Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table, Vol. 5

Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table Light Novel #5

by Yushi Ukai

One night, Yuki returns home to find an arrestingly beautiful girl standing outside her apartment building—Tamano, whom she falsely promised to accept as her apprentice during Halloween Night. Now obligated to take her under her wing, Yuki reluctantly begins the process of training Tamano and finds herself growing attached. While this is happening, Yuki reaches out to Rinrin, a retired player who had a successful career as a death game player despite being blind, in the hopes of learning her techniques. Later, Yuki takes on Royal Palace, a game themed around brutal one-on-one sword duels. But with her right eye now completely sightless, will she have any chance of surviving the competition?

171 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 25, 2023

Reviews

[Raymond Estrella · Rating 5 out of 5]

This volume is kind of like reading on Page 1 "At the end of the book I'm going to shoot you in the head" and you spend the whole time reading in dread thinking "I sure hope they were joking and won't shoot me in the head," then you get to the end of the book and get shot in the head.

[An · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favorite of the first five (EN ver.) volumes released so far.


This chapter was honestly exceptional with its showcase of the relationship between Yuki and Tamamo. The build-up was cute and believable, and the ending still lives rent-free in my head. I eagerly await an official English version of the manga / anime adaptation bringing their interactions even further to life.

[Nick · Rating 5 out of 5]

This series is absolutely wild. I tore through these five volumes in just about a week. Yuki trains a protege then kills her while blond within the course of a single book. If that wasn’t enough she encounters a hallucination of herself at the end? Just when you think you’ve figured out the world mechanics you get another curve ball. It turns out Rinrin may be a longer lasting partner than Tamamo given the preview of the next book.

[Carson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Second best one so far I think behind volume 3

[Cassie · Rating 2 out of 5]

They said the thing! I don’t know, I just feel like they could be doing more, but at the same time I enjoy it…so I don’t know.

[꒰ vanilla ꒱ · Rating 4 out of 5]

holy hell i got spoiled but the ending still broke my heart :(