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Boy #6 Kazuo Kiriyama (桐山 和雄, Kiriyama Kazuo) is the player who kills the most students in the game. In the novel and manga, Kiriyama is a sociopath with the mind of a genius and the inability to feel emotion, due to brain damage from a car crash in his childhood ( in utero in the novel) that led to partial lobotomy .
Battle Royale (Japanese: バトル・ロワイアル, Hepburn: Batoru Rowaiaru) is a Japanese manga series written by Koushun Takami and illustrated by Masayuki Taguchi. It is based on Takami's novel of the same name , telling the story of a class of junior high school children who are forced to fight each other to the death.
The character Kazuo Kiriyama is given a harisen in the movie Battle Royale. Kaname Chidori of the anime Full Metal Panic uses a harisen that she seems to pull out from hammerspace to stop Sousuke Sagara from doing anything that could injure or kill a civilian in Tokyo; at one point, her harisen is seen to be extendable and takes up as much ...
Map of Okishima Island, seen inside the cover of the 2003 English translation. Battle Royale takes place in a fictional fascist Japan in the year 1997. The state, known as the Republic of Greater East Asia (大東亜共和国, Dai Tōa Kyōwakoku), arose after an alternate World War II where Japan emerged victorious, and a rebellion was put down by the combined military and police forces.
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Battle Royale was released on December 16, 2000, in Japan. [6] [7] Over the next two years, Battle Royale was distributed to cinemas in 22 countries, [8] across Asia, Australia, Europe, and South America (in addition to Mexico), gaining early cult film followings in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, and the Philippines.
The mother-son fashion week appearance comes after Rutherford was involved in a six-year-long custody battle with her ex-husband, Daniel Giersch, who, in addition to Hermès, 18, is the father of ...
About 2 million baked goods sold nationwide — including some doughnuts and coffee rolls purchased at Dunkin' — were recalled last month due to concerns the products might be contaminated with ...