Darwin's Game

High schooler Kaname Sudou is pulled into something he doesn’t understand when a classmate invites him to try “Darwin’s Game,” an unfamiliar mobile app. The moment he opens it, a green snake bursts from the screen and bites his neck, knocking him out. He later wakes in the school infirmary with no trace of a wound, is told to go home for the day, and tries to write the whole incident off as a strange hallucination.

Curiosity wins out, and Kaname launches the app again, expecting a normal battle game. That illusion shatters when his first opponent appears in the real world and comes after him with a knife. Forced to flee, Kaname realizes Darwin’s Game isn’t entertainment at all—it’s a deadly contest where losing can mean not making it out alive.