The lines between the two age ranges are getting very blurred these days. If BR were published in 2019, I’d say it would be classified as a YA novel instead of an adult. There’s a lot of gore in BR, and Takami holds nothing back in his fight scenes. All of our characters are teenagers, but the violence found in this novel as opposed to THG is intense. It’s hard to say whether Battle Royale is a YA novel or not. The bells are ringing now, aren’t they? One very important thing to note is that Battle Royale was published in Japan in 1999, then translated to English in 2003–many years prior to Collins’s Hunger Games. The two works are similar in a lot of ways, but their differences make for a much more interesting discussion… The conceit of both novels is nearly the same: Teens forced by a brutal totalitarian regime to kill one another while the public is helpless to do anything about it. Ring any bells? The reason why I’m bringing this up is because Battle Royale and The Hunger Games are cut from the same cloth. Battle Royale is a contemporary Japanese pulp classic now available for the first time in English.If you aren’t familiar with Battle Royale by Koushun Takami, then you might be familiar with its American counterpart, The Hunger Games. Koushun Takami's brutal, high-octane thriller is told in breathless.
A group of high school students are taken to small isolated island and forced to fight each other until only one remains alive! If they break the rules a special collar blows their heads off. Made into a controversial hit movie of the same name, Battle Royale is already a contemporary Japanese pulp classic, now available for the first time in the English language. Criticized as violent exploitation when first published in Japan-where it then proceeded to become a runaway bestseller- Battle Royale is a Lord of the Fliesfor the 21st century, a potent allegory of what it means to be young and (barely) alive in a dog-eat-dog world. Koushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller is based on an irresistible premise: a class of junior high school students is taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian program, they are provided arms and forced to kill one another until only one survivor is left standing.
In an alternative future Japan, junior high students are forced to fight to the death! L to R (Western Style).
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