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Battle Royale   
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Description

Type
Manga

Related Series

Associated Names
Bataille Royale
Королевская битва
ประจัญบาน
バトル・ロワイアル
大逃杀
大逃殺
배틀 로얄

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Latest Release(s)
v.9 v2 by Manga-Sketchbook over 17 years ago
v.15 by Manga-Sketchbook over 17 years ago
c.113-115 by Illuminati-Manga over 17 years ago
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Status
in Country of Origin
15 Volumes (Complete)
8 Volumes (Bunkoban, Complete)

Completely Scanlated?
Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter
N/A

User Reviews
Battle Royale by Rashid
Battle Royale by xombiemonkey

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User Rating
Average: 7.8 / 10.0 (1162 votes)
Bayesian Average: 7.76 / 10.0
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Last Updated
September 10th 2023, 11:37pm


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Year
2000

Original Publisher

Serialized In (magazine)
Young Champion (Akita Shoten)

Licensed (in English)
Yes

English Publisher
TokyoPop (2003 / 15 Vols; 2007 / 5 Vols - Complete)

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very enjoyable  
by whitespade
August 8th, 2011, 3:58am
Rating: 9.5  / 10.0
i love the expressive art where every pore and every bead of spit are beautifully and grotesquely rendered. the characters are delightful variable mix of shit ass crazy and just barely sane. their actions and their thinking lies between condamnable and commendable, but enjoyable all the same. i gleefully wait for the next axe to drop, for the next bullet to be shot - and feel sad and teary all the same when a good character dies.

the only irksome thing is the whiny, teary, weak main male character, who dont do anything - and somehow made it alive. but oh well.
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Read it, but be prepared.  
by Anonymous
July 19th, 2011, 1:03pm
Rating: 8.7  / 10.0
Extremely violent (and ecchi) but an interesting read. Definitely not a good choice for a first or second manga, but definitely worth reading after you've gotten the classic must-reads out of the way. Expect a lot of tears and heartache as you read this heart-wrenching trajedy.
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not completely thought-through, yet entertaining  
by connerity
February 25th, 2011, 9:21pm
Rating: 8.2  / 10.0
First I'm gonna say that it's overall a good and entertaining manga, mostly due to the story and the characters that are well done.
For a manga that tries to be realistic, many situations weren't that well thought-through, while others were done brilliantly. Some characters were brilliant while others were lacking.
I don't want to go into detail for the not so thought-through situations, since it would require too much text to explain how the specified situations came to be, so I'm gonna list only a few things that I remember: (finished 3 days ago)
Again, note that I write that in the assumption that the manga tries to be realistic. If you don't think so, stop reading.
Spoiler (highlight to view)
Noriko gets shot in her lower leg with a gun that easily put a hole in someones head, yet only receives minor injury and can even use the leg in the days after (minus the time it gets infected).
I'm no medicine student but I''ve gotta call serious bullshit there. The muscle would be at least partially torn and muscles don't regenerate in half of a day. For the shot see chapter 3 page 8, no graze shot or anything, direct hit.

I doubt you'd survive a major bomb explosion unscathed if you hide in a shabby old truck, especially not if said truck lands straight on the driver's cabin after flying a good 20 metres through the air.

Again with muscles, towards the end, before Kiriyama goes on to the final showdown, he prepares for it. That includes fixing his index finger by cutting himself open and shortening a muscle in his upper arm and duct-taping it. Again, I'm no med student but sounds like bullshit. Especially when I can't even feel the slightest contraption in my upper arm when I'm moving my index finger. Maybe I'm a mutant.

I'm not gonna even get started on the whole KI thing when Kiriyama battles the guy with the staff who tries to protect his chick.

Also, the human psyche is unpredictable, but I think that, considering the situation, a lot more rape would happen. They are 15. But I guess you can't show much more in a non hentai manga.

If you've read this all and think "nitpicking prat" you deserve to have wasted your time since I warned you before.


... Last updated on February 25th, 2011, 9:26pm
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Mitsu  
by arouraleona
February 21st, 2011, 2:00pm
Rating: 10.0  / 10.0
Yes she was the lolita/blackwidow stereotype, but the switching between Mitsu the bombshell and Mitsu the broken doll was absolute genius. And yes, YES, it was fucked up. It was all fucked up, but it remained brilliant regardless of that. Sad to say Shu and Nori are my least favorite characters because I'm not sure you can retain that much goodness, that much sanity without any action at all. Mim did it the right way I think, the way it had to be done. He found a target. But I never really bought into Shu who wouldn't have survived the first hour without Kawada, as he said. They couldn't have picked a class with more problems, seriously, but the writing was good. And the art... the art...

As for the art, well ... the gore does get a bit over the top, which threw me out of it a time or two, but on the flip side it just wouldn't be BR without the gore, so you take those moments were there's too much spit/semen/blood/tears and roll with it. The tears was really what tossed me. They cried too damn much. I really expected more shock and less boohooing, but what do I know. I've never been in that situation myself.
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Failure  
by AriannaAine
August 30th, 2010, 1:46am
Rating: 3.0  / 10.0
Battle Royale is one of my favorite stories, but the manga version totally screws it up. It glorifies the violence and over-sexualizes the situation, entirely removing the philosophy and genuine horror found in the original work (and to some degree, the film).

If you want this story, go read the book.
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Not for me but wanted to see ending  
by John21
December 15th, 2009, 3:09am
Rating: N/A
Honestly dis manga damn. So much horror and i can't really sai i enjoyed it. But i kept on reading, even skipped a few chapters to just see the ending.
Spoiler (highlight to view)
so ironic dat the two people that hardly did anything, dat didn't kill survived. All thanks to Kawada. Really felt sad when he died.
Damn. So many dead. Its quite sad. Wouldn't want to read mangas like these again, definetly not for me.
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*gasp* wow *gasp* motherfucker *gasp* damn! *gasp* amazing!!!  
by otakuness
October 4th, 2009, 6:37am
Rating: 10.0  / 10.0
first of all i have to come clean... i am no sadist and i no that i am also a normal person...and psychologically me think i am normal!! and for the record...i am not a dude and i am not of legal age...and just gotta say the people who said that this nothing but a gore feast...well you people are all wusses to the core!! i mean its pure genius!!

okay gotta say one thing i love it as in seriously love it!! i am normally a shoujo- loving girl but after seeing this and everybody says that its all gore to the core...me thinks no!! now i just gotta know how to put the spoiler thingys in here...and let the real commenting begin!!

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well first of all what draw me in was the art...the very picture of shuuya...up there...and that made me think is this thing really that disgusting cause you know...the boy looks good...anyways about the art...the eyes are popping out and also the brains are splashing about <also the drool and other body fluids that seriously aint pretty>...but it aint that gross if you think about it...thats what really is inside of our bodies...why get scared of the things inside me and you?? anyways for what its worth the story is pure genius i mean it was tapping the fragility of both the human mind and body...also the characters...they are so real...everybody!! and the girls i love them...yes even mitsuko...i like her...i mean she has her glitches and she a bitch slasho whore but her story it touched me!! one of my favorites is also takako...the girl didnt go down without a fight!! go girl power!! okay moving on to the boys side...mimura...oh mimura...my favorite character...i mean the guys a genius!! but not a twisted one like kiriyama!! he could have done it...i like his principle..yeah keep it frosty!! god which brings it to the kiriyama...i know the guy's a wacko for a reason...im going to miss his poker face...but sometimes he is just so annoying i mean i was near thinking that the guy is supernatural!! okay about the main character...the guy is a breath of fresh air... shuuya has real beliefs...i mean that became the main point of this thing how far your beliefs and morals can take you against fear, madness and all the goddamn guns pointed at you...also kawada totally worth mentioning...this guy...couldnt have made it without him...he was...i dont know...comic relief...just relief..the guys a savior!! anyways...i just love it!! the other ones...i hafta say i love it and i dont know why but this one i gotta say that i love it out of all this things worth!!


the violence and the perversion of everything didnt dragged my morals down but actually gave me life lessons i mean yeah really! i am not that much fond of tragedies but this one takes it home!!! really a page turner!! oh and another description comes to mind...THIS ONE IS EXQUISITELY EXPLICIT!!!

... Last updated on October 5th, 2009, 4:29am
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never read this, but i saw the movie  
by Lightning Hiro
September 7th, 2009, 3:39pm
Rating: N/A
i dont know if i ever want to read this, becuz the movie was already enough for me, im betting this will be the goryiest thing ever, since mangas usually can extend to greater heights in creepy ways of killing than a movie...
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I liked it.  
by prettykitty20034
August 22nd, 2009, 6:52am
Rating: 9.0  / 10.0
This manga is a bit of a gore-fest. It doesn't bother me, but I can see it really bothered some others judging by the comments. In any case, I found the plot interesting and thought provoking. I thought the large cast of characters was managed well, I was able to get a distinct impression of each of them even with little screen time. The art helped greatly in this too, as each of them had a very unique looked that further helped to set them apart from each other. Whether you liked the style or not, the art was well done, rendering everything from the island setting to a rotting corpse in minute detail. I quite liked Battle Royale, but I'd only recommend it to those who like dark stories and aren't bothered by gore.
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sorry for such a long review  
by Telecaster
August 15th, 2009, 8:43am
Rating: N/A
Well, first I'd like to say that I really think I shouldn't recommend this, even though I liked it, so that people won't come after me waving sticks. Which is why I didn't put a rating in it.
Second, I really try to refrain from commenting on other people's reviews, but I kind of had to say something to the idea that people who think that the nudity was worse than the gore are no better than murderers. I can see where you're coming from, but I think you went a little overboard.
Okay, now that I've blabbered on for a bit, I'll talk about the comic.
Battle Royale really has some nasty gore, [eyeballs everywhere, entrails hanging out] but what disturbed me more was the rape. Maybe it's just me, but I've got a really hard time dealing with rape, more than any amount of violence. After reading reviews, I decided to skip the third volume all together, because of that.
The gore, though realy nasty, was not as bad as I had exspected. The scariest thing I thought about the deaths was the expressions. Masayuki Taguchi is really good at expresseions, and the faces of the dead and dying are no exception. They are the kind of images that stay implanted in you're brain for a long time.
The artwork though, especially the scenery, is some of the best ever. Koushun Takami said that Masayuki Taguchi's artwork was "directly decended from Osamu Tezuka's", and I can really see the similarities.
What made me want to read this comic was the story though. The idea of it is so horrifying and crazy and Lord of the Flies times 20. The premise is really a unique and facinating idea.
I thought the Keith Griffen adaption did a good job with the dark humor, and generally it was good, but some of the time it was hard to figure out what everybody was saying because he made it super slangy.
But all in all, I think if you're determined to read Battle Royale, you should make sure you're ready, because it's really disturbing. This is really taking the Lord of the Flies-esqe psychological genre to the extreme.
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