Episode 1 Article

01: Even you can fall for "type panic" swindling


Finally, the story of “stupidly honest” Nao and “genius swindler” Akiyama’s adventure begins.

We will take a look at first episode, at those that can “embrace deceptions”. The nice elders of this country (not only them, but most suffering from phone frauds are lonely elders), can easily “embrace deception”! Akiyama plans to use this to save Nao.

I will leave it to the show to explain how he does that.

Anyway, no matter how much media cover well known fraud cases, many will still fall for the same tricks. Seeing that many people shakes their head.

“Didn’t they read the news paper and watch the news?” “If those elders are stupid enough to get deceived, they deserve it.”

In short, increasingly, “normal adults” are think there’s no way they can be deceived by scams they heard of before.

Yet, there is still a considerable probability that people who normally have sound judgment would fall for those tricks. You are not different.

The secret of “embracing deception” is that, first, “panic” robs victims of their normal reasoning ability. After their judgment is impaired, they quite willingly extend a “helping hand.”

Try to imagine, your close relative, suddenly become involved in an accident. Your cute grandchild crashed his car into someone, got caught by the police, and now faces a huge compensation payment. Oh, by the way, it looks like he can’t avoid jail…

When faced with this sort of situation, everyone would panic.

When people panic, their common sense drops by half. When we say panic, we are talking about the over-excitement of brain cell induced by emergencies. You would think if your brain cells are that active in that state, you would be more capable than normal, but in reality, it’s the opposite. What get demonstrated instead are things like “idiocy during a fire,” where things you can do very easily suddenly become very hard. This has been proven by many psychology experiments.

That’s why many deaths in fires and other catastrophes are caused by people not noticing the closest exit, and instead head to a farther exit thus increasing their exposure to danger. If it had been a normal situation, those people would have been able to make the right judgment.



The rest of the write up is kind of boring so I am just going to translate in a very concise manner… You should get the idea:

There are ways to fight panic.
1) Talk to others.
2) Practice staying calm.
3) Relax.

And to close off the write up… this psychiatrist advertised Liar Game by telling you to relax by watching Liar Game with friends and family. Lol.