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Battle Royale II: Blitz Royale #2
Battle Royale II : Blitz Royale #2
Los 42 alumnos de tercer año, división dos, del instituto Shikanosai han sido elegidos para un programa especial de la marina de la república coparticipativa del gran este asiático. "El Programa" ahora no es otra cosa que un curso de entrenamiento militar llamado "Instituto de autodefensa de japón".
210 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2005
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October 31, 2019
Rifiuto categorico di rileggerlo. Stava nei want to solo perchè l'avevo ritrovato. Non metto nemmeno la data di lettura che sarebbe 2005. Mi auguro che il vero romanzo sia tutta altra cosa e l'autore del manga abbia fumato qualcosa per fare una roba del genere. Disegni oribili pure.
Purtroppo il vero Battle Royale non è ancora saltato fuori. Mi rifarò con il romanzo che devo leggere. Il film l'ho già visto molto tempo fa.
Purtroppo il vero Battle Royale non è ancora saltato fuori. Mi rifarò con il romanzo che devo leggere. Il film l'ho già visto molto tempo fa.
April 23, 2012
Do not read this manga. It sucked and had nothing to do with the first. Id be ok with a knew set of characters and it delivers but this class's battle royale is an exam and if they dont pass they die. It was so odd. THe characters are cartoony and deformed looking
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August 30, 2022
So knowing that Battle Royale II: Blitz Royale was prematurely cancelled and forced to end after just two volumes made me curious to know how on earth it was going to conclude. The series was clearly built to be a bit of a slow burn — what with a mentioned time period of “two years” and the rate at which members of the cast were being introduced — so the question came down to whether the manga would do its best to speed through all its major plot beats or whether it’d all just suddenly end. Would the resultant conclusion have a chance of coming off as anything other than abrupt? Would the genuine potential shown in the first volume of the series be realized, or ultimately squandered?
The answer to the first question is a little bit of both — it does its best to rush through all the remaining plot points I’m sure were initially meant to be spread out and oh my god does the result come off as super abrupt and kind of turns the whole thing into a joke.
Which is a shame, because I was genuinely kind of into the first part of this volume, even more so than the first. After the end of the military exercise that formed the majority of the last volume’s plot, Makoto wakes up after four days and finds herself trapped in a haves vs. have-nots situation. As it turns out, performing well in exercises and tests grants teams points, and while those with high points — like Makoto’s group — get to live in a mansion and eat food cooked by the soldiers, those with low or no points have to sleep outside and live with meagre supplies. The have-nots absolutely despise Makoto’s group for their current situation, and watching the class actively turn on itself because of the restrictions placed upon them by the ones running the show? That’s the kind of socio-political theming I was really surprised to see in volume one.
And then I guess at this point the author got the order to finish the story in five chapters because then everything just suddenly goes super fast. This Battle Royale’s Shogo equivalent literally just appears, walks up, and deadass just goes “I’m [person]! I survived this game — twice!” So then they team up with not!Shogo but then it turns out she’s actually EVILLLLLLLLL and a mole for the military so then she just starts murdering everyone because she’s incompetent at covering her tracks and also these big moments which were supposed to be dispersed throughout the series now have to be quickfired one after the other. Makoto is also a victim of this. Throughout the series, she’s been primarily characterized as… both scared of everything and overtly trusting to the point that she kinda comes off as an idiot, but then, when everybody else dies in the space of two pages, she’s suddenly brave and resourceful and the one person in the class not!Shogo respects? I guess it was meant to be a slow-burn of the game-changing who Makoto is as a person but then suddenly there wasn’t any more fire to burn so the night before the final battle she’s a scaredy-cat and the next she’s a battle-hardened warrior who manages to outsmart the villains.
And it really kinda becomes kinda comical. Like legitimately so much of this volume is full-on ridiculous in the wake of it having to rush towards an ending. Makoto comes off as a massive idiot — falling on absolutely outlandish conclusions for the sake of the story that any sane person would immediately realize the issues with. The translation… is kind of weak in general, but it sticks out here, with constant tense conflicts and really bad expository dialogue. There’s this recurring story element of these drugs the soldiers take that are implied to be slowly turning them into mindless killing machines, and by the end of this volume a bunch of students (including Makoto) are just guzzling through them, sometimes taking upwards of ten of them at a time. The whole cast is just massacred in a sweep, and yet at the same time the manga tries to draw out a little bit of pathos in showing the reactions to all their deaths as if we ever actually got to know them as audience members in the first place.
And ultimately, I… kinda wish this series hadn’t been cancelled, honestly? There were always things that were going to be a little rough — the art has moments but it's ultimately hit-or-miss, and none of the characters, including Makoto, ever felt all that distinct to me — but there was genuine promise in the premise and the theming and I would’ve been fascinated to know where it was all going to go. Sadly a lot of its potential got squandered, and… I honestly don’t really have it in me to give this volume more than a 1.5/5, but honestly, hot take on Battle Royale II: Blitz Royale? I’d… really hesitate to call it “good,” by any means, but it’s almost certainly a better read than the first manga.
My reviews of Battle Royale II: Blitz Royale:
← Battle Royale II: Blitz Royale, vol. 1
The answer to the first question is a little bit of both — it does its best to rush through all the remaining plot points I’m sure were initially meant to be spread out and oh my god does the result come off as super abrupt and kind of turns the whole thing into a joke.
Which is a shame, because I was genuinely kind of into the first part of this volume, even more so than the first. After the end of the military exercise that formed the majority of the last volume’s plot, Makoto wakes up after four days and finds herself trapped in a haves vs. have-nots situation. As it turns out, performing well in exercises and tests grants teams points, and while those with high points — like Makoto’s group — get to live in a mansion and eat food cooked by the soldiers, those with low or no points have to sleep outside and live with meagre supplies. The have-nots absolutely despise Makoto’s group for their current situation, and watching the class actively turn on itself because of the restrictions placed upon them by the ones running the show? That’s the kind of socio-political theming I was really surprised to see in volume one.
And then I guess at this point the author got the order to finish the story in five chapters because then everything just suddenly goes super fast. This Battle Royale’s Shogo equivalent literally just appears, walks up, and deadass just goes “I’m [person]! I survived this game — twice!” So then they team up with not!Shogo but then it turns out she’s actually EVILLLLLLLLL and a mole for the military so then she just starts murdering everyone because she’s incompetent at covering her tracks and also these big moments which were supposed to be dispersed throughout the series now have to be quickfired one after the other. Makoto is also a victim of this. Throughout the series, she’s been primarily characterized as… both scared of everything and overtly trusting to the point that she kinda comes off as an idiot, but then, when everybody else dies in the space of two pages, she’s suddenly brave and resourceful and the one person in the class not!Shogo respects? I guess it was meant to be a slow-burn of the game-changing who Makoto is as a person but then suddenly there wasn’t any more fire to burn so the night before the final battle she’s a scaredy-cat and the next she’s a battle-hardened warrior who manages to outsmart the villains.
And it really kinda becomes kinda comical. Like legitimately so much of this volume is full-on ridiculous in the wake of it having to rush towards an ending. Makoto comes off as a massive idiot — falling on absolutely outlandish conclusions for the sake of the story that any sane person would immediately realize the issues with. The translation… is kind of weak in general, but it sticks out here, with constant tense conflicts and really bad expository dialogue. There’s this recurring story element of these drugs the soldiers take that are implied to be slowly turning them into mindless killing machines, and by the end of this volume a bunch of students (including Makoto) are just guzzling through them, sometimes taking upwards of ten of them at a time. The whole cast is just massacred in a sweep, and yet at the same time the manga tries to draw out a little bit of pathos in showing the reactions to all their deaths as if we ever actually got to know them as audience members in the first place.
And ultimately, I… kinda wish this series hadn’t been cancelled, honestly? There were always things that were going to be a little rough — the art has moments but it's ultimately hit-or-miss, and none of the characters, including Makoto, ever felt all that distinct to me — but there was genuine promise in the premise and the theming and I would’ve been fascinated to know where it was all going to go. Sadly a lot of its potential got squandered, and… I honestly don’t really have it in me to give this volume more than a 1.5/5, but honestly, hot take on Battle Royale II: Blitz Royale? I’d… really hesitate to call it “good,” by any means, but it’s almost certainly a better read than the first manga.
My reviews of Battle Royale II: Blitz Royale:
← Battle Royale II: Blitz Royale, vol. 1
February 28, 2025
This was a rushed mess, and, really, the art style was embarrassingly bad.
October 26, 2014
Seriously I just don't get it. How someone like Koushun Takami could have written this? His novel was so well made, intriguing and deliciously provocative and then we have...this. It's just nonsensical. At first I thought I got lost in translation because English is not my first language but then I thought: "well, this is not my first ride neither. I've read lots of manga in English before! Something must be wrong" And it happens it was. Everyone had the same doubts as me. What's the deal with the pills? What was the real idea of all this new game? What happens with Makoto at the end? It's not I didn't get it, you just can't get it because there's no a proper plot development! it jumps here and there and that's it. I know lots of people hate the art style but that's not the main issue here. I can deal with something like that as soon there's a good story and this is not the case. If you don't want to ruin the vision you have of the original BR do not read this or if it's too late for you like me, just forget what you read and move on
May 22, 2016
The title was not joking at all, and so is my rating.
As I finished the final pages of this manga, I can only go back to the original Battle Royale, Vol. 01.
As I finished the final pages of this manga, I can only go back to the original Battle Royale, Vol. 01.
December 15, 2015
ÉSTO es el final?? En serio?!
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