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Summary: Reminds me of driving past a car wreck . . .you have to look
Review: If you know anything about this series, you know it's not for the faint of heart. The story takes place in the not-too-distant future, in Tokyo, Japan. For reasons unexpalined in this volume, a "game show" has been introduced into society as a sick sort of entertainment. 42 teens, 21 girls and 21 boys, are pitted against one another, and the sole survivor (the one who isn't killed by his peers) is the winner.In a world that is now besieged with numerous reality shows, this extreme game doesn't feel as far off as it should. The graphic content doesn not horrify me as much as the probability of this apocalyptic future. The artwork is graphic and disturbing, yet the characters are still beautiful. The main character's, Shuuya's, childhood flashbacks add to the depressing overtones of the "program." We see Shuuya laughing and playing as a child, and we wonder if the next page will spell doom for that said friend. The story is compelling and you read on as if you're passing by a highway accident; you just have to look. This volume is very gory and deptressing (but thought provoking.) Is it something we have to dread in our future?!? As for the previous reviews, this is definitely NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN. But then again, it's written for adults. It comes shrinkwrapped for a reason. Oh, and typing in all caps doesn't validate your opinion. But then again, I'd like to say: THANKS TOKYOPOP!
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Summary: Reminds me of driving past a car wreck . . .you have to look
Review: If you know anything about this series, you know it's not for the faint of heart. The story takes place in the not-too-distant future, in Tokyo, Japan. For reasons unexpalined in this volume, a "game show" has been introduced into society as a sick sort of entertainment. 42 teens, 21 girls and 21 boys, are pitted against one another, and the sole survivor (the one who isn't killed by his peers) is the winner. In a world that is now besieged with numerous reality shows, this extreme game doesn't feel as far off as it should. The graphic content doesn not horrify me as much as the probability of this apocalyptic future. The artwork is graphic and disturbing, yet the characters are still beautiful. The main character's, Shuuya's, childhood flashbacks add to the depressing overtones of the "program." We see Shuuya laughing and playing as a child, and we wonder if the next page will spell doom for that said friend. The story is compelling and you read on as if you're passing by a highway accident; you just have to look. This volume is very gory and deptressing (but thought provoking.) Is it something we have to dread in our future?!? As for the previous reviews, this is definitely NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN. But then again, it's written for adults. It comes shrinkwrapped for a reason. Oh, and typing in all caps doesn't validate your opinion. But then again, I'd like to say: THANKS TOKYOPOP!
Rating:
Summary: Compeling, if not extremely violent.
Review: If you want an exciting story with great characterization and dark social satire then check out the novel or the movie. If you want to see students slaughtering each other interspersed with brief "Here's what I was like before I died!" vignettes then read the manga. After seeing the hatchet job Keith Giffen did to this book (as well as Battle Vixens) I've come to the conclusion that he must really hate manga. The plot gets boiled down to it's "GOVERNMENT BAD! YOU KILL NOW!!!!" essentials. And the oddly cartoony artwork creates a jarring juxtaposition to the "money shot" moments of violence.
Rating: 
Summary: Cheaper than the dvd... But not better...
Review: If you want an exciting story with great characterization and dark social satire then check out the novel or the movie. If you want to see students slaughtering each other interspersed with brief "Here's what I was like before I died!" vignettes then read the manga. After seeing the hatchet job Keith Giffen did to this book (as well as Battle Vixens) I've come to the conclusion that he must really hate manga. The plot gets boiled down to it's "GOVERNMENT BAD! YOU KILL NOW!!!!" essentials. And the oddly cartoony artwork creates a jarring juxtaposition to the "money shot" moments of violence.
Rating:
Summary: Cheaper than the dvd... But not better...
Review: If you want an exciting story with great characterization and dark social satire then check out the novel or the movie. If you want to see students slaughtering each other interspersed with brief "Here's what I was like before I died!" vignettes then read the manga. After seeing the hatchet job Keith Giffen did to this book (as well as Battle Vixens) I've come to the conclusion that he must really hate manga. The plot gets boiled down to it's "GOVERNMENT BAD! YOU KILL NOW!!!!" essentials. And the oddly cartoony artwork creates a jarring juxtaposition to the "money shot" moments of violence.
Rating:
Summary: Disgusting
Review: It's hard to say what makes the novel Battle Royale an engaging and thought-provoking narrative, while this manga is exactly what critics of the book might accuse it of being: repulsive, non-stop violence with no redemptive value at all. I think a manga was a good chance to improve on the novel by giving visual dimensions to some of its more striking setpieces, but this version is no good. I think that the maker of the manga was honestly trying to follow the spirit of the book, and that it's his failure to understand basic narrative technique that makes it unreadable. The manga is so long because it spends a great deal of time focusing on each character - good, you'd think, but spending half of a volume telling the life story of a character who will presently die in a minor incident actually harms the story. The book, where a lot of the deaths are treated more tersely, actually generates a greater sense of sympathy. This writer doesn't know to focus on what's important - the story could have been told much better in half as much space. Then there's the art. The characters, all of them supposedly average junior high students, either look like gorgeous caucasian twentysomething models or like repulsive gnomes. Some characters (Yutaka especially) are just so ugly you can't bear to look at them; and not ugly in a realistic way, but superdeformed. The artist's command of nature, explosions etc. is a little better, but it seems like almost anyone else could have done a better job.
That said, it deserves at least two stars for telling the Battle Royale story, but the book is superior in every way.
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Summary: Oh, Amazon, Let Me Use the "F" Word Just this ONCE
Review: Okay, here's another word. RAPE. I adore Battle Royale, both in book and movie format. And so I am here to tell you: this story has been RAPED and left in a gutter somewhere. I could illustrate just why I don't like it, but I believe that saying it was an act of RAPE will be enough.
Rating:
Summary: extreamly violent manga...........
Review: parents beware of this...... Battle royale tells the story bout 40 student raffeld to play death. there phycotic and perverted teacher enjoys watching them kill eachother......VERY GRAPHIC!!!! its more violent than the movie. There is even a rape scene between the teacher and a mother. AND BOOK3!!!! DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED. THEY TURNED A MOVIE MASTERPIECE IN TO A PIECE OF CRAP...THANX ALOT TOKYO POP!!!!1 THE PART WITH YOSHI GETTING SHOT IN THE MOUTH JUST MADE ME SICK! IF YOU HAVE KIDS UNDER 18 DONT LET THEM READ THIS DISGRACE!
Rating:
Summary: extreamly violent manga...........
Review: parents beware of this...... Battle royale tells the story bout 40 student raffeld to play death. there phycotic and perverted teacher enjoys watching them kill eachother......VERY GRAPHIC!!!! its more violent than the movie. There is even a rape scene between the teacher and a mother. AND BOOK3!!!! DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED. THEY TURNED A MOVIE MASTERPIECE IN TO A PIECE OF CRAP...THANX ALOT TOKYO POP!!!!1 THE PART WITH YOSHI GETTING SHOT IN THE MOUTH JUST MADE ME SICK! IF YOU HAVE KIDS UNDER 18 DONT LET THEM READ THIS DISGRACE!
Rating:
Summary: Wonderful.
Review: The story is unique. I must admit, I have not read the book, but I have seen the movie. It felt as though the movie moved by far way too fast, and you never really had a chance to get in touch with the characters. This allows you to do so, as well as understand so much more. I find myself growing attached to certain characters, and hating others. Seeing it in pictures dramtizes the actual event and makes you understand it. It is like a mixture of a book and a movie. It has the suspense a movie does, and the feelings a movie does, as well as the slow pace and the character/personality detail that a book contains. That is why this is absolutely wonderful. It entrances your mind and you find yourself reading it over again and again, I must say though, not for the young/innocent of mind. It can traumatize.
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