Battle Royale (Japanese: バトル・ロワイアル , Hepburn: Batoru Rowaiaru ) is a Japanese sein manga series writt by Koushun Takami and illustrated by Masayuki Taguchi. It is based on Takami's novel of the same name, telling the story of a class of junior high school childr who are forced to fight each other to the death. It was serialized by Akita Shot in Young Champion from 2000 to 2005,
And later combined into 15 tankobon volumes, which were released in glish by Tokyopop from 2003 to 2006. In October 2007, a special edition of the manga began being released.
The manga follows the plot of the novel fairly closely, but expands on the backstory of each of the studts. Much like the plots of the novel and film adaptation, the manga is noted for its intse and gory violce. The Tokyopop glish adaptation of the manga makes several changes to the plot, such as claiming that [The] Program is a reality TV show and changing the time setting of the story by almost 10 years; both changes are contradicted in later volumes.
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At first the creators of the original version of the Battle Royale manga kept the story close to the original Japanese novel. As publication increased, Taguchi took increasing liberties with the story. Takami said that he looked forward to new installmts of Taguchi's story and Taguchi said that he more strongly cared about the characters. Takami liked how Taguchi distributed the time among characters; Takami said that in the manga the characters changed and grew as the story progressed, unlike in the original novel. Taguchi said that in the manga version he modeled most of Takami's characters after people he personally knew. Takami describes Taguchi's stance as closer to his own than the stance of Kinji Fukasaku, the director of the film. Takami describes the manga as containing the feeling of a geral, nonjudgmtal love for humans.
Taguchi said that many people describe his art style as reminisct of gekiga, or that it's realistic. Taguchi disagrees with the descriptions, instead characterizing faces in his works as manga faces since he feels that it is really easy to put my own emotions into the faces. Taguchi said that wh he shows sadness in characters, he locates the characters' eyebrows down as far as possible. Takami describes Taguchi's art as directly descded from Osamu Tezuka and manga-esque. Takami described the style as easy to overlook because the art contains clean lines. Takami believed that the art style fit the Battle Royale story. In the beginning Taguchi said that he felt that all of the characters had to look like middle school studts. Taguchi said that as the story progressed for many of the characters he began to draw them more naturally and add specific expressions for certain things they would say. Takami describes the newer style as more grown-up looking.
An glish-language release of the collected volumes, published in the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom by Tokyopop was extsively rewritt by Keith Giff, whose script does not completely follow the original manga.
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Their adaptation mtions several dates that change the time the story is set in by almost 10 years. It uses the line in the near future, but on Shogo Kawada's profile, it referces the 2005 program; he says his last program was a year ago, leading to the assumption that the manga sets the story in 2006. In volume one of the glish-language version, Shinji Mimura and the news channel reporter mtions the 2007 record of three days, sev hours and twty-two minutes. In volume 14, Kamon refers to the 2009 program. None of these dates are mtioned in the original Japanese version.
But the major differce betwe the Japanese and Tokyopop version is that Giff rewrote the BR program as a Reality TV show, rather than keeping it in tune with the BR Act, which leaves plot-holes through the manga, especially in volume 15. This can be partially attributed to the fact that wh Tokyopop had released volume 1, the Japanese version was only up to volume 9 at that point, thereby not giving Tokyopop or Giff ample material to prove that their rewrite would backfire.
'For adapting the work, Giff was giv a tight Japanese-to-glish translation of the story, but his assignmt was by no means just to tweak a translation. I told him to do what he felt he had to do, Paniccia said. I told him to Giffize it.'
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'It's a good story that Takami is telling, Giff said. What I do is go in and make bad sces that much worse. I loved the movie of Battle Royale, and also love the manga. I just wanted to do it right. I wanted to do justice to it, and I knew I couldn't get away with doing a straight translation, because it would be horrifyingly bad.'
In April 2006, Tim Beedle, a former associate editor of the glish version Battle Royale, stated on the Tokyopop Messageboard the reasoning behind the decision to have a fairly loose adaptation:
'Prior to starting work on the first volume of Battle Royale, its editor (Mark Paniccia, who has since left Tokyopop) made a decision to hire Keith Giff, a well-known American comic book writer, to provide a much looser adaptation than usual. He made this decision for a variety of reasons, but two seemed to be more promint than the rest. First, due to BR's extreme contt and M rating, it was going to be a tough sell. (Some of the large chains refuse to carry M-rated books.) Hiring a known writer could help compsate for this by driving sales. Second, more than any other book we were publishing at the time, BR had the pottial to find a crossover audice in the direct market among American comic book readers, who oft are adverse to trying manga.'[4]
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The plot changes to turn the BR Program into a Reality Show sponsored by the Governmt held similarities to Suzanne Collins' 2008 novel The Hunger Games. John Gre pointed out that the premise of the novel is nearly idtical.
Although Collins maintains that she had never heard of that book until [her] book was turned in, The New York Times reports that the parallels are striking ough that Collins's work has be savaged on the blogosphere as a baldfaced ripoff, but that there are ough possible sources for the plot line that the two authors might well have hit on the same basic setup indepdtly.
Tokyopop released an Ultimate Edition of Battle Royale which consisted of 5 omnibus novels, with each novel having over 600 pages. The first volume was released on December 15, 2007, and the fifth and last on February 10, 2009.
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The Ultimate Edition has bonus features that consist of color pages, character sketches, weapon details, and Q&A's with the author, Koushun Takami.
Conrad Editora from Brazil began publishing a Portuguese version at the tail d of 2006. It follows the original 15-volume format, and does not adapt the Giff Reality Show version (although the cover of the first edition mtions the reality show). It was cancelled after 12 volumes in 2007, but returned in 2011. Editorial Ivrea from Argtina published a Spanish version.
We are introduced to the main characters and how the class was kidnapped and st to the island. Most of this volume in set in the classroom and Yonemi Kamon's instructions about the program. Mr. Hayashida, the class teacher, is killed before the Program begins for resisting. Kamon shoots and kills Yoshitoki Kuninobu for attacking him after he, Kamon, says that he raped Anna Ryoko, the caretaker of the orphaned Shuya and Yoshitoki. Kamon also kills Fumiyo Fujiyoshi by throwing a knife in her head while she whispers during class. After the evt begins, Yoshio Akamatsu kills Mayumi Tdo who is discovered by Shuya. Shuya knocks out Yoshio wh he threats Noriko and runs off and settles in the woods for the night. Yoshio is killed off by Kazushi Niida and finally, Megumi Eto, hiding in the residtial area, is killed by Mitsuko Souma by slicing her neck op.
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In this volume we are introduced to Kazuo Kiriyama and his gang. It is revealed, that due to Kazuo's appart sociopathy, he determines whether to play the game by the flick of a coin. This inevitably begins his killing spree, including his tire gang, Izumi Kanai, and Yukiko and Yumiko. Sakura Ogawa and Kazuhiko Yamamoto commit suicide. Tatsumichi Oki attacks Shuya but kills himself by accidt; Kyoichi Motobuchi also attacks Shuya but is killed by Shogo. Shuya and Noriko meet Shogo Kawada and team up to find more frids.
This volume is mainly about Shinji Mimura, wh he finds close frid Yutaka Sato and begins his plan to defeat the program via implanting a worm into The Program's main computers. We also meet Yoshimi Yahagi and Yoji Kuramoto, later it introduces Takako Chigusa and Kazushi Niida.
This volume continues Takako's fight with Niida, Niida is killed but Mitsuko kills Takako, Hiroki finds her dying body and she dies in his arms. Shinji
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