Real Account, Vol. 7

リアルアカウント [Real Account] #7

by Shizumu Watanabe (Artist), Okushou

BACK TO REALITY Yuma and the other players finally leave the Real Account Zone, only to encounter a new level of cruelty in the real world! Enter the sixth game of Real Account—Social-Network Tag—where a 100-million-yen bounty is placed on each player’s head. The world has now gone mad with villainous greed, and Yuma and his crew are forced to run for their lives! It’s up to the reawakened Yuma and his brilliantly strategic mind to come out on top and fight to bring down Real Account itself, but before he can accomplish his mission, a strangely familiar figure stands in his way!

Genres: Manga, Horror, Science Fiction, Shonen, Young Adult

210 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 16, 2016

About the author

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Reviews

[DonutKnow · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's so weird that I'm starting to like Mizuki Kurashina- he's not a conventional character, that's for sure.

Also, I don't really get Yuma? Is he okay? Really, what is going on with him?

[Rebecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

What I enjoy about this series is that it knows it's exploitative trash - that's the whole point of it. It's holding a mirror up to social media obsession/addiction and trying to show how cruel people can be when their victim is on the other side of a screen...so that when that victim is suddenly in front of them, their boundaries are long gone.

[Victor The Reader · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yuma and the others may be out of the RA world, but the sick deadly games continue. He and the others must survive when they are targeted for a deadly snapshot activity and endless types of chaos ensues. The near end gives us an unexpected and shocking reunion for Yuma. A- (91%/Excellent)

[Kai Charles(Fiction State Of Mind) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Coyer Summer Bash

The players are thrust into the real world with murderous results. Now thousands of people are tracking the players for a cash reward. The violence level is high in this issue but also the social commentary about the effect of social media on the general public.

[sliceofmini · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5/5
Chapter 33 : now that's a power couple !!!

Can't deny this is getting stale now. This volume is just a lot of fanservice and going back and forth. The ending ... Was ok ? Not super intrigued tho.

[Justin · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm reading this online, so I'm not 100% sure exactly where this volume ends--so if I'm a chapter short or long, I apologize. But oh man, is this series going down a less than ideal path.

So, volume six ended with the people trapped in RA, getting released back into the real world...where a mob of other people start tearing the clothes off of one of them. Volume seven explains this as a new game, where each of them has been branded with a "Marble Mark," and if anyone successfully scans it with their phones, QR code-style, the marked person dies, and the photographer gets a crapload of money. It's really just a way to amp up the fanservice to 11, and man, does this volume go out of its way to put the female characters into situations where they have to be naked. Even when it doesn't make sense. Particularly when Ayame and Chiho head to a public bath, to try and hide in plain sight. They get found out, and are initially stopped from escaping by an electrified pool in front of the exit...which they get through by stripping off their wet swimsuits, and throwing them into the shallow pool, which somehow insulates them from the electricity...yeah...

Apart from that, we've got Yuma struggling with what amounts to Dissociative Identity Disorder, and swinging wildly between his helpful side, and his "everyone should just die" side. There's also the addition of, and I quote, "Derp Marbles," which are like...contortionist sociopaths in Marble outfits, who don't feel pain, and are inexplicably hard to kill, and only speak in Internet memes, and...you know, whatever you're picturing, it's probably even dumber than that. Unless they're revealed to be robots or something later on, they're bringing this series dangerously close to jumping the shark.

Pretty much the only good thing about this volume is that it finally ties back into the events of the first couple volumes, where we had that first bunch of characters. That'll be enough to keep me reading for a bit, but man, the tone of this series has shifted in a really unfortunate way.

[Marianna Rainolter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Da quanti volumi aspettavo questo momento, quanti!? Si, l'incontro tra Yuuma e Ataru avviene alla fine di questo volume (SPOILER, scusate!) mentre prima la nuova sfida del gioco prevede una guardia e ladri con omicidio tra i giocatori di ReAc e persone del mondo reale. Un gioco pericoloso e adrenalinico, pieno di sorprese e incontri. Il nuovo Yuuma non ho ancora ben capito se mi piace o meno, sicuramente è intrigante ma altro non so dire; non nego però di essere rimasta sconvolta da questo cambio repentino di personalità che si contrappone a quella di Ataru e voglio vedere dove andrà a finire, cosa accadrà ora che i due si incontrano faccia a faccia e interagiscono. Ultima considerazione: meno male che è successo perché altrimenti non so quanto ancora avrei proseguito la serie...

[XZ · Rating 3 out of 5]

So they wake up in the real world now, and find themselves bounty hunted by real non-player humans AND by insane zombie Marbles of all shapes and sizes. All they've gotta do is to survive past the game time and do missions in between. This is absolutely terrifying stuff that's nightmare fuel.

Of course Yuma decides that the best place to go is his house.

Makes sense since he wants to find out the truth and the previous volumes basically tie his existence to the entire Real Account thing. But I don't have a good feeling about this.

[Kris Ritchie · Rating 4 out of 5]

While Yuma and others are back in the real world, the plot beneath how RA got its start seems to begin to show!

Also our twins finally meet! Time for some answers next volume!

[David Doel · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm back to five stars because of the promise offered by the final chapter of this volume. It reflects back to the situation in volumes 1 and 2 and promises some good reading ahead. This is my final volume, so I won't get to read it unless I find volumes 8 and up in my local book store.

[Acacia Weber · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay so

So okay this is getting better and intense, but I dunno I can't keep reading but I don't really like it

[Jillian -always aspiring- · Rating 2 out of 5]

2020 Read #362

I don’t think much is off-limits in this series by this point...

[El · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was fully absorbed in this book couldn't put it down

[MLOOOOOOOOOO · Rating 1 out of 5]

the plot was initially what interested me. but now the story is just getting messier and gross with the pedophilia and incest themes….don’t really feel like continuing this series anymore.

[Katherine B. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm really not quite sure what's happening here, but it's brutal.

[Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

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2-2.5 stars

[Thomas Maluck · Rating 1 out of 5]

This series was very polite to repeatedly signal that its previous format of "social media death games" has made way for bloody chases and beyond-fanservice-or-social-commentary nudity.

Opens up my TBR pile for better manga. Thanks!

[Soo · Rating 4 out of 5]

04/24/2024 Notes:

Heavy on violence, creepy causalities, surface blast of everything sucks and snippets of clues to string me along. 🙃 Only one more volume on KU. May add series to buy list.

[Nina Tran · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ok so Real account is like a survival game for people who use social media and whoever that does not have many follower or fame will die. Which is an amazing concept and I really love it. It has beautiful art and wonderful storyline that make you want to keep on reading. I’m still currently waiting for the new release of the next volume and can’t wait to see what it has to offer. I would recommend this to anyone who use social media because it's good.