Liar Game - one the best manga out there!
By cambiste
@cambiste (1244)
India
June 25, 2008 10:17am CST
If you like Detective Conana, you'll love this one! Its a story about who can scam whome and survive!
Here's a short storyline: The main lead Nao is too honest for her own good, and could have been the last girl on Earth to get called into a "Liar Game" where you earn money by cheating others.
One day a box of money of 1 million dollars arrive at her house with a note that she has been chosen to participate in the liar game. She soon gets cleverly cheated by her own Junior school teacher who was her first advesary. And she didnt even notice it!
When you found out she was cheated, by overhearing a conversation between her teacher and someone else over the phone, so begs a former con man to help her out.
Reluctantly, the hero of the story Mr. Akiyama agrees to help her... and that starts a new story.
5 responses
@jasque (51)
• Brazil
20 Feb 10
I'm on chapter 60
this mangá is really great. Some people said to me the story is the same principle of Kaiji. I'm starting to reading it, but it's so different... Just the money part seems to have something to do xD.
I want to play the contraband game with some people =]
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@cambiste (1244)
• India
19 Mar 10
i see. that does sound interesting. Liar game is also full of gamble games, but Akiyama always fugues out a strategic way to win the games. I can't wait for chapter 107 to be released. I'm pretty much dying out of curiosity to find out how things will work out.
@jasque (51)
• Brazil
17 Mar 10
Well, as I said I just read some chapters.
Kaiji is addicted to games of gamble. Some day Endo comes to collect a huge debt Kaiji had to him. He had two options to pay it: spend 10 years working to pay the debt or board the gambling ship Espoir for one night and clear the debt.
The style of the drawing is weird, but also unique(no problem if you have seem animes like inital D though).
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@cambiste (1244)
• India
17 Mar 10
true too. Well, the time i had checked out the drama, the manag series was being scanned online very slow; so the series was better - but now the manga scans go beyound the series, and is now so much more coller than it. I cant wait for the next few chapters to be released!
thanks for sharing!
@meleshia (624)
• Philippines
27 Jun 08
Hello! I haven't read the manga yet but I watched the Japanese live action drama series already. The plot is great and the story progresses really fast. It is really fun watching it and also the suspense in each episode is exciting. I'm sure the manga is like that too if not better. Would you know how many chapters are there in the manga? Thanks!
@cambiste (1244)
• India
19 Mar 10
no, but its good that you watched the drama first. you can read the rest off the manga. The first three games are described with much detail and takes about 6 volumes to be completed, but the drama is cool to watch. But unlike the drama, the manga doesn't end so fast. the next round is here and is far more exciting than the previous rounds.
Like i said, there not much romance, but that is the real charmer of the manga. The funny thing is the most unexpected person will fall in love with the hero lol. You can't miss reading it!
Now I am still trying to finish watching Bleach anime. 
@semicolonp (518)
• Philippines
25 Aug 08
Oh, I've read this one. Up to a certain chapter only (up to the end of the first major, uh, arc I suppose?) because I only arbitrarily read it on OneManga, but, yes. I've read it. :)
The art-style reminds me of some other manga, but I can't remember very well. I like the premise, but I have some problems with Nao. Not the fact that she's honest to the point of it being a fault—characters like that are nice to see once in a while—just that she doesn't seem to learn anything from all she's experienced, which bothers me a little. She's been through a lot of tough stuff. There should at least be some change there.
Although... ahh... I'm also wondering why Mr. Akiyama helped her anyway. And the characters are sorta static, not just Nao, so I guess the story's focus is more plot-driven than character-driven. I'll see how it goes before making final judgments. :)
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@cambiste (1244)
• India
17 Mar 10
it is plot-driven. i can tell the mangaka doesn't want either akiyama nor nao to change even a little bit, because their personalities are polar opposite and one is what the other lacks - to the extreme.
Akiyama helped Nao becasuse he isn't really a bad guy and was probably moved (or thought she needed help - fast) when he saw her blindly believeing hima nd waiting for him (1st chapter) to return.
We also know the owner of "LIar game" knows the persoanlity of both nao and Akiyama and counted on Nao to bring Akiyama into the scam-like game, which otherwise Akiyama wouldn't have entered. Or this owner wanted to change Akiyama by bringing the Nao-influence to the greatest degree by putting them through the various test. Or he wants to convince himself that a honest person CAN win the liar game.
It gets really interesting (like detective conan) with all the challenges they get thrown into. Unfortunately, there is little romance between the star characters.
Happy mylotting.
