I could've sworn that the author of Liar Game was the same as Death Note when I glanced at the front cover's style. It was not. And frankly, I'm glad because as much as I like psychology, I couldn't get through with Death Note because I disliked Light so much.
Liar Game was much more in tune with my likings. The story was pretty unique and was full of twists and turns. Usually I like to hypothesize and come up with a theory of how it's going to end on my own, but the characters' thought process is so far advanced that I just couldn't catch up at all and had to wait for the explanations. The manga completely tore down my confidence in guessing the outcome. Only thing I can say is that good thing I was not in the Liar Game or I would have lost with a debt that beats everyone else's debt in the manga.
The art was pretty meh, it's nothing glamorous but not the worst thing out there. And while I am not a fan of it, I admit that it gives the manga a nice psychological gothic feel.
I hated Nao Kanzaki at first, she was stupid, a crybaby, gullible to a fault, the type of girl that was detestable. However, she developed and good thing she did or I would have dropped it. She still is pretty naive in the end but is no longer a crybaby and is much stronger. The real star of the manga in my opinion though, was Akiyama. He is a boy genius with an IQ of over 9000 and manages to be comical at times with his nonchalance and constant trolling. Another honorable mention is one of my favorite characters in the manga, Fukunaga. Avoiding gender pronouns here, I will just say the name. Fukunaga started out selfish and money hungry and ended as a lovable character who also brings comedy to the table.
I enjoyed the manga a lot but there are two things which unsettled me, both which can be disagreeable. One, the ending, Im not going to spoil it but the ending seems kinda a letdown. I read 201 chapters and the ending was just like "wait...what....thats it?" It just seems like a not good enough excuse for the whole mess of the Liar Game and I find it hard to believe the players were not even angry. The second disappointment, and a disagreeable one to many is the wish for romance in it. I seriously wish for some romantic development between Aliyama and Kanzaki with Yokoya as a hinted love rival being the shoujo manga obsessed fool I was. However, there was hardly even a smidge of romance, only two times Akiyama made Nao blushed, and that was all. In the end i was left to produce mental fanfictions between the characters as I read.