Battle Royale (edit title)

Amanda approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the contributors of Battle Royale Wednesday, October 7 2009.

• Edited a contributor: Koushun Takami: (Primary Author)

Amanda approved gokiburi’s request to change the title of Battle Royale Wednesday, September 16 2009.

Grygazol edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of Battle Royale Tuesday, September 15 2009.

• Added: Junior High School class forced by government to compete in a game where only one survives.

Timothy Gray edited the contributors of Battle Royale Friday, September 4 2009.

• Edited a contributor: Koushun Takami: (Primary Author)

gokiburi edited the first sentence of Battle Royale Friday, September 4 2009.

• As the bus entered the prefectural capital of Takamatsu, garden suburbs transformed into city streets of multicolored neon, headlights of oncoming cars, and checkered lights of office buildings.

gokiburi edited the table of contents of Battle Royale Friday, September 4 2009.

• Introduction—Rant

  Prologue—Government Memo

  Part 1—Start Game
  Chapters 0-13

  Part 2—Middle Stage
  Chapters 14-51

  Part 3—Final Stage
  Chapters 52-73

  Part 4—Finish
  Chapters 74-79

  Epilogue—Umeda, Osaka

gokiburi edited the contributors of Battle Royale Friday, September 4 2009.

• Added a contributor: Koushun Takami: (Author)
• Added a contributor: Yuji Oniki: (Translator)

gokiburi changed the title of Battle Royale Friday, September 4 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of Battle Royale Saturday, August 1 2009.

• Battle Royale, a high-octane thriller about senseless youth violence, is one of Japan's best-selling - and most controversial - novels. As part of a ruthless program by the totalitarian government, ninth-grade students are taken to a small isolated island with a map, food, and various weapons. Forced to wear special collars that explode when they break a rule, they must fight each other for three days until only one "winner" remains. The elimination contest becomes the ultimate in must-see reality television. A Japanese pulp classic available in English for the first time, Battle Royale is a potent allegory of what it means to be young and survive in today's dog-eat-dog world. The first novel by small-town journalist Koushun Takami, it went on to become an even more notorious film by 70-year-old gangster director Kinji Fukusaku.