![]() ![]() Also, if more than 24 hours go by without a kill, everybody’s head gets blown off. To make the same interesting, there are zones which are off limits (your head will explode if you enter one) and the non-explosive zones are constantly shrinking to cause people to run into each other. The purpose of the collars is to make them play a game where they each are given a weapon, and they all need to kill each other until there’s one person left standing. Instead they’re knocked out with gas, and when they wake up they have collars around their necks that can track them, listen to them, or even blow their heads up. The premise of Battle Royale is that a fictional Asian country which seemingly shares the most characteristics with Japan has a fairly regular event where a bus full of middle school kids are told they’re going on a field trip. I guess any book that features teens killing each other for adult entertainment is bound to draw comparisons to the major works with that distinctive element. ![]() Interestingly enough, the afterward on the Viz edition of this book has Takami copping to basing his book on Stephen King’s The Long Walk, a book I really loved that was originally published under his pseudonym Richard Bachman. Reading this book for the first time in 2019, it was easy to spot the influences its had on subsequent books in the dystopian young adult genre. ![]()
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