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''Tomodachi Game (Friendship Game)'' is a PsychologicalThriller manga written by Mikoto Yamaguchi, illustrated by Yuuki Satou, and published by Kodansha.
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''Tomodachi Game (Friendship Game)'' Game'' ("Friendship Game") is a PsychologicalThriller manga written by Mikoto Yamaguchi, illustrated by Yuuki Satou, and published by Kodansha.
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* BaitTheDog: Yuuichi and Kaidou bond during the Friends' Murder round, developing a bantering father-son dynamic... [[spoiler:and then Yuuichi backstabs Kaidou]]. Subverted when [[spoiler:it's revealed it was part of Yuuichi's ploy, and he and Kaidou remain allies.]]
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* BaitTheDog: Yuuichi and Kaidou bond during the Friends' Murder round, developing a bantering father-son dynamic... [[spoiler:and then Yuuichi backstabs Kaidou]]. Subverted [[spoiler:Subverted when [[spoiler:it's it's revealed it was part of Yuuichi's ploy, and he and Kaidou remain allies.]]
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* DoItYourselfThemeTune: In addition of singing the opening theme song of the anime, Creator/NanaMizuki also voices the administrator Reiko Tamai.
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''Tomodachi Game (Friendship Game)'' is a PsychologicalThriller manga written by Mikoto Yamaguchi, illustrated by Yuuki Satou, and published by Kodansha.
''Tomodachi Game (Friendship Game)'' is a PsychologicalThriller manga written by Mikoto Yamaguchi, illustrated by Yuuki Satou, and published by Kodansha.
It received an [[AnimatedAdaptation anime adaptation]] by Okuruto Noboru, which began airing on April 2022.
It received an [[AnimatedAdaptation anime adaptation]] by Okuruto Noboru, which began airing on April 2022.
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* BaitTheDog: Yuuichi and Kaidou bond during the Friends' Murder round, developing a bantering father-son dynamic... [[spoiler:and then Yuuichi backstabs Kaidou]]. Subverted when [[spoiler:it's revealed it was part of Yuuichi's ploy, and he and Kaidou remain allies.]]
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* RestoredMyFaithInHumanity: Shibe manages to do this for a few of his opponents in the Adult Tomodachi Game, as his simpleminded kindness gives them the chance to trust another person again.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Hyakutarou from the "Friendship Hide-and-Seek" round: hot-headed, but also sweet to women and incredibly loyal to his captain, in an awkward sort of way.
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** Kamishiro is dealt the harshest fate out of the BigBadEnsemble in his debut round, as he's utterly humiliated by Group C and [[spoiler:is knocked out and sold by Shinji]], unlike Mishima and Kaidou who don't horribly mind teaming up with Yuuichi after their defeat, but also unlike the two who had a HiddenHeartOfGold, Kamishiro had no redeeming qualities to speak of.
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** In the fake round set up by Kuroki, just as it seems Kuroki's about to kill Yuuichi in anger, Tsukino and the Tomodachi game administration enter the scene on time to arrest the former and save the latter.
** In the Friends' Murder round, Kei and Satone are unable to escape the zombies, but are saved in the nick of time by Yutori and Shinji. [[spoiler:Though things only go FromBadToWorse there.]]
** When Yutori [[spoiler:is about sic the zombies on Michiru and co., under suspicion that Kei might've told them something]], Mishima and Shibe arrive on the scene. Unfortunately, it's then subverted when Subaru Gaku appears [[spoiler:and reveals he works for Yutori]], but double subverted when [[spoiler:''Shiho'' shows up to save them]].
** In the Friends' Murder round, Kei and Satone are unable to escape the zombies, but are saved in the nick of time by Yutori and Shinji. [[spoiler:Though things only go FromBadToWorse there.]]
** When Yutori [[spoiler:is about sic the zombies on Michiru and co., under suspicion that Kei might've told them something]], Mishima and Shibe arrive on the scene. Unfortunately, it's then subverted when Subaru Gaku appears [[spoiler:and reveals he works for Yutori]], but double subverted when [[spoiler:''Shiho'' shows up to save them]].
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* DefeatMeansFriendship: While there are those who develop a grudge towards Group C, some of their enemies end up becoming allies in subsequent rounds. Notably, Kei who tags along out of personal interest towards Yuuichi, and Mishima and the Kaidou duo (better the enemy you know than the enemy you don't, and aligned interest). Particularly notable in Mishima's case, given that Kei had sliced off his finger, Yuuichi had threatened to murder him, and Satone had trounced him and took all his money, and yet he seemed to like them ''more'' because of this.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Doubling as TheStarscream, but the admins are unsurprised when [[spoiler:Shinji, seemingly Kamishiro's right-hand man, discreetly betrays him at the last moment. He then goes on to become TheDragon for... ''Yutori'']].
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Doubling as TheStarscream, but the admins are unsurprised when [[spoiler:Shinji, seemingly Kamishiro's right-hand man, discreetly betrays him at the last moment. He then goes on to become TheDragon for... ''Yutori'']].
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* HiddenDisdainReveal: After showing their true colours, [[spoiler:Yutori gleefully admits to Shibe that she's always hated him for calling her by her first name]], which is apparently something of a BerserkButton.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: The traitor in the Adult Tomodachi Game, in order to hide their status as such, promptly begins trying to off anyone who knows or anyone who ''might'' have been told.
* HypocrisyNod: Mishima, when commenting to Group C on Yuuichi being his usual CreepyGood self:
-->'''[[{{Sadist}} Mishima]]:''' Though I'm not in the position to say this... your leader is such a bad guy!
* IAmNotLeftHanded: An almost literal inversion. When it seems like [[spoiler:Kei will lose his fight against Mishima by virtue of being unable to knock him out of bounds, as his dominant hand is busted]], he promptly punches him with his other hand and reveals that he's ambidextrous.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: The traitor in the Adult Tomodachi Game, in order to hide their status as such, promptly begins trying to off anyone who knows or anyone who ''might'' have been told.
* HypocrisyNod: Mishima, when commenting to Group C on Yuuichi being his usual CreepyGood self:
-->'''[[{{Sadist}} Mishima]]:''' Though I'm not in the position to say this... your leader is such a bad guy!
* IAmNotLeftHanded: An almost literal inversion. When it seems like [[spoiler:Kei will lose his fight against Mishima by virtue of being unable to knock him out of bounds, as his dominant hand is busted]], he promptly punches him with his other hand and reveals that he's ambidextrous.
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* NightmareFace: The traitor [[spoiler:(i.e. Yutori)]] tends to sport these after TheReveal, with absolutely unsettling large DullEyesOfUnhappiness.
* NotDistractedByTheSexy: In a side chapter, a NewTransferStudent tries to seduce Tenji. [[CelibateHero He completely ignores her]].
-->'''Yukiko''': ''What's with this guy... does he have sexual anesthesia or something?''
* NotDistractedByTheSexy: In a side chapter, a NewTransferStudent tries to seduce Tenji. [[CelibateHero He completely ignores her]].
-->'''Yukiko''': ''What's with this guy... does he have sexual anesthesia or something?''
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* TakeAThirdOption: When told to either abandon his ally and run away or to resign from the game, in which case his enemy will save his ally, [[spoiler:Kei chooses neither and flings himself off the cliff to join Satone, hoping that this turn of events will serve as a clue to Yuuichi]].
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** Shaken by the reveal that one of his friends was lying and hated him this entire time, [[spoiler:Shibe is relieved when Shiho punches him by reflex, as it gives him hope that Shiho's personality up until then had been genuine, unlike Yutori's]].
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* BadLiar: Shibe, who tends to get flustered every time he lies. [[spoiler:This ends up being an important point--see CannotKeepASecret.]]
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* BadLiar: Shibe, who tends AssholeVictim: Non-fatal, but what makes Yuuichi ALighterShadeOfBlack despite his extremely questionable behaviour is that many of his opponents deserve what he delivers unto them.
** To an extent, Taneda's fate was unfair, given that he's [[spoiler:framed into looking like he was about toget flustered every time rape Miyabe]]... but up until that point, he'd been such a sleazy, misogynistic jerk that absolutely no one feels sorry for him.
** Kuroki is given a fitting HumiliationConga for a defeat, after all the KickTheDog moments helies. [[spoiler:This ends up being an important point--see CannotKeepASecret.]]was responsible for.
* BadassInANiceSuit: The Kaidou Group are all sharply dressed, with their {{Yakuza}} vibe.
** To an extent, Taneda's fate was unfair, given that he's [[spoiler:framed into looking like he was about to
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* GambitRoulette: [[spoiler: The hide and seek arc had Yuuichi fully rely on his opponent’s moves in order to succeed rather than his own]]
* GambitPileup: [[spoiler: The backbiting sugoroku arc is a good example of this]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothingTheBigDamnKiss: Invoked and PlayedForLaughs when [[spoiler:Tenji, in order to convince the audience that he's gay and in love with Yuuichi, dramatically kisses him]]. It works!
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Most opponents in the later rounds tend to be this, given that veterans of the game are most likely accomplished liars. Among the main cast, however:
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Most opponents in the later rounds tend to be this, given that veterans of the game are most likely accomplished liars. Among the main cast, however:
** Eventually, it's revealed that [[spoiler:while Shiho may not be one after al, Yutori is absolutely one, as her entire ShrinkingViolet personality was a lie and she is, in fact, manipulative and vicious and has possibly hated everyone around her all along]].
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* CluelessChickMagnet: Yuuichi, being ObliviousToLove, doesn't realize at first that both Yutori and Shiho like him. [[spoiler:Though Shiho might be faking it.]]
* CreepyGood: Yuuichi. Out of context, you wouldn't expect the guy with a tendency to make [[SlasherSmile Slasher Smiles]] and [[PsychoticSmirk Psychotic Smirks]] to be the hero.
* CreepyGood: Yuuichi. Out of context, you wouldn't expect the guy with a tendency to make [[SlasherSmile Slasher Smiles]] and [[PsychoticSmirk Psychotic Smirks]] to be the hero.
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* {{Determinator}}: Tenji in the third round, where [[spoiler:he manages to persevere through dehydration and starvation out of faith in Yuuichi]].
* FireForgedFriends: Despite initially being enemies in the first half of the Adult Tomodachi Game, Kei, Mishima, and Satone end up working together in the second half when they impromptu find each other and are forced to fight against new enemies.
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* GambitPileup: [[spoiler: The backbiting sugoroku arc is a good example of this.]]
* GoodAllAlong: Just as [[BitchInSheepsClothing there are characters who hide underneath a friendly facade]], there are those who are more altruistic than they appear.
** Despite being presented as TheMole, [[spoiler:it's suggested that Shiho was merely framed and is in fact one of the good guys]].
** "Good" is perhaps stretching it, but [[spoiler:Miyabe's actions in the first Adult Tomodachi Game were to test Shibe,who is prone to running his mouth and doing so she was actually working with Yuuichi all along]].
** Kaidou Tsukasa eventually reveals that [[spoiler:he's working with the police to take down the Tomodachi Game]].
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: In the All-Bet game, Yuuichi's worth is ''zero'', meaning there's no apparent merit in selling him--in a game where you need to sell your team members for money. [[spoiler:However, this allows him to freely and discreetly join and leave the room where the sold members stay, as hepleases without considering how it might hurt others. just sells and re-buys himself, which ends up being a key factor in his victory.]]
* JustAsPlanned: [[spoiler:Yuuichi shows this in the third round when everything goes according to his plans]]
* GambitPileup: [[spoiler: The backbiting sugoroku arc is a good example of this.]]
* GoodAllAlong: Just as [[BitchInSheepsClothing there are characters who hide underneath a friendly facade]], there are those who are more altruistic than they appear.
** Despite being presented as TheMole, [[spoiler:it's suggested that Shiho was merely framed and is in fact one of the good guys]].
** "Good" is perhaps stretching it, but [[spoiler:Miyabe's actions in the first Adult Tomodachi Game were to test Shibe,
** Kaidou Tsukasa eventually reveals that [[spoiler:he's working with the police to take down the Tomodachi Game]].
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: In the All-Bet game, Yuuichi's worth is ''zero'', meaning there's no apparent merit in selling him--in a game where you need to sell your team members for money. [[spoiler:However, this allows him to freely and discreetly join and leave the room where the sold members stay, as he
* JustAsPlanned: [[spoiler:Yuuichi shows this in the third round when everything goes according to his plans]]
* PoorCommunicationKills: Much of Miyabe and Shibe's conflict could've been avoided if [[spoiler:Miyabe had known that Shibe "abandoned" his mother not for personal greed, but so that he could pay off Miyabe's debt]], as Shibe himself sheepishly acknowledges.
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* ProneToTears: Yutori, who lacks the emotional strength to handle the Tomodachi Game. It's why Yuuichi tries to keep her in the dark for as long as he can.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Yuuichi puts Tenji through one [[spoiler:in the third round, seeing as how Tenji had betrayed everyone in the secound round]], by not telling him his plan and seeing whether or not Tenji will choose to trust him anyway. [[spoiler:As mntioned under PowerOfTrust, Tenji pulls a {{Determinator}} and does.]]
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Yuuichi puts Tenji through one [[spoiler:in the third round, seeing as how Tenji had betrayed everyone in the secound round]], by not telling him his plan and seeing whether or not Tenji will choose to trust him anyway. [[spoiler:As mntioned under PowerOfTrust, Tenji pulls a {{Determinator}} and does.]]
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* ProneToTears: Yutori, who lacks the emotional strength to handle the Tomodachi Game. It's why Yuuichi tries to keep her in the dark for as long as he can.
* SecretTestOfCharacter:SecretTestOfCharacter:
** Yuuichi puts Tenji through one [[spoiler:in the third round, seeing as how Tenji had betrayed everyone in the secound round]], by not telling him his plan and seeing whether or not Tenji will choose to trust him anyway. [[spoiler:As mntioned under PowerOfTrust, Tenji pulls a {{Determinator}} and does.]]]]
** In the first Adult Tomodachi Game, [[spoiler:Miyabe puts Shibe through a test to see if he still has his humanity, unlike his father, and would choose protecting someone over money]]. He passes in a heartbeat.
* SecretTestOfCharacter:
** Yuuichi puts Tenji through one [[spoiler:in the third round, seeing as how Tenji had betrayed everyone in the secound round]], by not telling him his plan and seeing whether or not Tenji will choose to trust him anyway. [[spoiler:As mntioned under PowerOfTrust, Tenji pulls a {{Determinator}} and does.
** In the first Adult Tomodachi Game, [[spoiler:Miyabe puts Shibe through a test to see if he still has his humanity, unlike his father, and would choose protecting someone over money]]. He passes in a heartbeat.
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* TheChessmaster: Yuuichi is this in almost every round.
* JustAsPlanned: [[spoiler:Yuuichi shows this in the third round when everything goes according to his plans]]
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* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Tenji was running a business in middle school! [[spoiler:It's tragically played with, though, in that for all of his smarts, Tenji was still a teenager who depended on his father for emotional support, and losing that was ''not'' easy for him.]]
* WouldntHitAGirl: Hyakutarou in the third round is very chivalrous. [[spoiler:Of course, Yuuichi uses this against him.]]
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* XanatosSpeedChess: Most of the games are this, especially as more opponents are added and new developments shake up the game. It's part of what makes Yuuichi scarily effective, as his opponents are often busy wondering about what so-and-so is secretly up to. In contrast, it simply doesn't matter to Yuuichi; only his immediate friends are officially safe. Otherwise, he promptly uses (and frequently disposes of) anyone and everyone, even if they might have benevolent intentions.
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* GambitRoulette: [[spoiler: The hide and seek arc had Yuuichi fully rely on his opponent’s moves in order to succeed rather than his own]]
* GambitPileup: [[spoiler: The backbiting sugoroku arc is a good example of this]]
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* BoundAndGagged: [[spoiler:Shibe in the fourth round, gagged and bound in a straitjacket.]]
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* JustAsPlanned: [[spoiler:Yuuichi shows this in the third round when everything goes according to his plans]]
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->In this world, there's something more important than money. It's '''friends'''.
''Tomodachi Game (Friendship Game)'' is a PsychologicalThriller manga written by Mikoto Yamaguchi, illustrated by Yuuki Satou, and published by Kodansha.
Yuuichi Katagiri is confident that he and his group of friends will stay close, now and forever. He's even managed to save up enough money to go on the school trip with them, despite being dead broke all the time.
However, his life takes an unexpected turn when he and his friends are subsequently kidnapped. They're told that one of them carries a debt suspiciously exact to the class's funds for the school trip--mysteriously stolen earlier--and that said debt has now been divided among them. To pay it off, they are made play the [[TitleDrop Tomodachi Game]]: a game where, to win, you must not doubt your friends.
It should've been simple, but it doesn't take long before cracks begin to form. And then, worst of all, Yuuichi realizes there's a traitor in their group--one who seems determined to tear apart their friendship no matter what...
'''Warning: ''Tomodachi Game'' is a series heavily dependent on twists and characters being more than they appear. Therefore, spoilers ahead are inevitable.'''
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!!''Tomodachi Game'' contains examples of:
* {{Adorkable}}: Hyakutarou from the "Friendship Hide-and-Seek" round: hot-headed, but also sweet to women and incredibly loyal to his captain, in an awkward sort of way.
* AntiHero: Yuuichi's undeniably one of the more heroic characters in the series, but that doesn't stop him from threatening bodily harm on people, at one point ''shoving Maria off a cliff'' (at a non-fatal height, and he knew someone would save her, but still), etc.
* BadLiar: Shibe, who tends to get flustered every time he lies. [[spoiler:This ends up being an important point--see CannotKeepASecret.]]
* BatmanGambit: Being a ManipulativeBastard, Yuuichi likes to come up with these.
* BewareTheNiceOnes
** Yutori's normally a FragileFlower, but the "Backbiting Sugoroku" round shows how vicious she can be. [[spoiler:Admittedly, she was faking it, but it paints a picture of how she might act for real.]]
** Yuuichi's generally the NiceGuy of the group, but realizing that there's a traitor among the group brings out his tougher (if slightly psychotic) side, and it stays there.
* BigDamnHeroes:
** Lampshaded in the "Friendship Hide-and-Seek" round, where Tenji points out that Yuuichi's timing [[spoiler:of bringing him food and water]] was ''awfully'' convenient. Yuuichi admit to having gotten there earlier and staying quiet to observe the scene for a couple of minutes.
** Yuuichi plays it straight in the fourth round, where [[spoiler:he arrives in the nick of time to overturn Shibe's sentence and get him acquitted]].
* BitchInSheepsClothing
** The traitor, obviously. [[spoiler:Sort of. While Tenji initially comes off as a {{Jerkass}} once his true colours are revealed, he quickly mellows back into his original personality. If anything, he's actually ''nicer'' than before!]]
** Shibe comes off as a bit two-faced, seemingly saying/doing nice things just to look good. [[spoiler:Though it's possible that this is partly biased due to Tenji's JadeColoredGlasses, as Shibe is ultimately one of the most well-intentioned characters in the series, albeit horribly InnocentlyInsensitive.]]
** There are hints that [[spoiler:Shiho is one]], if the person claiming this is to be believed.
* BoundAndGagged: [[spoiler:Shibe in the fourth round, gagged and bound in a straitjacket.]]
* BreakTheCutie: The game is ''very'' hard on the two most naive members of the group.
** Being a FragileFlower made the entire game difficult enough for Yutori, but in the second round, her DarkAndTroubledPast is outed, and later, in one (illegitimate) round where [[spoiler:either she or Yuuichi must offer themselves up for sequential torture, the guilt at constantly letting Yuuichi do it]] comes close to crushing her.
** Offer yourself up as a scapegoat during the second round because you think you have nothing to hide? Sorry, Shibe, it turns out that your dad's a scumbag and now all of your friends are going to alienate themselves from you! Oh, and now you're falsely being accused of murder. [[spoiler:And then [[TraumaCongaLine everything that happens to him after the second round gets so much worse]].]]
* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: Yuuichi attempts this at the end of the second round, [[spoiler:putting up a JerkassFacade to make his friends think that he never cared about them as he continues to the third round alone--well, until Tenji joins him, at least]].
* CannotKeepASecret: [[spoiler:Shibe, which is how Yuuichi realizes that Tenji--who accuses Shibe of writing the first Kageuchi--is the traitor. After all, Tenji should know that Shibe couldn't be spilling anyone's secrets at this stage; not only would nobody dare to tell him their secrets for this reason, he would've already told everyone by now.]]
* CelibateHero: Yuuichi flat-out admits that he doesn't really know much about romance, and seems disinterested in it despite being a ChickMagnet. [[spoiler:Tenji also seems to have had no interest all his life, stating that he's straight but that he also doesn't care for women---and after the mess with Shiho, he's probably never going to.]]
* CluelessChickMagnet: Yuuichi, being ObliviousToLove, doesn't realize at first that both Yutori and Shiho like him. [[spoiler:Though Shiho might be faking it.]]
* CreepyGood: Yuuichi. Out of context, you wouldn't expect the guy with a tendency to make [[SlasherSmile Slasher Smiles]] and [[PsychoticSmirk Psychotic Smirks]] to be the hero.
* CynicismCatalyst: It's not difficult to understand how the traitor became a paranoid jerk after [[spoiler:having his closest friends betray him and his father dying under suspicious circumstances and likely by the hand of ''his'' best friend, with everyone he could count on now either dead or possibly behind everything]].
* DaddysGirl: Shiho inherited her sense of justice from her police officer father.
* DeadlyGame: The titular Tomodachi Game, where losing can leave you millions of yen in debt.
* {{Determinator}}: Tenji in the third round, where [[spoiler:he manages to persevere through dehydration and starvation out of faith in Yuuichi]].
* EstablishingCharacterMoment
** In the main group, a single moment establishes each of the friends' personality:
*** Shibe expresses joy over Yuuichi having saved enough for the trip, but mentions that his father could've covered it: Shibe's a friendly rich kid, but not entirely sensitive.
*** Shiho chides Shibe for his insensitivity: she's tough with a strong sense of justice.
*** Tenji defuses the situation, pointing out Shibe's nature: he's calm and diplomatic.
*** Yutori, when asked, has nothing to add: she's quiet and shy.
** Group K, similarly, demonstrates the personalities of each member in go:
*** Juuzou expresses sympathy over how Group C has only two people: he's a GentleGiant.
*** Chisato expresses disappointment over how Group C is all male: he's TheCasanova.
*** Kei gently scolds Chisato for his rudeness, albeit with a smile: he's a BitchInSheepsClothing.
*** Hyakutarou is pissed off and asks Group C if they wanna have a go: he's the HotBlooded one.
*** Banri expresses contempt with a passive face: he's TheStoic.
* FragileFlower: Yutori, who lacks the emotional strength to handle the Tomodachi Game. It's why Yuuichi tries to keep her in the dark for as long as he can.
* AFriendInNeed:
** In the first round, after believing that Shibe, Shiho, and Tenji have all chosen to betray the group, Yuuichi considers doing the same, before realizing that he can't, if only for the sake of Yutori, who considers him her only real friend.
** The fourth round is essentially about seeing how far the others are willing to go for [[spoiler:one Makoto Shibe]] even after being given reasons to give up instead.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Shibe, who is prone to running his mouth and doing as he pleases without considering how it might hurt others.
* LastStand: The Tomodachi Game is, for all intents and purposes, this for [[spoiler:Tenji who, after being threatened into silence, believes that this is his last and only chance at uncovering the truth behind Shiho]].
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: [[spoiler:Tenji's father was this for him, especially after being betrayed by his friends. Suffice to say that losing ''him'' as well broke him hard.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: The traitor is one, playing the other friends against one another. Unfortunately for them, Yuuichi is a ''bigger'' one.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:It's Tenji... though if he's to be believed, the "real" traitor is, in fact, Shiho.]]
* OutOfCharacterMoment: Usually used to suggest that ''something'' is up with a character.
** Yuuichi first believes that Shiho is the one with the debt, due her decision not to investigate into the matter despite her righteous personality. As she reveals to him, though, she actually thought it was ''Yuuichi'', and she wanted to keep quiet as she's in love with him and thus didn't want to out him.
** Yuuichi rightly suspects the traitor's identity due to such a moment, as [[spoiler:Tenji should normally be level-headed enough to realize that Shibe couldn't have written the Kageuchi]].
* PowerOfTrust: The group is told at the beginning to trust their friends, and indeed, the game is designed to be won if they can hold themselves to that--keyword being ''if''. Examples where sheer trust manages to prevail include:
** In the third round, Tenji has to literally bet his life on his faith towards Yuuichi, as he risks dying from dehydration if Yuuichi abandons him. [[spoiler:Realizing that this game is his LastStand regardless, Tenji chooses to place all of his hopes on him. Thankfully, it pays off and Yuuichi gives him his trust in return, in a moment that shakes Tenji to the core.]]
--->'''Tenji''': [[spoiler:Getting back something you've lost once is... really painful...]]
** In the fourth round, Tenji comes close to abandoning Shibe, [[spoiler:as it becomes more and more difficult to believe in Shibe's virtue, with few pragmatic reasons to support him]]. With a push from Yuuichi, however, Tenji manages to find his faith once more, and he tells Manabu, he may not have a solid reason to believe in Shibe, but he's going to nevertheless. [[spoiler:It's what his father would've done, after all.]]
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Yuuichi puts Tenji through one [[spoiler:in the third round, seeing as how Tenji had betrayed everyone in the secound round]], by not telling him his plan and seeing whether or not Tenji will choose to trust him anyway. [[spoiler:As mntioned under PowerOfTrust, Tenji pulls a {{Determinator}} and does.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Shibe may or may not be this, as it's unclear if he did kill his father or was simply framed for it, seeing as how Shibe himself has no idea what happened.]]
* TheStoic: Tenji at first, though he proves himself to be NotSoStoic in the second round, finally fed up with Shibe's InnocentlyInsensitive behaviour. [[spoiler:That said, he was faking it, but he still proves to be NotSoStoic in other ways, such as ''losing'' it when Yuuichi gets the better of him. In general, while far from the likes of Shibe or Yutori, he proves to be much more emotive than before after TheReveal.]]
* TeenGenius: Tenji of the academic sort. [[spoiler:And manipulative sort.]] Yuuichi is one of the ManipulativeBastard variety.
* TransparentCloset: Inverted. [[spoiler:Tenji is straight, but pretends to be gay and in love with Yuuichi so that he can enter the third round with him.]]
* TraumaCongaLine: Life is ''not'' kind to Shibe. [[spoiler:As mentioned under BreakTheCutie, he's the recipient of numerous nasty reveals (one of which was complete bullshit), and if you thought things would look up for him afterwards, ''nope''. For petty reasons/reasons that aren't even his fault, he gets horribly bullied at school. At home, his father displays his full dickish colours and drops a bomb on him. Then, he wakes up to find himself covered in blood and his father dead, at which point he's promptly arrested and ushered in the next round of the game, where people accuse him of crimes he didn't commit like ''raping Shiho'' and his friends nearly abandon him. He comes ''this'' close to being left with an insurmountable debt that he could never hope to pay off, effectively sentencing him to hell--thankfully, Yuuichi pulls a BigDamnHeroes, and life finally stops kicking Shibe down (or at least stops kicking him in particular).]]
* TrueCompanions:
** Double subverted for the main group. It doesn't take long at all for their friendship to start falling apart, but as time goes on and they learn more about one another, they (sans a certain member) find new reasons to trust each other for real and begin their friendship anew.
** Group K in "Friendship Hide-and-Seek" is initially presented as this. Yuuichi's plan involves changing ''that''.
* TheVamp: [[spoiler:Shiho is suggested to be this.]]
* WasItAllALie: Needless to say that the traitor deals with this.
** Yuuichi asks if they really felt nothing for their friends [[spoiler:or, at least, the friends that aren't Shiho. Although Tenji initially affirms that yes, they were all just pawns he was using in his investigation, Yuuichi calls him out on the lie: while his perception of friendship is somewhat warped thanks to his past experience, Tenji did come to care for Yutori and Shibe in spite of himself.]]
** Similarly, [[spoiler:Yuuichi's relieved to find that Tenji's original dependable personality wasn't a complete lie, as Tenji proves himself to be reliable in the third round]].
* WhamLine: Tenji in Ch. 11.
-->'''Tenji''': [[spoiler:You see, Yuuichi... this is my '''second''' Tomodachi Game.]]
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Tenji was running a business in middle school! [[spoiler:It's tragically played with, though, in that for all of his smarts, Tenji was still a teenager who depended on his father for emotional support, and losing that was ''not'' easy for him.]]
* WouldntHitAGirl: Hyakutarou in the third round is very chivalrous. [[spoiler:Of course, Yuuichi uses this against him.]]
->In this world, there's something more important than money. It's '''friends'''.
''Tomodachi Game (Friendship Game)'' is a PsychologicalThriller manga written by Mikoto Yamaguchi, illustrated by Yuuki Satou, and published by Kodansha.
Yuuichi Katagiri is confident that he and his group of friends will stay close, now and forever. He's even managed to save up enough money to go on the school trip with them, despite being dead broke all the time.
However, his life takes an unexpected turn when he and his friends are subsequently kidnapped. They're told that one of them carries a debt suspiciously exact to the class's funds for the school trip--mysteriously stolen earlier--and that said debt has now been divided among them. To pay it off, they are made play the [[TitleDrop Tomodachi Game]]: a game where, to win, you must not doubt your friends.
It should've been simple, but it doesn't take long before cracks begin to form. And then, worst of all, Yuuichi realizes there's a traitor in their group--one who seems determined to tear apart their friendship no matter what...
'''Warning: ''Tomodachi Game'' is a series heavily dependent on twists and characters being more than they appear. Therefore, spoilers ahead are inevitable.'''
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!!''Tomodachi Game'' contains examples of:
* {{Adorkable}}: Hyakutarou from the "Friendship Hide-and-Seek" round: hot-headed, but also sweet to women and incredibly loyal to his captain, in an awkward sort of way.
* AntiHero: Yuuichi's undeniably one of the more heroic characters in the series, but that doesn't stop him from threatening bodily harm on people, at one point ''shoving Maria off a cliff'' (at a non-fatal height, and he knew someone would save her, but still), etc.
* BadLiar: Shibe, who tends to get flustered every time he lies. [[spoiler:This ends up being an important point--see CannotKeepASecret.]]
* BatmanGambit: Being a ManipulativeBastard, Yuuichi likes to come up with these.
* BewareTheNiceOnes
** Yutori's normally a FragileFlower, but the "Backbiting Sugoroku" round shows how vicious she can be. [[spoiler:Admittedly, she was faking it, but it paints a picture of how she might act for real.]]
** Yuuichi's generally the NiceGuy of the group, but realizing that there's a traitor among the group brings out his tougher (if slightly psychotic) side, and it stays there.
* BigDamnHeroes:
** Lampshaded in the "Friendship Hide-and-Seek" round, where Tenji points out that Yuuichi's timing [[spoiler:of bringing him food and water]] was ''awfully'' convenient. Yuuichi admit to having gotten there earlier and staying quiet to observe the scene for a couple of minutes.
** Yuuichi plays it straight in the fourth round, where [[spoiler:he arrives in the nick of time to overturn Shibe's sentence and get him acquitted]].
* BitchInSheepsClothing
** The traitor, obviously. [[spoiler:Sort of. While Tenji initially comes off as a {{Jerkass}} once his true colours are revealed, he quickly mellows back into his original personality. If anything, he's actually ''nicer'' than before!]]
** Shibe comes off as a bit two-faced, seemingly saying/doing nice things just to look good. [[spoiler:Though it's possible that this is partly biased due to Tenji's JadeColoredGlasses, as Shibe is ultimately one of the most well-intentioned characters in the series, albeit horribly InnocentlyInsensitive.]]
** There are hints that [[spoiler:Shiho is one]], if the person claiming this is to be believed.
* BoundAndGagged: [[spoiler:Shibe in the fourth round, gagged and bound in a straitjacket.]]
* BreakTheCutie: The game is ''very'' hard on the two most naive members of the group.
** Being a FragileFlower made the entire game difficult enough for Yutori, but in the second round, her DarkAndTroubledPast is outed, and later, in one (illegitimate) round where [[spoiler:either she or Yuuichi must offer themselves up for sequential torture, the guilt at constantly letting Yuuichi do it]] comes close to crushing her.
** Offer yourself up as a scapegoat during the second round because you think you have nothing to hide? Sorry, Shibe, it turns out that your dad's a scumbag and now all of your friends are going to alienate themselves from you! Oh, and now you're falsely being accused of murder. [[spoiler:And then [[TraumaCongaLine everything that happens to him after the second round gets so much worse]].]]
* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: Yuuichi attempts this at the end of the second round, [[spoiler:putting up a JerkassFacade to make his friends think that he never cared about them as he continues to the third round alone--well, until Tenji joins him, at least]].
* CannotKeepASecret: [[spoiler:Shibe, which is how Yuuichi realizes that Tenji--who accuses Shibe of writing the first Kageuchi--is the traitor. After all, Tenji should know that Shibe couldn't be spilling anyone's secrets at this stage; not only would nobody dare to tell him their secrets for this reason, he would've already told everyone by now.]]
* CelibateHero: Yuuichi flat-out admits that he doesn't really know much about romance, and seems disinterested in it despite being a ChickMagnet. [[spoiler:Tenji also seems to have had no interest all his life, stating that he's straight but that he also doesn't care for women---and after the mess with Shiho, he's probably never going to.]]
* CluelessChickMagnet: Yuuichi, being ObliviousToLove, doesn't realize at first that both Yutori and Shiho like him. [[spoiler:Though Shiho might be faking it.]]
* CreepyGood: Yuuichi. Out of context, you wouldn't expect the guy with a tendency to make [[SlasherSmile Slasher Smiles]] and [[PsychoticSmirk Psychotic Smirks]] to be the hero.
* CynicismCatalyst: It's not difficult to understand how the traitor became a paranoid jerk after [[spoiler:having his closest friends betray him and his father dying under suspicious circumstances and likely by the hand of ''his'' best friend, with everyone he could count on now either dead or possibly behind everything]].
* DaddysGirl: Shiho inherited her sense of justice from her police officer father.
* DeadlyGame: The titular Tomodachi Game, where losing can leave you millions of yen in debt.
* {{Determinator}}: Tenji in the third round, where [[spoiler:he manages to persevere through dehydration and starvation out of faith in Yuuichi]].
* EstablishingCharacterMoment
** In the main group, a single moment establishes each of the friends' personality:
*** Shibe expresses joy over Yuuichi having saved enough for the trip, but mentions that his father could've covered it: Shibe's a friendly rich kid, but not entirely sensitive.
*** Shiho chides Shibe for his insensitivity: she's tough with a strong sense of justice.
*** Tenji defuses the situation, pointing out Shibe's nature: he's calm and diplomatic.
*** Yutori, when asked, has nothing to add: she's quiet and shy.
** Group K, similarly, demonstrates the personalities of each member in go:
*** Juuzou expresses sympathy over how Group C has only two people: he's a GentleGiant.
*** Chisato expresses disappointment over how Group C is all male: he's TheCasanova.
*** Kei gently scolds Chisato for his rudeness, albeit with a smile: he's a BitchInSheepsClothing.
*** Hyakutarou is pissed off and asks Group C if they wanna have a go: he's the HotBlooded one.
*** Banri expresses contempt with a passive face: he's TheStoic.
* FragileFlower: Yutori, who lacks the emotional strength to handle the Tomodachi Game. It's why Yuuichi tries to keep her in the dark for as long as he can.
* AFriendInNeed:
** In the first round, after believing that Shibe, Shiho, and Tenji have all chosen to betray the group, Yuuichi considers doing the same, before realizing that he can't, if only for the sake of Yutori, who considers him her only real friend.
** The fourth round is essentially about seeing how far the others are willing to go for [[spoiler:one Makoto Shibe]] even after being given reasons to give up instead.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Shibe, who is prone to running his mouth and doing as he pleases without considering how it might hurt others.
* LastStand: The Tomodachi Game is, for all intents and purposes, this for [[spoiler:Tenji who, after being threatened into silence, believes that this is his last and only chance at uncovering the truth behind Shiho]].
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: [[spoiler:Tenji's father was this for him, especially after being betrayed by his friends. Suffice to say that losing ''him'' as well broke him hard.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: The traitor is one, playing the other friends against one another. Unfortunately for them, Yuuichi is a ''bigger'' one.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:It's Tenji... though if he's to be believed, the "real" traitor is, in fact, Shiho.]]
* OutOfCharacterMoment: Usually used to suggest that ''something'' is up with a character.
** Yuuichi first believes that Shiho is the one with the debt, due her decision not to investigate into the matter despite her righteous personality. As she reveals to him, though, she actually thought it was ''Yuuichi'', and she wanted to keep quiet as she's in love with him and thus didn't want to out him.
** Yuuichi rightly suspects the traitor's identity due to such a moment, as [[spoiler:Tenji should normally be level-headed enough to realize that Shibe couldn't have written the Kageuchi]].
* PowerOfTrust: The group is told at the beginning to trust their friends, and indeed, the game is designed to be won if they can hold themselves to that--keyword being ''if''. Examples where sheer trust manages to prevail include:
** In the third round, Tenji has to literally bet his life on his faith towards Yuuichi, as he risks dying from dehydration if Yuuichi abandons him. [[spoiler:Realizing that this game is his LastStand regardless, Tenji chooses to place all of his hopes on him. Thankfully, it pays off and Yuuichi gives him his trust in return, in a moment that shakes Tenji to the core.]]
--->'''Tenji''': [[spoiler:Getting back something you've lost once is... really painful...]]
** In the fourth round, Tenji comes close to abandoning Shibe, [[spoiler:as it becomes more and more difficult to believe in Shibe's virtue, with few pragmatic reasons to support him]]. With a push from Yuuichi, however, Tenji manages to find his faith once more, and he tells Manabu, he may not have a solid reason to believe in Shibe, but he's going to nevertheless. [[spoiler:It's what his father would've done, after all.]]
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Yuuichi puts Tenji through one [[spoiler:in the third round, seeing as how Tenji had betrayed everyone in the secound round]], by not telling him his plan and seeing whether or not Tenji will choose to trust him anyway. [[spoiler:As mntioned under PowerOfTrust, Tenji pulls a {{Determinator}} and does.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Shibe may or may not be this, as it's unclear if he did kill his father or was simply framed for it, seeing as how Shibe himself has no idea what happened.]]
* TheStoic: Tenji at first, though he proves himself to be NotSoStoic in the second round, finally fed up with Shibe's InnocentlyInsensitive behaviour. [[spoiler:That said, he was faking it, but he still proves to be NotSoStoic in other ways, such as ''losing'' it when Yuuichi gets the better of him. In general, while far from the likes of Shibe or Yutori, he proves to be much more emotive than before after TheReveal.]]
* TeenGenius: Tenji of the academic sort. [[spoiler:And manipulative sort.]] Yuuichi is one of the ManipulativeBastard variety.
* TransparentCloset: Inverted. [[spoiler:Tenji is straight, but pretends to be gay and in love with Yuuichi so that he can enter the third round with him.]]
* TraumaCongaLine: Life is ''not'' kind to Shibe. [[spoiler:As mentioned under BreakTheCutie, he's the recipient of numerous nasty reveals (one of which was complete bullshit), and if you thought things would look up for him afterwards, ''nope''. For petty reasons/reasons that aren't even his fault, he gets horribly bullied at school. At home, his father displays his full dickish colours and drops a bomb on him. Then, he wakes up to find himself covered in blood and his father dead, at which point he's promptly arrested and ushered in the next round of the game, where people accuse him of crimes he didn't commit like ''raping Shiho'' and his friends nearly abandon him. He comes ''this'' close to being left with an insurmountable debt that he could never hope to pay off, effectively sentencing him to hell--thankfully, Yuuichi pulls a BigDamnHeroes, and life finally stops kicking Shibe down (or at least stops kicking him in particular).]]
* TrueCompanions:
** Double subverted for the main group. It doesn't take long at all for their friendship to start falling apart, but as time goes on and they learn more about one another, they (sans a certain member) find new reasons to trust each other for real and begin their friendship anew.
** Group K in "Friendship Hide-and-Seek" is initially presented as this. Yuuichi's plan involves changing ''that''.
* TheVamp: [[spoiler:Shiho is suggested to be this.]]
* WasItAllALie: Needless to say that the traitor deals with this.
** Yuuichi asks if they really felt nothing for their friends [[spoiler:or, at least, the friends that aren't Shiho. Although Tenji initially affirms that yes, they were all just pawns he was using in his investigation, Yuuichi calls him out on the lie: while his perception of friendship is somewhat warped thanks to his past experience, Tenji did come to care for Yutori and Shibe in spite of himself.]]
** Similarly, [[spoiler:Yuuichi's relieved to find that Tenji's original dependable personality wasn't a complete lie, as Tenji proves himself to be reliable in the third round]].
* WhamLine: Tenji in Ch. 11.
-->'''Tenji''': [[spoiler:You see, Yuuichi... this is my '''second''' Tomodachi Game.]]
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Tenji was running a business in middle school! [[spoiler:It's tragically played with, though, in that for all of his smarts, Tenji was still a teenager who depended on his father for emotional support, and losing that was ''not'' easy for him.]]
* WouldntHitAGirl: Hyakutarou in the third round is very chivalrous. [[spoiler:Of course, Yuuichi uses this against him.]]
