Battle Royale: Battle Royale, Book 2 [Paperback]

Product Details

Paperback: 216 pages
Publisher: TokyoPop (July 15, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1591823153
ISBN-13: 978-1591823155
Product Dimensions: 6 x 10.9 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 7 ounces

Battle Royale, Book 2 [Paperback]

Customer Evaluations

Possessing read the book and noticed the film, I consider this may be the definitive version of the story. I loved the book, and highly recomend it, but I honestly like the way Takami has expanded on the characters and the backstory for this Manga version. As opposed to the film exactly where they had to cram a 600 page book into two hours, with this eight vollume manga they have the oportunity to expand that 600 pages into 1600 pages. Positive, you cannot fit as a lot info on a comic page as you can a page in a novel, but pretty much tripling the length seriously offers Takami the opportunity to flesh some factors out that had been only hinted at or briefly mentioned in the book. Again, don't get me incorrect, I loved the book, but based on the initial two Manga (the very first 400 hundred pages of the comic story,) I feel pretty much each character and situation has been improved, expanded, and refined. Shuya becomes even much more noble and likable (and you get to see a lot more about why all the other students seem to like and trust him,) and pretty much every confrontation he has becomes even a lot more tragic given that Takami offers him the chance to be a great deal more vocal about not wanting to hurt anyone. Also, in relation to that, Takami spends way more time explaining on why the consumers who force Shuya into fighting act the way they do as nicely. A further scene that I think benifits significantly from the new telling is the scene exactly where the two lovers commit suicide to steer clear of getting to fight and to keep away from losing each and every other. It's a superb scene in the book, but even superior in the manga -- the artistic flashback as they jump is heartwrending. An anime magazine in their revue of the Manga tried to say the scene was completed better in both the book AND the movie, which I located rediculous. The book is arguable, but in the movie the scene lasts perhaps a minute, you get no background facts, and you care really small. How that can be compared to the comic, I don't know, but I honestly feel the complete revue in that specific magizine was way off base.
As for Giffen's dialogue -- I know some consumers have complained that he Americanized it -- effectively, to them I say "that's what he was supposed to do." It really is a translation, and part of translating a book is getting the thought across -- not just the literal words. Japanese translated straight into english normally appears vague, mystical, unclear, or just plain impossible to have an understanding of, and I'm confident English translated straight to Japanese is the same. When I read a translation, I accept that I am not going to be reading the writers precise words, but that I will be reading his or her suggestions as an alternative. Giffen does a tremendous job in my thoughts of translating Takami's tips into words the American reader can relate to, and I cannot imagine a translation going any greater.
As for the art -- it is incredibly effectively completed. Some of it is gruesome -- but hey, that's portion of the story -- but at the similar time, some of it is lovely. The characters are nicely done and easily distinquishable, and the action plays out in ways simple and easy to know visualy. I honestly cannot believe of a single complaint, artisticaly speaking. Then once more, I am not certain I can assume of a single complaint about this manga at all. I even created my wife read it, and she loved it as effectively.
In brief, I loved the book, believe the movie was pretty fantastic (despite creating some needless and overall plot weakening modifications,) but feel that the Manga is the 1 that actually tells the whole story and lets you know the characters the preferred.

Battle Royale raises disturbing concerns. There are inevitable comparisons to Lord of the Flies , except that BR is that on amphetamines, plus hormones. Terrifying, and heart-breaking, this is a tale of friendship, appreciate and betrayal, that will need to not be missed. This is the second volume of the manga, which is based on the book of the identical name, which resulted in a film.
Japan. The not-so-distant future. It is a nation run by a military dictatorship, which has control more than the media and the country. This most popular of tv shows makes Survivor appear like Sesame Street .
It s basically called the System, and it s the highest rated show of all time. In Japan, 9th grade is the last year of needed schooling, the last year of junior high. And it is the year that 9th grade students are subjected to a state run lottery. But no 1 desires to win this lottery.
You ve just woken up just after passing out on your class trip. The 42 students in your class, like you, have just discovered out that they ve lost the lottery: the class has been selected to be on the Program. It s a chance to be a star...if you reside.
21 boys. 21 girls. The winner? The sole survivor. The Plan has been on for years, and no one particular has ever escaped. You re trapped on an island, with an explosive collar about your neck. If absolutely everyone refuses to play, and if no a single is killed in a 24 hour period, all the collars detonate, and everybody dies. Attempt to swim off the island? You ll be shot by the patrol boats the collars are tracking devices, and transmit the well being of the player. Hide, and hope to last items out? Properly, the location is divided into grids on the map you ve been given with randomly rotating danger zones. When an location is announced as a danger zone, you ve five minutes to get out, or your collar explodes. Band together, try to take out the sadists who ve completed this to you and your friends? Ah, but they re located inside a permanent danger zone. You ve all been given an assortment of weapons, ranging from knives, sickles, crossbows, shotguns, pistols, and semi-automatic machine pistols.
So, you re in the game. What do you do? What will occur to the class cute couple? Will she turn on him? Will he, high on worry and adrenaline, kill her? Will idealists preserve to their ideals? Will the person that helped you 1 day, be driven to kill 2 days later? What will take place when worry, desperation, and hysteria strike? Could you, would you kill your friends? Could you, would you, kill the girl you had a crush on, the guy who you ve dated, the friend you grew up with? And if you can t kill them...will they kill you?
Believed-provoking, this series is not for youngsters. This story utilizes graphic violence to drive household the horror of what has been performed to these kids. There is gore, graphic gore, sex and rape. And it all is important the rawness drives property the horror, shows the waste of lives. We quite often have flashbacks, showing the children in prior occasions. Some of these are rotten youngsters, some of them are merely the merchandise of a terrible background. Other individuals are so sweet, so good that you ll agonize must they die.
And die they do. By the finish of the 1st two books, 15 are dead. There deaths serve to illustrate how no one deserves to die considering that of the actions of outside authorities, regardless of whether it is at the orders of mad government, or from the bullets of a moron shooting up a workplace or school. The morons who did Columbine would no doubt have gotten the incorrect message about this book. But the violence serves not to glorify violence, but to excoriate it. It serves not to praise murder, but to condemn murder and those who kill.
This manga is about how extremely precious life is. The only encouragement from the government? Attempt to die exactly where there are at least two cameras, all the better for the DVD sales.