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Final Draft
Business World Philippines
|August 18, 2025
Under the cold light of a snowy mountain, they gather not as rookies on the rise, but as athletes once crowned and summoned back for another climb. Loaded with backpacks, they stumble uphill to a finish line that marks the first of a series of competitions promising ¥30 million to the last one standing.
It is Final Draft, Netflix Japan’s answer to the survival-competition craze, and its conceit is equally blunt and compelling. What becomes of former champions when the games they hitherto excelled in have relegated them to the dustbins of history?
On paper, the format is brazenly familiar.
This story is from the August 18, 2025 edition of Business World Philippines.
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