Battle Royale

Btooom! addpermalink

Btooom! is the end result of the premise of Battle Royale being combined with a fictional Xbox 360 game. Or, put another way, Btooom! is Battle Royale with  bomb-grenades as weapons + otaku bait. HOWEVER, Btooom! is FAR less extreme in terms of violence and the contrived 'plot armour' writing eventually weigh it down.

Instead of a class of school kids finding themselves forced to kill each other until only one is left on a deserted island for totalitarian dictatorship lulz purposes (with timed bombs around their necks in case they refuse), in Btooom! a game company decides to let those unwanted by society test out their online game in reality by blowing each other up with bombs on a deserted island. THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE/A FEW, etc etc...

Btooom!'s lead just happens to be one of the top ten best players in Japan, and his online waifu JUST HAPPENS to also be along for the real-life game ride. (Even better, she's a busty 15-year-old school girl--RESULT!) read more 

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They are both similar in the fact a group of people force to play a game where they have to kill one another to hope to survive. The group of people all have their own twisted background stories. 

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Stuck on an island... have to kill each other... BR is much more violent though. 

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the story is so similar to each other!
If u like SURVIVAL GAME U will like it for sure
bunch of people in an unknown desert fighting each other to the death
also there a lot of creepy scenes in both manga xD 

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Built on the foundation of a survival horror game, Btooom! and Battle Royale pits a group of characters in a struggle between life and death. The main characters are involved in a twisted game with their lives at stake. With a lack of trust but desire to win, the main protagonists establishes both rivals and alliances in both series. There is noticeable about of graphic violence present to show the brutality of the games. And by survival horror standards, there is also a fair amount of rules set to determine the outcome of their games. Both series also has relationship focus although Battle Royale is more well known for its brutal approaches at mature themes.  read more 

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BTOOOM is practically Battle Royale, but with less graphic scenes. If you could not handle Battle Royale (I do not blame you, after all the popped eyes/rape scenes) but liked the plot, read BTOOOM. 

If you read BTOOOM and liked it (and can handle some gore), you should read Battle Royale. It's much better and thrilling, though both of these manga's are good. 

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Both manga involve the characters being put in an island to participate in a "kill or be killed" game. Readers pry into the protagonists' inner thoughts. Moral lines are blurred, and characters often have to decide between doing the right thing and survival. 

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Both have the survival of the fittest game to be played in a remote island by a group of people that didn't really agreed into participating. The game situation and rules will lead players to think separately. It's either they kill and win the game or try to escape the impossible. 

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Both anime have people stuck in an island forced to fight each other to get out. In Btoom! people are individually nominated by anyone whereas in Battle Royale an entire class gets nominated by the organizers. :) 

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Both similar, with people being sent to a deserted island and being forced to kill each other. 

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You're sent to a mysterious island and are given one goal that is... TO KILL EVERYONE! Both manga are heavily based on survival as the character attempt to escape the horror of a death game. Both manga show little mercy as disturbing elements such as gore, rape and betrayal become common place. Battle Royale differs being a prominent character drama, as it showcases each characters very nature by looking at their individual sufferings and history. Meanwhile, Btooom! is more focused on character rivalries and battles as the characters face up against each other using specialised booms to try and kill each other. So, if your a big fan of survival stories with a last man standing scenario that features complete brutality, I urge you to go and give these two series a read. read more 

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Battle Royale is Btooom! without bombs. Everything else is the same thing. 

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same story pretty much. battle royale is a prototype version of hunger games pretty much
both mcs have a girl on their side that they swear they will save. difference is battle royale mc isnt as competent as btooms mc 

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Gantz addpermalink

Both follow the same concept of people being forced into a death game. Both are very graphic and gory with interesting story and characters, GANTZ is a little more supernatural  with more nudity as well but above all both are very similar. 

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I thought I'd made this recommendation already. I hadn't. (True story...)

After reading the BR manga, I went on to read the novel. There's a world of difference between the novel and its completely over the top manga adaptation. The simplest way of explaining it is for me to tell you to imagine the author of Gantz, Oku, was allowed to insert as much graphic violence and nudity as humanly possible, while keeping the story and characterisation as is.

Remember that part in the novel where - in a flashback - the Terminator/final boss character plucked an eyeball out at school?... No? What about the part where a girl reverse-raped a boy to reward him, as he lay dying from a wound in his stomach?... Still no? Ok, then: you MUST remember the bit where, in a martial arts showdown with the series' final boss (one of the best fights ever, FYI) the good guy hit the bad guy with a mini-kamehameha?...... I give up.

If you loved Gantz for its boobs, violence and general craziness, you'd LOVE BR to bits. Seriously. read more

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If you enjoy blood, gore, action, sex, and lots and lots of death then these are the perfect series for you to check out. 

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Both incredibly graphic and gory manga, with the concept of deadly survival games with a lot of killing involved. Whereas Gantz goes for the sci-fi approach, Battle Royale goes for realism. ^_^ 

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Do you need a good old fight for survival in form of a male-aimed, game-like graphic gore fest? Look no further.
Both have students and bombs, sex and guts, wimpy jerks and manly chads. Gantz also throws aliens in the mix. The readers will likely root for some characters and loathe others deeply, struck with the brutality and meanness extents of human nature. 

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Both are horror-action series that are unusually heavy on the bloody, gore, and sexual content and have forced kill-or-be-kill battle set-up. 

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Both are violent, exciting, and carefully drawn. Both are based on the idea of an extreme TV show using unsuspecting members of the general public. 

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Characters fight to survive, and if they try to run away then a bomb goes off in their head. It has the same feeling of hopelessness that runs through Battle Royale, and while reading Battle Royale I was shocked at some of the similarities. If you like one then you will like the other. 

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Gantz and Battle Royal both take random people away from society into a type of "game" where the only way to survive is too kill. 

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Combining graphic violence with a game style concept and gimmick, Gantz and Battle Royale are classic survival horror series.  Both series consists of a group of characters trapped in a death game where they must fight in order to survive. The follow a different set of rules and principles but the core of the themes remain. Both series' main male protagonists also adapts similar personality with a strong dedication to survive. Throughout both series, we learn much more about the other players and what awaits them. 

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While Battle Royale deals a lot more with character development, there are many similarities that are present between the two series'.

In terms of sex scenes and overall nudity, the same elements are in Gantz, although in a more extreme state. 

Another great similarity is the AMAZING amount of realism that both of these manga contain, luring the reader in with relatable stories and setups. 

If you're into the horror aspects of BR, you'll certainly like Gantz! In fact, I would say that the brutality in BR does next to NOTHING to prepare you to some of Gantz's more extreme scenes.

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They're both about survival games
They both have a lot of action,gore and nudity 

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Both Battle Royale and Gantz are similar in many ways.

First off, both of them have a group of people put into a place where they must kill or be killed. The only difference is the Battle Royale focuses on only one such setting, while Gantz has multiple characters go into this setting multiple times. Plus, in Battle Royale, the people are killing humans, while in Gantz, aliens are being killed.

Both have extremely similar styles of art, with tons of gore and nudity present in both of them.

Overall, both of these manga, are similar in a multitude of ways and if you like one, you'll most probably like the other. read more

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Eden no Ori addpermalink

The characters in both of these serialisations are relocated to an island that requires them to develop and refine survival techniques so they can keep alive. 

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Panic ensues among the class(es) of both manga causing many to adopt a kill-or-be-killed attitude while others continue to hope that they can all survive together. Also, since both manga feature some cliche characters... the character archetypes of some of the main characters are pretty similar. 

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Battle Royale deals with a class of students who set off on a field trip and end up left to fend for themselves on a deserted island. This is same kind of situation takes place in Cage of Eden, the difference being in BR the students have to kill each other to survive whereas in CoE the students must not only survive the attacks of the crazies that have survived the plane crash that left them stranded on the island but they also have to fend off the prehistoric dinosaurs that also populate it. Both series are gory, survival focused and have echi qualities. 

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both are great manga with a similar setting where teenager have to fight on an island for survival.
 battle royal is a psychological seinen where a class is forced to kill each other until one rremains while eden no ori is a great shonen where about 200 students and 100 other passengers land, after an air plane crash, on an deserted island where extinct species live and they try to survive while some get mad and start killing. 

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If you liked Battle Royale I definetly recommend that you read Eden no Ori or otherwise known as Cage of Eden. Both have to survive in an island except in Battle Royale they have to literally kill each other to survive while in Eden of Ori the people in the island some people do kill each other but they mostly want to leave the island. Both mangas are about survival and both are really good, so I recommend you try reading them both ^_^ 

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Both are survival manga that create real sympathy between the reader and the characters. Sengoku Akira and Shuya Nanahara, the two main protagonists of their manga respectively, show striking similarities to each other. 

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These two series involve a class of high school students being cast into a remote location and forced to fight, or die.
The main characters are extremely similar, with both of them trying to save everyone and take a "leader" role. While reading Battle Royale, I had felt the same rush of adrenaline I had felt while reading Eden no Ori. If that's what you enjoyed in Eden no Ori, (which you probably did.) Battle Royale will not disappoint.  

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When I'm reading the few chapters of eden it instantly remind me of battle royale. The serie share some similiarities. Majorly there are bunch of students that somehow trapped in unknown places. They chaotic kill each other for matter of surviving and in the middle of that, there is a mc with great motivation to save everyone else. The series also share kind of vibes throught the same kind of artstyle 

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Mirai Nikki addpermalink

Both psychological thrillers are about people forced into a "kill or be killed" kind of survival game. Where the characters are forced to question their own morality. 

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Both series have a kill-em-all survival game set-up. Battle Royale gets a lot more gratuitous with the sex and violence (not that Mirai Nikki lacks either of those), and Mirai Nikki has some mild fantasy elements, but if you like enforced kill-or-be-killed scenarios, both deliver in that respect -- and might give you some nightmares in the process. 

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Did you just see a new character on the page? Then you can expect the same fates for said characters in both series. It might not get them now, but it will catch up with them at some point.
Also the "one must survive by killing all the others" thing is present in both series, as well as equipping the characters with weapons in order to help them achieve this (future versions of diaries in Mirai Nikki, random things like scythes, guns, and forks in Battle Royale). Many of the characters in both series are also pretty damn crazy. 

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Well to usm it up a bunc of people are pitted against each other in a battle 'till death.

Differences: well mirai nikki is supernatural with all the time and stuff, but battle royale is just plain students with guns.
they also have some romance in them 

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There is only one way to survive and that is... TO KILL EVERYONE! Both manga carry a kill or be killed scenario as the characters enter a psychological battlefield. What entitles forth is a total bloodbath of death and gore. In terms of character progression both manga also feature some similar character revaluations; as our passive protagonist begins to question their own sense of morality and begins to wonder if they could kill for the benefit of their own survival. Mirrai Nikki differs as it features supernatural elements with specialised phones as the character fight against each other for the hopes of becoming the next god. While Battle Royale features a very humane story as it focuses much more on the morality and induced trauma of the situation; as it goes to investigate each characters ideology and thought process, through its use flashbacks. As classmates/friends are forced to kill and betray each other on an isolated island. So, if you a fan of blood, death and plenty of gore on a psychological battlefield, than you will love both manga. read more 

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Battle Royale's influence, at least talking about the original book, is undeniably big, even if you can find similar plots from older works, it's with the book that this kill or be killed game was popularized, Mirai Nikki is one of the many works post of Battle Royale that would utilize this basically same basic plot, so most of the themes of death are present in both, Mirai Nikki adds sobrenatural elements to make it's story more of it's own, but overall both are recommended series of the same genre. 

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Both pertain to normal kids getting wrapped up in a death game and being forced to deal with their situations. Doubt is a little more story centric while BR is simply survival 

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Jisatsutou addpermalink

Both revolve around a group of characters who are left to fend for themselves on an isolated island. 

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Ousama Game addpermalink

In both manga high school class participates in a game, which people life is at stake. Games are go by their own rules and they have masters of the game. In both we have different characters and interesting plot 

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Liar Game addpermalink

They both contain people who are put in a competition (mostly) against their will, and must compete against others to be the final one left through tricks, deception, or right out stealing/killing. 

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Ikigami addpermalink

Ikigami is reminiscent of Battle Royale. The fictional Japanese totalitarian settings where human rights are cruelly ignored and the people are manipulated is eerily similar.

In Battle Royale, a class of teenagers are kidnapped, left on an island and given three days to kill everyone else before the bombs placed around their necks explodes. 

In Ikigami, everyone as children were forced to be vaccinated, and those unlucky enough to have been injected with a 1/1000 odds something that makes their heart go bye-bye between the ages 18-24 get told - 24 hours before what was injected into them explodes - that they are going to die; they are even given their time of death! But their deaths are for the greater good, of course. read more 

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Basilisk: Kouga Ninpouchou addpermalink

It surprised me when I learned that the novel Basilisk adapted, 'The Kouga Ninja Scrolls', came out in 1959--many decades before Battle Royale. The idea of forcing people to kill each other until there is only one/a few left is a simple one, but the way human nature is depicted with the violence, rape and whatnot that follows in this two is very striking. Survival series without morality bullshit is the way I would describe them. 

Basilisk is a ninja warfare period piece. Battle Royale is set in a modern day, alternate history Japan and involves high school kids killing each other. But the insanity that results when characters are given 'do or die' choices is very similar. Prepare for characters you grow attached to dying! read more 

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Imawa no Kuni no Alice addpermalink

Survival horror is a prime idea for Battle Royale and Imawa no Kuni no Alice. The main characters get themselves involved in a state of fear with conflicts that involves their very lives. There are objectives and rivalries that also build up between characters in both series. And most importantly, we see who lives and who perishes. Despite the overwhelming circumstances, the main male protagonists from both series has a strong spirit to fight and survive. 

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Scenarios where MC’s are stranded on islands and have to fight to the death 

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Deadman Wonderland addpermalink

Their premise is unquestionably the same: a group of students/criminals is sent to an island/prison and forced to take part in twisted games. Each individual is given a collar, which either could explode any minute or constantly injects a poison in the person's body. They will fight to the death whether they want it or not.
Despite being of different demographics, they are both violent, bloody manga set in the future, with a focus on the characters' psychology. Both stories also revolve around the specific time of three days: in BR, the students must kill each other, and after three days there has to be only one winner; in DW, the prisoners have to eat a candy, the only antidote to defeat the poison, every three days, or else they'll die. read more 

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Gamble Fish addpermalink

Battle Royale and Gamble Fish pits characters against one another in deadly games. The consequences for losing a game is disastrous as the main characters witness its cruel reality. Both series' main characters has strategic minds and we see their intellect throughout the story. Battle Royale follows a more survival game oriented story while Gamble Fish adapts gambling mechanics with a variety of themes each arc. 

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Baki: New Grappler Baki addpermalink

both show a similiar concept like survival battles in order to show the strongest. 

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Limit addpermalink

Limit is what happens when the story of Battle Royale happens on accident. In Limit, one highschool class is chosen to participate in a camping program when their bus crashes on the way to site. The surviving students must then find a way to survive alone in the wilderness until they can be rescued. In the same vein as Battle Royale, Limit shows us what happens when "weak" people are pushed to edge and are given the chance to strike back against their oppressors, and shows us what people will do when nobody is there to question them. Although not as dark and brutal as Battle Royale, Limit is the same kind is story read more 

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Cry Eye addpermalink

both survival game on an island. 

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Litchi☆Hikari Club addpermalink

Both manga focus on a group of students betraying each other and fighting among themselves. They also feature a lot of gore and disturbing imagery. The art styles are also somewhat similar. 

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Signal 100 addpermalink

Glorifies the violence, makes most events meant to be sexual and the characters changing to worse. 

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Kamisama no Iutoori 2 addpermalink

Realistic styled artwork, gruesome deaths, awkward humor. 

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Muhoutou addpermalink

Lawless battle royale on an isolated territory, set up by sadistical government/other high instances. 
Death all over the place.
MC doesn't want to kill and luckily has friends/comrades to help each other survive and willing to dirty their hands.

<> Battle Royale has children fighting each other, Muhoutou adult criminals.  

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Mouryou no Yurikago addpermalink

All i can say is action, action, and more of it. Very graphic and gory. Surprises around every corner, and will keep you at the edge of your seat. 

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Kokumin Quiz addpermalink

Both manga share a similar premise: Japan has turned into a huge dictatorial world power and has develope the ultimate tool of mass control product of inhumanity getting out of hand:

"Battle Royale": a sort of survival experiment with aparent benefits in enduring human will, yet it looks more like a governmet delusion that actually creates pure paranoia and trauma among people.

"Kokumin quiz": a flashy form of show wich rules trascends capitalism since it evokes people´s darkest desires to become truth

Both are great and recommended manga if you are interested in dystopia, yet Battle Royale focuses more in flashbacks and violence to explore psyche deterioration of characters diverse personalities, while Kokumin Quiz seems to criticize human greed and its regrettable consequences

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Bloody Monday addpermalink

both are dark storys both involved wih government  

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Torikago no Tsugai addpermalink

Be it in a building as in Torikago no Tsugai, or on an isolated island in Battle Royale - a heavily supervised game with death clutching at you from all angles (especially from a collar around your neck) has been set up. And there is no escape. Except for winning the game!
The psychological strain on the players in either world is immense. There is but a blurry, almost invisible line between a poor choice resulting in gore and an educated pick to smoothly survive for another hour! However, as opposed to Battle Royale, the goal in Torikago is not to kill, but to be the one who survives. read more 

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Duty After School addpermalink

The main difference is that in one of these, the students are all on the same side and in the other, they aren't. Despite this, they're very similar with how each scenario forces students into horrific scenarios that force them into acting as adult and cause them great trauma, in addition to those some of them already hold. 

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Psyren addpermalink

people are taken to a place different from their everyday lives and forced into a game of survival 

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Wolf Guy: Ookami no Monshou addpermalink

Has a similar art style, involves high school students battling each other, and extreme violence.  

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Lives addpermalink

Both titles are created by the same mangaka so its a given that both titles share very similar graphical styles and pacing. Both titles are also about survival and a whole lot of blood and sex with plenty of sexy chikas 

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Tokyo Girls Destruction addpermalink

In both titles students try to defeat one another in a small isolated island being monitored by the Japanese government.

In battle Royale the students (classmates and co-eds) kill each other in a deadly game in which the sole survivor will be granted his freedom. In Tokyo Girls Destruction the students from an entire school (composed of all girls) attack each other in order to gain each others badge and she who holds the badge is now the master of the previous owner

Both titles are violent but Battle Royale is light years ahead of Tokyo Girls Destruction in this department and so far Tokyo Girls Destruction has yet to show any sexual scenes apart from the occasional panty flashes where as Battle Royale has rape scenes a plenty read more 

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Judge addpermalink

These two titles explore the psychological shifts amongst a group of characters when they are asked to kill others in order to survive. 

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Mugen no Juunin addpermalink

Graphic violence baby!  Bloody, gory goodness.  The art is gorgeous too!!  Go. Get. Read. Now. :p 

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Uzumaki addpermalink

They both provide constant stimuli, while demonstrating the dark side of human kind, and what everyone is capable of doing when giving the proper motivation.
 

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Yousai Gakuen addpermalink

Both are bloody, violent, kill-or-be-killed manga that take place in a school-as-a-battlefield situation. Fortified School though has much more of a plot, is more interesting, and the artwork is really unique. If you enjoyed Battle Royale, you will LOVE Fortified School.  

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Zetman addpermalink

Same type of characters, same type of characters make these two manga series very similar in terms of plot progression. 

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Hoozuki no Shima addpermalink

Imagine Left 4 Dead made into a manga and replace all the zombie hordes with a psychotic serial killer and a few misunderstood adults and instead of the fantastic four team mates, you have children with messed up childhood pasts. The result is Hohzuki Island. Thrilling, slightly predictable and very similar to Battle Royale. Both are must read manga if you enjoyed either of them. 

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Highschool of the Dead addpermalink

The characters in both of had to adjust to the changing environment and also make drastic decisions. 

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Life Is Money addpermalink

Both gather a group of people in an isolated place to make them fight each other in a lethal game. Both have a kind protagonist - and a love interest - who reveals himself to be more than just an average person. 

Both are also different from each other and that, my dear, is for you to read.  

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Kiseijuu addpermalink

With gritty style and awesome story lines both Battle Royale and Parasyte caught me from the start and refused to let go. In both stories the characters are faced with seemingly hopeless circumstances that they desperately struggle to change. Battle Royale and Parasyte are fundamentally different in that one features an epic survival game while the other has parasitic aliens invading the Earth but both are amazing mangas!   

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Ibara no Ou addpermalink

Fight to survive , in battle royale the character fight each other and in king of thorns they fight together. 

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Hokuto no Ken addpermalink

Both mangas are filled with action and violence and both have a great plot. 

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Bloody Junkie addpermalink

Similarities:
3 Days, 1 Survivor

Bloody Junkie is an online program where they can watch people kill each other in a Battle Royale-like setting live. 

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Dragon Head addpermalink

Both of these manga are very similar they involve in kids fighting among themselves 

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