Liar Game: Difference between revisions

* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: Played straight, deconstructed, then reconstructed again. {{spoiler|In 3rd round, the team consists of people Nao and Akiyama plundered in the Revival game. Everyone, who had seen Nao's true character in Revival game (she saves the only person who was mildly nice to her by letting him drop out safely) agrees to work with them. Then, Yokoya, [[Magnificent Bastard]] he is, manages to cause a rift in the team. The team only held on because of [[The Messiah|Nao's kindness.]]}}

** Nastily subverted with {{spoiler|Yokoya. Those he defeated in the first revival round did join his side, but they weren't in any sense his friends.}}

* [[Disappeared Dad]] - Akiyama's father had died in an accident when he was a child.

* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]: {{spoiler|Fukunaga}} actually pulls this off as a plot twist.

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Akiyama's mother in his backstory.}}

* [[Oh Crap]]: Every [[Unwitting Pawn]] when they realize it.

* [[Opt Out]]: The LGT relies on people doing this to make their profits. {{spoiler|We think. Nao hopes.}}

** In the third round, {{spoiler|''Akiyama'' can seem this way. Even though he thinks he's won, the final result of his three-volume battle with Yokoya was that he and Nao were each put into four hundred million yen of debt, while Yokoya walked away with a massive profit - a complete and total loss, if you were keeping score with currency. As the later manga indicates, though, Akiyama's keeping score with '''debt''', trying to make it economically unfeasible for the LGT to continue, by being one person holding several trillion yen in debt. Yokoya met a conventional winning condition for that game - walking away with a lot of money in his pocket - but Akiyama and Nao achieved ''their'' objective too - to advance in the game.}} Not that it's not a grudge-builder.

* [[The Plan]]: Every game involves this trope, in some form.

* [[Prequel]]: The manga short [[Liar Game Roots of A|Roots of A]] looks at Akiyama during his senior year of college.

* [[Restored My Faith in Humanity]]: Part of the [[Defeat Means Friendship]] package, such as Nao's victory over Fujisawa Kazuo in the first round.

** There is the panel where Nao looks concerned and wonders whether Akiyama went to sleep from exhaustion during the fourth round's night break.

** The fact that especially in the beginning, he would always come to her rescue and help her out with little to no profit to himself.

* [[Shown Their Work]]: It's obvious the author looks very deeply at each game.

* [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]]: The first round's major opponent is Nao's middle school teacher who's about as clever as a normal person. The second round and revival round have Fukunaga, while the third round's is Yokoya. After a short break for the second revival round, the opponent is Yokoya and finally the [[Big Bad Duumvirate]] of Yokoya and Harimoto.

* [[Unspoken Plan Guarantee]]

* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: Pretty much anyone who isn't Akiyama, Yokoya, and Harimoto is this at all times. {{spoiler|Nao and Fukunaga begin to grow out of this after the third round, but they promptly gain some new allies to take their place.}} As of the fourth round, {{spoiler|this trope now includes Yokoya}}and probably {{spoiler|Harimoto}}.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: {{spoiler|Yokoya}} seems to be on the verge of snapping in the more recent chapters.

** {{spoiler|And he ''definitely'' broke down at the Season 1 finale of the J-Drama.}}