Yeah, the crappy thing with the movie is how much it had to drop in terms of character development. It's a great film, but Kiriyama goes from being the tragic sociopath he is in the book to being an unhinged psychopath who volunteers to play the game so he can murder people. An understandable change to condense 600+ pages of book into a single film, but still... :)
RE: Battle Royale and the Tragedy of Kazuo Kiriyama
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Battle Royale and the Tragedy of Kazuo Kiriyama
That's a shame. I think the film is great as well, though it gets a little too heavy on the melodrama. This class killing itself is already inherently tragic without cutting back to that scene of the basketball game for the ninth time...
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Oh man, if you think that's bad, then don't read the manga. Towards the end, there's a serious Dragonball Z moment where it takes Shuya nearly five chapters between when he decides he needs to attack Kiriyama and when he actually starts the fight thanks to a lot of flashbacks and inner monologues. I like a lot of what the manga did in terms of fleshing out characters even more than the book had time for, but sometimes it veers too hard in the "this is manga, and we need to make sure our readers know it is manga!" direction for its own good. :)
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