Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Battle Royale I & Battle Royale II

Story:


Battle Royale is a set in a dystopian
future Japan(now called Th Republic of Greater East Asia) in which a group of middle school students are chosen to participate in a death game after the government has passed an act to deal with overpopulation and unmotivated students.


Shiroiwa Junior High School Class 3-B
Battle Royale 1


A randomly-selected class of ninth- grade students(in the film version two are "transfer students", described by the instructor of the game as " a little dangerous") are taken unwillingly to a small isolated island. Each students give a map, bread of water and a randomly allocated weapon. Some student get"weapons" such as binocularsand frying pans, but others get sword, guns and grenades. The student are forced to kill each other untill only one survivor remains. Each student is forced to wear a special collar which will explode when they break a rule. Friends and lovers to are forced set their emotions aside the bloody battle ensues

Battle Royale 2
Wild Seven


The Program begins with 42 teengers competing. Two are killed as exmples before the game begins : one boy and for challenging the man supervisng the Program, one girl for talking out of turn. The novel follows the remaining 40 teens as they react to their situation in varying ways.Some commit suicide, while others obey the rules and begin killing each other.

Shikanotoride Jr. High Class 3-B (Students)
Battle Toyale 2

Three groups of students take neither route. One group of girls takes refuge in a lighthouse and decides not to take part in killing, but the end up killing each other anyway; a group of boys, led by a computer whiz whose uncle was an architect, tries to hack the Program' computer system and destroy the control center the explosives, and a boy and a girl joined up with an older boy who was the sole survivor of previous Program. This last group eventually becomes the focus of the story, and they are only one who end up surviving ( although the older boy dies of injuries afterwards). The story of Shuya, the young male survivor, continues in the film Battle Royale II: Requiem

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