The Hunger Games

Battle Royale: The Novel Review After describing The Hunger Games to a friend, he said that sounded almost exactly like what he read with Battle Royale… only with Japanese kids instead. I enjoyed The Hunger Games (and look forward to catching up with the rest of the series), so I gave this book a shot. [...]

Battle Royale Ultimate Edition Volume 1 (v. 1) Review Book-to-movie adaptations are common in American culture. Heck, movies based on comic books are popping up left and right. Here, we have a manga series based on Koushun Takami’s classic pulp novel Battle Royale and, yes, it’s already been made into a movie. Two movies, to [...]