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“Kidnapped college student Sigma must play the deadly Nonary Game with eight strangers, where one may be the mastermind.”
Zero Escape: VLR prologue
極限脱出ADV 善人シボウデス プロモーションアニメ
6.03
10,523 rank · 5,653 viewers · 14 favorites
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Kidnapped college student Sigma must play the deadly Nonary Game with eight strangers, where one may be the mastermind.
With his last memory being that of his kidnapping, college student Sigma awakens to find himself trapped in a facility with eight strangers. The captives are soon informed that if they want to escape, they must play the "Nonary Game"—a complex contest of trust and betrayal, where deciding whom to believe in is the difference between life and death. To make matters worse, any initial trust between the players is tainted when they realize that the mastermind behind their predicament may be one of them...
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Derived from 7 sampled reviews
4.9
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What 7 viewers settled on.
0%
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Score distribution
median 6
mode 6
σ 1.36
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σ 1.36 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.14
Running avg · Feb 2013 → Jan 2023
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 6 “To start with, if you're watching this alternate OVA, you really should have already at least started the game. It outright removes the entire elevator segment, rushes through character...”
- 6 “This OVA is a 13 minute-long promo for the game Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward. So unless (a) you are planning to play this game, (b) you are finished with VLR and are searching for related...”
- 3 “I like the Zero Escape games. Sure, their thematics are poorly explored - if at all, their characters are painfully one-dimensional, and graphically it's nothing to write home about. Still, there's...”
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Short · 43%
Medium · 43%
Long · 14%
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A Ona Production
Gonzo.- Format 1 × 12′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 12m all episodes
- Aired Dec 2011 – ongoing
- Source Ona media type
- Rated R 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref. BS-6730 catalog