Both Pyramid Game and The Whirlwind share a common theme of intense competition and strategic planning, where characters often believe they have the upper hand, only to find out that their opponent had a more cunning plan all along. This creates a dynamic where the person who is watching is constantly on edge, thinking the antagonist has won, only to be surprised by a twist.
Just watch these and tell me what you think
Just watch these and tell me what you think
Unconscious after a car accident, university student Chun Yu and her best friend Qing You mysteriously find themselves inside the dangerous world of a VR game. Several other people have also unwittingly ended up here, and they soon discover they were all involved in the accident - except for substitute teacher Gao Xuan, who claims to have simply fallen asleep. Seeing no other option than to play the game, they eventually beat the level and wake up ... only to immediately return the next night. Faced with deadly monsters, puzzles, and mind games, the players have to learn to cooperate despite being unsure if they can trust each other. The pressure increases when it turns out that people who die in the game fall into a coma in real life. And then several more students are dragged into the game! The group spends their nights trying to survive the next level and their days investigating who is doing this to them and why. As they grow closer, friendships and budding romances are repeatedly put to the test by the stress of the situation and the evil machinations of the people behind the game...
They're both centered around a relationship between two girls and they're both dark high school dramas with plenty of ambiguous characters and some twisted depictions of love. Pyramid Game falls into less harmful stereotypes and Soshite is more explicitly queer but fans of one would enjoy the other
Every Thursday afternoon, once a month, students at Sarang High School cast their votes in a popularity poll. The result? A brutal ranking system that determines the entire social hierarchy of the school. After starting at the bottom, can new transfer student Su Ji make her way to the top of the pyramid? Or will she topple the game altogether?
