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As our various teams strategize, we learn more about the implanted chips tracking our unfortunate participants.

Yeah, this was a LOT of talking. While it is interesting to learn more about our characters, this volume was short on action. Not that I’m actively rooting for child slaughter, but it’s like going into a Die Hard or Transformers movie, then having the characters sit and chat in a coffee shop for 20 minutes. It’s like walking into a pizza shop, but they have nothing but tacos. It’s not what I came in for, whether I like it or not. It even had the nerve to end on a cliffhanger. 2.5 out of 5.

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March 20, 2025April 30, 2025 atthequillsmercy

Lenni Reviews: “Battle Royale: Enforcers” Vol. 3, by Koushun Takami & Yukai Asada

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The various squads of children deal with their deadly predicament in different ways, either embracing the chance to kill, abhorring the violence, or coming to terms with the hopelessness of their situation.

This volume cycles through each group who, as stated, are all handling things differently. I think the group that’s painting their faces and acting super edgy (very The Jokerz) were a bit silly. Even when they’re threatening violence, I couldn’t quite take them seriously. As such, there’s not much battling going on. It’s mostly talking and strategizing with the resident loony character committing the only violence in the book. It’s not bad but if you’re looking for a bloody mess, this isn’t it. 3.9 out of 5.

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July 12, 2024October 7, 2024 atthequillsmercy

Lenni Reviews: “Battle Royale: Enforcers” Vol. 2, by Koushun Takami & Yukai Asada

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In this volume, more characters are revealed as are more rules to the game as the battle for survival creeps into it’s first night.

When I saw the fanservice naked woman, I had immediate concerns that this series was going to devolve into the uncomfortable sex scenes that were present in the first manga series. I’m no prude; you can tell by the absolute genre madness of my reviews but being unwillingly ridden so hard you bleed out from a bullet would was just gross. Spoilers for that, I guess. This volume is 90% talking and getting to know some of the character’s back stories before being thrown into this game. It felt odd reading this and wondering when the carnage will start for my entertainment but usually, you get this level of ‘development’ spread out over time; usually before a character dies. A recent example would be Alice in Borderland. This one, however, felt like it was one big chunk. 3 out of 5.

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May 27, 2024August 13, 2024 atthequillsmercy

Lenni Reviews: “Battle Royale: Enforcers” Vol. 1, by Koushun Takami & Yukai Asada

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After a two decade ban, Program 68 is restarted and the newest crop of ill-fated kids are Daito Academy’s Class F. Now, they will be forced to kill their fellow classmates in order to be the last one standing.

Now, it’s more understandable to have the info dump at the beginning of the story because the games in universe haven’t been a thing in a long time and it’s been awhile since the original series came out. Other than being some creepy masterminds making this decision, we don’t know why this class was chosen to bring this program back but I’m sure the reason will come out later on.

Our cast is the typical school student collection: the idealistic lead, bitchy girls, uncommonly good at killing quiet guy, etc. But it doesn’t waste time getting to the bloodshed. I’m sure we’ll get to know the students better as the series goes; probably right before they’re brutally killed. 3.7 out of 5.

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