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Battle Royale
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07-04-2006 10:22pm#1
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It was the first manga series I started following so I have a certain kind of fondness for it but it gets ridiculously drawn out in later volumes, so much so that if you've seen the movie or read the book you really won't want to bother finishing the manga by the time you get 7/8 volumes in.
Other than that though, the artwork is pretty nice; the action scenes in particular, but the character's faces are hilariously weird looking, like something out early-period JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Another thing that sticks in my mind is the weird side story at the end of volume 3 (I think) which gave us a fairly explicit look into Mitsuko's sordid past. That was...unexpected, but not entirely unwelcome.
Also (Sorry if I'm rambling), this series is unbearably cheesy. How many goddamn times do we have to see Shuuya mouthing off about how great Bruce Springsteen is? On a similar note, the English adaptation of this title is pretty annoying. Extensive Americanisation, a few completely inexplicable changes which actually changed plot points* and...more Americanisation. Normally this wouldn't bother me so much but it is very noticable here.
*"To do this right, you've got to keep the basic flavor of the original work - this is a guy who wrote the original novel who's doing this, so you can't go in and completely rework it and change it around, but you've got to filter it for American audiences," Giffen said. "You've got to massage it a little bit and see if you can move it just to a place where an American audience will appreciate it.
"Being able to go in there and while keeping the tone, tweaking it a little bit, I'm able to put my voice in. Rather than making it 'mine' though I'm doing a lovely two-part harmony with Takami. It's not my story, so I try to remain true to the spirit of the work. Sometimes that means dropping a colloquialism or adding blocks of copy that will allow the American audience to understand it the same way a Japanese audience would. The key rule that I always keep in mind though is: don't violate the story, don't violate the work." (From http://www.newsarama.com/Battle_Royale.htm)
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