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 Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:05 am
Uh... The actual manga series isn't exactly PG-13 (more like rated R XDD), but I think just discussing it in a PG-13 context would be fine, right penandpaper? D:
But anyways. Man. This series. INSANE. It has to be one of the bloodiest, goriest, most morbid manga series I have ever read. Anyone else read it? (Doubt it, though...)
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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:38 pm
Yep that's fine! And I haven't read it....
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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:54 pm
OK, cool.
Ah, I don't expect anyone here to have read it. It's not exactly mainstream and it's kind of like Fight Club because it's quite obscure and not everyone would instantly love it.
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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:59 pm
I think I've heard the name but I'm not sure. It sounds....interesting.
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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:12 am
They have a live-action film of it out. Also, the manga series is actually a graphic novelization of the actual book entitled Battle Royale, I believe.
It's about a class of high school kids stuck on an island and they're forced to kill each other for a gameshow. Like I said, it's quite morbid and it's rating is OT, I think.
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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:56 am
The original Battle Royale was a novel by Koushun Takami. The manga itself has a sequel, which I haven't read any of.
It was gorey and sexual and violent, but that's almost all it was. It was always on the highest level of violence, so for me, it stopped being effective by about volume 5 of the manga.
The idea of the stories was very interesting. To see what a bunch of grade nines set to kill each other do when pushed. But I felt the story wasn't well told; only the violence got told.
Also, the manga can't really be read on the bus, particularly if you're on the way to work with kids! lol I didn't end up finished even the first manga series.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:54 pm
Oh, yeah. I heard the sequel was just dumb, though. It's basically the same principle, but with younger children rolleyes
Well, for me, I can tolerate gore and violence. To be honest, I love that stuff. MOST of the sexual content was rather unnecessary, though, except for one particular character. Her past was related to her sexual behavior, so I figured they needed to put it on there. But I thought that seeing all those other people had sex was kind of pointless.
Besides the gore, violence, weaponry, and general idea of Battle Royale, I thought that the way they revealed the many characters' pasts was quite interesting. It gave the characters so much more depth when you see why they are the way they are. Also, it's very interesting how they reflect on their lives before they died (Hey, I'm gonna be honest. It's not like no one dies in the series).
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:43 pm
I can tolerate and enjoy quite a lot of gore and violence. I just found the manga overused it. The "shock value" of the violence eventually disappeared, and sometimes the violence even got in the way of the story instead of helping tell it.
I did like the premise. I might go back and finish the series someday just for that.
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:34 pm
Hm, I think I see what you mean. But Battle Royale wouldn't have been the same without the violence. Besides, it's a manga, so the visuals are, of course, necessary.
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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 11:10 am
The original novel covers the first movie and the first series of graphic novels (15 manga), and was quite god. I enjoyed it very much enough to g out and buy the BR I & II DVD Collector's Set, I've yet to buy either manga series though, for the simple fact that I can't find them anywhere.
In the sequals, entitled Battle Royale II: Requiem (film) & Battle Royale II: Blitz Royale (manga),(must go into spoiler mode for those who haven't read or watched the sequal) >survivors of previous Battle Royales, led by Shuya Nanahara (the hero of the first film), have formed a terrorist group called "Wild Seven"; a class from Shikanotoride Junior High School are kidnapped by the Japanese government. In place of stereotypically diligent Japanese students, these ninth graders are “a ragtag collection of delinquents and losers from all over Japan,” including tough-guy rugby players and punks with dyed hair. More importantly, many are orphans whose parents or family died in bombings by Wild Seven. After their school bus is diverted to an army base, the students are herded into a cage, surrounded by armed guards, and confronted by their school-teacher, Riki Takeuchi, who lays down the ground rules of the new Battle Royale game. Wild Seven is hiding out on a deserted island, and instead of being forced to kill each other, as in the old Battle Royale, the students are ordered to attack the terrorist group’s head-quarters en masse and kill the leader, Shuya Nanahara, within seventy-two hours. Most of the students are not interested in being forced to avenge their families, but are coerced to fight through exploding metal collars, which their captors can detonate by remote control. The students are also put into 'pairs'; if one student dies, then its 'pair' will also die because of the metal collars set to a certain frequency.
The movie also refers to the U.S. and its political involvement in the future more than once. According to the film, the U.S. government has bombed several countries over the years because it "doesn't agree with them", and had the support of most other governments.
Once again, Shuya — accompanied by survivors of previous "Games" — must fight to survive.
the majority of the film is centered around Shiori Kitano the daughter of the teacher from the first film.<
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Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:16 pm
I actually just got done rereading the series. I love it. It got me thinking though... if that were to happen in real life, how fast would your friends turn on you? Or vice versa. Kind of scary. You wouldn't really know who you could trust anymore. 
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