I came across this book after reading “Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins which was claimed to be a “Battle Royale” rip-off. Needless to say, I was curious… V.A. Musetto (April 27, 2007). "Executioner's wrong: Fans condemned to bad cinema". New York Post . Retrieved October 31, 2009.

Alderman, David N. (October 7, 2010). "Battle Royale – (Book Review)". Red Room. Archived from the original on September 29, 2013 . Retrieved March 28, 2012. For me, the value of the Hunger Games is in presenting a model of a girl action hero who is genuinely there as a female perspective and not ultimately an object of male desire like most female characters who are set up as being girl action heroes. 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.Now no one responded. Everyone remained frozen, like figures in a still photograph. But—Shuya noticed—Shogo continued chewing his gum. His expression hadn't changed. But Shuya thought he'd caught a glimpse of a faint grin flash across his face. The "Program" is officially a military research program. At the end of the story Kinpatsu Sakamochi states that the Program is actually a means of terrorizing the population, with the idea that routinely witnessing such atrocities will cause people to become too paranoid and divided to stage an organized rebellion. psychopath. and i mean PSYCHOPATH. like he's not one of these 'reachable' psychopaths that have little quirks or a random soft spot for someone or something. he legit has 0 feelings, personality, or human reservations. canonically missing a screw in his brain I did [actually] get the point of this. At the end, it's put out there that having this kind of Program is useful for controlling the populace. They (the people) don't know the rules and the details, they just know of the Program and see it through the lens that the government wants them to. They see it as a competition, that people are ruthless and willing to kill, or at least use others to protect themselves, and that it's everyone for themselves.

Denn gegen Abend schlafen alle ein, nur Shuya ist noch wach, wenn auch schläfrig. Er sieht sich um und weiß sofort, dass irgendwas nicht stimmt. They tried to believe in their classmates. They must have believed that if we could all get together, then we might end up being saved. We should commend them for that. We couldn't do that.” To put it simply, this book was beautiful and tragic and amazing. It’s definitely a new all time favorite and I will be telling everyone to read it until I’m blue in the face. There have been a number of adaptations into other media which themselves have spun off sequels. These include: Obwohl sich alle Klassenkameraden vom neuen Schüler Shogo Kawada in einer gewissen Weise bedroht fühlen, verbünden sich Shuya und Noriko mit ihm. Denn Shogo wahrt ein Geheimnis: Er ist der Sieger des 'Programms' im letzten Jahr. Eigentlich sollte uns das nur misstrauischer machen, immerhin hat er dann schon vorher getötet. Aber Shuya und Noriko vertrauen ihm. Und er hilft ihnen wirklich und schmiedet einen Fluchtplan für die beiden.A lo que vamos, va de que meten a toda una clase del insti - en un Japón alternativo con dictadura nacionalsocialista incluida- en una isla y sólo puede salir uno vivo. Les monitorizan y van anunciando por altavoces quienes van muriendo y les hacen otro tipo de putadas como ponerles collares explosivos, zonas con prohibiciones de estancia según horarios y o se matan entre ellos o les matan a todos. The novel and especially its film adaptation have been influential in global popular culture, inspiring numerous works of fiction in a number of different media, particularly in East Asia and the Western world. Since the film's release, the term " battle royale" has been used to refer to a fictional narrative genre and/or mode of entertainment inspired by the film, where a select group of people are instructed to kill each off until there is a triumphant survivor. The "battle royale" phenomenon has become especially popular in the 2010s. [49] A video game genre with the same name became popular in the 2010s, with games such as PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Fortnite Battle Royale, and Apex Legends setting player-count records. Other works focused on the doubt and mistrust among a group of people in a "murder game", such as the Saw film series, The Cube, and games in the Danganronpa series. [50] [51] I question why school kids were used and not (say) University students. Killing off children in a novel - by the dozen - was quite gratuitous. Perversely, this story would probably work better as a movie than a novel because the gory death descriptions would probably not appear so sadistic (I have not seen the movie BTW). Now then, I want you to write this down. To memorize something, it’s best to write it down. Write this. ‘We will kill each other.’ Write it three times.” Then there are the semi-apologies-in-advance. "I didn't tell you, but, here's an explanation of something that I had no reason to ever think to tell you previously because it's seriously irrelevant to anything but this exact situation right now, and you didn't need to know it anyway. But sorry I didn't tell you." Or "It might be disrespectful to say this, but, I am going to finish this sentence by saying something completely banal." (This one is probably a culture thing, to be fair.) Or "I don't know what to say, but, right now the words coming out of my mouth are going to be something appropriate to say in this situation, which is the very thing I said I didn't know how to say when I started this sentence."