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Watched Battle Royale (2001) on a whim last night. Well, rewatched for me, Leslie had surprisingly never seen it! I read the manga way back in high school and remember being slightly disappointed with the movie at the time for feeling too "condensed". Unfortunately, it's weirdly hard to just find the original Japanese language release on streaming services, so had to settle for a pretty mediocre dub.

But horrible teenage dub acting aside... I appreciate it way more now as an adult. Especially after two solid decades of experiencing so many things that took direct influence from it. Sometimes, it's easy to forget that like, almost everything from the danger zones and random weapon drops of PUBG and Fortnite were directly taken from this. Even the settings, announcements, and general tone can be later seen in stuff like Danganronpa. Hell, I'm pretty sure the voice of Sirei in Last Defense Academy is doing his best to sound like Beat Takeshi's dubbed voice, because it's practically identical. Though I also wanted to briefly mention just how great Takeshi is in this movie, giving a subtle bit of nuance to his character that really drives the entire movie. The movie at times feels more like a series of dark vignettes, but it comes together extremely well.

Then I went and reread the manga and WOW is it DOG SHIT, IT'S SO ASS. Just pure edgy bullshit, oh my GOD.

I really gotta get back into Last Defense Academy.

That's all for today, though! Thank you so much for your support, and see you on Monday!

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Volant Caedis

GREMLIN SURIA THAT NEEDS TO BE AN EMOTE

Emanuele Barone

Thanks for reminding me I still have to play Last Defense Academy, P3R has been absorbing me of late.

John Goode

When me and my friend watched it we were way ti young to understand the plot at the end, any metaphors or messages went over our heads and the last act felt like a gigantic plot contrivance

Quadrant

I don't know who that person is getting their face entirely squashed by tits, but damn what a way to suffocate 🤣 Battle Royale I think is one of those films that's point got lost in all the shock about high school kids killing each other. Not to get all polemic, but it's weird seeing that shock coming from the US, where mass shootings (and school shootings) seem to have become so normalised or densitised in the public conscious, that when another one inevitably occurs, you have a very vocal bunch of twats immediately scream "hoax" Not to get all real and political for a moment. Just those hypocrises in attitude really vex me when it comes to media. Especially this seemingly faux outrage at sexual media or violent media.

Allo D.

i really need to get on hundred line. i'm a huge fan of uchikoshi, but have never actually played one of his games the same year it released, and that could've been the first one if it didn't come out the same week as clair obscur, which ended up eating the next three months of my life.

Tugfg

Damn I can feel the hype. This show is a long time coming and it's going to be intense.

EmeraldEngineer

please for the love of god let this moment be perfect, no party crashing, no fuck ups, no break downs. just let them have this win PLEASE!

Kirsty

i literally just set down hundred line for the night!! im obsessed w uchikoshi, and kodaka’s excellent as well. ive been loving this game! and i need to see battle royale myself! (and, ofc, excellent page as always!)