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“Liar Game prequel and five short stories by Shinobu Kaitani exploring games, divination, pets, and digital romance.”
Liar Game: Roots of A
LIAR GAME roots of A 甲斐谷忍 短編集
7.24
6,017 rank · 8,585 readers · 28 favorites
Seinen
Mystery
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Synopsis
Liar Game prequel and five short stories by Shinobu Kaitani exploring games, divination, pets, and digital romance.
1. Liar Game: Roots of A (LIAR GAME roots of A) 2. Nine Darts 3-4. Sansou: Kindan no Senjutsu (Three Phase: The Forbidden Divination) 5. Kaitani Shinobu no Aiken Monogatari (The Tale of Shinobu Kaitani's Dog) 6. @Lovers
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Derived from 4 sampled reviews
7.8
/10
What 4 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 8
σ 1.09
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Strong agreement
σ 1.09 · scores cluster tight
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.25
Running avg · Aug 2011 → Sep 2024
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “"Liar Game: Roots of A" -- is supposedly a prequel to the long "LIAR GAME" manga. I haven't read the original one (its sequel) & this review is going to be on this 6 chapters manga/short stories....”
- 8 “Even though the Roots of A in the title probably refers to the roots of Akiyama, only the first chapter of this manga is about Akiyama and the liar game. The other five chapters are unrelated short...”
- 9 “In case you decided to essentially ignore the synopsis like I did, this really has little to do with Liar Game. The first chapter is about Akiyama's college days and the rest has absolutely no...”
Verbosity
Short · 75%
Medium · 25%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 6 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 0h 48m approx
- Published Sep 1999 – Jan 2008
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M8634 catalog