Shuya Nanahara

Battle Royale. Battle Royale is a novel that takes place in a dystopian future where the Japanese government, which is falling apart due to high rates of unemployment and students, who instead of studying, are skipping classes. The government then uses the “Battle Royale” act as a.. Persuasion, of sorts, against those who rebel. The “Battle Royale” act is an act which allows the government to kidnap a random class of ninth-graders annually and set them on an island, attaching collars to their throats

nearly 800,000 children are rebelling against society. They are not going to school or following the rules, even going as far as using violent attacks against their teacher. 42 9th graders are invited on taking a field trip. One of the 9th graders, Shuya Nanahara is teased about liking one of the girls on the bus,

The story is about junior high school students that are forced to kill each other until one is left standing in a program run by the authoritarian Japanese government, which in the novel is the Republic of Greater East Asia. The story follows Shuya Nanahara as he is trying to survive the death game, along with his best friends’ crush Noriko Nakagawa and past winner of the game Shogo Kawada. The novel became a huge hit in Japan and became a manga series and a cult classic film both made in 2000, it

Shuya lives in a dystopian, alternate-history Japan in the Republic of Greater East Asia, a tyrannical government that demonstrates its fascist power by randomly selecting a class of 42 high school students, aged fifteen, to compete in a battle to the death

The bomb will will also go off if someone were to try to remove the collar or happen to enter part of the island that is announced every few hours, to shrink up available hiding spots, and marked as a “Forbidden Zone”. Shuya Nanahara and Noriko Nakagawa team up with Shogo Kawada, a previous winner, to break traditions, and attempt to find a way out with the least amount of bloodshed. The country these children live in is ruled under a powerful and sadistic dictator, who has