Alternative TitlesEnglish: Battle Royale Japanese: バトル・ロワイアル
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 15
Chapters: 119
Status: Finished
Published: Nov 2000 to Jan 2006
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Ranked: #4372
Popularity: #74
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Both follow the same concept of people being forced into a death game. Both are very graphic and gory with interesting story and characters, GANTZ is a little more supernatural with more nudity as well but above all both are very similar.
I thought I'd made this recommendation already. I hadn't. (True story...)
After reading the BR manga, I went on to read the novel. There's a world of difference between the novel and its completely over the top manga adaptation. The simplest way of explaining it is for me to tell you to imagine the author of Gantz, Oku, was allowed to insert as much graphic violence and nudity as humanly possible, while keeping the story and characterisation as is.
Remember that part in the novel where - in a flashback - the Terminator/final boss character plucked an eyeball out at school?... No? What about the part where a girl reverse-raped a boy to reward him, as he lay dying from a wound in his stomach?... Still no? Ok, then: you MUST remember the bit where, in a martial arts showdown with the series' final boss (one of the best fights ever, FYI) the good guy hit the bad guy with a mini-kamehameha?...... I give up.
If you loved Gantz for its boobs, violence and general craziness, you'd LOVE BR to bits. Seriously.
If you enjoy blood, gore, action, sex, and lots and lots of death then these are the perfect series for you to check out.
Both incredibly graphic and gory manga, with the concept of deadly survival games with a lot of killing involved. Whereas Gantz goes for the sci-fi approach, Battle Royale goes for realism. ^_^
both have lots of gore and sex. Battle Royale has a much better story
Both are horror-action series that are unusually heavy on the bloody, gore, and sexual content and have forced kill-or-be-kill battle set-up.
Both are violent, exciting, and carefully drawn. Both are based on the idea of an extreme TV show using unsuspecting members of the general public.
Characters fight to survive, and if they try to run away then a bomb goes off in their head. It has the same feeling of hopelessness that runs through Battle Royale, and while reading Battle Royale I was shocked at some of the similarities. If you like one then you will like the other.
Gantz and Battle Royal both take random people away from society into a type of "game" where the only way to survive is too kill.
Both are manga in which the people have free will but not the freedom to choose their actions.
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Both psychological thrillers are about people forced into a "kill or be killed" kind of survival game. Where the characters are forced to question their own morality.
Both revolve around characters pitted against each other in a game of survival. The winner is the last one standing.
Both series have a kill-em-all survival game set-up. Battle Royale gets a lot more gratuitous with the sex and violence (not that Mirai Nikki lacks either of those), and Mirai Nikki has some mild fantasy elements, but if you like enforced kill-or-be-killed scenarios, both deliver in that respect -- and might give you some nightmares in the process.
A group of random people has to fight against each other and only one of them will survive. Bloody, but not gore.
Did you just see a new character on the page? Then you can expect the same fates for said characters in both series. It might not get them now, but it will catch up with them at some point.
Also the "one must survive by killing all the others" thing is present in both series, as well as equipping the characters with weapons in order to help them achieve this (future versions of diaries in Mirai Nikki, random things like scythes, guns, and forks in Battle Royale). Many of the characters in both series are also pretty damn crazy.
What happens when you put some people together and tell them that only 1 can survive? A massacre. "Who can I trust?" is the main question of both the series, with the occasional romance between the main characters. Battle Royale's detailed Art and Mirai Nikki's supernatural aspects may not be for everybody, but don't worry, you get used to it.
Well to usm it up a bunc of people are pitted against each other in a battle 'till death.
Differences: well mirai nikki is supernatural with all the time and stuff, but battle royale is just plain students with guns.
they also have some romance in them
Both manga are about a survival game that pits many characters against each other. both psychological thrillers are gritty.
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The characters in both of these serialisations are relocated to an island that requires them to develop and refine survival techniques so they can keep alive.
Panic ensues among the class(es) of both manga causing many to adopt a kill-or-be-killed attitude while others continue to hope that they can all survive together. Also, since both manga feature some cliche characters... the character archetypes of some of the main characters are pretty similar.
Battle Royale deals with a class of students who set off on a field trip and end up left to fend for themselves on a deserted island. This is same kind of situation takes place in Cage of Eden, the difference being in BR the students have to kill each other to survive whereas in CoE the students must not only survive the attacks of the crazies that have survived the plane crash that left them stranded on the island but they also have to fend off the prehistoric dinosaurs that also populate it. Both series are gory, survival focused and have echi qualities.
both are great manga with a similar setting where teenager have to fight on an island for survival.
battle royal is a psychological seinen where a class is forced to kill each other until one rremains while eden no ori is a great shonen where about 200 students and 100 other passengers land, after an air plane crash, on an deserted island where extinct species live and they try to survive while some get mad and start killing.
If you liked Battle Royale I definetly recommend that you read Eden no Ori or otherwise known as Cage of Eden. Both have to survive in an island except in Battle Royale they have to literally kill each other to survive while in Eden of Ori the people in the island some people do kill each other but they mostly want to leave the island. Both mangas are about survival and both are really good, so I recommend you try reading them both ^_^
They are both survivial manga.
Both are survival manga that create real sympathy between the reader and the characters. Sengoku Akira and Shuya Nanahara, the two main protagonists of their manga respectively, show striking similarities to each other.
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Btooom! is the end result of the premise of Battle Royale being combined with a fictional Xbox 360 game. Simlple as that.
Instead of a class of school kids finding themselves forced to kill each other on a deserted island for lulz purposes, in Btooom! a game company decides to let those unwanted by society test out their online game in reality by blowing each other up with bomb-grenades on a deserted island. THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE/A FEW, etc etc...
The lead just happens to be one of the top ten best players in Japan, and his online waifu JUST HAPPENS to also be along for the real-life game ride. (Even better, she's a busty 15-year-old school girl--RESULT!)
They are both similar in the fact a group of people force to play a game where they have to kill one another to hope to survive. The group of people all have their own twisted background stories.
Stuck on an island... have to kill each other... BR is much more violent though.
BTOOOM is practically Battle Royale, but with less graphic scenes. If you could not handle Battle Royale (I do not blame you, after all the popped eyes/rape scenes) but liked the plot, read BTOOOM.
If you read BTOOOM and liked it (and can handle some gore), you should read Battle Royale. It's much better and thrilling, though both of these manga's are good.
Both manga involve the characters being put in an island to participate in a "kill or be killed" game
Both are seinen survival manga that pit a multitude of characters into psychologically, ethically, morally and pathologically traumatizing situations. Both take place on the location of a tropical island, and both similarly features the primary two main protagonists as a female and a male which later develops into a romantic connection.
I'd say Battle Royale has the superior character development as it succeeds on a multi-character plain of development for over 30 characters, and while both handle the realism very intelligently i'd also say Battle Royale makes it much more realistic in its depiction. Btooom! i'd definitely say has a better overall story and plot though as it focuses on this more so, resembling conventional anime and manga.
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Both pertain to normal kids getting wrapped up in a death game and being forced to deal with their situations. Doubt is a little more story centric while BR is simply survival
Individuals are pitted off to kill each other for the amusement of some.
Both Doubt and Battle Royale involve a survival game between High Schoolers. Both very gruesome. Both games in each of the series' bring out the evil nature of the characters.
In both these stories it is the fight for life. Both groups of teens must take part in a "game" kill in order to survive. Only one can live, the rest must die, Battle Royale is a bit more sadistic than Doubt but both very good.
"Battle Royale" and "Doubt" both center around a kind of survival game where trust in other humans is tested. Both mangas are very mature and have deeply psychological and well-developed plots. Battle Royale is more on the action/epic side while Doubt is more on the mystery side. Both are VERY good and HIGHLY recommended. :D
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Both revolve around a group of characters who are left to fend for themselves on an isolated island.
Both have a group of people, forcefully stranded on a deserted island.
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They both contain people who are put in a competition (mostly) against their will, and must compete against others to be the final one left through tricks, deception, or right out stealing/killing.
Both of these manga deal with human emotion, stealing, lying, cheating and a competition. Battle Royale is more violent but the characters of Nao and Shuya are very similar. They both are kind idealists thrown into a game where they are expected to device and play only for themselves, but find smart companions who help them out.
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Their plots are unquestionably similar: group of students/criminals is sent to an island/prison and forced to participate in twisted games. Each individual is given an irremovable collar, which either could explode any minute or constantly injects a poison in the person's body.
Both manga are violent, bloody, mature, and set in the future.
Also, both revolve around the specific time of 3 days (in BR, all the students must kill each other, and after 3 days there has to be only 1 winner alive; in DW, the prisoners have to eat a candy, the only antidote to defeat the poison, every 3 days, or else they'll die).
That said, DW > BR.
The world is a battlefield where everyone can die wherever and whenever. When a character is suddenly placed into a situation where you have to kill or be killed, the aftermath will be complicated.
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Fight to survive , in battle royale the character fight each other and in king of thorns they fight together.
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With gritty style and awesome story lines both Battle Royale and Parasyte caught me from the start and refused to let go. In both stories the characters are faced with seemingly hopeless circumstances that they desperately struggle to change. Battle Royale and Parasyte are fundamentally different in that one features an epic survival game while the other has parasitic aliens invading the Earth but both are amazing mangas!
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people are taken to a place different from their everyday lives and forced into a game of survival
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Similarities:
3 Days, 1 Survivor
Bloody Junkie is an online program where they can watch people kill each other in a Battle Royale-like setting live.
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Imagine Left 4 Dead made into a manga and replace all the zombie hordes with a psychotic serial killer and a few misunderstood adults and instead of the fantastic four team mates, you have children with messed up childhood pasts. The result is Hohzuki Island. Thrilling, slightly predictable and very similar to Battle Royale. Both are must read manga if you enjoyed either of them.
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Both mangas are filled with action and violence and both have a great plot.
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The characters in both of had to adjust to the changing environment and also make drastic decisions.
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Both have students fight for there lifes in a game they didn't sign-up for.
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In both manga high school class participates in a game, which people life is at stake. Games are go by their own rules and they have masters of the game. In both we have different characters and interesting plot
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Battle Royale is similar to Lychee Light Cub because it has the slow and devastating destruction of a group of friends. Battle Royale pits friends against one another in a part of a greater game. Lychee Light Club is the tale of a childhood group of friends that grew up with each other. They slowly destroy their group after something comes in between them. For Battle Royale, that would be the popular game where kids have to kill each other to leave the abandoned island alive.
So overall, seeing as both series are about teenagers killing each other, they are extremely alike.
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both show a similiar concept like survival battles in order to show the strongest.
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both survival game on an island.
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All i can say is action, action, and more of it. Very graphic and gory. Surprises around every corner, and will keep you at the edge of your seat.
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Same type of characters, same type of characters make these two manga series very similar in terms of plot progression.
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In both titles students try to defeat one another in a small isolated island being monitored by the Japanese government.
In battle Royale the students (classmates and co-eds) kill each other in a deadly game in which the sole survivor will be granted his freedom. In Tokyo Girls Destruction the students from an entire school (composed of all girls) attack each other in order to gain each others badge and she who holds the badge is now the master of the previous owner
Both titles are violent but Battle Royale is light years ahead of Tokyo Girls Destruction in this department and so far Tokyo Girls Destruction has yet to show any sexual scenes apart from the occasional panty flashes where as Battle Royale has rape scenes a plenty
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Both are bloody, disgusting, pure gore.
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These two titles explore the psychological shifts amongst a group of characters when they are asked to kill others in order to survive.
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Ikigami is reminiscent of Battle Royale.
In Battle Royale, a class of teenagers were given three days to kill everyone else before a bomb went off in their heads.
In Ikigami, people unlucky enough to have been injected with something that makes their heart go bye-bye between the ages 18-24 get told - 24 hours before what was injected into them explodes - that they're going to die; they're even given their time of death.
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They both provide constant stimuli, while demonstrating the dark side of human kind, and what everyone is capable of doing when giving the proper motivation.
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Both are bloody, violent, kill-or-be-killed manga that take place in a school-as-a-battlefield situation. Fortified School though has much more of a plot, is more interesting, and the artwork is really unique. If you enjoyed Battle Royale, you will LOVE Fortified School.
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If you loved the extreme gore and genitaless sex of Battle Royale then you will probably fall in love with Berserk which also boasts a great story, amazing characters and a ton of monsters.
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Both are about a group of people placed in a circumstance where they have to eliminate one another. Both titles also focus heavily on each individual characters and the development that occurs between each other. Both also contain similar art style and extreme violence and sex scenes (Battle royale being the more gruesome and sexually charged than the other)
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Both titles are created by the same mangaka so its a given that both titles share very similar graphical styles and pacing. Both titles are also about survival and a whole lot of blood and sex with plenty of sexy chikas
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Both contains similar themes of survival. However, Blue Heaven has less gore than Battle Royale. The psychological aspects make it a worthwhile and satisfying series to read.
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If you liked the brutality and slightly disturbing feel of Battle Royale, you will (well...maybe) also like Ichi The killer. Turn the Disturbing-O Meter almost to the max, and you have Ichi The Killer, where an interesting story of Yakuza warfare is stirred together with brilliantly twisted characters and an unusually graphic display of (Quite sickening) violence.
You might want to be 18 if you plan on reading this :P
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Has a similar art style, involves high school students battling each other, and extreme violence.
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Graphic violence baby! Bloody, gory goodness. The art is gorgeous too!! Go. Get. Read. Now. :p
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