Now for some details about this Program of childmurder games.
We’re told that the Program, which every schoolchild knows about, involves fifty classes a year since 1947. So that’s forty kids a class, times fifty, times fifty: 100,000 kids have died so far.
So now we reach what the book actually terms as Ch1.
So…Battle Royale.
I read maybe half of the manga, the official English translation that rewrote the story to be about a TV show. I made many comparisons to it while reading the Hunger Games, mostly to the effect of how kids in the latter were emotionless drones compared to kids in the former. That said, the manga was hardly without its own issues, and I’m interested to see how the book compares.