![]() ![]() One of the main themes of this book / manga / movie is fear and hatred of young people. An American remake was announced in 2006, but it quickly fell into Development Hell. The plots of these adaptations have minor differences, but each feature the same general events. Originally a novel by Koushun Takami, Battle Royale was adapted into a live-action movie and a Door Stopper manga series (it has over 3000 pages). ![]() ![]() This once controversial (but now regularly recurring) military experiment has gone on since 1947, a few years after this version of Japan won a certain war, and is known only as "The Program." Out of the latest such class to "volunteer" for The Program, aspiring rock musician and orphaned teenager Shuya Nanahara has no desire to play the sick game - and every intention of escaping with his life. The students are given one weapon each, then - under the threat of death - forced to kill each other until only one student remains alive. In a fascist, alternate-timeline Japan, called the Greater East Asia Republic, the government has a unique way of curbing delinquency amongst its youth: It chooses 50 classes of high school students at random every year, then kidnaps the whole class and places them all on an isolated island with no chance of escape. ![]() Never cheapen their deaths by pushing the memory away. We don't have much, but what we have has to work. All those deaths must never lose their importance. ![]()
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