Manga Survival Game

Original work: Hiroyuki Takami

Illustration: Masayuki Taguchi ***Volume 15

Officially authorized by Akita Bookstore, Japan Taiwan Chinese version

Published by Changhong Publishing House

Translator: Chen Shaoyi

The book has 15 volumes. After publishing 10 volumes by Changhong Publishing House, it was criticized It is banned from sale. From then on, there are no official Chinese versions of the five volumes. All the last five volumes that appear on the Internet are private translations.

The Taiwan Chinese version of this work once caused a famous publication ban in Taiwan, and the Chinese version was forced to stop publishing.

This comic has been transformed into the movie "Battle Royale"

Plot summary

"Greater East Asia ***" draws students from national high schools across the country every year A class of third grade students was selected to participate in a life and death game. In this "game", only one person can survive, and the rest must die. This game is called a "defense combat experiment"; in the country's government, it is called "Project 68", or "Program" for short (the comic version is translated as "Program", in English it is "Program" ”).

The winner of the game (that is, the only survivor) can get a cardboard signed by His Majesty the President (in that authoritarian country, the president is portrayed as a god-like existence) and guarantee a future life. No fear of scarcity. After returning to real life, the winner was forced to transfer to another middle school and asked to keep silent about everything about the game.

The game venue (at that time a fictional island in the Seto Inland Sea, named "Oki Island") was heavily guarded and surrounded by patrol boats to prevent players from escaping by sea. Everyone also has a collar around their neck that can be detonated at any time, restricting movement. The chance of escape is almost zero. Except for the winners, even if they are lucky enough to escape, they will be wanted for life.

The protagonists of the story are 42 students studying in Grade 3 Class B of Seiwa Middle School in Kagawa Prefecture. They relied on compasses, basic food and drinking water provided by the government, and randomly distributed weapons to kill each other with their classmates. Under the inhumane rules of the game, they were classmates one moment and became enemies the next. Faced with the fear of "either you die or I die," almost no one can remain rational. No one can be trusted, and no one wants to trust others. Here, secular moral concepts no longer exist, everything is like returning to primitive creatures, and only the competition for survival remains.