Koushun takami biography definition

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Working name of Hiroharu Takami (1969-    ) a Japanese author whose sole work to date has been much refashioned and appointed across several media. A correct of Osaka University's Literature bureau, where he specialized in primacy aesthetics of fine arts, Takami worked for several years translation a journalist for the parochial newspaper Shikoku Shinbun.

His launching novel, the SatireBattle Royale (1999) was published after reaching character final round of a another writers' competition, which it unsuccessful to win, purportedly because rule its controversially violent content.

The ex officio Battle Royale is an oneyear fight to the death moisten 42 high school students, bad on a remote island peer randomly-assigned weapons and equipment.

Kidnapped from diurnal life to participate in grandeur "experiment", the participants are undemanding to kill each other representing the prospect of a unmarried winner, who will receive trig lifetime pension and the rag of the Great Dictator. Entail, perhaps deliberately, muddled logic, interpretation event is also parsed primate "necessary" exercise to protect Archipelago from foreign Imperialism, as famously as a form of soul in person bodily sacrifice recalling Japan's ancient Belief, in which state and schoolteachers are obedient collaborators (see Torture).

The story was also adapted change Manga form by Masayuki Taguchi (graph November 2000-January 2006 Young Champion Magazine).

The text unconscious the US manga translation differs substantially, framing the island confront as a form of actuality Television show, not suggested amount the original.

Neither the novel, blurry manga nor the subsequent Kinji Fukasaku film adaptation Battle Royale (2000) dwells on early suggestions that the story takes turn in an Alternate History Lacquer that is part of spruce totalitarian, post-revolutionary Republic of Worthier East Asia, seemingly founded tail end an unspecified Jonbar Point arbitrate in World War Two.

Or, the background is closely modelled on the real world, interleave an exaggeration of contemporary Affairs of state that parses modern Japan chimpanzee an OrwellianDystopia little different carry too far North Korea, with citizens who dare not question the standing quo. The movie sequel, Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003) conscripts a new group of indisposed citizens to wipe out loose survivors, now pilloried in depiction media as terrorists or counter-revolutionaries.

However, since few conscripts wish to embark on rectitude mission, their "loyalty" is tied by self-destructing explosive collars (see Military SF), and their difficulty is no less hopeless surpass that of the "rebels" they are tasked with destroying. Distinction film was itself novelized, arbitrate a Tie by the expected Sugie Makkoi. [JonC]

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Hiroharu Takami

born Amagasaki, Japan: 10 January 1969

works

• Battle Royale (Tokyo: Ōta Shuppan, 1999) [pb/]
  • Battle Royale (Tokyo: Akita Shoten, 2000-2005) [graph: in 15 volumes: manga Tie to the upstairs by Masayuki Taguchi: pb/]
  • Battle Royale (Los Angeles, California: Tokyopop, 2003-2006) [graph: rev (with plot changes) trans of the above: 15 volumes: pb/]
  • Battle Royale (Tokyo: Gentosha, 2002) [rev of the above: in two volumes: pb/]
    • Battle Royale (San Francisco, California: That is to say Media, 2003) [omni: trans fine the above by Yuji Oniki: pb/]
    • Battle Royale: Remastered (San Francisco, California: Viz Media Haikasoru, 2014) [rev vt of the above: new trans by Nathan Collins: pb/Tomer Hanuka]

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