Battle Royale Vol. 9 - Koushun Takami Reviews
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Newest Review: ... multiple times (after realising Oda was wearing a Kevlar vest) and Sugimura manages to escape. Meanwhile, Shuuya (who we ... more
... haven't seen in a couple of volumes) wakes up at the lighthouse Sugimura left him at, with a lot of the class' girls working together. One of them, however, Yuko Sakaki, witnessed the death of one of her friends and thinks it was Shuya's fault (when it was accident, back in one of the early volumes). She sees Shuya as the "demon boy", due to her sensitive nature and her beliefs in heaven and hell. She poisons some stew meant for Shuya, but one girl drinks it by mistake, and dies, resulting in a crazed shooto...more
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Customer Battle Royale Vol. 9 - Koushun Takami Reviews (2)
by - written on 29/06/10 (Very useful, 3 readings)
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The ninth one in my series of reviews going over the manga adaptation of the Battle Royale book, by Koushun Takami about a group of high school students who are sent to an island and told to kill each other off. --- This volume of the manga features Hiroki Sugimura - martial arts champion and gentle giant as he carries on in his search for his crush Kayoko Kotohiki, but runs into the creepy, snivelling toad-faced Toshinori Oda, the one who pushed the girl into the well. Kiriyama, however, turns up and shoots Oda in the groin multiple times (after realising Oda was wearing a Kevlar vest) and Sugimura manages to escape. Meanwhile, Shuuya ... Read the complete review
by - written on 22/05/10 (Very useful, 7 readings)
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You may have watched the DVD's or stumbled upon the book, however I find the Manga version to be a much more thrilling and entrancing version of this story. For those that don't know the basic story here's what it's based on: We follow a class of school children chosen to take part in The Program (officially called Greater East Asia Republic Combat Experiment Number 68, aka The Battle Royale Act). The children selected for this are in the 9th grade (14/15 year olds), and the class is picked from a short list of 50, with the sole intention to force them into combat and eliminate each other. It's thought to be necessary to keep the youth in check; parents of those children Read the complete review
