 If you liked
Battle Royale
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 ...then you might like
Btooom!
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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
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Recommended by AironicallyHuman
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.
Stuck on an island... have to kill each other... BR is much more violent though.
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Recommended by janusian_mikan
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
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
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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.
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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Recommended by bunny1ov3r
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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Recommended by misamisa03
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. :)
Both similar, with people being sent to a deserted island and being forced to kill each other.
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
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Battle Royale is Btooom! without bombs. Everything else is the same thing.