iviarelle 's review for:

Battle Royale, Vol. 03 by Masayuki Taguchi, Koushun Takami, Keith Giffen, Tomo Iwo

1.0

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Here's where the quality really starts to go down for me. Mitsuko's child sex blackmail ring is such an obnoxiously unnecessary plotline. There's some great character work in places, but ending on that note leaves me unable to give much of a star rating to this volume. It's one thing for there to be implied sex between teens who are of an age, it's quite another to have graphic statutory rape scenes (regardless of who's showing active consent or who's seducing whom) taking up full-page spreads. "Product of its time" and "different cultures" be damned, this is seriously squicking me out.