Wednesday, April 16, 2014

No Game No Life - ep01&02


The premise of the two NEET sibling abandoned their world for a different one is interesting. The reason is it applies toward the modern structure of society. Currently in society it is greatly motivate by it's desire to be entertained more so than any other moment in history. This is why a large portion of societies economy is structure around the production of television, movies, video-games, books, and music. That the mass seek a form of escapism and this is manifested in the entertainment industry and the sibling recognize this that is why when the provide a chance the leave their world they take.

Now with their arrival in this new world where everything is decide by games the sibling are very much at home. Things real get started when Sora scams the woman out of all the she owns with a single hand in poker. This illustrates to point of the world is not fairness but the 10 commandments that the world is founded on. If Tet wants overall fairness he would have had it illegal to cheat like all the other crimes, instead you are only punish with an automatic loss if you are caught. This seems to be the theme of the world everyone cheats the most successful just aren't caught. Then through seeing how honest and straight forward Stephanie is he feels for her because he know that her opponent is cheating. This leads him to warn her about it, which would have allow her to win by calling her on it but she does nothing about it.

This sets up the second half of the introduction with Stephanie confronting Sora about what he said even-though it's clear what the outcome was. This leads to Sora provoking Steph into playing a game with him since you can use game to solve disputes. That use the game of rock-paper-scissors to show her why she lost and to prove to her that just because it is a game there is no assurance that it is going to be fair. This proven when he says that he won't choose paper that in the end she choose scissor which can only win against the on thing he can't pick but she choose it because of his stare cause her to doubt herself. That Sora show her how naïve she is by making it clear what he wanted if he won it just that she assume he wanted a place to stay since he is new to this world.


That what he ask from her is for her to fall in love with him. Although this results in Shiro belittling him on his choice and should of said for her to become his property instead. However that wouldn't have been as funny as seeing Steph trying to prevent herself from falling for Sora. It is also very telling on how absolute the rule set forth by Tet are. Then from her we learn a lot more about the world how there are 16 race and Humanity is the lowest because they have no affinity for magic. This is also why they are in the worst position in this world because the other races use it to cheat, while they can't even tell if it is being use are not. That things are even worse because the kingdom of Elkia is Humanities last territory, that this also express the importance of yesterdays game. However it seems that Sora believes that everything would be over as soon as the next king is crowned. That this leads us into Sora next goal in this world is to become king. The question is how will he be able to carry this out since the direct approach is the worst tactic to use in this world.

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