You know what they call The Hunger Games in France? Battle Royale with cheese...
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Squid game - Kimchi Battle Royale.
Got the book from my sister when I was young, blew my mind that not only did this exist, they'd made 2 movies by that point (a third came later). Young, edgelord me was in paradise.
Still a good book and movie. Highlighted a lot of still very relevant problems. Did Hunger Games both first and better. Recommend if you like that kind of thing and/or are pissed off at your government like I am
The manga is fucking brutal. Way moreso than the movie or the book. The book is excellent, though!
Oh damn, I forgot there was a manga. Didn't they change a lot in the manga? I have the feeling that was why I didn't get into it, but it's been like 15 years since then. It might have just been to expensive for me at the time, even at like $10 an issue
The movie, book, and manga are all very different, ya. Like
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In the manga, Mitsuko lures another kid into fucking her and she slaughters him while he’s fuckin’ her. I don’t believe this happens in the book, and they definitely can’t show that in the movie hahaha. The violence and gore in the maga is dialed up to near-Berserk levels. It’s wild.
!Oh, that creepy dude was in the book as well. Iirc he was her stalker. Not sure if they did the deed, been a while, but that was definitely the premise she used to get him with I think the sickle. His little man did not survive either. I dont think it played out the same in the movie though. I think i remember a crossbow? Or maybe that was chisato, i might be conflating those two since they had their scenes pretty close and i think ended up meeting. That or it happens off screen, not sure.
But yeah that Mitsuko scene was in the book and was brutal af!<
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Oh yah, they fully didn’t fuck in the movie. In the manga, they basically show full penetration in a hot tub if I recall correctly and she like, slices his throat open to a geyser of blood, it’s wild.
Interesting film to watch.