Well, second season of Liar Game is over. And oh my. The writers really managed to piece something interesting together, although it's not without a few confusing moments and holes. Thankfully, rather than invent entirely new content, the writers lifted things from previous manga chapters and Roots of A. Spoilers lie within. Obviously.
Round "four" of the drama was merely the manga's revival round, played pretty much by the book. After that, things starting going a little awry. A new antagonist, Katsuragi was introduced. This lovely lolita was a former classmate of Akiyama's, every bit as a sharp as him, and entirely ruthless. She took Yokoya's place in Round "five" (the manga's round four) in the "Angels and Demons" game (manga's Infection game). Additionally, Fukunaga stuck with our team through Angels and Demons, replacing Bandana from the manga. The drama suddenly introduces a new game, Gold Rush, which is essentially a rehash of the contraband game. Gold Rush basically plays the second half of the manga's round three, which was cut and rewritten in the first season so that Nao and Akiyama actually won it. In the end, only Akiyama and Fukunaga are given the rights to play in the final round. Whaaa?
Katsuragi makes a great "villain" for this series. Her personality was even more threatening than Yokoya's, although I think in the end she started losing her edge because her backstory was pretty weak. Flashbacks show her and Akiyama in school together, and the Roots of A story is revealed. Except instead of Akiyama performing above and beyond on his profiling assignment, he's a loser and Katsuragi is the one who figures out the true story instead. Although I'm happy they threwback to Roots of A, the looming threat of "Katsuragi once defeated Akiyama many years ago," suddenly becomes "Oh hey, she got a better grade than he did on ONE homework assignment. Oh noes?"
And then there's Yokoya. Whaaaat? All throughout the series, we see random flashes of Yokoya playing the same games as the rest of our heroes and totally owning. So there are concurrent Liar Games running. I can deal with that. But how on earth did Yokoya come back in the first place? Didn't he lose in round three? And if they DID bring him back, why did they bother to set up a new opponent? AND (this is most important), why did you go to all the trouble of showing him again and setting him up as a challenging opponent when he was just going to withdraw from the game at the end of Round Five? O_<>
Anyway, looks like Yokoya dropping out makes room for Nao to participate in the final round after all (all this to be revealed in the movie). Although really, all you have to say is that someone dropped out. It didn't have to be Yokoya... Movie preview shows Nao on a boat heading to an island, which indicates that the finale might be Musical Chairs. There's no guarantee, but so far it seems that while the writers don't mind mixing up the story, they're loathe to mess with the actual games.
Also, here are some screencaps from the movie preview for all you NaoxAkiyama shippers.
--Ou-bento
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