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Anyway, I enjoyed it, too. If you're interested, there's a manga of it as well.

>>504354
saw the film. It was good, but book goes into much greater detail.

is the manga like the book, detailed characters, etc?

>>504370
Make sure you find a scanlation of the manga. The "official" U.S. translation is so localized it hurts.

Only thing I didn't like in Battle Royale is how you can really tell when the author gets lazy on his back story for certain characters.

When you re-watch the movie after you've read the book you notice how incredibly fast paced the movie is, and not in a good way.

So the novel's actually worth reading?

>>504399
yes.

Did not enjoy this book. I felt like I was reading a bad snuff film without the sex.

>>504403
I was worried it might be aimed at the 'young-adult' genre.

Eh. where can I find a good scanlation? It isn't on onemanga.

>>504414
Mangafox.

It may have just been my particular edition, but while I enjoyed the narrative the actual writing itself was terrible. I'm hoping I just got a bad translation.

>>504419
have you read other books translated from japanese? i thought the same thing of BR, and also of the ring when i read it. i kinda wonder if maybe japanese fiction just has a different kind of flow to it than western fic. i noticed that both of them occasionally address the reader in strange ways.

>>504440
BR is the first Japanese novel I've read, but I was thinking of trying Ring. I found that BR jumped between third and first personal perspective mid-paragraph. It was really quite jarring.

>>504458
yeah, exactly! i didn't hate it but it was odd. and i noticed stuff like that in the ring too.

>>504399
if you liked the movie, then yes. Much more character development.

You know, I like this a lot.

"We interrupt this program for a special news report. Attend."

I love that dystopian dictatorial...whatchamacallit. Overtone.

>>504419
Had similar problems reading other Japanese translations 3-4 years ago.

No such problem now. The one I have is the 2009 translation. There was another shitty one done by Viz a couple of years ago, I think.

is this mangafox site gonna fuck up my computer? I'm getting lots of audio ads.

>>504480
Oh shit. I just checked, and mine is indeed the Viz Media one. That'll teach me for wanting the schnazzy cover.

>>504480
is the newer translation much better? i enjoyed the viz one.

>>504492
oh the viz cover is much cooler looking.

the translator on both editions is the same though, i believe.

this is some gory shit

>>504510
Checking out the manga? Fuck yes it's gory. Obscenely so.

Incredibly dull. Like reading about someone playing a video game.

>>504518
considering that BR is about a "game", I don't see how third person terse prose is a detractor.

I first saw the movie and loved it because it was such an interesting concept. I then read the manga and loved it because it explored each of the characters in such greater detail. I then read the novel; it was good and all, but I still rate the movie + manga more highly.