BATTLE ROYALE ULTIMATE EDITON, VOL. 1
TOKYOPOP
WRITERS: Koushun Takami and Masayuki Taguchi
ARTIST: Masayuki Taguchi
TRANSLATION: Tomo Iwo with Emily Shoji
ENGLISH ADAPTATION: Keith Giffen
ISBN: 978-1-4278-0753-3; hardcover (October 2007); Action; Rated “M” for “Mature-Ages 18+”
632pp, B&W, $24.99 U.S.
The Battle Royale media franchise began life as the novel, Battle Royale. It was written by Konshun Takami and published in Japan in 1999 by publisher, Ohta Shuppan. Some audiences know Battle Royale for the controversial 2000 Japanese film adaptation that has gained cult status in the United States.
Japanese comics creator (mangaka) Masayuki Taguchi adapted the novel into manga. TOKYOPOP published the Battle Royale manga in English as 15 graphic novels from 2003 to 2006. In late 2007, TOKYOPOP began collecting those graphic novels into five omnibus editions, with each omnibus reprinting three graphic novel volumes of the Battle Royale manga in one hardcover book.
In the TOKYOPOP adaptation of the original magna, Battle Royale is set in an alternate timeline in which Japan is a police state. There, the government sanctions a television game or reality show called “The Program.” This show pits school students against one another in a kill or be killed scenario. And only one student can survive and win!
Battle Royale Ultimate Edition, Vol. 1 (reprinting Battle Royale Vols. 1-3) introduces readers to Class B-9th Grade at Shiroiwa Junior High School. These 42 students (21 boys and 21 girls) are gassed during a bus trip. They awake to find themselves marooned on an island and forced to kill one another until only one survives – the winner. They are goaded and warned of the extreme rules of “The Program” by its ruthless and mysterious game master, Yonemi Kamon. Collars rigged with explosives around their necks will keep the students honest.
Weapons are handed out and each student is sent out into the island alone; before long many students are turning against each other and committing the most brutal acts of murder. Amidst the carnage, however, established friendships and love relationships take hold, while new bonds are forged. Out of the chaos, seven figures take center stage. The righteous Shuuya Nanahara and the gentle and caring Noriko Nakagawa join a hardened veteran of a previous stint on “The Program,” Shogo Kawada. Hacker Shinji Mimura takes the battle against the captors to cyberspace. Some seek an alliance with the kind-hearted kung fu master Hiroki Sugimura, while the troubled bad girl, Mitsuko Souma, and the cold, merciless Kazuo Kiriyama kill at will.
I saw the Battle Royale film before I ever read the manga, and though the film’s violence is alternately bracing and cathartic and sickening and troubling, it’s not the most disturbing film I’ve ever seen (De Palma’s Scarface, Ken Russell’s The Devils, and Larry Clark’s Kids, among others). Still, the Battle Royale movie didn’t prepare me for how shockingly and brutally violent the Battle Royale manga is.
Film critics often attack horror movies for not having good characters; their reasoning is that if the viewers care about the characters, then, the horror of their violent murders will affect the viewers that much more. In his adaptation of Battle Royale, manga-ka Masayuki Taguchi is exceptionally good at getting you to take these characters into your minds (if not hearts), and then making you suffer their often gruesome fates. The idea of placing humans in situations outside of civil society and civilization and watching them turn to murderers is not new, even when the characters are all children. But there’s nothing quite like the horror of the teen-on-teen murder (and occasional explicit sex and sexual assault) of Battle Royale.
Battle Royale Ultimate Edition Volume 1 is like a comic book version of a DVD. It contains essays and new and previously unseen art. This book has a weapons dossier written by Eliot R. Brown, who wrote the specifications for weapons, armor, and equipment that appeared in titles published by Marvel Comics. Readers will like this added material as nice extras to go with the excellent manga.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014
#IReadsYou Review: Bryan Lee O'Malley's SECONDS
SECONDS
RANDOM HOUSE/Ballantine Books – @randomhouse
CARTOONIST: Bryan Lee O’Malley
ART ASST: Jason Fischer
COLORS: Nathan Fairbairn
LETTERS: Dustin Harbin
COVER: Bryan Lee O’Malley
ISBN: 978-0-345-52723-3; paperback (July 15, 2014)
336pp, Color, $25.00 U.S.
Born in Canada, Bryan Lee O’Malley is a cartoonist and comic book artist and letterer. He is best known as the creator of the bestselling graphic novel series, Scott Pilgrim, which began in 2004 with Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life. The series was adapted into the 2010 film, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (directed by Edgar Wright).
O’Malley’s first original graphic novel since Scott Pilgrim ended is entitled Seconds. A full-color, hardback (6.2” x 8.2”), Seconds was just released by Ballantine Books (a division of Random House). Seconds is the story of a talented young chef who misuses the magic that allows her to correct a blunder.
Seconds focuses on Katie Clay. She is 29-years-old, and her 20s have been very good to her. Once upon a time, she opened a restaurant with some friends; named “Seconds,” the place was successful. Four years later, though, Katie is ready to move on and open a new restaurant, and she wants to name it “Katie’s.” She has even found what she thinks is the ideal location, an old building that seems to have a magical charm about it (at least to her).
All at once, however, progress on the new location bogs down. Seconds still calls to her – it doesn’t help that she lives in a room above the restaurant. Her ex-boyfriend, Max, starts showing up again. Katie is having a fling with Andrew, the 25-year-old chef she chose to replace her at Seconds, but that relationship seems to be souring. Then, Hazel, a gorgeous young waitress at Seconds, is hurt in an accident caused, in some measure, because of Katie’s actions. Katie’s life seems not to be so very good anymore.
If only she could have a second chance…
A mysterious girl named Lis suddenly appears in Katie’s room in the middle of the night. Lis has simple instructions that will magically allow Katie a second chance to change a bad thing that happened into something much better. And it works! The problem is that Katie is only supposed to use that magic once. Katie’s drive to fix everything will take her down the road to hell.
I am a huge fan of filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, and I have enjoyed the work of cartoonist and comic book creator/theorist, Scott McCloud. I received a review copy of Seconds from Ballantine Books, and it came with a one-page press release for the book that included one-line quotes from both Del Toro and McCloud. I don’t know if they actually read Seconds in its entirety or just parts of it, but neither of quotes conveyed what a truly unique comic book Seconds is. With that said, let’s see if I can do some conveying.
Ever since I first came across the phrase “great read” in a book review I have used it in many of my reviews to let the reader know what fun I had reading a particular book. Seconds is a great read. I found myself going back over many pages, which is why I am a little late with this review. Seconds is the kind of graphic novel that keeps me reading comic books, knowing that this medium can and does deliver unique and rewarding works like this. Seconds is exemplary of that kind of supremely entertaining and imaginative work that only comic books can do.
Seconds is an uncanny mixture of magical realism and the fairy tale. It is as if Bryan Lee O’Mally makes Katie’s story both a realistic drama and a Grimm-like cautionary, timeless in that it can be retold for any period. Thematically, Seconds is about regret, the cycle of creation and dissolution in relationships, the ambivalence of change, and the yearning for supernatural (especially if it can solve our problems), among others.
The story suggests that trying to exert total control of the perceived chaos in our lives only brings actual terrible chaos instead of order. Katie’s frantic desire to fix every problem, blunder, setback, etc. seems to make her more frantic. The chaos that ensues drives this narrative, making it simmer like a potboiler. It’s fun for us, but not for her. Still, Seconds is more than just a thrill ride through Katie’s mounting problems. It is also a funny, beautiful, and haunting examination of the human desire to make things work out just the way we want them to be.
Fans of Bryan Lee O’Malley and readers look for exceptional comic books will want to ask for Seconds. This is a truly exceptional comic book. And it’s a great read!
A
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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux
The text is copyright © 2014 Leroy Douresseaux. All Rights Reserved. Contact this blog for syndication rights and fees.
RANDOM HOUSE/Ballantine Books – @randomhouse
CARTOONIST: Bryan Lee O’Malley
ART ASST: Jason Fischer
COLORS: Nathan Fairbairn
LETTERS: Dustin Harbin
COVER: Bryan Lee O’Malley
ISBN: 978-0-345-52723-3; paperback (July 15, 2014)
336pp, Color, $25.00 U.S.
Born in Canada, Bryan Lee O’Malley is a cartoonist and comic book artist and letterer. He is best known as the creator of the bestselling graphic novel series, Scott Pilgrim, which began in 2004 with Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life. The series was adapted into the 2010 film, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (directed by Edgar Wright).
O’Malley’s first original graphic novel since Scott Pilgrim ended is entitled Seconds. A full-color, hardback (6.2” x 8.2”), Seconds was just released by Ballantine Books (a division of Random House). Seconds is the story of a talented young chef who misuses the magic that allows her to correct a blunder.
Seconds focuses on Katie Clay. She is 29-years-old, and her 20s have been very good to her. Once upon a time, she opened a restaurant with some friends; named “Seconds,” the place was successful. Four years later, though, Katie is ready to move on and open a new restaurant, and she wants to name it “Katie’s.” She has even found what she thinks is the ideal location, an old building that seems to have a magical charm about it (at least to her).
All at once, however, progress on the new location bogs down. Seconds still calls to her – it doesn’t help that she lives in a room above the restaurant. Her ex-boyfriend, Max, starts showing up again. Katie is having a fling with Andrew, the 25-year-old chef she chose to replace her at Seconds, but that relationship seems to be souring. Then, Hazel, a gorgeous young waitress at Seconds, is hurt in an accident caused, in some measure, because of Katie’s actions. Katie’s life seems not to be so very good anymore.
If only she could have a second chance…
A mysterious girl named Lis suddenly appears in Katie’s room in the middle of the night. Lis has simple instructions that will magically allow Katie a second chance to change a bad thing that happened into something much better. And it works! The problem is that Katie is only supposed to use that magic once. Katie’s drive to fix everything will take her down the road to hell.
I am a huge fan of filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, and I have enjoyed the work of cartoonist and comic book creator/theorist, Scott McCloud. I received a review copy of Seconds from Ballantine Books, and it came with a one-page press release for the book that included one-line quotes from both Del Toro and McCloud. I don’t know if they actually read Seconds in its entirety or just parts of it, but neither of quotes conveyed what a truly unique comic book Seconds is. With that said, let’s see if I can do some conveying.
Ever since I first came across the phrase “great read” in a book review I have used it in many of my reviews to let the reader know what fun I had reading a particular book. Seconds is a great read. I found myself going back over many pages, which is why I am a little late with this review. Seconds is the kind of graphic novel that keeps me reading comic books, knowing that this medium can and does deliver unique and rewarding works like this. Seconds is exemplary of that kind of supremely entertaining and imaginative work that only comic books can do.
Seconds is an uncanny mixture of magical realism and the fairy tale. It is as if Bryan Lee O’Mally makes Katie’s story both a realistic drama and a Grimm-like cautionary, timeless in that it can be retold for any period. Thematically, Seconds is about regret, the cycle of creation and dissolution in relationships, the ambivalence of change, and the yearning for supernatural (especially if it can solve our problems), among others.
The story suggests that trying to exert total control of the perceived chaos in our lives only brings actual terrible chaos instead of order. Katie’s frantic desire to fix every problem, blunder, setback, etc. seems to make her more frantic. The chaos that ensues drives this narrative, making it simmer like a potboiler. It’s fun for us, but not for her. Still, Seconds is more than just a thrill ride through Katie’s mounting problems. It is also a funny, beautiful, and haunting examination of the human desire to make things work out just the way we want them to be.
Fans of Bryan Lee O’Malley and readers look for exceptional comic books will want to ask for Seconds. This is a truly exceptional comic book. And it’s a great read!
A
www.ballantinebooks.com
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux
The text is copyright © 2014 Leroy Douresseaux. All Rights Reserved. Contact this blog for syndication rights and fees.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014
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