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Death’s Game – The Reason You’re Going to Hell

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  • Title: Death’s Game – The Reason You’re Going to Hell
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Death's Game - The Reason You're Going to Hell

Death’s (Park So-dam) torture of Choi Yi-jae (Seo In-guk) continues as he finds himself in the body of a bullied teenager full of  suicidal thoughts similar to those that ended his own life. Using his experience, and a grown-up strength that appears to be to manifest through the young kid’s body, Choi Yi-jae finds ways to stand-up to the bully and even go further eventually become one himself which only leads events full circle and ends up in yet another death. Returned to Limbo once more we see Death remarking about how he has yet to learn from his experiences, although seeing the boy’s relationship with his mother he thinks back on his own mother for the first time since his original death.

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Death’s Game – Death

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  • Title: Death’s Game – Death
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Death's Game - Death

The opening episode of Death’s Game introduces us to Choi Yi-jae (Seo In-guk) who commits suicide after years of frustration of not being able to make something of his life. After he dies, he finds himself confronted by Death (Park So-dam) who doesn’t take kindly to his actions or his disparagement of her in his suicide note. As punishment, Death will reincarnate Choi Yi-jae into 12 different lives, all about to die, forcing him to experience death over and over again. However, if in any of these lives he can avoid death he will be allowed to live out that person’s life to a natural end.

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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters – Will the Real May Please Stand Up?

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  • Title: Monarch: Legacy of Monsters – Will the Real May Please Stand Up?
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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - Will the Real May Please Stand Up?

From the episode’s title, you can probably guess that this is the episode the dives into May’s (Kiersey Clemons) past and explores what she’s been running from. Given the foreshadowing and build-up, the reveal is a bit underwhelming but how events of the episode unfold do have ripples across the MonsterVerse beyond just this series as it relates to Applied Experimental Technologies. Needing help finding the friend they basically already abandoned, Cate (Anna Sawai) and Kentaro (Ren Watabe) team up with Tim (Joe Tippett) eventually leading to Monarch stepping in and helping procure her release, allowing her to rejoin the halfsiblings in their search.

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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters – Terrifying Miracles

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  • Title: Monarch: Legacy of Monsters – Terrifying Miracles
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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - Terrifying Miracles

After more of a concentration on current events and flashbacks into the pasts of Cate (Anna Sawai) and Kentaro (Ren Watabe), “Terrifying Miracles” brings back the 50s storyline with flashbacks that run through several import moments in Monarch history. We get a holiday party flashback to party in the 50s party which teases the romantic undercurrent between Keiko (Mari Yamamoto) and Lee (Wyatt Russell) which plays into a later flashback when Lee chooses Keiko over Monarch pushing control of the organization into the bigoted military officer played by Matthew MacCaull who doubts every aspect of it. The flashbacks also show the return of Godzilla, a secret Lee chooses to keep from the military given the shake-up within the organization.

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Yu Yu Hakusho – Episode 1

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  • Title: Yu Yu Hakusho – Episode 1
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Yu Yu Hakusho - Episode 1

Adapted from the manga of the same name, Yu Yu Hakusho introduces us to troubled but honorable teen Yusuke Urameshi (Takumi Kitamura) who dies in the first episode and returns to life as a spirit detective to investigate appearances of Yōkai and demons escaping from the underworld through a giant pit. Given that so much of the episode focuses on Yusuke’s life prior to death, we get to know far more about him than the odd circumstances he finds himself in. Originally fine with moving on to heaven or hell and forgoing the offer to return, our protagonist agrees to help save those he left behind.

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