Btooom!: Episode 1

                                                 How dense is this guy....like honestly?

Episode Rating: 6/10

I must say, that Btooom! so far does not look to appealing, but this might just be how they executed the first episode.

First of all they start by introducing the game and I actually liked that they only used bombs. I can see how different strategies could be deployed with a different selection of bombs.

However the overall episode in my opinion was just a tad confusing and choppy. So first of it starts with him playing the game where he is finally able to reach the top ten in the world in terms of ranks in the game. Then all of a sudden, the screen displays the word "Start" and he is in the middle of a island and people are trying to kill him. 

I'm pretty sure that this will be explained in the following episode, but after just watching through the episode, I was mostly confused for the most part and I really did not have any interest what so ever in seeing what happens to Sakamoto in the next episode.

Now let's get on with Sakamoto himself, I gotta say that he looks very weird at the beginning. He had so much indents in his face that it made it seem like it was really off. His actual character however was that of a normal geek, but more so because he was actually considered one of the best at the game Btooom! You can see his cocky nature in the beginning but it is actual backed by the fact that he is really smart when it comes to the game. However when it goes to real life, you can see how his attitude changes drastically and he becomes a totally scared, but that's normal for anyone who is suddenly put in a life/death situation. 

I must say though, even though he can strategically plan as to how he will win and beat the other person, I must say that the biggest face palm moment, was so big that I really wanted to scream at him through my screen. For the bomb, basically there was a timer until it exploded...... honestly after playing Btooom! so much and also just from common sense, how did it take him so long to figure out that it was a timer? I was so shocked because any logical person could see that their was a timer and he wasted 2 bombs because he couldn't figure this out, it was just to impossible to be true!

I gotta say that I was pretty disappointed in this episode because he truly lacked in terms of information as well as common sense. Also, overall the flow of this episode was very choppy and was often hard to comprehend. I can`t say I really want to continue watching it but I will since I still have hope that this was just a one time thing, and I also really like this concept of combat so far.