Name: Battle Royale
ISBN: 9781598162035

Masayuki Taguchi

Koushun Takami

A 9th grade class is forced into a fight to the death on a reality television program, demonstrating the lengths to which the government will go to prevent school violence.

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Japanese series about "The Program" a game that picks random classes and puts them on an abandoned island for a televised fight to the death"...

Laura Springall

I can't even think straight. I have a lot of emotions right now, and I have no idea how to deal with them! I think that may have been THE best mnaga series I have ever read!

After their initial plan to take down The Program fails, Shinji Mimura and Yutaka Sato put their backup plan in motion. Having located all the supplies necessary to put together a crude bomb, the pair are all set to deliver their package right where it will do the most damage...the school which serves as The Program control center. The only problem is that the school is in a permanent danger zone. Shinji believes he's found a way around this. Or more specifically, above this. Meanwhile, Sho Tsukioka has never been what you would call a normal 9th grader. Flamboyantly gay, and damn proud of it, he believes the key to surviving The Program is to tail its likely winner, Kazuo. Kazuo, however, may have other plans. Finally, in what may be the most blackly comic Battle Royale vignette yet, Hiro Shimizu has seen her best friend turn on her, her other best friend murdered, and has now taken a bullet herself. While her wound may not be lethal, her bad luck, it would appear, just might be.

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Hannah Levy

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Sugimura meets up with Kotohiki. Sugimura's excitement leads him to forget what the situation was, and how dangerous it still is. Sugimura and Kotohiki exchange a few words, as they head toward Shuuya's group. Unfortunately, Kiriyama catches up to them, and Sugimura has to fight him in order to protect Kotohiki.

Yuko has trouble coping with the deaths of her friends, while Shuyya must come to terms with his failure to save the girls that rescued him.

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