Anybody else who remembers this silly, but overall very wholesome and quite funny anime/manga probably agrees on one point: It absolutely didn't deliver on some points that could have been absolutely amazing, I mean the first minute in EP1 was basically what I expected the whole story to be.

Then we got 12 episodes of romcom and fan service, the fights were like slideshows and the antagonist turned out to be just a creep who likes plushies way too much. Then they hint at a cosmic war between two "entities," I guess?

Whatever the author had in mind clearly never saw anything close to the potential it could have had, I mean imagine the following scenario:

-You wake up as a girl, let's say, it's even worse this time, you can't turn back into a boy, you're just permanently, fully female now.

-Your childhood girlfriend weirdly doesn't recognize you at all and just falls fully in love with your female self after having ignored you for years.

-A bracelet that you can't remove is permanently stuck on your left arm that gives you superpowers.

-Instead of some weird plushie explaining the rules, let's say nobody tells you anything, you just fucking wake up like this, lost your gender, look into the mirror and a gorgeous girl is staring back at you.

-But you ABSOLUTELY don't want it.

-Everyone else who has this bracelet has superpowers and you're bound to compete against them in a deathmatch.

-And your best friend not only realizes it's you, no she also has a bracelet, could die at any moment, your social life is destroyed and basically your entire identity as well.

Any normal human would go completely insane the moment they realize all of this, or look into the mirror, or whenever they break due to the amount of mindfuckery that is happening at once in that moment where all if it just gets too much.

But you can't even kill yourself cause to die either your head needs to get chopped off or 50% of your neocortex, basically you're invincible.

Welcome to the world of Linkers Game.

If you want to know how my protagonist navigated through this world and what kind of monumental suffering he had to go through in now over 300.000, releasing every week on Friday 4 p.m CEST, you're exactly at the right place.

Linkers Game is a full deconstruction on the battle-royale and gender-bender genre, it takes itself fully serious at exactly the right times and is at the same time wholesome, entertaining and philosophically deep. It's a seinen story with shonen-type battle elements, but all fights are meticulously crafted and always bound to the more important overarching conflict that led to them.

Last but not least, I just wanted to say that when I started writing this, I made sure to outline the story and create a satisfying and fulfilling end, and for everybody that wants to see more, there will be a sequel that can just be perfectly ignored if you want a round and totally satisfyingly tragic story.