Battle Royale. Vol. 1

Ok, I'm not a massive manga fan and I bought this on a really random whim to find out what the fuss was about... and wow. Seriously, this is not a nice book by any means but it is incredible in a must-know-what-happens-next way. It's full of very graphic (well, it is manga) sex and violence, disturb Leggi tutto

I read this manga and the novelization at the same time and I really liked this first volume of the Manga. It's quite amazing for a Manga. It's very graphic and gory, but you probably know what you are getting into when you decide to read a Manga like "Battle Royale". Comparing manga to the novel, s Leggi tutto

Titulo: Battle Royale Volumen 1 Autor: Koushun Takami, Masayuki Taguchi Motivo de lectura: - Lectura / Relectura: Lectura Mi edicion: Tapa blanda, 224 paginas, Ivrea Puntuacion: 4/5 Tiene ciertas similitudes con el libro, el unico problemita que le encuentro es que condensaron mucho el libro en este prim Leggi tutto

Ever since I heard that some of the Eastern world (or manga-reading world) had accused Suzanne Collins of ripping off the immensely popular Battle Royale, I had it in my (long) list of books I wanted to read. Then, after years of languishing on that list... well, I never could quite get up the commi Leggi tutto

actual rating: 2.5 Not really sure how I feel about this manga adaptation. I have not read the book yet and it has been probably over a decade since I watched the movie so I can't really say how this compares but there was a lot of rapey stuff in this first volume that, from some other reviews I read Leggi tutto

I thought I would like this more than I did. I've seen the movie, I just finished reading the novel yesterday, and so far the manga leaves a lot to be desired. Maybe I'd like it better in the original Japanese (time to start practicing my kanji again?). I don't like the way a lot of the characters ar Leggi tutto