He also keeps his characters very realistic, 15-year-old students. Takami does a brilliant job of helping you keep track of his 42 characters, which was my biggest concern going into the book. The emotional fallout from that setup is devastating.Īnd these kids are wonderfully written. They are offered no time to prepare for the Program, merely gassed on a bus ride, dumped on an island, and told to kill each other. This causes one of the biggest differences between Battle Royale and the Hunger Games, in my opinion, and one of the factors which makes Battle Royale so chilling: these kids all know each other. Every year, 50 such classes are randomly selected for the Program, which is billed as a highly necessary military research experiment of some sort. The kids in Battle Royale are all members of the same third-year juniour high class, which has been chosen to take part in this year’s Program. I enjoyed the book a lot (more, I think, than Kelin did). The violence is the point of Battle Royale, in many ways. The violence is overwhelming, yes, but it doesn’t feel gratuitous. I’m not usually bothered by violence or gore in fiction, but there were moments in Battle Royale that shocked even me.
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