“Genius teen dies saving a classmate, trapped in purgatory's endless death games seeking escape.”
Rengoku Dead Role
煉獄デッドロール
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Genius teen dies saving a classmate, trapped in purgatory's endless death games seeking escape.
Sakai Hiroaki is a high school teenage mastermind with a genius-level intelligence and a lack of interest in anything that is easy to him. During one unlucky day, in an attempt to stop a student from committing suicide, he ends up committing suicide himself. After he awakens, he finds himself not in the real world, nor in heaven, but in purgatory, along with a group of others who did the same. Sakai discovers that he and his peers are subjected to never-ending intense death games in this world for reasons unknown to him, and he tries to find a way to escape. (Source: MU)
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A Manga Publication
- Format 24 × 6 ch × vol
- Total read 3h 12m approx
- Published Nov 2015 – Sep 2017
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M37170 catalog