A 3rd class is selected for the Battle Royale program. The principle is simple: students have to kill each other until there is only one left. Adapted from a novel that has become a cult film, this manga allows, violently and disturbingly, to address the contradictions of today's Japan and its teenagers who refuse the pattern of their elders. Through a cruel game, it is the evocation of the malaise of a generation that dominates this exceptional title. Contains volumes 1 to 3 (luxe edition)
Manga
2000
Battle Royale (Takami / Taguchi)
バトル・ロワイアル
- Koushun Takami Writer
- Masayuki Taguchi Artist
- Mioko Ohnishi Artist
- Youhei Oguma Artist
Details
- Type
- Manga
- Release
- 2000-02-08 — 2005
- Original title
- バトル・ロワイアル
- Countries
- JP
- Original language
- Japanese
- Volumes
- 15
- Status
- Completed
- Information verified on
- 8 octobre 2026
Synopsis
Battle Royale (Takami / Taguchi)
Volumes
Volumes (15)
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Volume 1
A 3rd class is selected for the Battle Royale program. The principle is simple: students have to kill each other until there is only one left. Adapted from a novel that has become a cult film, this manga allows, violently and disturbingly, to address the contradictions of today's Japan and its teenagers who refuse the pattern of their elders. Through a cruel game, it is the evocation of the malaise of a generation that dominates this exceptional title. Contains volumes 1 to 3 (luxe edition)
Volume 2
A 3rd class is selected for the Battle Royale program. The principle is simple: students have to kill each other until there is only one left. Adapted from a novel that has become a cult film, this manga allows, violently and disturbingly, to address the contradictions of today's Japan and its teenagers who refuse the pattern of their elders. Through a cruel game, it is the evocation of the malaise of a generation that dominates this exceptional title. Contains volumes 1 to 3 (luxe edition)
Volume 3
They were classmates, sometimes even best friends... However, they have no choice, they will have to kill each other and ... in the end, there will be only one! A new edition of Battle Royale finally arrives and not just any other! A large format for more comfort, colour pages for more realism and the equivalent of three volumes in one for the massacre to last longer!
Volume 4
A 3rd class is selected for the Battle Royale program. The principle is simple: students must kill each other until there is only one left. Rediscover in an exclusive edition one of the major works of manga in France. Adapted from a novel that has become a cult film, this manga allows, violently and disturbingly, to address the contradictions of Japan today and its teenagers who refuse to trace the pattern of their elders. Through a cruel game, it is the evocation of the malaise of a generation that dominates this exceptional title.
Volume 5
A 3rd class is selected for the Battle Royale program. The principle is simple: students must kill each other until there is only one left. Rediscover in an exclusive edition one of the major works of manga in France. Adapted from a novel that has become a cult film, this manga allows, violently and disturbingly, to address the contradictions of Japan today and its teenagers who refuse to trace the pattern of their elders. Through a cruel game, it is the evocation of the malaise of a generation that dominates this exceptional title.
Volume 6
The Far East Republic, the totalitarian nation of Asia, is experimenting with a massacre game called "the program". Third classes are chosen arbitrarily to participate. Students in the same class must kill each other until there is only one survivor left. This is the cruel rule. The 42 students in the 3 - B class of Shiroiwa College find themselves engaged in this real "game of death", without even knowing why...
Volume 7 — Bug
"If we manage to kill the guys who run the "Program", we can get out of this hell." In a situation as extreme as this "death game", Shinji Mimura, a boy of rare intelligence, not only manufactured a bomb from his hands, but he also developed a careful plan to make disappear the government men present in the annex of the school. All he has left to do is to put this one to execution. And if he hadn't made this unfortunate encounter!!
Volume 8 — Sixth sense
The 42 students of the 3rd B of Shiroiwa College were chosen to participate in the "program", a game intended to experiment with murder; the first day just passed that, already, half of the participants are missing the call. They were, for the most part, victims of comrades determined to participate in the game in order to survive. Among these assassins is Mitsuko Soma, a girl with fascinating beauty, who releases a real aura. Her victims were deceived by her beauty and apparent fragility. How can she kill so easily? Will someone be able to stop her murderous madness?
Volume 9 — Pulling
Battle Royale: a classic future of manga! Truce of scruples! One watchword: killing or being killed. Sugimura is still looking for his friend Kayoko. But on the way, he will have to face many perils. Meanwhile, Shûya, seriously wounded is collected and cared for by the girls who had taken refuge in the lighthouse. But will they survive a terrible danger?
Volume 10 — Yuko Sakaki
Unable to trust each other, the young girls of the lighthouse kill each other.The irony is that the only survivor of this terrible tragedy is Sakaki Yuko, the girl behind this tragedy.
Volume 11 — Fortuitous meeting
The fight continues for the 7 survivors.
Volume 12
To protect Kotohiki, Sugimura faces Kiriyama in a duel to death.
Volume 13
Since Sugimura and Kotohiki were massacred by Kiriyama, the programme now has only five survivors. On the one hand, Nanahara, Kawada and Noriko, who united their forces in order to escape from the island. On the other hand, Mitsuko Souma, a real bloody demon, and Kazuo Kiriyama, the most terrible of the massacrers! Soma, a creature with voluptuous and disconceived beauty, loves to feast on the blood of the living. Kazuo Kiriyama, is a god of chaos and ravages everything in his passage with a certain naivety. No doubt that an unprecedented battle of bitterness will begin when these two demons fall in front of each other!
Volume 14
Preferring to escape from the island rather than participate in this game of death, Nanahara and his two friends wait, hidden in the forest the arrival of their comrades Sugimura.
Volume 15
A true immortal demon, Kiriyama continues to rise up despite the bullets that have reached him on many occasions. As for Nanahara, who keeps in him the memory of his deceased comrades such as Mimura and Sugimura, he faces the same Kiriyama and shoots his ultimate ball. But is the peak of the tragedy still to come? Does a man have the strength to see beyond the endless darkness of despair?! The manga survival that has shaken Japan from the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st finally arrives at its end! Don't miss this thrilling finale !!!