Btooom!

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English: BTOOOM!

Japanese: BTOOOM!

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 4, 2012 to Dec 20, 2012

Premiered: Fall 2012

Broadcast: Thursdays at 23:00 (JST)

Producers: Sotsu, KlockWorx, flying DOG, Showgate

Licensors: Sentai Filmworks

Studios: Madhouse

Source: Manga

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, Psychological, Seinen

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 7.64¹ (scored by 227,397 users)

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Ranked: #1188²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #89

Members: 378,538

Favorites: 2,537

7.64

Ranked #1188Popularity #89Members 378,538

Episodes: /12

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Ryouta Sakamoto is unemployed and lives with his mother, his only real achievement being that he is Japan's top player of the popular online video game, "Btooom!" However, his peaceful life is about to change when he finds himself stranded on an island in the middle of nowhere, with a small, green crystal embedded in his left hand and no memory of how he got there. To his shock, someone has decided to recreate the game he is so fond of in real life, with the stakes being life or death.

Armed with a bag full of unique bombs known as "BIM," the players are tasked with killing seven of their fellow participants to obtain their green crystals, used as proof of their victory, in order to return home. Initially condemning any form of violence, Ryouta is forced to fight when he realizes that many of the other players are not as welcoming as they may seem. Teaming up with Himiko, a fellow Btooom! player who turns out to be his in-game wife, they attempt to get off of the island together, slowly coming closer and closer to the truth behind this contest of death.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Sakamoto, Ryouta

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Hongo, Kanata
Japanese

Himiko

Main

Mimori, Suzuko
Japanese

Kira, Kousuke

Supporting

Sawashiro, Miyuki
Japanese

Taira, Kiyoshi

Supporting

Ookawa, Tooru
Japanese

Oda, Nobutaka

Supporting

Nakamura, Yuuichi
Japanese

Miyamoto, Masashi

Supporting

Kuroda, Takaya
Japanese

Date, Masahito

Supporting

Narita, Ken
Japanese

Akechi, Mitsuo

Supporting

Mamiya, Yasuhiro
Japanese

Kinoshita, Hidemi

Supporting

Hikasa, Yoko
Japanese

Natsume, Souichi

Supporting

Futamata, Issei
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Watanabe, Kotono

Director

Ebina, Yasunori

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Nogami, Kazuo

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Hosokawa, Hideki

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#1: "No pain, No game" by Nano (eps 1-11)
#2: "Exist (エグジスト)" by Nano (ep 12)

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#1: "Aozora (アオゾラ)" by May'n (eps 1-11)
#2: "No pain, No game" by Nano (ep 12)

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May 23, 2013

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

Hazegurl (All reviews)

439 people found this review helpful

In my effort to find animes that don't star some stupid little high school boy I decided to focus as much as I could on finding animes starring adults. My search didn't take that long surprisingly when I came across of a description "A 22 year old..." that my friend was how I discovered BTOOM!

I decided to give the anime a shot to see if I like it and ended up watching the whole thing in two days. :D Let me first talk about all the things I liked about it.

The story is about a guy who sits at home playing videos games all day, read more

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Jan 30, 2013

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 2

SN-chan (All reviews)

259 people found this review helpful

Btooom! is one of those shows that tries to be as edgy and mature as it can simply for the sake of being edgy and mature, while at the same time tries to pull off a laughworthy plot with a straight face. Unfortunately the results are less humor inducing and more cringeworthy.

The setting relies far too much on the “humans are bastards” trope, wherein many of the characters resort to murder to survive when there really isn’t any need to. The players are simply given a bag of bombs, dropped off on a deserted island, and are told to go kill each other if they ever hope to return home. That’s it. Nothing’s actually forcing them to partake in the game, so why not band together to survive on the island, and use their bombs to combat against the evil corporation facilitating the game? Of all the characters, only two of them are convicted criminals; otherwise it’s just a bunch of average people who were jerks to their family and coworkers.

The characters in general are horribly written. Ryouta is the archetypal chivalrous hero who manages to ward off evildoers and protect his woman each episode, giving us too stark of a contrast between the huge asshole we see in the flashbacks; Himiko is the useless damsel in distress most of the time, and Taira’s character gradually degrades from the brosky sidekick to someone who must be at Ryouta’s side at all times–otherwise he’ll go insane with worry. Most of the other characters are villains who, in accordance to the shows over reliance on “humans are bastards,” are much too cartoony to be taken seriously.

Sometimes the bomb fights themselves can be entertaining, but more often than not Btooom! will focus on the tactics of the fights, and there’s just not much to work with if you’re trying to make this a battle of the minds. Even with the variety of different bomb types, chucking multiple bombs while hiding in the bushes would be the most effective strategy in most cases, and yet the show tries to have to have the characters “outsmart” each other. They don’t even ever outsmart each other; once a character simply catches a bomb before it can detonate, and suddenly everyone acts as if he’s “outsmarted” his opponent. If anything this just makes them look even more unintelligent than they already do

Perhaps worst of all is that Btooom! is a series riddled with sexism and rape culture. There are quite a few scenes where Himiko is violated in some way or form, and although none of these scenes are as bad as they could be–especially in comparison to the pornographic source material–they’re still gratuitous and titillating to the point of being fanservice. And rape as fanservice simply isn’t something that belongs in a dramatic narrative.

The main problem with Btooom! in regards to rape however, is how it depicts Himiko and her virginitiphobia. For one, the writers seem to equate the phobia with misandry, and tries to make a point of how Himiko should learn to be more trusting of men; that alone is reason enough to believe that they don’t have enough respect for rape issues as they should. Yes, it’s obviously wrong to distrust every man you see, but trying to drive this point across with an episode about a woman who is alone, ugly, and crazy because she distrusts men, is pretty unsympathetic to people suffering from virginitiphobia.

Then there’s the several scenes where Himiko becomes suicidal in the heat of battle, either to protect her “purity” or because she’s simply lost all hope of winning. This is understandable seeing how she’s gone through several traumatic experiences, but problematic in how it only serves to make her a damsel in distress, and not to actually make a compelling character out of her.

As a mindless action series, Btooom! succeeds at being mildly entertaining. Otherwise, it’s easily one of the worst animes of 2012.

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Apr 26, 2014

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 5

mercury1980 (All reviews)

123 people found this review helpful

"This is where tomorrow brings a new game. It's time to learn that pain is gain. Ready FIGHT!"

Survival games have been very prominent in Japan. Normally, survival games will involve who gets killed and who will become the last man standing. Some of the survival games like Mirai Nikki, Fate/Zero, Danganronpa and others.

STORY (5):

Ryota Sakamoto is a NEET which stands for Not educated, employed or trained. He plays a new game called BTOOOM! and he became one of the top players. One day, he woke up in a deserted tropical island and he realized that he is trapped in a real-life game BTOOOM with read more

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Nov 12, 2014

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 3

BanjoTheBear (All reviews)

79 people found this review helpful

(This has been adapted from my reddit thread)

Sometimes the decisions we make aren't always the right ones. During the process, though, we often think that there is zero chance that we are doing could be wrong. But as we all know, "hindsight is 20/20." Most of the time, our choices not only cause a radical affect on ourselves but also on the people around us. Taking this in stride, BTOOOM! is an anime about bombs, psychology, and a host of problems that make the entire experience less than favorable.

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BTOOOM! is a tale involving Sakamoto, one of the best players to play the game the anime read more

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