- Awesome Music: In the drama, the Capsule song "Flash Back" starts up every time Akiyama ends up turning the tables. The movie covering the finals of the tournament may get another one with its theme song, "Love or Lies."
- Audience-Alienating Ending: Fans have difficulty telling when the creator just wanted the series to end, but few question that at some point he checked out. The result was a lackluster final game that appeared to be setting up a far better conclusion with the players fixing the game to never end, effectively turning it into the players vs the Liar Game itself, but then the manga suddenly and abruptly ended. The final chapter consisted mainly of a plain-language explanation for everything in the series, including concepts never seen in the series at any point, and abruptly reveals the Big Bad and his organization to be Good All Along and the whole game a False Crucible, despite this completely contradicting their prior behavior and cheapening all the tension of the prior chapters since nothing was actually at stake. Then the organizers let everyone leave and go home. And on top of that, the chapter ends with the Government Conspiracy the villains were trying to stop easily squashing their attempt to do so, eliminating what little meaning there was left in the story.
- Broken Base: The ending. Some readers think that it added an interesting dimension of humanity and ideological complexity to the people behind the Liar Game, and are hoping for a sequel where Akiyama and Nao work to take down the Greater Scope Villains. Others think that resorting to a Government Conspiracy as the reason behind the creation of the Liar Game was lazy and cliche, that making the Liar Game a False Crucible completely destroys any sense of tension and is outright contradictory with how many of the dealers were acting, that the people running the game were way too Easily Forgiven, that having that same conspiracy immediately censor the game footage worldwide made everything even more pointless (or a very hastily-done Sequel Hook), and overall that the ending was far too utterly nonsensical and ruins an otherwise great series.
- Ensemble Dark Horse: Fukunaga.
- Fandom Rivalry: The series is often compared with Death Note because both revolve around a psychological and/or intellectual cat-and-mouse between the hero and the villain. Those who prefer Liar Game tend to favour its more grounded premise (lacking Supernatural shortcuts to one-up the other party), the less gray morality, and clearly defined story arcs (i.e. rounds). Those who prefer Death Note favour it for its interesting and more fleshed-out characters.
- Moe: Nao can be a far more subtler example of this as the series continues, particularly during the Second Revival Round.
- Narm: Yokoya screaming in agony at the Season 1 finale of the J-Drama. The many over-the-top facial expressions in the manga are rather hard to take seriously as well.
- Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Raise your hand if you found Nao annoying before the Contraband Game. Then raise your leg if Character Development made you respect her. And sorry, we don't have analgesics for you.
- Anyone who thinks Fukunaga is annoying and find her defeat in Bid Poker is refreshing, put your hands on vertical bar. Anyone who found out the circumstances of her defeat and shed Manly Tears, do a human flag to prove your manliness.
- Tear Jerker: Fukunaga's Heroic Sacrifice.
- The Woobie: Abe. Beaten by her stepfather and told right to her face by her own mother that she shouldn't have been born.
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