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pennywhizzle's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
i wasn't a huge fan of the first half (the scene where takako kills that rapey fuck is much more icky than the novel version, in a heavily targeted-to-male-audiences way, and i hated that). but then in the second half there were a few changes from the novel's narrative that i found very interesting, and which i think enhanced the plot and the characters' relationships much more than the same chapters in the novel did.
one of those changes made the 3 protagonists seem... way more throuple-like than before-? (in the book, they all go together to the clinic, but in the manga, shuya and noriko ditch shogo because he doesn't want to move until nightfall - after they leave, shogo has a flashback to a conversation he once had with his GIRLFRIEND (🤨) and that's what makes him decide to follow after them. you could take this as him just trying to be a better person or something but why did thinking of his girlfriend,who he had to kill during a previous battle royale, and who he thus left behind/let her leave him behind make him reconsider letting them leave?? the parallels between the situations are kinda gay. ngl.)
speaking of, shogo kawada is about ten times more zesty in the manga than the novel/movie, which i love !! (bro literally said "dick suits you" to shuuya. what on earth are you cooking sir 😟)
one of those changes made the 3 protagonists seem... way more throuple-like than before-? (in the book, they all go together to the clinic, but in the manga, shuya and noriko ditch shogo because he doesn't want to move until nightfall - after they leave, shogo has a flashback to a conversation he once had with his GIRLFRIEND (🤨) and that's what makes him decide to follow after them. you could take this as him just trying to be a better person or something but why did thinking of his girlfriend,
speaking of, shogo kawada is about ten times more zesty in the manga than the novel/movie, which i love !! (bro literally said "dick suits you" to shuuya. what on earth are you cooking sir 😟)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore, Sexual harassment, Violence, and Sexual violence
Moderate: Misogyny, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Body horror
Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death
yumbokerogkaffe's review against another edition
5.0
je sais pas si je vais réussir à me remettre de ce tome. je suis traumatisée par la mort de l’un des personnages.. j’ai hate de voir comment ca va continuer
bbboeken's review against another edition
3.0
Er zijn nog goede mensen! Of niet? (En shit: nu moet ik weer naar de winkel voor het vervolg.)
kafie's review
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
kristenbooks's review against another edition
4.0
Thankyouthankyouthankyou... after the slight disappointment of the last volume, this one came back at full force better than ever. Seriously, probably my favorite volume so far. I absolutely flew through this volume-- it was right back to the action of The Program, only diverting into side stories when it was fully relevant to the story. I still can't quite give this 5/5 (I struggle to give manga volumes 5/5-- the full series might end up being 5/5, but individual volumes rarely get 5/5), but it's a solid 9/10. Totally redeemed itself after some of the not-so-great aspects of the last volume.
Spoiler text is here for me to remember how the story is split up between volumes
Spoiler text is here for me to remember how the story is split up between volumes