![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This helps keeping the who’s who straight, with so many of them running about initially, and adds to the feels when the inevitable death ensues. It’s not all violence and gore though as you do also get snippets of back-stories of some of the more prominent students to better understand their character traits. Will they participate? Can they trust anyone to make allegiances with and if they do there is the ever present threat of betrayal with only one person able to claim victory.This is a brutal tale in both the psychological and violent sense that the reader, for the most part, follows in the company of Shuya, one of the students. Stranded on a deserted island each person is equipped with a pack containing food, water, a map and an item classed as a weapon (anything from a machine gun to a fork) and sent on their way at 2 minute intervals. This story follows one such class of 42 students as they are abducted from their intended school trip and awaken in a strange classroom and discover their new circumstances. The government decided to act and passed the Program where 50 third-year junior high school classes are forced to fight their classmates until only 1 participant remains left alive. ![]() Its youth were a disaffected lot and were often displaying such traits in increasingly violent ways. The Republic of Greater East Asia was falling apart. ![]()
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