Zankoku Yuugi

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Story 1: Suou Hatasu is a nice guy with a pretty normal life. Like most college students, he's living alone in a little shoebox apartment and commutes on-foot. In spite of his financial limitations, he's fairly satified with his life: he's got a good friend, a cute girlfriend and is just starting his first student-teaching job at an area high school.

Things only seem to be getting better for him when one of his students, handsome and fabulously wealthy Harashima Daichi, seems to take a shine to him. Immediately feeling welcomed to his new school, Suou couldn't really ask for more. Until his new "buddy" Harashima suddenly turns on him in a deserted hallway and vows to make Suou "his property".

Can money really buy love? Harashima certainly seems to think so...

Story 2: Three childhood friends, Yoshito, Sei and Daisuke, come to a crossroads in their relationship when Yoshito announces he's getting married. Sei's composure crumbles and he admits to having loved Yoshito since Middle School. But while Sei's been chasing after Yoshito, he's been too preoccupied to notice that Daisuke's been chasing after him. (by Doki Doki)

Type

Manga

Related Series

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Associated Names

Cruel Game

Zankoku Yugi

残酷遊戯

Groups Scanlating

DokiDoki

Latest Release(s)

c.2b (end) by DokiDoki 19 years ago

v.1 c.2a by DokiDoki 19 years ago

c.1c by DokiDoki 19 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

1 Volume (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

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User Rating

Average: 6.2 / 10.0 (131 votes)

Bayesian Average: 6.21 / 10.0

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Last Updated

June 30th, 2020 2:50am PDT - 5 years ago

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Genre

Drama Romance School Life Yaoi
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Recommendations

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Author(s)

KOIDE Mieko

Artist(s)

KOIDE Mieko

Year

1999

Original Publisher

Biblos

Serialized In (magazine)

Magazine Be x Boy (Biblos)

Licensed (in English)

English Publisher

N/A

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #760

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Monthly Pos #1745

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3 Month Pos #2305

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6 Month Pos #4716

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Year Pos #5708

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My endings for them

by aiish
9 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

The first one: obviously the student is going to continue to trap the teacher and he will abide by all his requests because he fell in love with him and have admit to it. Later the sensei sees him talking to Haruka and feel inferior to him, and question what he is really doing with his life. He fears that the student still sees him like property and not love. Therefore, he meets with his girlfriend again for dinner. That night he drank his sorrows away and his girlfriend decides to send him home. Being drunk and dumb he doesn't realize what address he told the taxi driver and ends up at the student's place. The student sees them together and becomes very jealous. He grabs the drunk sensei away from her and kisses him in front of the girlfriend. Being drunk and dumb, sensei kisses back and this conclude the break up of sensei and his girlfriend. The student carries sensei up to the apartment and tells him that he can no longer have a girlfriend, because sensei's body and love belongs to him. That night they have hot and steamy sex for three days straight.

The second one: I think Sei will end up with Daisuke, because of that look he gave him in the last scene. Yoshita isn't really gay (yet), therefore he probably have another fling with his ex wife and makes Sei depress and insecure. Daisuke will jump in and support Sei all over again and say he should stay strong and be with Yoshito, because he wants Sei to be happy. But by then Sei would have started to realize it was Daisuke who was always there. The next time Yoshito and Sei meets up, Yoshito would gladly give themselves a go at dating, but Sei would've noticed it didn't feel right. As they entered a hotel room he realizes who he really loves and runs away. Sei ran through a rainy night from a mile away to Daisuke's apartment and confesses that he loves him too. Daisuke kisses him and that night they have hot and steamy sex for three days straight!

Who agrees with me?!

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Open Endings

by FeyPhantom
11 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

This is why I normally read comments and look at the categories more thoroughly before reading something... Don't expect an ending, neither story has one! I was irritated with where the first story left off, but the second story really got me annoyed - probably because I was enjoying the characters far more in it and with where the story drops it, it just feels like

it's saying their friendship is officially over and the fun days they had as kids are gone forever. Wherever they go from here on out, they're ultimately going to hurt one another because of their feelings.

Basically, I can't recommend either of these stories unless you really like open-ended stories or ones where you get to make up what happens next in your head. Even then, I'd have a hard time saying much good about the title story unless you like Stockholm Syndrome stories.

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... what?

by mrsseien
11 years ago

Rating: N/A

the first story was getting onn my nerves - it was stupid in every aspect
the second story seemed like it would be a nice read, but... it's not finished! that can't be the end! nothing was solved!

this manga just bored me and then angry

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...eh?

by MaZzAx
13 years ago

Rating: 3.0 / 10.0

What did I just read?

So the main character is forced to become some guy's slave and that guy threatens him and attacks his girlfriend. Then the main character breaks into that guy's computer to try and see why he's doing this and ends up apologising for it even after everything that guy has done.
Well, this much I didn't really mind.
But then...
The story just ended without concluding anything. His girlfriend still doesn't know about them, the main character still hasn't made a decision about his feelings and then there's the other guy who is obviously in love with the main character as well.
Almost like there is supposed to be an extra chapter or two that got dropped on the way to print.

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Ending????

by mlat26
13 years ago

Rating: 4.0 / 10.0

Whats with the endings D: good stories but a let down to find yourself having to interpret the end, specially on the last story wth? So disappointing, I so wanted to know what would happen in the last story, the first one is easier to figure out but the last one.... -_-

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Didn't want to finish it.

by Poemi
13 years ago

Rating: 3.0 / 10.0

I never even finished the first story. I got disgusted and stopped when

stupid Suou was the one who apologized to Harashima. That irritated me so much.

... Last updated 13 years ago

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hmm...

by sammiiii-san
14 years ago

Rating: N/A

Yeah, agreeing with everyone right now...
No ending what so ever on both stories, kinda sucked.
I guess its kind of a way to say 'let your imagination run wild'? Hahaha xD
Not the best manga i've read, i must say 🙁
The manga from this mangaka, Yatteraneeze! is much better 🙂

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yuck.

by keristars
15 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

Other than the unfinished feeling these stories give off (I wonder if they were submitted as series to a magazine (B-Boy is the one Koide writes for?), but canceled after the first chapter or two, because they have complete plots and all, it's just that each story feels like a beginning to a much longer series), the first one is really super not romantic at all. It's a lot creepy, with an abusive young man who blackmails a student teacher into living with him (and having sex!) by threatening to hurt the teacher's loved ones. But even at the early stages of the story, it looks like it's going to go the route of the teacher falling in love with the student, due to Stockholm Syndrome or something, and there's this weird romanticising of a seriously abusive relationship - at least the student teacher's best friend notices this and says something about it. I'm almost glad that the story ended without more closure, because I'm afraid that it was heading towards a really bad ending like that.

If you like to be warned of abusive relationships so that you can avoid them, here's your warning. If I'd been more aware of it, I wouldn't have read the story at all.

The second one is also kind of screwed up, but not nearly so bad. One Yoshito is getting married, Sei has been in love with him since childhood, and Daisuke has been in love with Sei almost as long, but neither Sei nor Daisuke have said a word about their feelings, until Yoshito's wedding day - when, it turns out, his new wife is also in love with someone else, and he calls the marriage off. The resulting actions taken by each of the main characters (and others who enter the story later) make this seem like it would be a much more interesting series if extended, if only because it's not as screwed up. The characters are still seriously flawed, though.

And, one of the upsides to the second story is that it has a more structured plot than the first, so it does feel like it has a better ending, rather than something just unfinished. (The plot is "how these men reveal their feelings after twelve years of silence".)

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Great, but...

by Chira00
16 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

I really enjoyed both stories, but both left me the feeling of not being finished. Both had endings that seemed to just stop with no real resolution. Was this a prequel? A side story to some other series? I am not sure. I really felt cheated by the endings. To be left like that with no resolution to the story, not even a hint of what is to come, just leaves one frustrated. I still ranked these high, as they are good stories. I just wish there was a little more of a decisive ending to both.

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Could have been better

by akyt
16 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

i like how both stories started off and everything was really good until the ending. Not just one, but BOTH stories had what seemed to me to be incomplete endings! When I got to the end, I thought I missed some pages. I went back to double check if I was really on the last page and when I was, I couldn't help thinking..."that's it?! where's the rest 😕 " Both endings are too unfinished for me. Otherwise, could have been quite good.

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