-free. At the very least Kamimaro [[spoiler:gets taken down with Shun]] and Sein Kami not only gets decked by Akashi, but [[spoiler:killed by Mana]] as well-- [[spoiler:Mana]] on the other hand doesn't even get a chance to be brought down to size.
* [[invoked]]LifeImitatesArt: It turns out that all of the crazy events of the manga were based off of the comics Kamimaro made when he was human. They're also shown as video game adaptations as well.
* LovecraftLite: When the gods are nothing but cruel bullies who aren't even phased by the deaths of millions of humans, there's nothing the human race can do but try to survive the deadly games they're thrust into, and [[spoiler:Earth turns out to be some kind of glorified toy for higher beings]], you know your universe is fucked beyond relief. Even so, it is possible for humanity to go above and beyond what's expected of them, and they do have the power to affect their world on the level of the Gods, provided they have all the necessary tools.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: [[spoiler: Mana]] most definitely, since she wanted to raise the stakes on the game and [[spoiler:straight up kills her brother because his games were getting "boring".]]
* MusclesAreMeaningless: This trope is played straight with characters like Amaya and Ushimitsu who are lean, but throw around people like tissue paper and hurl helicopter propellers like they were nothing.
** Lily averts this trope by being built like a tank and hitting like one too. Hell, he even gives [[TheBigGuy Ushimitsu]] and [[LightningBruiser Amaya]] a run for their money.
* PsychologicalHorror
* SeriesMascot: The Daruma doll from the first trial, seeing as that it has the most appearances of any of the different things used in the games, and appears on more than one manga cover.
* ThemeNaming: All of the Kamis have Kami hidden their name somewhere. [[spoiler:Mana]] is the only one of the gods to break such a rule.
* TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: For some inexplicable reason, all of the cubes from around the world are all gathered in Japan in the last stretch of the game.
* {{Troll}}: All the "Gods" are this, Especially [[spoiler:Mana]]. They gladly will place "players" in games without telling them a single limitation or how to do certain key things.
* YourHeadASplode: A great many of the games have this as a consequence, but this trope is more remembered as the punishment of losing the Daruma game.
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[[folder:Part 1]]
!! Part 1 contains examples of:
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Amaya gets too excited about the nature of the game, and strikes up a conversation with Takahata about which of the surviving girls are hotter. When Takahata tells him not to touch either of them, Amaya decides to wack off, right there, right then.
* AxCrazy: Amaya - he has no issues with killing other participants in the games and is often [[PutTheLaughterInSlaughter laughing while doing so]].
* {{Cliffhanger}}: [[spoiler:Part 1 ends with Takahata and Amaya falling to their deaths and Kamimaro still actively playing his game]].
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Let's see... Part I ends with both Takahata Shun and Amaya Takeru failing to kill the {{Big Bad}} of their arc, and falling to their demise. Or, rather, what ''[[BigDamnHeroes initially]]'' is their demise...]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:Acid Mana]] shows up in Kamimaro's room wearing an alien costume near the end of Part I. We don't know exactly why she's there at first, because she blows up the room as soon as she's discovered.
* {{Fingore}}: An early flashback into Takahata's childhood treats us to the [[SarcasmMode delightful]] image of his finger being cut clean off his second knuckle. It's reattached at present, though.
* GodhoodSeeker: Amaya. He seems to think that he is the ChosenOne in these death games and that his purpose is to ascend into godhood. [[spoiler:His ambitions at least earn him that much by Part 2.]]
* GratuitousEnglish: During the second game, the characters are asked to answer some of the questions "Yes or no" in English (as opposed to "Hai" or "Iie" in Japanese).
* TheHero: Takahata, who comes up with the solutions to most of the games.
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler: Or did he?]]
* HopeSpot:
** After the first round of the games are over, the survivors are taken to a version of Ryugujo and are given actual food and entertainment for a while, with no death games in sight. They talk, laugh, and even promise to exchange contact information if they make it out alive. Towards the end of their time there, they're all given sticks with either an X or no mark at all... only for the Taro doll that's with them to inform them that the last game is a game of "luck", and kills all the contestants with the X sticks.
** Takahata decides on a plan that might stop the current game they're playing without any bloodshed. He and Amaya then take the bomb poles used in the game, and chuck both of them at [[spoiler: Kamimaro]] in the last couple of seconds. Smart plan, right? Well, he [[spoiler: shrinks the poles down, "disqualifies" the two of them, and spits them back out at them for the bombs to explode in their face.]]
* ItsPersonal: Shun's motivation for partaking in the sports festival. He has it out for [[spoiler:Kamimaro]] when he found out that he was responsible for the death of his friends.
* LeanAndMean: Kamimaro for sure, considering the hell he put everyone through.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Both [[spoiler:Ichika]] and [[spoiler:Takahata]] have this reaction after [[spoiler:winning the first game.]]
* NightmareFetishist: Amaya and Ichika are both sexually aroused by the danger they're in; Ichika in particular gets disappointed when Takahata tells her that they will survive a particular task.
* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: All Takahata wanted was a thrill in his boring, plodding life. What he got, however, was way more than he bargained for.
* OneSteveLimit: The aversion of this is what ends up saving Christopher's life, since Takahata thinks that Ichika had been transformed into one of the monster kokeshi dolls. Keep in mind that their names ''are'' spelled with different characters, but the names written on the dolls are written in hiragana, which caused the confusion.
* PassionIsEvil: Amaya's character motivations are centered around this. He only truly feels alive when doing acts of violence.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After surviving the first round, Shun made it his life goal to kill the mastermind behind the games after everyone (Shouko in particular) was killed for nothing.
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler: Amaya]] reveals himself to be one during the pole toppling game. His parents mistreat him one too many times, and he retaliated with a TapOnTheHead. Think that gives him a FreudianExcuse? No, not really.
* ShirtlessScene: Amaya gets quite a few during the initial cube portion of the first game. And boy, is he ''[[MrFanservice ripped]]''.
* TheTeam: The God's Children of the first cube.
** TheLeader: Shun Takahata
** TheLancer: Ichika Akimoto
** TheSmartGuy: Yukio Sanada
** TheBigGuy: Takeru Amaya
** TheHeart: Christopher "Kento" Akimoto
* TimeSkip: Minor one, but the second round of games takes place three months after the first round.
* TokenEvilTeamMate: Amaya literally derives pleasure from killing others and justifiably makes everyone around him very nervous. However, once they decide to work together he does become a part of Shun's team and his complete disregard for human life ends up saving them. Not that anyone can be particularly happy about it.
* TookALevelInJerkass: After surviving the first round of the games and becoming a celebrity, Chris turns into a vain, kind of jerky idol.
* WhamEpisode: 21: [[spoiler:Takahata Shun, and Amaya Takeru failing to kill Kamimaro and falling to their almost certain deaths]].
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: As soon as Shun has an opportunity to off Kamimaro during the games, he takes it immediately and devises a plan to kill Kamimaro while his guard is down. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for Shun, Kamimaro is able to catch his plan and literally spit it back out at him.]]
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[[folder:Part 2]]
!! Part 2 contains examples of:
* AbortedArc:
** Sein Kami wants to put Kamimaro's ideals to the test by having his surviving students go against the survivors of Kamimaro's games, emphasized even more by the fact that Shun and Akashi's main groups each had about five people by the time the second games began. [[spoiler:With Sein Kami getting killed by Mana and most of Kamimaro's children dead, that never had a chance of happening.]]
** Tomfoolery is only ever used in the Demon Extermination arc, and then only rarely brought up afterwards.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Akashi's {{Cameo}} in the ''Manga/RealAccount'' crossover reveals that he jacks off 12 times a week.
* AffectionateNickname: Akashi and Ushimitsu get "Aka-shii" and "Ushimi-chan" respectively.
* AGodIAmNot: [[spoiler:Even after Ushimitsu ascends to godhood, he doesn't do much with his powers besides reset time to the first day and become the new GM for the games. He says that it's because he's not fit to be a god, and he waits for Akashi to take his place and kill him.]]
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: During the Three Kingdoms Cops and Robbers arc, Natsu-Megu is tagged and runs the risk of being executed come the six hour mark going off, and Akashi desperately tries to avert this trope while trying to have winning the game on his mind. Everyone ''else'' convinces him to go through with it because saving people is "who he is", but [[spoiler:he comes to the jail cells just in time to see her say some final words and die.]]
* AmnesiacGod: For the final battle, all three remaining candidates run the risk of this. [[spoiler:As they attack one another, they lose memories of people they've met one by one until there's no one left. In Amaya's case it doesn't affect him much, but it's critical for Akashi and Ushimitsu, as their lives are defined by how they interact with others and they don't want to run the risk of [[LossOfIdentity losing their true selves]] after their ascension.]]
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Akira makes one to Mei during the Rock-Paper-Scissors game, and Mei herself makes one to Akashi during the "Demon Extermination" mission. [[spoiler:In both cases, the confessing party is in a position where they may or may not die. And then they do.]]
* AndTheAdventureContinues:[[spoiler: ''The Second Series'' manga comes to a close with Akashi dying and Ushimitsu becoming a God. Ushimitsu, unable to come to terms with Akashi's death, rewinds the clock and becomes the new Game Master in this new-timeline.]]
* ArcWords: "Beef or Chicken", Aoyama and Akashi's code words for being brave or cowardly. [[spoiler:Akashi ends up bringing Aoyama back from his rut because of these code words.]]
* ArtInitiatesLife: Mei's knack for drawing ends up becoming her greatest strength in the Demon Extermination portion of the Kamiculum, as her Tomfoolery can bring to life anything she draws of something/someone she likes. This mostly just manifests in making Akashi body doubles.
* ATasteOfPower: After the Kamiculum is completed, Sein Kami gives the survivors another assignment to take care of-- one that involves Tomfoolery, a creation based power that takes the shape of something that the user is fond of. After the assignment, it's only used sparingly, and then not at all after Three Kingdom Cops and Robbers. [[spoiler:Mana later says that it's just a lesser form of the Power of the Gods, which is also creation-based, so in retrospect Sein Kami was preparing his "students" with this.]]
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: How [[spoiler:Amaya]] makes his godhood debut on Earth.
* TheAtoner: Akashi's main motivation for participating in the games, to meet up and apologize to his best friend Aoyama. Lily becomes this later as well, and he's shown feeling remorse for all of the violence he'd taken a part of.
* BackFromTheDead: Akashi's main goal for getting the power of God is to restore his lost friends. [[spoiler:...Only to discover it's impossible. You can create a duplicate of someone, but their personality would be entirely shaped by the image of you in their head and not their true self. Alternatively, you can create a genetic clone and age them up, but they'd be the same as a baby, mentally. You simply can't bring the real person back.]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Discussed during the Old Maid game by Kamimaro. He sees everyone's resolve to win the game and ascend to godhood, but he specifically raises the point that there'd be a moral line that humans could not cross, proving that they'd never be able to fully understand the power and mentality of a god.
* BigDamnHeroes: Ushimitsu ''would'' have been this for Akashi after hijacking a helicopter to rescue him, but [[spoiler:Mana]] foils that plan and teleports him away. [[spoiler:He's actually able to play the trope straight after saving Shun and Amaya from falling to certain doom.]]
* BrownNote: Sein Kami uses this to demonstrate his god powers to the "trash" students. It blows the unfortunate kid's head clean off his body.
* CartwrightCurse: It's impossible for Akashi to fall in love given the [[DeadlyGame setting]]. '''All''' of his [[LoveInterest love interests]] die in one way or another, with [[spoiler:Natsumegu]] being his last casualty. And ultimately, [[spoiler:it gets ''inverted'' as Akashi, Ushimitsu's crush, dies after the final battle]].
* ChildSoldier: Lily and his six most-trustworthy comrades before they enter the games.
* CharactersDroppingLikeFlies: [[spoiler:Kris, Bandou, Kyouko, and Junko]] are all killed after they get a proper place back in the spotlight after their cameos in the "Shadow Stepping" chapters. [[spoiler: Kris]] doesn't even get the honor of fighting his dramatic foil as a Child of God.
* TheChosenOne: There really was no such thing throughout the whole adventure, but after [[spoiler:Ushimitsu resets to the first day]], he makes Akashi this. On [[spoiler:this second go-around, assuming there won't be any others]], he's hoping that Akashi will be the one to save the world and [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou take God down]].
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: [[PlayedForDrama Dragged and beaten by the narrative]] any chance they can get. There's some kind of hope in having a person who will look out for you no matter what, but what good is having a person like that around when everyone around them will still die regardless? And when they aren't truly able to save the people they've worked so hard for, what of their psyche? Are they still able to hold onto their beliefs? Many of the contestants mock Akashi and Aoyama for having dispositions like this.
* TheConscience: Youhei's ghost acts as one to Harakai as he starts slipping further into madness.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Chapter 46; it's a little too perfect for Megu to take out one of the School Mysteries and send them flying out the building ''just'' as Akashi and Tsuge were falling off the edge of a building.
* CowardlyLion:
** Akira all the way, after the sand-scooping competition. He gets pants-wettingly terrified of all of the nightmarish monsters and events that come their way, but despite that he keeps trudging through, partly because he can't bring himself to commit suicide, and half because he's thriving on his love for Mei.
** Shimura's cowardice has saved his life on many an occasion, even though he chastises himself for it.
* DecoyProtagonist: The first few chapters play out the Daruma game in the perspective of Aoyama Seiichi. The real hero of the story is Akashi Yasuto, his friend who ditched class that day.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: [[spoiler:When forced into a rock-paper-scissors game with Sein Kami for her life, Tsuge confronts Sein Kami on his actions and calls him "a mass murderer who does it for fun" and not a god at all. By [[DefiantToTheEnd refusing to play the game]], she dies but she manages to seriously piss him off in the process.]]
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Akashi follows up on Tsuge's sacrifice, and proved himself to be the biggest badass in the manga when he [[spoiler:punched out Sein Kami across the stage after confronting him with the lives he'd just taken during the rock-paper-scissors game and even avoided death by telling Sein Kami that he pulled rock and won against Sein Kami's scissors. He defied a God and LIVED.]]
* DownToTheLastPlay: The Daruma game plays out like this. Where Aoyama couldn't accurately kick a soccer ball and score for his team, he gets to do so here by kicking another soccer ball into the button on the back of the daruma in the last ten seconds and saves the remaining class. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, that just means ''he'' was the one that won, and [[ShootTheShaggyDog everyone else is killed anyway]].]]
* DramaticIrony: During the "Three Kingdom Cops and Robbers" arc, we learn from Mert that Fathma is a very unusual seer in her family because [[spoiler:all of her predictions are death omens and shouldn't be followed under any circumstances]]. Problem is, her subordinates don't know that, and the audience can only watch in horror as the Star and Moon teams ally themselves against the Sun team as she predicted.
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: Many of the love interests in the story go out like this. [[spoiler: Megu, Mei, Ichika]], and even [[spoiler:Tenma]] get to pour their feelings out to their loved ones before their time is up.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome:
** [[spoiler:Mitsukuni]] gets the dubious honor of taking out [[TheHeavy the monkey]] by summoning enough ice crystals to combat the monkey's flame output, and nearly blowing himself up to do so.
** [[spoiler:Shun gets to go out in a blaze of glory by taking ''GOD'' down with him, ending his boredom and [[WorthyOpponent earning Kamimaro's respect]] in the process.]]
** Tsuge gets one, as noted above.
* FakeOutMakeOut: A variation of this happened in Judgement Old-Maid game. Akashi and Ushimitsu kissed to pretend [[spoiler:the card Ushimitsu took from Akashi was a kiss card (while it was a ticking time-bomb card) so that Male-Female in the next turn would be fooled into thinking he took the kiss card he needed to win]]. What went different was that Ushimitsu didn't know the plan until the moment they kissed (even after the kiss he didn't know full well about it).
* ForegoneConclusion: After learning that he dies in the game via BoomHeadshot, Akashi weaponizes this and uses it to great effect against the monsters knowing that he cannot be killed by them. [[spoiler:He does get shot eventually, but he doesn't die.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: We first get a glimpse of Akashi's [[spoiler:Akashic Eyes]] when he fights against the smallest oni robots.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Tasuku has this trope in spades [[spoiler: until he gave his life to save Akashi's]].
* {{Gasshole}}: Kamimaro burps and farts a lot, mostly to reminds us how disgusting he is.
* GenreShift:
** With the addition of Tomfoolery, the Demon Extermination arc briefly turns the series into a battle shounen manga with all the AppliedPhlebotinum it usually comes with.
** It seems to go from a children's game-themed horror/survival manga to a science fiction war manga in the "Three Kingdoms Cops and Robbbers" arc.
** The Old Maid game takes the series into a strategy tabletop manga or a card game manga, not unlike ''Manga/{{Akagi}}'' or ''Franchise/YuGiOh''.
* TheGlassesGottaGo: Sara seems convinced that she looks better when she takes off her glasses and lets her hair down... [[SubvertedTrope but no one else agrees]]. One of them even vomits when she does it again.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: [[spoiler:The final battle, while involving some amount of god power, basically amounts to a three-way brawl where the last one standing is the winner.]]
* GoOutWithASmile: Quite a lot of people who died tends to smile upon their death. [[spoiler:Tasuku]] after forfeiting his chance of survival for Akashi, [[spoiler:Aoyama]] who won the big prize in Amanojaku Labyrinth mixed with ManlyTears, [[spoiler:Natsumegu]] before squashed flat, [[spoiler:Yuu Tenma]], not to mention those who died in Kamiculum...
** [[spoiler:Amaya]] finally goes out with a large grin after losing the final game.
* GratuitousEnglish: Ushimitsu likes to dabble in this way more than anyone else in the manga.
* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler:Instead of stopping the games altogether, Ushimitsu decides to reset it all over to get Akashi to take his place as a god.]]
* HostileShowTakeover: Can't get any more hostile than [[spoiler:killing the old host]].
* IdiotBall: Despite proven multiple times that Akashi [[spoiler:and Aoyama]] are quick thinkers, they conveniently miss out one of [[spoiler:Amanojaku Labyrinth]]'s instructions which cost them [[spoiler:Aoyama's life]].
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Akashi and [[spoiler:Aoyama]] have one while they're hanging off of ropes. Over a [[SpikesOfDoom spiked pit]]. While they're wildly swinging around and the rope is on ''fire''.
* ImaginationBasedSuperpower: The Tomfoolery ability Sein Kami gave to Kami's Jr. loosely works on the users' imagination of what they want to do the most with their precious item.
** [[spoiler:Acid Mana later confirms that Tomfoolery itself is a lesser version of God's Power she and Sein Kami will give. Survivors of Judgement Old-Maid are given literally power of imagination to manipulate everything in the universe.]]
* IncompatibleOrientation: Ushimitsu is in love with Akashi. Akashi does not and cannot feel the same way, as he is straight. Despite this the two are still great friends anyway.
* IWillWaitForYou: [[spoiler:Ushimitsu, after resetting the world, is expecting this version of Akashi to rise to the challenge again and kill him.]]
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:Every named character except for Ushimitsu and Mana dies.]]
* LastRequest: [[spoiler:Tenma]] asks, once Akashi becomes a god and reshapes the world, that [[spoiler:Tenma be reincarnated or reborn as a woman]].
* MagicalGirl: Megu's Tomfoolery turns out to be this, as she bases hers off of an in-universe magical girl. After she uses it once to heal everyone, she doesn't use this ability again.
* ManicPixieDreamGuy: Ushimitsu's old friend Roku was a boy like this. Before the game started, Ushimitsu was a meek, scrawny nerd with no friends until Roku came along. With his friendship, he learned the power of living like it's your last moments, gained more confidence, and bulks up a fair amount as well. Like a lot of these types of characters, Roku turns out to be sick and dying, and passes on after a particularly bad case of his unspecified illness.
* MeleeATrois: The final battle is supposed to be this, with [[spoiler:Akashi, Amaya, and Ushimitsu]] pitted against each other. However, two of them decide to gang up on the third, and in thenend it gets averted as two duke it out while the third spectates.
* MightMakesRight: Harakai becomes a staunch supporter of this mindset after his Santa Trial, where since everyone couldn't communicate with each other to get the objective done, he knocks everyone else out and finishes the game himself. This way of thinking consumes his personality to the point where the sweet young man we was before the Kamiculum started nearly vanished. Luckily, he regains his composure after the first fight with Ushitora.
* MultistageTeleport: [[spoiler: Akashi's Tomfoolery is the "Akashic Eye", which allows him to teleport short distances, wherever he kicks his soccer ball.]]
* MundaneMadeAwesome: The Old Maid game. Despite divine alteration, it's for the most part a very long, ordinary game of Old Maid. But it's a very ''awesome'' game of Old Maid nonetheless.
* [[invoked]]NeutralGood: Sanada during his brief stint back in the spotlight. He doesn't really care about people's goals one way or the other-- he just seems to help out whoever he thinks is alright. And at the moment, he just so happens to have taken a liking to Akashi.
* OppositeDay: Basic rule in [[spoiler:Amanojaku Labyrinth. Do the opposite of what was told there. Consequently, the solution to solve the labyrinth is to get back to starting point without bringing any keys.]]
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Amaya, again, and this is exactly what he aims to be [[spoiler:on a divine scale once he gains access to the Power of the Gods.]]
* PlotHole: One that shows up at the very end of the manga, no less. [[spoiler: When Ushimitsu and Akashi ascend to godhood, they try reviving Natsu-Megu, only to be told and shown that the people they "revive" will only be their mind's eye versions, and not the actual people themselves. However, Ushimitsu is told that he has the power to turn back time, and he takes that opportunity. How he is able to do ''this'' and not revive people outright is never explained, since he essentially brought the ''whole world'' back as it once was before the games.]]
** [[spoiler:As revealed in ''0 -zero-'', the prequel manga, the "earth" upon which the series takes place and all its people are essentially a big simulation. Ushimitsu's just hitting the "rewind" button on it.]]
* PuppetKing: It turns out the cult of Shiner had Aikou pulling the strings all along, since he was the one who hypnotizes Shimura in the first place and feeds him all the information that he later tells the cult while Shimura's asleep.
* RagingStiffie: During the Demon Extermination arc, Ushimitsu doesn't quite know how he first activated his Tomfoolery. All he remembers doing is running off with an erection, and tries to whip up another one to do so.
* RecapEpisode: Since the second part of the series is hosted in a different magazine than the first, the daruma game serves as one. They start with the same two games from the first, and explain the situation and what's been happening.
* RefugeInAudacity: Akashi pretends to be a member of the Space Police to prevent his involvement in the games from being found out after teleporting in front of a group of grade schoolers.
* RefusalOfTheCall: It turns out Kamimaro didn't even ''want'' to be a god in the first place, when he was offered the chance by Sein Kami and [[spoiler:Mana]]. The games of the first and second parts are the result of that, setting up a situation in order to find a decent replacement for him.
** The NEET turns out to have also done this, as he flat out refuses to take the Kamiculum when one of the statues comes for him. He only survives due to the statue interpreting it as filial piety.
* ResetButton: [[spoiler:Ushimitsu]] pushes it at the end, setting it back to the very first day. [[spoiler:But even he knows that it's not a full reset, as everyone as he knew them is dead and the reset only has copies of everyone.]]
* {{Retcon}}: Minor; Christopher was referred to as "Crystal C" in the first part, but his nickname changes to "Crystal A" in Part II.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge:
** When [[MauveShirt Rui]] dies protecting Akashi from [[spoiler:Ushitora]], Akashi tracks down the monster to avenge her and delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to it, restricting its movement and when it managed to escape, Akashi finds him and kicks the grenade to kill it.
** [[spoiler:When Ushitora tried to use its powers to bring up painful memories and teleport him to another part of the school, [[NoSell Akashi wasn't affected by the power.]] Rui's death was his most sad memory and he proceeded to beat down Ushitora]].
* SecondComing: Shiner's cult seems absolutely convinced that he can see the future and ascend to godhood, and he lets them indulge in their fantasies as he's just as crazy as they are.
* SecretTest: [[spoiler:Turns out the whole game was one by the Gods, as they were trying to see which of the participants would be the best candidate for godhood.]]
* {{Seers}}: Fathma's family is traditionally made up of these, usually making paintings that give happy predictions of the future. Fathma's, however, are instead omens of death and should not be followed.
* ShoutOut:
** The picture that accompanies the exposition about Johann going off to search with some students is meant to invoke the ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' cover. Johann even looks like a dead ringer for John Lennon!
** The regions where Lily and the Sun crew hailed from are called the [[Manga/AshitaNoJoe Yabiku and Rikiishi]] regions.
* ShutUpKirk: To every notion of being called inhuman, Kamimaro replies that [[CaptainObvious he already knows that]]. To Akashi's offer of being reborn, he rejects such an offer because he expects less out of himself than he would anyone else on the planet.
* SingleTargetSexuality: After Akashi started to prove himself in Ushimitsu's eyes, he's pretty much obsessed over him ever since. Part of it's because Akashi reminds him of his old friend Roku.
* TheSevenMysteries: The third phase of the "Kamiculum" has the students explore school in the hopes of eliminating the mysteries. However, they multiply the number of mysteries by seven, making there 49 different mysteries to defeat divided across 3 different teams.
* SoullessShell: As it turns out, [[spoiler:Akashi]] turns into one during the final battle. [[spoiler:His memories had been beaten out of him by Amaya, so his personality as he knows it is gone. He can only run on the feelings he had based on his lost memories.]]
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler: All of the first part's main cast save for Amaya]] do not survive to the final battle. [[spoiler:And even then, Amaya lasts just until the penultimate chapter.]]
* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler:Ushimitsu's ultimate long-term goal at the end of the game, now that he's ascended to godhood.]]
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Shun throws away his chance to become a god and leave the Judgement Old Maid alive in order to kill the BigBad that started the death games to begin with.]]
* {{Tanuki}}: The Amanojaku Labyrinth features a number of these in symbol and statue (oh, that statue) form.
* TheTeam: The [[spoiler:(remaining)]] Kami's Jr., though it morphs into a proper FiveManBand later on.
** TheLeader: Yasuto Akashi- The WideEyedIdealist who is focused on leading any fellow survivors and inspires many individuals who have a questionable sanity, self-centered or evil.
** TheLancer: Natsu-Megu- A perfectionist and one of the more capable survivors who shares Akashi's desire to survive the DeadlyGame. [[spoiler:Trades her position with Shimura to become TheChick when she gets separated from Akashi, and is forced to give him limited support due to being with the enemy kingdom in Three Kingdom Cops and Robbers.]]
** TheSmartGuy: Yai Horai- Arguably the voice of reason, and formulated a plan [[spoiler:to bust Akashi out of prison in Three Kingdom Cops and Robbers.]]
** TheBigGuy: Kiyoshirou Ushimitsu- One of Akashi's close allies and can nearly match [[AxeCrazy Amaya]] in strength and sanity. Can overlap with GeniusBruiser however.
** TheHeart: Kagemaru Shimura- The [[TheLoad least capable of the group]] until his CharacterDevelopment. [[spoiler:Later gets promoted to [[TheLancer Lancer]] and exchanges his position with Nutmeg when he and Akashi get forced to participate in The Portrait of Death.]]
* ThereCanBeOnlyOne: [[spoiler:Akashi, Ushimitsu, and Amaya have all ascended to godhood. But because of Akashi and Ushimi's different mindset from Amaya, they all agree to do one final game; the winner becomes the ''only'' god of the universe. And as of the end of Part II, the winner is Ushimitsu, as Amaya loses the final game proper and Akashi's body gives out after Amaya goes down.]]
* TitleDrop: After Akashi figures out that Hitsujisaru of the "Seven by Seven Mysteries" challenge can show him the future, he wonders if he could change the outcome of [[spoiler:Rui's death]] had he been shown the future sooner, or if everything is predestined "as the gods will".
* TopGod: Subverted--[[spoiler: Mana is the creator of "this" version of Earth and all its inhabitants, but it's heavily implied that she is just another speck]].
* TragicBromance:
** It was Aoyama's spirit and motivation that kept Akashi running for as long as he did, and he desperately wanted to go see his friend throughout the Kamiculum. Come the time when he's finally out of it and learns that Aoyama survived, and [[spoiler:Aoyama's lost all of his memories from the shock of winning his games. He eventually snaps back to life after "Portrait of Hell", but for the most part he's detached from most emotions except a survival instinct until the Amanojaku Labyrinth episode. He ends up getting squished by the guardian of the place.]]
** After the end, [[spoiler:Akashi and Ushimitsu]]'s relationship takes this turn, as [[spoiler:Akashi's body gives out immediately after Amaya's been defeated in the final battle.]]
* TragicKeepsake: Rui's scrunchie, which is later given to Natsumegu by Akashi. Roku's skateboard is one for Ushimitsu (though this breaks during the "Three Kingdoms Cops and Robbers" arc), and [[spoiler:Akashi and Aoyama's soccerball]] qualifies for this[[spoiler: after Aoyama's death]].
* UndyingLoyalty: Ushimitsu's main priority after the "Mamemaki" game is to help out Akashi, even if that means he will perish himself.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: [[spoiler:Tenma is revealed to be a boy when Akashi solves a puzzle by finding a mannequin that most closely resembles Tenma; all the other mannequins were female, while the solution was the male mannequin]].
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Amaya is practically half naked for the entirety of the game, once he comes back.
* WhamEpisode:
** Chapter 84: Akashi is teleported to the next phase of the game, only to discover [[spoiler:Kami [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled by gigantic school materials]] with his sister, Mana, declaring that she's taking over]].
** Chapter 104: [[spoiler:The timelines of part 1 and 2 fully intersect as Ushimitsu teleports to Takahata and Amaya (who are both falling from the sky]].
** Chapter 179: Does it again by revealing that [[spoiler: Mana is the creator of their world and all the inhabitants in it.]]
** Chapter 180: Follows it up with another shocking reveal.[[spoiler:They can't bring back anyone who has died, they can only bring back exaggerated clones of the people they love.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Mana says as much when Ushimitsu decides to reset and become the new Game Master. She even points out that he could use his powers to end the whole ordeal whenever he likes. But despite that, she's incredibly pleased with the outcome.]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Mei's backstory mentions that after her teacher got caught trying to sexually assault Mei, he tried to blame her by using her InLoveWithLove attitude as an excuse for his position. It works, and Mei is bullied harder than ever before.
* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Sister]]: [[spoiler: Mert hates Male-Female because he's the one who killed Fatma, leader of moon team who doubles as his sister. And ultimately, he dies without getting the revenge he so sought as [[KickTheDog Male-Female laughs in his face]]. Akashi and Ushimitsu do make good on Mert's revenge, though.]]
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->''"Dear God...please, give me my boredom back."''
''Kami-sama no Iu Toori'' (roughly translated as "As the Gods Will") is a Japanese manga series written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrated by Akeji Fujimura.
The series consists of two arcs: I and II.
In the first arc, Takahata Shun's day at high school begins just as normal and boring as ever, but it doesn't end that way. After his teacher's head explodes in front of the class and a daruma doll emerges from the headless body, he and his classmates find themselves forced to play children's games, starting with Daruma ga Koronda (a game similar to Red Light/Green Light), with deadly stakes. With no idea who is behind this mysterious deadly game session, and no way of knowing when it will finally end, the only thing Shun and other students can do is keep trying to win.
The second arc focuses on Akashi Yasuto, who ditched school before the daruma dolls appeared. As "trash" who ditched, he finds himself collected along with other truants to be "educated" through a "Kamiculum." But what waits for him afterwards goes beyond anything else the game has thrown at him...
The first series ran for 5 volumes in ''Bessatsu Magazine/ShonenMagazine'' from 2011 to 2012, while the second part was serialized in ''Weekly Shounen Magazine'' and ran for 11 volumes from 2013 to 2017. It was adapted into a live-action film directed by Creator/TakashiMiike and released November 15, 2014; it was released in the United States by {{Creator/Funimation}} [[https://www.funimation.com/shop/home-video/as-the-gods-will-live-action-movie-combo-sub-only-bld-00639/ on Blu-Ray and DVD on June 5, 2018]], nearly four years later.
The second part is serialized on Website/{{Crunchyroll}}'s Manga app under the title ''As the Gods Will: The Second Series''.
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* AnyoneCanDie: Yes, even [[spoiler: Takahata and Akashi, the main characters of their respective parts]].
* AngstySurvivingTwin:
** Subverted in Sanada's case. He doesn't even mind that his brother's dead (not even that he was killed ''right next to him'') since he bossed him around most of the time.
** Played straight in Part II, where Hiroki is depressed about his brother Daiki's death and wishes to see him again if he got the chance to ascend to godhood and bring him back. [[spoiler:He at least ends up TogetherInDeath with him after the Rock-Paper-Scissors fight.]]
* AssholeVictim: A lot of the students that get killed are looking out for themselves most of the time, and don't hesitate to start sacrificing others for the sake of their own survival. They all still die brutally, but you can't help but think that they had it coming on some level.
* ArtEvolution: By the later sections of part 2, there's a clear change in style from the first series and the early second. Everyone's more streamlined, screentones are used with gusto, and the art in general takes a quality increase.
* BookEnds: The first and second parts begin with the Daruma challenge. [[spoiler:The second part ends with the Daruma challenge, now that everything's been set back up to that exact moment.]]
* CharactersDroppingLikeFlies: Don't expect to get attached to anyone in this story, since most characters outside of the main two or three bite it fairly quickly. Sometimes in the middle of their ''[[DeathByFlashback backstories]]'', which would otherwise signal survival.
* CrapsackWorld: Even discounting the massive elephant in the room that is the Gods and their games, the main characters have pretty awful backstories for the most part, and many of the contestants have their uglier sides brought out by the game.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: You have kids from broken homes, kids who've been assaulted and abused, kids who've seen war up close, kids who've been experimented on... and all this isn't even ''touching'' the bullshit they have to go through now.
* DeadlyGame: The entire premise of the story, actually. Japanese schoolchildren are forced to play supernatural life-or-death versions of common children's games.
* DeityOfHumanOrigin:
** Kamimaro is this. [[spoiler:Mana]] explains that he was just a regular human that got imbued with a higher form of Tomfoolery because [[spoiler:she and her sibling]] just wanted to test it out. [[spoiler:Eventually Amaya, Ushimitsu, and Akashi become this, but only Ushimitsu survives.]]
** [[spoiler:This is also the case for Mana herself, who originate from a Aman, a human girl from a future Earth. Technically, she is the only "true" human from the series as all the others are created from her imagination.]]
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters
* {{Foreshadowing}}: All of the games are just twisted versions of games that children would play. [[spoiler:That's because the gods ''are'' children. Well, plus one {{Manchild}}.]]
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Shun and Akashi participate in different games and events that transpire around the same timeline. [[spoiler:Their stories slowly intersect in Part 2 starting with the two interacting with each other during Akashi's shadow-stepping challenge, and finally when Ushimitsu rescues Shun and Amaya from falling to their deaths.]] For both stories, the {{NEET}} is this as he eventually partially discovers the truth of the situation even though he's not participating in the games, and Aoyama is one of these for the second part since there is constant mention of his adventures and actions while the other two games occurred.
* HeterosexualLifePartners:
** After all they've been through, Akashi and Ushimitsu basically become each other's reason to live, and they care for each other quite a bit. Akashi also used to have this relationship with Aoyama, and Ushimitsu had one with Roku.
** Also counts as BashBrothers, but Shun and Amaya serve as this for the first part and well into the second. They get off to a rocky start, but afterwards they work together like a well-oiled machine. After [[spoiler:Shun takes down Kamimaro during the Old Maid game]], Amaya turns out to be repressing some serious mourning for him.
* InfantImmortality: News reports after the Daruma and Lucky Cat games note that all of the schools involved were high schools. The hospital that housed the kokeshi doll game also had some college students running around, and [[spoiler: Kamimaro]] even splits up the survivors in the second round into age groups that don't seem to go on before grade 6. [[spoiler:Finally averted with "Portrait of Hell", as Mana and Kamimaro decide to get ''everyone'' involved, and the manga shows a couple of panels of children about to be killed by the monsters.]]
* JerkassGods: Kamimaro, Sein Kami and [[spoiler:Mana]].
* KarmaHoudini: After all is said and done, only [[spoiler:Acid Mana]] escapes the story scot-free. At the very least Kamimaro [[spoiler:gets taken down with Shun]] and Sein Kami not only gets decked by Akashi, but [[spoiler:killed by Mana]] as well-- [[spoiler:Mana]] on the other hand doesn't even get a chance to be brought down to size.
* [[invoked]]LifeImitatesArt: It turns out that all of the crazy events of the manga were based off of the comics Kamimaro made when he was human. They're also shown as video game adaptations as well.
* LovecraftLite: When the gods are nothing but cruel bullies who aren't even phased by the deaths of millions of humans, there's nothing the human race can do but try to survive the deadly games they're thrust into, and [[spoiler:Earth turns out to be some kind of glorified toy for higher beings]], you know your universe is fucked beyond relief. Even so, it is possible for humanity to go above and beyond what's expected of them, and they do have the power to affect their world on the level of the Gods, provided they have all the necessary tools.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: [[spoiler: Mana]] most definitely, since she wanted to raise the stakes on the game and [[spoiler:straight up kills her brother because his games were getting "boring".]]
* MusclesAreMeaningless: This trope is played straight with characters like Amaya and Ushimitsu who are lean, but throw around people like tissue paper and hurl helicopter propellers like they were nothing.
** Lily averts this trope by being built like a tank and hitting like one too. Hell, he even gives [[TheBigGuy Ushimitsu]] and [[LightningBruiser Amaya]] a run for their money.
* PsychologicalHorror
* SeriesMascot: The Daruma doll from the first trial, seeing as that it has the most appearances of any of the different things used in the games, and appears on more than one manga cover.
* ThemeNaming: All of the Kamis have Kami hidden their name somewhere. [[spoiler:Mana]] is the only one of the gods to break such a rule.
* TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: For some inexplicable reason, all of the cubes from around the world are all gathered in Japan in the last stretch of the game.
* {{Troll}}: All the "Gods" are this, Especially [[spoiler:Mana]]. They gladly will place "players" in games without telling them a single limitation or how to do certain key things.
* YourHeadASplode: A great many of the games have this as a consequence, but this trope is more remembered as the punishment of losing the Daruma game.
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[[folder:Part 1]]
!! Part 1 contains examples of:
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Amaya gets too excited about the nature of the game, and strikes up a conversation with Takahata about which of the surviving girls are hotter. When Takahata tells him not to touch either of them, Amaya decides to wack off, right there, right then.
* AxCrazy: Amaya - he has no issues with killing other participants in the games and is often [[PutTheLaughterInSlaughter laughing while doing so]].
* {{Cliffhanger}}: [[spoiler:Part 1 ends with Takahata and Amaya falling to their deaths and Kamimaro still actively playing his game]].
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Let's see... Part I ends with both Takahata Shun and Amaya Takeru failing to kill the {{Big Bad}} of their arc, and falling to their demise. Or, rather, what ''[[BigDamnHeroes initially]]'' is their demise...]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:Acid Mana]] shows up in Kamimaro's room wearing an alien costume near the end of Part I. We don't know exactly why she's there at first, because she blows up the room as soon as she's discovered.
* {{Fingore}}: An early flashback into Takahata's childhood treats us to the [[SarcasmMode delightful]] image of his finger being cut clean off his second knuckle. It's reattached at present, though.
* GodhoodSeeker: Amaya. He seems to think that he is the ChosenOne in these death games and that his purpose is to ascend into godhood. [[spoiler:His ambitions at least earn him that much by Part 2.]]
* GratuitousEnglish: During the second game, the characters are asked to answer some of the questions "Yes or no" in English (as opposed to "Hai" or "Iie" in Japanese).
* TheHero: Takahata, who comes up with the solutions to most of the games.
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler: Or did he?]]
* HopeSpot:
** After the first round of the games are over, the survivors are taken to a version of Ryugujo and are given actual food and entertainment for a while, with no death games in sight. They talk, laugh, and even promise to exchange contact information if they make it out alive. Towards the end of their time there, they're all given sticks with either an X or no mark at all... only for the Taro doll that's with them to inform them that the last game is a game of "luck", and kills all the contestants with the X sticks.
** Takahata decides on a plan that might stop the current game they're playing without any bloodshed. He and Amaya then take the bomb poles used in the game, and chuck both of them at [[spoiler: Kamimaro]] in the last couple of seconds. Smart plan, right? Well, he [[spoiler: shrinks the poles down, "disqualifies" the two of them, and spits them back out at them for the bombs to explode in their face.]]
* ItsPersonal: Shun's motivation for partaking in the sports festival. He has it out for [[spoiler:Kamimaro]] when he found out that he was responsible for the death of his friends.
* LeanAndMean: Kamimaro for sure, considering the hell he put everyone through.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Both [[spoiler:Ichika]] and [[spoiler:Takahata]] have this reaction after [[spoiler:winning the first game.]]
* NightmareFetishist: Amaya and Ichika are both sexually aroused by the danger they're in; Ichika in particular gets disappointed when Takahata tells her that they will survive a particular task.
* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: All Takahata wanted was a thrill in his boring, plodding life. What he got, however, was way more than he bargained for.
* OneSteveLimit: The aversion of this is what ends up saving Christopher's life, since Takahata thinks that Ichika had been transformed into one of the monster kokeshi dolls. Keep in mind that their names ''are'' spelled with different characters, but the names written on the dolls are written in hiragana, which caused the confusion.
* PassionIsEvil: Amaya's character motivations are centered around this. He only truly feels alive when doing acts of violence.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After surviving the first round, Shun made it his life goal to kill the mastermind behind the games after everyone (Shouko in particular) was killed for nothing.
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler: Amaya]] reveals himself to be one during the pole toppling game. His parents mistreat him one too many times, and he retaliated with a TapOnTheHead. Think that gives him a FreudianExcuse? No, not really.
* ShirtlessScene: Amaya gets quite a few during the initial cube portion of the first game. And boy, is he ''[[MrFanservice ripped]]''.
* TheTeam: The God's Children of the first cube.
** TheLeader: Shun Takahata
** TheLancer: Ichika Akimoto
** TheSmartGuy: Yukio Sanada
** TheBigGuy: Takeru Amaya
** TheHeart: Christopher "Kento" Akimoto
* TimeSkip: Minor one, but the second round of games takes place three months after the first round.
* TokenEvilTeamMate: Amaya literally derives pleasure from killing others and justifiably makes everyone around him very nervous. However, once they decide to work together he does become a part of Shun's team and his complete disregard for human life ends up saving them. Not that anyone can be particularly happy about it.
* TookALevelInJerkass: After surviving the first round of the games and becoming a celebrity, Chris turns into a vain, kind of jerky idol.
* WhamEpisode: 21: [[spoiler:Takahata Shun, and Amaya Takeru failing to kill Kamimaro and falling to their almost certain deaths]].
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: As soon as Shun has an opportunity to off Kamimaro during the games, he takes it immediately and devises a plan to kill Kamimaro while his guard is down. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for Shun, Kamimaro is able to catch his plan and literally spit it back out at him.]]
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[[folder:Part 2]]
!! Part 2 contains examples of:
* AbortedArc:
** Sein Kami wants to put Kamimaro's ideals to the test by having his surviving students go against the survivors of Kamimaro's games, emphasized even more by the fact that Shun and Akashi's main groups each had about five people by the time the second games began. [[spoiler:With Sein Kami getting killed by Mana and most of Kamimaro's children dead, that never had a chance of happening.]]
** Tomfoolery is only ever used in the Demon Extermination arc, and then only rarely brought up afterwards.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Akashi's {{Cameo}} in the ''Manga/RealAccount'' crossover reveals that he jacks off 12 times a week.
* AffectionateNickname: Akashi and Ushimitsu get "Aka-shii" and "Ushimi-chan" respectively.
* AGodIAmNot: [[spoiler:Even after Ushimitsu ascends to godhood, he doesn't do much with his powers besides reset time to the first day and become the new GM for the games. He says that it's because he's not fit to be a god, and he waits for Akashi to take his place and kill him.]]
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: During the Three Kingdoms Cops and Robbers arc, Natsu-Megu is tagged and runs the risk of being executed come the six hour mark going off, and Akashi desperately tries to avert this trope while trying to have winning the game on his mind. Everyone ''else'' convinces him to go through with it because saving people is "who he is", but [[spoiler:he comes to the jail cells just in time to see her say some final words and die.]]
* AmnesiacGod: For the final battle, all three remaining candidates run the risk of this. [[spoiler:As they attack one another, they lose memories of people they've met one by one until there's no one left. In Amaya's case it doesn't affect him much, but it's critical for Akashi and Ushimitsu, as their lives are defined by how they interact with others and they don't want to run the risk of [[LossOfIdentity losing their true selves]] after their ascension.]]
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Akira makes one to Mei during the Rock-Paper-Scissors game, and Mei herself makes one to Akashi during the "Demon Extermination" mission. [[spoiler:In both cases, the confessing party is in a position where they may or may not die. And then they do.]]
* AndTheAdventureContinues:[[spoiler: ''The Second Series'' manga comes to a close with Akashi dying and Ushimitsu becoming a God. Ushimitsu, unable to come to terms with Akashi's death, rewinds the clock and becomes the new Game Master in this new-timeline.]]
* ArcWords: "Beef or Chicken", Aoyama and Akashi's code words for being brave or cowardly. [[spoiler:Akashi ends up bringing Aoyama back from his rut because of these code words.]]
* ArtInitiatesLife: Mei's knack for drawing ends up becoming her greatest strength in the Demon Extermination portion of the Kamiculum, as her Tomfoolery can bring to life anything she draws of something/someone she likes. This mostly just manifests in making Akashi body doubles.
* ATasteOfPower: After the Kamiculum is completed, Sein Kami gives the survivors another assignment to take care of-- one that involves Tomfoolery, a creation based power that takes the shape of something that the user is fond of. After the assignment, it's only used sparingly, and then not at all after Three Kingdom Cops and Robbers. [[spoiler:Mana later says that it's just a lesser form of the Power of the Gods, which is also creation-based, so in retrospect Sein Kami was preparing his "students" with this.]]
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: How [[spoiler:Amaya]] makes his godhood debut on Earth.
* TheAtoner: Akashi's main motivation for participating in the games, to meet up and apologize to his best friend Aoyama. Lily becomes this later as well, and he's shown feeling remorse for all of the violence he'd taken a part of.
* BackFromTheDead: Akashi's main goal for getting the power of God is to restore his lost friends. [[spoiler:...Only to discover it's impossible. You can create a duplicate of someone, but their personality would be entirely shaped by the image of you in their head and not their true self. Alternatively, you can create a genetic clone and age them up, but they'd be the same as a baby, mentally. You simply can't bring the real person back.]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Discussed during the Old Maid game by Kamimaro. He sees everyone's resolve to win the game and ascend to godhood, but he specifically raises the point that there'd be a moral line that humans could not cross, proving that they'd never be able to fully understand the power and mentality of a god.
* BigDamnHeroes: Ushimitsu ''would'' have been this for Akashi after hijacking a helicopter to rescue him, but [[spoiler:Mana]] foils that plan and teleports him away. [[spoiler:He's actually able to play the trope straight after saving Shun and Amaya from falling to certain doom.]]
* BrownNote: Sein Kami uses this to demonstrate his god powers to the "trash" students. It blows the unfortunate kid's head clean off his body.
* CartwrightCurse: It's impossible for Akashi to fall in love given the [[DeadlyGame setting]]. '''All''' of his [[LoveInterest love interests]] die in one way or another, with [[spoiler:Natsumegu]] being his last casualty. And ultimately, [[spoiler:it gets ''inverted'' as Akashi, Ushimitsu's crush, dies after the final battle]].
* ChildSoldier: Lily and his six most-trustworthy comrades before they enter the games.
* CharactersDroppingLikeFlies: [[spoiler:Kris, Bandou, Kyouko, and Junko]] are all killed after they get a proper place back in the spotlight after their cameos in the "Shadow Stepping" chapters. [[spoiler: Kris]] doesn't even get the honor of fighting his dramatic foil as a Child of God.
* TheChosenOne: There really was no such thing throughout the whole adventure, but after [[spoiler:Ushimitsu resets to the first day]], he makes Akashi this. On [[spoiler:this second go-around, assuming there won't be any others]], he's hoping that Akashi will be the one to save the world and [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou take God down]].
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: [[PlayedForDrama Dragged and beaten by the narrative]] any chance they can get. There's some kind of hope in having a person who will look out for you no matter what, but what good is having a person like that around when everyone around them will still die regardless? And when they aren't truly able to save the people they've worked so hard for, what of their psyche? Are they still able to hold onto their beliefs? Many of the contestants mock Akashi and Aoyama for having dispositions like this.
* TheConscience: Youhei's ghost acts as one to Harakai as he starts slipping further into madness.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Chapter 46; it's a little too perfect for Megu to take out one of the School Mysteries and send them flying out the building ''just'' as Akashi and Tsuge were falling off the edge of a building.
* CowardlyLion:
** Akira all the way, after the sand-scooping competition. He gets pants-wettingly terrified of all of the nightmarish monsters and events that come their way, but despite that he keeps trudging through, partly because he can't bring himself to commit suicide, and half because he's thriving on his love for Mei.
** Shimura's cowardice has saved his life on many an occasion, even though he chastises himself for it.
* DecoyProtagonist: The first few chapters play out the Daruma game in the perspective of Aoyama Seiichi. The real hero of the story is Akashi Yasuto, his friend who ditched class that day.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: [[spoiler:When forced into a rock-paper-scissors game with Sein Kami for her life, Tsuge confronts Sein Kami on his actions and calls him "a mass murderer who does it for fun" and not a god at all. By [[DefiantToTheEnd refusing to play the game]], she dies but she manages to seriously piss him off in the process.]]
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Akashi follows up on Tsuge's sacrifice, and proved himself to be the biggest badass in the manga when he [[spoiler:punched out Sein Kami across the stage after confronting him with the lives he'd just taken during the rock-paper-scissors game and even avoided death by telling Sein Kami that he pulled rock and won against Sein Kami's scissors. He defied a God and LIVED.]]
* DownToTheLastPlay: The Daruma game plays out like this. Where Aoyama couldn't accurately kick a soccer ball and score for his team, he gets to do so here by kicking another soccer ball into the button on the back of the daruma in the last ten seconds and saves the remaining class. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, that just means ''he'' was the one that won, and [[ShootTheShaggyDog everyone else is killed anyway]].]]
* DramaticIrony: During the "Three Kingdom Cops and Robbers" arc, we learn from Mert that Fathma is a very unusual seer in her family because [[spoiler:all of her predictions are death omens and shouldn't be followed under any circumstances]]. Problem is, her subordinates don't know that, and the audience can only watch in horror as the Star and Moon teams ally themselves against the Sun team as she predicted.
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: Many of the love interests in the story go out like this. [[spoiler: Megu, Mei, Ichika]], and even [[spoiler:Tenma]] get to pour their feelings out to their loved ones before their time is up.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome:
** [[spoiler:Mitsukuni]] gets the dubious honor of taking out [[TheHeavy the monkey]] by summoning enough ice crystals to combat the monkey's flame output, and nearly blowing himself up to do so.
** [[spoiler:Shun gets to go out in a blaze of glory by taking ''GOD'' down with him, ending his boredom and [[WorthyOpponent earning Kamimaro's respect]] in the process.]]
** Tsuge gets one, as noted above.
* FakeOutMakeOut: A variation of this happened in Judgement Old-Maid game. Akashi and Ushimitsu kissed to pretend [[spoiler:the card Ushimitsu took from Akashi was a kiss card (while it was a ticking time-bomb card) so that Male-Female in the next turn would be fooled into thinking he took the kiss card he needed to win]]. What went different was that Ushimitsu didn't know the plan until the moment they kissed (even after the kiss he didn't know full well about it).
* ForegoneConclusion: After learning that he dies in the game via BoomHeadshot, Akashi weaponizes this and uses it to great effect against the monsters knowing that he cannot be killed by them. [[spoiler:He does get shot eventually, but he doesn't die.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: We first get a glimpse of Akashi's [[spoiler:Akashic Eyes]] when he fights against the smallest oni robots.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Tasuku has this trope in spades [[spoiler: until he gave his life to save Akashi's]].
* {{Gasshole}}: Kamimaro burps and farts a lot, mostly to reminds us how disgusting he is.
* GenreShift:
** With the addition of Tomfoolery, the Demon Extermination arc briefly turns the series into a battle shounen manga with all the AppliedPhlebotinum it usually comes with.
** It seems to go from a children's game-themed horror/survival manga to a science fiction war manga in the "Three Kingdoms Cops and Robbbers" arc.
** The Old Maid game takes the series into a strategy tabletop manga or a card game manga, not unlike ''Manga/{{Akagi}}'' or ''Franchise/YuGiOh''.
* TheGlassesGottaGo: Sara seems convinced that she looks better when she takes off her glasses and lets her hair down... [[SubvertedTrope but no one else agrees]]. One of them even vomits when she does it again.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: [[spoiler:The final battle, while involving some amount of god power, basically amounts to a three-way brawl where the last one standing is the winner.]]
* GoOutWithASmile: Quite a lot of people who died tends to smile upon their death. [[spoiler:Tasuku]] after forfeiting his chance of survival for Akashi, [[spoiler:Aoyama]] who won the big prize in Amanojaku Labyrinth mixed with ManlyTears, [[spoiler:Natsumegu]] before squashed flat, [[spoiler:Yuu Tenma]], not to mention those who died in Kamiculum...
** [[spoiler:Amaya]] finally goes out with a large grin after losing the final game.
* GratuitousEnglish: Ushimitsu likes to dabble in this way more than anyone else in the manga.
* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler:Instead of stopping the games altogether, Ushimitsu decides to reset it all over to get Akashi to take his place as a god.]]
* HostileShowTakeover: Can't get any more hostile than [[spoiler:killing the old host]].
* IdiotBall: Despite proven multiple times that Akashi [[spoiler:and Aoyama]] are quick thinkers, they conveniently miss out one of [[spoiler:Amanojaku Labyrinth]]'s instructions which cost them [[spoiler:Aoyama's life]].
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Akashi and [[spoiler:Aoyama]] have one while they're hanging off of ropes. Over a [[SpikesOfDoom spiked pit]]. While they're wildly swinging around and the rope is on ''fire''.
* ImaginationBasedSuperpower: The Tomfoolery ability Sein Kami gave to Kami's Jr. loosely works on the users' imagination of what they want to do the most with their precious item.
** [[spoiler:Acid Mana later confirms that Tomfoolery itself is a lesser version of God's Power she and Sein Kami will give. Survivors of Judgement Old-Maid are given literally power of imagination to manipulate everything in the universe.]]
* IncompatibleOrientation: Ushimitsu is in love with Akashi. Akashi does not and cannot feel the same way, as he is straight. Despite this the two are still great friends anyway.
* IWillWaitForYou: [[spoiler:Ushimitsu, after resetting the world, is expecting this version of Akashi to rise to the challenge again and kill him.]]
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:Every named character except for Ushimitsu and Mana dies.]]
* LastRequest: [[spoiler:Tenma]] asks, once Akashi becomes a god and reshapes the world, that [[spoiler:Tenma be reincarnated or reborn as a woman]].
* MagicalGirl: Megu's Tomfoolery turns out to be this, as she bases hers off of an in-universe magical girl. After she uses it once to heal everyone, she doesn't use this ability again.
* ManicPixieDreamGuy: Ushimitsu's old friend Roku was a boy like this. Before the game started, Ushimitsu was a meek, scrawny nerd with no friends until Roku came along. With his friendship, he learned the power of living like it's your last moments, gained more confidence, and bulks up a fair amount as well. Like a lot of these types of characters, Roku turns out to be sick and dying, and passes on after a particularly bad case of his unspecified illness.
* MeleeATrois: The final battle is supposed to be this, with [[spoiler:Akashi, Amaya, and Ushimitsu]] pitted against each other. However, two of them decide to gang up on the third, and in thenend it gets averted as two duke it out while the third spectates.
* MightMakesRight: Harakai becomes a staunch supporter of this mindset after his Santa Trial, where since everyone couldn't communicate with each other to get the objective done, he knocks everyone else out and finishes the game himself. This way of thinking consumes his personality to the point where the sweet young man we was before the Kamiculum started nearly vanished. Luckily, he regains his composure after the first fight with Ushitora.
* MultistageTeleport: [[spoiler: Akashi's Tomfoolery is the "Akashic Eye", which allows him to teleport short distances, wherever he kicks his soccer ball.]]
* MundaneMadeAwesome: The Old Maid game. Despite divine alteration, it's for the most part a very long, ordinary game of Old Maid. But it's a very ''awesome'' game of Old Maid nonetheless.
* [[invoked]]NeutralGood: Sanada during his brief stint back in the spotlight. He doesn't really care about people's goals one way or the other-- he just seems to help out whoever he thinks is alright. And at the moment, he just so happens to have taken a liking to Akashi.
* OppositeDay: Basic rule in [[spoiler:Amanojaku Labyrinth. Do the opposite of what was told there. Consequently, the solution to solve the labyrinth is to get back to starting point without bringing any keys.]]
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Amaya, again, and this is exactly what he aims to be [[spoiler:on a divine scale once he gains access to the Power of the Gods.]]
* PlotHole: One that shows up at the very end of the manga, no less. [[spoiler: When Ushimitsu and Akashi ascend to godhood, they try reviving Natsu-Megu, only to be told and shown that the people they "revive" will only be their mind's eye versions, and not the actual people themselves. However, Ushimitsu is told that he has the power to turn back time, and he takes that opportunity. How he is able to do ''this'' and not revive people outright is never explained, since he essentially brought the ''whole world'' back as it once was before the games.]]
** [[spoiler:As revealed in ''0 -zero-'', the prequel manga, the "earth" upon which the series takes place and all its people are essentially a big simulation. Ushimitsu's just hitting the "rewind" button on it.]]
* PuppetKing: It turns out the cult of Shiner had Aikou pulling the strings all along, since he was the one who hypnotizes Shimura in the first place and feeds him all the information that he later tells the cult while Shimura's asleep.
* RagingStiffie: During the Demon Extermination arc, Ushimitsu doesn't quite know how he first activated his Tomfoolery. All he remembers doing is running off with an erection, and tries to whip up another one to do so.
* RecapEpisode: Since the second part of the series is hosted in a different magazine than the first, the daruma game serves as one. They start with the same two games from the first, and explain the situation and what's been happening.
* RefugeInAudacity: Akashi pretends to be a member of the Space Police to prevent his involvement in the games from being found out after teleporting in front of a group of grade schoolers.
* RefusalOfTheCall: It turns out Kamimaro didn't even ''want'' to be a god in the first place, when he was offered the chance by Sein Kami and [[spoiler:Mana]]. The games of the first and second parts are the result of that, setting up a situation in order to find a decent replacement for him.
** The NEET turns out to have also done this, as he flat out refuses to take the Kamiculum when one of the statues comes for him. He only survives due to the statue interpreting it as filial piety.
* ResetButton: [[spoiler:Ushimitsu]] pushes it at the end, setting it back to the very first day. [[spoiler:But even he knows that it's not a full reset, as everyone as he knew them is dead and the reset only has copies of everyone.]]
* {{Retcon}}: Minor; Christopher was referred to as "Crystal C" in the first part, but his nickname changes to "Crystal A" in Part II.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge:
** When [[MauveShirt Rui]] dies protecting Akashi from [[spoiler:Ushitora]], Akashi tracks down the monster to avenge her and delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to it, restricting its movement and when it managed to escape, Akashi finds him and kicks the grenade to kill it.
** [[spoiler:When Ushitora tried to use its powers to bring up painful memories and teleport him to another part of the school, [[NoSell Akashi wasn't affected by the power.]] Rui's death was his most sad memory and he proceeded to beat down Ushitora]].
* SecondComing: Shiner's cult seems absolutely convinced that he can see the future and ascend to godhood, and he lets them indulge in their fantasies as he's just as crazy as they are.
* SecretTest: [[spoiler:Turns out the whole game was one by the Gods, as they were trying to see which of the participants would be the best candidate for godhood.]]
* {{Seers}}: Fathma's family is traditionally made up of these, usually making paintings that give happy predictions of the future. Fathma's, however, are instead omens of death and should not be followed.
* ShoutOut:
** The picture that accompanies the exposition about Johann going off to search with some students is meant to invoke the ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' cover. Johann even looks like a dead ringer for John Lennon!
** The regions where Lily and the Sun crew hailed from are called the [[Manga/AshitaNoJoe Yabiku and Rikiishi]] regions.
* ShutUpKirk: To every notion of being called inhuman, Kamimaro replies that [[CaptainObvious he already knows that]]. To Akashi's offer of being reborn, he rejects such an offer because he expects less out of himself than he would anyone else on the planet.
* SingleTargetSexuality: After Akashi started to prove himself in Ushimitsu's eyes, he's pretty much obsessed over him ever since. Part of it's because Akashi reminds him of his old friend Roku.
* TheSevenMysteries: The third phase of the "Kamiculum" has the students explore school in the hopes of eliminating the mysteries. However, they multiply the number of mysteries by seven, making there 49 different mysteries to defeat divided across 3 different teams.
* SoullessShell: As it turns out, [[spoiler:Akashi]] turns into one during the final battle. [[spoiler:His memories had been beaten out of him by Amaya, so his personality as he knows it is gone. He can only run on the feelings he had based on his lost memories.]]
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler: All of the first part's main cast save for Amaya]] do not survive to the final battle. [[spoiler:And even then, Amaya lasts just until the penultimate chapter.]]
* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler:Ushimitsu's ultimate long-term goal at the end of the game, now that he's ascended to godhood.]]
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Shun throws away his chance to become a god and leave the Judgement Old Maid alive in order to kill the BigBad that started the death games to begin with.]]
* {{Tanuki}}: The Amanojaku Labyrinth features a number of these in symbol and statue (oh, that statue) form.
* TheTeam: The [[spoiler:(remaining)]] Kami's Jr., though it morphs into a proper FiveManBand later on.
** TheLeader: Yasuto Akashi- The WideEyedIdealist who is focused on leading any fellow survivors and inspires many individuals who have a questionable sanity, self-centered or evil.
** TheLancer: Natsu-Megu- A perfectionist and one of the more capable survivors who shares Akashi's desire to survive the DeadlyGame. [[spoiler:Trades her position with Shimura to become TheChick when she gets separated from Akashi, and is forced to give him limited support due to being with the enemy kingdom in Three Kingdom Cops and Robbers.]]
** TheSmartGuy: Yai Horai- Arguably the voice of reason, and formulated a plan [[spoiler:to bust Akashi out of prison in Three Kingdom Cops and Robbers.]]
** TheBigGuy: Kiyoshirou Ushimitsu- One of Akashi's close allies and can nearly match [[AxeCrazy Amaya]] in strength and sanity. Can overlap with GeniusBruiser however.
** TheHeart: Kagemaru Shimura- The [[TheLoad least capable of the group]] until his CharacterDevelopment. [[spoiler:Later gets promoted to [[TheLancer Lancer]] and exchanges his position with Nutmeg when he and Akashi get forced to participate in The Portrait of Death.]]
* ThereCanBeOnlyOne: [[spoiler:Akashi, Ushimitsu, and Amaya have all ascended to godhood. But because of Akashi and Ushimi's different mindset from Amaya, they all agree to do one final game; the winner becomes the ''only'' god of the universe. And as of the end of Part II, the winner is Ushimitsu, as Amaya loses the final game proper and Akashi's body gives out after Amaya goes down.]]
* TitleDrop: After Akashi figures out that Hitsujisaru of the "Seven by Seven Mysteries" challenge can show him the future, he wonders if he could change the outcome of [[spoiler:Rui's death]] had he been shown the future sooner, or if everything is predestined "as the gods will".
* TopGod: Subverted--[[spoiler: Mana is the creator of "this" version of Earth and all its inhabitants, but it's heavily implied that she is just another speck]].
* TragicBromance:
** It was Aoyama's spirit and motivation that kept Akashi running for as long as he did, and he desperately wanted to go see his friend throughout the Kamiculum. Come the time when he's finally out of it and learns that Aoyama survived, and [[spoiler:Aoyama's lost all of his memories from the shock of winning his games. He eventually snaps back to life after "Portrait of Hell", but for the most part he's detached from most emotions except a survival instinct until the Amanojaku Labyrinth episode. He ends up getting squished by the guardian of the place.]]
** After the end, [[spoiler:Akashi and Ushimitsu]]'s relationship takes this turn, as [[spoiler:Akashi's body gives out immediately after Amaya's been defeated in the final battle.]]
* TragicKeepsake: Rui's scrunchie, which is later given to Natsumegu by Akashi. Roku's skateboard is one for Ushimitsu (though this breaks during the "Three Kingdoms Cops and Robbers" arc), and [[spoiler:Akashi and Aoyama's soccerball]] qualifies for this[[spoiler: after Aoyama's death]].
* UndyingLoyalty: Ushimitsu's main priority after the "Mamemaki" game is to help out Akashi, even if that means he will perish himself.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: [[spoiler:Tenma is revealed to be a boy when Akashi solves a puzzle by finding a mannequin that most closely resembles Tenma; all the other mannequins were female, while the solution was the male mannequin]].
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Amaya is practically half naked for the entirety of the game, once he comes back.
* WhamEpisode:
** Chapter 84: Akashi is teleported to the next phase of the game, only to discover [[spoiler:Kami [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled by gigantic school materials]] with his sister, Mana, declaring that she's taking over]].
** Chapter 104: [[spoiler:The timelines of part 1 and 2 fully intersect as Ushimitsu teleports to Takahata and Amaya (who are both falling from the sky]].
** Chapter 179: Does it again by revealing that [[spoiler: Mana is the creator of their world and all the inhabitants in it.]]
** Chapter 180: Follows it up with another shocking reveal.[[spoiler:They can't bring back anyone who has died, they can only bring back exaggerated clones of the people they love.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Mana says as much when Ushimitsu decides to reset and become the new Game Master. She even points out that he could use his powers to end the whole ordeal whenever he likes. But despite that, she's incredibly pleased with the outcome.]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Mei's backstory mentions that after her teacher got caught trying to sexually assault Mei, he tried to blame her by using her InLoveWithLove attitude as an excuse for his position. It works, and Mei is bullied harder than ever before.
* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Sister]]: [[spoiler: Mert hates Male-Female because he's the one who killed Fatma, leader of moon team who doubles as his sister. And ultimately, he dies without getting the revenge he so sought as [[KickTheDog Male-Female laughs in his face]]. Akashi and Ushimitsu do make good on Mert's revenge, though.]]
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* OneHundredAndEight: Overall, there were 108 of the giant white cubes across Japan. [[spoiler:The second part reveals that they miscounted-- there's one extra, but it's at the bottom of the sea.]]
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* GodhoodSeeker: Amaya. He seems to think that he is the ChosenOne in these death games and that his purpose is to ascend into godhood. [[spoiler:His ambitions at least earn him that much by Part 2.]]
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* FiveManBand: The God's Children of the first cube.
** TheHero: Shun Takahata
** TheLancer: Ichika Akimoto
** TheSmartGuy: Yukio Sanada
** TheBigGuy: Takeru Amaya
** TheChick: Christopher "Kento" Akimoto
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** TheLancer: Ichika Akimoto
** TheSmartGuy: Yukio Sanada
** TheBigGuy: Takeru Amaya
** TheChick: Christopher "Kento" Akimoto
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* FiveManBand: The God's Children of GodhoodSeeker: Amaya. He seems to think that he is the first cube.
** TheHero: Shun Takahata
** TheLancer: Ichika Akimoto
** TheSmartGuy: Yukio Sanada
** TheBigGuy: Takeru Amaya
** TheChick: Christopher "Kento" AkimotoChosenOne in these death games and that his purpose is to ascend into godhood. [[spoiler:His ambitions at least earn him that much by Part 2.]]
** TheHero: Shun Takahata
** TheLancer: Ichika Akimoto
** TheSmartGuy: Yukio Sanada
** TheBigGuy: Takeru Amaya
** TheChick: Christopher "Kento" Akimoto
* TheTeam: The God's Children of the first cube.
** TheLeader: Shun Takahata
** TheLancer: Ichika Akimoto
** TheSmartGuy: Yukio Sanada
** TheBigGuy: Takeru Amaya
** TheHeart: Christopher "Kento" Akimoto
** TheLeader: Shun Takahata
** TheLancer: Ichika Akimoto
** TheSmartGuy: Yukio Sanada
** TheBigGuy: Takeru Amaya
** TheHeart: Christopher "Kento" Akimoto
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* FiveManBand: The [[spoiler:(remaining)]] Kami's Jr.
** TheHero: Yasuto Akashi- The WideEyedIdealist who is focused on leading any fellow survivors and inspires many individuals who have a questionable sanity, self-centered or evil.
** TheLancer: Natsu-Megu- A perfectionist and one of the more capable survivors who shares Akashi's desire to survive the DeadlyGame. [[spoiler:Trades her position with Shimura when she gets separated from Akashi, and is forced to give him limited support due to being with the enemy kingdom in Three Kingdom Cops and Robbers.]]
** TheSmartGuy: Yai Horai- Arguably the voice of reason, and formulated a plan [[spoiler:to bust Akashi out of prison in Three Kingdom Cops and Robbers.]]
** TheBigGuy: Kiyoshirou Ushimitsu- One of Akashi's close allies and can nearly match [[AxeCrazy Amaya]] in strength and sanity. Can overlap with GeniusBruiser however.
** TheChick: Kagemaru Shimura- The [[TheLoad least capable of the group]] until his CharacterDevelopment. [[spoiler:Later gets promoted to [[TheLancer Lancer]] and exchanges his position with Nutmeg when he and Akashi get forced to participate in The Portrait of Death.]]
** TheHero: Yasuto Akashi- The WideEyedIdealist who is focused on leading any fellow survivors and inspires many individuals who have a questionable sanity, self-centered or evil.
** TheLancer: Natsu-Megu- A perfectionist and one of the more capable survivors who shares Akashi's desire to survive the DeadlyGame. [[spoiler:Trades her position with Shimura when she gets separated from Akashi, and is forced to give him limited support due to being with the enemy kingdom in Three Kingdom Cops and Robbers.]]
** TheSmartGuy: Yai Horai- Arguably the voice of reason, and formulated a plan [[spoiler:to bust Akashi out of prison in Three Kingdom Cops and Robbers.]]
** TheBigGuy: Kiyoshirou Ushimitsu- One of Akashi's close allies and can nearly match [[AxeCrazy Amaya]] in strength and sanity. Can overlap with GeniusBruiser however.
** TheChick: Kagemaru Shimura- The [[TheLoad least capable of the group]] until his CharacterDevelopment. [[spoiler:Later gets promoted to [[TheLancer Lancer]] and exchanges his position with Nutmeg when he and Akashi get forced to participate in The Portrait of Death.]]
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* TheTeam: The [[spoiler:(remaining)]] Kami's Jr., though it morphs into a proper FiveManBand later on.
** TheLeader: Yasuto Akashi- The WideEyedIdealist who is focused on leading any fellow survivors and inspires many individuals who have a questionable sanity, self-centered or evil.
** TheLancer: Natsu-Megu- A perfectionist and one of the more capable survivors who shares Akashi's desire to survive the DeadlyGame. [[spoiler:Trades her position with Shimura to become TheChick when she gets separated from Akashi, and is forced to give him limited support due to being with the enemy kingdom in Three Kingdom Cops and Robbers.]]
** TheSmartGuy: Yai Horai- Arguably the voice of reason, and formulated a plan [[spoiler:to bust Akashi out of prison in Three Kingdom Cops and Robbers.]]
** TheBigGuy: Kiyoshirou Ushimitsu- One of Akashi's close allies and can nearly match [[AxeCrazy Amaya]] in strength and sanity. Can overlap with GeniusBruiser however.
** TheHeart: Kagemaru Shimura- The [[TheLoad least capable of the group]] until his CharacterDevelopment. [[spoiler:Later gets promoted to [[TheLancer Lancer]] and exchanges his position with Nutmeg when he and Akashi get forced to participate in The Portrait of Death.]]
** TheLeader: Yasuto Akashi- The WideEyedIdealist who is focused on leading any fellow survivors and inspires many individuals who have a questionable sanity, self-centered or evil.
** TheLancer: Natsu-Megu- A perfectionist and one of the more capable survivors who shares Akashi's desire to survive the DeadlyGame. [[spoiler:Trades her position with Shimura to become TheChick when she gets separated from Akashi, and is forced to give him limited support due to being with the enemy kingdom in Three Kingdom Cops and Robbers.]]
** TheSmartGuy: Yai Horai- Arguably the voice of reason, and formulated a plan [[spoiler:to bust Akashi out of prison in Three Kingdom Cops and Robbers.]]
** TheBigGuy: Kiyoshirou Ushimitsu- One of Akashi's close allies and can nearly match [[AxeCrazy Amaya]] in strength and sanity. Can overlap with GeniusBruiser however.
** TheHeart: Kagemaru Shimura- The [[TheLoad least capable of the group]] until his CharacterDevelopment. [[spoiler:Later gets promoted to [[TheLancer Lancer]] and exchanges his position with Nutmeg when he and Akashi get forced to participate in The Portrait of Death.]]
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* AGodAmI: Amaya. He seems to think that he is the ChosenOne in these death games and that his purpose is to ascend into godhood. [[spoiler:His ambitions at least earn him that much by Part 2.]]
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* AGodAmI: GodhoodSeeker: Amaya. He seems to think that he is the ChosenOne in these death games and that his purpose is to ascend into godhood. [[spoiler:His ambitions at least earn him that much by Part 2.]]
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* {{Tanuki}}: The Amanojaku Labyrinth features a number of these in symbol and statue (oh, that statue) form.
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* BiTheWay: Ushimitsu has shown sexual interest in girls in the early chapters, but after he pledges UndyingLoyalty to Akashi it's all him, all the time.
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* UnsettlingGenderReveal: [[spoiler:Tenma is revealed to be a boy when Akashi solves a puzzle by finding a mannequin that most closely resembles Tenma; all the other mannequins were women, while the solution was the male mannequin]].
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* UnsettlingGenderReveal: [[spoiler:Tenma is revealed to be a boy when Akashi solves a puzzle by finding a mannequin that most closely resembles Tenma; all the other mannequins were women, female, while the solution was the male mannequin]].
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** [[spoiler:As revealed in ''0 -zero-'', the prequel manga, the "earth" upon which takes place and all its people are essentially a big simulation. Ushimitsu's just hitting the "rewind" button on it.]]
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** [[spoiler:As revealed in ''0 -zero-'', the prequel manga, the "earth" upon which the series takes place and all its people are essentially a big simulation. Ushimitsu's just hitting the "rewind" button on it.]]
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** This is also the case for Mana herself, who originate from a Aman, a human girl from a future Earth. Technically, she is the only "true" human from the series as all the others are created from her imagination.
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* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Kamimaro is this. [[spoiler:Mana]] explains that he was just a regular human that got imbued with a higher form of Tomfoolery because [[spoiler:she and her sibling]] just wanted to test it out. [[spoiler:Eventually Amaya, Ushimitsu, and Akashi become this, but only Ushimitsu survives.]]
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* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Kamimaro DeityOfHumanOrigin:
**Kamimaro is this. [[spoiler:Mana]] explains that he was just a regular human that got imbued with a higher form of Tomfoolery because [[spoiler:she and her sibling]] just wanted to test it out. [[spoiler:Eventually Amaya, Ushimitsu, and Akashi become this, but only Ushimitsu survives.]]]]
**This is also the case for Mana herself, who originate from a Aman, a human girl from a future Earth. Technically, she is the only "true" human from the series as all the others are created from her imagination.
**Kamimaro is this. [[spoiler:Mana]] explains that he was just a regular human that got imbued with a higher form of Tomfoolery because [[spoiler:she and her sibling]] just wanted to test it out. [[spoiler:Eventually Amaya, Ushimitsu, and Akashi become this, but only Ushimitsu survives.
**This is also the case for Mana herself, who originate from a Aman, a human girl from a future Earth. Technically, she is the only "true" human from the series as all the others are created from her imagination.
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The second arc focuses on Akashi Yasuto, who ditched school before the daruma dolls appeared. As "trash" who ditched, he finds himself collected along with other truants to be "educated" through a "Kamiculum." But waits for him afterwards goes beyond anything else the game has thrown at him...
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The second arc focuses on Akashi Yasuto, who ditched school before the daruma dolls appeared. As "trash" who ditched, he finds himself collected along with other truants to be "educated" through a "Kamiculum." But what waits for him afterwards goes beyond anything else the game has thrown at him...
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* ButtMonkey: Shimura doesn't seem to have any luck in this series. He starts out brainwashed, gets saddled into events he's in no way prepared for, and just when the universe gives him a break by having him be a crucial character in the "Three Kingdom Cops and Robbers" game, [[spoiler:he ends up as the first of the final 13 to die by randomly picking a card.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Shimura]] turns out to be this in the Kamiculum arc, as the reason he'd been turned into Shiner in the first place was because he was hypnotized by the tattoos on Aikou's back.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Shimura]] turns out to be this in the Kamiculum arc, as the reason he'd been turned into Shiner in the first place was because he was hypnotized by the tattoos on Aikou's back.
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* FacialMarkings: Male-Female has a combined Venus-Mars symbol with the circle around his eye. It's unclear what it, or even his name, signifies to him.
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* GoingCommando: Natsu-Megu.
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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Averted with Megu. She certainly looks and acts like someone who's just shittalking her way through the game, but it's not until after the sand-scooping competition that she reveals she's actually more than capable of what she says she can do and more.
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* ThePerfectionist: Megu used to be this. In fact, the reason she was even picked for the Kami Jr. classes was because she stopped coming to school after her perfectionist attitude alienated her classmates and left her on the day they needed to come together most.
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* FacialMarkings: Male-Female has a combined Venus-Mars symbol with the circle around his eye. It's unclear what it, or even his name, signifies to him.
* {{Gasshole}}: Kamimaro burps and farts a lot, mostly to reminds us how disgusting he is.
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** [[spoiler:As revealed in ''0 -zero-'', the prequel manga, the "earth" upon which takes places place and all its people are essentially a big simulation. Ushimitsu's just hitting the "rewind" button on it.]]
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* {{Seers}}: Fathma's family is traditionally made up of these, usually making paintings that give happy predicitions of the future. Fathma's, however, are instead omens of death and should not be followed.
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* {{Seers}}: Fathma's family is traditionally made up of these, usually making paintings that give happy predicitions predictions of the future. Fathma's, however, are instead omens of death and should not be followed.
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