Kami-sama no Iu Toori
| Kami-sama no Iu Toori | |
| 神さまの言うとおり | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Horror, Tragedy, psychological thriller |
| Manga | |
| As The Gods Will (Kami-sama no Iu Toori) | |
| Written by | Muneyuki Kaneshiro |
| Illustrated by | Akeji Fujimura |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine |
| Original run | 2011 – 2012 |
| Volumes | 5 |
| Manga | |
| As The Gods Will The Second Series (Kami-sama no Iu Toori Ni) | |
| Written by | Muneyuki Kaneshiro |
| Illustrated by | Akeji Fujimura |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Magazine |
| Original run | 2013 – 2016 |
| Volumes | 21 |
| Live-action film | |
| Directed by | Takashi Miike |
| Written by | Hiroyuki Yatsu |
| Released | November 15, 2014 |
As The God's Will (神さまの言うとおり Kamisama no Iutoori?) is a Japanese manga series written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrated by Akeji Fujimura. The series is composed of two parts with the second part still on-going.
The first part was adapted into a live action film directed by Takashi Miike released 15 November 2014.
Takahata Shun's day at high school begins just as normal and boring as ever, but it doesn't end that way. After his teacher's head explodes, he and his classmates find themselves forced to play children's games, such as Daruma ga Koronda (a game like Red Light/Green Light), with deadly stakes. With no idea who is behind this mysterious deadly game session, and no way of knowing when it will finally end, the only thing Shun and other students can do is keep trying to win...
Numerous games follow, each one with more and more casualties. Shun encounters Takeru Amaya, a muscular and disturbed young boy who takes great pleasure in the events. Despite being polar opposites, they manage to work with each other.
The final volume sees the creator of the games, Kamimaro, an obese and naked lazy guy, launching his final games with all the remaining victors, however Shun and Amaya try to kill him with magical "bombs" used for one the games. But they get wounded by their own weapons and as a result are thrown out, on the verge of death, off the games for trying to cheat God.
During the same timeline as the first part, Yasuto Akashi skipped school the day the games began, after having a fight with his best friend, Senichi Aoyama. While his classmates competed in the games at school, Akashi and other students who skipped school must compete in a separate set of games in order to survive.
After some deadly games and trials (where Aoyama dies after reconciling with Akashi), the two series join together when Ushimitsu, one of Akashi's friends, save Shun and Ayama, protagonists of the first series, from their doom after they tried to cheat the "God" of their games.
The god of the second series, Sein Kami, is killed midway through the story, impaled by giant school tools when his sister Acid Mana finds his games to be too "boring". She then takes over the games.
The god of the first series, Kaminokouji Kamimaro, is revealed to be a human fed up with life who was given God powers by Mana, he created the games out of boredom, to find another god and be erased in the new world. He dies together with Shun in Judgment Old Maid, the penultime game, happy to have finally found a "friend" (Shun).
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