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Originally completed in 1996, it was not published until 1999. Win, get the cash prize and have your way with the losers. The book really makes you wonder about what itd be like to be in that situation. At october 2007, a new special edition of the manga will be released. High school class must kill each other until only one remains, it seems sensationalistic and more actionthriller than thoughtprovoker. They are taken to an island, all the 42 of them, and ordered to kill in order to survive. The protagonist messes up with a fx trading and gets into a huge debt. With its publication in japan in 1999, though, battle royale received widespread support, particularly from young readers, and became a bestseller. Personally i enjoyed battle royale as a short action novel, but the characters were all pretty flat.
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