Anya x Zakuro or Onigasaki x Zakuro
Anime Spotlight - The Ones Within
I enjoyed this series as it was full of quirky characters and an intriguing premise and mystery. The down side it has a very anime ending and none of the mysteries are solved but I live in hope it means another series.
The plot is a series of strange disappearances have been occurring throughout Japan, and despite the police's efforts, no leads have been found apart from the fact that all of the victims were youths. Akatsuki Iride, a friendly and amicable teenage boy, is a popular uploader of "Let's Play" videos, one of his latest uploads consisting of an F2P game called "The Ones Within - Genome". Although online rumours claim that the game causes anyone who clears it to disappear, Akatsuki is wholly unaware until the rumours prove true -- he is summoned to a completely different world, and meets other teenagers like him: Karin Sarayashiki, Kaikoku Onigasaki, Himiko Inaba, Anya Kudou, Yuzu Roromori, Zakuro Oshigiri and Makino Aikawa. The eight teenagers are welcomed into what is known as the 13th Avenue, headed over by a strange man with an alpaca mask calling himself "Paca", and are informed of their task: to work together in clearing stages of the game and retrieving the "chromosome", a keycard-like token of completion, to subsequently reach 100 million viewers in this livestream where death and injury can all occur. Resistance is not tolerated; those who do are imprisoned in what is known as the "White Room" to wait alone for the rest in the Avenue to complete the game. Henceforth begins their trials in clearing this game, but what lies in wait for them is not only dangerous obstacles, with each member having a hidden past and dark secrets of their own.
So not as harsh as I like and not as game of death as I thought it was but still a like the idea of characters having to get a certain amount of views. It was doing a lot of world building and hunting at the back stories of the characters and things not being as they seem. I like a social commentary anime and though its done better in Classroom of the Elite this still remains a fun series and I really liked the characters and their relationships. I really want to know more about the world, the backstory, who or what is Alpaca.