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Think you've got it tough in high school? Imagine going to a school where random students are selected - whether they want to participate or not - into "The Program," taken to a secret location, then told something like, "only one person walks out of here alive." It's kill or be killed in the TOKYOPOP manga, Battle Royale.

Battle Royale is based on the popular novel and movie of the same title. The manga is on volume nine in Japan and the second feature film based on the series is in production now. The series is being edited by TOKYOPOP Senior Editor Mark Paniccia and its scripts are being rewritten by Keith Giffen. Both men were fans of the original movie and intrigued by the manga series. It's a series that shocks, stuns, and will disturb some people. It seems unfathomable to imagine a society where teenagers are forced to fight to the death by their government, but that's just what Koushun Takami's done in his Battle Royale offerings.
Don't worry if reading this manga bothers you ... it's supposed to.

"The story is about a dystopian Japan where random ninth grade classes are picked for "The Program," a government endorsed fight to the death," said Senior Editor Mark Paniccia. "The kids are taken to an abandoned island, given weapons and a ration of food, and told that only one can survive or all will be killed at the end of three days."

"This is so much a labor of love," enthused scribe Keith Giffen. "I love the film, love the manga, and think it's a kind of thing that American comics should be exploring: the disturbing visceral subject matter. We used to be good at that genre, but we're not now."

"I saw the live action movie after a friend of mine at Miramax told me to see it, and I fell in love with Batt
oyale," said Giffen of his initial exposure to the series. "I thought it was hysterical and an extrodinarily funny movie. I hunted down the DVD in its original Japanese ... it took a while, but I've finally got it. It was Ross Ritchie who thought that this would be a good fit for my style and hooked me up with Mark Paniccia. Mark told Ross earlier that TOKYOPOP was doing Battle Royale and that started the ball rolling for me to get involved in the project."

The series is disturbing, but it seems a lot of people consider it "safe" to watch or read something like this, and, in a way, comforting. As Giffen pointed out, "I really think part of the appeal of horror and this kind of materials is, 'OK, yah, I got laid off, my wife left me, my dog died, and I will be homeless by next month, but at least I'm not getting eaten by zombies or hunting down my friends fighting to the death.' No matter how bad life is, works like this show us there are worse things out there. Also readers and I can experience a horrific world without anything remotely resembling danger. I can feel like this is going on, without having to actually experience it. I really believe in terms of horror, it is a simple case of people liking the fact that no matter how bad my life is, at least I don't have aliens eating my intestines. There are so many things to be genuinely afraid of in this world ... we can settle down with something that is horror as opposed to the terror horror that is the fear of the unknown."

"Battle Royale makes me think of where I definitely DON'T want reality TV to go," said Paniccia. "This is kind of like Survivor to the extreme and reminds me of how they are always trying to up the ante with every new show. We don't need a Battle Royale in reality."

Although Giffen believes some of the concepts in Battle Royale are a lot like some of the world's reality. "What kind of society has an army open fire on its own people?" he asked. "What kind of society created a situation like at Kent State? Left to our own devices we're pretty violent. Battle Royale carries it to the extreme, and I think Battle Royale is a horror story. I think most of your best horror pushes the limits and Battle Royale could happen today - look at the world and the Columbine mentality or kids of that fashion. There are people who would get off on it. According to the Battle Royale book, it's a government run country that arbitrarily does this ... in the film the kids were shown as being out of control and disrespectful ... but the graphic novel is a little bit more of a 'government has done this to you and it doesn't tell you why the kids are in this situation' type of story. Now they are on this show, but the government doesn't say why, it just says deal with it. There's a symbolism there ...."

Both the editor and writer faced unique challenges while working on this project. "Like all TOKYOPOP adaptations, I have to say the biggest challenge to editing is the sheer volume of material," stated Paniccia. "And this book is forty pages longer than the average 'POP book. There's a huge cast of characters and making sure everything is spelled right is a real horror."

Spelling isn't the only challenge. "A lot of the symbolism that the Japanese use for their visuals and verbal shorthand does not work for the American audience," said Gifffen. "I have to figure out a way to adapt that, while staying true to the original author's intent. I got a little heat because at the end of the first book Mitsuko turns to a dead girl and says, 'Oh, by the way, red is definitely not your color.' In the book it was, 'I had to kill you before you killed me.' The Japanese also pick up a lot of body language and visual effects ... they can afford to just lay it out there with lots of innuendo. In the dialogue, that doesn't translate very well. Also some phrases that mean something in Japan go over our heads, just like some of ours go over theirs. For instance 'Happy as a clam' has no frame of reference for the Japanese. I'm trying to adapt this as honestly and as respectfully as possible while making it accessible for mass market audiences outside of the otaku and main market.

Giffen continued, "This is fun ... there's so much going on ... and this is really just fun to create!"

The first volume has sold out a lot of places. Volume two is due in stores soon.


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