Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-6052796-20140928191616/@comment-397235-20140929042321

According to Suzanne Collins she'd never heard of Battle Royale...her novel and that one just have almost identical premises. Honestly, I think BR has a stronger narrative though because it uses multiple PoV, rather than The Hunger Games (or Another for that matter) which is written entirely in first-person. It may just be I'm not a huge fan of that narrative style, however.

BR was very controversial when it was released. More or less it's a satire of how horrifically competitive Japanese schools are; it's not something you'd encounter in the average high school lit class, for a lot of the same reasons you wouldn't find A Song of Ice and Fire.