A review by quetaine
Battle Royale, Vol. 06 by Masayuki Taguchi, Koushun Takami, Keith Giffen, Tomo Iwo

4.0

You'd think that when your life's at stake not everything would be about who you crushed on in class...But aside from a few lacklustre main characters, it was raw, real, and truthfully painful in the ways most YA dystopias never are.

Would have liked to see more of Kazuo's perspective as a psychopath, since he was initially one of my favourites to begin with but later seemed to only become a tool for reducing character counts. Wasn't a fan of the fairly shallow female perspectives or the focus on class romance (what about family?? Friends??). Didn't think Shogo should have died, Shuya and Nariko were weakly written.