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Battle Royale
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Good Sir you have awakened the beast within me....I'm a Battle Royale Fanatic! The First time I ever heard of BR was back when I was 9 and came across a copy of the book, in japanese. My mom works for a japanese firm and some of the people explained to me what the story is.From then on I was hooked. Now I have both movies, multiple copies of the novel(includeing a first edition), a shitload of swag like the map of Okishima island, a fake collar, and Shogo's headband. One of my LIVE gamertags right now is MillenniumAct, but I also used to by The Third Man and Kiriyama Family. But to anwser your question, no, I have not read the manga. Its not becouse I dont want to, its just that: 1. There are no copies of the manga in any of the bookstores I've been to. 2. I've heard its published by TokyoPop, dont really trust em'.... 3. Pure laziness, I'm not a big manga reader. But If I find copies I'll probably pick it up anyway. Oh, and here's one of my BR sigs. This post has been edited by Sunzabuto on May 22 2007, 05:07 AM
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The Immortal Kaos Emperor
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Book was good. Manga was interesting. The 1st movie was valuable to me in that it gave me something to laugh at considering how exagerated the ultraviolence was and how poor the acting was. The second movie was almost unwatchably bad but still made me laugh because of how bad it was compared to the first movie (and don't give me "stop bashing the Battle Royale movies" rants- my brother and I bought the DVDs so if any of you have pirated copies it gives me more right to talk about it than you). Now just because I said the movies were bad doesn't mean they weren't fun to watch in the proper context.
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Jon Michael |
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Most overrated piece since Evangelion. Yeah, we all get it. All the otaku lock themselves in their room and go crazy about this stuff...
Honestly, there's a LOT better movies and novels out there. Go watch more asian cinema than just what is thrown at you by American fads, which is all Battle Royale is. It's controversial, or was, that's all it has going for it really.
I can't wait for the American remake *sarcasm*...BOY, it's gonna suck.
If all you care about is gore, and pushing the boundaries then Battle Royale is really one of the last Japanese movies you should be watching. Movies like the Guinea Pig series, Testuo I & II (The Iron Man, and Body Hammer), Evil Dead Trap, and other 1960-80's Japanese movies are a lot more controversial than just teens killing eachother.
This post has been edited by Jon Michael on Sep 12 2007, 01:22 PM
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The J |
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The Immortal Kaos Emperor
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Haha Jon's right. I hate how overrated the movies and manga are. If anything just read the book. The movies are just funny and worth watching because of how ridiculously overdrawn they are.
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The J |
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The Immortal Kaos Emperor
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Manga and book are ok. Manga's just a little overrated... and published by Tokyo Poop... Only watch the movie if you want to laugh your ass off.
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BR hooked me in with the novel. I loved it. I bought most of the volumes of manga, and I have bought the movie as well. (Thank You Anime Convention At CSUN!) It is great and all, but there are better things out there like Jon said... Open the horizons and you'll see...
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