History YMMV / BattleRoyale

* ValuesResonance: On a bitter note, in part due to the neverending wave of school shootings in America and the conflict between students demanding a better life and old guard politicians who won't lift a finger, Battle Royale's themes are more familiar than ever to Western audiences.

* ValuesResonance: On a bitter note, in part due to the neverending wave of school shootings in America and the conflict between students demanding a better life and old guard politicians who won't life a finger, Battle Royale's themes are more familiar than ever to Western audiences.

* Values Resonance: On a bitter note, in part due to the neverending wave of school shootings in America and the conflict between students demanding a better life and old guard politicians who won't life a finger, Battle Royale's themes are more familiar than ever to Western audiences.

* EvilIsSexy: Kiriyama and Mitsuko are the most evil male and female participants respectively, and also the most attractive; Mitsuko's sex appeal in particular is given a lot of focus. This also undoubtedly factors into Kiriyama's [[DracoInLeatherPants insane]] [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys popularity]] among fans of the movie.

** Shiori is [[LightNovel/KinosJourney Kino]]! and also voiced [[Film/KillBill young O-Ren Ishii]]!

** Ironically, most fans hate the manga "Blitz Royale". One of the most disliked aspect is the cartoony art that just doesn't go well with the [[KillEmAll plot]], among other things.

* IdiotPlot:
** In the film, after an economic recession, the adults have lost confidence in themselves and are afraid of the youth to the point that they pass a law to justify pitting them against one another in a DeadlyGame. This is intentional on the film's part as the director's intent was to comment on the generation gap between Japan's youth and elderly and on the state of Japan after the 1991 economic recession. This course of events is justified by the fact that Japanese society has seemingly collapsed after the recession.
*** The entire class's complete ignorance of the BR act is also a hard sell when the film opens with a previous winner's publicised victory; youths can even sign up ForTheEvulz.
** The Translated manga has the odd explanation that the games are being used for television. [[ExcusePlot Don't think about that too much.]]

* UncannyValley: Kazuo's expressionless, [[DullEyesOfUnhappiness dead-eyed]] appearance in the manga.
** The manga's depiction of drawing children can come across as...creepy, due to their heads being bigger and rounder, which makes their bodies look all the more spindly and horribly unbalanced.

* TookALevelInDumbass: Oda in the novel was a reasonably competent survivor who [[SchmuckBait used a helmet to force people to shoot at his bulletproof vest.]] When Kazuo shoots him there, he plans to either wait until he walks away to grab his gun and shoot him, or wait until he goes for his gun to stab him with a hidden knife. In the manga he makes the odd decision to fake a death rattle when Kazuo assumes he's dead.
** To say nothing of the movie
--> [[TooDumbToLive "I SURVIVED, THANKS TO MY EXCELLENT BULLETPROOF VEST!"]]

* DieForOurShip: Kayoko. Well, Takako Chigusa is one of, if not ''the'' coolest and most popular female character in the series. Granted, Kayoko [[spoiler: does die. [[KillThemAll Not that it helps Chigusa]].]]

* WhatAnIdiot: Now has its own [[WhatAnIdiot/BattleRoyale page]].

* ArcFatigue: In the manga, the final battle between Shuuya, Noriko and Shogo against Kiriyama. It drags on, they think they finally shot Kiriyama and then he reappears. The worst is one chapter, where ''nothing happens''. It's filled with nothing but pages of Shuuya pointing a gun at Kiriyama and thinking of all the students that have died because of Kiriyama and wanting him to ''know'' that he's about to die... [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim Just shoot already]]!

... As a space warrior\\

*** The Manga as well. Since he has a bulletproof vest and a helmet on, Kazuo figures the best place to shoot him, is... [[GroinAttack his crotch.]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill With a machine-gun]].

** The manga's depiction of [[spoiler: Kiriyama]]'s death. [[spoiler: Gets repeatedly shot and is still as much of a threat as before. Then Noriko shoots him through the cheek, Kiriyama falls to the ground... and then proceeds to get up in a fashion like a doll made out of rubber, twisting and contorting his body to strange positions, all while still trying to shoot the others]]. It becomes a total joke.

** Mitsuru. Yes, thug he may be, but it's hard to not feel at least a ''little'' bad for him (especially in the manga) when he spends the majority of his narrative time going on about how ''amazing'' Kazuo is and how he's sure they're going to win the Program, and how he's Kazuo's best friend... [[spoiler:only to be shot by him and realize in his dying moments that Kazuo never cared about him, nor about the rest of the gang, at all.]] It helps that, according to Yumiko, he was nice to girls, and he wasn't in on the plan to rape Izumi.

*** Also she had her Mother and Stepfather murdered... [[AssholeVictim not that they didn't deserve it]].

** The manga's depiction of drawing children can come across as... creepy, due to their heads being bigger and rounder, which makes their bodies look all the more spindly and horribly unbalanced.