Battle Royale (manga, movie and novel)

[Mitchfoxbane55]

Battle Royale (manga, movie and novel)

Taken from Anime News Network Website for those two adaptions...

Manga

In a world where teenagers are roaming wild, the Japanese government decides to hold "lotteries" where 9th graders enter and are picked to "battle it all out" on an island with other students. An island where even your best friend will become your worst enemy.

Movie

In the turn of the century, Japan's economy went to an all-time low. The unemployment rate skyrocketed and the country's youths boycotted school and rebelled against their elders. In response to the ensuing mayhem, the Japanese government passed a new law called the Millennium Educational Reform Act—infamously known as "The Battle Royale Act." This movie focuses on one high school class that is chosen to participate in the latest Battle Royale, where each student must survive and kill their classmates on a remote island for three days until only one is left standing.

This post-apocalytic story is adapted from the novel to the manga and movie, it is rated adult due to graphic violence, sexual scenes and swearing.
Though most students have to fight among themselves and kill each other with weapons due to insanity, some of them are rebelling from the system such as the two main characters Shuuya Nanahara and Noriko Nakagawa along the hardened veteran with a good heart called Shogo Kawada, the martial arts student Hiroki Sugimura and the athletic intellectual Shinji Mimura.
However, what lurks the dangers behind them besides the insane students are the sociopathic killing machine Kazuo Kiriyama and Mitsuko Souma the femme fatale with a sex-crazy troubled mind who are playing the game...

If you have seen the movie or have read the manga/novel, who are your favourite characters of Battle Royale?
My favourites have to be Shinji Mimura , Kazuo Kiriyama (I adore this villain character), Shogo Kawada, Takako Chigusa, Hiroki Sugimura and Mitsuko Souma (movie only).

If you can tolerate blood and gore as well as some sexual scenes, then those are okay for you.

 

[Wanderer_D]

In the novel and movie no doubt... Shinji Mimura!

Although I wouldn't call it anything like post-apocalyptic. It is more of an alternative universe. The novel is more clear about it, as it states the years when the "Greater Asia Republic" was created.

Have you seen that they are making an American adaptation of the film?