Battle Royale II: Blitz Royale (BRII ブリッツ ロワイアル) is a manga inspired by the movie Battle Royale II: Requiem. While the author of the original novel, Koushun Takami, is given the gensaku credit, the story and art are by Hitoshi Tomizawa (富沢ひとし Tomizawa Hitoshi).
Like the earlier Battle Royales, a class of middle school students are picked to compete in fights to the death on an island until there is only one left.
The manga follows the point of view of Girl #16 Makoto Hashimoto, an unlucky girl who fears that her class will be chosen to participate in "the program," a mysterious event that forces students to kill each other. Makoto attends Shikanotoride Junior High School.
After the encouragement of her best friend Aoi Yamamoto and her mother she decides to face the chances. Her fears are supposedly put to rest when word spreads that all 50 Programs had already been executed in the year making them 100% unlikely to participate. Arriving at their field trip in one piece, Makoto begins to forward all her nervousness into getting a boy she likes: Katsushi Nomura.
As the field trip kicks off, and the girls sneak into one of the boys rooms: Specifically Katsushi's. While Aoi takes advantage of the smuggled vodka, Katsushi breaks the ice between himself and Makoto by asking her out, however, their romance is cut short when a boy runs in alerting the presence of their teacher. The girls hide inside the sleeping bags of the other boys where Katsushi takes the chance to feel Makoto's breast. Right when they believe the coast is clear, they are assaulted by a group of Navy soldiers who begin to forcefully push the students around (Which involved Katsushi getting the end of a gun smashed in his face).
Students[]
Males[]
- Shoji Aida (相田 昇治, Aida Shōji)
- Tazuki Ishiyama (石山 尋己, Ishiyama Tazuki)
- Mitsugu Kawasaki (川崎 貢, Kawasaki Mitsugu)
- Hiroki Kuroda (黒田 裕樹, Kuroda Hiroki)
- Hideo Komura (小村 英雄, Komura Hideo)
- Kazuma Sakato (坂藤 一馬, Sakatō Kazuma)
- Hiroshi Sugano (菅野 泰之, Sugano Hiroshi)
- Fumiya Daichi (大地 史哉, Daichi Fumiya)
- Kota Takakubo (高久保 耕太, Takakubo Kōta)
- Kazunori Tsuda (津田 和憲, Tsuda Kazunori)
- Yoshiharu Nagasawa (長澤 義治, Nagasawa Yoshiharu)
- Yoji Nakano (中野 陽治 Nakano Yōji)
- Ryusuke Nishino (西野 隆介, Nishino Ryūsuke)
- Katsushi Nomura (野村 勝史, Nomura Katsushi)
- Seiichi Hoshikawa (星川 誠一, Hoshikawa Seiichi)
- Hajime Minami (南 一, Minami Hajime)
- Yunao Miyakoshi (宮越 祐直, Miyakoshi Yūnao)
- Eiji Yajima (矢嶋 英次, Yajima Eiji)
Females[]
- Yoko Araki (新木 陽子, Araki Yōko)
- Suzuko Arikawa (有川鈴子 Arikawa Suzuko)
- Yuki Ito (伊東 友紀, Itō Yūki)
- Marie Iwasaki (岩崎 真理絵, Iwasaki Marie)
- Kyoko Ezaki (江崎 響子, Ezaki Kyōko)
- Megumi Ozaki (大崎 めぐみ Ōzaki Megumi)
- Masako Onishi (大西 雅子, Ōnishi Masako)
- Yuko Kai (甲斐 侑子, Kai Yūko)
- Kanako Kasagi (笠木 加奈子, Kasagi Kanako)
- Naomi Kiuchi (木内 直美, Kiuchi Naomi)
- Keiko Kudo (工藤 啓子, Kudō Keiko)
- Atsuko Kosaka (高坂 敦子, Kōsaka Atsuko)
- Hitomi Sakura (佐倉 瞳, Sakura Hitomi)
- Miyako Tada (多田 見悦子, Tada Miyako)
- Mutsumi Nakakita (仲北 睦美, Nakakita Mutsumi)
- Makoto Hashimoto (橋本 真恋人, Hashimoto Makoto)
- Haruka Maeyama (前山 遙 Maeyama Haruka)
- Toko Matsumura (松村 陶子, Matsumura Tōko)
- Kaori Mizoguki (溝口木 薫, Mizoguki Kaori)
- Reiko Midorikawa (緑川 玲子, Midorikawa Reiko)
- Mai Minakami (水上 麻衣, Minakami Mai)
- Eri Miyahara (宮原 恵理, Miyahara Eri)
- Aoi Yamamoto (山本 葵, Yamamoto Aoi)
- Yasuko Yokota (横田 靖子, Yokota Yasuko)
The Program Begins[]
The students are all held captive by the government, and brought to a room where a man in a military uniform, Hoshou Takagi, stands to address the students of the new Navy Exclusive version of the Program. While the students are recovering from the sudden announcement, the intoxicated Aoi is grabbed by the hair and has her long locks forcefully shaved off. As Makoto rushes to her friends side she meets the end of a gun, and her fathers talisman ripped from her neck.
From this point the story becomes much darker, the students are sent to a non-aggressive defence school and forced to dispose of corpses they are then gassed in a shower chamber, dressed in full military attire (complete with collar).
When given the chance to rebel against the government Makoto declines causing Katsushi to become aggravated calling her "Chicken Shit". However when Boy #3 Mitsugu Kawasaki gets the same opportunity, he takes it but as he turns his gun to the soldier, he becomes the first victim of the new program and has his collar detonated before all his classmates.