One day, Saneatsu Narita wakes up to discover that everyone except for a small handful of people throughout Tokyo has apparently died and disappeared. A small collection of students and teachers who meet up at school learn that they are part of the Tasuketsu game where a mysterious Emperor has proclaimed that all remaining people shall vote, and the majority of that vote will die.
While now forced to scour the city to find voting terminals and powerful Rights that can help them navigate this deadly game, Saneatsu decides to try and discover the identity of the Emperor in order to save his remaining friends.
Survival games are no fun if you don’t care about any of these people or barely grasp the actual rules. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Tasuketsu, head on down below.
Anime Like Tasuketsu -Fate of the Majority-
For Fans of Survival Games With Powers
Battle Game in 5 Seconds
It was just a normal day for avid gamer Akira Shiroyanagi who, while playing a game on his phone, was suddenly dragged onto a battlefield by a being named Mion.
He and the other participants are told that they have been erased from society in order to participate in an experiment.
They are each granted a special ability and told to use this power in order to win a series of games.
Similarities Between Tasuketsu and Battle Game in 5 Seconds
- Survival game anime where people are suddenly separated from society and forced to play.
- Most if not all people have some sort of special power that they will need to utilize to survive
- Strategy involving powers and manipulating others is key.
Differences Between Tasuketsu and Battle Game in 5 Seconds
- Tasuketsu is more talking and running around, Battle Game in 5 Seconds has more action and fighting.
- Battle Game in 5 Seconds features a smaller main cast of allies
- Battle Game in 5 Seconds explains its plot and power system more thoroughly.
Future Diary
Yukiteru Amano likes to imagine himself as an observer.
He spends his days keeping a diary on his cell phone, but not about himself, about everything that goes on around him. At home, he spends his time conversing with his two imaginary friends, Deus Ex Machina, the God of space and time, and Murmur, his assistant.
However, one day he discovers his friends are not so imaginary when they imbue him with the power of a diary that tells the future and forces him into a bloody survival game with godhood on the line.
Similarities Between Tasuketsu and Future Diary
- Survival game anime
- The large main cast of participants all have unique powers that they can use for an advantage.
- You never know who is going to betray or ally with who.
Differences Between Tasuketsu and Future Diary
- Future Diary has more action and better explained intrigue.
- Tasuketsu is more focused on finding out who is running the game while Future Diary is more about trying to survive/win it.
- Future Diary has more eccentric and uniquely designed characters that are also more fleshed out than Tasuketsu’s cast.
Darwin’s Game
After receiving an invitation, Kaname starts playing a mysterious new mobile game called Darwin’s Game. Unfortunately, when his opponent attacks him in real life, he must fight to survive.
After narrowly winning his first fight, he discovers a hidden world of players that kill in order to win points.
Similarities Between Tasuketsu and Darwin’s Game
- Survival game anime
- Characters all have unique powers that they can use to their advantage
- The main character quickly forms an alliance to survive.
- Both series use normal, not eccentric or special characters. i.e. Normal teens put into horrible circumstances.
- Both series enjoy keeping the larger picture of the game pretty vague.
Differences Between Tasuketsu and Darwin’s Game
- Darwin’s Game is more about fighting and survival than trying to find out the reason behind the game like Tasuketsu.
- Darwin’s Game explains its powers better.
- They fight for money and survival in Darwin’s Game, so it is more about action and less about voting.
For Fans of Unraveling the Intrigue
The Lost Village
A bus full of eccentric individuals that met on the internet all decide to leave society behind in search of a mysterious village that cannot be found by any map.
Excited for their new life, these people soon find that this village is full of more mysteries than they can comprehend.
Similarities Between Tasuketsu and The Lost Village
- Interesting concepts, explained poorly.
- Both series introduce very large casts suddenly, and explore some of them over time.
- Plots built on a mysterious event and trying to unravel what is ultimately going on.
- Light supernatural elements, but a larger focus on mystery
Differences Between Tasuketsu and The Lost Village
- The Lost Village isn’t a survival game, though it has the frequent deaths of one.
- The Lost Village is about an offline meetup of an online group as they travel to a mysterious abandoned village that no one can find on a map – then people start dying. Like Tasuketsu is trying to find out who is running the game, they are trying to find out what is happening.
- There are no “superpower-like abilities” in The Lost Village like Tasuketsu has with its rights and prime rights.
Danganronpa
Hope’s Peak Academy is an elite high school where those accepted are given special titles that showcase their skills. This year, only fifteen were accepted, and one of them was the completely normal Makoto Naegi who got in on sheer luck.
The students are thrilled to be in such a prestigious school. That is, until they are trapped inside the school by principal and bear Monokuma who tasks them with killing one of their peers and not getting caught by the others in order to escape.
However, if they are caught and found guilty in a trial, they will be executed instead.
Similarities Between Tasuketsu and Danganronpa
- A group of kids wake up cut off from society and told to play a survival game.
- The group needs to find out what is happening to escape.
- Moments of vote-based tension.
- People killing each other rather than uniting to unravel the mystery
- Good-hearted, shounen-style main character
Differences Between Tasuketsu and Danganronpa
- Danganronpa is about being trapped in a school and told to kill someone and get away with it in order to escape. So the votes are about if you think someone is the killer rather than the more diverse polling in Tasuketsu.
- While some people have special abilities in Danganronpa, they are just talented. Their powers aren’t part of the game like they are in Tasuketsu.
- Danganronpa characters are all extra eccentric
King’s Game
Nobuaki Kanazawa is a new transfer student who has closed his heart to his fellow classmates, determined not to make friends. However, due to their persistence, he begins to open up.
Just as he does, his worse fears comes to life, the mysterious King’s Game starts on his cell phone.
Now, his classmates must play a cruel game where all orders must be obeyed. If they don’t, they die.
Similarities Between Tasuketsu and King’s Game
- Survival games done not so well
- People are dying and the key to survival is finding out who is behind the game
- Large cast of characters, few are fleshed out or explored.
- Normal, hopeful, shounen-style main character trying furiously to save everyone and failing.
- Both series are a lot of running around and talking, not a lot of action.
Differences Between Tasuketsu and King’s Game
- King’s Game is about telling people to do commands on a cellphone and the people who disobey die in random accident-seeming supernatural ways.
- King’s Game features more frequent and brutal death.
- No one has supernatural powers in King’s Game.
Gleipnir
One morning, Shuichi Kagaya woke up as a monster.
Complete with brute strength, a strong sense of smell, and big fluffy paws, he struggles to hold onto his humanity.
Soon he meets a sadistic girl named Claire Aoki by saving her life. She holds his secret over her head and forces him to help her look for her sister that has also turned into a monster.
Similarities Between Tasuketsu and Gleipnir
- The main character wakes up and every thing is different
- Both series follow them trying to unravel what happened and why it is happening.
- Many characters with many different motivations, sometimes sinister ones
Differences Between Tasuketsu and Gleipnir
- Gleipnir isn’t technically a survival game.
- Gleipnir is about the main character trying to figure out why he is in a living mascot body while his ally is trying to figure why her sister died.
- Gleipnir isn’t quite ecchi, but it is a bit provocative.
For Fans of Trust No One
Tomodachi Game
Although he suffers from financial hardship, Yuuichi Katagiri has always been kept positive by his friends. They even inspired him to furiously work in order to get the funds to go on the school trip with them.
However, when the gathered money goes missing, his friends are blamed.
Days later, the friends all get mysterious letters that end up with them being force to join a Tomodachi Game where each game they win together lowers a debt.
However, when betrayal and secrets start pouring out, these simple games become a malicious test of trust.
Similarities Between Tasuketsu and Tomodachi Game
- A group of friends are forced to play a game
- Secrets come out about many of the characters
- Alliances and manipulation are the keys to success
- Both series have an element of trying to find out why this is happening.
Differences Between Tasuketsu and Tomodachi Game
- Tomodachi Game is about playing children’s games to win money or earn huge debt trying, so it is less deadly, but somehow made even more sinister.
- Tomodachi Game follows a tighter friend group than Tasuketsu.
- Almost everyone in Tomodachi Game is some kind of terrible person.
Talentless Nana
Earth has been assaulted by monsters that have come to be known as the “enemy of humanity.” To combat this, secluded schools were formed to train children with extraordinary powers to fight back.
However, that is an elaborate lie.
The truth is that these super powered children are the threat to humanity and one powerless girl has been sent to their school to kill them off.
Similarities Between Tasuketsu and Talentless Nana
- Cheerful kids occasionally faced with brutal deaths
- The characters are trying to figure out what is happening.
- Cheerful moments juxtaposed with occasional death
- Alliances and manipulation are key
Differences Between Tasuketsu and Talentless Nana
- Talentless Nana follows a main character secretly trying to kill the kids with superpowers.
- The powers in Talentless Nana are more flashy and battle-focused than the secretive and subtle rights in Tasuketsu.
- The light moments and brutal moments are a less jarring transition in Talentless Nana since it is about a girl manipulating people as she tries to kill them. Tasuketsu just has weird tone shifts.
Platinum End
After his parents died, Mirai Kakehashi was left in the care of abusive relatives. On the day he graduated from middle school, he decided to end his life.
As he jumps off a building, he is saved by Nasse, an angel that wishes to give him happiness and has chosen him as her candidate to become the next God.
However, there are twelve other candidates and some among them wish to take the power of a God by force.
Similarities Between Tasuketsu and Platinum End
- Survival game anime
- A large cast of characters are giving special, secret powers to use to their advantage
- Neither game started with characters killing each other, but they soon progressed there.
- Alliances and manipulation are key
- Complex, convoluted power systems that are swiftly, poorly explained.
Differences Between Tasuketsu and Platinum End
- Platinum End is very clear with why the game is happening, so it is more about “surviving/winning” the game rather than trying to figure out who is behind the game like Tasuketsu.
- Platinum End is more battle focused since the god candidates started trying to win the game by force.
- Platinum End has more of a romantic element to it.
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