I believe you can enjoy and appreciate them both equally. However at the same time these books are completely different. They both are based on the same idea of teenagers forced to participate in a deadly game where only one person wins and lives. I have to admit, similarities between these two books are undeniable. I came across this book after reading “Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins which was claimed to be a “Battle Royale” rip-off. He is currently working on a second novel. It went on to become a bestseller when finally released in 1999 and, a year later, was made into a manga and a feature film. It was rejected in the final round of the literary competition for which it was intended, owing to its controversial content. The novel Battle Royale was completed after Takami left the news company. From 1991 to 1996, he worked for the news company Shikoku Shimbun, reporting on various fields including politics, police reports, and economics. After graduating from Osaka University with a degree in literature, he dropped out of Nihon University's liberal arts correspondence course program. Takami was born in Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture near Osaka and grew up in the Kagawa Prefecture of Shikoku. Koushun Takami (高見 広春 Takami Kōshun) is the author of the novel Battle Royale, originally published in Japanese, and later translated into English by Yuji Oniki and published by Viz Media and, later, in an expanded edition by Haika Soru, a division of Viz Media.
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