<![CDATA[I'm Standing on a Million Lives is a work currently being serialized in Bessatsu Shonen Magazine. It is the story of the protagonists who are suddenly summoned to a game world one day, and are forced to play an RPG set in a virtual world, with the condition that they will die if they fail to complete the quest presented to them. It is a work with a setting similar to SAO and Log Horizon, which are MMORPGs, and GANTZ, which recently started its Edo period arc. I would like to explain the plot of "I'm Standing on a Million Lives"!
Synopsis 1: Yotsuya Yusuke is suddenly summoned to the world of a game
One day, Yotsuya Yusuke, a third-year junior high school boy with no friends, is suddenly summoned to the world of a game. His female classmates Shindo Iu and Hakozaki Kosue are also participants in the game, and Yusuke is summoned as the third player. Although he didn't die by attacking a train, Yotsuya Yusuke and the two girls are summoned in a GANTZ-like manner, and begin to take action to complete the quest given to them by the half-naked game master.
General Rules
The player who is summoned as a hero will take on a randomly selected occupation, and their physical abilities and available skills will change depending on their occupation. In addition, players hardly feel pain, and even if they die, they can be revived after a cooldown if even one other player is alive, but they cannot be revived in a situation where they cannot be revived. Class changes occur when a player gains experience and reaches rank 10. If they fail to clear the quest within the time limit or all players die, the game is over and all players die in the real world.
Synopsis 2: Yotsuya Yusuke begins to act alone
The quest is to "complete the village chief's request." Yusuke dies a lot along the way and gets used to the feel of the game, but a troll appears along the way and preys on Shindo Iu, making it impossible for him to revive. As long as they complete the quest, everyone can return home alive, so they ignore Iu and try to complete the quest, but the request is to defeat the troll. Yusuke ignores Hakozaki Kosue, who is out of the fight, and starts acting alone to earn experience points... but in the meantime, Kosue is also preyed upon and cannot be revived, so Yusuke has to fight a dangerous enemy alone...
Synopsis 3: Meeting the fourth player, Tokidate Yuka, and the fourth week's quest
He somehow manages to clear the quest and briefly returns to his daily life. Yusuke receives an order from the game master to "pick up a specified girl," and goes to the girls' bathroom at night where the girl is, in order to increase his and Iu's survival rate. There, Yusuke encounters a scene where a girl is being held down by several other girls, stripped of her clothes, and photographed. The girl being photographed is the fourth player, Yuka Tokidate, and Yusuke, in order to ensure her survival, does not hesitate to smash all the girls' smartphones and rescue Yuka Tokidate.
Quest for the 4th week
The quest for the 4th week is to "deliver the package to Raddobo" and "traverse 5% of the map". With the addition of a new member, Tokidate Yuka, they aim to complete the quest, but the hero is not very strong, just immortal, and Iu is captured by bandits. Yusuke thinks that completing the quest means rescuing Iu, so he abandons Iu and prioritizes completing the quest. Meanwhile, Benisue and Yuka go to rescue Iu, but are easily captured. Yusuke has to do it alone again, but...
Accompanied by the female knight Kahabel
Yusuke fails to secure a means of transportation. If you do not secure a means of transportation, the quest will automatically fail. Therefore, Yusuke needed to do something. At that time, he conveniently remembered the bandit group that had captured the three. Since the players can recognize each other's locations, they leak the location of the bandit group to the Knights, which resulted in rescuing the three and securing a means of transportation, and then they head to Radbobo with the knight Kahabel.
Tokidate Yuka shows her tenacity
Despite various encounters and farewells, the group has completed the quest to deliver the package to Radbobo and is now aiming for another quest, which is to explore the map. However, they find out they must go through a heavy snow area to complete the map, and with little time left, they are forced to split into four groups and make a forced march. Immobilized by the heavy snow and in a hopeless situation, new member Tokidate Yuka somehow manages to move forward by sending her mind into the two-dimensional world. Her tenacity produces an unexpected miracle.
Synopsis 4: Meeting the fifth player, Torii Keita, and the fifth week's quest
After clearing the quest, Yusuke is summoned by the game master again in the real world, where he prevents the murder of Torii Keita, the older brother of two unfortunate brothers who have been used as a yakuza's assassin, and ultimately succeeds in rescuing him from the hands of the yakuza. And Torii Keita safely joins the fifth week's quest. The fifth week's quest was to "dedicate Jifon Bafo to Vaikudamania." Since it's a meaningless quest, I'll gather information and use my newly acquired function, which is called "Lula" in Dragon Quest, or teleportation (fast travel), to meet my former companion, Kahabel.
15 years have passed in the other world!?
In the game world, 15 years have passed. Kahabel has retired from being a knight and has two children. And, after gathering information, I found out that the quest was to successfully hold a harvest festival on Jiphon Island to offer high-quality meat to the gods. However, there was a reason why the harvest festival could not be held. The slaughter was avoided by offering high-quality meat to the orcs who had taken up residence on the island. In other words, the essence of this quest was to "eradicate the orcs who had taken up residence on the island."
Orc vs. Human
The orcs are more intelligent than ordinary monsters, and each one is stronger. The islanders are hopelessly disorganized, and there are only a few mercenaries who are professional fighters. In a hopeless situation, Yusuke uses the power of his new occupation "blacksmith" to create powerful weapons and try to turn the situation around, but in the middle of that, the orcs launch a surprise attack. Some people are connected to the orcs, and in exchange for helping their families, they are leaking information. As they fight their way through even more hopeless situations, Yusuke and his friends learn of someone close to the mastermind...
Summary of the plot of "I'm Standing on a Million Lives"
At first, it was a light mission, but before you know it, it seems to have become even tougher than GANTZ... The thrill of fighting through a hopeless situation and the funny and coolness of the main character, Yusuke Yotsuya, are very interesting! The original is currently in the middle of the fifth week, but how far will the anime go? I expect it to end in the fourth week! The more you watch it, the more interesting it becomes, so I definitely recommend it!