 If you liked
Battle Royale
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 ...then you might like
Ikigami
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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;
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Both series similarly explore the societal implications of totalitarianism, revolving around fictional government initiatives that violently manipulate the population. Featuring flawed, yet compelling characters, both series are likely to get you hooked and to get you thinking.