History YMMV / KingsGame

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: [[spoiler:Ryou]]'s death is painted to make it seem like he pulled a HeroicSuicide to save his friends and to prove how strong he is. In reality, it just proves how ''dumb'' he is. Instead of using a chainsaw to murder [[spoiler:Natsuko (which Riona ends up doing later anyway)]], he instead...saws off his own leg and dies of shock/blood loss. [[spoiler:Ryou]] could've easily killed [[spoiler:Natsuko]]--a burden that he would have to live with for the rest of his life, something a strong person [[spoiler:Ryou]] claims to be could do--but instead chooses to ''kill himself'', knowing full well [[spoiler:Natsuko]] would attempt to kill the remaining survivors later. Granted, he obviously wasn't mentally stable after [[spoiler:Teruaki died]], but it's really hard to sympathize with him for doing this, and it comes off as him trying to glorify his suicide.

** On one hand, these kind of orders come off as bizarre for people in their frequency. [[spoiler: However, if the orders are put into the context of ''insects'', all of a sudden, they start to make perfect sense. As considering the origin of the game, a jar full of bugs really doesn't have much options to go with besides their natural instincts.]]

** PleaseWakeUp can be a very effective and moving trope when used in the right context. A high schooler asking the decapitated corpse of their friend why they won't respond to him is not one of those times.

* FanDislikedExplanation: Readers didn't take kindly to the identity of the King. Mainly, they find the concept of [[spoiler:an organic virus that became a ''computer virus'' who kills with hypnotic suggestion]] far too absurd and underwhelming a reveal.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The opening theme of the anime, "FEED THE FIRE" by coldrain, and "Lost Paradise" by Pile, the ending theme.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Ria, mainly for having a cool design and being the only character in the show to point out just how stupid [[FailureHero Nobuaki's]] ideas and actions are, and how ridiculous the rest of the cast is being. Her voice actress also [[DoItYourselfThemeTune performs the anime's ending theme]], which is widely to be considered SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic and one of the anime's few good points.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Ria, mainly for having a cool design and being the only character in the show to point out just how stupid [[FailureHero Nobuaki's]] ideas and actions are, and how ridiculous the rest of the cast is being. Her voice actor performs the end of episode theme.

* SuperlativeDubbing: While the Japanese original is full of talented actors who TookTheBadFilmSeriously, the English dub instead knows it's not making high art and lets its actors go the HamAndCheese route, and is typically agreed to offer the more entertaining version of the show.

** Ria's role midway through the anime has her [[spoiler:wait until all but 2 of her classmates were dead to reveal that she can attempt to shut down the virus. Was this a standard holding of the IdiotBall or did she have a decent reason? There are two potential motives for her behavior. At the time before her entrance 6 people needed to die as per the Ousama's latest game, so she may have needed to keep herself out of everyone's minds as she was not particularly well liked amongst the group (one of which had already panicked and taken a hostage). The other is that she hadn't finished figuring out the problem yet.]]

** The anime's ending implies that [[spoiler:[[CruelTwistEnding everyone dying was not in fact]] [[AllForNothing enough to stop the Ousama Game from continuing]]. However, some people believe that since we don't see the actual death (indeed we just see her taking Noubaki's corpse to the sea), that Riona didn't actually kill herself, allowing the virus to spread further.]]

* BileFascination: Perhaps the only other worthy reason to watch the anime besides the opening and ending song is how mind-bogglingly stupid the plot and characters become. It's entertaining, but not for the reasons the creators expected.

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: With several rather unlikable and very dim-witted characters, an AnyoneCanDie situation and it seeming like nothing is working out and several of the characters being unnecessarily cruel to each other, the series can fall into this for some viewers. Granted, plenty of people also find the show unintentionally hilarious, see {{Narm}} and BileFascination for more details.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The opening theme of the anime, FEED THE FIRE by coldrain, and Lost Paradise by Pile, the ending theme.

** The series, in all of its forms, is pretty hard to take seriously. It's somewhat understandable that everyone would be panicking because they're all about to potentially die in 24 hours, but every line is stuffed with [[ChewingTheScenery scenery]], people turn on each other on a dime, the various victims' deaths -- while sounding scary in concept -- are depicted in ways that range from the silly to the absurd, and the situations are too fantastical and downright ridiculous to even think about in a practical manner. And the anime somehow manages to take this up a notch, with the middling production values and the characters' ridiculously over-the-top expressions frequently ruining scenes that are meant to be serious.