![]() ![]() The similarities between the two novels are limited primarily to the nearly identical premises of their stories. It’s impossible to talk about “Battle Royale” without also addressing Suzanne Collins’ much more recent “The Hunger Games”. Under the coercion of metal collars that can be detonated to explode at will, an initially harmonious group of classmates turn on each other. Koushun Takami tells the story of the 42 students from Shiroiwa Junior High School who have been randomly selected to be one of the fifty classes in the Republic of Greater East Asia to participate in the yearly Program, a fight to the death at the end of which only one student can remain alive. ![]() It is in no way a heartless novel and in the most twisted of ways, it is at the same time poignant and hopeful. ![]() ![]() It will make you pity supposed villains and cry for fallen minor characters. It will do frightening things to your heart rate and it will make you want to throw up your lunch while inside this beast of a book.Īt the same time, “Battle Royale” is a story of heroism and humanity in the face of an impossibly dire situation. It will swallow you whole and spit you back up again only when you’re already half-digested. It is brutal, unforgiving, and merciless. “Battle Royale” is not for the faint of heart. ![]()
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