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Battle Royale #3
Battle Royale, Vol. 03
In the future, random Jr. High School classes are chosen to compete in a game called Battle Royale. The rules: only one student can survive after 3 days on an island or else they all perish. Weapons are handed out and each student is sent out into the field alone and unprepared for the horror that awaits them. The classmates turn upon themselves in a battle for survival, treaties are made and broken, and former friends become foes as the relentless countdown continues. Amid the betrayals and rising body count, two classmates confess their love for each other and swear to survive this deadly game together.
192 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2001
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About the author
Koushun Takami
100 books1,578 followersKoushun Takami (高見 広春 Takami Kōshun) is the author of the novel Battle Royale, originally published in Japanese, and later translated into English by Yuji Oniki and published by Viz Media and, later, in an expanded edition by Haika Soru, a division of Viz Media.
Takami was born in Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture near Osaka and grew up in the Kagawa Prefecture of Shikoku. After graduating from Osaka University with a degree in literature, he dropped out of Nihon University's liberal arts correspondence course program. From 1991 to 1996, he worked for the news company Shikoku Shimbun, reporting on various fields including politics, police reports, and economics.
The novel Battle Royale was completed after Takami left the news company. It was rejected in the final round of the literary competition for which it was intended, owing to its controversial content. It went on to become a bestseller when finally released in 1999 and, a year later, was made into a manga and a feature film.
He is currently working on a second novel.
Takami was born in Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture near Osaka and grew up in the Kagawa Prefecture of Shikoku. After graduating from Osaka University with a degree in literature, he dropped out of Nihon University's liberal arts correspondence course program. From 1991 to 1996, he worked for the news company Shikoku Shimbun, reporting on various fields including politics, police reports, and economics.
The novel Battle Royale was completed after Takami left the news company. It was rejected in the final round of the literary competition for which it was intended, owing to its controversial content. It went on to become a bestseller when finally released in 1999 and, a year later, was made into a manga and a feature film.
He is currently working on a second novel.
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December 4, 2025
The third instalment of this 'reality TV show with teenage class mates fighting to the death with only one winner on a desert island' cleverly moves the focus away from the brutal murders to taking deeper looks at the primary characters using back stories, as alliances are formed, or rejected! The childish dialogue and characterisations sit uncomfortable with the adult content which includes gratuitous explicit sexually activity. This was published in 2001, (the original source book in 1999) so I am not even sure if I would really call it ground breaking, and question the infantile dialogue, characterisations and use of explicit content. That being said, it is a fascinating update of the Lord of the Flies formula. A Three Star, 6 out of 12 read for me.
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November 2, 2025
I can see why this manga is banned in Japan...what are these 9th graders doing omg😭 can't look away though it's crazy!
January 19, 2022
So, I'm usually onboard with not judging authors by what they choose to write about but this guy seems to be particularly invested in telling the illustrated tales of the 15-year-old child prostitute Mitsuko and it's really disturbing.
They're drawing this child character like she's a pin-up girl for playboy or whatever nude magazine was popular in Japan when this was written and it's very concerning. There are so many think pieces on how this series got censored because it was too violent... Are we sure it wasn't banned because of all the gratuitous and completely unnecessary graphic child rape scenes?
There's an actual fight taking place on the island. Children are killing each other and the author chooses to cut out in the middle of the fight to end the volume on the high note of yet another child-adult rape scene.
If two characters are in a fight to the death and you want to have a flashback about their lives, that's one thing, but to interrupt two characters in a fight to the death to have a completely unprompted, totally irrelevant flashback to another character's time as a child prostitute is just...
And by the way, this is an example of one of the fifteen-year-olds who populate this series:
If you're wondering about the saliva, it's because he's planning to rape a girl he just shot in the leg with an arrow and is looking at her in her underwear.
I will finish this series because I really want to work on finishing things this year, but I'm very disappointed in all the people who've been recommending this to me since Hunger Games came out. Very disappointed in all the sites that call this a must-read and a classic.
It is not.
They're drawing this child character like she's a pin-up girl for playboy or whatever nude magazine was popular in Japan when this was written and it's very concerning. There are so many think pieces on how this series got censored because it was too violent... Are we sure it wasn't banned because of all the gratuitous and completely unnecessary graphic child rape scenes?
There's an actual fight taking place on the island. Children are killing each other and the author chooses to cut out in the middle of the fight to end the volume on the high note of yet another child-adult rape scene.
If two characters are in a fight to the death and you want to have a flashback about their lives, that's one thing, but to interrupt two characters in a fight to the death to have a completely unprompted, totally irrelevant flashback to another character's time as a child prostitute is just...
And by the way, this is an example of one of the fifteen-year-olds who populate this series:
If you're wondering about the saliva, it's because he's planning to rape a girl he just shot in the leg with an arrow and is looking at her in her underwear.
I will finish this series because I really want to work on finishing things this year, but I'm very disappointed in all the people who've been recommending this to me since Hunger Games came out. Very disappointed in all the sites that call this a must-read and a classic.
It is not.
September 12, 2019
i'm liking where this is going, i'm not sure if there will be a winner or if they will manage to stop the game. i like Mimura's character, he is smart, his plan to disable the collars using the computer he found and connecting it with to a car battery is great, unfortunately it didn't last long, he should've realised that they are being monitored and the people who manage the game will know his plan.
shyuu and Noriko get on my nerves with their Naivety, they need to accept that people are playing the game and will kill them without hesitation, they also need to stop trusting everyone so easily, Kawada told them they shouldn't trust him that easily, he might be planning to betray them at the end and they dismissed it.
shyuu and Noriko get on my nerves with their Naivety, they need to accept that people are playing the game and will kill them without hesitation, they also need to stop trusting everyone so easily, Kawada told them they shouldn't trust him that easily, he might be planning to betray them at the end and they dismissed it.
January 22, 2018
This was the best one of these so far. We get to know the characters more and the story advances. There's a lot of killing of these naive, somewhat stereotypical, high-school kids.
And it's fuuuun!
And it's fuuuun!
August 22, 2018
2.5
We're only on volume three and already things are getting predictable and repetitive.
Just met someone and got a huge backstory? Dead by end of chapter.
Scenes with Shuuya? Lots of shouting, moralizing, and tears, but absolutely no action.
Flashback to a sex scene? Not without rape and/or tears.
Shuuya has become insufferable. Everyone loves and admires him but he's done nothing since the first day of the battle and makes so many stupid decisions there's no reson someone wouldn't have offed him yet.
We're only on volume three and already things are getting predictable and repetitive.
Just met someone and got a huge backstory? Dead by end of chapter.
Scenes with Shuuya? Lots of shouting, moralizing, and tears, but absolutely no action.
Flashback to a sex scene? Not without rape and/or tears.
Shuuya has become insufferable. Everyone loves and admires him but he's done nothing since the first day of the battle and makes so many stupid decisions there's no reson someone wouldn't have offed him yet.
February 5, 2017
Tercer tomo y sube la violencia, el gore, el sexo, altas dosis de bombachitas asomando que tanto apasionan a mangakas y otakus. Aparecen nuevos elementos como quienes luchan intentando derribar al gobierno y quienes participan del juego con la aparente complicidad de estos. Los flashbacks siguen ocupando un espacio mayor en cada tomo que pasa y ayuda a una mejor comprensión de los personajes.
August 29, 2021
Para sentir algo por los personajes y empatizar con su sufrimiento es necesario conocerlos. Y es por ello que el autor nos cuenta cosas de su pasado. Pero son casi paródicas, exageraciones. Chocan con el tono dramático y brutal del presente.
October 30, 2014
I think that this one is actually my favorite yet, mostly because Mimura.
The story picks up right where the last one left off, but as well as showing us what Shuuya, Noriko, and Kawada are doing, it shows us just as much if not more of Yutaka and Shinji Mimura. Which was great. They're my favorites.
As well as that, of course, we got to see a little bit of some other characters - Yoshimi and Yoji, for one, and their story legitly made me cry, so there's that, and also we got some more Mitsuko Souma. As always, her parts are really weird and really disturbing and the half the reason for that mature content sticker, but they're always interesting anyway. This one was particularly interesting, actually - I liked seeing how she manipulated people before The Program.
Overall, agh this was fantastic.
The story picks up right where the last one left off, but as well as showing us what Shuuya, Noriko, and Kawada are doing, it shows us just as much if not more of Yutaka and Shinji Mimura. Which was great. They're my favorites.
As well as that, of course, we got to see a little bit of some other characters - Yoshimi and Yoji, for one, and their story legitly made me cry, so there's that, and also we got some more Mitsuko Souma. As always, her parts are really weird and really disturbing and the half the reason for that mature content sticker, but they're always interesting anyway. This one was particularly interesting, actually - I liked seeing how she manipulated people before The Program.
Overall, agh this was fantastic.
January 15, 2018
Oddly, I didn't think about my rating for this at all while reading, so I'm really not too sure about my rating on this. Tentatively, I'm going to give it a 3/5, so somewhere around 7.5/10. Another solid installment, but this one definitely had a couple things I wasn't quite as big of a fan of. Namely, the sexual content-- not that it was there, but that it was needlessly there, and in many instances, I don't remember it being in the novel (there was sexual content riddled throughout the novel as well, but its inclusion didn't bother me because it was relevant). It seems to me that this adaptation is adding in and playing up the sexual content so that it can include more nudity just for the sake of nudity (specifically full-body shots of the girls, who *remember* are literally 14/15). It's more than a bit gross. No wonder Playboy gave it a rating of 4 bunnies (not kidding, it's on the back). I hope that this changes in the upcoming volumes because this is a really fantastic adaptation otherwise.
That said, the scenes relevant to the program were really great. It was just those little side stories that, on large, felt really unnecessary.
Spoiler text is here for me to remember how the story is split up between volumes
That said, the scenes relevant to the program were really great. It was just those little side stories that, on large, felt really unnecessary.
Spoiler text is here for me to remember how the story is split up between volumes
June 28, 2022
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Wow this one got real graphic!
Wow this one got real graphic!
April 29, 2020
Es, hasta el momento, el volumen más flojo de los tres.
De entrada, nos presentan un poco más de Kawada y si familia, justo lo suficiente para mantenernos con intriga, y sin restarle misterio al personaje.
Kawada es imposible de odiar, para mi, el es el mejor personaje de la historia.
También conocemos a Shinji, y estaba muy emocionado por leerlo, ya que su storyline fue una de mis partes favoritas del libro.
Te muestran que a sus trece años, el niño ya era todo un follador experto
Really? Estoy seguro de que nisiquiera le salía semen aún.
Como sea, voy a darme la libertad de ignorar por completo su pasado, y concentrarme en su presente.
Shinji es un chico súper inteligente, y ansío ver como termina su plan.
Yoshimi es todo un personaje.
Ella, junto a Mitsuko, forman 2/3 partes del grupo de delincuentes de la escuela
No puedo sacar de mi cabeza, que estos chicos apenas están en secundaria, y estas tres ya están muy involucradas en sexo, drogas, y un montón de delitos.
Mitsuko es una proxeneta con todas las de la ley, y demuestra que no tiene ningun respeto por nadie.
Nos dan a entender que ellas tres ya están súper quemadas en todo el colegio como putas, y a Yoshimi es la única a la que parece preocuparle.
Ella no tiene nada de amor propio, y el respeto hacia su persona es nulo.
Se involucra en una relación tóxica con un tipo súper loco, el cual estaba obsesionado con su historial sexual.
Chicos, aquí un dato interesante, las mujeres también tienen sexo, y ese es asunto suyo, nadie es más o menos que nadie, simplemente por si actividad sexual.
En fin, la mataron y a su novio, cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, también.
Vaya sorpresa, son personajes que fueron escritos específicamente para matarles.
También se introduce a Takako Chigusa.
Es una chica ruda, deportista, y totalmente empoderada.
Me gusta, espero que la exploten un poco más antes de matarla.
Mitsuko resulta ser peor de lo que imaginaba, al grado de ser una verdadera asesina fuera del juego.
Ella no respeta las leyes, y no le importará usar a quien sea, con tal de lograr su cometido.
Su historia extra me pareció un poco extraña y fuera de lugar.
Simplemente ayudó a la construcción y a su credibilidad, pero fuera de eso, no aporta nada a la trama, y nisiquiera era divertida.
Una estrella por Kawada, otra por Chigusa, media por Shinji y media por Mitsuko.
De entrada, nos presentan un poco más de Kawada y si familia, justo lo suficiente para mantenernos con intriga, y sin restarle misterio al personaje.
Kawada es imposible de odiar, para mi, el es el mejor personaje de la historia.
También conocemos a Shinji, y estaba muy emocionado por leerlo, ya que su storyline fue una de mis partes favoritas del libro.
Te muestran que a sus trece años, el niño ya era todo un follador experto
Really? Estoy seguro de que nisiquiera le salía semen aún.
Como sea, voy a darme la libertad de ignorar por completo su pasado, y concentrarme en su presente.
Shinji es un chico súper inteligente, y ansío ver como termina su plan.
Yoshimi es todo un personaje.
Ella, junto a Mitsuko, forman 2/3 partes del grupo de delincuentes de la escuela
No puedo sacar de mi cabeza, que estos chicos apenas están en secundaria, y estas tres ya están muy involucradas en sexo, drogas, y un montón de delitos.
Mitsuko es una proxeneta con todas las de la ley, y demuestra que no tiene ningun respeto por nadie.
Nos dan a entender que ellas tres ya están súper quemadas en todo el colegio como putas, y a Yoshimi es la única a la que parece preocuparle.
Ella no tiene nada de amor propio, y el respeto hacia su persona es nulo.
Se involucra en una relación tóxica con un tipo súper loco, el cual estaba obsesionado con su historial sexual.
Chicos, aquí un dato interesante, las mujeres también tienen sexo, y ese es asunto suyo, nadie es más o menos que nadie, simplemente por si actividad sexual.
En fin, la mataron y a su novio, cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, también.
Vaya sorpresa, son personajes que fueron escritos específicamente para matarles.
También se introduce a Takako Chigusa.
Es una chica ruda, deportista, y totalmente empoderada.
Me gusta, espero que la exploten un poco más antes de matarla.
Mitsuko resulta ser peor de lo que imaginaba, al grado de ser una verdadera asesina fuera del juego.
Ella no respeta las leyes, y no le importará usar a quien sea, con tal de lograr su cometido.
Su historia extra me pareció un poco extraña y fuera de lugar.
Simplemente ayudó a la construcción y a su credibilidad, pero fuera de eso, no aporta nada a la trama, y nisiquiera era divertida.
Una estrella por Kawada, otra por Chigusa, media por Shinji y media por Mitsuko.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 12, 2017
This third installment, compared to the other two, had much more filler than gory deaths.
We are introduced to more characters who are playing the game, like Takako Chigusa (my favorite), and we get a lot of backstory. My constant problem with the first two volumes were the backstories
that jumped right between scenes which made the flow of the story choppy. This volume had,
*less death, less action
*more filler
*more backstories
One reason why this is my least favorite volume, there were barely any action. At the last scene in the book, we are getting all the tension for an epic battle but it just cuts of abruptly for the next volume. It is much slower than the other two volumes, and it also had unnecessary sexual content. Yep. Mitsuko had it going in this one. Now, sexual content doesn't really bother me in books and manga. If it shows the relationship between a couple, then I'm fine with that. But when we get to learn Mitsuko's past sexual encounters, that part really irked me because it didn't do anything in the story (filler).
What did we learn from this volume? Just more characters and more backstories, the story is not spicing up yet. But besides the slow pacing, at least we get to see how the characters play the game and the final chapter left us waiting for a battle in the next volume. I think this volume shows more tension between the characters that will be released in the next volumes rather than actual gruesome action.
We are introduced to more characters who are playing the game, like Takako Chigusa (my favorite), and we get a lot of backstory. My constant problem with the first two volumes were the backstories
that jumped right between scenes which made the flow of the story choppy. This volume had,
*less death, less action
*more filler
*more backstories
One reason why this is my least favorite volume, there were barely any action. At the last scene in the book, we are getting all the tension for an epic battle but it just cuts of abruptly for the next volume. It is much slower than the other two volumes, and it also had unnecessary sexual content. Yep. Mitsuko had it going in this one. Now, sexual content doesn't really bother me in books and manga. If it shows the relationship between a couple, then I'm fine with that. But when we get to learn Mitsuko's past sexual encounters, that part really irked me because it didn't do anything in the story (filler).
What did we learn from this volume? Just more characters and more backstories, the story is not spicing up yet. But besides the slow pacing, at least we get to see how the characters play the game and the final chapter left us waiting for a battle in the next volume. I think this volume shows more tension between the characters that will be released in the next volumes rather than actual gruesome action.
January 25, 2020
Here's where the quality really starts to go down for me. Mitsuko's child sex blackmail ring is such an obnoxiously unnecessary plotline. There's some great character work in places, but ending on that note leaves me unable to give much of a star rating to this volume. It's one thing for there to be implied sex between teens who are of an age, it's quite another to have graphic statutory rape scenes (regardless of who's showing active consent or who's seducing whom) taking up full-page spreads. "Product of its time" and "different cultures" be damned, this is seriously squicking me out.
August 23, 2013
Estoy bastante seguro de que había "readeado" todos los tomos del manga de Battle Royale, pero por algún motivo parece que cuando el infame Deleted Member empezó a borrar ediciones a rolete, hubo ediciones que directamente desaparecieron. Por ahora copipasteo esto a toda la serie para disminuir el riesgo de que vuelvan a hacer una forrada semejante.
October 10, 2022
Such a good manga series. A great adaption with wonderful art work.
May 31, 2012
"The Program. It's...like a lottery. A bad lottery" Yup and if your name begins with 'Y', the odds are definitely NOT in your favour.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 5, 2017
Why is this class full of psychos?
February 8, 2022
OMFG I STAYED UP ALL NIGHT READING THE FIRST 3 VOLUMES I NEED HELP
April 6, 2025
Con battle royale es un WTF constante.
July 18, 2025
This manga is not that different from the original Battle Royale novel except for a few minor differences.
It's not perfect but it was awesome.
My feelings for this manga are about the same as the original novel except there is more drama and the characters are fleshed out a bit more.
The story is about a class of 42 junior high students that are transported onto an island where they are placed in this program where the students have to fight to the death and there can only be one winner. Similar to the book, the program has no time limit, however a student has to die within a 24-hour time zone, or the collars explode on all the students and there are no winners. In both scenarios, it forces the students to kill each other and try to survive. The tension from that is still there and you can feel it.
The dystopian theme is strong in the manga as well as the book, but it's slightly overshadowed by the drama of the characters and their own self conflicts.
Now, unlike the novel where some characters don't have much of a backstory, the manga takes it's time to explore the characteristics and backstories of all the students. Granted, some more than others. And it gives a new perspective.
However, this manga is definitely for adults. You have sexual themes and more brutality of the gore and violence the students participate in. If you want a more visual storytelling of the original book and don't mind extra violence, the manga is not bad.
It's not perfect but it was awesome.
My feelings for this manga are about the same as the original novel except there is more drama and the characters are fleshed out a bit more.
The story is about a class of 42 junior high students that are transported onto an island where they are placed in this program where the students have to fight to the death and there can only be one winner. Similar to the book, the program has no time limit, however a student has to die within a 24-hour time zone, or the collars explode on all the students and there are no winners. In both scenarios, it forces the students to kill each other and try to survive. The tension from that is still there and you can feel it.
The dystopian theme is strong in the manga as well as the book, but it's slightly overshadowed by the drama of the characters and their own self conflicts.
Now, unlike the novel where some characters don't have much of a backstory, the manga takes it's time to explore the characteristics and backstories of all the students. Granted, some more than others. And it gives a new perspective.
However, this manga is definitely for adults. You have sexual themes and more brutality of the gore and violence the students participate in. If you want a more visual storytelling of the original book and don't mind extra violence, the manga is not bad.
July 12, 2019
Another consistently fun, consistently beautifully drawn Volume of Battle Royale.
What can I say? I dig it. The volume is over before I know it because it's so well paced.
One thing I can say, is that I really didn't expect the level of sexual content that this had... I mean, panty shots and tits is one thing... I expected that... What I DIDN'T expect is it all of a sudden turning into straight-up hentai! LOL! I'm talking full-on hardcore penetration... (and of an underaged girl tricking an older man into fucking her so she could rob him and threaten to reveal to everyone that he fucked a 15 year old girl and ruin his career! lol)... So yeah... That was kind of unexpected. It wasn't even in the book. But it's not like I'm complaining... I don't get offended by sex and nudity, but I can easily see some parent becoming shocked if their kid was reading this... well... I guess there IS a "Parental Advisory" sticker right on the front! LOL...
Anyway, another great Volume. I'm just going through these like tic-tacs. I'm gonna run out of the 5 volumes that I got so far really fast! LOL... Oh well... :D
Definitely a recommendation of this series to any Manga fans out there. And even to anyone who just loves beautifully detailed artwork! Just stunning.
What can I say? I dig it. The volume is over before I know it because it's so well paced.
One thing I can say, is that I really didn't expect the level of sexual content that this had... I mean, panty shots and tits is one thing... I expected that... What I DIDN'T expect is it all of a sudden turning into straight-up hentai! LOL! I'm talking full-on hardcore penetration... (and of an underaged girl tricking an older man into fucking her so she could rob him and threaten to reveal to everyone that he fucked a 15 year old girl and ruin his career! lol)... So yeah... That was kind of unexpected. It wasn't even in the book. But it's not like I'm complaining... I don't get offended by sex and nudity, but I can easily see some parent becoming shocked if their kid was reading this... well... I guess there IS a "Parental Advisory" sticker right on the front! LOL...
Anyway, another great Volume. I'm just going through these like tic-tacs. I'm gonna run out of the 5 volumes that I got so far really fast! LOL... Oh well... :D
Definitely a recommendation of this series to any Manga fans out there. And even to anyone who just loves beautifully detailed artwork! Just stunning.
March 26, 2018
After reading two volumes, I wasn't sure that the series had enough life to justify my buying fifteen volumes. After four volumes, I'm still expecting some padding, but I'm leaning toward a wholesale investing in the series.
Anyway, the flashbacks give a lot of depth to the various characters, but I wish that each of the characters had a little more variety to them. They are all either completely wholesome, misunderstood geeks who either pull it together to survive, or who completely fall apart; or they're vicious scumbags who embrace the evil of the Program. The art is solid, but I'm not a huge fan (the constant close-ups of crying, nose-running lunatics/desperate kids is more annoying than moving). The depravity of what these kids do to one another, and their various schemes for survival, make it a pretty compelling series though.
Anyway, the flashbacks give a lot of depth to the various characters, but I wish that each of the characters had a little more variety to them. They are all either completely wholesome, misunderstood geeks who either pull it together to survive, or who completely fall apart; or they're vicious scumbags who embrace the evil of the Program. The art is solid, but I'm not a huge fan (the constant close-ups of crying, nose-running lunatics/desperate kids is more annoying than moving). The depravity of what these kids do to one another, and their various schemes for survival, make it a pretty compelling series though.
January 20, 2025
3.25
This volume was quite fillery. It ads plot lines that are not in the original novel and this time I don't find them to add a lot to the overall story. It's quite clear that anytime a new character get's a little bit too much backstory their death rate immediately spikes.
I also did not enjoy that all the added content was overly sexual? Like disgustingly so. I think feelings around it and how it is being used as a tool can contribute to the story and the characters. But it's the way they go into it, and keep pushing these uncomfortable scenes with this girl that is supposed to be 15 year of age.... Ew.
Otherwise I am really enjoying the story and this adaptation, and I feel like I am already starting to sound like a broken machine about this. But it is really distracting, in a bad way.
This volume was quite fillery. It ads plot lines that are not in the original novel and this time I don't find them to add a lot to the overall story. It's quite clear that anytime a new character get's a little bit too much backstory their death rate immediately spikes.
I also did not enjoy that all the added content was overly sexual? Like disgustingly so. I think feelings around it and how it is being used as a tool can contribute to the story and the characters. But it's the way they go into it, and keep pushing these uncomfortable scenes with this girl that is supposed to be 15 year of age.... Ew.
Otherwise I am really enjoying the story and this adaptation, and I feel like I am already starting to sound like a broken machine about this. But it is really distracting, in a bad way.
July 13, 2022
De momento si que me están intrigando algunos de los personajes y quiero saber más de ellos, pero las parejas que han salido hasta ahora me han parecido algo aburridas y esta última con matices tóxicos. Es como que le intentan dar una historia super profunda y trágica, y no llegan a ser algo que me conmueva o me emocione demasiado.
Y eso sí Shuuya me parece interesante, aunque un poco pesado. Entiendo que él no quiere que nadie sea asesinado, aun así hay una parte de ellos que sí están jugando y no pueden salvarlos a todos.
También Noryko creo que es bastante probable que muera a no ser que tenga alguna habilidad especial oculta y la esté reservando para el momento adecuado.
En resumen, todavía no me está enganchando del todo pero bueno, ya veremos qué tal sigue.
Y eso sí Shuuya me parece interesante, aunque un poco pesado. Entiendo que él no quiere que nadie sea asesinado, aun así hay una parte de ellos que sí están jugando y no pueden salvarlos a todos.
También Noryko creo que es bastante probable que muera a no ser que tenga alguna habilidad especial oculta y la esté reservando para el momento adecuado.
En resumen, todavía no me está enganchando del todo pero bueno, ya veremos qué tal sigue.
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September 20, 2018
Not quite as impactful as the previous volumes. The formula is growing increasingly predictable. Introduce a character, give them a sad backstory, kill them off as brutally as possible. It was exciting and terrifying at first, but it’s something that you learn to adapt to quickly in a series like this. It gets a little less impactful each time.
The characters also weren’t as interesting or sympathetic this time around. I found myself not caring about some of them whereas I’ve cared about everyone in the previous volumes. Hope to see a little shift in direction soon, or I’m afraid the series might grow stale quickly now that I have a good understanding of its formula.
The characters also weren’t as interesting or sympathetic this time around. I found myself not caring about some of them whereas I’ve cared about everyone in the previous volumes. Hope to see a little shift in direction soon, or I’m afraid the series might grow stale quickly now that I have a good understanding of its formula.
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August 13, 2024On a roll...
I'm actually beginning to enjoy this. I love the emphasis on the betting/surveillance side of the story, it really showcases how these kids are no more than game pieces to those in charge. As far as characters go, the backstories in this volume really hit it out of the park. I found Yoshimi's story particularly moving as well as Mitsuko's backstory. Shuya is probably the weakest part of the entire manga. His optimism tends to come off more suicidal than heroic and it's very frustrating as a reader.
However, Shogo's realistic and pragmatic personality balances out Shuya and Noriko's blind faith. I also love the extras (the side stories and the player cards) in this volume particularly.
I'm actually beginning to enjoy this. I love the emphasis on the betting/surveillance side of the story, it really showcases how these kids are no more than game pieces to those in charge. As far as characters go, the backstories in this volume really hit it out of the park. I found Yoshimi's story particularly moving as well as Mitsuko's backstory. Shuya is probably the weakest part of the entire manga. His optimism tends to come off more suicidal than heroic and it's very frustrating as a reader.
However, Shogo's realistic and pragmatic personality balances out Shuya and Noriko's blind faith. I also love the extras (the side stories and the player cards) in this volume particularly.
March 23, 2023
La verdad es que la historia me está gustando mucho. Es verdad que por momentos peca de ser muy explícita con algunas imágenes, pero bueno, es el mundo que nos han presentado, crudo, gore y violentamente sexual.
Los personajes son quizás demasiado estereotípicos, estoy esperando a que alguno demuestre algo que sorprende, por ahora Mimura es el único que lo hizo con todo el tema de la resistencia. Creo que igualmente es muy tonto que hablen tan libremente de algo así sabiendo lo vigilados que están. El resultado no debería sorprender a nadie.
Los personajes son quizás demasiado estereotípicos, estoy esperando a que alguno demuestre algo que sorprende, por ahora Mimura es el único que lo hizo con todo el tema de la resistencia. Creo que igualmente es muy tonto que hablen tan libremente de algo así sabiendo lo vigilados que están. El resultado no debería sorprender a nadie.
February 7, 2022
No me esta gustando.
La hipersexualizacion de mitsuko souma cansa, ya, es prostituta (y ya es malo puesto que es una menor), pero siempre aparece desnuda o semi-desnuda en portadas de capítulos aún cuando no aparece en el capítulo.
La historia se esta volviendo predecible, los malos son malos porque son malos y ya, no hay más razones, al igual que los buenos son buenos solo porque son buenos y ¿El desarrollo psicológico?...
La hipersexualizacion de mitsuko souma cansa, ya, es prostituta (y ya es malo puesto que es una menor), pero siempre aparece desnuda o semi-desnuda en portadas de capítulos aún cuando no aparece en el capítulo.
La historia se esta volviendo predecible, los malos son malos porque son malos y ya, no hay más razones, al igual que los buenos son buenos solo porque son buenos y ¿El desarrollo psicológico?...
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