Battle Royale: The Novel

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By then she was dead. In fact, she may have been dead a while ago. Physically, several seconds ago, mentally, ages ago.” Cieply, Michael (April 30, 2007). "After Virginia Tech, Testing Limits of Movie Violence". The New York Times . Retrieved September 24, 2012. a b c Higashi, Masao (April 1, 2014). "Battle Royale: The Fight the Night Before". Battle Royale Slam Book. Translated by Allen, Jocelyne. Haikasoru. ISBN 978-1-421-56599-6. All right, all right, please be quiet." Sakamochi clapped his hands together several times to get their attention. The clamor suddenly subsided. "Let me explain the situation. The reason why you're all here today..."

Another problem would be the safe zones. They weren't evident enough to be interesting. They were only mentioned at least 5 times if I remember correctly, so the students didn't seem like they were really being forced to be near each other. This novel will always be compared to Collins' The Hunger Games and Stephen King's The Long Walk. The Hunger games was more similar to this, but still different in its own way. The Long Walk had a different take on it, despite some similarities. Everyone should be aware though that there's really no such thing as a new idea when it comes to writing. Somewhere in the world someone has probably written about your idea already. The only thing one can hope for would be the terrific execution. Battle Royale and The Long Walk both were executed perfectly. I'm not going to chose which one I liked better because I believe I liked them both perfectly the same. I honestly can't say the same for THG, but that was still good nonetheless. Since its release, the novel and its film adaptation have had an influence on later works. These include filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, [35] [36] most notably his Kill Bill films; [37] the character Gogo Yubari, played by Chiaki Kuriyama, is similar to the character she plays in the Battle Royale film, Takako Chigusa. [38] V.A. Musetto of the New York Post also compared it to The Condemned, which the critic called "a bad rip-off" of Battle Royale as well as The Most Dangerous Game. [39] Critics have also noted the influence of Battle Royale on other later works, such as the 2008 film Kill Theory, [40] the 2009 film The Tournament, [41] and the 2016 film The Belko Experiment, [42] and have noted similarities with the novel and film franchise The Hunger Games. [23] [43] The manga, anime and film franchise Gantz and the 2007 video game The World Ends with You have both been compared to Battle Royale. [44] [45]Before reading this book, I believe Ms. Collins, author of The Hunger Games, had ripped off Battle Royale, and after reading BR the novel, I continue to believe THG is a rip-off. For example: 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. In 2000, one year after publication, Battle Royale was adapted into a manga series, written by Takami himself, and a feature film. The film was both controversial and successful, becoming one of the year's highest-grossing films as well as prompting condemnation by Japan's National Diet. The film spawned a sequel, and two more brief manga adaptations were also created. Und das ist eben das Grausame und auch Kritikwürdige an dem Buch. Es ist schlimm genug, dass sich die Schüler gegenseitig töten müssen und die Halsbänder tragen- womit garantiert ist, dass nur höchstens einer überlebt- aber die emotionale und psychische Belastung wird erst im Laufe des Buches ganz klar. Einige Schüler haben viel zu viel Angst, getötet zu werden, sodass sie selbst zu Mördern werden. Andere wiederum glauben, alle würden das Spiel verweigern und wollen eine Fluchtmöglichkeit finden, aber auch sie werden getötet. Schon nach wenigen Kapiteln kristallisiert sich heraus, vor wem man sich besser in Acht nehmen sollte. Whenever I think of this book, I picture the author sitting down with a piece of paper and making a list of dozens of violent, unusual ways to kill a person. Poison! Jumping off a cliff! Lot of guns! Strangulation! An exploding head! Falling off a roof! Splitting open a head with a machete like it is a ripe watermelon!

Now I know that this is a translation, and not a very good one, by all accounts. And I know that Japanese culture is different from my own (one of the big themes in the book, actually), and that their way of speaking and thinking and behaving is different from the way I would do it. I have no problem with that. I would like to state for the record that I never expected this book to read as though it was written by an American. But I'm not going to just give all of the bad writing in this book a pass because it's poorly translated from Japanese. Alle sechs Stunden gibt es eine Ansage vom "Ausbilder", der die Toten verkündet und die verbotenen Zonen. Alle zwei Stunden wird eine Zone zu einer verbotenen. Sollte sich danach noch jemand in einer verbotenen Zone befinden oder sie betreten, stirbt er oder sie durch das explodierende Halsband.I understand why some people may find the violence in BR offensive and unbearable, because Mr. Takami refused to be half-heartened when it comes to the violent scenes in his book. But it's okay with me because (1) not once does I feel Mr. Takami is being showy or careless about the violence in his book, (2) those violent scenes serve to make us see the brutal reality of the students' situation, (3) I would rather see authors be honest about violence than having them treated violence and death with a pair of fine kid gloves, like Suzanne Collins had done with The Hunger Games. Unlike The Hunger Games, which focuses only on Yes, I teared up several times but I didn’t actually cry until the very end. The last two sentences. After everything I went through with these characters, I just found them so amazing and touching. Bloody Education: Kenta Fukasaku on Battle Royale, a brand new exclusive interview with the film’s producer and screenwriter

Danach folgt eine interne Anmerkung der Regierung, die ziemlich verwirrt (der Inhalt der Anmerkung wird erst am Ende des Buches aufgeklärt). I don't want it to come across like I didn't enjoy this book. I really did. But it didn't meet my expectation. In my opinion, this article points out the real difference between BR and THG: if it's rebellion you want, you’re better off seeing/reading Battle Royale.

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Alderman, David N. (October 7, 2010). "Battle Royale – (Book Review)". Red Room. Archived from the original on September 29, 2013 . Retrieved March 28, 2012. The dialogue is natural and hardly ever preachy. Some of the kids involved in politics wax poetic about the country and its failings. Most of them, though, are content to gossip about their crushes or other students. They talk about their families, hobbies, and pasts. They make plans for a future they may never see.

Nachdem The Hunger Games von Suzanne Collins vor einigen Jahren ein riesiger Erfolg wurde, kamen neben den Lobesstimmen auch viele Kritiken zu Tage. Hauptaussage: Der Inhalt ist komplett von Battle Royale abgekupfert. Daher wollte ich seither meine eigene Meinung bilden, hatte das Buch dann aber irgendwie aus den Augen verloren. Nun habe ich mir diese ziemlich cool aussehende Remastered Edition gegönnt, die ein sehr verstörendes Cover hat und allgemein von der Aufmachung her richtig gut aussieht. E.T.A.: So, I watched the movie today online. (It's everywhere). If you saw the movie, you still don't know the book. Totally different! The movie is even more like the Hunger Games, but it doesn't scratch the surface of the book. It also is not true to the book at all. Even character names were changed. Read the book instead! ;-) Ziemlich traurig ist die Suizidszene zu Beginn eines Liebespaares. Sie wollen da nicht mitmachen, weshalb sie sich gemeinsam von einer Klippe stürzen. Still, I am surprised to see Mr. Koushun Takami managed to fill so much youthful spirit and rebellion into his story, I am also delighted to find his novel managing to make meaningful comments on friendship, dreams, trust, the strength/weakness of love, freedom and the power of individuals beyond the gruesome plotlines of teenagers killing other teenagers. Again and again and again, we're told how this character or that character or somesuch other character just couldn't believe that their class was chosen, that their class was here, that they were really playing, that they were up for it and killing each other. Again and again. Every perspective change we have to go through the same 7-stage process. Every conversation covers the same ground. Does it make me a terrible person that I just wanted them to start killing each other already?? Just to stop the horrible repetition.The novel and manga Battle Royale takes place in an alternate timeline, according to the book's prologue, where Japan is a police state, known as the Republic of Greater East Asia. Once a year, randomly selected classes of middle-school students are forced to take arms against one another until only one student in each class remains. The program was created, supposedly, as a form of military research, though the outcome of each battle is publicized on local television. The first battle in the series took place in 1947, and the novel follows a battle that takes place in May 1997.