Battle Royale

>>161488343
He really wanted to win

>>161488343
You need a bad guy

>>161488343
Did you even read the end?
He was literally massively brain damaged due to a car accident.

>>161488343
How many thing did this guy survived?

>>161488508
I don't really remember, but I remember dropping it after he fucking survived best boy Mimura. Then picked it up again to finish it.

>>161488343
Literal brain damage.

>>161488508
From the top of my head:
>2 fights with resident martial arts expert
>point blank bomb
>car crash
>arm injury that should've left him crippled
>at least 1 gun wound
There is probably more, since, if I remeber corectly, he also ignored a bunch of shit after getting armor vest.

>>161488718
Now that I remember
Didn't they shoot him in the face and he still survived!?

>>161488846
Fuck, I think yeah.
If memory serves me right, last battle was
>car crash
>shotgun through the vest and stomach
>headshot that he survived
>then 1 more as coup de grace

>>161488343
Brain problems, obviously.

If you were part of the program would you go gung ho or just keep hiding?

I never got around to reading the original novel, was he as bullshit there?

>>161489342
Jesus Christ, someone that draws worse than ONE and Shinichi Hiramoto combined.

>>161489240
Going gung ho would definitely get you killed.

>>161490476
It's the alien 9 and milk closet mangaka, outerwordly art and horribly fucked up plots.

>>161492254
How this guy still has his job goes beyond my comprehension.

>>161492395
Btw has some of you read the ten years anniversary two volumes?

The ones that cover the backstory of the lighthouse group (BR Angel "something", iirc).

>>161492395
Fucked up for no reason entertaining shit.

>>161488343
psychopaths exist in real life too

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>>161488343
>reading battle royale for the first time
>character you like gets a backstory or is fleshed out halfway through

>>161488343
He was just following the norm, like a guy that uses a tie to go to a restaurant, it was etiquette.

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>>161488343
He's one of my favorite villain of all time but he was too OP. He should have lost to mimura or suigimura.

He was in a car accident that sent a splinter into his brain that made him an autistic psychopath.

>>161489278
Not as much as the manga made him IIRC.

>>161492456
I bought the licensed one volume edition a while back.
It was really fun.

>>161492816
Isn't that a good thing?

>>161489278

They say at one point in the novel that he is able to do pretty much everything at amazing levels of skill, but it means nothing to him. It drives this one dude insane because he was really passionate about music or art or something and then he walks in on Autismo painting/playing something far, far superior to his own work and sees that he has no understanding or care for it and he's going to throw it in the garbage the next day. So him being able to do anything you can do better has always been canon.

But he was never able to become the GOAT martial artist in real time just by watching people, that was manga-only bullshit.

>>161489278
Nah.

>>161493615
Rip his mom.

>>161493712
The only time a side character ever got a backstory or any focus for that matter was if they were going to die soon.

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>>161493953
Guess that's true.

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A slice of life anime/manga featuring the battle royal cast would have been comfy as fuck.

Is the manga better or worse than the novel?

>>161494067

You can't really compare it. The manga is so far over the top and also makes everybody look 20+ years old. Just read it, it's an enjoyable ride.

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>>161488343
I know people hate him, because he killed basketball guy and martial arts guy who were best boys, but I fucking loved that edgy faggot.
He always managed to bring the hype, like almost all the best and most memorable scenes are the ones where he is involved in.
I still vividly remember how I felt when I saw this scene.
Absolute kino.

>>161494067
I liked the novel a lot more.

>>161494067
It depends. The guy who wrote the novel said the mango's better. I like both for different reasons.

The manga is kinda crazy at times (in a good way imo) and characters get more back stories/are more fleshed out in it.
It's very gory and lewd at times. The art is brilliant at times and not so much sometimes.

The ending of the manga drags like hell though.
Also I hope you can read in a language other than english because the english translation literally fucks with the story.

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>>161494139
>I know people hate him, because he killed basketball guy and martial arts guy who were best boys, but I fucking loved that edgy faggot.
Same. He's so absurdly good.

>>161494214
>the english translation literally fucks with the story.
How so?

>>161494269
The translator changed the premise; it goes from being a government program designed to just fuck with teenagers to being a soldier R&D game show kind of thing.

>>161494269
They changed the story and made up bullshit. The story involves the state putting kids on an island so they have to kill each other. The state wants to basically scare the youth and show that they can fuck with anyone. It's a "let's kill some so they won't bitch" kind of thing.

The english translation made up some bullshit by saying that it's a tv show broadcasted and watched by people all around the country. The translator made up stuff like saying that there's cameras around the island and stuff like that.

But it's all bs, there isn't any of that.

>>161494368

It sounds like they were trying to put in parts of the movie to make it closer to that.

>>161494418
Yeah but it just doesn't work because the manga obviously doesn't visually acknowledge anything the translators made up.

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>>161494255
Everytime this guy showed up you knew shit was going down.
I like that he was a super OP antagonist, it felt like he was an unstoppable force of nature rather than a human and watching the characters struggle to even survive against him really sucked me in.

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>>161494628
Even his coat was OP and kept landing back on his shoulders.

>>161494476
Eh, I read it when I was younger and I legitimately don't remember anything feeling really jarring, and I wasn't told about it being inaccurate beforehand. If you're not looking for it it's not that bad.

>>161494762
I read it in french first (the manga), then I read the novel in english and only then I read the mango in english.

So yeah, maybe that's why I noticed it so much.

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>>161494743
The coat was great it was chuuni as fuck, but it made him really imposing and just seeing his silhoutte with the coat in some scenes really made his spectre like appearance mire menacing.

>>161488343
Why exactly did they decide to get American comic book writer Keith Giffen to rewrite the script for the English release? All he did was add dumb western pop culture references and create plot holes like claiming that it was all a reality TV show with cameras even though the lack of cameras is a plot point.

>>161494833
French people are lucky, don't you guys get the most translations out of any language?

>>161495017
Correct me if I am wrong, but the french were the first or ine of the first that created modern day comics right?

>>161495000
Yeah the coat was great because it could take several forms and I think it definitely contributed a lot to kiriyama's appearance. It's style over logic but I like it.

>>161495017
No idea because I watch and read everything in english unless I buying manga. But I sometimes see french subs and translations of manga before the english ones.

France spends roughly as much money on manga/anime as the us as a whole. But france has 60M people while the us has over 300M people.

Also I'm not french nor do I live in france.

>>161495248
France and belgium pioneered in comics. Belgian French comics are still a huge thing in both countries.

>>161495325
Quebec?

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>>161495384
Belgium.

>>161494368
>The translator made up stuff like saying that there's cameras around the island and stuff like that.
>But it's all bs, there isn't any of that.
Even worse, it created plot holes since if there were cameras, none of the MC's plans would have worked.

>>161488458
>>161493751

>brain damage

So he's 90% of /a/? Also, canon brain damaged savant here, picking this manga up, thanks for telling me who the real good guy is.

>>161495017
Yup, we get a lot of stuff that haven't even gotten fan translations in English.

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>>161495427
hallokes

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>>161495454
That and also the fact that the gubmint used a fucking satellite to see what Kawada was doing instead of using those """cameras""".

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>>161495248
While it's true that Franco Belgian titles were among the first modern comics I think the honor for creating the genre goes to either Great Britain or Switzerland, depending on what's the definition of "modern comic".
Pic related is from the mid 1800s by some Swiss guy - forgot to save his name when I saved the image sorry about that.

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>>161495525
I'm a french speaker though. not wallen

>playing with his muscle ligaments after a gunshot wound so he can pull the trigger properly
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
Something about this makes me cringe harder than the entire gory manga combined.

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>>161495592
my bad

>>161493548
This SUDDENLY KI POWERS fight was dumb as all fuck and I loved this series.

There was literally no point in adding ki especially if Kiriyama wasn't going to do shit with it ever again in the story.

Fucking hell I hate this rediculous part so fucking much

>>161495660
Sickle-slut best waifu.

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>>161495568
It would be very hard to pin point who TRULY started the first comic because such a comic would probably be lost and forgotten and it's hard to say what is and isn't a comic when you're looking at "primitive" comics like the one you posted. (don't mean that in a bad way)

Tintin had a big impact here in europe though.

>>161495660
Flemish speaking people make up over half of the country so statistically it was the good bet to make.

>>161495673
I really liked this part because of how the flowers and leaves were moving with the ki and as a whole it was super entertaining. BUT IT REALLY MADE NO SENSE. Why would the mangaka include something like that in a realistic manga? I wonder what the original author must have been thinking lmao.
Also Kiriyama broke a fucking tree with his fist.

>>161488343
Koushun Takami

>He is a genius for action, designing cool things and making interesting plots

>He is basically a retard when it comes to characters and dialogues

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>>161495722
She's one of the most twisted and fucked characters I've ever seen in my life.

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>>161495832
It's weird that he hasn't written anything since BR. Though at least he didn't write shit books.

>>161495795
The ki fight looked beautiful but it was still so fucking stupid that no matter how wonderfully composed and drawn it was that I just can't enjoy it

It was the single worst moment in this manga

She had a hard life

>In the novel, Mitsuko is abused by several individuals. When she was nine years old, her mother was paid to let three men rape and videotape her. Next, she was raped by her trusted elementary school teacher when she told him of her previous rape. A friend of hers witnesses the rape and spreads a rumor which leads to the teacher's resignation. Later, Mitsuko's mother again accepted payment to let Mitsuko be raped but Mitsuko resisted, accidentally killing her mother in the process. She is sent to live with relatives, only to be molested once again by the father of the household.

>>161495972
meant for >>161495833

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>>161495942
He should have put that fight in a manga that isn't BR.

>>161495833
>>161495972
This whole series is so over-the-top, I can't help but have almost no suspension of disbelief.

>>161495972
In the manga it broke my heart because her dad was actually a good guy who loved her daughter but had to fuck off because of money. It's fucking tragic because soma wouldn't have been abused if it wasn't for her stepdad. And every horrible thing she's done after that was because of him.

Imagine how different her life would have been if her dad stayed. Though her class would have still been chosen for the BR game.

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>>161495972
Does this sort of shit happen in Japan?

>>161496146
Everything except the teacher raping the student BECAUSE she got raped is stuff that happens a fair amount even in America

>>161495972

Wow, how does one girl get raped so much?

>>161496446
She's got some kind of rape magnet.

She also prostitutes some of her classmates in the manga and uses the fact that she's underage to blackmail rich dudes, she's a complete asshole.

>>161496146
The creation of child pornography wasn't illegal in Japan until 1999.

What's the drawer up to today?

The volume 9 of black was like 4 years ago

>>161496676
>drawer

Come on, anon

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>>161488343
>What was his problem?
Did you read the manga? He had brain damage. Also he doesn't ruin the manga at all, he's one of the scariest and ominous villains. Kiriyama provides a lot of tension when he's suspected to be around and also there's the undeniable cool factor.

>>161496676
Speaking of him I tried to read some of his other stuff and really didn't like it. Even the art looked worse.

This thread took me fucking back, picking this up for old time's sake.