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NEWS: Battle Royale Novel Gets New Manga Spinoff in January

The Hunger Games is the poor man's Battle Royale. Not only does it feel like a bad ripoff in places (there are several things that are almost exactly the same), there's none of the moral conflict that made Battle Royale so interesting in the first place.
The deus ex machina in Hunger Games for the sake of eliminating moral dilemnas was ridiculous. Plus the random romance thrown on seemed tacked on at best.
Granted I only read the first one and gave up, I don't know if it improves at all.

To actually stay on topic, I'm interested in how it turns out. The first Battle Royale manga was okay (over the top and ridiculous and creepily sexual...why do most of these these 15 year olds look like 30 year olds? But a fun read none-the-less and kept me glued to it just to see what happened in the end). 'Battle Royal II Blitz Royal' was apalling, and had horrendous art, so I'm hoping it's at least better than that.

Wikipedia wrote:

It introduces sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in a post-apocalyptic world in the country of Panem where North America once stood. This is where a powerful government working in a central city called the Capitol holds power. In the book, the Hunger Games are an annual televised event where the Capitol chooses one boy and one girl from each district to fight to the death. The Hunger Games exist to demonstrate not even children are beyond the reach of the Capitol's power.

Wow... this is the first I've heard of "The Hunger Games", but that is such a farking rip-off of Battle Royale that I literally laughed when I read this. The only thing different is that instead of having an entire class chosen, the government chooses only one boy and girl at a time (why always one boy and girl, is this some sort of gender supremacy book?). Wow. That's terrible.