Battle Royale / Batoru Rowaiaru / バトル・ロワイアル

You have stumbled upon Battle Story, a fanblog dedicated to Battle Royale by Koushun Takami.

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BOY #6 KIRIYAMA - DEAD

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crazy how only movie watchers will never know that mitsuko was raped by three older men when she was nine and thats why shes like that

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Chiaki Kuriyama for Fashion Post Photographed by Yusuke Abe

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Ko Shibasaki's artist visuals for her EP release titled 『邂逅』

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The most horrific thing in Battle Royale to me is that everyone in the Program aren't strangers, but classmates who have known each other for years before the Program started. They've formed friendships with each other, have their own roles among the class, and we see it all fall apart as soon as they get to the island. They get completely turned against each other, and each of them have the realization that they didn't actually know any of these people. They might have been classmates, maybe even friends, but that doesn't stop them from trying to kill each other

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Stills from Battle Royale II: Requiem

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"Dies Irae" playing over the Toei ocean logo? You know what you are in for...

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Starting on the horror antag series with Kitano and Mitch. I shall finish all of them. I must.

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Chiaki Kuriyama Vogue Italy 2005

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Battle Royale Student Rosters Battle Royale, Masayuki Taguchi Battle Royale II: Blitz, Hitoshi Tomizawa Battle Royale III: Enforcers, Yukai Asada

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DAY6 of BRWEEK2025 HEAT OF THE MOMENT

BATTLE ROYALE manga (2000 – 2005) illus. Masayuki Taguchi movie (2000) dir. Kinji Fukasaku

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BATTLE ROYALE, 2000 out of context

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Battle Royale Deluxe Edition 2

Volume 2 cover for the new edition of Battle Royale manga by Yen Press with a brand new translation by Kevin Gifford. The second volume is to be released on August 25th, 2026.

Battle Royale is a Japanese manga series written by Koushun Takami and illustrated by Masayuki Taguchi. It is based on Koushun Takami's novel of the same name, telling the story of a class of junior high school children who are forced to fight each other to the death.

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Battle Royale inspired MCR poster / Gerard Way Holding the Battle Royale DVD in Japan

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I was going to make a half-serious half-joking post about how Tumblr would love Koushon Takami's novel Battle Royale, because it's a story about teens being put into a murder game where the interesting female characters are killed off to make room for a final confrontation between two kinda boring dudes.

But then I thought about how the novel includes a nuanced depiction of the ways childhood sexual abuse can make a person feel all twisted up inside. Koushon Takami's writing of Mitsuko Souma is literally the only fictional story I've ever experienced that accurately captures the pain and trauma of being sexually abused as a child. Reading Battle Royale as a teenager helped me deal with my own experience of being sexually abused as a kid. I genuinely think that Battle Royale should be required reading as part of high school curriculums.

The average Tumblr user's understanding of childhood sexual abuse is about on par with conservative parents groups that tour the country getting books banned for teaching children about sexual abuse or the members of the Imperial Diet who tried to ban the release of the film adaptation for inspiring teen criminality. The idea of reading a Tumblr essay about how "Mitsuko Souma is bad actually" makes me want to bury a sickle in someone's skull.